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"Stay a while and listen" is evidently the most popular quote among diablo fans.

My take on D3's storyline.

Leah (Cain's daughter) foresees future events and has troubles to believe in her psychic power intially. She has premonitions about the meteorite which shortly after hits the New Tristram Cathedral and falls into its depths. This will reinforce Lea's beliefs that she can definitely foresee future events and pushes her to warn the people dispersed across the World of Sanctuary of the impending invasion by the Burning Hells.

Angel Imperius will attempt to bring his agenda from the Sin Wars to fruition - the destruction of the World of Sanctuary (which he believes is the result of Angel Inarius's corruption) - by conditionally ressurecting the Prime Evils - Diablo, Mephisto and Baal.

As the story unfolds, the Prime Evils recognise that they do not stand a chance to destroy the World of Sanctuary individually (since all the tribes/ clans gathered forces after Leah's forewarnings). They thus decide to combine their forces by fusing into one (hence explaining the three-headed demon, Diablo 3.0 if you will).

It will therefore be the heroes's destiny to initially prevent Imperius from ressurecting the Prime Evils (after Tyrael fails to do so). The heroes manage to kill Imperius at the end of Act III but fail to stop him from ressurecting the prime evils. They will eventually have to slaughter the new shiny Diablo in the final act to prevent the World of Sanctuary from being annihilated.

Izual was killed by the heroes in Diablo 2. The direction which the story takes in the subsequent D3 expansions will be meaningless if the three brothers have already been defeated.

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So with what little lore has been given, Blizzard has stated that most people believe that the events the occured during Diablo 2 to be myth or legend. My question is: the world stone was destroyed destroying mount arreat in the process. So what does everyone think happened to the giant mountain where the dreadlands now exist.

In addition to that. No matter what destroying the stone did it could not have been immediate. 20 years have passed and nothing has changed.

From the looks of it, I'd say that the Arreat Crater and Dreadlands have not been revisited by people of other regions after the World Stone was destroyed. It makes sense that some of the surviving barbarians fled to Bastion's keep after Mount Arreat crumbled. The Dreadlands look like the perfect place to fight Diablo in Act Iv.

It was confirmed by Jay Wilson that Act II will focus on Belial, the Lord of (f)lies.

Act I - Lucion
Act II - Belial (confirmed)
Act III - Imperius
Act IV - Diablo (Logical conclusion)

It would not make much sense if we defeat Belial (who rules half of the Burning Hells) in Act II and then Azmodan (who rules the other half of the Burning Hells) since the story focuses on the impending invasion of sanctuary. An invasion is not feasible when there is no one to lead the minions from hell.


Imperius will play a major part in ressurecting Diablo in my opinion.

The Claw Vipers and the Greater Mummies (e.g. Radament) were by far the creepiest monsters in D2.

The rexhamster. It freaks the hell out of me.

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How many TIMES do I HAVE to REPEAT MYSELF?? Diablo III is coming out around October of 2010.

Why the hell should we believe you? Elvis Presley is still alive, by the way.

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I think the 5th class will be Ranged Mystical Ninja. It will be part assasin (wow rogue-alike close dagger small sword attacks) maybe with stealth/shadow attacks/defence . Part amazon ranged but with a larger amount of ranged weapons than d2. And part Druid some kind of nature, elemental or maybe mystical/mind bending tree that makes the enemy see something other then the ninja, not shapeshifting in body but in the mind of the enemy. I don't imagine there to be any decoy, pet or summons either

We might as well propose a class based on chuck Norris while we are at it.

Will there be class-specific quests?
Is the disparity between artwork and real in-game graphics a hot issue for the Diablo development team?
Will there be more randomness in monsters' animation, a.i. and visual traits (height, colour, etc) in the final game?

I'm bumping this old thread to ask a question. What do you make of this screenshot?



It certainly looks like some kind of siege or assault by minions from hell. The question is what are they attacking? Can it be heaven? Or is it simply one of the cities in the World of Sanctuary?

The primary reason why the camera angle was static in the first two Diablo games and their subsequent expansions is that it would cost a lot of resources to rework the graphics and animation. As for scenic viewpoints, they'll probably include them in the in-game cutscenes (if any) or the pre-rendered cinematics.

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Oi, chill the fanboy heat. This subject just ain't worth that kind of stress.

Simple fact: if you take one simple system, and then replace it with four or five brand new and probably a bit more complex ones, you're creating a headache of balancing for yourself. It's just a whole hell of a lot more work on a pretty minor part of the game. I'm not excited about how I'm going to manage my mana. I'd rather see that large extra amount of work spent on spells, monsters, locations, story, etc.

We'll let the Diablo development team worry about the balancing and I'm confident they are aware of priorities during the game development phase. Your initial reaction (or shall I say over-reaction) that a minor game improvement leads to an 'epic fail' was uncalled for.