Expansion? Is this going to be a future release of more levels for the same game? If so, what would that cost?
I’m only level twenty, I’ve been playing for a week, and I can tell that whenever I get through the game I’m going to want MORE!!!
BTW, is everyone else using the Horadric Cube as a storage device in their stash? Does that thing ever go away or is it a good bonus stash spot? I have the Horadric staff but have yet to find the head for it.
Speaking of the Horadric staff…
Once you join the two pieces of the Horadric staff, do you get to keep it? Or do you have to give it to someone to pass a level?
That staff’s attack speed and Zeal make a good mix. Does anyone know how much more damage it does with the head attached?
…I’m just full of questions, aren’t I?
The Horadric Cube stays around at least through Act III, which is as far as I’ve gotten. Pathetic, eh? In Act III, you use it again to put together some body parts. It makes a handy-dandy storage expansion.
The Horadric Staff, on the other hand, is used to open the lair of the last enemy in Act II, then disappears.
I want to start an informal survey concerning rare, unique, and set items. My Amazon has discovered I think three total through the first two and a third acts. My barbarian, OTOH, has found about twice that many in half the time. I want to see how these stats compare to others’ experience.
My barbarian has found 5 set items about half way through ACT-II.
(I’ve got to stop these afterthought posts)
BTW, most of that time was spent with a “+15% chance to find magic items” amulet, and the last two levels with a pair of “+30% chance to find magic items” gloves.
Maybe your barbarian has more chance to find magic?
Blizzard loves expansions. Typically they add some new units, a level or two, and run around $30. Finishing off Baal would be the logical Act 5, but who knows.
The cube goes in your inventory, not in the stash! I keep weapons in there so I can switch off. +3 Fire Wall staff, +3 Meteor staff… then the +3 Warmth staff to regen.
I’ve got iceblink. Damn that’s a cool armor. Got it for killing Mephisto. I just played through the game as a paladin, and he was way lucky on items. No useless set items, and every item in my inventory is a Rare or unique (except for the Milabraga Rod, +1 to all Paladin Skills.) I think iceblink should go to an amazon though, that could be nasty.
Yeah, Blizzard loves expansions. They do it with every game. After the Diablo II expansion, I hope they begin work on StarCraft II…
By the way… has anyone else here (‘sides you, Monster, you weenie) found Griswold’s Edge? That was a kickin’-ass dope-monkey killing machine from Diablo I. It’s a broadsword, very fast attack speed, added fire damage, and knockback, along with a few other abilities. It’s a pretty cool Egg for the game…
Yeah, you keep the Horadric Cube throughout the game. For all you who’ve already beaten it and are playing through on Nightmare…do you get the Cube twice? Or does it just not show up?
As to rare/unique/set items, the only (good) ones I’ve gotten have been through gambling…the Goldwrap heavy belt…46 defense, increased attack speed, +2 light radius, 30% better chance of getting magic items…Havoc Hold gloves…it’s all good. And of course, my magically imbued armor. I waited until Act II to imbue an item (Superior Chain Mail) and got the Storm Wrap…it’s decent armor and has held me to the end of Act III, but it doesn’t hold a candle to the Iceblink.
I’ve noticed that whenever I wear ‘better chance of finding magic items’ I always get more ‘magic’ crap items. Anyone else notice this?
Oh, and my barbarian has some set stuff…nothing interesting though.
Okay, I put Mephisto’s soulstone on the hellforge, smashed it (got kickass gems which I used to make a shield to help defend against Diablo), but … I still have the soulstone.
And when do I get to Diablo? I’m asking so that I know when to pop back to my stash and snag 16 full rejuvs (spent a lot of chipped gems get those, found 3 or 4).
I’ve found so many rare, unique, and set items that it’s not even funny…well, actually, it is. I just can’t find any good rares for the things I actually need (ie, a good belt or helmet).
I didn’t get Griswold’s edge once, but twice. It was in the same act, and I didn’t even save and exit, just went out of town and came back. It sucked compared to my other weapon, and knockback is bad for zeal.
MadPoet, somehow I don’t think a Diablo II expansion would only be one act. Look at Brood War…it was just 4 levels shorter than the original game (That’s counting the secret levels).
Diablo’s on the same level you are. You will soon find the waypoint in your explorations, and a little bit beyond that, Diablo. He won’t surprise you; you’ll have to actively unlock him, so you can kill off the minions residing within his sanctuary at your leisure without worrying about the big guy rushing out in front of them demanding that you kick his ass.
Monster -
At this point I only know that there’s an act 5 planned. The last Diablo had an expansion, but it was lame. Basicly a new quest, two new characters, and a few items. So who knows what they’ll add this time.
Then, Hellfire was a sierra product, and they suck. So guess theres hope.
Thanks, Daniel, I figured it out. I planned to wait until I was on level 29 (almost there) or 30, but decided, “What the hell, I’ll give it a shot”.
I had a few advantages.
