Diablo II
| Diablo II | |
|---|---|
| Developer(s) | Blizzard North |
| Publisher(s) | Blizzard Entertainment |
| Platform(s) | Windows, Mac OS, Mac OS X |
| Release | June 29, 2000 |
| Genre(s) | RPG |
| Mode(s) | Single player, multiplayer |
Diablo II, sequel to the popular Diablo, is an action-oriented adventure with role-playing game elements in a hack and slash style. It was released for both Microsoft Windows and Mac OS in 2000 by Blizzard Entertainment. Diablo II was developed by Blizzard North.
By 2001, Diablo II had become one of the most popular online games ever. Major factors that contributed to Diablo II's success include what fans found to be addictive hack and slash gameplay and free access to Battle.net. Diablo II may be played as a single player game, multi-player via a LAN or serverless TCP/IP, or multi-player via Battle.net.
An expansion to Diablo II has been released called Diablo II: Lord of Destruction.
Overview
Diablo II is an action-RPG released in July 2000 by Blizzard Entertainment. Players pick one of five heroes (seven with the Lord of Destruction expansion pack) and fight monsters to level up their character and gain better items. The differences between Diablo II and a regular RPG is the greater emphasis on combat in Diablo II and the large amount of randomness in monster properties, level layouts and item drops. The game uses an isometric oblique top-down viewpoint.
Diablo II was a runaway success for Blizzard, and still is. While fairly old for today's standards, the game continues to be one of the world's most played online games.
Classic Diablo II allows the player to choose between five different characters; Necromancer (male), Amazon (female), Barbarian (male), Sorceress (female) and Paladin (male). Each character has different strengths and weaknesses.
The Diablo II: Lord of Destruction expansion adds two new classes: the Druid (male) and Assassin (female).
The Diablo II storyline is played through four acts, five with Lord of Destruction. Each act follows a predetermined path with preselected quests, although most of the maps themselves are randomly generated, in single player mode, the map is randomly generated but sticks to the setting thereafter, in multiplayer mode, it resets each time you restart. Each act culminates with the destruction of a boss type monster.
In addition to the four/five acts there are also three difficulty levels: Normal, Nightmare and Hell. On the second and third, monsters deal more damage and are generally harder to defeat. For example, in the Hell level of difficulty, every monster encountered is immune to one or more elements, and therefore unaffected by a certain type of damage such as cold, fire, lightning, poison, physical or magical damage. However, advanced equipment (exceptional and elite items) is available only in the higher difficulty levels. Completion of the game on one difficulty level allows progression to the next.
As an added dimension, Diablo II allows players to engage in competitive player vs. player combat, rewarding victors with piles of gold and the severed ear of their enemy. PvP play outside the framework of duels (i.e. random assaults of other players) led to a community of certain PvPers finding ways to interfere with other high-level parties, or repetitively wipe out low-level players.
As the game can be played cooperatively (Players vs. Enemies, PvE), groups of players with specific sets of complementary skills can finish some of the game's climactic battles in a matter of seconds, providing strong incentives for party-oriented character builds.
Story
The story of Diablo II takes place soon after the end of the original Diablo. At the end of Diablo, Diablo, the Lord of Terror, was defeated. The hero then takes Diablo's soulstone (a device that is used to bind the soul of any demon or angel) and puts it into his own body, hoping to contain his soul for all eternity. However, the hero is rapidly corrupted by Diablo and quickly begins to lose control. Before long, Diablo is more in control than the hero. In the opening scene of Diablo II, Marius, the narrator of the story, witnesses the hero (known as the Dark Wanderer) totally lose control, unleashing the demons of hell upon a tavern. He is compelled to follow the Wanderer for reasons he himself does not understand. The player plays a character in the wake of the destruction, following the Dark Wanderer, hoping to halt him. The rest of the story is revealed through the four acts, as the player eventually confronts Diablo and his brother Mephisto. The third brother, Baal, is encountered in the Diablo II: Lord of Destruction expansion pack.
Character Classes
Amazon
The Amazon is an "active skill"-oriented fighter. While the Barbarian relies on brute strength and weapon skills, and the Paladin on auras and other special abilities, many of the Amazon's abilities require far more attention. Her skills are oriented around personal (generally passive) protective abilities, the use of a bow and arrow (whose abilities are linked with the elements of fire and ice), as well as the spear and javelin (whose abilities are linked with the elements of lightning and poison).
