09-06-2006, 05:04 PM
Hi...
Diablo is my first venture into RPGs. I bought it a week or so ago at CompUSA for five bucks. Saw it in the bin and decided to see why it had gotten such acclaim over the years. I was glad, and a bit surprised that it installed and played so easily on Windows XP. Mostly, I am an adventure gamer..Myst, Riven, Rhem, etc and have played dozens and dozens of those types of games over the years. I've also played Tomb Raider 1, 2, 4, and the new one Legend and liked those a lot (although I still liked the first one best...picked that up the same way as Diablo and for the same reason...)
Anyway, I am having a great time with Diablo! More than I expected since I didn't really know what to expect...Spending way too much time with it (per my wife)....and I've got some questions that maybe one of you veterans can help me with:
So far, I am playing single player as a Warrior. I have two different games (characters) going but both are warriors. I started distributing level up points fairly equally across the four attributes but found that my magic ability still stunk...I just couldn't hit anything with a spell, or rarely. ..The only one that works "well" is Firewall and I found a staff for that...man, I love to fry those acid spitting dogs!! I started the second game (character) and leveled up just the vitality, dexterity, and to a lesser extent strength, and put very little effort to magic.
1) Some of the posts on this forum and elsewhere on the site talk about level 35 or higher warriors. How do you get that high? I am stuck just starting dungeon level 13 (more on that in another question below) and am a level 20 in both games. I can't believe that I am going to get a whole lot more levels in trying to finish the game.
2)What can I do about the Snow Witches? I just started on dungeon level 13 and these pale babes with blue thongs and wings are shooting blue balls of something at me that just kill me. I am getting drubbed time after time. Is there some strategy or whatever? There are way too many to just wade in and club while using healing scrolls, spells, and potions...I think.
3) Does anyone else use the ground near the Town Portal location as a storage dump? I've got that area littered with stuff I want to keep but don't want to carry...extra armor with various special properties, scrolls, potions, magic rings, staffs, books I can't read yet, weapons, gold, etc.
There are a bunch more questions but I think I'll hold them for another post.
Thanks for any help you can give,
Ed A
Diablo is my first venture into RPGs. I bought it a week or so ago at CompUSA for five bucks. Saw it in the bin and decided to see why it had gotten such acclaim over the years. I was glad, and a bit surprised that it installed and played so easily on Windows XP. Mostly, I am an adventure gamer..Myst, Riven, Rhem, etc and have played dozens and dozens of those types of games over the years. I've also played Tomb Raider 1, 2, 4, and the new one Legend and liked those a lot (although I still liked the first one best...picked that up the same way as Diablo and for the same reason...)
Anyway, I am having a great time with Diablo! More than I expected since I didn't really know what to expect...Spending way too much time with it (per my wife)....and I've got some questions that maybe one of you veterans can help me with:
So far, I am playing single player as a Warrior. I have two different games (characters) going but both are warriors. I started distributing level up points fairly equally across the four attributes but found that my magic ability still stunk...I just couldn't hit anything with a spell, or rarely. ..The only one that works "well" is Firewall and I found a staff for that...man, I love to fry those acid spitting dogs!! I started the second game (character) and leveled up just the vitality, dexterity, and to a lesser extent strength, and put very little effort to magic.
1) Some of the posts on this forum and elsewhere on the site talk about level 35 or higher warriors. How do you get that high? I am stuck just starting dungeon level 13 (more on that in another question below) and am a level 20 in both games. I can't believe that I am going to get a whole lot more levels in trying to finish the game.
2)What can I do about the Snow Witches? I just started on dungeon level 13 and these pale babes with blue thongs and wings are shooting blue balls of something at me that just kill me. I am getting drubbed time after time. Is there some strategy or whatever? There are way too many to just wade in and club while using healing scrolls, spells, and potions...I think.
3) Does anyone else use the ground near the Town Portal location as a storage dump? I've got that area littered with stuff I want to keep but don't want to carry...extra armor with various special properties, scrolls, potions, magic rings, staffs, books I can't read yet, weapons, gold, etc.
There are a bunch more questions but I think I'll hold them for another post.
Thanks for any help you can give,
Ed A