[Diablo] Hell's Satans: Apocalypse, Now

[Not The Author]

Diablo, if you're not aware, is a game about stabbing the Devil and taking his clothes.



More seriously, it's a real-time isometric roguelike action-RPG with multiplayer. It's also really friggin' good. I might elaborate on this more when it's not 2 in the morning (it will be later still when I stop playing (really friggin' good)).

Out of courtesy to others, please avoid posting spoilers.

Update, 5/17/12: it is now 7:30 in the morning, and I have reached Act 3. I've died a total of 3 times, most of which could have been prevented by using a potion (gonna rebind pots to Mouse 3, methinks; Q is sort of awkward to hit from the number keys) or by not running into the middle of the enemies at the get-go (Diamond skin: feel invincible, then die very quickly when you're suddenly not). I have not as yet died on any bosses, major or minor. I'm level 26(ish), most of my gear has been and continues to be Rare quality and (mostly) level-appropriate; I have a level 3 Jeweler, a level 4(ish) Smith, and 42 storage slots. I don't consider myself a particularly good player as yet, but that hasn't kept the game from making me feel any less than godlike.

Player List

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• AllTruth - allTruth#1986
• Catbread - Catbread#1622
• chimericWilder - Aron#2742
• Chirality - Chirality#1110
• DecidedlyDevious - Devious1#1928
• g1nf1zz - g1nf1zz#1960
• Milskidasith - Milskidasith#1545
• Mr.Tie - MrTie#1950
• Naz - Naz#1664
• Not The Author - NotTheAuthor#1836
• Wesley Foxx - Lacune#1649

[Catbread]

I been playing Diablo 2 lately. Getting ready for Diablo 3.

I am a druid

It turns out, if I summon hundreds of wild animals, and put them between me and my enemies, nothing bad ever happens to me. It is quite amusing

And so, I have been discovering things about this game I never knew before. Like this:

[Theswweet]

Diablo II... one of the few games my shitty PC can run.

[Mafipulater]

And so, I have been discovering things about this game I never knew before. Like this:

-snip video-

Man, he raps really slow! I guess running out of breath after every two bars is part of being an old dude, though.

[illisid]

I think the most I was into d2 was right before the most recent patch (the one that made runes orange text and drop more often)

I had a sick fishymancer with mostly twinked out gear, as well as the coolest enchant sorceress ever. Be jealous.

[Catbread]

fishymancer

...buh?

[illisid]

apparently that's what some people called necromancers who just made a ton of skeletons. No idea why. I got all the best runewords and anni and torch and had almost +20 to all skills, I think I could make about 15 skeletons and 15 mages.

My sorceress though! She was a work of art. Looked something like this:

20 enchant
20 fire mastery
20 lightning mastery
I can't remember the rest exactly but some amount of static field, the thing that diverts damage to mana, and other skills that boost those skills.

She used dual dream, one on the helm and one in the shield, leading to a level 30 holy shock aura, with the lightning mastery on top of that. Which meant that every couple seconds, everything in the screen that wasn't lightning immune would die.
In one weapon set she used the runeword that would let you turn into a werebear. In the other she used a 6 socketed phase blade, with a bunch of runes to give it 95% increased attack speed. When combined with the werebear that meant you would hit 5 times per second.
with enchant and the added lightning damage from holy shock, this meant I was doing between 4k and 40k damage per swing. 5 times per second. Then every couple seconds I'd get a holy shock trigger for another fuckton of damage. Yeah.

[Varkarrus]

Diablo 2 is one of the best games ever and I've played it a lot but I absolutely suck at it.
I've never beaten it.

Ever.

except when I cheated.

because I like to hack silly items into the game including a knife that ressurects fallen foes as Warped Ones.

[chimericWilder]

I shall proceed to stay awhile and pretend to be deaf.

I've never managed to get to max level, i think the most i've had was a 65-something werewolf druid, and a ~50 i think perhaps whirlwind barbarian.

But enough about that

ORMUS

DISCUSS

[Varkarrus]

You now speak about Ormus.

