Get ready for Reaper of Souls and tune in for a launch party livestream tonight!

Diablo III: Reaper of Souls goes live in the Americas tonight at 9pm PT (midnight ET), and Blizzard wants to make sure you're prepared. The team recommends downloading and upgrading your Battle.net client as well as patching D3 to its latest version (2.0.3.22427 as of this afternoon). Ensure that you claim your RoS game key in your Battle.net account management. Remember that everyone who registers their key prior to 11:59pm PT on March 31st receives the Wings of Valor in-game item and unlocks Valla for Heroes of the Storm!

There could be login queues, so Blizzard has advised players to login ahead of the launch time to help reduce queues. Since you should already have everything patched, you won't have to restart your client when launch time kicks off. Head over to the Diablo III blog for more prep notes and check out D3Head for all your Diablo gaming needs!

Want to join the developers for a launch party livestream? Blizzard is holding a party in Los Angeles tonight to celebrate the launch of Reaper of Souls, and you're invited to join a live developer Q&A on Twitch TV.

Join Game Director Josh Mosqueira and Senior Technical Game Designer Wyatt Cheng around 9pm PT (midnight ET), just after the expansion goes live in the US! Josh and Wyatt will be coming to you live from the altar of the Vibiana in LA to share highlights from the evening’s event and give a deeper look into RoS and its development.

Ann "Cyliena" Hosler, Managing Editor