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This thread contains all music, all speech files, sound effects, links to all videos, monster animations, item images and other images found in Diablo I. All these files have been extracted from DIABLODAT.mpq found on the Diablo I CD.

Music
Speech Files
Cinematic
Graphics

Music
Download Link: Diablo I Music.rar
YouTube Link: Diablo I Music

Countains all music (6 tracks, but still) from Diablo I, all converted to .mp3 format.

Cinematics
Download Link 1: Diablo I NPC Speech.rar
Download Link 2: Diablo I Character Speech.rar
Download Link 3: Diablo I Sounds.rar

Contains all speech files from Diablo I. NPC Speech contains all speech by the townspeople and by the books found in the game, Character speech all speech by teh three classes (rogue, sorceror, warrior) and Sounds contain all sound effects, including monster deaths (for those of you who want to hear Knights dying once again). SOunds also include monster speech, like Snotspil and Gharbad's dialogue.

Interesting things here:

• It appears that Izual was supposed to appear in D1, as there's a file bearing his name in the files.¨¨
• Another leftover sound is someone, probably a warlock (whatever that is in the Diablo Universe), who tempts the player into releasing him from his prison.

Cinematics
YouTube Link: Diablo I Cinematics

All cinematics can be viewed on our YouTube page.

Graphics
Wiki Link: Category:Diablo I Images

All graphics and animations for D1 can be found in the above link eventually. It'st ill under construction (i.e. things are still being uploaded to the wiki). But eventually the page will contain all monster animations, item images and NPC's.

This thread contains all music, all speech files, many completed maps in png format, links to all videos, monster animations, item images and other images found in Diablo II and the expansion Lord of Destruction.

Music
Speech Files
Sounds
Maps
Cinematics
Graphics

• Monster Animations
• Item Images

Music
Download Link: Diablo II Music.rar
YouTube Link: Diablo II Music

Contains all music files from Diablo II and LoD, all converted to .mp3 format (both to reduce filesize and so you don't have to convert them yourself). The original files are stored in .wav format in the game files. It is also available on YouTube if you don't need it on file.

Extracted from d2music.mpq and d2xmusic.mpq.

Speech Files
Download Link 1: Diablo II Speech Act 1-2.rar
Download Link 2: Diablo II Speech Act 3-5.rar

Contains all speech files from Diablo II and LoD. These are still in their original .wav format, and so had to be split up into two archives.

The archives contain all npc intros gossip and quest dialogue, all monster taunts and all character speech.

Interesting things here:

• The original five classes all have unused speeches related to a quest that never made it into the final game. The quest seems to have revolved around some sort of magical barrier preventing them from proceeding in Act 2.
• Jamella has two voice sets. One is the one we hear in game, the "old" one, while the other one depicts her as much younger.
• Several monster taunts included are never actually heard in game, such as taunts by Diablo, Andariel and the Smith/Hephasto.

Extracted from d2speech.mpq and d2xtalk.mpq

Sounds
Download Link: Diablo II Sounds.rar

Contains all in-game sounds for Diablo II, including background noise, cursor clicks, monster and character grunts, skill sounds, shrine activation sounds and everything else.

Extracted from d2sfx.mpq and d2exp.mpq

Maps
Download Link: Diablo II Maps.rar

Wiki Page: Category:Diablo II Map Images
More information on areas: Area Size (Diablo II)

These are maps that I have created myself of most preset areas in the game and some mazes that I have assembled myself. They are all in .png format and are quite large, the biggest being the Halls of Anguish at 11920x5300 px. Most of the images can be viewed in the wiki as well, but some of the larger images (Travincal, Halls of Vaught among others) have not ben uploaded there due to wiki limitations.

The wiki does include map fragments that are not included here. The fragments are not complete maps, but only select tiles from the game, like the Moldy Tome and Maggot Queen room.

For more information on what preset, maze and outdoor means, see the wiki page. Here's a full list of maps included in the .rar archive:

Extracted from d2data.mpq and d2exp.mpq

Cinematics
YouTube Link: Diablo II Cinematics

All cinematics from Diablo II can be viewed on our YouTube channel.

Extracted from d2video.mpq and d2xvideo.mpq

Graphics
Wiki Link: Category:Diablo II Images

All images in the following sections can be found in the above link.

