First of all, terror zone is a lacklustre copy of my long suggested bounty activity. It’s half baked because it missed the most important part, players impact on the mechanic. Players clearing terror areas should generate more terror areas. It’s also badly designed because it increases the mlvl of monsters which hinders attack builds heavily
There are so many cool activity concept that could make the game more interesting
stuff like:
- Holy grail
a challenge to the first with all items. To ensure the validity of the entries, it only accounts items that were first picked up by you. So no selling of unid items to trick the holy grail.Comes with the introduction of the Holy grail tab
- the demonic list
- every time you kill a super Unique, the whole game gains +1mlvl(unactivated mobs, capped at 85-87), when all areas reach mlvl85, the buff to mobs is dmg/life/xp/noloot/resistances
Ideally super uniques would gain more buff than regular mobs, making each next one harder and harder. There could even be some shenanigan with them being allowed to higher mlvl lvl and TC so down the line they can drop everything to compensate the fact that no-loot bonus doesn’t affect them
This would incite people to hunt them
Finally we would have a reason to kill blood raven
We would have a reason to revisit the den of evil for Corpsefire, the barrack for the smith, maggot for coldworm, etc
All especially all those more unknown
People would learn about all the Super uniques and potentially their story
There are like 60 of them
Killing them all could even trigger a special event. Potentially using legendary super Unique removes from the game or some never seen like Reziarfg
http://classic.battle.net/diablo2exp/monsters/act5-reziarfg.shtmlPeople would create games and hunt parties to kill them all, have better farming areas and ultimately trigger the Event
- Restless Darkness
When you full clear an area, sunbeams appear like in the den of evil and you character says something
At that moment, a time starts
10 minutes(example time) later a message springs
“Darkness has engulfed The far Oasis, evil walks again on this land”
the area is repopulated with monsters, stronger ones
This buff to monsters is similar to what playercount provides
- dmg
- life
- xp
- no loot
But also
- mlvl*
- all resists(including magic and up to 99 )
- maybe even a bit more density
- King of the Hell
Game with hell baal quest completed have this mechanic. This mechanic determines the total number of monsters in the game and the least of them are left, the stronger they become.
For more details:
You have a tracker displaying the % of the game that is cleared. This is where the leaderboard gets it’s data. Highest % reached, highest % boss kills, fastest time to reach 100%
- The 9 circles of hell
where hell becomes harder each time you complete it. On the last Hell act bosses are harder than regular ubers. First to complete the game on this ultra hard difficulty
- PVP
every account starts with 100pts, each time you kill somebody you gain 10% of his points if hostility is mutual and 1% if not
- Bounty Hunting (A)
Every hour the game asks players on the server to kill X type of monster, they are then considered p10&mlvl85(placeholder difficulty), giving more Xp, more items but also way harder to kill and more dangerous. these monsters also giving Points toward the bounty leaderboard
Ie: Go to Natalya and she say “I got report from the order that there is an invasion of Urdar, go kill them and they’ll reward you”
- Bounty hunting (B)
every new game, Natalya has a contract for you
monsters are gathering in a specific area, gathering troops to launch an assault on a city
she mandates you to go cleanse this area
monsters are empowered and guided by a leader boss
this empowerment consists in dmg/mlvl/life/noloot/resist/density
- Anya’s personalized art transmuation
demo:
https://m.imgur.com/eziwaIcStep 1: kill nilatak
Step 2: got see Anya which will grant you a free personalization
Step3: put the item you want changed on the left
Step 4: put the item you want the left items to look like on the right
Step5: if out of free personalization put a standard of heroes in the bottom slot
Step 6: click personalize and claim your item
Disclaimer: Have to mention beforehand
- completing the quest grant you 1 for free, so 3 free shots like Akara’s respec
- This is only a visual transmutation, not stats is changed to the item in the process
- Theres also a toggle created to switch Alt art on and Off for people who wants to know what other wear during Pvp (ideally inspect function)
- there is also a warning message when trading a personalized item
- The used item is gone… sacrificed in the process, cant get it back
- this would have for effect to valourize items that look great/special but are bad, ie: Girswold edge or BoneSnap
why standard of heroes? First because it has no value and also Because Standard means “Banner, a visual representation of what you represent” and Heroes, therefor Standard of Heroes means " The visual representation of heores" and Anya Kinda thinks you are a heroe
https://imgur.com/VW48DLWI hate the term Transmog, it doesn’t belong in Diablo franchise, even less in D2, by definition transmog is to change an appearance to look grotestque and funny, that’s not what we would aim in Diablo 2, we want to look good, heroic and intimidating. I’d called it personalized gear
Got any other ideas of additional ladder types, share it
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