The Amazon is most similar to the Rogue of Diablo: both are primarily associated with bows and crossbows, and both are middle points between pure strength and pure magic. The Amazon is different in that she can also use javelins and spears adeptly.
The Amazon can use skills from the Javelin & Spear, Passive & Magic, and Bow & Crossbow skill trees.
Barbarian
The Barbarian is by far the most powerful melee fighting character on a pound-per-pound basis. His skills are divided into various weapon masteries, warcries, and combat skills. The masteries are purely passive and allow the Barbarian to specialize in different types of melee weapons and to gain natural speed and resistances. His warcries are essentially radial skills (skills which are only effective within a certain radius of the player) that enhance his and his party's ability in combat, or reduce the ability of the enemy. Warcries differ from the auras of the paladin in that they are single-use and impermanent. The barbarian's combat skills are attacks that maximize brute force, his greatest asset.
The Barbarian can cast spells from the Warcries, Combat Masteries, and Combat Skills skill trees.
Barbarian history in Classic DII
This character was the damage powerhouse in the early history of Diablo II. The Whirlwind skill, a mad spinning charge, was highly overpowered in the first release of the game, and was reduced in damage in patch 1.03, made dependent on weapon speed in the expansion and it is still one of the best melee skills in the game. With damage to spare, very high natural life and the life-increasing Battle Orders spell, a well-built barbarian in 1.00 to 1.06 was almost indestructible and was the main power-leveling character.
Barbarian Strategy
Barbarian strategy typically follows only one guideline with small variations. Most Barbarians make use of the skills Iron Skin, Battle Orders, Whirlwind, and Combat Masteries. Whirlwind has many uses: It allows the player to spin through a crowd of enemies, damaging each greatly, or it can carve a path out of a crowd if the character is surrounded. Whirlwind requires skill to control, and one can take down hard bosses by making circles around the perimeter of the boss so all his hits land on the boss. One also must be careful not to spin into a crowd of monsters, and once a spin is started it can't be stopped.
Paladin
The Paladin is a warrior fighting for all that is good. To reflect this, the Paladin has combat skills ranging from fanatical attacks to anti-undead spells. His specialty, however, lies in auras that buff himself and his party. These passive auras, which can enhance personal abilities, lower the amount of damage dealt by enemies or recover health and can add considerable complexity to the class because only one aura can be active at a time. The Paladin also has access to great strength and health and, because the auras do not generally require mana to activate, is not heavily restricted by heavy mana consumption.
The Paladin is the only character able to use his shield as a weapon in a smite attack. The more powerful the shield, the more damage he can deal with it (also, paladins typically have the best "blocking" rate).
The Paladin can cast spells From the Defensive Auras, Combat Skills, and Offensive Auras skill trees.
Paladin history & Strategy in Classic DII
The paladin was usually seen as one of the weaker characters, with too much emphasis on boosting his allies and too little damage to fend for himself. The class has a staggering number of useless auras, and the anti-undead idea did not work in practice due to the lack of actual undead in the harder areas.
When the game was released, the Conversion + Thorns skill combo was extremely effective. Conversion is a normal melee attack that has a chance to convert the target to fight for you, and Thorns is an aura that causes anyone who attacks a party member to take a large amount of damage in return. This build cleared the hardest levels with ease, so it came as no surprise that it was weakened in patch 1.03. Unfortunately, nothing else in his skill trees was quite as good, and the class slipped into obscurity.
Another great strategy is "Vengence", which adds fire, lightning and cold damage to your attacks , and the aura, "Conviction", which reduces your enemies elemental resistances and defence. Thus when used, you can do massive elemental damge to your opponent with just one hit.
Then Blessed Hammer was discovered to be useful. Originally a weak and hard to aim magical attack, until it was discovered that the damage-boosting auras erroneously affected Blessed Hammer as well. This resulted in the infamous hammerdin, an odd caster build capable of killing any normal monster in the game in a few hits. If the skill is maxed, each hammer can deal over 10,000 damage, with enough skill bonuses from items.
Thanks to the "synergy" boosts added to skills (including Blessed Hammer) in patch 1.10, the Hammerdin is still widely considered the strongest all-around character type in the game today.
Before patch 1.10, a technique known as "flashing" was common. Because the effect of an aura on allies (and enemies) is slightly delayed and because it persists for a few seconds even if switched immediately, a paladin could switch on an enemy-affecting aura, wait for it to "stick" onto the enemies, and then quickly "flash" to a personal aura. The result would be two simultaneous auras, one augmenting the paladin's abilities and one weakening an enemy's. After 1.10, however, this strategy is no longer viable: auras now either change instantly or with unreliable speed.
