The player soon discovers that one of Harrogath's councilors or Elders, Nihlathak, has made a deal with Baal to spare Harrogath in return for access to the Worldstone Keep. Completing these quests gradually helps the town inhabitants warm to the player and they will provide aid or other services. The player can also rescue the captured Barbarian defenders. The player has to slay Shenk the Overseer who is leading the assault in the Bloody Foothills in order to relieve the siege of Harrogath. Many of the folk in Harrogath do not initially trust the player character (even if they are playing as the Barbarian class). After reaching the summit of Arreat, the player gains access to the Worldstone Keep. There are also ice caverns in the mountains, as well as hellish subterranean pits (reminiscent of Hell in Act IV) for extra monsters and experience. The player starts off at the stronghold of Harrogath. Baal has raised an army and attacked Mount Arreat, whose Barbarian inhabitants are tasked with defending the Worldstone.
As shown at the end of Act IV, while two of the Prime Evils of Hell, Diablo and Mephisto, have been defeated and their Soulstones destroyed at the Hellforge, their surviving brother Baal has retrieved his own Soulstone from the narrator Marius. Tyrael opens a portal to Harrogath, a stronghold on Mount Arreat in the northern Barbarian Highlands. The game can now be played at 800圆00 resolution, up from 640x480.Īfter the player successfully ventures into Hell and defeats Diablo in Act IV, upon returning to the Pandemonium Fortress they are met by the Archangel Tyrael with an urgent summon.They can also be equipped with armor and a weapon, can gain their own experience, when before they leveled up with the player, can be healed by potions, and can be resurrected when killed. Hirelings can now follow the player through all the Acts.An alternate weapon/shield/spell setup that can be switched to via a hotkey in gameplay.An expanded stash for storing items-two times the size of the original stash.Additional unique and set items, including class-specific sets.Class-specific items that can only be used by a certain character, e.g.Charms that can be kept in the inventory and provide passive bonuses.(There are different Ethereal items which have bonus stats that make them repair durability on their own) However, if equipped by an NPC companion they do not lose durability. Ethereal items that are normally more powerful than their standard counterparts, but they have lowered durability and cannot be repaired.Unique jewels are Rainbow Facets which have different bonuses to a certain element. They have the same effect no matter what the base item is. Jewels gain the same random bonuses that items can.They have 3-4 predetermined properties determined by the recipe and up to 4 additional randomly selected from the same pool as rare item properties. They can be created with the Horadric Cube and the right ingredients. Crafted items are very similar to rare quality items but they cannot be found in chests or dropped by monsters.Hundreds of additional Horadric Cube recipes.Runewords are specific sequences of runes which grant a specific set of additional bonuses (similar to the preselected bonuses of unique quality items) when socketed into an appropriate item.33 different Runes, which can be placed into sockets and provide different bonuses from gems.Many new items, including new weapons and new pieces of armor:.A fifth act taking place in and around Mount Arreat in the northern Barbarian Highlands, with an additional act boss, Baal.Two new character classes: the Assassin and the Druid.Lord of Destruction adds a number of new features to the core gameplay of Diablo II. Lord of Destruction added content in the form of two new character classes, new weapons and an addition of a fifth act, and also dramatically revamped the gameplay of the existing Diablo II for solo and especially multiplayer.įeatures Placing the runes "Jah", "Ith" and "Ber" (in that order) into an armour item with exactly three sockets produces the powerful Rune word "Enigma". Unlike the original Diablo 's expansion pack, Diablo: Hellfire, it is a first-party expansion developed by Blizzard North. Cover art featuring Baal, the titular antagonist of the gameĭiablo II: Lord of Destruction is an expansion pack for the hack and slash action role-playing game Diablo II.
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