I knew he was going to throw fire at me so I set up a socketed shield with a nice fat ruby, diamond, and amethyst so that it’d be a good defense against fire (1st), everything (2nd), and attacks (3rd). Pretty good shield. I used the gems I got from smashing mephisto’s soulstone. Good defense.
I learned that trick for making full rejuv potions, so I had more than twenty. Now I’m down to around 6. I just stood there and hit the bastard, running back into my portal (set a new one up every time) on occasion.
I expected him to drop stuff. I had enough free space to pick it all up. Two sets of armor and a war hammer. Then I got to run around in circles for a minute and a half.
All in all, I enjoyed it. Jade is now known as Sir Jade. I think I’ll go through it again, beat the cows and such.
Madpoet, are you mad?!? Ever hear of Half-Life? The Kings Quest series? Gabriel Knight?!?
Dude, they made a single flop, which wasn’t even TOO horrible (after all, how can anyone except Blizzard improve a Blizzard game?), and because of that you say they SUCK?!?
May you be raped by Duriel with a lightning-enchanted Great Maul!
Hey kids. Don’t have the game yet - my computer doesn’t have the specs. I plan on correcting this as soon as possible.
I’ve been reading, and something just clicked for me.
Would it be possible to set up a character, plow through as quick as possible to get the Horadric (sp?) Cube, and give it to your main character? I would think that having a few of them would make your inventory huge!
Any thoughts?
Connor - You can only have one of any quest item. Pity, because there’s a book that gives you +1 skill, but you can only get it once.
Spoofe - Half Life was Valve… sierra just published it. Kings quest was the same game over and over, Quest for Glory was King’s Quest with stats. They had two great series in Space Quest and Leisure Suit Larry, but they killed the former and drove the latter into the ground.
Their one huge flop, Outpost, wasn’t even that bad a game once patched into the game they would have released had the execs not released an alpha version that was lying around.
Oh, and they just buried the lisences to Babylon 5 and Lord of the Rings, so no new games will come out based on those two worlds.
WTF??? I have been waiting for a multiplayer Lord of the Rings game forever. I even saw that gorgeous website they made awhile back, and took their goddamned trivia contest, and now you’re telling me the game is canned?
What’s wrong with these people???
BTW, does anyone have any special Horadric Cube formulae that he/she would love to share? I just got it the other day, and can’t wait to experiment with some cool stuff on it. Money is no object for me, what with my Ring of Greed (+69 to attack, 66% more gold found on every monster). So if you have any bright ideas, post 'em!
MR
I am fortunate in that we have 3 computers in our house. We have Diablo installed on all three, and my hunny and I use the 3rd one for “storage” characters. We put all our gems, piles of Full Rejuvs, misc armor…whatever we don’t want to carry but we don’t want to give up. It’s mighty handy. Also extra gold.
Of course, this can also allow cheating, (copy your character, keep giving gold and gems to storage character, etc) which is tempting for only a moment.
I made the mistake of sampling the cheating experience in Diablo 1, after I had beaten the game without cheats. It completely ruined it for me. If you can be godlike with a few cheats, it sucks all the fun right out of it. I cannot imagine the appeal of it to those who do it. Unless you’re a pissed off 15 year old boy who gets his jollies being a PK…
stoid…completely jazzed because I’m getting my new G4/450 this week and I’m betting the game will scream…
I recently killed off The Lord of Terror with a second character - the Necromancer (my first time was with a Barbarian). I must say that either I’m doing something wrong, or Necros just have a difficult time with the Big Baddies (e.g., Duriel, who killed my Necro, oh, about 13 times before I finally killed him [Bone Spear once or twice…die…repeat…]; Mephisto took me down a couple times, and Diablo killed me probably 7 or 8 times). The Necromancer’s prime strength (summoning) seems to be little avail against the big guys who squash iron golems with a single blow. Yeah, he has Bone Spear (only at level 3), but mana shortages limit its use (as in, I ran out of mana potions while fighting Diablo, and, unlike the sorceress, he doesn’t get mana back very quickly).
The next candidate will either be my paladin (my third attempt at a Paladin - the previous two were major flops, skill-wise), who is still in Act II, or a bow-based Amazon who is poised at the beginning of Act IV.
I have high hopes for the Paladin (although the Amazon did take out Duriel using only two potions; she had a regen rate of 9 pts, and 14% life steal. She also used a Brandistock, so she could Jab. Oh, and she had a Set-piece sash that made her immune to freezing). With 9% life steal and 5% mana steal, as well as level 5 Zeal, I’ve found that given a sufficiently large group of monsters to beat on, even standing in a Fire Wall is not enough to hurt him 
I have recently discovered too that Necros are weak, but with IronMaiden, you should be able to more quickly defeat the big baddies. That was how I beat Duriel, Iron Maiden, some BoneSpears and my blood golem and 3 mages. I admit, it’s weak compared to other classes, but fun to summon all them creatures of the netherworld aye?