Diablo

[Anonymous No.1867563]

Can we have a nice and cozy Diablo thread? Only Diablo and D2 allowed of course.

I just started Diablo as a Sorcerer and oh gee jezus I'm getting my ass smacked into oblivion and back. Rogue playthrough was challenging already so I can only expect rivers of bloody tears from this one.

[Anonymous No.1867574]

>>1867563
I think D2 it's not allowed because not retro = 1999+.
So just D1 must be allowed... and of course, Hellfire.

[Anonymous No.1867592]

>>1867574
We had a D2 thread go 2+ weeks with ~500 posts a few months ago. It's technically not allowed, but since the janitors deleted shitposts in the thread and not the thread itself, I think it's safe to discuss both.

[Anonymous No.1867640]

The sorcerer can swing a buckler like a mad man. I'm always trying to solo iron man with him.....I've never succeeded.

"Wherever you go, there you are"

[Anonymous No.1867654]

>>1867574
Why do we constantly have WoW threads with 300+ posts d2 has more right to be here than that piece of shot moo

[Anonymous No.1867674]

I installed the Belzebub mod based on advice from /vr/, and it's pretty fantastic. Lots of things changed for convenience like increased walking speed in town.

I've also been using the
>$player 10
option to make the game more difficult and increase drops.

[Anonymous No.1867680]

>>1867592
Then the janitors need replacing. D2 isn't retro. Period.

Janitors, just don't even try any more if you believe D2 belongs in /vr/.

[Anonymous No.1867730]

>>1867680
>My belief is fact and anyone who contradicts that, even the people who administer to this board, need to be removed for not complying with an arbitrary standard.

[Anonymous No.1867875]

>>1867563
I miss Diablo, I miss the dark fantasy artstyle.
Diablo 3 isn't right.

[Anonymous No.1867917]

Gives me a reason to post this

[Anonymous No.1867924]

>>1867875
>Diablo 3 isn't right.

Diablo was originally developed outside of Blizzard, but the team and project were acquired and set up as Blizzard North, who later went on to make Diablo 2 and its expansion. Blizzard North was eventually dissolved, and its team left for better places. Then Metzen moved in on the IP and smeared his diarrhea all over it (like his infamous corruption fetish).

No one who worked on Diablo or Diablo 2 had anything to do with Diablo 3.

[Anonymous No.1867926]

I have very fond memories of D1 because my big brother was in a clan (my country was one of the last bastions of D1, now D1 is dead here though, people got old) and through him being one of the best Rogues I ventured into the wonderful world of D1 PvP.

I mained Warrior, my favourite PvM class, and Warrior vs Warrior duels are autistic as fuck. Basically you have too high AC to hit each other and using weapons with elemental damage is forbidden, so you're basically dancing around each other and hitting at spots where you predict the other will be, because when you are moving, your AC gets cut by like 1/3. That, combined with the lag typical to the Europe server made this a stupid game of cat and mouse. If you and your opponent got into a swordlock where neither of you can move away from each other without provoking a critical hit, you start swinging sword backwards and then you move away from each other to try again.

Warrior vs Rogue was basically moving diagonally to avoid arrows and using very little mana you have to cast Healing and Teleport.

Warrior vs Mage was somehow outsustaining the mage's 1000+ mana (Mana Shield was way better than this Energy Shield crap from D2) and the ability to fire off homing fireballs (Phasing+Fireball cast almost simultaneously causes your fireballs to home on the target, it takes practice) to predict his moves, land a good teleport behind him, stunlock him and kill him. Some assholes would outfit themselves full of AC, but then have less mana.

Mage vs Mage duels were really fun and I spent a lot of time on them because they're basically DBZ fights full of just Teleport/Phasing/Fireball all over Church Level 1. You try to hit someone with fireballs and not get hit by his fireballs.

Rogues were fun because they could bow or sword&board and be effective.

Most mages I've ever eared as a Warrior were the ones that I somehow managed to hit despite the game showing them they're half a screen's distance away from me. Lag wins duels.

[Anonymous No.1867927]

>>1867917
Is that real? Link?

[Anonymous No.1867935]

>>1867927
Unfortunately it's just a mockup for those dumb "play now my lord" ads, though I hope with Blackthorne and Lost Vikings being available on battle.net for free we might see it someday

[Anonymous No.1867941]

>>1867926
Everyone had duplicated items and it was allowed because they were all within confines of the game and it was PvP so who cares. Everyone had scanners that detected who has what items. In PvP there was even a hacked-in item allowed - the Lightforge helmet, made from an item that was originally supposed to be a mace and given by a cut-off NPC. Lightforge gave cool stuff including fire-damage, making it a fan-favorite for certain Warriors. Probably the most popular hack in the game aside from Archangel Staff of Apocalypse with 255 charges and Godly Full Plate Mail of the Whale.

Mages often used an exploit - if you got yourself to 1 HP total (from being hit by Black Death), every hit that hits you makes the game think you should die. But a mage wouldn't die because his mana pool is his life pool thanks to the Mana Shield spell. So the game would get confused and as a result a mage got free Fastest Hit Recovery - which was pretty difficult to itemize for, even for mages who were the only classes using mostly unique items (Dreamflange + Naj's + Thinking Cap was core, everyone else had to use high-power magical weapons, some poor Rogues used The Needler instead of Massive Bow of Swiftness).

>>1867935
To be honest you don't even need a legit CD-Key to enter Diablo battle.net, and there never was a need.

[Anonymous No.1867943]

>>1867926
I always love hearing about how metagame develops.

Also Poland?

[Anonymous No.1867946]

>>1867943
Yes

[Anonymous No.1867948]

>>1867941
no, but it would be nice for blizzard to officially freeware Diablo since they don't sell it digitally

[Anonymous No.1867952]

>>1867948
I still somehow have my physical copy in its paper sleeve.

Who else remembers their CD keys by heart?

[Anonymous No.1867965]

>>1867941
And this was all fun, though to be honest my biggest love was to play PvM. I never got to play Iron Man with anyone, but I took countless guys to Hell/Hell.

IMHO:
Pick Warrior if you like masochistic challenge (and I do - all that footwork and teleport trickery just to corner a bunch of succubi and kill them one by one was my jam)
Pick Rogue for comfy full-clearing of Hell/Hell
Pick Sorcerer for Lazarus runs and just wrecking shit up

>>1867952
I do this one: 1234567890123.

[Anonymous No.1867978]

>>1867680
Why is there always some cocksucker that does in this Diablo/Diablo 2 thread? Fuck off, douchebag.

[Anonymous No.1867982]

>>1867563
Sorcerer becomes piss easy once you get your hands on a book of mana shield. I found the unique dagger Wizardspike when I did my yearly playthrough and never had mana problems again.

>>1867674
You made the game MORE difficult? I've only been able to beat it as sorcerer because the Skelington king just destroys my warrior whenever I fight him. Do you know what the full list of skills for each class is?

[Anonymous No.1867986]

>>1867952
I'm pretty sure Diablo doesn't require a CD key.

[Anonymous No.1867990]

>>1867982
>You made the game MORE difficult? I've only been able to beat it as sorcerer because the Skelington king just destroys my warrior whenever I fight him
That's why you bypass Leoric's lair until you've cleared at least level 4 and only fight him with a blunt weapon (150% damage to undead, sword only does 50%) and a belt full of potions.

Or use Staff of Holy Bolt if you find one.

Also, Sorcerer is piss easy the moment you find Lightning spell (or a suitable staff) and can routinely afford mana, it's very cost-efficient. Unless you're playing multiplayer and you keep frying your allies which happens all the time.

[Anonymous No.1867994]

>>1867990
Speaking of which, any rumors on when Belzebub is going to have multiplayer?

[Anonymous No.1867998]

>>1867994
What is Belzebub?

[Anonymous No.1868001]

>>1867994
Dunno, I haven't played modded D1 since Varaya & Khan's Middle Earth mod.

[Anonymous No.1868006]

>>1867998
http://mod.diablo1.eu.org/
Diablo 1 mod that restores a ton of cut quests and adds some stuff like a stash in town and 4 or 5 class specific abilities. I'd recommend it highly, but it is ball crushingly difficult unless you grind like a WoW player.

[Anonymous No.1868008]

>>1868001
And that is mostly because I don't enjoy mods that try to turn D1 into D2, which seems to be the majority.

The best thing in a mod would be putting Wirt and Adria closer to the central city square; either that or speeding you up in town. That's all I care for.

[Anonymous No.1868013]

>>1868001
I was talking about Leoric specifically in the Belzebub mod though. Vanilla game is pretty easy.

[Anonymous No.1868016]

>>1867952
I still have my old CD too, and I bought another at a pawn shop the other day

[Anonymous No.1868017]

>>1868006
>ball crushingly difficult unless you grind like a WoW player.

I use the [$player 10] option to make the normal mobs worth fighting. Then I turn it back to 0 when it's boss time.

[Anonymous No.1868031]

>>1867994
Should be soon enough.

The game is in open single player beta, mainly in its bug testing stage, so within the year looks good.

[Anonymous No.1868054]

>>1868031
>>1868006
Diablo1 virgin here.
I played Diablo 2 for thousand of hours in my early teenage years, and knowing there is some modding actively developed for D1, I'm wondering if it would be worth getting into now.

Should I do a vanilla playthrough first?

