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I was quite young when I played the game but that is pretty much the game experience I remember and nobody I have spoken to has given me a different experience.
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Submitted 11 months ago by TheSparrowPrince@lemmy.world to patientgamers@sh.itjust.works
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Fisk400@feddit.nu 11 months ago
TheSparrowPrince@lemmy.world 11 months ago
[deleted]Gamerman153@lemmynsfw.com 11 months ago
D2 is fukn great. *Leaves with no explanation
Fisk400@feddit.nu 11 months ago
I remember D2 being quite silly in the late game too, But there is more room for broken builds and it’s a lot closer to what we expect from a modern game with more enjoyable difficulty.
glau@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I think Diablo 1 is much more punishing than Diablo 2. I don’t think you can get away with not chugging potions. The sorceror is even worse than the warrior because he’s completely dependent on mana. So until you get the mana shield spell you’ll need to have both mana and healing potions ready on him.
The best you can do is try to get as high resistance and armour values as you can so you don’t take as much damage when you get hit.
For example, if you find a high lightning res ring that you don’t have much use for now you might want to keep it and put it on when on a later level has enemies dealing lightning damage. Stuff like that.
TheSparrowPrince@lemmy.world 11 months ago
[deleted]glau@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Yeah, I hope you keep at it. If you are fighting blood knights it shouldn’t take too long now.
Either way I recommend Carbot’s Diablo 1 cartoons for everyone new or old to the game: youtu.be/Odi5iR9Ni50?si=i7LIEWEwzN73foZN
thirteene@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Diablo 1 is very very difficult and from an era of videogames where you would need to farm experience and drops in order to progress to lower floors. By design you will likely clear to the butcher 2-3 before you are able to defeat him. Spells are quite important, so break barrels looking for tomes, as well as an ungodly amount of health potions. If I am remembering correctly you want buffs, fireball and chain lighting. Keep an eye out for ranged monsters, they can be hard to see, at higher levels be aware of curses over your player. Unlike most modern RPGs, the best items in d1 were mostly blue and mostly armor/hp stats because of how spells scale.
I know you didn’t want to hack, but if you get an elixer of stats, I would recommend duping it 5-10x before drinking it as a “house rule”, just to reduce farming. Squirt is a rip off, but has the best items in the game so check his wares. Duping to afford Squirt/potions is another potential house rule.
evdo@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 months ago
The only way you’re going to hit any ranged attacker is by backing them against a wall. Be sure to get them between you and a suitable obstacle so they spend less time running away and blasting you for free.
InEnduringGrowStrong@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
This was so long ago that all I remember vividly is the first time I ran into the butcher.
Still a kid, first game I bought with my own money.
It was nice crawling different dungeons and then…
“Fresh meat”
That was the first time in the game where I started to frantically try to just… get the fuck out.
Other things I remember in no particular order:
D2 is less of a clash for a modern player I think
pomodoro_longbreak@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
Thanks for the memories. I remember taking turns playing this with my sister and freaking out when we first saw the butcher. Like just being able to use the mouse and keyboard was a challenge it was so scary.
InEnduringGrowStrong@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
Haha, I can see the sheer panic, scrambling to get away.
It’s been a while but I’m pretty sure I failed miserably at first.
Until you figure out he can’t open doors.
D3’s butcher didn’t have the same feel, almost comical, then again I was much older by then.
Playing online, over dial-up, it’s almost a miracle it even worked.
Good times.