Monster Animations
Wiki Link: Category:Diablo II Monster Images

This page includes almost all monsters from the game animated in idle position facing forward. They all have transparent backgrounds, so they can easily be used as avatars or similar.

Extracted from d2data.mpq and d2exp.mpq

Item Images
Wiki Link: Category:Diablo II Item Images

This page contains all item inventory images from the game, including unique items with the correct color shifts. Like the monster animations, all have transparent backgrounds as well.

Extracted from d2data.mpq, d2exp.mpq and patchd2.mpq

Quote from Nekrodrac

It is very specific indeed. What is it and how it exists are irrelevant unless you want to plunge back into the debate of God's existence which you pointed out earlier as not being within the context of this discussion.
My own philosophy and concept can be seen as nothing more than a mere hypothesis taking in a large amount of variables to rationalize the world and its ways but to each his own.

It is not necessarily irrelevant. Let us for the moment assume that the Source does exists. That still does not explain how man came from there, what part we are of it, and why we want/should return to it and what that actually entails. All central questions here if I want to understand your point of view.

Quote from Nekrodrac

Trying to go back to the beginning like you are trying to do is equivalent to asking-
Which came first, the chicken or the egg?
Never mind God or man's origins, here's a question that screws everybody over. So you'll understand why I find it futile to test my 'hypothesis' in this manner.

On a personal level sure. But if you're arguing against someone elses opinion on the matter, you will have to explain how it all comes together, or explain how the point is irrelevant to the argument. Otherwise it's impossible for me to understand what you mean, and it renders your own arguments against any other viewpoint difficult to understand, since everyone else has no idea of what you're basing your retorts on.

In my mind, you've established that there is some form of connection between man and the Source, and that man wants to return there, however you give no more indication of what this means. Either you know what it is yet have not told me, in which case there's information here relevant to the argument, or you don't know what the connection is, in which case it must be irrelevant to the point you're making. This does not appear to be the case however.

Quote from PhrozenDragon

Man has feelings and he has faith. In other words he has the capacity to tell who's the fraud and who isn't. No doubt this will be a nebulous concept again for you but I can explain no further alas. Actually I can but I would find it infinitely boring to go into a discussion of what is good and what is bad.

Anything that anyone has ever believed to be a religion has by definition been a religion then? Christianity, Hinduism, norse mythos, greek mythos, even cargoism must thus all be valid religions. Since the only method by which we can determine the truthfulnes of a religion lies in people's own perception of it, any religion with believers must thus be a true path towards the goal. It should also be impossible to create a fraudulent religion for the sake for acquiring fame, wealth or personal worship, since people will obviously see through the sham.

If this is true, then one must accept that even crazed and obscure cults present just as valid a path towards this goal, provides that someone believes in them. Since the human being can believe in most anything it seems, any path could fill this role. How then does religion perform any function, or help people, if any path will ultimately work?

If this is not true, then mans feelings and faith are not enough and there must be some other measure to judge a religion by. Otherwise, you know that other people can be wrong in their perceptions, even though they think they're right, and so you could be subject to the same exact problem: you could believe you were right when in fact you are not. The only way to determine this is by some other source of knowledge through which we can compare separate religions and beliefs by.

Originally spurned by a post of Mephisto where he claimed all sorts of things about the staff, I had to remove it and set him straight. Which was probably long overdue. At the same time I said to Irrational that we would consider his own chances that he's continually been using up, and gave Puttah a small remark. LinkX, while not a brilliant debater, has stayed fairly cool in there and I didn't give him anything for it.

These are the PM's sent out. Mephisto will be dealt with by the managers, and depending how he responds we'll see what happens. And from now on, I think we should crack down hard on even slightly flaming discussion the religion thread from now on as I did not lock it (and don't think it should be).

To Mephisto

Quote from "PhrozenDragon" »

For a time now you've been a part of the DiabloFans staff as a Community Manager. In promoting you to this position, we'd hoped to achieve two things:

1. You would help build our community with the aid of various contests. Now we've told you that we were to get a poll plugin for the main page for you, however that has not yet happened, and that is entirely our fault. We have also not specifically told you what we want other than that, so your lack of productivity is not something we hold against you.