[Anonymous No.1868064]

>>1868054
>Should I do a vanilla playthrough first?

I recommend going with Belzebub.

It does make the game more difficult, but the benefits far outweigh that.

[Anonymous No.1868089]

>>1867563
>mfw I have the soundtrack
>I will randomly play the Dungeon theme when it's late and all the lights are off
>instant spook

[Anonymous No.1868093]

>>1867680

Holy hell. It took me a minute to realize that D2 was post-1999. I remember 'COMING SOON' articles about that fucker for ages.

[Anonymous No.1868097]

What's the opinion of Diablo: The Hell
Waste of time?

[Anonymous No.1868115]

You guys just brought back an old memory of mine. My babysitter played Diablo and her most recent save was completely fucked. When you load the game you start out in the Caves and a fucking assload of those centipede things instantly come from offscren in all directions, surround you, and stunlock you until you die. It was hilarious. There's no time to cast town portal, no teleport spells, just instant rape. She had NO backup saves for that character.

I just have tried for hours trying to find some way to salvage that save for her.

She also played that one Sonic game for the PC where everything is isometric and some others, had pretty good taste in games.

[Anonymous No.1868116]

>>1868093
oh shi, i just put diablo 2 on my top10 list on the other thread...

[Anonymous No.1868145]

>>1868115
Did you fuck her?

If not, why?

[Anonymous No.1868158]

I had this when I bought the Battlechest but never installed it because I was preoccupied with D2. Is it compatible with Windows 7?

[Anonymous No.1868171]

>>1867563
I actually fired up this game like a day or so ago because I remembered it exists, then I ended up beating it, the hellfire levels and killing nightmare diablo almost in one sitting, then deciding to find Diablo 2 in my house and boot that up right away.

I have been up for more than 24 hours and I usually never do this, wat.

Anyway I fucked up a pali build, erased that after a couple hours oh well, and now I'm trying two pali builds back to back, one focusing on zeal, other smite, and I might also start up a sorc because thats what I beat D1 with and I love magic.

I never really played diablo back to back like this before, multiple characters, going to hell difficulty, fast paced etc. and I am really excited at changing up the way I look at this game.

[Anonymous No.1868191]

>>1868158
>Is it compatible with Windows 7?

You're going to have a lot of trouble if it's vanilla.

The Belzebub mod fixes all compatibility issues thankfully.

[Anonymous No.1868206]

I'd like to get back into original diablo, but i can't figure out how to get the game to play in full screen. Even when i run in 240x680, the screen is small as shit. Any advice for a fix?

[Anonymous No.1868215]

>>1868206
>Any advice for a fix?
Use the mod, you philistine.
http://mod.diablo1.eu.org/

[Anonymous No.1868505]

So how does one build a sorcerer?

[Anonymous No.1868513]

>>1868505
Put all of your points into mana with the only exception of seeing armour that grants you magic and resistances with their protection, don't use staves, just use 1h and shields that give you magic or magic + strength.

Just stack up your magic, this is only awkward until you figure out how to heal yourself quickly with the healing spell until you get mana shield. Also try to only use rejuvs to heal if you need to as it is most efficient, you shouldn't have to heal yourself too much anyway, just buy mana pots.

When you get mana shield you become OP, you teleport/stone curse/ chain lighting/ fire ball your way to victory.

Sorcerer is OP

[Anonymous No.1868514]

>>1868513
> seeing armour
And by this I mean getting strength

[Anonymous No.1868534]

I had fond memories of Diablo 1 (downloading the demo on a 28.8k modem definitely took awhile).

Diablo 2 was full on addiction mode, coincidentally its release lined up with breaking up with my first girlfriend ever (I was 16) so I drowned my sorrows in Diablo 2 for a long time. Very silly in retrospect.

A shame Diablo 3 was such a disappointment for myself. I think I would actually go and play Diablo 2 if they had some sort of HD revamp that revived the community again.

[Anonymous No.1868586]

>>1868513
Thanks m8.

Being a glass cannon is fun as shit.

[Anonymous No.1868606]

>>1868586
you mean glass armor that spasms around the dungeon and shits on everything on his way

being mage in diablo 1 is more fun than boring whacking ranged monsters that run away from you or rogueZZZZZZZZZZZZZz

[Anonymous No.1868716]

>>1868606
Shit man, I switched the difficulty to 10.

Drops and exp is crazy, but I die in two hits. The true mage experience.

[Anonymous No.1868737]

In terms of vanilla, Playstation D1 > PC D1 IF! (and big IF) you have friends to play with.

Also, Dark_Mage- @ Blizzhackers here. Send all your h8, questions, and calling me a faggot pls. :^)

[Anonymous No.1868746]

>>1868737
pc still wins out imo

i played both, and while sitting next to each other while you're in the dungeon is a fun novelty, there's still the big issue of being stuck on the same screen, which can lead to funny things like running away from a boss in opposite directions and getting murdered

[Anonymous No.1868751]

One annoying thing is that you can't use full chat features in D1 to prevent flooding because of the no CD-Key thing. (Funny, they let you connect to Support and I used to load support all the time for fun, heh.) If you have the need for using clan chat and don't want to use a chatbot, you can use this to make a W2BN proxy and the server will think you are connecting from W2BN and grant you full chat privileges.

Obviously it requires a WarCraft II Bnet Edition key, though.

mega >> /#!W5YzFD7K!mT_3FW2V8axPzKbmJMcINJeW0ixaevTMjaQrHmjkEHk

[Anonymous No.1869861]

>>1868097
Not at all. It's a mod with years of development (from 2006, ongoing) that I don't think anons should avoid trying because of Belzebub. I haven't played Belzebub but it must play very differently from The Hell.

[Anonymous No.1869883]

>>1868513
>don't use staves
They are the only way to get your spells to level 20. Archangels Staff of Wizardry is pretty sweet. I have an Archangels Staff of Nova I really like....and let's not forget Apocalypse for when the Advocates make you sad.

[Anonymous No.1870276]

>>1867948
It would be awesome if they released the fucking source code for Diablo I and II, so freeablo finally takes off and the internet fills with user created campaigns and mods

[Anonymous No.1870291]

>>1870276
>Blizzard
>EVER releasing source code for anything

A man can dream, though honestly, I think you'd be better off remaking it on your own if you wanted to go that route.

[Anonymous No.1870515]

>>1867640
The sorcerer is the most powerful character by far. You must be doing something wrong, such as not putting every single goddamn point into mana.

[Anonymous No.1870596]

>>1869883
I thought that staves of a certain spell would only cast a level one version of that spell.

[Anonymous No.1870689]

>>1870515
>You must be doing something wrong, such as not putting every single goddamn point into mana.

Am I supposed to be relying on gear bonuses to required strength?

I'm tempted to put points into strength, but the magic calls me...

[Anonymous No.1870696]

>>1869883
Well, you can have 20 level Fireball, or you can have +110 Mana total from Dreamflange and a couple of other cool stuff, plus shield bonuses, and still a level 19 Fireball. Nothing compares to Dreamflange, especially in PvP. For minion clearing, Bountiful Staff of Apocalypse is nice.

[Anonymous No.1871845]

>>1868534

D3 isn't that bad anymore now that the loot system has been fixed and they made killing things actually fun.

I've put about 200 hours into it. It's most fun on co-op with hardcore characters.

[Anonymous No.1871912]

Oh my god, goosebumps are running all over me at the moment. We used to do iron man runs every summer for the STH tournament. Too bad the fresh meat guys don't do that anymore. Once we got down to Hell Level 14 in an iron man run. I'll have to rev it up again some time.

[Anonymous No.1872070]

>>1867990
I got a Staff of Holy Bolt in my most recent playthrough and put two and two together and decided to use it against him since I still didn't have very good armor.

Leoric then proceeded to troll the shit out of me by running around dodging my bolts and summoning skeletons. Like seriously, it was impossible to get a bead on him. The only time I hit him consistently was when I got into melee range and stunlocked him.

[Anonymous No.1872079]

>>1870291
I know, that's why I support freeablo, it's my best bet.

>tfw no open source port of diablo 2

[Anonymous No.1872094]

Hey /vr/, how good is the PS1 version of Diablo really?

I've read rumors that the randomization isn't present on this version, is it true?

[Anonymous No.1872121]

>>1872094
It's got direct controls and no cursor. A dedicated attack button even. That's the main difference. I'm almost sure that it had randomization.

Keep in mind that saving a cgaracter takes 1 block, byt saving the game takes about 10 or so, so it's unwieldy on real hardware.

[Anonymous No.1872879]

Sheeeeit.

It's like the arcane sanctuary.

[Anonymous No.1872904]

>>1868171
You sound like you really enjoy video games, and I admire that.

I miss that passion

[Anonymous No.1872940]

>>1872904
Stop masturbating so much.

How are you supposed to enjoy vidya without your vital male fluids?

[Anonymous No.1873007]

>>1872940
Not that poster, but... What would that have to do with anything?

[Anonymous No.1873107]

>>1873007
joke

[Anonymous No.1873118]

>>1872879
Negro, it is the arcane sanctuary.
Best music in that section. So eerie.

[Anonymous No.1873119]

>>1873007

It's commonly known that masturbation in males causes nervousness, social anxiety, suicidal tendencies, and general anhedonia. The chronic masturbator will often find that previously enjoyable routines will no longer provide pleasure. Eventually, unable to achieve that desired "high" through normal masturbatory practices, the addict goes on to uncontrollably seek out victims to sexually abuse.

