Gah!

[Kasreyn]

I thought it was fun hunting for the jungle Kurast ones...

See, I find Act 3 to be fun, too. Especially the music. Act I I like for the plot, Act II for the atmosphere, Act III for the music and varied enemies, and Act IV... well, Act IV I don't like much, but the CS is a decent challenge at least. Act IV is just boring because I can't talk to the townies. =(

If it gives my weak and brittle Necromancer some more HP, I'll return the book.

What pisses me off is, sometimes I can't get the Jade Figurine quest. I'll go out and kill the first boss in the jungle and get... didley.

Rescuing Cain: You never leave that gin-soaked fogey swinging in the gibbet? "Heeeelp... *creak creak*"

LOL, I've done that before. Such fun. But one thing I never miss out on in Tristram is looting Wirt's corpse. Gimme my gold back, you little twerp!

His gossips are a riot, especially in Harrogath.

My personal favorites are from Gheed, Hratli, Lysander, and Alkor:

G: Guess what? I've named a boil on my ass after you...
H: People are a lot like rugs. Hang them out the window and shake them a few times, you'll be surprised how much dirt comes out.
L: ...There's old summoners and bold summoners, but no old, bold, summoners. (LOVE that!)
L: Pity about those poor harem girls, eh? I shall miss them deeply! Er... their... conversations, of course.
A: Oh, Ormus has been talking in riddles for years. I think he does it to disguise the fact that he's got nothing intelligent to say. (that was my opinion exactly, so I was shocked when Alkor said it for me ;-)
A: Oh, Asheara's a good customer! She buys a potion of manliness from me every week.

And lots of other amusing stuff. I pity the poor clods who think talking to townies is "boring" - they miss out on such cool stuff. ^_^

Sharpen your wit and prepare to do battle with the unarmed!

Is that a Lemming original? Because I'd like to honor that with a place in my quotes file. ^_^

EDIT: I HATE the quoting feature on this forum!

You're not the only one. Had to do this one by hand, the buttons weren't working. Probably my proxy. =\

As to the debate at hand: I don't see a problem with requiring a Diablo slaying to proceed to the next difficulty. I mean, the game IS called "DIABLO" 2, not "Adventures in Sanctuary". I don't know of many D1 variants that don't include "dotting", so why should the veterans complain about being required to do the equivalent of a "dot" in D2? But of course, in that case there would be someone SFing Diablo down low enough for a level 1 to kill him. In this case, let them try it. I'd love to see a level 1 eat LBOD.

I'm with Lemming on this, I guess. There seems to be no really good universal way of keeping level 1 rushbabies out of higher difficulties. Just set a minimum level req when creating games (30 NM, 50 Hell), and don't join games that lack such a req. Sounds better to me than inconveniencing variant players just for an attempt to curtail idiocy that's foredoomed to failure.

-Kasreyn