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Most likely instantly, you could probably bug that by engaging in a boss, having 3 people join you and kill him easily. Although i cannot confirm this

I will give you the generic ITS FUCKING AWESOME. I also believe it would hold up today...sort of. Gamers today move toward quicker and easier setups for games. If you look at games today you have checkpoints all over the places, save spots etc back then you had 5 lives, get to the final boss cant beat him? Start over. Diablo is sort of the same way with a different aspect. It is unforgiving (making you restart characters over and over) because you selected a few skills wrong, these wrong skill placements ultimately would cause your demise in harder difficulties. The gameplay itself is amazing, you can use a sorceress and teleport throwing orbs of frosts into dozens of demons, be a barbarian and leap in and whirlwind them to shreds. I still to this day go back and play sometimes (well, i guess D3 is coming out...) It is enough to make me level my few favorite characters, a frost mage, hammerdin, bowazon, elemental druid.

like i said I think it can still hold up, but needed a few things fixed which they fixed in Diablo 3. IMO, you can play diablo 2, but don't expect to love it ASAP. You need to hit at least level 30 to start appreciating classes. I would personally just buy Diablo 3 rather than D2, because although D2 is great, diablo 3 is coming out. D3 will be fixing out dated mechanics such as having to make multiple of one character,(IE : Frozen Orb, Blizzard, Fireball, Meteor, Lightning, Melee, Hydra, Fire/Frost, Fire/Lightning Sorceresses) Unforgiving skill and stat trees, and a terrible trading system.


Edit: To the person saying D3 will be much harder. I believe someone will eventually solo Inferno with 1 character with 4 characters in a group...Diablo 2 was hard as hell, i could barely get past act 2 offline without significant farming because duriel was too damn hard. After YEARS of getting Imba items, perfecting strats and skill trees people were finally able to dominate the game with the most imbalanced spec? I never would have guesses >.>

Like volrod said, you will probably not enjoy it too much with only 3 days to play. To get good (and by good i mean perfect, because every single point matters in every single spec until level 90) you need to hold off on skill points until you reach a certain level, to put into specific skills etc. Overall i do not think you should base D3 off of D2 with only a few days to play it

Yeah it depends... i mean World of Warcraft (The original) Collectors edition is currently going for over 2000 USD i believe...so if you wait a long time i am sure it might be worth something :P. Then again, it could be worth less in the upcoming years...who knows?

Fancy~ will have to use that, me and my bro are duoing Monk / DH as our first chars.

Can't you tell gamestop to send your CE to another store before release? Thought that was possible :*(

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Only main bosses will regenrate back to full health if everyone dies.

oh, by bosses does he include mini bosses? If so i would just assume it acts the same way as skeleton king...luckily i do not have the beta so i cannot say how he regens.

I think it does not regenerate, however, it does regenerate after you die. For example, lets say i am playing Diablo 2, i am trying to solo baal, i get him to 50% hp and i die. When i return he has 100% hp, however, while i was fighting him he did not regenerate, only after i "wiped"

I remember a blue post about this some time ago, maybe i am mixing it up with something else, but i am sure someone here will find it eventually.

Perfect time for me, i get out of school on april 26th, so it gives me two weeks to get into summer, hang out with people etc, and then....DIABLO!

However, my brother has AP exams that entire weeks, sucks to be him.

I am just scared i will get bored of my characters, in Diablo II if i got bored, just wait for the next ladder and start over with everyone else, now if i get capped on my characters what will be left? Will they patch it? I dont know and it is the only thing that scares me atm

"Can i run" is a pretty silly question for blizzard games....my brother played starcraft 2 with 1 gb of memory, 256 Mb of video memory on a old crappy pentium processor....turn settings on low and it will be fine the only problem he had was sporadic capes on some protoss units bugging out.


Edit: Starcraft 2, also sc2 has pretty much the same system requirements as diablo 3

I love PVP....for the sake of PVP...not for the sake of break neck competitiveness. You say people should play the game because they are passionate about it....well i was passionate about d2, that shit was imbalanced and the only "PVP Love" it received was it HAD a PVP switch that is it. I will do arena for fun, with my brother and friends. Oh? My friend is new to Diablo? Well let me have fun and PVP with him....if it becomes some ridiculous eSport where i am forced to shun (or be shunned) by players of separate skill levels that is where the fun stops and the job begins.

seems legit....not really...

Haha, is that the one from blizzcon...never got to see it in person but it does look sick!

I personally think the wizard armor looks more stupid than the monks...but opinions are opinions. I don't care to much about armor looks anyway...i mean, have you seen harlequin crest shako? A disgusting green cap...yep everyone ran around with that ugly puke stained cap...looks don't truly matter imo.