History DiabloIII / TropesUToZ

* WhipItGood: While not necessarily a whip, Auriel uses a giant cord-like ribbon wrapped around her body in this fashion.

* WeaponOfChoice: Each player class has one or two weapon types that only they can use. These almost always have traits that help that class in some way, usually by improving [[{{mana}} resource]] generation, and the highest-tier Legendaries often have special traits that empower class skills in absurdly [[GameBreaker broken]] ways.

* VendorTrash: Just like its predecessors, this game has [[RandomDrops loads of randomly generated loot]]. As is tradition, you can expect oh... maybe five to ten percent of that to be of any use to you.

** And soon after, things go {{From Bad To|Worse}} ''[[UpToEleven EVEN WORSE]]'' with this line:

* VendorTrash: White items don't have any stat-boosting enchantments or abilities, and gray items are "low-quality" versions of the same. Since crafted recipes require "Reusable Parts" components that come from salvaged normal items and inferior items, they're still worth picking up. It's just that a player would do so almost exclusively to for the crafting material rather than their intended use.

** In Act V, [[spoiler:Adria also points out something that is right: the Angels are pretty bad themselves, only attempting to control humanity with rigid rules and probably have no interest in humanity's welfare (after seeing the results of the Eternal Conflict that they so badly want to win... yeah...). The nephalem's opinion of Adria does not change, given how she used Leah in her own plans, and may have set her up for it all along, which rings of hypocrisy if one thinks about it.]]

* WellIntentionedExtremist: Zoltun Kulle, a powerful sorcerer who created the Black Soulstone to imprison demons...and angels, whom he [[LightIsNotGood regarded as little better]]. His ultimate goal was to force the angels to unlock the power of the nephalem, the powerful precursors to humans. While his methods were far too extreme (and led to him being [[SealedEvilInASixPack sealed in multiple cans]], [[VillainHasAPoint he did have a few points in his favor]]; while he wasn't entirely ''right'' about the angels, he wasn't entirely ''wrong'', either... and his repeated warnings about you being a pawn of someone else's plans were ones you ''really'' should have listened to.

** [[spoiler:[[BigBad Diablo]]]] himself has one when [[spoiler:you defeat him in the realm of terror]]; around the middle of the boss fight with him, he loses patience and uses one of his ultimate attacks on your character: trapping you a Realm of Nightmare where, according to him, no one ever managed to escape from. When you ''still'' manage to get out of it, he ''completely'' loses it:

### Adria wants to get right to the task of taking on Belial upon claiming the Black Soulstone despite everyone in Caldeum being in danger from him, even calling the Nephalem and Leah's efforts to save them "foolish heroism."
### Adria is quite indifferent to Leah's suffering while she's holding the Black Soulstone together at Bastion's Keep, even stating that she "fears she'll be damned as well".

--->'''Diablo''': "[[BigNo NOOOOO]]! This wretched light must be ''eradicated''!"

* WorldOfHam: An ensemble cast of some of the largest hams in the series. Even the player characters can get pretty hammy at times. The Templar, however, takes the cake through his sheer pervasiveness.

--->'''Lyndon''': If I keep killing demons, I might actually become a good person, right?
--->'''PC''': I don't think so.
--->'''Lyndon''': Seriously?
--->'''PC''': You already are a good person.

--> '''PC''': You ''knew''.
--> '''Myriam''': Of ''course'' I knew. That's the point of the future; it keeps coming. You don't win a duel by throwing the first punch and going home. Diablo was always going to come back, but now you have a ''chance'' to defeat him.

* VendorTrash: Poor-quality (gray and white) items are barely worth picking up past very low levels, and are mainly only good for selling off to the local merchants.
** Averted in "Reaper of Souls". All crafted recipes require components that come from salvaged normal items and inferior items (white and gray respectively) and there are some specific recipes that requires you to have a specific level 70 normal item to craft.
*** The "specific level 70 normal item" requirement for crafting recipes has been removed in recent patches. A "specific level 70 rare item" requirement was later added to a different system that creates randomized legendary items, but it still requires a lot of materials from normal and magic items.
*** Once Kanai's Cube is obtained in the post-game, normal, magic, and rare materials can be converted between each other, 100 at a time. Given that inferior and normal items give 6-8 normal materials, magic give 3-4 magic materials, and rare items only give 1 rare material, it's useful to pick up the lower grades if you need more materials. This isn't much of an aversion; you're still trading trash items for currency (material), it's just that the normal and inferior items are *better* at being converted to material.

** The final battle with Diablo takes place [[spoiler:atop the Crystal Arch, the very heart of Heaven itself]].

** In Reaper of Souls, the second major boss goes through this. [[spoiler:Adria starts out her battle being confident, mocking you for not stopping her to kill Leah, and pretty much says that heroes exist to die, this is while she has a steady rate on filling the area with blood blob creatures. Drop her to half HP and she starts getting frantic and easily floods the whole area with her blood blob creatures all while screaming that Diablo will return, while your character tell her that even if he does, he won't have enough time to save her.]]

* WeCanRuleTogether: Zoltun Kulle offers this repeatedly to the player character in Act II.

** Cydaea drops the "sexy villain" routine when you knock her down to about 1/3 her HP, screaming "I will break every bone in your body!" or "I will enjoy playing with your corpse!" or just plain "[[BigNo No!]]"

