Even more Diablo II first impressions from a PoE and Path of Exile 2 fanatic. So I'm in Act III and...my goodness every area I've encountered thus far is an absolute maze and...GGG are SERIOUSLY "inspired" by D2 with PoE2, my goodness there are SO MANY SIMILARITIES. No wonder so many D2 vets seem to enjoy the game, especially the campaign. - Love the enemy variety. The little cannibals are cool - Greater potions are beginning to drop, so are more runes. I ALSO RANDOMLY LEARNED WHAT RUNEWORDS WERE FINALLY, you get to MAKE YOUR OWN UNIQUE ITEMS? How have people not ripped this yet, basically 1-1? - I think I am finally in the swing of the controls, took awhile but everything just clicks now and I'm barely getting hit, able to easily outmaneuver stuff, and do very little inventory management now - Listening to the story again since I've not played this before, it's surprisingly great, love all the colorful NPCs in the Kurast Docks - This is basically a prequel to the D4 expansion, yeah? Fighting Mephisto here (probably killing him) should be interesting - I'm 6 zones in and only have had A SINGLE RARE ITEM DROP RARES ACTUALLY BEING RARE LOL - I'd really like to use my respec but am scared of messing something up...I feel pretty busted, but think I could optimize my fire spells. I remember people discussing immunities being a big thing, but I haven't encountered them yet, perhaps I'll try to diversify before speccing entirely out of demon summons Still very much enjoying it. I know I'm WAY BEHIND on this, but it shocking to see how much of PoE1 and ESPECIALLY PoE2 were inspired, sometimes heavily inspired, directly from the Diablo II campaign. Looking forward to playing some more tonight.

@TalkativeTri Games horrible man its literally a potion organization simulator. Potions should automatically go back in your belt. Idk if im going to beat it.

@TalkativeTri Now get to hell and share your thoughts.

@TalkativeTri Right when you said act 3 I immediately experienced ptsd 😂

@TalkativeTri If I could reccomend… early in the game helms don’t really provide much of anything so I always look for a 2-3 socket helm and throw topaz in them. You’ll get more rares. Magic find is a big deal in this game. If you don’t have any, you basically won’t find anything

Diablo 3 was fumbled so hard out the gate I went to Path of Exile and was like "this is Diablo 3". Diablo 3 eventually righted itself with reaper of souls but it never picked up the torch for Diablo 2 but to be fair nothing ever has really the only two that came close were Sacred and PoE

@TalkativeTri Blizzard had one of the sickest itemization ideas ever with runewords, and they still ditched it in Diablo 3 and 4. I really don’t get it.

@TalkativeTri im replaying d2 and i find the similarities on early poe2 to be sooo similar that i wished they didnt make the game a blastfest on endgame

@TalkativeTri D2 dwarfs every other ARPG. It’s not even close.

@TalkativeTri Still hate act 3 even after all these years But I do appreciate the design after leaving the jungle area heading into kurast temples look amazing

@TalkativeTri Save your respec for if you hit a wall and can't progress. You can get as many as you want after clearing Hell. Just don't use your free ones unless you really know what you want to do.

@TalkativeTri I hate those pygmies in D2 with a passion.

@TalkativeTri The creators of PoE have been on record many times saying PoE was created in their desire for more D2 content

@TalkativeTri Poe only exists because people, hoping Blizzard would make a real sequence of Diablo II, left Diablo 3 after it shited the game with its art and broken itimization. Now you now who is the father.

@TalkativeTri Wait till you are given an act 3 seed where great marsh and flayer jungle aren't connected. And Flayer Jungle being on the other side of the map

@TalkativeTri D2 still the GOAT. PoE2 still has a long road to reach the greatness of D2 (and i love PoE2)

@TalkativeTri Path Of Exile was created by D2 Blizzard Employees that didn’t like the direction D3 was going in. So they quit and made Path Of Exile. So your tweet, while sincere, is laughable.

@TalkativeTri D2 sucks

@TalkativeTri D2 graphics hurt my eyes lol

@TalkativeTri Hot take but rune words is "not making your own unique" and actually just another pool of existing uniques that you won't know about unless you google them which really sucks for solo self exploring. A lot of good early uniques are rune words and you will be missing them

@TalkativeTri I'm here for this journey.

@TalkativeTri Diablo 2 is one of the best PC games of all time and it has proven it once again.

@TalkativeTri Wait until hell difficulty and Gloams (whatever the lightning things are called) + Dolls..... Oh and The Ancients

@TalkativeTri Immunitities dont really enter until late nightmare and all of hell difficulty. I would hold onto a respec until youre facing a lot of friction

@TalkativeTri Glad u are enjoying it! I watched Chris Wilson's take on it this morning.

@TalkativeTri Hero siege has rune words

@TalkativeTri Love seeing this! Glad you’re enjoying it so much my friend!

@TalkativeTri PoE capitalized on D3 not being D2, and D3 capitalized on it being D3..

@TalkativeTri Strongly recommend giving D3 a shot if you’re interested in the plot!

@TalkativeTri I’m loving these posts please keep them up, I’m glad you are enjoying the game :)

@TalkativeTri Yup exactly this.