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Hi, I played your mod a while ago when I was still playing games, (new semester started this week and I also may read books (not school books) more than play games). (because I just ordered the Sin War trilogy as well as Roger Zelaznys Amber Series).

The mod was awesome. It was really hard though(I play singleplayer), I struggled all the way to Mephisto, then he was way too powerful and annihalated me. I tried repeatedly, didn't just give up or anything but I could never beat him. My question is if the bosses are a little less powerfull now or not? I understand the mod is suggested for multiplayer but I would rather play single player on any mod or in normal D2.

If the mod is still just as difficlult can someone that has gotten farther than me please tell me some strategies to get farther? My prefered characters are melee characters. Namely the Barbarian as favorite and I also like Paladins and Druids also. If the mod is more payable I will definitely play it again.

Thanks for making the Mod (even though I only played 3 acts so far it is a great mod)

EDIT: Just checked out the mod forums, found that what I am looking for was fixed in 1.2g solo edition. Is the download link correct? It isn't labeled 1.2g its just labeled 1.2. Could just be the label, just wondering. Thanks for making those changes.

What about those who play single-player, then item rareness has no bearing on trading, because there was no trading. I think the drops were rare enough, I could never get some of the uniques and sets that I was trying to get. (IE: Never got Immortal Kings armor, and it was the last item I needed for the set, kept doing runs all the time hoping to get it and never did). If they made items too rare it would suck to almost never get any good equipment.

I really liked this mod, but it was simply too hard on single player. This is the mod suggested for multi-player right? Act bosses have more life and have a boss guarding each one? If so I played this and got to mephisto but could not beat him, he was too strong. Is the solo version more playable now?, I would play it again if it was. Thanks for making the mod it's one of the best I played and thanks to all the mod makers out there for prolonging Diabo's life.

Great interview, finally someone asked questions besides "will the art direction change?" and with the witch doctor in D3 will the necro return?

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he said only the necro has the best chance of coming back with the release of the expansion.

Really? If so, oh well. That means even more new classes to play with. I remember him stating that expansions would be the best place to bring back old characters, not just the necromancer, but I could be wrong. If you could provide a link to the article he talked about this in it may help others out. It's all just useless speculation anyway, I should be doing something productive not browsing D3 forums.

Wilson says that there will be no more returning classes in the initial release, but he also stated in another interview that expansions would be the best place to bring back returning characters.

In regards to similarities between the necromancer and Witchdoctor: I would rather play a new class with similar skills to an old class than, an old class with skills that are almost exactly the same skills as before (and if the Necro was nearly perfect I'm sure they would not want to try to change the skills too much). We have not seen all of the witchdoctors skills they may not be too similar to the Necromancers, but Necromancers were great, especially after reading the Diablo books. (But I have always enjoyed a melee character over summoners/casters, so I am not as worried as some may be).

All of the remaining classes may not be out for good, a few may return in an expansion if they are not too similar to the classes included in the initial release.

I am just speculating based on the information we have been given so far.

I can't wait for Blizzcon when we get a substantial amount of new information including a new class.

I think the majority of the skills in D3 should be new and that skills should not be discounted because they are cheap in PvP, I for one play singleplayer, and do not PvP. My experiences on Battlenet or Multiplayer were people cheating running around with auras they shouldn't have, and the ground sparkling all over the place and the cheaters dropping free hacked charms.

Overall I hope most of the skills will be new as well as the classes. Blizzard has said that with the initial release of D3 the Barbarian will be the only returning character and that expansions would be the best place for old characters to return(Jay Wilson interview). So I think Blizzard is going to make many new skills, they are making a new game not a revamped version of D2. Of course there will be similarities to old skills, but I hope they won't be too similar.

As for skills I don't want to see, I'm not sure because I don't know what the remaining 3 classes are. But I just hope a larger part of the skills will be useful, instead of how in D2 there were many unused skills or skills only used for synergies. I didn't like how if you made a spearazon and added to the level 24 skill(the one that hits all adjacent enemies) the mana cost would be too high and the skill sucked anyway. (I remember making a spearazon and waiting till I would be a high enough level to use the skill then it was slow and useless. The spearazon in general seemed underpowered) Maybe I am wrong about the skill, maybe it was good and I had to just keep adding to it, but I don't know. In D2 you usually had to pick certain builds in order to later survive in Hell. I hope in D3 you are able to use many more skills throughout all difficulties and that you aren't stuck in a few builds per character. (with fighting being more strategic and involving more positional strategy it seems the skills used will vary more).

I may have not explored builds as thoroughly as some people have, and the only runeword I ever used was Ral-Ort-Tal. So my opinions may vary from others. But I do believe a build should be independent of your equipment, it can enhance that build, but the build should not depend on certain equipment.

Sorry if this was too long or off topic.

Thanks for the post, was a nice read.

I suggest following the read more link if you haven't.

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r u kidden me?? hes like 60 at most. (in d2 LOL, he had white hair boney as hell) 20 years later is diablo 3. But they said he might come in the expansion. And for all we know the expansion might be another 5 years later ( in the story). So therefore he will be 85 when he is introduced in the expansion. LOL

Have you read the books? There was a necromancers over 100 years old and he was really powerful.

Currently using male witchdoctor one, its great, also like the other ones. Thanks for making them.

Finished Moon of the Spider and The Diablo Archive and before that I read the Rhiannon's Ride set and the Witches of Eileannan set by Kate Forsyth. All great reads. I want to buy the Sin War trilogy because I haven't read it yet, but don't want to spend more money. Would also like to read some Dragon Lance books that Knaak wrote because I liked the Diablo books he wrote so far.(Minotaur wars looks interesting). But I have never read a book from Dragonlance. I need to make a list of books to read and go to the library to see if they have any of them there.

Read the MTV multiplayer interview with Jay Wilson. He says something like if we start out apocalypse and go more apocalypse it won't make much of an impact on the players. So they are planning to make the game darker as it progresses in some way or another.

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go you! nah, i can only think of a FEW atheists here, or possible ones at least that are actually rude.

Most are pleasant, me n jazz may argue a bit but its all in fun,i know Equinox and magistrate seem to be neutral and on the fence about it(at least im pretty sure i've seen Equinox take the standpoint of both sides before). Just ignore the really narrow minded ones that have hilarious superiority complexes and think all religious people are idiotic because of faith, you cant change them so why bother presenting a point to deaf ears and blind eyes. You can tell who is actually here to converse and not argue. Dont get trapped by the ones that will argue you to death because you might find yourself flamming back roflcopter. :thumbsup:

Yeah, sorry I didn't read the whole thread. (81 pages), but I was more going by the "Where is God in Diablo Fans thread" responses. (another religion related thread)

Cool, good point, I'll keep it in mind.

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Well I'm just glad you put that much effort into your first response without being asked or criticized. Oh wait.....

Hey you made up for your mistake. Congratulations. This can be dropped now. So for future reference, just spend a little more time on what the requester needs. Not what you prefer. Ok? Lesson learned, case closed.

How much time and effort did you put into helping the person who asked the question, you spent way more time criticizing the people who actually tried to help than actually being a help. It is not his job to go onto forums and answer questions as specifically and thoroughly as possible right away, especially when he is already worn out.