History WMG / DiabloIII

[[WMG: Each "Adventurer's Body" you loot..."]]

* [[JerkassHasAPoint There's no justice in murder.]]

** Unlike StarCraft2 or WorldOfWarcraft, Emulating the server is simply inviable. All of the game's code runs server-side. Reconstructing a server will require the same effort as developing the game again. Hackers who could do that, could as well just start their own game company.

* As usual.

Tyrael left his post to become the new Aspect of Wisdom. That's a vacancy right there. Kormac fights for justice and he fully intends to get it regarding his Order, what they did to him, and their plan to invade Heaven.

Tyrael says that the Black Soulstone is flawed and cannot hold the defeated Evils for very long. According to him it's necessary to defeat them all, bind them in it, and then shatter it as quickly as possible, otherwise their souls will escape from it and they will be reborn again. At the end of D3 we see Diablo's body falling from Heaven and burning up in the process, until only the Black Soulstone is left. We also know from D2 that the only place where soulstones can be destroyed is the Hellforge, so the fall won't destroy the stone. It's highly unlikely that it can ever be found at all, much less fast enough to prevent the Evils imprisoned within from escaping. All the effort of the protagonist of D3 will therefore have been in vain.

* Confirmed.

The terrible, CanonDiscontinuity ''Hellfire'' expansion for ''Diablo'' had three new classes: monk, barbarian, and bard. As of ''DiabloIII'', two of those are playable. In Act 1, at the inn, there is an NPC fixated on having a bard around to lighten the mood for everyone. He then decides that he will write the song about the (latest) downfall of Leoric himself, plus or minus trivial matters like ''truth'' getting in his way. The fact that the player character [[spoiler: is a Nephalem]] lends credibility to the awesome power of '''BARDS!''' vanquishing evil with ''music''.

Diablo, throughout the series, has shown a remarkable ability to come back from being defeated. However, after beating him twice now, enough information has gotten out to help future humans know how to handle the way Diablo fights. Over time, as the humans get more powerful, and learn more about fighting Diablo, it will eventually reach a point where Diablo's stubbornness in coming back will be exploited by humans as a challenging, but beatable, method to practice combat skills. (Of course, they will need a substitute human to avoid any possessions, so some flesh golems or summons of some sort will probably do the job.)

If one takes a look at VideoGame/TeamFortress2's [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WUhOnX8qt3I Meet The Pyro Video]] they you see something similiar happen with the Pyro character. After 4 brutal acts of fighting countless demons, venturing into the bowls of hell and climbing to the highest reaches of heaven and finally achieving their goal, along the way gathering a few strange items that the blacksmith is somehow able to fashion into a staff, you meet a jovial ghost who sends you into a rainbow colored stream of light. In reality, the player character's mind shatters under the strain of everything they have gone through and the result is whimsyshire. The little flowers? Children. The Teddy Bears? Teenagers. The Unicorns? Adults. The happy clouds? Shopkeepers (Just observe how the player character (in my case, the monk) punches a fist into his hand before pointing at the cloud, at which point it gives up loot.)

If one takes a look at {{Team Fortress 2}}'s [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WUhOnX8qt3I Meet The Pyro Video]] they you see something similiar happen with the Pyro character. After 4 brutal acts of fighting countless demons, venturing into the bowls of hell and climbing to the highest reaches of heaven and finally achieving their goal, along the way gathering a few strange items that the blacksmith is somehow able to fashion into a staff, you meet a jovial ghost who sends you into a rainbow colored stream of light. In reality, the player character's mind shatters under the strain of everything they have gone through and the result is whimsyshire. The little flowers? Children. The Teddy Bears? Teenagers. The Unicorns? Adults. The happy clouds? Shopkeepers (Just observe how the player character (in my case, the monk) punches a fist into his hand before pointing at the cloud, at which point it gives up loot.)

If one takes a look at TF2's [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WUhOnX8qt3I Meet The Pyro Video]] they you see something similiar happen with the Pyro character. After 4 brutal acts of fighting countless demons, venturing into the bowls of hell and climbing to the highest reaches of heaven and finally achieving their goal, along the way gathering a few strange items that the blacksmith is somehow able to fashion into a staff, you meet a jovial ghost who sends you into a rainbow colored stream of light. In reality, the player character's mind shatters under the strain of everything they have gone through and the result is whimsyshire. The little flowers? Children. The Teddy Bears? Teenagers. The Unicorns? Adults. The happy clouds? Shopkeepers (Just observe how the player character (in my case, the monk) punches a fist into his hand before pointing at the cloud, at which point it gives up loot.)

Because the restored power of humanity is just about right for a level 150.

''We've got spirit / yes we do! We've got spirit / how about you?''

The fate predicted by the Scroll of Fate was prevented, or at least changed. This renders its predictions moot and Itherael will have to find a new job. On a serious note, this means angels will begin to be more 'human', now that they may no longer be bound to a Fate they can do nothing about.

2. The balance difficulties (disclaimer: I have only read about large difficulty jumps in inferno, not experienced them, so take their existence with a grain of salt.) are meant to replicate the wildly unbalanced skills of Diablo 2, plus the immunity difficulties. Players don't like to feel that their character choice was wrong, or get stuck relying on someone else for a particular area, so designers simply added large difficulty jumps to preserve the occasional feeling of helpless and frustration in particular zones, while still giving players an ability to work through it.

He says its cursed and has brought doom to everybody who has ever possessed it. The being Dirgest that Shen claims it contains is actually part of the essence of Tathamet.

He says its cursed and has brought doom to everybody who has ever possessed it. Perhaps it contains some part of the essence of Tathamet?

* Being a skilled commander needs a number of qualities (ability to motivate your own forces, quickly see and respond to opportunities, have a good understanding of everything involved in the battle, etc.). Looking at the different qualities embodied in the archangels and major evils, the personalities and skills that would lead to these qualities are split between the angels and demons, thus, none of them would make a very good commander by human standards. Humans, who combine qualities from both Angels and Demons, have the potential to be much more tactically skilled, but against swarms of much more powerful demons or angels, this wouldn't matter much.

During the events of the game, Malthael did not appear as Tyrael said that he has gone mad. This probably will change the fate of the entire plot and thus he will become a force to reckon with.

The terrible, CanonDiscontinuity ''Hellfire'' expansion for ''Diablo'' had three new classes: monk, barbarian, and bard. As of ''DiabloIII'', two of those are playable. In Act 1, at the inn, there is an NPC fixated on having a bard around to lighten the mood for everyone. He then decides that he will write the song about the (latest) downfall of Leoric himself, plus or minus trivial matters like ''truth'' getting in his way. The fact that the player character [[spoiler: is a Nephalem]] lends credibility to the awesome power of '''BARDS!''' vanquishing evil with ''music''.

[[WMG: Leah's resurrection will come about due to Tyreal... because he's fallen in love with her.]]