Diablo II 1.10 Beta Test begins

[kandrathe]

I took my "Ice Princess", lvl 92 sorc against Hell Baal. First, getting there was interesting. Almost all the monsters were new to the Worldstone keep. Much poison, bone spear, and Baal hassles you on every level now. Oh, and joy, on WSK Lvl 2, Fetishs. I'm not missing the Demon Imps though, either.

Going against Baal's minions revealed a couple points of interest. After the first wave, Baal did not pop all the corpses in the throne room. When Achmel The Cursed and his unravellers in the 2nd wave appeared they ressurected the fallen shamen from the first wave and the Doom Knights, and other monsters that were still corpses in the throne room. Until I knocked off all the unravellers, it was chaos, and at one point I'm sure I was fighting off 30+ monsters.

Lister was Fire, Cold Immune, so I used static to get his to 1/2 life, but after that he regenerated faster than I could kill him. He was the only one I couldn't kill. And, this was players 1.

Baal has some new tricks. He teleports to you, rather than just aimlessly, and his fire "drill" effect is much bigger.

All in all, considering just how strong that sorceress is, I found the Hell Baal quest extremely hard in comparison to how it used to be. Baal dropped 4 rares, and 2 magics.