

The game gives the option of displaying in perspective (parallel lines converge at the horizon) or isometric (parallel lines remain parallel). Alien Geometries: In Diablo II, the Arcane Sanctuary area contains some quite Escher-esque geometry: platforms are supported by pillars that stand on other platforms which ought to be at the same height.While he is played for comedy, he is also an experienced fighter, and Atma notes that he has been drinking more than usual since the 'troubles' began. Album Closure: The official soundtrack closes with two conjoined songs ("Coda" and "Roger and Me") that were composed specifically for the soundtrack and don't appear in the game at all.Assassin - Ninja/Scrapper DPSer, but could choose to learn Traps.Druid - Melee DPSer, Petmaster or Nuker, depending.Paladin - DPSer, DPSer/Healer, or Healer, depending - the most team-oriented Class in the game, groups of Paladins could be far more powerful than groups of any single other Class.Necromancer - Petmaster or Nuker or Mezzer, depending on your choices.Sorceress - Nuker, but woefully dependent on Elemental RockPaperScissors considering you could only master one element.Amazon - DPSer of any of the three types, depending on what skills you choose.An Adventurer Is You: Like the first game, Diablo II was still geared for soloing, but was better PVP Balanced, and classes edged closer to traditional MMO archetypes, while having absolutely nothing to do with normal party roles:.Here he is a straight up demon in charge of the Hellforge. Adaptational Villainy: Hephastos in the original Greek mythology was just the god of the forge and a Jerkass God at worst.Instances of a particular rare magic item, the Stone of Jordan, became the unofficial currency, then later high level runes became the standard. Adam Smith Hates Your Guts: A market developed in trading items between players: but the game's "official" currency, gold, quickly became worthless due to inflation as most items were valued at more gold than a character could ever carry or transfer.Action Girl: The Amazon, the Sorceress, the Assassin, the NPC Rogues.And rainforest get rain all the time and need the sewers.


Deserts get huge flash floods at times that can sweep away the sand a town is built on.
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Finally, they simply applied a patch that set all experience gains for level 80 or higher characters to be 1/10th normal, all past level 90 to be 1/100th normal, and past level 95 to be 1/1000th normal (most non-boss enemies, even on Hell difficulty, give only one experience point per kill at that level). Several nerfs to the signature Barbarian skill (Whirlwind) were applied, only for other game-breaking abilities to be uncovered in other character classes. This is because shortly after it was released, Diablo II ended up with hundreds of Level 99 Hardcore Barbarians on, much to the chagrin of the game designers who were certain reaching level 99 in Hardcore (where dying even once permanently ended your game) was impossible. Most characters will have attained optimal skills long before this. A handful of people do reach 99, but it takes an insanely long time. Absurdly High Level Cap: The pace of experience slows down to a crawl by the mid-80s.The overall plot is loosely narrated by an elderly man named Marius, who follows the Dark Wanderer on his travels and sees the horrors he unleashes as Diablo increasingly gains control over him.

The action takes place in four Acts, set in the forests and fields around an abandoned monastery and temporary rogue encampment, the desert city of Lut Gholein, the jungle realm of Kurast, and in the depths of Hell itself.ĭiablo II's plot revolves around the efforts of the Dark Wanderer (the corrupted hero of the first game) to reunite with the other Prime Evils and your character's journey to defeat the Prime Evils once and for all. The game also greatly expanded the Diablo world. It expanded the available characters to five (Barbarian, Amazon, Necromancer, Sorceress, and Paladin) and introduced many new features, including: a skill tree which gave players the ability to tailor their character(s) toward certain power schemes the ability to add jewels and runes to weapons and armor to increase their abilities the ability to craft items new levels of weapon and armor rarity and quality and many others. Diablo II is the first sequel to the massively popular Diablo.
