ArtStation Magazine recently published a piece focused on the environments and lighting of Diablo IV - there's some really amazing pieces here. They feature artists by specialty- modeling, sketching, etc.
I haven't gotten Diablo IV yet, waiting for a sale (my wife said she'd play with me!) but also, I've never cared about the seasonal stuff everyone always goes on about anyway. I'll just play the main game and probably like it a lot. Whenever it happens, it happens 😂
Peak living room. Wii consoles in various states of disassembly, Diablo on the TV from a PS1 mini (and a Series X for other stuff), books everywhere, Halloween stickers on a table. (Admittedly, this is cluttered and pre-cleaning, which I'm doing now 🤣)
My wife's decorating style is definitely 'Goho'- kinda goth, kinda boho.
Moved the hacked PS1 mini (it has like 80+ games on it now thanks to Autobleem, the most important of them being Diablo) to the living room to start up a new Diablo run. I beat it two years ago in September and I started my run(s) in August 2021. Something about August and fall, I guess. Last time, I tried a sorcerer but struggled til I switched to fighter, which I beat it with. This time, I'm trying a rogue. Never tried rogue before. Should be wild. Time for tons of saving and leaving all my gear on the ground in town! 🤣
Alathra's now level 16 and I'm starting in on floor 9, which is of course where that difficulty ramps up! However, I just went back to kill the Butcher and now I'm gonna take out Leoric. The Butcher was SO easy to take out with a level 16 rogue 🤣 I figure Leoric will be too. Diablo tip - wait to kill these two til later, when you're stronger! 🔥
Well, I kept hitting a wall at floor 9 in my PS1 mini Diablo run, so I just saved my character and restarted the whole game to respawn monsters. Had to sell my extra stuff and they took the special stuff (Arkaines Valor, etc) but I bought a new helmet and armor and now maybe I can get a little bump before trying floor 9 again. Argh!
Still working my way back down to floor 9, gradually, just hangin out a little, grabbing up good gear. Got a better bow.
Every time I come back to town to sell stuff, I feel Griswold eyeing my badass backup axe, the unique and indestructible Wicked Axe, (that I'm keeping to thrash those jerks up close that instantly surround you on floor 9).
Finally making some damn progress on level 9 in Diablo with my rogue run.
A big key for the rogue here is firing arrows toward where you know the monsters are (once you've died from them enough times to learn, ffs) to taunt them to come over near one of these wood enclosures with the door.
Then, you run inside, close the door, and fire out, chugging health potions. It works. They run over fast and want to surround you. My rogue Alathra is level 18 now, and pretty tough (Arkaines Valor etc) but if the monsters surround you on floor 9, they'll just kill you over and over. You can't even chug potions fast enough.
So I fully filled my inventory with health potions, had a town portal ready to go, kept saving every time I killed a few more, and I think I'm finally getting somewhere now.
I mean, I kept dying here a LOT. Was even trying Stone Curse, melee weapons, anything. It was brutal. Maybe now I can progress some more.
Down in level 13 (and Alathra is now level 20). Was thankfully able to skip a lot of level 11, as those damn demons there kept surrounding me and killing me- but the succubi and other demons aren't too bad now since I found this BADASS bow that adds 101% damage. Almost breezing through level 13. Only a couple more to go!
Killed Lazarus, and I'm at the end - exactly 30 days after starting my run as Alathra the rogue! I like to take it fairly slow, and I have. Now for the big demon himself. I suspect I won't have too much trouble - Lazarus is usually tougher and he was pretty much a breeze. Rogue arrows ftw! Find or buy a good bow!
Beat Diablo as a level 25 rogue today on 9/7/2023 - 30 days after starting it. (After the quick cinematic at the end, it takes you back to this intro screen).
[D4] Today I killed the Butcher for the first time... and all I got was this shirt. German
It was very close though. I had 0 health pots left :-)