Last year, in April, I participated in an “A to Z” 30 day blogging challenge. One of the posts I wrote while working on that challenge was titled L is for Leah. In it, I briefly went over some of Leah’s backstory. I left a lot out in order to avoid massive “spoilers”.
Today, I decided to go ahead and put together Leah’s family tree. It’s something that’s been in my head for a while. It turned out that her family tree includes characters that one might not expect.
Blizzard has officially announced that the upcoming World of Warcraft expansion is called Legion. As a person who plays a lot more Diablo III than I do World of Warcraft, there was one thing that caught my attention about the WoW expansion. There will be a Demon Hunter class in World of Warcraft.
Based on this news, I decided that my #Blaugust Day 6 post would be about my Diablo III Demon Hunters. One of them was started the day Diablo III was released, and the other one was created for Season 2.
Anyone who has played through Act V of Diablo III will find that many of the buildings include smaller side quests. If you are playing through Story Mode, you can choose to ignore them and stick with the main quests, or to see how many you can find. Some of these side quests turn up as Bounties in Adventure Mode.
Overall, the stories presented in these little, randomly appearing, optional objectives paint a picture of how bleak and dangerous Westmarch has become. Each shows what happened to random people who were unfortunate enough to be living in Westmarch when Malthael and his minions came and started ripping out people’s souls.
One of the stories that grabbed my attention is in an objective called “House of Deep Sorrow”. It is short, and fairly simple to complete. The implications of what this short story reveals are very disturbing, (even in context of Diablo III).
Continue Reading “Lady Victoria and the House of Deep Sorrow”
Treasure Goblin Pet from Diablo III: Reaper of Souls Collector’s Edition
This is my Day 4 post for #Blaugust. I probably should have been adding that to my previous three posts, but simply didn’t think to do it. I have two goals for this blogging project.
One, of course, is to write one blog every day until the month is over. The other is to write blogs that are related in some way to my favorite video game – Diablo III. I decided on that topic to challenge myself, since I am a person who regularly writes three or four blogs a day (on various websites).
I’m writing this as most of the lovely people I follow on Twitter are getting super excited about the upcoming announcement from Blizzard about … well, we don’t know exactly what that will turn out to be. Speculation abounds, as it typically does when people get the idea that WoW is due for another expansion. We’ve seen all of this before. I’m kind of bummed that there doesn’t seem to be much new coming to Diablo III, though.
Continue Reading “Playing Diablo III When Everyone is Focused on WoW”
There are many vendors in Diablo III, but only one of them is a child – Squirt. (Well, before the expansion, anyway). Where is this kid getting the goods she is selling from?
The Barbarian vendor in the Keep gets his goods from caravans that occasionally make it through the battlefields. Some of the other vendors travel into the sewers or aqueducts to pick up “trash”. Players can easily find this out because those NPCs (non-player characters) clearly state it. Squirt, on the other hand, never specifically mentions where she gets her goods from.
Adria is a character that has been in the “Diablo universe” for as long as Deckard Cain. Parts of her story have been scattered through Diablo III, in the form of journals that players can pick up as they go through Story Mode (or by doing Bounties). Those journals leave a lot out, though. More of her story can be found in the Book of Tyrael.
In this blog, I will put all the pieces together, in chronological order, as best I can. The thing to keep in mind about Adria is she has spent her life seeking power. Her desire for power is the motivating factor behind everything she does.
Sanctuary is a place of scarcity. One might expect that in a world that has been overrun with both demons (and some angels) who are constantly trying to kill off the people who live there. What started out as a paradise, and an escape for renegade angels and demons who wanted to opt-out of the Eternal Conflict, has become a dangerous, desperate, place.
As such, the people who live in Sanctuary have difficult lives. The farms that produced food for everyone have been abandoned. The farmers who stayed aren’t able to grow food anymore, due to an infestation of monsters on their land. What are the people of Sanctuary going to eat now? I suggest they turn to a new, and plentiful, food source – Boggits.
This blog is part of the series I am putting together about my experience in Season 3 of Diablo III. So far, I’ve picked a different focus each season. For Season 3, I decided to put my best effort into the Greater Rifts.
I’m not entirely certain how the difficulty level that you set the game to matches up to the Tiers of the Greater Rift. At first, I though that if I set the difficulty level to Torment 3, for example, the Greater Rifts I enter would be that much harder than when I ventured into them with the difficulty set to Torment 2 or Torment 1.
This blog is part of the series I am putting together about my experience in Season 3 in Diablo III. My main focus in Season 3, other than making sure I got my Crusader to Level 70, was to work on Greater Rifts.
Overall, I’m glad I decided to do that because there wasn’t much else to do in Season 3. There were much fewer Seasonal Achievements than in previous Seasons, so there wasn’t a whole lot to blog about. In addition, I really hadn’t put much effort into Greater Rifts before Season 3.
I hadn’t put very much effort into doing Greater Rifts before Season 3 of Diablo III started. There wasn’t any particular reason why I hadn’t been working on them. I guess I was much more focused on Seasonal Achievements that didn’t involve Rifts during Season 1 and Season 2.
My plan has always been to try and do something different each Season. Sometimes, that means earning Achievements I’d never gone after before. There have been times when I switched up my play style or got into a game with other players. (I usually stick to solo games).
For Season 3, I decided to focus primarily on Greater Rifts. I knew that I didn’t stand a chance of getting on any Leaderboards. Instead, I decided to sort of make my own Leaderboard, in this blog, by posting my results here.