** [[spoiler:Adria starts out her battle being confident, mocking you for not stopping her to kill Leah, and pretty much says that heroes exist to die, this is while she has a steady rate on filling the area with blood blob creatures. Drop her to half HP and she starts getting frantic and easily floods the whole area with her blood blob creatures all while screaming that Diablo will return, while your character tell her that even if he does, he won't have enough time to save her.]]

* {{Wackyland}}: Whimsyshire, which also doubles as a TakeThat at the FanDumb that loathed the less dark artstyle VideoGame/DiabloIII took.

* UsingYouAllAlong: The entire quest-line involving the [[spoiler:Black Soulstone]], which takes up the majority of the second and third acts and involves the killing of the final two Great Evils...so that [[spoiler:Adria, who it turns out is a servant of Diablo, can use it to resurrect her master as the embodiment of all seven Great Evils in one being, in accordance with his centuries-in-the-making EvilPlan to destroy the High Heavens and end the war between HeavenAndHell once and for all]].

** [[spoiler:[[BigBad Diablo]]]] himself has one when [[spoiler:you defeat him in the realm of terror]]; around the middle of the boss fight with him, he loses patience and uses one of his ultimate attacks on your character: traping you a Realm of Nightmare where, according to him, no one ever managed to escape from. When you ''[[CrowningMomentOfAwesome still]]'' [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome manage to get out of it]], he ''completely'' loses it:

* UnusuallyUninterestingSight: All of the player classes are a bit strange-looking, but people in the setting are used to adventurers. The Witch Doctor, however, is so far outside the cultural context of any place he visits that it's a wonder he's not taken for a cultist, especially when he has a horde of zombies following him around.

*** The "specific level 70 normal item" requirement for crafting recipes has been removed in recent patches.

* WarpWhistle: Waypoints allow instant travel to any other unlocked waypoint. The game has a "waypoint" in nearly every zone (including towns and [[SupervillainLair enemy lairs]]), which can instantly teleport the player to any other waypoint in the act. However, as the zones are sorted according to the SortingAlgorithmOfEvil, only two waypoints are typically used: one in the town, the other in the most advanced zone so far. Unlike ''Diablo 2'' they are not permanent from game to game and depend on what quest you select, and you can no longer travel by waypoint back to previous acts, however.

* UnexplainedRecovery: Zoltan Kulle somehow survives getting permanently vaporized and returns to the Player Character in spirit form to inform them of Kanai's Cube, a powerful predecessor of the Horadrim Cube. And he's friends with you now.

** Defied in act II, [[spoiler:Your character outright refuses to let any word Zoltun Kulle says get to them; even though there are truth in his words, he's still a mad mage with a god complex. Later on, Emperor Hakan II asks to see the Black Soulstone, and the player character immediately outs him as Belial without even leading him on.]]

* VillainHasAPoint: The game has your main character as his allies forced to negotiate with the ghost of [[EvilSorcerer Zoltun Kulle]], an ObviouslyEvil villain who makes no attempt to hide the fact he is using you to be revived. During your cooperation, he passes most of the time explaining your character that he actually is a WellIntentionedExtremist who want to awake Humans' true power, and that your own allies are manipulating you for their own purpose. [[spoiler:At the end of Act III, it turns out one of your allies, Adria, was indeed using you to prepare [[BigBad Diablo]]'s resurrection.]]
** In Act V, [[spoiler:Adria also points out something that is right: the Angels are pretty bad themselves, only attempting to control humanity with rigid rules and probably have no interest in humanity's welfare (after seeing the results of the Eternal Conflict that they so badly want to win... yeah...). Of course, the catch is, she's only partially right, she pretty much made her point moot for herself by surrendering herself to become Diablo's pawn, and then killing Leah, which makes the PlayerCharacter think that she must die.]]

** Maghda has one when the player character points out that Belial may just be using her as a decoy.

** Cydaea drops the "sexy villain" routine when you knock her down to about 1/3 her HP, screaming "I will break every bone in your body!" or "I will enjoy playing with your corpse!"

* WalkingSpoiler: The true identity of the Stranger that fell from the sky is not revealed until the very end of Act I, where it turns out to be [[spoiler:a newly mortal Tyrael who has sacrificed his divine status to aid humanity directly against the last two Lords of Hell. He plays a major role in the rest of the game, serving as the de facto leader of your small party and even taking up his sword, El'druin, to battle alongside you at certain points in the final two acts]].

* WhatDidYouExpectWhenYouNamedIt: The barkeep remarks that naming the town New Tristram was probably a bad idea since the old one was burned to the ground by demons.
** He says "This wouldn't have happened if we'd named it New Wortham." [[SubvertedTrope A few quests later, Wortham is burned to the ground by the cultists.]]

*** This was confirmed in ''Reaper of Souls'' when [[spoiler: the Wizard meets the ghost of the Sorceress who trained him or her. However, it's still blurry if it's the same Assassin that helped her before that killed her, her killer definitely came from the same organization, though.]]

* YouAreTooLate: There are several examples, in keeping with Diablo tradition, including [[spoiler:being too late to stop Adria from killing Leah and resurrecting Diablo]]. [[spoiler: But ultimately subverted. The PC arrives at the climax just barely in time to stop Diablo.]]