I’m stoked for the D4 release! I did see some leaks from the game – not sure if they’re hacked-and-released, or if they’re “leaked teasers”, but it doesnt really matter. It’s obviously still in development, that much is clear, but from what we’ve seen it’s pretty damn neat! They dont have voice actors yet, so there’s that auto-voice for every dialogue and that’s pretty hilarious to be honest.
Soon there will be a Beta test going on, and hopefully I get in. It’s obviously under NDA, so if I will get in, or what I’ll do, or any thoughts I have on the game, I wont be able to say, but.. here’s to hoping.
I’ve been told it’s far closer to D2 than D3 in its style though, so I thought I’d play some D2. I’ve never have – I never got the game when it was released or the years after, but I did get the classic game through Blizzard a few years ago and tried it out, but it didnt work. It was clunky, crashed often, I couldnt get anything going. I basically only went outside the camp, found a cave and that’s the extent of my playtime. So, a week or so ago, I bought the game – the remake, D2R – on PS5 on sale. Pretty neat, worked fairly well with a controller. I made a paladin and got to level 3 and I was pretty happy with the game. I could definitely see how people loved this game back in the day! Then I found out that D2R even had cross save! Meaning, anything I did on the PS5 carried over to the game if I had it on the PC, etc, and I just jumped on the Blizz-app to get the game on PC too. Now I’m a level 13 Paladin with a SWEET setup so far!
I’ve got a scepter and a shield for my main damage and a crossbow as a backup. So far I never had to use the crossbow, so I dont know if that’s “wasted space” or not though. The scepter I got was something I found at level 5, and it’s still the best weapon I’ve found! It was a level 6 requirement, meaning I couldnt use it when I found it, BUT! There’s a skill I decided upon leveling with, Holy Bolt, which is a level 6 required spell – and the scepter had bonuses that is just too good! As an auto-attack thing, it does 6-11 damage, with a 1-3 fire damage added, it does +50% to undeads, which what I use for Holy Bolt anyway – but not only that, it had +3 Holy Bolt! Meaning, when I reached level 6, I used my skillpoint to get Holy Bolt level 1, just to equip the scepter and run around using Holy Bolt level 4! I had to be level 10 to get that levelled up to 4, but now I got it at level 6!
I imagine I need to switch out this scepter soon, but as long as this scepter will carry me, I’ll stick with it. I do contemplate on selling my crossbow to find a better weapon. This scepter and shield is really good for fighting undeads, but I think I need a better melee weapon to fight other things, like beasts.
The shield isnt too bad either – it has a 16 defence in itself, 50% block chance, +25% enhanced defences, and between 10 and 15% extra elemental defences, as well as 1 point thorn damage and even self-repair of 1 per 33 seconds! I feel like I really lucked out with my paladin for this early game!
Oh – and I’m at the Monastery so far. It’s actually a lot more fun game than I thought it would be!
