• hisao@ani.social
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    11 days ago

    Started Diablo 1 last week, picked Sorcerer. It was a tough but a fun ride until the very end when I discovered… that I bricked my character! Apparently you can’t be a mage and focus on magic exclusively since there are monsters in the very late-game (Blood Knights) who are fully resistant to anything you cast, and my points in non-magic talents were so low I could only equip starter weapons! Decided to re-roll a rogue (actually an amazon idk why they called her rogue). It’s been a blast, almost too easy for the first 5-6 dungeon floors. But from there difficulty picked up, and stayed on consistently challenging level till the very end. Killed Diablo himself by stashing full belt of greater mana potions and simply shooting him in point blank range while drinking potions under mana shield (book luckily bought from Adria in the very last moments). The game is great fun, atmosphere is extraordinary and music is god-tier (or should I say, diablo-tier).

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      11 days ago

      The rogue group is different to the amazons. That’s why in D2 you start in the rogues camp, and if you’ve picked Amazon then Kashya will say something like “I didn’t expect to see an Amazon come here”.

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        11 days ago

        To me d1 rogue looks almost the same as d2 amazon, and d2 rogues in the camp are a bit different and less wild.


        In d2 rogues do seem to have either some cloth or plates on their hips. If you compare the color of their hips and hands, it’s different enough to consider that’s not skin and their hips ain’t naked.

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          But think about the Diablo lore instead. It’s stated that she is a rogue, and in fact she becomes corrupted and is the rogue boss Blood Raven that you fight in the cemetery in Diablo 2.

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            Nice to know lore is consistent and connected between games. I should have written something like “idk why she looks like amazon from d2 though”, because I’m not deep into the lore of both games (don’t remember anything lorewise about d2, which I last played maybe 16 years ago). So my initial remark was purely about looks, which I still remember (maybe because screenshots or videos of d2 still pop in media quite often).

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              10 days ago

              Also the sorcerer boss you fight towards the end of Act 2 in D2 is the sorcerer from D1.

              The lore was really nicely done between these two games.