Sorceress
The Sorceress focuses on ranged elemental spells in three areas: cold, lightning, and fire. Her cold-based spells are generally the weakest, but have the benefit of chilling affected enemies (slowing them down) or freezing them (stopping them completely). Moreover, any chilled or frozen enemies may shatter instead of leaving a corpse. (A corpse can be used by some enemies as an attack or can be revived by other enemies to fight again.) Lightning spells tend to have long range and are more utilitarian or defensive, but they have a wide range of damage, some spells ranging from one to many hundreds. Fire is explosive and relies on hard-hitting spells.
The strong points of Sorceress are powerful damaging spells and mobility (teleporting quickly), which is valuable in multiplayer games. The weak points are strength and defense. Sorceresses that specialize in ice skills may have difficulty forming parties online, as the necromancer, barbarian, paladin, and druid classes all have skills that rely on intact corpses for some useful effect.
The Sorceress can cast spells From the Cold, Lightning, and Fire skill trees.
Sorceress history & strategy in Classic DII
Prior to the expansion pack, the sorceress was fairly weak. Her spells were lacking in damage, due to the fact that once they were at maximum skill level, not much else could be done to increase their damage. Most sorceress builds had serious mana issues, prompting them to maximize Warmth to increase their mana regeneration rate, which took valuable skill points away from their direct damage skills. Their one saving grace was the spell Static Field, which causes 25% of the enemy's hit points in damage to all enemies within its radius and was considered overpowered by even sorceress players themselves.
At first, most sorceress builds revolved around getting as many skill level bonus items as possible to increase damage. This was not an effective option, though, and soon the attention shifted to faster cast rate items. The "tweaker" sorceress build, using as many FCR items as possible, could cast three or more spells per second, backed by high-level Warmth and a large mana pool. The most common build spammed Static Field to quickly reduce the health of nearby enemies to a sliver, then used the Frozen Orb spell, which spins out a globe that showers the area with ice shards, to deliver the death blow. Many looked down upon this "strategy" and the players who used it.
Patch 1.07 and the expansion changed sorceress gameplay immensely, due to the newly implemented skill timers and reduced mana costs on the more expensive spells. Focusing on faster cast rate equipment to cast spells as fast as possible was no longer feasible, and the players started to gravitate towards +to skills items to increase their spell damage instead. For more details, see Diablo II: Lord of Destruction.
Sorceress are used extensively for 'Mfing', or Magic finding. Magic find equipment generally doesn't have the best attributes (apart from the magic-find %), which is fine for the Sorceress which teleports out of harm's way quicly and attacks from range.
The Sorceress' teleport is used extensively for getting to a boss quickly. They are used by parties as a location finder, such as waypoints, boss lairs, etc.
Necromancer
The necromancer is a magician like the sorceress, but in a different way. Whereas the sorceress relies on elemental damage, the necromancer is more subtle. While he does possess direct damage in the form of poison and bone-based spells, but his most specialized abilities are curses and summons. His curses are similar to a paladin's enemy-affecting auras, but they are more powerful and limited in duration, range, and effect. Also rather than being cast on the character, they are cast on a limited number of enemies. His summoning abilities allow the necromancer to raise skeletons, a variety of golems, and even former enemies.
In party-oriented play, some of the most powerful skills affect the monster AI. For example, the curse "Attract" causes enemies near the target creature to attack it. Curses such as "Terror" cause groups of creatures to flee, allowing Necromancers to herd and manage the flow of hostile creatures attacking the party.
The Necromancer can cast spells From the Summoning, Poison & Bone, and Curses skill trees.
Necromancer history & strategy in Classic DII
The necromancer has always been an unbalanced character, due to its reliance on corpses and percentage damage effects. Prior to 1.03, the Corpse Explosion spell was the best skill in the game. When one monster went down, all one had to do was cast Amplify Damage on the pack and blow up the corpse, killing all other monsters in one blast. The radius of Corpse Explosion was reduced in 1.03, encouraging necromancers to look at other skill options. Revive, which raises a dead monster to fight for you, and Iron Maiden, a damage-reflecting curse, were a powerful combo similar to the Conversion + Thorns paladin build, and the life stealing Blood Golem interacted with Iron Maiden, causing it to gain life when it was attacked and rendering it essentially immune to normal attacks.
