Sheesh, I guess I have even less a social life than the rest of you. I’ve had it for about 4 days now and beaten it twice with two characters. My first was with my lvl 28 Amazon, “Talon”. After beating the game she’s now “Dame Talon”. Anyway here’s some tips:
If you’re an Amazon, don’t bother with the javelin skills and just specialize in bows (known in Diablo lingo as a “bowazon”). True, in the beginning javelins are quite powerful, thrown javelins especially, but the skills for them suck. A friend of mine who specialized in them now at lvl 27 exclusively uses jab, a first lvl skill. He tells me the others just aren’t useful. In comparison, my bowazon does almost as much damage, plus I have the benefit of ranged attack. My dmg is 11-89, his is 25-111.
If you’re a necromancer, don’t make the mistake I did and overspecialize in summoning. Sure, skeletons will help you whip the first five quests easily, but afterward the enemies will mow through them like grass. Stick with golems, iron maiden, bone armor, and corpse explosion.
You use wirt’s leg to get to the secret cow level. After beating diablo, you start a new game and while in the Rogue Encampment you stick the leg and a book of town portal into the Horadrim Cube. Press “transmute” and a red portal appears. Word of warning: those cows are freaking tough as hell! More than once I’ve been trapped by having 20+ bovines surrounding the only portal in. On the plus side, they drop a ton of items, especially the boss, “The Cow King.”
Sidenote: I thought the end movie sucked, but I leave it to your decision.
I am training my level 11 Sorcoress to be what I call a Cold Sorcoress or Ice Sorcoress (I forget which terminology I preferred); the cold spells rock. I’m still in Act 1, died once in Tristram, and have so far only found one rare item.
I love the cold spells; especially the shields (although I only have the first one so far). Enemies run up to me, attack, and freeze like statues.
And right now, ice blast is my weapon of choice, but I use fire bolt against weaker enemies since it takes less mana. Next time I level up though (which will be about 5min after I finish posting this; I’m really close) I’m upgrading Warmth; ah needs it. I still don’t have a single lightning spell
I’ll eagerly join the Dopers online in either type of game (prefer open so I can stick with my sorcoress), but it’s gotta be late night games, like starting at midnight Eastern Time or later, b/c of the hours of my summer job. But judging by the posts so far, that doesn’t seem like it will be a problem
I’m leaving tomorrow for a 5 day vacation away from my computer! The minions of evil will have a field day unharassed by me!! I think I’ll be going into withdrawl. Oh, yeah, I won’t be here either.
Well, my Palidan tried to take on the big red lobster thing (Baal?) at the end of act 2. I had the best sword I could but it wasn’t enough. He freezes and stuns right away and my poor guy moves like in molasses for the rest of the fight. I went back in with a big axe and was one or two hits away from victory when I ran out of potions. Now I’m out of good potions and can only buy the weak red ones in town. I’M SCREWED!!! A week of work down the tubes.
I don’t think there’s any way around this. There doesn’t seem to be enough room to move around so I guess I have to slug it out toe to toe with the bastard. Since I can’t pack enough potion power to survive… I HAVE TO START ALL OVER AGAIN. Oh well, lessons were learned.
Sure son First it helps to have somethin that reduces cold damage and then try using ranged weapons with him also make a town portal at the entrance that way if you get stuck u can go bac to to town heal urself buy some more potions. This is good cuz he doesnt heal himself i dont think.
If you’re at the end of act 2, you should have a belt with at least 12 potion slots. That was more that enought for me to kill Duriel. Note: his cold attacks are demonic, NOT elimental, so your resist cold aura is useless. Stick to Thorns/Zeal to give dammage back to him. A piece of armer that reduces cold/freeze effects will work. Have a portal to escape into, he dosen’t regain HPs when you leave.
Now, from someone further along than me. I have a problem. I just killed Mephisto and have completed all 6 act 3 quests. I’m looking around Kurast, and nobody is volunteering to take me east! Natalia has disappeared, and everyone else just acts normal. How in the hell do I get to act 4???
