Thinking about the shards of hate pvp mechanic in D4 made me realize we’re pretty much letting ourselves get possessed by Meph. This basically means that D2’S heroes were the most resilient canonically speaking.
All of D1’s corrupted. I think it’s heavily implied D3’s are as well. Though it’s also implied we lost some of the heroes of D2.
Do you like the theme of the shards of hate? I personally don’t. The mechanic is interesting but i just find it weird in the context of the game, i would think that i should be working with what’s left of humanity, given how dire things are. I’m fine with my character corrupting when i’m not controlling it, but thematically, it doesn’t make a lot of sense.
I get that there are plenty of people who will like the mechanic because it’s “edgy”
The rogue from D1 became Blood Raven, the mage i have no clue about. In D3 at the end of act 5 Tyriel states his fear, that what if the nephalem is influenced badly, because they have demonic origins, and turns against humanity.
He fears that if it were to happen. It didn’t. At least as of now it didn’t. Maybe we so and that makes the wake of Malthus even worse leading to the mess Sanctuary is in in D4.
I mean it’s not as though it’ll have any place in the game’s campaign, nor would your character being consumed by hatred affect the game’s plot. Since that’s the case, I don’t see much of an issue with how their portraying it. If anything, I’d even say it’s an interesting way to go about it.
The Mage became the unique summoner within the Arcane Sanctuary in Diablo 2. Regarding Diablo 3 Nephalem, there’s nothing yet to suggest they have also fell into corruption. The only thing Tyrael stated was that there was a possiblity of them falling into corruption, and should it happen it would likely result in the collective doom of nearly everything.
Now that would admittedly be interesting. Especially, if our Diablo 3 characters were corrupted and pretty much the main antagonist (or at least one the antagonists) of Diablo 4. And Lilith was brought back in the hopes that she could combat them (hence the whole “Blessed Mother… Save us”), however instead Lilith spreads her influence over the land to gain followers and build her strength and forces.
That said, if the Diablo 3 characters had become corrupted and fell from grace, I’d hope it wasn’t due to direct influence from the Lords of Hell, and instead it’s due to their experiences battling against Hell and Heaven had caused them to become dissillusioned. I wouldn’t mind if Diablo and his brothers stay in the shadows a bit longer, biding their time for something truly sinister. In short I would hope their corruption would be by choice rather than them being controlled.
I just wanted to say that D3 nepahlems are not so resilient as @Beefhammer stated. They are as vulnerable to corruption as any other human. And in that light the shards of hatred corrupting you dosen’t seem off or stupid.
Unless plans changed they, or at LEAST diablo won’t be around until the first expansion at least. They way they talked about the game being about Diablo, you go beat him, then someone weaker comes along and is the final/ultimate big bad at the end feks wrong.
I still don’t think Lilith is the big bad or even the bad guy. Inarius will be the big bad of D4 initially. We may fight Lilith mid way or confront her only to realize her plans and side with her.
The Tirune will summon/reaseruct the Prime evils for the expansion and that5when the Burning Hells will break loose.
The only human who could’ve been considered nearly incorruptible was Khalim.
I don’t see Inarius doing anything unless he has someone incredibly powerful backing him. He was pretty much made a broken angel, and lost the World Stone, so he’s pretty much powerless. That is unless he ended up retaining some of the World Stone energies within his body and no one knew about it.
Blizzard or rather western media loves to corrupt their heroes in their storytelling compared to eastern media where eastern heroes tend to be good/decent till the end.
Just look at what they did to Superman today. Old day superman was the kind of character that will endure any hardship, but now in the modern-day, his wife died? better become a tyrant that suppressing everyone.
Evil Superman archetype is so popular now that you can find an evil copy (e.g. homelander, Omni man, brightburn) of him almost everywhere nowadays.
Back to D4, I would prefer to see that D3 heroes were killed or mortally injured when they fought against evil nephalems that want to rule the Sanctuary instead they became the evil ones. While I don’t like D2 sorceress’s fate in D3, but at least she didn’t get corrupted or went insane like D1 heroes.
If the story really wants to make D3 heroes a villain, they should became a villain with their own will or have their own reasons to do so instead of “oh no, I accidentally touched some evil stone, and now I am evil because why not?”.
His connection to the worldstone was severed. He, as an angel, didn’t become weaker, he just lost any control/power granted to him by the world stone. He his still a very powerful angel. Lilith is a red herring. Inarius has or will escape and his only goal is the utter destruction of the nephalem and probably the High Heavens due to what they did to him.
I’m not sure how powerful he could be considering how long Mephisto had been torturing him and leaving him wanting death. That’s why unless Inarius has someone backing him, I don’t see him being able to achieve much on his own.