You can generally spot these delinquents by the telltale stains on their clothing, which appear when the masturbator is unable to find a suitable rape victim.

[Anonymous No.1873132]

>>1870596
A staff will cast at whatever your spell level. If you don't know the spell, then it's cast at level one.

>>1870515
Iron Man is a game variant I play. Basically, once you enter the labryinth you can't come back to town. Once, you're dead your done.

[Anonymous No.1873169]

>>1873119
I've seen people from /pol/ crossboarding with copypasta like this so often I can't even tell if you're serious or not.

[Anonymous No.1873174]

>>1868215
I would use this but the asshole added his own autistic stuff to the game.

[Anonymous No.1873273]

>>1873169
If you aren't sure whether something is a joke or not, assume it's a joke.

[Anonymous No.1873491]

>>1873174
It's not so bad IMO.

A lot of the new content was just stuff that was already on the game disc.

[Anonymous No.1874608]

>>1873174
A lot of that stuff was already on the disk you dingus.

[Anonymous No.1876418]

>>1873491
>>1874608

Were the necromancers on the disc? Because fuck whoever made the necromancers. Especially the champions that are immune to everything except physical damage.

[Anonymous No.1876804]

>>1867563
can someone link me to any kind of guide to get into diablo? or would diablo 2 work right out of the box on windows 8?

[Anonymous No.1876938]

I'd just like to add that Mordor fucked up The Hell mod, and he's a self-righteous cunt that makes claims that his mod is the best mod of any for Diablo. Mordor is worse than Laz who created Median, and that's really saying something.

His mod started to fall apart when he removed XP-sharing in multiplayer to prevent 'leeching'. It made partying up and playing with wizards fruitless since wizards can kill stuff much faster than a warrior or rogue, and the only way to share kill experience now is to actually hit the same monster once to show you were making some effort to help rather than leeching in the corner somewhere. This eventually means that the wizard is going to outlevel the other members of his group, which means he'll grow even stronger, can kill groups faster, and eventually will leave the rest of the party completely behind.

Couple that with the fact that the autistic fuck thought that making armor require 200+ stat points to wear was a good idea completely ruined any sort of fun unless you enjoy grinding through the first four levels of the cathedral ad nauseam looking for shrines to boost your stats.

Seriously, it's like he didn't know what he wanted to do with the mod, but instead decided to make it the most hectic and annoying experience ever, especially if you want to play with friends. I mean, I guess I can see the appeal if you want a 'hardcore' mod for diablo, but I think he took things a bit too far with the borderline-retarded decisions he made.

Seriously, though. If you're Ulillillia, you might actually enjoy it.

[Anonymous No.1877319]

>>1876418
Yeah those guys are a real cunt.

The ultimate aim of the Belzebub mod is multiplayer though, which is why we're seeing the spike in difficulty.

I wouldn't mind doing playthroughs of this with /vr/.

[Anonymous No.1877958]

Is Diablo 2 still a viable game to play anymore? I have been playing it recently and I think its fun as fuck but I am worried its dying or that the next ladder reset is going to be lame.

[Anonymous No.1877971]

i played a lot of D2 ,my fave was necro. i was going for a build where i'm a range shooter but when i got in a difficult level in the fucking jungle where semi-invisible pikaninnies were shooting poison dart at me and it was a mad hassle to spot em to shoot em all (so many 'ninnies) i changed my build to SPOOKY SKELITON mode. my minions did my bidding, spot em ninnies and execute em in the bushes where they were hiding. good time.

[Anonymous No.1877974]

>>1867917
>Free
>Blizzard game

Hahahaha!

[Anonymous No.1877998]

>>1877974
Just wait when they reelase WC1 in three months to celebrate its 20th birthday.

[Anonymous No.1878124]

>>1877958
I thought it was dying back in 2005. If there are people playing it now, there will always be people playing it.

There was even a dedicated /vg/ server for the Eastern Sun mod.

>>1877971
Summoner necro was one of the few builds that could solo all difficulties. It took some tricky gameplay, use of curses and corpse explosion alongside your trusty act 2 mercenary, but it could be pulled off.

I might actually fire up D2 and try to work through hell difficulty again.

[Anonymous No.1878148]

>>1877958
Community is nonexistent and spambots are still a problem.

It died a honorful death.

[Anonymous No.1878517]

>>1877958

Of course it's viable. Fuck the noise about multiplayer. Single player is just as viable if you're not looking for coop.

[Anonymous No.1878618]

>>1877958
Of course is viable. There must be some people playing it. If there isn't people on battle.net, there must be some people playing it on the Eastern Sun or Median XL servers. Got check them out.

The only annoying thing is those fucking spambots, but luckily muting is permanent now.

Try some mods if you like. I spent many hours on Battle for the elements and some other stuff.

Try the "you gotta be kiiding me" mod. You'll have some laughs

[Anonymous No.1879054]

How'd you guys feel the first time you hit the cave levels and the Rhino guys charged you?

Also, did you ever get killed because you were leading the succubi in circles to jack off as they walk? Or was it just me?

[Anonymous No.1879123]

>>1879054
The Rhino noise always scared the piss out of me in the Chamber of Bone. Same as playing Warrior in The Halls of the Blind when I was 7 or 8.

Catacombs for spookiest tileset.

[Anonymous No.1879147]

>>1878517
I still replay D2 periodically in singleplayer hardcore. I get a lot of lag on bnet, even with a DSL connection, so I don't care to risk dying to a lag spike.

Last year, I got to Act 3 in the Kurast sewers on a martial arts assassin, the year before that, I got to Act 2 on Nightmare before dying to a unique before I knew what was going on. All that poison damage, man.

[Anonymous No.1879208]

>>1867875
Check out Throne of Darkness. Made by much of the same people who made Diablo and Diablo 2, just with samurai swords and is hard as shit.

[Anonymous No.1879240]

>>1873132
How far have you gotten playing Iron Man? Seems like a few quests are required to go back to town.

[Anonymous No.1879434]

>>1877319

I learned to handle the necros by spamming chain lightning and handling all the lightning resistant ones with fire walls. Now I'm stuck in the Domain of Terror and the goddamn gray demon who's way too eager to get his sacrifices. He almost always OHK's me and I do fuckall damage to him with all my spells. Might as well just give up.

[Anonymous No.1879487]

>>1867917
>>1867927
>>1877974
I'm the guy who made the gif.

It was for the burstintotreats wordpress blog I used to run until it got bonked. I suspect it was because of Blizzard. This is the same blog serving Rollercoaster Tycoon 2 for /v/ and /vr/, again, until it got taken down.

Windows 7:
https://drive.google.com/uc?id=0BzeMmWyRp5KJZXdqNmpueHI3V3M&export=download

PSP:
https://drive.google.com/uc?id=0BzeMmWyRp5KJUW4xNEhjUTBnNU0&export=download

I personally play the PSP version every night, works great with fully customizable controls and run speed toggle.

[Anonymous No.1879624]

>>1879487
I FUCKING LOVE YOU

I was just looking for a Diablo installer for my PC (I'll run it on Linux through Wine)

I didn't even think about playing it on my PSP, it's a fucking great idea!

thanks a lot, /vr/o, you made my day!

[Anonymous No.1879674]

>>1872940
Thank you for the Dr. Strangelove reference.

I'll try that though, in all seriousness.

[Anonymous No.1879752]

>>1879487
Tell me, is this PSP version just a PSX2PSP iso or is it an actual port? Also, will it work on PSP3000?

[Anonymous No.1879775]

>>1879752
Diablo has never been a PSclassic on PSN, so this is custom converted by me. It's been converted from a PS1 iso plus a XMB background also made by me to mimic the official template. Slapped a M rating logo and a blurb from wikipedia. I play it on a PSP 3000 with PRO CFW 6.60. You can probably do this on a Vita too while in PSP mode.

[Anonymous No.1879828]

>>1879054
Yes, I fapped to the succubi - and it's not just because I was going through puberty at the time either, those are some fine titty pixels. I still get a stiffy from them, although my penis is a little sentimental and might simply be waxing nostalgic.

I fapped to Andariel too. Dem hooves, dem legs!

[Anonymous No.1879845]

I'm playing hellfire D1, is it possible to solo as a warrior? What about on NM and Hell?

How does one even build a warrior anyway? I heard some talk about trying to get teleport to deal with those pesky succubi but 100 magic is just out of the question, I'm having a hard time meeting the reqs for full plate as it is.

Also-also, I bought this two-handed axe from wirt that was very good in theory because of its damage potential and magic resist. The idea behind me buying it was that I would be able to easily stunlock succubi with the high damage, but in practice the slower attack animation makes it too hard to hit them. That shit cost me 40k. If I find a ring that gives me attack speed it might actually be useful.

[Anonymous No.1879984]

>>1879434
I got through the Domain of Terror my binding teleport to rightclick. You practically have to in order to dodge all the shit and monsters everywhere. Left click spells were fireball, chain lightning and the ice ball, switching between those based on resists. Chain lightning was my main thing. I just kept warping away from that grey asshole and zapping him with lightning as he approached.

Your best bet at getting teleport in the Belzebub mod is doing the Wirt treasure map quest. The final area has eight guaranteed higher level spellbooks.