TS, you can play your SP chars on B-net. just use the “other Multiplayer” option, and choose “Open B-net”. Make sure you password your game to deter PKs. I am also going outta town from Thur-Sun, and will be suffering D2 withdrawl. When i get back, i’ll be glad to play sometime. Late is usualy not a problem.
Dave, there’s a portal you must go into that takes you into hell. Be careful of entering Act IV, however…once there you cannot go back. If you’re having problems with Act III creatures, don’t go to IV just yet…level up some more first.
Also, I do have thorns learned, I just forgot to mention it. I also have a nifty rare amulet that increases all my paladin skills by 1.
DOH! I saw that portal before I killed Mephisto, and then I forgot about it. I knew I shouldn’t have equiped that Bronze Ring of Stupidity!
TS,
PK stands for Player Killer. These are a group of assholes who get their tiny dicks hard by poping into someone else’s game and killing them. In Diablo 1 they would then steal your gold and equipment. There was a “no drops” hack that I always used when playing multi that ensured you didn’t drop anyting when you died, so PKs would get nothing. D2 was designed to defeat them, but I have heard rumors of a hack that allows them to kill you in town. If someone you don’t know pops into your game, be vary wary of them, and NEVER check the option that allows anyone to loot your corpse. This should only be used in a hardcore game with people you absolutely trust.
We do not own Diablo II, but still obsessed with the first one. Does the second just kick ass over the first? Is this something I NEED? Is it out for Mac? Should I drive to the software store this very instant?
This is a game you need. Diablo one was a pale shadow prototype of this great great game.
I’ve completed Act 2. Thanks lads, I couldn’t have done it without you. Who’d of thunk it? All I had to do was hotkey a town portal the instant I entered and I had a handy escape. I used my shield aura, guzzled potions, hacked away with a two-handed axe, made one trip into town to reload on potions, and one boss monster bit the dust. Thanks again, I was despairing.
If you’ve been pissing away stuff in your “transmogrifier” box, trying to get something great to use, good luck. As far as I’m concerned its best function is to give some much needed expansion to the storage. Since I tend to run away from fights until I can adjust my rings and amulets to suit the baddies, I like to have a wide selection available stored in my transmogrifier back at my stash.
Other fun trivia? My sword crapped out in a fight and I found my Palidan poking monsters with his fist.
I was outside all day today and have terrible sun exposure symptoms. I better buckle down at my computer with the window curtains closed where I’m safe.
the key difference betweeen Diablo II and Diablo is that the characters are genuinely different. In the first game, the characters start out different but any magic user could get strong enough to weild a sword and any fighter could learn all the spells. Here in Diablo II, a Sorceress is the only one who can use elemental spells, a Necromancer is the only one who can raise the dead, and so on.
(well, some enemies can do those things, but you know what I mean)
My Sorceress is now at level 16 and just started Act II. I have a (supposedly) rare helmet that adds +1 to all skills, which rocks because every time I learn a new skill it’s now automatically at least at the second level. And I learned Shiver Armor! It’s nice to run out of mana, but have the Shiver Armor spell still in effect, and know that my foe will die if I just stand there and let it attack me (of course it helps if it’s a really weak foe)
I have a lot of magic items whose main purpose is to increase the chance of finding other magic items . . . which to me is a very silly concept. Guess how I found most of them
hey, how about a fresh multiplayer game (realm or open) instead of using our existing characters. Yeah I know I proposed just the opposite, but it seems we’re all at much different levels of development . . . virtually all of which are more advanced than my dear Sorceress
and that PK revelation kinda fuels my “use a character I don’t have an emotional attachment to” idea even more.
Folks, I am pissed! I am leaving on vacation for 4 days tomorrow. I found myself close to the end of the game, so I figured I just play it out. I fought my way into Diablos chamber ( there are hundreds of monsters there), killed every one of them, tripped all 5 seals to release Diablo, and…nothing happened. NOTHING! Somehow the game malfunctioned, and never gave me Diablo to fight. I didn’t even get the third unique boss to fight when i tripped the last seal. I spent 20 minutes running around, trying to trip the seals again, trying to do something, anything to make the game goto the final battle. Nothing. And now it’ll be 4 days before i get to try again. I am bitterly disappointed.
figured I’d talk about the game some more, that and kick this thread back up to the top
my sorceress is level 18, and learned the Glacial Blast spell (I think that’s what it was called). I love ice spells!
