Sacred uniques and sets drop only in Hell difficulty. Leech is reduced to 1/15 to make up for high attack damage at this point in the game and there's a 70% resistances penalty. You can expect to reach level 95-100 at the end of the Nightmare difficulty.Įvery monster is powerful and extremely aggressive. If you can beat Nightmare, you have completed the regular game. Their AI is not very bright and leech works at 1.4 effectiveness, which should be just fine considering the increased amount of damage characters can deal compared to the regular game.Ī significant step up in difficulty, regular monsters range from 10K to 100K health and deal 250 to 750 damage. Regular monsters range from 50 to 10K health and deal 1 to 200 damage. After finally engaging Diablo in a duel in the depths of the hell beneath Tristram, the unnamed Warrior defeated and killed the Prime Evil.

Each character class now gains life, mana, and stamina at different rates. The Dark Wanderer is the warrior from Diablo I who has been possessed by Diablo, the very demon he sought to contain within himself. The following is a rundown of the more visible changes in the game. Familiar (Skill) is a Sorceress Mana skill tree summon which has an aura that increases cast rate, energy, and gives a bonus to all skill levels. It changes many features of the original game - basically, it revamps nearly everything.

Note: The difficulties were previously known as Hatred, Terror and Destruction and were reverted to Normal, Nightmare and Hell in patch 1.0.0 (2019). Median XL is a mod for Diablo 2: Lord of Destruction. Killing Baal unlocks the next difficulty level for that character. Median XL: Sigma features the same difficulty levels as the vanilla Diablo II: Lord of Destruction.

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