The most faithful Diablo 2 expansion possible is D1

General Discussion
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You destroy the worldstone

Get back to the Hellforge to destroy both baal and Diablo’s soulstone like it was suppose to be when Blizzard north developed Lord of Destruction

When you destroy Diablo’s soulstone, you hear Aidan saying “I thought i could do it, thank you for finishing what i failed to do”, and then there’s an explosion that engulphs you and you are brought back to Tristram, the Diablo 1 Tristram

act 6 consists in a Diablo 1 remaster(Belzebub cut-content style) played through Diablo 2 resurrected

I feel that D1 would never be remastered so this is the closest it could get and it would be a great opportunity to not only make discover D2 to people who werent born to play it but also the origin of the game

Extra-Hypothetical section

You could have a new skill per class based on D1 skills called Legacy skills

  • druid could get elemental(my favorite spell in all Diablo franchise)
  • Necro could get stone curse
  • Barb could get Blood boil (Performs a cry that boils the enemies blood making them explode on kill dealing damage to nearby enemies and you as well)
  • Amazon could get Blood Star (Both jav and bow)
  • Assassin could get Lightning wave (in line with shocked web)
  • Sorc could get Apocalypse
  • Paladin could get a buff to Holy bolt through Holy mastery ( X% of your Holy bolt damage affects non-undead enemies)

New items from the expansion could simply be those items that disappeared between D1 and D2

  • The Butcher’s Cleaver
  • Gotterdamerung
  • Constricting Ring
  • The Mangler
  • The Grizzly
  • Immolator
  • Thinking Cap
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I like how the Paladin gets shafted in the way that he is the only one that doesn’t get a new ability lol. :woozy_face:

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Lets face it, the Paladin deserves it.

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Well you have never played Pd2 and POD to say that

Holy bolt and FOH’s holy bolt being able to deal damage to non-undead is kinda cool

its not a new skill but it kinda is too

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Idea I think if it was an Expansion say over an event( I have posted an event idea in the past a few times)

Diablo 1 has Skill Tomes, What if you returned those. BUT they dont give you stills.

What if they when held in the inventory, give you Skill Charges.

Like you could get a Tome of Battle Orders, has say 5 charges.

How would that way against charms and cta?

That could make things interesting.

Maybe have auras have charges, that Empower the Tome to apply the Aura for X number of minutes.

Could be a game changer.

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sighs
hokei… if you say so.
It was meant as a bit of comical relief but if you wanna go there… I’m not your guy.

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I like this idea but the extra skills arent needed it would create unneeded balance requirements

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which is why i added " extra hypothetical" on top of the section hahaha

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Interesting…

I wish the word interesting had more letters…

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Merry Christmas Blizzard!!