(The line "You know speak to Ormus" has become an in-joke between me and my 2 friends, neither of which are gamers yet I managed to convince them to play enough Diablo 2 with me over LAN till we got to Act 3)

[chimericWilder]

Ormus is like a force of nature. Whomever speaks to Ormus must inevitably worship Ormus as some kind of god. Of Ormus.

His lines are even better than Deckards, plus hes secretly a smug bastard who enjoys watching you flip the fuck out whenever he speaks about himself in third person.

Oh and apparently he lives like a rat in a sinking vessel. By all means this should be better than a rat in a floating vessel. I mean if you were a rat on a ship that went down, right, you could spend the last hours of your life just eating all the food you could ever want, because noone would give a shit. This guy lives like that, except without the imminent drowning. Also im babbling here.

[Varkarrus]

WHo is the best?

Snotspill, Zhar the mad, or Gharbad the weak?

[Catbread]

WHo is the best?

Snotspill, Zhar the mad, or Gharbad the weak?

Easily, Gharbad! Duh!

[Varkarrus]

I'm torn between gharbad and snotspill myself, but zhar stays behind in third so closely that it's practically a 3 way tie.

[chimericWilder]

Those are the council dudes in third act right?

Oh god, Geleb Flamefinger that bastard. My first character was a fire sorceress. Geleb is fire resistant on normal and heals! I spent hours trying to kill him. He is my eternal nemesis and a bastard to boot.

[Varkarrus]

No, those are incredibly silly quest bosses in Diablo I

Gharbad is a fast weak goat clan who when you talk to at first gives you an item and begs you not to kill him, but attacks you later
Zhar the Mad is a mage who wants to be left alone
and Snotspill is an imp who forces you into getting a stolen tavern sign which he claims is a magic banner.

[Catbread]

They should be a council.

Council of Incredibly Silly Quest Bosses for Brawl Diablo 3

[chimericWilder]

Oh. Awesomeness. I never did play D1 though :c

[Not The Author]

So, hey, Blizzard released an Official Diablo III Skill Calculator which lets you see how your character at Level 60 with Tier 7 runes could fight and share it with people so they can tell you how wrong you are.

After looking through the thing, I think I'mma roll a Demon Hunter. They can, uh... well, to be perfectly honest, I wasn't aware that the pseudomedieval era was allowed to have homing missiles. Let alone this many of them.

[chimericWilder]

thank you for notifying me us that this is now something that exists. Your link doesnt seem to work though - its not showing whatever setup you put there.

[Not The Author]

Odd, it works for me... Oh well. If you want to look at it I suppose you can build it yourself:

• Arsenal (Multishot + Obsidian)
• Shooting Stars (Cluster Arrow + Indigo)
• Fire Support (Rapid Fire + Obsidian)
• Rocket Storm (Strafe + Obsidian)
• Contagion (Marked for Death + Indigo)
• Night Bane (Shadow Power + Crimson

• Fundamentals
• Sharpshooter
• Ballistics

Basically, hit a guy with Mark and focus them with Rapid Fire plus Shadow Power (x9 attack speed!) to spread it, then rockets everywhere until everything is dead.

[Darkomega99]

Pshhh, Diablo 2? I only play 1.

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I never knew they made a second one untill a few years ago. I never bothered to get it even though it looks superior to 1 in every way.

[chimericWilder]

Odd, it works for me... Oh well. If you want to look at it I suppose you can build it yourself:

• Arsenal (Multishot + Obsidian)
• Shooting Stars (Cluster Arrow + Indigo)
• Fire Support (Rapid Fire + Obsidian)
• Rocket Storm (Strafe + Obsidian)
• Contagion (Marked for Death + Indigo)
• Night Bane (Shadow Power + Crimson

• Fundamentals
• Sharpshooter
• Ballistics

Basically, hit a guy with Mark and focus them with Rapid Fire plus Shadow Power (x9 attack speed!) to spread it, then rockets everywhere until everything is dead.

yeah i kinda noticed that almost every fucking offensive demonhunter power had rockets. What the fuck is the deal about rockets anyway?

[Jacquerel]

Why do rockets offend you so much? Are rockets somehow a bad thing?

[chimericWilder]

i am not going to be playing a demon hunter.

i do not look forward to the prospect of [ROCKET] TO THE GROUND FACE

i am scared of rockets