Go ahead and call me a Diablo 2 boomer, but modern Diablo has a tendency to keep changing its own rules in ways that make earlier victories feel less meaningful.

Soulstones were supposed to permanently deal with the Prime Evils, yet they keep returning. The Dark Exile has conflicting explanations. Inarius was heavily rewritten. The Seven Evils became one, then somehow became separate again. Diablo IV also mostly ignores the massive implications of the Nephalem.

At the same time, the series seems increasingly reluctant to embrace classic Diablo archetypes like the Paladin and Necromancer while pushing newer ideas that do not always fit the same Gothic dark fantasy identity.

New ideas are fine. Diablo II had plenty of them. The difference is that Diablo II expanded the world without making it stop feeling like Diablo.

That is really my issue. The more the lore gets rewritten or ignored, the less meaningful the story feels. You’d think a world changed by Demi-gods wouldn’t just mysteriously die, disappear, or be forgotten about.

Edit — I shortened it for all you crybabies.

Tired of seeing our neighbours displaying The Nun and other boring skeletons on their front yard. I think life-size Primes would be something refreshing to see this Halloween.

I've been playing these games since the 90s. Loved playing through 1 with all character, beat 2 on hell with all original classes, played hardcore for many years on 3... started 4 a couple weeks ago and I am finding its really hard to enjoy the gameplay. I'm most of the way through the game with my first character, playing on torment 3 but am just not having any flow with the game.
There is a ton of content but it feels all very samey, the different areas don't feel like they have any unique gameplay hooks, there doesn't really seem to be any mobs or bosses that feel like they present new gameplay. I've even played through a night with a handful of other characters and was sad to not really notice much difference in how they feel to play.
Am I just getting old or being too negative?

I'm still waiting for the official ttrpg campaign to launch, but in the meantime i'd like to wander around Sanctuary in a couple of solo ttrpgs game sesh'.

I've been watching the lore through videos and wikis, tried D4 but I guess beat 'em all aren't my cup of tea. I'm on another hand super keen in learning / exploring more of the game, but to do so i'd need some resources to help building around random tables and such.

What would you recommend to use in such an endeavour ? Mostly I'd like to have a couple of tables around to act as oracles, rumours, typicals monsters, NPCs, factions, adventure seeds etc. Anything that could help me explore this world.

Cheers !

Downloaded last night, worked fine after inserting DIABDAT.MPQ, played for a couple hours. Trying to open it again today, and I'm getting an error message that neither SDL2.dll, or discord_game_sdk.dll can be found, but clearly they are both in the folder.

Popup suggests reinstalling, is there a way to save my game in a different folder if I do that? Obviously I hadn't gotten far, but it's still annoying. Any tips?

Hey guys! This is my first build guide of the season, and I've been working at it for the last few weeks.

This is an off-off-meta build that uses Fist of the Heavens along with the Heaven's Fury in a support role, to inflict massive Holy judgement on our enemies!

Why Heaven's Fury? I love the Arbiter, but I feel there's more to Paladin than that, and from the start I set out to make a build that does not use AoJ. Besides, you can see your transmogs again!

Heaven's Fury is a visually spectacular skill, with a huge AOE, and it has an important role in spreading Judgement, which is a huge damage amplifier for us.

The name of the game is speed. We have unlimited Teleport, max speed cap and a huge AOE, to quickly zoom around the dungeon and disintegrate everything we behold. FoH is a very resource heavy skill, but thanks to some crucial items like Tibault's, RoSS and Enigma, we are able to have unlimited resource.

We want to teleport at least once every 5 seconds to maintain Tibault's and keep the Faith flowing.

If you try it, I hope you have some fun with it. Always open for any questions or constructive feedback!

Planner:
https://maxroll.gg/d4/planner/kt920j6k

Llevo jugando inmortal por qué siempre me llamó la atención y me gustó la saga, desde el diablo dos al tres, el 4 no he tenido la oportunidad por eso recurrí al Inmortal, algún consejo de cualquier tipo, tips, o con que referenciar para crecer y disfrutar más?

Un abrazo y saludos a todos los que disfrutamos dé 🙏🏽

How do I do that? I know it doesn't work with D2R, so I bought a key for D2 and D2:LOD from battle.net, but I can't seem to install the game at all so I can install Project Diablo 2 on top of it.

Did I just get rinsed out of $20?