The arrival of the expansion pack heralded a dark age for the necromancer, and while the class is very powerful in the later patches, this power boost went mainly towards one specific build, the skelliemancer. For more details, see Diablo II: Lord of Destruction.
Players today generally find the Bonemancer to be the easiest build. Bone wall and bone prison proved useful for getting out of hairy spots and trapping unawares players in PvP. However, the element of a Bonemancer that makes playing fun is the penetrating element of Bone spear as well as the homing ability of Bone spirit, which both can do considerable damage.
Skelliemancers are lots of fun to play with, because the character literally controls an army of minions. However, the fun element of these Necromancers is watered down when hard bosses are encountered, such as the Council in Act III that can destroy skeletons and golems fairly easily. To prevent one's self from being the commander of a heap of bones, Skelliemancers have to make use of the Curse tree. Generally, Decripify as well as Iron Maiden are most used. Using a Skelliemancer can get extremely frustrating too, however. The close quarters of the Maggot Lair in Act II makes minions fall behind fairly quickly; the only way to counter this is to use lots of Skeleton-mages and move slowly. Also, make extensive use of golems as well as Skeleton mastery; being commander of a couple elite skeletons is better than a lot of weak ones.
New Game Concepts
There are several new game concepts introduced in Diablo II absent in its predecessor.
Socketed Items
While Diablo provided for almost no item customization, Diablo II improves in this area considerably. Some weapons can be socketed with gems that convey additional abilities. In Diablo II: Lord of Destruction, runes are introduced to further improve in this area, allowing players to create pseudo-unique items by arranging the runes to form "runewords", usually with massive benefits.
Alongside of gems and runes are the infamous jewels, which could create massively powerful items. While all gems of a certain type (for example, a flawed ruby) would do the same thing in any armor, jewels granted randomly-spawned enchantments, sometimes as many as 6 effects to a single slot. People were known to spend hours on end hunting for perfectly maximized jewels, until several new runewords appeared that made that whole process semi-obsolete.
Rare Items
These are more rare than the regular magic items, and can contain more magic modifiers but are not necessarily better. Rare item names are displayed in yellow text.
Prior to the expansion, rares were highly desirable due to its many modifiers. In the expansion, Blizzard North reduced the chance of a good rare drop.
Set Items
Set items all form part of a small collection, or set. When some or all of the items in a certain collection are equipped by a certain character they become more powerful. For example, a character wearing all the items in "Milabrega's Set", will be rewarded with bonuses in addition to those provided by each of the items . These bonuses are not available with only one item of a set or a variety of different sets; i.e. the whole of the set is greater than the sum the bonuses of each individual item.
With the Diablo II: Lord of Destruction expansion, there are a total of 15 normal item sets and 15 exceptional/elite item sets. Each set contains from 2 to 6 items.
The Horadric Cube
One interesting new component is the "Horadric Cube". This is an in-game artifact, attained in Act II, that can transmute items into other items. For example, 3 partial rejuvenation potions may be combined to produce a full rejuvenation potion. With Diablo II: Lord of Destruction, the Horadric Cube can endow items with random properties not found on items dropped by monsters.
The Cube occupies four units of inventory space in a 2×2 configuration, but it can to hold 12 units of items in a space measuring three units wide by four units tall. As such, it behaves much like a tesseract, storing 2-dimensional objects in 3 dimensions.
Gems, Jewels, Runes
GEMS: Gems vary in value, ranging from 'Chipped' to 'Perfect'; as the gem value gets higher, its attributes become more powerful. You can upgrade gems by placing three identical gems into the Horadric cube, then transmuting them to get one of the next level.
The following values are for the perfect forms of the gems:
Sapphires:
- Weapons: 1-40 Cold damage (slows enemies)
- Helms/Armor: 38 to mana
- Shields: 40% cold resist
Rubies:
- Weapons: 1-40 Fire damage (stuns enemies)
- Helms/Armor: 38 to life
- Shields: 40% fire resist
Emeralds:
- Weapons: 100 poison damage over 7 seconds
- Helms/Armor: 10 to dexterity
- Shields: 40% poison resist
Topazes:
- Weapons: 1-40 Lightning damage
- Helms/Armor: 24% to magic find
- Shields: 40% lightning resist
Amethysts:
- Weapons: 150 to attack rating
- Helms/Armor: 10 to strength
- Sheields: 40 to defense
Diamonds:
- Weapons: 68% increased damage to undead
- Helms/Armor: +100 to attack rating
- Shields: 19 to all resistences
Skulls:
- Weapons: 4% life leech, 3% mana leech
- Helms/Armor: Regenerate mana 19%, replenish life +5
- Shields: Attacker takes damage of 20
Jewels Jewels vary in their attributes, and must be identified with scrolls of identify. Found only in LoD.