[Anonymous No.1880014]

>>1879240
I play on multiplayer, no need to go to town. I've made it to level 15 once, but I usually drop dead in the caves or late catacombs. It seems very drop/shrine dependent.

[Anonymous No.1880052]

>immune to physical
>immune to fire
>immune to lightning
>immune to cold
>immune to poison
>immune to harsh words

[Anonymous No.1880061]

hello DIablo 2 fans, i am playing again from the start, will choose Assassin, any tips? I would like to use Traps, any good build advises?

[Anonymous No.1880064]

>>1880014
I tried it with the Rogue and my biggest issue was weapon durability. It's probably easier with Hellfire and its oils or partied with a fighter.

[Anonymous No.1880101]

http://freeablo.org/

Please support. Development is slow, but keeps on going.

[Anonymous No.1881048]

>>1879845
>How does one even build a warrior anyway?
Sword & board is mandatory. Axes can be good for early game, but at best they require you to micro way more extensively because block is really helpful against arrows and stuff, and shield is often a great way to bolster resistances. Whichever you end up choosing, try your best to get a weapon with a suffix of Speed/Haste (they're virtually the same thing) - it's of enormous help in stunlocking enemies. My favored way to look for buyable items is Griswold scumming (check Gris, leave game, enter game, check Gris, repeat) - he often offers really good stuff, and due to a programming oversight, you can buy a King's Sword of Haste at his store (which is the single best sword you can get in the game, and which should also be impossible to purchase at Griswold due to technicalities.) Keep a belt of full healing at all times and use Healing spell if want to heal out of battle.
>I heard some talk about trying to get teleport to deal with those pesky succubi
No need to, though it's helpful. The most reliable way of dealing with those annoying spellcasters in Hell is to just charge at them until you manage to lure them into a corner, where you can kill them. It's also notable that the teleporting mages can be traced; they leave a glowing square behind upon disappearing and you can trace their movement to the place where they'll appear.

> 100 magic is just out of the question
Keep a bunch of +Magic items around to help learn difficult spells. Teleport isn't necessary, though telekilling is often an important Warrior technique.

>That shit cost me 40k.
Gold is easy to gain in D1, fear not. Pick up all junk and sell it en masse.

>If I find a ring that gives me attack speed it might actually be useful.
This won't happen because attack speed is set, it isn't a percentage like in D2. So, the only way to speed up your attack is to find a weapon of Readiness/Swiftness*/Speed/Haste

*Bows go only up to Swiftness.

[Anonymous No.1881064]

>Rod of Onan

[Anonymous No.1881065]

>>1879845
>What about on NM and Hell?
It's roughly the same as Normal except everything hits harder. In Hell difficulty you need really tough armor class (over 200 for comfort), preferrably a fast-hitting weapon for stunlocks, and maxxed resistances to at least magic and fire (Lightning is less mandatory, Storm Lords become less common past Caves, and nothing else in Hell does Lightning damage). It's best to keep a lot of different jewelry to be able to respond adequately to threats and switch resistances as necessary.

Most of your equipment will end up being high-tier magical items if you're lucky. There exist great unique items like Royal Circlet, Demonspike Coat, Gotterdammerung (HIGHLY situational), Stormshield. However, they are slightly less efficient in comparison to Awesome Plate/Helm/Shield of the Tiger/Lion or King's Sword of Speed/Haste. It's worth it to hunt Griswold for items, Wirt slightly less so due to how far away the asshole is. Since unique jewelry sucks in D1, you'll rely on rings with Silver/Gold/Jade/Obsidian/specific resistance prefixes and Life/Strength/Zodiac suffixes.

However equipped you are (reminder: around 200+ AC, high Magic/Fire resistance at least, Speed/Haste weapon if at all possible [don't fret over that one too much though, it's doable]), Hell/Hell will be an exercise in footwork. Don't take on Vipers/Blood Knights all at once, separate them, dance around, use Teleport as necessary, try to isolate people and kill them 1 by 1. Only with really godlike gear will you be able to emerge victorious from being surrounded by 8 Blood Knights and it'll require you to burn your entire belt of Full Healings anyway.

Remember that projectiles won't hit you if you constantly move from left to right and right to left diagonally (from the map's perspective). It's an useful thing to do when dancing around large Succubi/Lava Maw/Mage packs.

Diablo is easy to beat on any diff level, his guard is what's tough.

[Anonymous No.1881073]

Someone make a joke with this image and that one with a ton of doom skellingtons behind a door.

[Anonymous No.1881082]

>>1879845
Also, while Flails and Mauls are an acceptable weapon type, you should know that Undead stop appearing in the game past Catacombs (and blunts deal 150% damage to those) while there's one particularly annoying Animal type (50% damage to those with blunt weapon) that can sometimes spawn in Caves/Hell, particularly devastating when he comes with an unique boss - namely those little dogs that spit acid globs at you (Lava Maw is their ultimate version; their damage is magic). So, you probably want a sword in Hell, though don't hesitate if something awesome like Strange Flail of Speed shows up at Wirt or something.

For final advice, make liberal use of chokepoints, corners, barrels, doodads, whatever you can find to give you a positional advantage. Also, you can cast Fire Wall next to yourself and the enemy will often consciously try not to walk into it, even if he's Fire immune. This is helpful if you are in a tough spot and need to separate your enemies further for an easier engage.

[Anonymous No.1881096]

Does any spell make more DPS than a well leveled charged bolt?
I mean, at level 12 or so it can make +300 damage in a single hit, and you can launch like ten charged bolts in than four seconds. Get a good stave with enough charges of it and mana shield so you can get close to your enemies (Is a shotgun after all) and you can kill bosses sanic fast

[Anonymous No.1881127]

>>1881096
19-20 level Fireballs tend to go for like 2k damage while still having splash damage, way better range and reliability. I'd rather use just Lightning or Chain Lightning for the same reasons.

Also, Flash deals a lot of close-range damage, but a lot of monsters are magic immune, and Flash is also bugged so that 3 of the squares around you only get 1/3 damage (they're always the ones on the north-east).

[Anonymous No.1881136]

>>1881127
>Try chain lighting or lighting
>It just goes trought enemies without touching them
All of my what. I get this every time I try to use them.

[Anonymous No.1881140]

>>1881136
There's a glitch with Chain Lightning which is caused by too many lightning particles if you spam it too much. This causes square-sized holes in each lightning, making it less efficient. That's why you should cast Chain Lightning more sparingly instead of spamming it.

Lightning is free of the glitch, so you probably just aren't aiming right or are trying to kill Lightning immunes.

[Anonymous No.1881148]

>>1881140
No, No matter what I do the onyle lighiting attack that works right seems to be the charged bolt. Completely common enemies aren't touched by them even if they are in the middle of the column-

[Anonymous No.1881151]

>>1881148
That's strange and I have no idea what could be causing that.

[Anonymous No.1881171]

>>1881073
I have the doom one, but I'm not very good with paint/gimp.

[Anonymous No.1881419]

>>1880064
Unfortunately, the Rouge's trap skill blows. I usually find tons of bows, but I can see pouring through them. She is good with a sword though.

[Anonymous No.1881432]

>>1881419
>Unfortunately, the Rouge's trap skill blows
It is pretty nice in three-man Ironman runs where you'd rather minimize any expenditure of resources because even though traps are non-threatening, springing a Nova trap just isn't worth it.

[Anonymous No.1882224]

>>1880101
Beelzebub is the exact same thing (a new engine) and actually works.

[Anonymous No.1882595]

The power of cheese.

[Anonymous No.1882660]

>men see weird lights in woods
>everyone who sees them eventually disappears
>except for Griswold

Griswold confirmed for homosex?

[Anonymous No.1882671]

>>1882224
Does Beelzebub work under GNU/Linux? Is there a way to play Beelzebub like the original Diablo?

[Anonymous No.1882697]

>>1882671
It works with Wine, but it's prone to crashes. Let's hope Freeablo can replicate its featues to an extent.

[Anonymous No.1882702]

Is it possible to run Diablo in DOSbox?

[Anonymous No.1882704]

>>1882702
It's a Windows game. You'd have to run Windows 95 or Windows 98 via DOSbox first.

[Anonymous No.1882714]

I just got an original copy of Diablo 1

too bad it's one of the early runs and only has 1.05 patch on disk

[Anonymous No.1882717]

>>1876938
I still play The Hell mod for that huge amount of uniques to drop, overall it's a solid job, could be better

[Anonymous No.1882853]

>>1879487
>I suspect it was because of Blizzard
>Blizzard outright refuses to sell the game to you
>Still keeps people from making compatible versions

[Anonymous No.1884002]

Anyone want to play D2?

[Anonymous No.1884216]

>>1882671
>Tried Diablo on Linux Mint 17 yesterday,
>Menu doesn't appear
>Mash buttons and clicks like crazy
>Game starts
>"hmmm....alright, i guess"

>Download Beelzebub
>Fuck yeah it shows the menu
>fuck, no sound or music.
>Skeleton hits me
>The game crashes

fuck....there is no playonlinux installer for Diablo 1 (although Diablo 2 works flawlessly, even with D2SE and Plugy)

does anybody know how to fix Diablo 1 on Linux?

[Anonymous No.1884227]

>>1884002
me
i just dont know how

[Anonymous No.1885134]

Diablo I and II are fun, but it just doesn't feel the same without a team of bros dying horribly alongside you.