I’m also training a paladin for multiplayer; I was playing with a new sorceress with my brother, and she just got annoying b/c she was nowhere near as cool as the one I was used to. Paladins are pretty cool though, I like this guy.
My sorceress, Zippy, is at level 25 right now, and about halfway through Act III.
For anyone wanting to use a sorceress… you HAVE to equip her with staves. The one I have right now increases Fireball +3, Blaze +2, and something else that I don’t use. I’m currently looking for something to pump up my fireball and warmth abilities. I run around, see an enemy, and BWOOMF! Enemy made dead.
The only time I ever had any trouble was Duriel, and that’s just ‘cuz he’s so freakin’ FAST! I died once, then died a couple times more trying to retrieve my body. I finally decided that it wasn’t worth the effort to try to get my corpse back, so I’d warp in (with no weapons or armor), create another town portal, then fire off as many fireballs as I could before I’d die again. Then I’d be back in town, the portal would still be there… repeat.
I’d be up for a Diablo II BNet game some time, although I don’t have a BNet character yet (I wanna pass the game first).
This is why I like training an Ice Sorceress (I decided I like that name best). Cold offensive spells slow enemies upon contact (as well as causing damage). They become even easier targets after that.
The defensive spells rock too. If the enemy does get close enough to hit you, your cold armor can freeze them too, allowing you a few extra moments to get to a safe distance.
I have a staff that enchances Warmth, Shiver Armor and Telekenesis (since I ignored the lightning category of spells, I never learned Telekenesis, but get the skill from the staff). I bought it towards the end of Act I. Haven’t found anything better in the possession of vendor or monster. Yet.
Then again, my character kicks ass, so no skin off my nose.
Konrade, Level 13 Barbarian; I’m about to go through the jail in Act I (yeah, yeah, I’m a late bloomer compared to the rest of ya). 5 levels of Sword Mastery, a Two-Handed Sword in each hand. One Sword provides mana with a kill, and I’ve got a flawed Skull in my helm, so I can generally cast Double Attack all day long, which means I cut through monsters like butter.
I also have two rings of Fortune and an Amulet of Fortune, giving me a whopping +37 to my chance of picking up magic items. I’ve found the Set item Death’s Sash (8-slot sash, which kind of sucks; but has a Defense of 28 and makes me Immune to Freezing) and the Unique item The Centurion (Hard Leather Armor- Defense 58, +15 mana, +15 life, +30 Stamina, Replenish Life 3). I also managed to buy another Set item (Horun’s Boots, Fast Run/Walk, 30% Fire Resistance) in a gamble with Gheed.
I expect to be into Act II by tomorrow. See y’all there.
Fireball?!?!? Glacial Spike is MUCH more useful, especially when the baddies are getting raised up- frozen & shattered monsters can’t be resurrected.
Still, Fireball’s for pussies. Glacial Spike & Firewall is the best combo for Acts II and 3.
Try Lvl 2 Static Field, and Lvl 2 Meteor. A buddy and I(he’s 25th level Necromancer, I’m 25th level Sorceress) took out Mephisto in something like 45 seconds with that combo. My buddy tied him up, I took off something like 90% of his hit points with static field quickly, and then brought down 5 meteors on his head. He didn’t last long.
Blizzard has to be the most useful spell in the game. Absolutely insane. Freezes & does damage.
Between Blizzard & Meteor, my Sorceress is like a one-woman weapon of mass-destruction. Try to get some kind of magic item which gives you mana per kill. You’ll NEVER run out if that’s the case.
I’ll admit I’m speaking from a multiplayer perspective(freezing is really nice if you have a melee friend to shatter them), but being able to shatter enemies so that they can’t be raised is really nice in the Lut Gholein sewers, Tombs of Tal Rasha, and in Upper/Lower Kurast, Kurast Bazaar & Travincal(hardest part thus far!).
(of course it helps if it’s a really weak foe)