Runes The most powerful things that can be socketed, runes are found only in LoD. Their attributes can range anywhere from '+75 poison damage over 2 seconds' to 'Knockback' in weapons. Again, the attributes change accordingly to each rune as well as where it is socketed. It is also possible to combine rune combinations into socketable items to create crazily powerful items.
Hirelings (Mercenaries)
To be able to hire a mercenary, you must kill Blood Raven after recieving the quest from 'Kashya' in the Rogue Encampment.
Diablo II allows the player to hire mercenaries in the towns of Act I, II, III and V. Different mercenaries are available in each encampment. In Act I, a Rogue hireling (as in the original Diablo) is available. In Act II, a spear-wielding mercenary is available. In the Act III, one of three elemental mages can be hired. There are no mercenaries in Act IV, but in Act V you can hire a barbarian with a sword.
In the original Diablo II, mercenaries couldn't be equipped with items and did not follow the character from act to act. Luckily, Diablo II: Lord of Destruction improved on this concept. Hirelings persist for as long as they are wanted, and they can be resurrected for a fee that varies with their level. They can be equipped with weapons, healed, and they also become stronger with experience. Moreover, there were many improvements to hirelings in general to make them more viable as actual help. The second act hirelings, for example, previously notorious for dying quickly, have many extra abilities (including auras). In addition, the fifth act offers hireable barbarians that can use Barbarian-specific gear, although they can only use the skills Stun and Bash from the Barbarian's skill tree.
The Pandemonium Quest
Template:Spoiler Added in the 1.11 patch for Diablo II released on August 1, 2005, the Pandemonium Quest is a late-game quest possibly intended to break the monotony of never-ending Baal runs on Hell difficulty, which is where most play took place in 1.10.
The goal of this quest is to open a portal to Chaotic Tristram, where there are more powerful versions of the three Prime Evils (Mephisto, Diablo, and Baal). When all three are dead, a unique large charm drops. This charm grants +3 to skills for a specific character class, and provides other nice bonuses. In addition, a Standard of Heroes is dropped for each player in the level. It is unknown at this time what the Standard of Heroes is good for, although it does have a level 90 requirement.
In order to open the portal to Chaotic Tristram, you will need 3 body parts to put in the Horadric Cube and transmute while standing in the town of Act 5 on Hell difficulty.
Body parts may be retrieved by opening portals (again on Hell difficulty in Act 5) by using the three Keys; the Key of Terror, the Key of Hate, and the Key of Destruction.
The keys may be obtained by killing (in Hell difficulty) the Countess in the bottom of the Tower in the Black Marsh of Act 1, The Summoner in the Arcane Sanctuary of Act 2, and Nihlathak in the Halls of Vaught under the Halls of Pain in Act 5. The drop rate for keys is believed to be 1/32, and multiple keys can drop from one kill.
Diablo II on Battle.net
The Diablo II section of Battle.net consists of a global online community made up of tens of thousands of people who connect to six primary realms across the globe: two in the United States (East and West), one in Europe, and three in Asia. Each realm is comprised of several servers, and allows for two different methods of connecting: there is the closed realm, where all character data is stored on the Battle.net servers, and there is the open realm where all player data is stored on the player's computer. There are generally many more cheats on the open realm because character data can be altered locally.
Players can create unlimited accounts with a maximum of eight characters per account, though only one character can be played at a time (if a CD-key is registered and in use by one player it cannot be used simultaneously by someone else). Up to eight players are allowed in each "game", each of which is basically identical to single-player Diablo 2 worlds, except that other players may join. As there are different games for different purposes, there are different channels for players to enter and use to chat. From dueling channels to trading channels, players can meet up with others to talk, arrange duels, trade, etc. Characters can only be played within a game. If a character isn't played for a span of 3 months it gets automatically deleted by Battle.net.
Game Styles
Players can create characters to play in "softcore", "hardcore", "softcore ladder", or "hardcore ladder" modes. Softcore characters can be resurrected when killed, while hardcore characters become unplayable upon their first death making them a very risky proposition for even the most experienced players. Ladder characters are ranked on the ladder, and may not interact with non-ladder characters as of patch 1.10. The ladder is periodically reset, making all characters previously listed on the ladder become non-ladder.