[Anonymous No.1885240]

>>1884216
just install WinXP on virtual machine and play there

there's nothing shameful with it, i do it too

[Anonymous No.1885549]

>>1882660

Griswold confirmed for alpha who knows his shit. His shit include being a bro and not running after spooks in the night.

[Anonymous No.1885559]

So how the fuck do I play Diablo 1 on Windows 7?

[Anonymous No.1885639]

>>1885559
Pray?

Either that or install a mod.

[Anonymous No.1885648]

>>1881073

Thank god for flame wave, I'll say that. That wave of gold errupting.

[Anonymous No.1886107]

>>1885559
1. Use a virtual machine
2. Use a mod like Beelzebub
3. Play it on a PS1 emulator.

[Anonymous No.1886374]

>>1881073
>cast flame wall
>gold spews out the door like vomit

[Anonymous No.1886391]

>>1885648
I didn't have that spell at the moment, but I gotta say, ligthing wall sure did it's job.

[Anonymous No.1886417]

>>1885559

There's a registry hack that will let you play Diablo on Win7 64 and get rid of the rainbow colors issue.

I can't remember where I found it though.

[Anonymous No.1886619]

>>1886417
>>1885559
Try this:
http://aok.heavengames.com/blacksmith/showfile.php?fileid=11108

It's coming from Age of Kings Heaven, but it works for most games.

[Anonymous No.1887029]

>The horror of getting to Tristram in D2 for the first time, and realizing all the NPC's you came to know in the first game have been brutally skeleton-raped and slaughtered

[Anonymous No.1887228]

>>1885240
I'll give it a try. Thanks /vr/o

[Anonymous No.1887439]

>>1886107
People need to stop calling Beelzebub a "mod".
It's a whole new fucking engine that simply adds new features and restores all the cut content to the game.

[Anonymous No.1887461]

>>1887029
>the poor shota got raped then gibbed

[Anonymous No.1887548]

>>1887439
Well it "mod"ifies the game, so...

>>1887461
It was probably Griswold who did the grisly deed.

[Anonymous No.1887562]

>>1887548
It doesn't modify the game at all though, faggot. It uses the original assets in their pure unaltered form, the MPQ remains untouched.
The engine itself is brand new with new features, so obviously it differs from the original. It's not a mod still. That's like saying a new BMW M3 model is a "mod" of a BMW M3 from 20 years ago.

[Anonymous No.1887854]

>>1867926
>Warrior vs Warrior duels are autistic as fuck
>you're basically dancing around each other and hitting at spots where you predict the other will be
Uh, that's like the opposite of autism. That's pretty much how sword fighting works in real life.

[Anonymous No.1887861]

>>1887562
>http://mod.diablo1.eu.org/
>mod

B)

checkm8

[Anonymous No.1887864]

Anyone still playing on Battle.net?
Made my first contact with D1 12 years ago, when I was, well, 12. It was absolutely glorious.
Also D3 a shit, D2 a best.

[Anonymous No.1887872]

>>1887861
The domain was made when it was still a mod for the original game, instead of new engine framework. Fuck off.

[Anonymous No.1887893]

>>1887872
>title of the page is 'diablo 1 HD mod'

B^)

[Anonymous No.1887897]

>>1887872
>http://mod.diablo1.eu.org/features/
>Belzebub is code name of modification project, which will probably be most advanced Diablo 1 mod.
>In order to run mod, copy all files from archive to Diablo 1 game folder. Modification requires openAL library installed which is included in the archive. To start game run Belzebub.exe file. Remember that mod requires mounted Diablo 1 cd in virtual drive or diabdat.mpq copied to it's root folder

[Anonymous No.1887963]

>>1887897
Just because the author calls it improperly (probably so retards like you will know it's unofficial) doesn't mean it's that.
A mod would be using the original engine, Beelzebub is not.
You literally only need the Diablo.MPQ file from the original game (which only contains audio and visual assets, 0 actual code of the game engine) and put it in Beelzebub's folder.
It's a new engine, just like Freeablo.
Difference is, Freeablo is for many different OS and tries to emulate vanilla D1 experience, while Beelzebub is only for Windows and restores all the cut content from the game, adds many enhancements and also adds it's own custom content.

[Anonymous No.1887981]

>>1882224
Freeablo is closed source and not moddable.

[Anonymous No.1887984]

>>1887981
I think you meant the other way around, since it's Beelzebub that's closed source.

[Anonymous No.1889051]

>>1887854
All I meant in that post is that a Warrior vs Warrior duel is just really weird.

It's literally just people walking around the map and then suddenly stopping to start swinging their sword in a certain square, hoping to catch an enemy while he's moving, because it's the only way to hit a 250~ AC Warrior - while he's moving. Otherwise you're hitting his shield uselessly.

It's like a guessing game in many respects, really.

[Anonymous No.1890575]

>>1882671

Had the exact same issue with ubuntu. Installing/dual booting win xp is too much hassle. Hopefully someone comes up a simple fix. Will have to play D2 and FO2 while I wait.

[Anonymous No.1890649]

>>1867674

Unless something has changed with one of those mods, using players10 is kind of cheap. Diablo 1's multiplayer scaling only doubles enemy HP/increases damage once someone else is in the game, and doesn't scale it any further besides drops.

But hey, if that's how you want to play, that's cool.

[Anonymous No.1890674]

>>1887984
Yeah, I did.

[Anonymous No.1890718]

I tried playing a Gladiator in Diablo: The Hell but i eventually stopped because the stat requirements for items were so fucking high that i just could not get better gear that i could actually use. In the end i used cheat engine to reach max level quickly but even at max level you still don't have nearly high enough stats to use good items.

I don't think anything in the base game required you to have stats over 90 aside from magic spells.

[Anonymous No.1890765]

>>1890718
A lot of these mods are made by D2 fans who want to replicate that feeling of having items far out of reach.

>WHAT AM I GRINDING FOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOORRRRRRRRRR?!

[Anonymous No.1890808]

I just want to play D2 but USEast is down.
Probablly from the DDOSing that Blizzard and Sony have been hit with.

Fuck, and I just found the helm, gloves, and mace of the IK set.

[Anonymous No.1890875]

>>1890718
This was my biggest problem with The Hell and Median XL. The devs seem to think that really, really huge numbers make their mod better.

[Anonymous No.1890950]

>>1887562

It adds new songs, classes, skills and spells that aren't from the original disc. It's a new engine and a modification of the original game.

#rekt

[Anonymous No.1891061]

Any one want to roll new d2 characters?

[Anonymous No.1891076]

>>1891061
I want to install D2, but my netbook doesn't have a disc drive.

[Anonymous No.1891082]

>>1891076
Internet always has it.

[Anonymous No.1891087]

I'm about to do my yearly playthrough of D2. I do hardcore singleplayer and just see how far I can get, my record being Act 1 Hell with a paladin with maxed prayer, incredible defense/resists, and zeal.

What class/build should I try this year? Last year I had a martial arts assassin that died in the sewers of tristram, but I can't decide what to try this year. Curse focused melee necromancer with a spear maybe?

[Anonymous No.1891108]

>>1891087
Bow barb.

[Anonymous No.1891130]

>>1891087
Summonmancers are fun to roll with.

I honestly don't think I could do singleplayer again though unless I cheated to boost MF or something. Grinding for gear is not a fun time, mmkay.

[Anonymous No.1891139]

>>1891130
>Grinding for gear is not a fun time
Then why play diablo at all

[Anonymous No.1891161]

>>1891139
Grinding for gear is for multiplayer, where you can trade for useful stuff or at least transfer it to a mule.

Singeplayer grindan is pointless since you could find a cruel colossus blade on your amazon and be stuck with that amazing but useless hunk of shit.

[Anonymous No.1891165]

>>1891161
Speaking of which, that reminds me of the awesome chipped gem economy. You could collect chips when leveling a new character, make a new game called "chippos" or something and then have a bunch of higher level guys dump uniques on you in exchange for your gems.

[Anonymous No.1891172]

>>1891108
nigga what

[Anonymous No.1891201]

>>1891161
My only real suggestion for Diablo 2 singleplayer is to make a way to roll specific mods on blue items. It's entirely possible to make it through at least the first couple of acts of Hell with blue Elite items, provided you have the correct mods on them.

Thankfully, low level runewords and crafting items sort of provide that, but I wish it was expanded on. Crafted items become very expensive when you have to craft a hundred of them to roll something useful later on, and Strength/Steel runewords aren't going to carry you forever no matter what the quality of the base item.

[Anonymous No.1891202]

>>1891108
Bow barb it is.

[Anonymous No.1891228]

>>1891172
I want him to have "fun"

[Anonymous No.1891321]

Do I need to play Diablo 1 to enjoy Diablo 2, or should I just play #2?

I have limited time to actually play games, and Diablo has been on my radar for a while now.

[Anonymous No.1891336]

>>1891321
2 explains the endgame events of 1, but ultimately they are quite different enough to warrant trying both.

[Anonymous No.1891337]

>>1891321
I find 1 almost unplayable while 2 is still fantastic. but these are just opinions.

[Anonymous No.1891452]

>>1891321
I always preferred Diablo 1 to Diablo 2 because in 1 you win by being able to adapt, while in 2 you win by being able to grind.