2. The second thing we wanted was for you to shape up your forum behavior, and you did. However, being a staff member requires more of you than just being a regular user, and although we've been letting things slip, that ends now. Specifically beacuse of your latest posts in the Religion Vs. Science thread.

I'll outline the problems with your replies near the end of that thread. And before you mention anyone else in that thread and how they behaved, I'm not just sending a PM to you.

LinkX, sugarplumb, I'm not a troll. You just think I'm a troll because I keep owning your ass 20482084 ways from Sunday, and everyone but you and your (apparently) boyfriend Irrational fail to see that.

Man, you guys are making a fool out of yourselves..you should just retire from posting in this thread.

Refrain from namecalling. This is not arguing, and it's not constructive for any debate.

The only reason I'm not a moderator is because we don't need one. I can be a dick and tell Sixen to give me mod powers else I'll leave, and he more than likely would, because I'm not nearly as erratic as I once was.

No you would not, and you know this is true. You've asked Sixen to make you a mod in the past, and he has not yet done so. A certain amount of professionalism is required by staff members, and insinuating untrue things is not acceptable.

If I'm such a bad member, my bans wouldn't be almost automatically lifted, and I wouldn't be on the staff list.

This is also partly our fault, so let me square with you.

Ever since and including the time that Jetrall banned you before he left, I've revoked your ban because your bans have consistently been handed our with little thought and/or irrationally. Not because you're too awesome to be banned, not because Sixen favors you or anything else of the sort. This will not go on.

I can threaten you. I'm a staff member. You weren't. Good point you made there, champ.

You are not a moderator, so stop acting like one.


I can see and understand why you are annoyed by the discussion in that thread, as it doesn't exactly display the highest of debating standard. But neither have you either, with continous namecalling, claims of your own awesomeness, other's stupidity and the assorted threats and pointless additions to your posts (blablalblaba christianity). That does not add anything to the debate.

So, this is what's going to happen:
You will stop acting like this. Period. If you do not, you will be removed from the staff and perhaps also banned. If you cannot reply to treads with Irrational and/or LinkX in them, then I suggest you don't, and the same goes for them.

To Irrational

Quote from "PhrozenDragon" »

I've deleted most of the last pages. All of you try to keep the discussion at a level where you don't have to resort to attacking each other.

If you want to debate, be prepared to be called out on your bullshit or please don't be part of this because I have a feeling that you are posting just to feel... what do you call it... "big".

Don't flame.

I would much rather believe in the harsh truth than the comforting lie, but apparently, that's just a "matter of opinion".

If you cannot enter the discussion without automatically calling all religious beliefs lies, then don't enter it. That goes for your entire argumentation in that thread.

We've warned you before about overstepping after all of your second chances. I will bring this up for discussion in the rest of the mods and see what we'll do.

To Puttah

Quote from "PhrozenDragon" »

I've deleted most of the last pages. All of you try to keep the discussion at a level where you don't have to resort to attacking each other.

What was Jesus then? Wasn't he out to prove something? Weren't all those "facts" there to give some kind of cheap evidence that god created the Earth and everything on it? When believers present this evidence (if you can even call it that) and then conclude with "so obviously god is real" then you know - without a doubt - that they are biased individuals that have been brainwashed.

Don't post things like this. Instead of attacking said individuals and accusing them of being brainwashed, go back to why the idea is flawed. Attacking the believers does nothing to further the debate.

-Mephisto's Lament-, you're honestly being such a hypocrite. He called your argument bullshit, you threaten to ban him, you call mine bullshit and make your negative emotions very clear, should I threaten to ban you? Oh wait I can't, and whatever, it's not like I would care to do so. Get out of your high chair and debate like a man, not a little boy with more power than he knows what to do with.

In the future, use the report button. Staff members can be reported just like anyone else.

Quote from Magistrate

With any luck, we won't be completely Sigon's Complete Steel in Nightmare mode this time around, and the nearly impossible to find sets won't be useless in Hell. But will tuning set items to work in the end-game only replace the old conundrum of mass Runeword abuse in Diablo II? As is just about everything concerning the third installment, we wait on the question of balance.