Changes from Diablo I
Many gameplay features were changed from the first Diablo, including:
- Removal of spell books and ability to learn spells, replaced by skills tree, an innovation from designer Hedlund that has become part of the language of the genre.
- Removal of many potions, especially skill increase potions
- Removal of many spell scrolls, leaving only identify and town portal scrolls
- Removal of 'save anywhere' feature, monsters and ground items reset after saving
- Players now respawn after dying, but with penalties
- More types of items and new item slots, such as belts
- The waypoint system to teleport between explored levels and acts
- Overlapping quests were removed, now everyone receives the same quests
- Quest rewards are now randomized, no more set rewards
- Items now cannot be destroyed by losing all durability
- More types of random items, with the prefix-and-suffix system of Diablo extended to groups of attributes in the case of rare items.
- Games can now by replayed after seeing the ending
- Ability to use "Alt" key to list items on ground by marking them with text above them
- Monsters now respawn after saving
- Inclusion of running and stamina system
- Monsters can now be attacked as long as the mouse buttons are held
- Bows and missile weapons now require arrows to fire
- Increases in the average amount of monster, player and item attributes
- Simplified, icon based store system, replacing the text based system
- Stashes in towns to store items, as opposed to leaving items in town's grounds
- Inclusion of monster health and experience indicating meters
- Although Magical damage still exists, it can no longer be resisted with the use of items. It was, somehow, replaced by Cold damage and Poison damage, however several necromancer "bone" skills, paladin and barbarian skills do use Magical attacks.
- In the multi-player version you cannot be randomly "PK"ed (Player Killed) by another user without warning. If a user goes hostile toward you, or makes him/herself able to attack you instead of enemies, they MUST be in town and you will be made aware. Players also cannot go hostile/duel with other players below level 9.
- Players now have a specified trading system, instead of just dropping items onto the ground for others.
- Items left on the ground disappear after around 10 minutes, even if a character remains near them.
Easter Eggs
- Many of the people, items and places in Diablo II are named after Blizzard employees and their loved ones. The Civerb's set of armor is based on the last name of David Brevik and Peter Brevik.
More examples of item names that are anagrams of developer names:
- Nokozan Relic = Karin Colenzo
- (The) Mahim-Oak Curio = Michio Okamura
- Bverrit Keep = Peter Brevik
- Rusthandle = (Mark) Sutherland
- Rixot’s Keen = Erik Sexton
- Skewer (of) Krinitz = Kris Renkewitz
Game Credits
Project and Design Leads: David Brevik, Erich Schaefer, Max Schaefer
Executive Producer: Michael Morhaime
Senior Producer: Matthew Householder, Bill Roper
Producer: Mark E. Kern, Kenneth Williams
Technical Producer: Michael Huang
Design: Stieg Hedlund
Lead Programmer: Rick Seis
Programmers: Theodore Bisson, Peter Brevik, Doron Gartner, Peter Hu, Peter Kemmer, Doug McCreary, Jesse McReynolds, Jon Morin, Divo Palinkas, Jason Regier, Michael Scandizzo, Jonathan Stone, Tyler Thompson, Steven Woo
Lead Character Artist: Phil Shenk
Character Artists: John Kubasco, Cheeming Boey, Evan Carroll, Michael Dashow, Ben Haas, Kelly Johnson, Michio Okamura, Kris Renkewitz, Anthony Rivero, Christopher Root, Eric Sexton, Robert Steele, Patrick Tougas
Background Artists: Alan Ackerman, Ben Boos, David Glenn, Alex Munn, Mark Sutherland, Marc Tattersall, Fredrick Vaught
Music: Matt Uelmen
Sound Design: Scott Peterson, Jonathan Stone, Matt Uelmen
Additional Sound Effects: Joseph Lawrence
Level Design: Derek McAuley, Stefan Scandizzo, Grant Wilson
Additional Game Design: Eric Sexton
Story and Dialog: Kurt Beaver, Stieg Hedlund, Matthew Householder, Phil Shenk, Robert Vieira
Story Concept and Script Editor: Chris Metzen
Production Manager: Karin Colenzo
See Also
External links
- Diablo Wiki - The Diablo Wiki.
- Diablo II.net - Great database as well as guides and player forums
- Diablo II at MobyGames