That said, a lot of the mechanics in 1 can feel really archaic so I would recommend the Belzebub mod that people have been talking about.

[Anonymous No.1891537]

Is battlenet still down for D2?

[Anonymous No.1892268]

>>1891076

Register your CD key on BattleNet and you can download an installer.

[Anonymous No.1892387]

>>1879775
hundreds of people play it on tunngle

[Anonymous No.1892394]

>>1891452
>I always preferred Diablo 1 to Diablo 2 because in 1 you win by being able to adapt

you win by buying/looting good items and spamming health/mana potions, there's not much to adapt to

[Anonymous No.1892783]

>>1891321
Just play 2 if you have limited time. You're gonna be spending dozens of hours on it anyway

[Anonymous No.1892794]

[Anonymous No.1892823]

>>1892394

I prefer 1 over 2 because the atmosphere is much worse in 2, and the difficulty is a crazy rollercoaster of boringly easy and insta-death.

[Anonymous No.1892824]

how do i change settings in Belzebub?

[Anonymous No.1892840]

>>1892824
Make a character and get ingame, press Escape, go to options.

[Anonymous No.1892852]

>>1892823
Not to mention that if you want even a chance at the higher difficulties, your gear needs to be fucking insane.

[Anonymous No.1892892]

thats cool you guys are working on diablo 1; if you manage to make it as fun as diablo 2 you could probably get donations or w/e


but...dont you think you are wasting your life?

[Anonymous No.1892902]

>>1892892
thats cool you are posting on 4chan; if you manage to have as much fun as talking to real people you could probably get friends or w/e


but...dont you think you are wasting your life?

[Anonymous No.1892961]

>>1892852
That is largely influenced by your character and build. Ranged classes typically do better than melee classes, with the summoner Necromancer or Sorceress being top-tier for solo play. Builds based on specialized and hard-to-find equipment such as aura stacking Paladins or Infinity Sorceress are out of the question unless you can trade.

[Anonymous No.1892984]

>>1892961
Necros maybe, but sorceresses will always run into those assholes who are immune to everything but physical damage.

Plus, you'll typically be specializing, especially with synergies.

[Anonymous No.1893069]

>>1892984
Dual-element Sorcs are viable in solo play, Meteorb is the typical example, Frozen Orb + Lightning is cool too. Dual-immunes are uncommon and it's rare that both will be against your Sorc, so skip them or leave them to your mercenary.

[Anonymous No.1893076]

>>1893069
Pure lightning is viable. Lightning immunity is rarer than fire or cold and many can be avoided. The only big problem are the Ancients since there's always one immune among them and there's not much space to maneouver so your mercenary can take him out.

[Anonymous No.1893147]

>>1891076
Download a pirate version, mount the ISO images, and use your original CD Key. Since patch 1.13c came out, you just need to put some files (like Musicx.mpq of the expansion disc) in the install folder of Diablo 2, and you can play it without CD. (thanks Blizzard for that. My LOD CD was fucking dying from so much play)

[Anonymous No.1893164]

>>1892984

As >>1893069 said, Dual elemental sorcs are quite viable. I played a lot with a Frozen Orb and Lightning sorc, with normal equipment (I prefer it over a meteorb because fire inmunity is far more common than lightning inmunity).Lightning AND cold inmunes can be killed with an Act 2 Mercenary with a powerfull weapon ("Insight" runeword on a criptic axe is cheap to make) while you spam telekinesis to stun the fucker.

If you want to make a character that can solo the entire game alone, your best bet would be a Summoner Necromancer, or even a bone necreomancer (decrepify, bone wall/prison, bone spear, corpse explosion, repeat).

I'm thinking of playing this thing again. If you need some advice, just ask.

(fucking game, 12 years since I beaten it for the first time on my old Pentium 3 machine running windows 98, and it is still fun as fuck)

[Anonymous No.1894689]

>>1893076
It's awkward to play a single-element solo just because you're forced to avoid some enemies (I tried pure Lightning once, it was frustrating), and it limits what areas she can item search in. If you're into cheesing you can complete the game with a general character and then respec it to something specialized though.

[Anonymous No.1894695]

[Anonymous No.1894703]

Sup fellas. As someone who's always known about the Diablo series, is well familiar with dungeon crawling vidya, what's a good class to start with in Diablo?

[Anonymous No.1894729]

>>1894703
You can't really go wrong with any class, and since you're familiar with dungeon crawling the classes are pretty self-explanatory.

I'd recommend the warrior, because he's a fucking warrior. Just remember to have a ranged weapon at hand, because of reasons.

[Anonymous No.1894750]

>>1894729

My second question would be: Do I need a virtual machine or anything to run Diablo 1 on Windows 7 if I use that Belzebub engine?

[Anonymous No.1894754]

Hey you guys I have a question about diablo.

Just insatlled Diablo II but ive been holding off because I wanted to play with some friend but is that really necessary?
I kind of want to just jump in.

[Anonymous No.1895028]

>>1867563
I miss PKing in D1 so much before the cheating began. Still my favorite multiplayer experience ever

[Anonymous No.1895089]

>>1894750
you can find a fix for mixed-up colors or a script that temporarily shuts down explorer.exe while you play diablo.

don't use belzebub yet, it's a beta and is way too different from vanillia or hellfire

if you want some modern stuff like stash or trillions of uniques to loot use The Hell instead

[Anonymous No.1895091]

>>1894689
You can item find in areas like the Pit which don't have a single LI. You don't really need more than that.
I never saw avoiding immunes as a problem that's why I played various lightning heavy builds.

>>1893164
Summoner necro is a good starter since you don't need any equipment and have a lot of protection without spending too many skillpoints.
Generally characters that deal manage based on skills are less dependent on items than those that deal damage based on weapons. Random drops, merchants and simple rune words are often enough to cover your needs.

[Anonymous No.1895286]

>>1894754
I played it a lot on single player until I actually buyed the game and went to battle.net bak in the day.

For me it was a whole different experience, so I suggest you to play both ways.

>tfw map is not the same the next time you play online.

[Anonymous No.1895382]

>>1895286
Battle.net turned the game from an interesting hack n slash into crack cocaine. You were never bored.

[Anonymous No.1895391]

>>1895382
Exactly. I was pretty entertained playing single player. Then, with battle.net It was fucking addicting. Every time I go back to that game I spend countless hours having fun.

[Anonymous No.1895453]

>>1895391
>>1895382
do i need to buy the game to use battle.net?

do people still play?

[Anonymous No.1895464]

>>1895453
I don't know, Last time I played was in early 2013. there was still some people, but most "players" were spambots flooding the screen, and bots running through baal over and over.

I would recommend you to look for private servers and see for yourself if you like it.

(It would be great to have a Dia/vr/o server, btw)

[Anonymous No.1895465]

>>1895453
You need a valid CD-key (one that's not banned or in-use).

It's a ghost town compared to the old days. Mostly bots.

If you want a relatively alive online community, you can try the Eastern Sun mod.

[Anonymous No.1895601]

>>1867563
I was a console babby, so I never played Diablo or D2 when they were new. Is there any reason to play D2 (which I hear is the best) in 2014 or should I stick with Path of Exile and Torchlight 2?

[Anonymous No.1895621]

>>1895601
I think Diablo 2 is a more solid and polished game, (especially since the synergies system was implemented. Building a Hell-viable character was a blast), and has a great modding community.

I played a bit of Torchlight and Path of Exile. They're really good games in their own right. Torchlight 2 and Path of Exile were supposed to be the Diablo 2 succesor that Diablo 3 wasn't to many people. I would recommend you to play Diablo 2 at least once, and if you like it, move to torchlight 1-2 or Path of Exile. If you don't, maybe you'll like Diablo 1 or 3 more, who knows.

I'm kind of a Diablo 2 junkie, so I tried my best to give you an unbiased opinion. Hope this helps you

[Anonymous No.1895634]

>>1895601
You gotta play D2 at least once, playing alone isn't too bad its better if you have a friend playing through the whole game. D2 is glorious though

[Anonymous No.1895845]

>>1895601
D2 was all about the multiplayer community and its subculture. Now that it's mostly dead, I'd say try running through it on singleplayer just to see it once.

I'll always miss those terrifying hardcore cow runs.

>>1895634
Getting a crew of four to seven bros together and playing over hamachi is probably the best way to do it nowadays.

[Anonymous No.1895920]

>>1895845
It was great to kill diablo with 7 other people, after dying several times, and those Act 1 runs, and those countless trade games trying to get a cheap torch for 2 Ist runes.

It was fucking great when I killed Uber Diablo with a Smite Paladin and a wand with Life tap charges. A whole fucking hour hitting that bastard.

Fuck, this thread just made me want to play this game again.

Lightning sorceress or Bone Necromancer?

[Anonymous No.1896126]

>>1867730
>paladin only on anything

[Anonymous No.1896139]

>>1877974
They gave away Blackthorne for PC. So it does happen.

[Anonymous No.1896182]

>tfw jumping motherfuckers with your horde of spooky skeletons
>yfw the first time you get Revive
>Yfw you sicced a fetish army on Diablo before it was cool

Too many good memories with Necromancer to count.

[Anonymous No.1896219]

>>1873169
>>1872940

You guys should watch more movies.

[Anonymous No.1896237]

I'm beggining with a lightning sorceress, on the "You got to be kidding mod"

Recognize that car?