Indeed. As was pointed out in another thread though, the key here is overall item balance. Even before Runeword hoarding, the item selection in D2 wasn't necessarily that large. A lot of items simpyl went unused because of bad modifiers. In most weapon cases, they simply didn't do enough damage to compare to the best items available.

It would seem though that Blizzard is well aware of this, and if there are a lot of different end-game weapons viable for any one build, then a set weapon could just as easily fit in there. The important thing will be to make sure that all items have modifiers that are viable. This would make the core item always useful, regardless of any random modifiers on it.

Quote from duffman

it seems like once you have enough set items at a low level, you would simply discard all gear throughout the game in search of better items of your set. Thats not new and exciting; you're wearing the same looking armor over and over again.

I think that's precisely what Bashiok is thinking of when he mentioned the possible problems associated with this approach. I think it's a valid concern, and it would probably be preferable to leave them out of the early game entirely.

Quote from mckeifus

Personally, I have always seen Diablo as a leveling game, rather than a race to end-game. I always thought most spent their time leveling(and releveling) characters, with a few really relishing the grind of the end-game.

I suspect you're one of the few. At least of the still-active crowd.

Quote from Sixen

Veeeeery true.
PS: Finished the generator. Now I need to setup a mysql db and store it all... and make a list page.. .and stuff.
http://sixen.org/achievements/

Now hold on here. This has such great potential, I mean this could be used as forum rewards and whatnot! We need to implement this right. Definitely meeting material.

Quote from Magistrate

@OP: Kris, how would you say number two pertains to news? Just so that I have an idea of what to bring to the meeting. It usually seems difficult to me to be able to establish long-term goals with news because of its very short-term nature. I guess there's the desire for interviews, but beyond that... I'm not sure.

I had a thought on this, but it's very specific. Really, what I think we should do is use our assets more wisely. For example, we have that nice little flash box on the front page, but we're not updating it regularly. What we should do it reserve it for editorials, interviews and major blizzard news, and let post reporting, recaps, community spotlights etc. simply roll down the front page. That way, we can give increased exposure to articles while still reporting quickly on new things.

This can probably be incorporated across the entire site by using what we have in more clever ways. The main page of the wiki could use some more streamlining like this I think.

Quote from Magistrate

Maybe...recommended news practicum reading to improve style/audience awareness/awareness of important information? Dunno. Monthly structure analysis of a random article from a big-time news column? Comparison to big-name game news sites?

Don't know what you mean except the column, you need to elaborate

Quote from DarkMagicc

I know its not on my end because I only have the problem on this website. I've tried hundreds of other websites and only notice the problem when here.

What happens when you visit other Curse sites? There's a bunch of them at the bottom of the page, click some and try to scroll there.

Quote from Zoobi

Fuck wow's outofthisworld gigantic shoulderpads with balls of light all over them.

No, gimme!

Obviously bigger shoulder pads equal better games. That's why WoW is so successful, and I think Blizzard is continuing with that theme in D3. Hopefully lvl 60 character will have shoulder pads the size of refrigerators.

http://www.youtube.com/TheChatGem

Added some color and formatting, all of which were taken from the forum to reflect the two sites "perfectly". Also took the liberty of using scyber's new background as well. Thoughts?

So long at last I think the D2 Super Unique pages are done - could use a look-over from a different pair of eyes. I omitted Super Uniques that were not in the game and didn't already have a page.

Perhaps the only things that could be expanded upon are any interesting bits of lore on the monsters or tactics on how to fight them.

I was bored this morning and wanted a new desktop image so I quickly came up with this. I thought I would share it in case anyone else wanted to use it. It is 1600x900.

Quote from Lt. Venom

Also, decent guide and how the hell did you stumble across this method?

Pretty standard method from everything I've read. It's basically the same method that's already described in our wiki too: Uber Diablo

I completly agree that this seriously hurt the flavor and would be impossible to implement in a more RP oriented game. This is a true downside, i agree. However, let the "Wave of Light" skill of the monk based on strength is not favor-friendly, certainly, and give the monk the need to upgrade his spellcaster side would just tear the class apart.

