Diablo II: Resurrected is finally here and servers are online. The best Blizzard Entertainment remastered game will once more consume thousands of hours of your time in glorious 4K — if you have it — and great modern graphics and cinematics. Read the press release and check out today’s D2R press kit screenshots.
For the past 3 weeks, Blizzard Entertainment has been in contact with members of the press, Twitch/Youtube content creators and fansites to confirm shipping address, and to inform a gift was coming soon from the Diablo II: Resurrected team.
In compliance with FTC rules, I inform to you that Blizzard Entertainment is sending me a review copy of Diablo II: Resurrected this week; and shipped the following sponsored gifts — all at a free cost to me.
Among the Diablo II: Resurrected items gifted to me are:
I’m determining whether to give the shipped gifts away — not because I wish to keep them, but because of the shipping costs (lol). Still reeling from the shipping costs of gifts I $hipped to Germany and Brazil a few years ago. Still burnnnnns.
You can purchase Diablo II: Resurrected for PC, Xbox One/Series X/S, PlayStation 4/5, or Nintendo Switch here.
After the break, I will share some of the tweets sent by other content creators/fansites. Blizzard didn’t ship the same items to everyone.
Diablo II: Resurrected principal director Rob Gallerani and project lead Michael Bukowski discussed details about the game with several press and fansite members on Monday, Sept 13 (just 10 days before the launch).
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When former Diablo Immortal Closed Alpha testers launch the app today, they will encounter a new message that wasn’t there before: “This account has expired. Do you want to create another account?”
Answering “OK” will prompt a Battle.net EULA and Agreement page that you can reject or agree to. Once you agree, you are taken to the lobby as usual, but there is a second change.
Up until now, Diablo Immortal Closed Alpha characters were still present in our phone files — those of us who participated in the testing. If you had your Google Play setting to auto-install new Diablo Immortal updates, then when you launch the game, and click on servers you will notice “My Characters” tab no longer exists. This means there was a character wipe pushed in a recent update.
But there is more to this. There is precedent of this happening before. Read after the break.
Community Manager PezRadar posted an update in the forum to address concerns about Console Lobbies, TCP/IP removal, and Ultrawide Screens. (Thanks, Greg2GG)
During the Activision Blizzard Q2 2021 investors call, president and chief operating officer Daniel Alegre informed that Diablo Immortal release date had been pushed to the first half of 2022. This time range can land anywhere between January 1, 2022 and June 30, 2022 (which is the lapse of time covering the first half of 2022). You can read the full transcript.
Daniel: “Recent testing reveals some exciting additional opportunities the team is going to pursue to make the title even more engaging for a wider audience. While that means the game is now planned for release in the first-half of 2022, we believe these efforts will set the title up for even greater contribution next year and beyond.”
About 20 minutes before the investors call, Blizzard Entertainment posted a Diablo Immortal developer update explaining further what they plan to do during this extended development cycle.
As the countdown to the release of Diablo II: Resurrected approaches (Sept 23-24), Blizzard Entertainment dropped the first of the class trailers focusing on the Barbarian. More trailers have been added each day except Saturday, Sunday and (Labor Day holiday) Monday.
Blizzard improved the characters’ models for this teaser. It’s unknown if the same is true for the game. Videos after the break.
The Stealth Runeword can be equipped at level 17 and only consists of two runes easily obtainable. The Stealth Runeword provides 25% faster run/walk and 25% faster cast rate — which makes it perfect for Sorceress, and other fast cast reliant classes.
In addition, it adds Regenerate Mana and Maximum Stamina.
A good weapon runeword for Sorceress level 19 who want to prepare for Duriel in Act 2. This runeword adds 33% cold resistance and other good stats.
Requirement:
Runes:
Melee classes in Diablo II: Resurrected can benefit early in Act 1 from crafting a Malice Rune Word weapon. All you need is to farm the Countess boss in the Forgotten Tower Level 5. You can find the tower in the Black March (found beyond the Passage Way in Dark Wood).
The countess has a % chance to drop Ith, El and Eth Runes. These are required to craft the Malice Rune Word. Just leave the game after you kill the Countess, and enter a new game to kill the Countess again and again until you loot all three runes from her.
From top-to-bottom: the order in which you must place the runes are Ith, El and Eth.
Once you obtain these, you can socket them into a sword or flail with 3-sockets. Mostly, gray-colored text weapons have these sockets. These drop from monsters, jars or treasure chests.
Paladins benefit more from a flail due to its base attributes, but if you are in a rush, imbue a crystal sword or superior crystal sword with 3-sockets.