[Anonymous No.1896507]

If I use Find Item on an act boss, will he drop one item from his table or drop multiple items like I just killed him?

[Anonymous No.1896512]

>>1896507
you can't, sorry.

[Anonymous No.1896559]

>>1896512
My dreams have been slain.

[Anonymous No.1896613]

>>1896559
You can use it on the Travincal Council on Act 3 tough. It makes the barbarian an interesting choice.

It was fun playing a Magic/Gold find barb back in the day. It was expensive and useless, but fun as fuck.

[Anonymous No.1896647]

The entire genre has gotten really stale.

All of the games before PoE and d3 were just 'build tanky and spam potions'.

Poe became a bit more complex because there was a greater variety of potions (armor increasing ones, heal over time, instant heal, curse removal) to juggle.

D3 made the combat its most complex with a larger variety of abilities and the ability to literally change your play style in 10 seconds if you got bored of your current one (as opposed to the 'hardcore' method of spamming the same single ability for 200 hours)

[Anonymous No.1896721]

>>1879487
retard here.
how do i get it to work on the psp?

[Anonymous No.1896761]

>>1896647
This. I've dumped hours into Diablo 3 despite people saying it's "awful", but I've never been able to get into Diablo 2. The combat just hasn't aged well, and it's difficult to trudge through when there's "better" alternatives as far as combat at least.

[Anonymous No.1896764]

>>1896647
V pls go

[Anonymous No.1896792]

>>1896761
I actually really like D2 and older hack and slash games combat to modern ones. It feels more like a roguelike -- simple combat paired with fairly deep mechanical workings underneath. Knowing how to work the system, how to tune and build your characters, and how to utilize certain builds, items, etc. is much more engaging than mashing buttons in D3 without having to worry about those things.

I complain a lot about Diablo 3, but that's the single biggest thing that kills it for me. There's no more thought that needs to go into anything, you just toss a limited amount of single-level skills on a hotbar (And you can easily swap them out for each new situation), use whatever items have the biggest DPS number on it and play. In D2, I had to make sure how I leveled my skills would be viable from normal to hell, stats had to be planned well to accommodate the gear I would be wearing while still allowing for enough health to survive, I had to learn how to quickly obtain useful items for my build at any level (Which meant knowing how to craft items, which things to buy from a merchant, where to farm runes for low-level runewords, etc), and a whole host of other things about the game's combat.

[Anonymous No.1896806]

>>1896647
too bad the hermetic itemization and all skills available make the gameplay dull because it takes a minute to change skills and items around to adapt for a new challenge instead of utilizing your set on stone build to the max

in d1 and d2 you can own several fundamentally different characters of the same class

[Anonymous No.1897119]

>>1896761
Being under 18 is a bannable offense.

[Anonymous No.1897150]

>>1897119
So is shitposting because someone has an unpopular opinion. Diablo 2 controls like shit, we've been saying that since the day it came out.

[Anonymous No.1897183]

>>1897150
>we
You mean the rest of the 14 year olds who just got into the Diablo series?

[Anonymous No.1897391]

>>1896237
Fallout?

[Anonymous No.1897393]

>>1897183
>I will keep insulting him and ignoring his arguments until I am right!

[Anonymous No.1897480]

>>1879487
Muuuh Diiiiick

[Anonymous No.1897647]

>>1877958
reddit has a private server for it and the community is decent. you can maphack, multibox, but not bottingq

[Anonymous No.1897660]

>>1896237

Can you link me the mod? I can't find it anywhere.

[Anonymous No.1898054]

Hit up Diablo 1 yesterday, only played it once as a child and messed up my paladin so bad that he got oneshot by everything in hell. Right now I'm playing rogue and thought it was damn easy - until I hit lvl 9 and got my shit wrecked. Great game.


Is there any reason to not pump everything into dex except the minimum requirements for new bows ?

[Anonymous No.1898114]

>>1873119

Fear and Loathing in Los Vegas.

[Anonymous No.1898130]

>>1873273

So much this. Too many people take what they see on the internet far too seriously these days.

[Anonymous No.1898192]

diablo 2 is an absolute ass to get to run on modern computers. I also tried that hd mod for it but it's outdated and not compatible with the latest version of diablo 2.

[Anonymous No.1898390]

>>1898054
You will also want strength for armour and magic to learn more spells. Vitality also has its purposes and is harder to gain via elixirs.

[Anonymous No.1898707]

>>1867674
Is Necromancer ever going to be implemented in Belzebub?

[Anonymous No.1898820]

>>1897660
You've got to have D2SE Modmanager installed. Here's D2SE thread on snej forums, with instructions on how to install (it works flawlessly on Linux under Wine, btw)

http://snej.d2maniacs.org/forum/index2.php?topic=18954.msg459574#msg459574

Once installed, download mods from this list (among them there is the "you gotta be kiddin me" mod), the page itself has instructions on how to do so.

http://snej.d2maniacs.org/forum/index.php?topic=18504.0

NOTE THAT USING D2SE WILL FUCK UP YOUR GAME IF YOU USE BATTLE.NET, since most mods and plugy enhancement only support diablo 2 up to patch 1.13c, and Diablo 2 has to have patch 1.13d to work on battle.net (you still can play in private servers like median XL, eastern sun and snej ones)

Sorry for my poor english, and not answering earlier.

[Anonymous No.1899238]

>>1898192
Close explorer.exe, it works for me. Windows 7 fucked lots of old games, but this generaly fixes it.

[Anonymous No.1899251]

>>1867875
torchlight2. Some of same devs made that, and as life long diablo fan, i feel it is what D3 should have been.

[Anonymous No.1899256]

>>1867875
Try Torchlight and Path Of Exile.

[Anonymous No.1899274]

Do they pre-patch the installer to latest if you buy the digital version from Blizzard? I intend to use PlugY for trading between characters and enabling the additional ladder features but it only works up to 1.13c.

[Anonymous No.1899313]

>>1899274
Sorry, but I don't know.

However, if it does, you can downgrade your installation:

http://www.reddit.com/r/slashdiablo/comments/o4h3k/how_to_downgrade_from_113d_to_113c_without/

>reddit

Yeah I know, sorry.

[Anonymous No.1899326]

>>1887029
almost as bad as the rape the lore got thanks to Diablo 3.

[Anonymous No.1899542]

Oh this is an excellent thread. Diablo 2 is my favorite game, and the original Diablo is up there as well. Good to see so many people still playing it.

I'm currently doing an iron man run on unpatched, non-expansion Diablo 2 (pic related). I sunk a lot of time into Diablo 2 around release so this is, naturally, very nostalgic for me. Anyone who enjoys single-player Diablo 2 should check this out, as it's very interesting. For starters, the drop rates are quite unusual and less standardized than they are in later patch versions. In my current run, I'm level 12 and I have two uniques (the pictured sash and Gull, which any longtime D2 player will be familiar with). There are also plenty of effective builds, and the idea of playing through the game with little forethought to build is quite a bit more viable in 1.00 than it is in the post-1.10 environment (although this is largely due to synergies). It's also kinda buggy, however, and you're generally better off to play on 1.04 as opposed to 1.00 as it corrects a bug with weapon damage calculations that significantly hampers bows in the later stages of the game, as well as some other things.

While it sucks that battle.net isn't as populated as it used to be, the hardcore community is still doing alright and people looking to walk through the game the old-fashioned way are advised to check out the hardcore side, where people are generally still interested in doing that. This goes double around ladder reset time, where it's at least partially out of necessity.

[Anonymous No.1899682]

>>1899542
That gull dagger was awesome. It was my companion through long journeys of magic find runs.

My first time playing diablo 2 was on an old Pentium 2 with 64 MB RAM. It was slow as fuck and it often overheated, but it was a blast to play that game. I fondly remember killing Diablo on the Vanilla, un patched game with a poorly made paladin (I played without any clue, I didn't have internet at the time).

When my brothers bought the expansion, it was fucking great to discover the new classes, the runes, the gorgeus 5th episode...

..and then I had internet (a 200 Kbps connection). Battle.net kept me in my PC for ages. Killing Diablo with 7 more people is one of the greatest gaming experiences I've had.

I'm >>1896237 . Currently switching between playing this mod and discovering fallout 1. Having lots of fun today.

Thanks for bringing back the memories, anon.

[Anonymous No.1899787]

>>1895464
vidya.dyndns.org/d2/

doubt anyone still plays

[Anonymous No.1899838]

>>1882714
battle.net will just update it for you.

[Anonymous No.1899864]

>>1898390
Finished it today only thing I didn't get was the anvil of fury, too lazy to run through everywhere again to see where I missed it.

Games was great, better than I remembered it to be, completing it was kind of a child archievement. Diablo was fucking hard I blocked my whole inventory with full health pots and barely managed to take him down before running out of them.

Seeing D1 in completition I'm amazed how much more D2 offered a couple years after. 1 was pretty good already but 2 improved in pretty much every aspect. Might play it through solo as well, put hundreds of hours into it years back but only online stuff with rushing everything, didn't read any story/lore/dialogues anymore after act 2, let's see how much I actually missed doing that.

[Anonymous No.1899887]

>>1899864
Anvil of Fury is located on an island in a sea of lava in the caves. You won't miss much from not getting it since the reward is a sword.

[Anonymous No.1899898]

>>1894750
Yes it's really easy. Just turn on 256 colors mode and your set.

