Howdy folks! As the Champion of this here mail complex, I would like to take this moment to welcome you to the month of October. The month of spookiness and terror (or for some, cheap, half-eaten candy from the third world). Nonetheless, October is of the number "8." This is especially important since the number eight comes after the number seven and precedes the number nine.

Lost? Well, so am I! Anyway, let's move on...


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You've heard all those arrogant slayers on how their way to beat Diablo is the best, yet you know better: Share any special techniques you used or some particularly entertaining experiences when confronting Diablo!

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Now on to the feedback on last week's topic in which we asked you to share your thoughts on Blizzard's recent update to their running Expansion Set FAQ section, what do you think of the expansion now? Have any specific gripes for them? Praises? Both?. Here's what you guys had to say:



From: metal hessian [Bah. An 18th century German robot.]
Subject: expansions

dear planetdiablo,

the first thing i would like to talk about for the new expansion pack is the resolution factor. people bitch and complain about the graphics. the resolution this and the resolution that, what these fools fail to understand is...the game engine they used cant have your screen packed with 20-40 monsters with you and your friends running about shooting lightning, arrows, and other sh*t without some sacrifices. if they increased the resolution the game would have been slow as sh*t, and now what fun would that be? because of everybodys f**king bullsh*t, blizzard isnt going to make another 2d game. i f**king love 2d games, so f**k all you who complained about the resolution.

the nudity factor. why did they screw with it? in diablo 1 it was great i saw dead naked people and naked female monsters...you could even see public hair [public hair? Umm] and nipples. in diablo 2 there is nudity, sort of, but you cant see anything. all i can think is what a disapointment. where have all the nipples gone?! i hope very much that in the expansion we have nipples and [expletive] for all.

the price factor. the expansion pack is 30 dallors, 30 dallors?! [Wow, it's 30 units in the dallor currency too? What a coincidence!] i can buy most games for 30 bucks. if its only 1/4 the length of the origional game it should be 1/4th the price. i could deal with it being 19.99, an average price for an addon, but 30? hell no.

other misc..
--they should just rewrite the code for battle.net, its so damn screwed up as it is. instead of trying to hack new features into an aging program, they should have just started over again. i dont think they will do it for this expansion pack but i hope they do it sometime in the future...cause battle.net is f**ked up.
--set items need to be more powerfull.
--and there needs to be more player interaction, maybe introduce spells that allow you to control other players and/or revive dead players bodies.
--i would like to see features that would allow team battles, instead of just deuls you could use your party teams as armies and go head to head with another party. you could even have capture the flag. (this would be easy for them to program.)
--another thing that would be nice is a level editor.

ok ive said enough,

I hate to start off the mailbag with a cruel sting of pubescent ramblings, but, alas, we need a jolt to get ourselves going. After getting past the excessive cursing, one can form a somewhat coherent body of writing which states the following: Me want resolution to stay the same and my 13 year-old hormones satisfied. End of sad story.



From: Emperor Caligula [The one that appointed his horse as consul? Well, I'll be darned. Looks like these people know how to randomly pull names from history texts!]
Subject: FAQ section, what do you think of the expansion now?

Well looking forward to it but missing the things I want to see:

I see no mention of new difficulty levels. If you have a character at level 80 hell aint exactly hard to do. I'd like to see another 2 difficulty level and the upper level cap set much much higher. Perhaps JUST on closed B.net to avoid the limp wristed cheaters from creating level 5000 sorceresses :-)

That and the ability to kick people from a game you start. To be able to see which act the games creater is in would be nice when browsing games (and what quests can be done by visitors to that game).

The change in hostility so that BOTH players have to go hostile with each other before they can kill. Along with the inability to use ANY potions or TPs when in hostile mode. I mean if you really gotta duel then make it interesting.

Yes, we all long for such features. But sometimes even the most trivial can be overlooked.

Random feedback time:

From: Charles De Block
Subject: (geen onderwerp)

Amazon, bad dueler? Hi, I have a level 19 amazon, still working on her big time, she is only in act 1 u see...

And one day, I started a fight with this level 26 necromancer, I like duelling higher levels, since I have a bow that does 19 - 34, wich is rather high, I tought I would win easily, but the necromancer was sooo weak, he used curses all the time, and then he ran after me, trying to hit me..., I shot some arrows at him, but it made only 1/30 of his life or something, damn, an amazon is weak, I tought to myself.....

Ok, just proceed to hide behind that pillar of saltine crackers before I wap you with an oversize canteen. It's most obvious you used extraordinary means to get to the level you're at (Ahem, cheating). A Level 19 in Act I? Heh. The value of your experiences is slim to none. Come back when you have sincere experiences to share.


From: Mike
Subject: Duel Story

Hello Root, Mailbag Champion. [Greetings, noble sir] I know you're not going to believe this [then why tell me?], but after buying Diablo 2 a week after release, I started a barbarian, and having much free time, played him for around 2 hours a day, since now. The result of that is that he is now level 99 and has some SWEET stuff. (Told you you wouldn't believe me. Am I right? Or am I wrong? [I'll ask the questions around here...]) Anyway, I decided to face some lvl 69 paladin on Open Battle.net. [What a noble act!] Evil lag! It brought me on a silver platter my pathetic downfall. I leap attacked him, missed, ran away, and found myself dead a few seconds later. That demonic paladin (oxymoron?) had killed me! I had not seen him run up, nor cast any ranged spell like blessed hammer, and anyway, my life was 500! Please don't hesitate to laugh, as I don't really care anymore anyway.

Wow. Sure nice to know that you can fire up an exact copy of him a few seconds later...


From: JMGABRIELA
Subject: Axes

Why the hell are there only like 10 good axes in the game omost no barb's use them cause you guys make them hard to get or there's not so many. I think you should help the 1 or 2 ppl that use axes get more of them and better ones. P.S. your game kicks ass but the only thing I don't like is that we all have the same Quest's I liked part1 that you never get the same one will whatever its your game and damn B.NET is sometimes super lage guys help out ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh lol LATERZ.

Once again, we are not Blizzard Entertainment, and, consequently did not produce, manufacture, or develop Diablo II.

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