As a long-time D2 fan, I felt it was time to play this.

[snowieken]

Originally Posted by Tubba Blubba

Whoah, Leoric's goons dealt with. Undead crown sold for a good 4.5k or so. Found some nice stuff too; a Tome of Healing, and, crazily enough, a Tome of Fire Wall. Holy crap, this spell is MONSTROUS.

Crazily enough? What's so crazy about it?

Anyway, gotta love opening a door to discover the room is full of monsters, casting a few firewalls in the room and then closing the door to hear the death cries and the loot drops. Ah, I am going to install the game again.

[Lanthanide]

I never really used flamewave much when I used to play D, mainly because I played multiplayer and flamewaves speed, gappy behaviour, lower damage and higher mana made it inferior to high slvl fireballs.

However flamewave is very effective in single player, where the monsters all have 1/2 the HP of MP (technically MP monsters have 2* HP). You can clear out the entire chamber of bone with 1 flame-wave - much faster than firewall or any other method, including chain lightning.

[Tubba Blubba]

Originally Posted by snowieken

Crazily enough? What's so crazy about it?

Anyway, gotta love opening a door to discover the room is full of monsters, casting a few firewalls in the room and then closing the door to hear the death cries and the loot drops. Ah, I am going to install the game again.

Well, it dropped off a random monster rather than a book stand. But otherwise, nothing in particular.

[Tubba Blubba]

On dlvl 10 now. Finally ended up powershopping a book of Mana Shield. Somewhat frustratingly, she also had an Arch-Angels Staff of Wizardry (+25) in the stock, but at three times my current gold. Grr.

Current gear:
Cap of the Jaguar (+20)
Arkaine's Valor
Axe of the Stars (+9)
Ring of the Moon (+6)
Ring of the Mind (+10)

Spells of note: Fireball (Bought), Chain Lightning (Got from Zhar, well, more like forced), Fire Wave, Mana Shield.


EDIT: Whew! Big D himself dealt and done with. Wasn't too difficult, I just had to spam Fireball. Final gear was something like this:
Weapon: Jade Staff (+29%)
Armor: Garnet Armor of the Wolf (+54%, +30something, IIRC)
+magic rings
Still +20 health cap

One of the more interesting items I found was an Obsidian Shield of the Wolf. Might come into use.
Also, I found not one single amulet. Shame.

Re-edit: Ugh. Should have bought Teleport when I could. Now I'll have to trek down to 12 by foot to get it...

[Allerii]

Its always great to see new people back to Diablo. I was still playing it for two years after DII was released. Just reading the posts here and that creepy feeling overwhelmed me again. Yes, the atmosphere is much darker/better than DII and I really hope DIII will bring it back...at least in some respect.

[Detheroc]

OP, I'm glad you're enjoying it.

I have a friend who's more of a DII fan than I am, I got him persuaded to play D1 and he initially liked it, but ultimately, the lack of all the neat DII specific features turned him off :/

So it's nice to actually see a DII fan give the first game a try and falling in love with it - welcome to the Dungeon brother!

[krizalllid]

I came across a PS1 version of Diablo today in Computer Exchange.

I may go buy tomorrow - always wanted to play the first game.

edit: got it. Griswold tries too hard to sound like braveheart. :P

[Tubba Blubba]

Originally Posted by krizalllid

I came across a PS1 version of Diablo today in Computer Exchange.

I may go buy tomorrow - always wanted to play the first game.

edit: got it. Griswold tries too hard to sound like braveheart. :P

Griswold easily has the best voice acting and dialouge in the game.

"If I could bend steel as well as Cain could bend yer ear, I could make ya a mighty fine armor!"

[testyfish]

I'm a DII fan that finally got D1 to work on Vista. I'm hooked. Also, I haven't found any tomes on Level 1 as a rogue...am I just missing the bookcases? or is it normal to not find any. I'd kill for a TP tome right now...

[Tubba Blubba]

Level 1 usually contains no tomes from my experience.