[Anonymous No.1899973]

>>1899887
Yeah it's a pretty crappy one too. I never liked how most uniques had negatives in the first game.

[Anonymous No.1900001]

>>1899973
Having negative features isn't bad if they balance the weapon out.
The problem I see with Griswold's edge is the knockback since you have to catch up to the opponent you kocked back.
The fire damage is fun for skeletons in barrels.

[Anonymous No.1900747]

>>1900001
Occasionally they do that. Mostly they don't so a good magical item or another unique outclasses them. Like what the hell is up with Stormshield?

Also I want to dispute the "unfindable" uniques, for singleplayer at least because I found Demonspike Coat once, and that's supposed to never happen unless you find two other unique armors in the same playthrough first, which I didn't.

[Anonymous No.1903196]

>>1900747
Jarulf's guide (a must-read for anyone who enjoys Diablo and wants to know an unnecessary amount of information about it) verifies and explains the existence of the very rare uniques.

[Anonymous No.1903246]

Can anyone recommend any D2 mods?

Thinking about using this for the enhanced drop/experience rates since I don't feel like grinding at all.
http://www.moddb.com/mods/perfect-drop-mod-104

[Anonymous No.1903257]

>>1903196
That and the Diablo II wiki are my sources. Am I just misreading it?

Also started up Diablo II again to try out one of the martial arts Assassin builds, and was lucky enough to find a Gull so I'll probably start a Sorceress up to try more seriously at magic finding.

[Anonymous No.1903314]

>>1903246
Actually this one looks pretty good
http://www.moddb.com/mods/sebishs-diablo-2-lod-modification

>The aim of this modification is a full, enjoyable Diablo 2 experience including all Battlenet-exclusive content and not wasting time on leveling. A linear XP increase and a higher - but not too high - droprate guarantee lots of enjoyable (coop-)sessions of the best Diablo.

>Including Bnet Runewords, Uberquests, Bnet items, better but balanced droprate, linear XP-Increase, doubled starting statpoints, big inventory, infinite stash, shared stash for all characters, more unique monsters, better but balanced gambling chances, buyable runes (prices defined by rareness) and much more!

Body is ready.

[Anonymous No.1903363]

>>1903257
I don't think so. The way it works is as you described; when the same item type has multiple uniques, only the first one in the table will drop unless it's already dropped in the same game, and in multiplayer games only the first item will ever drop.

[Anonymous No.1903403]

>>1903363
Well I am positive that the two prerequisites weren't dropped and that I found Demonspike Coat in a barrel on one of the hell levels. This was an unpatched game singleplayer, not sure if I have the saves anywhere.

[Anonymous No.1903409]

I'm making premade characters that start in nightmare. What level should one be on entering nightmare? 35? What sort of gear should you have?

My whole thing is that I hate starting a new character because for the first few hours, I'm essentially just normal attacking everything because I have no mana or no skills. If I make some default characters with all of normal completed starting in Nightmare Act 1, I get more stuff to play around with right out the gate.

[Anonymous No.1903420]

>>1903409
30-40 is good, 40+ is preferable

you should have some good gear

[Anonymous No.1903421]

>>1903409
Don't forget that respecs are built-in now. So you could just do a normal Normal playthrough with any characters you want to play as and then make a backup, restoring when necessary. Use PlugY for sharing items between characters.

[Anonymous No.1903446]

>>1896139
And The Lost Vikings

[Anonymous No.1903462]

Possibly my favorite game of all time. The music, gameplay, visuals, and storytelling all seemed to complement each other to create a great experience. The pvp and multiplayer was broken, but hey, it was a single player franchise before they ruined it. Fuck neo blizzard

[Anonymous No.1903507]

>>1903246
I played Sebish's mod to try a summoner driud build (If I'm not mistaken, you can stack normal and blood wolfs, ravens, vines, spirits and a bear). Doesn't kick ass as much as a summoner necro, but it's quite funny. It also adds some custom minibosses at some point and makes Lut Goléin smaller. I say it is a good mod and you should try it.

"Royaume des Ombres" (Kingdom of shadows) mod looks quite promising, but I haven't been able to install it.

You should try the "Back to Hellfire" mod if you are fan of the first Diablo.

I'll be trying the "Eastern Sun" mod once I beat the one I'm playing ("You gotta be kidding me")

I played Battle for Elements. It's pretty good and it kept me for hours, but the difficulty is kinda broken (especially when you get to act 3)

Play the "You gotta be kidding me" mod, if you want to kill a cyberdemon, or you want a Mortal Kombat versus Motaro on a bridge.

[Anonymous No.1903518]

>>1903507
>>1903246
>D2
Not retro. Get that shit out of here.

[Anonymous No.1903554]

>>1903518
no one cares

[Anonymous No.1904354]

MAH NIGGUH!
Thanks mate!

[Anonymous No.1904395]

>>1879487
so is there a place where i can play with you guys?

[Anonymous No.1904405]

>>1879208
Is this still playable on 7?

[Anonymous No.1904438]

I used to play D2 on battle.net tons, had a lot of bros to play with and give me free shit. Great times.
Nowadays it's just full of bots and advertisement spammers, it's sad.

[Anonymous No.1904502]

I knew that
>warrior -> Diablo

But I only just realized, based on NPC dialogue, that
>rogue -> Blood Raven
>sorcerer -> The Summoner

[Anonymous No.1904508]

>>1904502
Yeah it's pretty cool.
They should have put a Monk in there somewhere.

[Anonymous No.1904513]

>>1904508
Hellfire is nothing more than a mod that was sold as official by Sierra.

[Anonymous No.1904530]

>>1904513
I know, and I don't even like the additions, and the new dungeons just suck and ruin the atmosphere.
But Monk is a great fun class.

[Anonymous No.1904584]

>>1903507
>>1903314
The Sebish mod is working out really nicely.

The increased drop rate is good without being ridiculous. Makes for a pretty laid back singleplayer run.

The part I like the best though is being able to purchase runes from vendors.

[Anonymous No.1904623]

>>1904584
I liked it a lot when I played with it (it must have been an ancient version, so my complaints probably have been fixed).

The only complaint I had about it is that runes are too cheap to buy. Other than that, it's a great mod, and I hope they fixed that.

[Anonymous No.1904634]

>>1904623
Zod is only 100K.

Oh well, at least I get to play with ladder runewords.

[Anonymous No.1904639]

>>1904634
that thing should cost 2 million at least.
It's a shame it's not fixed, that makes the game too easy quicky. I would have been happy just with an increased droprate for runes

[Anonymous No.1904692]

>>1904639
Did they change rune rates? Otherwise I might just do an honour system of discarding lots of gold, or only buying one every time I find a unique or something like that. I do feel that the vanilla drop rates are inadequate for singleplayer if you want to try some of the higher-end setups.

[Anonymous No.1904807]

>>1904692
1.13 really improved the rune drop rate. That, in conjunction with hell countess dropping up to ist in her special rune drop, makes all but the best runewords fairly accessible. Yes, it would take a Herculian effort to make a BotD or an Infinity on a single-player character, but they aren't really necessary for any build.

>>1903409
If you add the -act5 parameter to your Diablo 2 shortcut, any character you create will start in act 5 at level 25.

[Anonymous No.1904868]

>>1904807
The mod improves odds for gambling and other drops too. While runewords are damn powerful, they only account for half wearable items. And no, expensive builds aren't necessary, but it'd be fun to try some of them out without needing to spend years grinding the needed items.

[Anonymous No.1904916]

Haven't been playing D2 for a long while, so forgive me if the question is stupid, but...is playing in LAN a way to get the Bnet stuff?

I always either played single player or LAN with my brother so I'd like to know what we may have missed out

[Anonymous No.1904924]

>>1904916
No. LAN, single player and Ope Bnet use the character stored on your computer.
The exclusive content is for ladder characters in the closed Bnet that are stored on Blizzard's servers. They were only added with patch 1.09 so you might have missed them either way.

[Anonymous No.1904926]

>>1904916
No, Battle.net is like a league thing with trading and score lists, it's supposed to be competitive

[Anonymous No.1904928]

>>1904924
>>1904926
Would they be worth the effort of getting the game again and starting a new char or should we just play LAN again?

[Anonymous No.1904930]

Well, two dagger gambles later and I already have a Gull, and it seems they bumped stat points per level to 6 in addition to other stuff. I don't really like "overfixing" but I'll give it a chance.

[Anonymous No.1904932]

>>1904928
Get plugy, and it will unlock all the online content to be available on Single player. Then play LAN with other players using plugy

[Anonymous No.1904941]

>>1904932
Looking into it now, is 10.0 the newest version?

[Anonymous No.1904948]

>>1904928
If you want to start the game fresh then ladder is a good idea but if you just want to see what they're like you should just get a mod.

[Anonymous No.1904981]

>>1904941
Yes. It is the same that is used on D2SE Modmanager, and pretty much all Mods have it incorporated, or are compatible with it.

[Anonymous No.1905201]

>>1904932
PlugY is proof that God loves Diablo 2 and wants us to be happy.

[Anonymous No.1905252]

Good lord, the Countess drops far too well in that mod. In three go-arounds, I got two Shaels, three Hels, and an Ort and an Io. This is on NORMAL, those sort of drops are typical of Nightmare Countess. I'm also already level 18, probably because of the higher monster density and larger number of boss packs.