Diablo: The End, The Beginning

[bobquasit]

The Ancients were so easy that I went right back and did them again, just to see if I'd get more experience from them (I didn't). I think I used no more than two full rejuves, and both I and my hireling came through in perfect health.

So I quickly cruised down to the next waypoint. The day after I went roaring through the endgame; my hireling died once, but that was it. Baal himself was easy, of course. The worst time was on the final wave of monsters at the Throne of Destruction; they killed my hireling, and I had to lead them on a chase through the rest of the area. That made it easier to pick them off one by one.

Baal himself was fairly easy. Fortunately the ending cinematic is one that doesn't crash my system, so I got to watch that again as well. It's a pity that Blizzard will probably never make a theatrical movie, because someone over there is a fantasy film-making genius.

Since then...I finished off the secret Cow level (although how "secret" can a level be that's documented on the official website?), and cruised through the first two quests on Nightmare level almost before I had realized it.

So now what? Well, I might take a break for a while. It seems that I've reached one of those annoying areas where it's almost impossible to level up. In fact, I suspect that going back to a Normal game and fighting through the last few levels might be more profitable, experience-wise, than running through the Act 1 maps on Nightmare level.

Comments

[charibdis.livejournal.com]

Yep. There's a level which is only reachable through some convoluted steps with otherwise useless magic items that contains nothing but cows that attack you, including a cow kind. I think they have halberd-like thingies and they're supposed to be pretty damn tough.

It originated because in earlier versions of Diablo people had constantly circulated fake rumors of a secret cow level and the designers thought it would be funny to actually put one in.