I just started playing Diablo II LOD. I don't normally play computer games but my level 16 'hardcore' assassin has been hours of fun so far. She's on the 'Tools of the Trade' quest.
Cheers!|||welcome to the boards and welcome to D2! be careful where you stray, people's pants get stolen if they're not careful...
have you made it onto battle net yet or still playing single player?|||Hi and welcome Hulud!
Word of caution if you don't play many computer games and have decided to start on "hardcore"... losing a character even as a seasoned Diablo 2 veteran can be extremely disheartening. You will lose count of the hours you put into him/her and having all of that taken away in an instant can make even the most "hardcore" gamer quit. While I love hardcore and find it much more exciting than the normal version, I would caution you to consider at least clearing up to Hell on normal first. The game gets considerably harder in Hell and the amount of unique monsters with VERY deadly random abilities increase dramatically. To the point where even the most geared of characters can be killed in merely seconds.
I'm not trying to do this to discourage you from playing on hardcore mode "ever", but I am hoping to let you find as much enjoyment from this game as it has given me over the past many years. I feel it may be cut short for you when you lose that first character to one of the many dangerous enemies that you've never seen before. Just something to think about.|||What Ion said, whenever I lose a character I get pissed quit diablo and then come back the next day to start again :P|||welcome! this is my first post on this site (or maybe first in years) but I used to play d2 when it came out...like a maniac. it was my first online pc game.
every few years i feel the urge to revisit it ... and for once not as a matter of rushing through the game and going on a power trip...but to re-visit it in all its glory.
long gone are the days of dialup and lagged-to-hell servers so i shouldnt have to worry about dying to lag... that much =)
i am however a bit worried about strategy and what not. have to get acquainted with what's viable!|||Put me down for "never played softcore". Literally. Not so much as a single character, no single player, nothing.
Bought game, friend logged in his hardcore enabled account, rolled my first paladin (same day 1.10 shipped). He died somewhere in act 5 Normal (in one of the side dungeons) a few days later.
Discovered MSLE and all the other instant death methods one at a time on my own. Lag deaths, exploding dolls, bad portals in public games, hydra PKs, guided arrow PKs, low-level duelers (surely that L18 pally can't kill me, i'm level 60!), and everything else.
None of that made me regret playing Hardcore. And anyone else who is a gamer at all should have no problem just jumping straight into Hardcore as well.|||Hey All,
My brother gave me his old laptop and apparently I'm playing a downloaded version of the game and can't yet play online. I'll be buying the game this weekend so I'll then be able to play online.
Also, today I discovered The Arreat Summit website and am overwhelmed with how much info there is and how complex Diablo is.
Also I am going to put 'Hiya' (my hardcore char) on hold and try to play the game first with a softcore character.
Thanks.|||Quote:
None of that made me regret playing Hardcore. And anyone else who is a gamer at all should have no problem just jumping straight into Hardcore as well.
If you notice, Hulud specifically said that he doesn't play many video games. Sure if you've played many before and are ok with strict consequences for failure that may be ok. Even then, I believe there are plenty of the most "hardcore" of gamers that will put the game down for months after losing a character they truly care about.
I just don't want to have Hulud's first experience with Diablo be a bad one. As you pointed out, you learned a lot about "what's really dangerous" the more you played and lost many, many characters. Some people don't have that sort of resolve.
I lost my first hardcore character in the past six months just a few weeks ago (by this I mean first since I started playing again and I always play a couple at a time so if I lose one it's not as disheartening). I was running a Fanatacism paladin with a friend who was using a Barbarian and we were tearing through the Chaos Sanctuary on NM at around level 55ish. As we were killing things so quickly, we popped the seal for Lord De Seis without much though. My friend ran around to kill him, while I just picked up his minions with a zeal. I started my zeal animation as Lord De Seis hit me with an amp damage. Amp + the Fanat adds, Demolished my BO health pool, knocking me into hit recovery (even with my 75% chance to block) and killed me faster than I could rejuv. I died before my friend even got to lay a WW on him.
It was a stupid mistake. I was overconfident based on how quickly we were killing everything and didn't respect that Fanat Aura nearly as much as I should have. But you learn from it. I've remade him and he's back up at level 63 and happy to say he just downed NM baal a few days ago. But there are a lot of nuances you learn throughout playing Diablo 2 and yes Hulud will probably lose many, many HC characters. But it would help to go through the game a little on softcore to learn about some of the more avoidable and easy ways to die (Fire enchanted bosses, dolls, gloams, anything with conviction aura etc...).|||On the subject of HC, I've realized no games ever copied Diablo's style (that I know of). Many games have harder difficulties as their "HC" but Diablo has that plus the "you die you start over." It would be fun to play some newer games in that way.|||most new players will die early and not be that affected by a loss, also this forces you to play different or try new characters sooner than you might. HC for new people can be a good thing.
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