And this change don't hurt the depth of the game. Unless if you think that choose Spell Damage for Wizard, Strength for the Barbarian and Dexterity for the Demon Hunter have ANY level of depth and add ANYTHING to the gameplay. Those are just names, they all play the same. Any difference is a mere illusion.

Of course, this is not true if each stats has many substats. Then a barbarian who gets damage from STR blocks more damage, the wizard who gets damage from willpower have more resources and the dh who gets damage from dex have more critical. Theorically their damage type indirectly adds different elements to their gameplay. But this is good design?

The barbarian have better blocks compered to a bunch of classes that don't even use shields !
The DH have more criticals, so to make the DH's DPS = Other Classes DPS they would have to decrease it's non critical damage. In the end all DH's would play like a lightning sorceress, while in the current system EACH clas can choose between a critical and or stable damage build.
And why the hell the wizard should spam more spells then the other classes anyway ? Aren't all classes suppose to be equally fun and functional ? Or the wizard's skills would cost so much resources that he/she needs tons of willpower to do so ? In this case a willpowerless wizard not only have poor damage but can't spam spells. Or just make his energy independ of any stats. Great.

Can't you guys see the problem ? Adding multiple effects to each stat creats many forms of imbalaces. And 3 separate stats that purely add damage is just ridicolous. This change came to allows better diversification inside each class. In the old system each class choosed 2 stats, the offensive one and vitality. With this new system each class can choose between one of the two offensive stats, one of the two defenisve ones and the resources. There are much more stats builds possible now.

Quote from Vaqxine

@Asyn Sorry, I'm really new to the game. What's a runeword o.o Is it a bunch of Runes stringed together to make armor/weapons? Or do you add them to armor/weapons o.o I'll start saving my rubies (If i am lucky enough for them to drop...) and spare junk jewels. Also for the gloves and boots, are the names Magic Gloves/Magic Belt or is that the kind of description you get underneath the name of the belt. Sorry just trying to understand :x. Is any merc from Act2 Offensive? I'm using a Cold merc from Normal act 3 just for the frozen attack he does

Also what is Plugy. Sorry for so many questions, but I appreciate the help guys

Yeah that's basically what a runeword is, a set of runes placed into an armor or weapon in a specific order. Check out the Wiki for some examples.

As for the crafting, the names won't say "magic gloves" or "magic belt" it will be the names of the items in blue like: Vampirebone Gloves or Mithril Coil before you identify it. It doesn't matter what the prefix or suffix is, just put the item, p-ruby, jewel and the appropriate rune in the cube and go.

Act 2 Mercenaries come in 3 flavors, Defensive, Offensive and Combat which is stated in the description. The Hell and Normal versions provide the same auras while the nightmare one is different. Full description here: http://www.diablowiki.com/Hirelings_(Diablo_II)

Happy to help.

*edit - just realized hans already answered...

It is possible to make all the runewords from ladder on single player if using Plugy

Chances of finding the runes will still be quite low.

Quote from Eskanasi

I know about CTA but if I dual wield hotos or cta its 6+ in total.

No matter what you use on your weapon swap, you won't be able to get more than +6 to your warcries, so there's really no reason to get expensive weapons like CTA or HotO when you can just pick up a couple shout sticks from a vendor.

Quote from Eskanasi

What is a Tomb? I can't find it on the wiki anywhere.

Tomb Reaver

theres no point in doing a titan build here because even if you could equip epic sacred plate enigmas or forts, your def will be 0 when you zerk. go vit.

the best 2-handers would probably be either etomb 3os, or a botd, mancatcher would be the best for ias, death would be okay too.

ed jewels or res jewels are the best for a socket in arreats because you wont need more ias with a mancatcher than 40.

the best armour would be enigma in most cases, but for pvm fort will probably be just as good. coh if you really need the res.

might and conc do stack. although you could go with a2 hf to slow down some of the monsters

cta only adds +3 to wc on barbs. so even if u use 6bo ctas youll get capped at 3bo each. better to use 2 hotos, or 1 hoto 1 cta. 2 wc weps with str work too.

conc the magic immunes or add 1 to ww

This is my first post on Diablofans, though I've been following the updates for almost a year. Anyways, just wanted to start off with a fanart, and whats up my fellow diablo fans! :tongue:



2D drawing in Corel Painter, took about 3 hours.