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him in the Boss Guide.
After Izual is dead and his soul released, Izual reveals that it was he who told the Three Prime Evils how to corrupt the Soulstones, so, in fact, he wasn't corrupted by them. He was corrupted already!
With your coversation with Izual is over, head back to Tyrael.
He'll say that he is dissapointed with his brother, but since you did complete your mission, he allows you to develop your skills with two
Skill Points.
QUEST II: The Hellforge
Available when : Talk to Cain after completing Quest I
Goal of Quest : Collect the Hellforge Hammer and smash
Mephisto's Soulstone.
Reward given : Lots of gems.
Recommended Level : 28 - 31
Now, Cain will tell you that in order to destroy Mephisto's evil forever, you must smash his Soulstone that contains his essence. In order to do so, there is only one place and one item that can do so, the Hellforge and the Hellforge Hammer. Both are located in the River of Flame.
Return to the Plains of Despair and pass it to enter the City of the Damned. More new baddies are located here and all of them are tough. It's a good thing there's a Waypoint in the area for you to make a quick escape back to the Pandamonium Fortress. But, they do give off a healthy chunk of experience points!
Pass the City of the Damned and enter the next area, the River of
Flame. Here, you'll find new and improved monsters to kill. All of them are just revisions of the monsters you have faced before. But, they are plentiful and tough. Use your minions to take most of the heat away from you while you pelt away with BONE SPEARS and CORPSE EXPLOSIONS.
Here, you will also face Hephasto the Armorer, and he holds the
Hellforge Hammer. So, you have to kill him to redeem the Hammer. He is bound to be surrounded by a group of Blood Maggots (like Sand Maggots) and the like, so be careful!
To see how to defeat Hephasto the Armorer, refer to Section G.
Boss Guide for info.
After Hephasto is dead, he will drop the Hellforge Hammer. Pick it up and then take it to the Hellforge, which should be pretty close to where you encountered Hephasto. Once again, the place will be swarming with baddies. Clear them all out with AMPLIFY DAMAGE and CORPSE
EXPLOSIONS with your minions help, of course.
With the place clean of monsters, you can now work in peace. Place
Mephisto's Soulstone on top of the Hellforge. Equip the Hellforge
Hammer and use it to smash Mephisto's Soulstone into small fragments.
The fragments are various gems, so pick them up.
Move past the Hellforge a bit and find the Waypoint so you can return to Tyrael and give a report. But first...
Since you've got all these Gems, and you have been saving and upgrading Gems since the start of the game, it's time to finally use them! It's near the end of the game anyway. Better make the best
Headgear and Shield you can now before the final battle!
Go back all the way to the Pandamonium Fortress and get a really good Socketed Crown or Socketed Great Helm and stick in a Skull. This will replenish some life and Mana while you run around avoiding attacks. Also, stick in an Emerald in that piece of Head Gear. This will increase your Dexterity value, so you can hit more accurately and dodge attacks better.
Go get a Socketed Gothic Shield. Now, put in as many Diamonds (two is good enough) so your resistance to all elemental attacks will increase. You may want to stick in a Skull so that damage will be returned to the monsters who do manage to strike you. But I prefer to add an extra Amethyst instead of a Skull to increase your Defense rating.
[FROM: Jason Lane
Your advice telling everyone to build 3d (triple diamond socketed) shields is dead on. However, make them Tower Shields, not Gothic.
Higher blocking is the best attribute a shield can have, and imperative.. If you have trouble locating a Tower Shield, wander Act 3 for a while. They show up there regularly.
Gems in equipment, other than a 3d shield, are basically garbage compared to exceptional rares. Gems at higher difficulties are mainly useful to brew up full rejuvenation potions - and you want your shield to be three diamonds, not two diamonds and a sapphire, because of the resistance reduction in the higher difficulties! ]
-Jason Lane
After getting the best mix of Gemmed Headgears and Shields, talk to Tyrael. He will give you two more Stat points for you to better your skills. You're gonna need it! Why? It's nearly the end of the game!
QUEST III: Terror's End
Available when : Talk to Tyrael after completing Quest II
Goal of Quest : Kill Diablo.
Reward given : The Epilogue cinema of Diablo II.
Recommended Level : 28 - 32
With Mephisto's Soulstone out of the way, Diablo is next. Diablo is being protected in the Chaos Sanctuary. He is your target now.
Tyrael charges you to find Diablo and finally destroy his evil forever.
Easier said than done, pal!
Use the Waypoint and use it to go to the River of Flame. You will meet Hadriel, the Angel guarding the path to the Chaos Sanctuary to ensure that the forces of evil do not suddenly charge forth into Earth.
He lets you pass and informs you that Diablo is protected by 5 seals.
In order for Diablo to appear, you must break all 5 seals and the Lord of Terror will appear in the center.
You will have to pass a series of floating bridge islands to reach the Chaos Sanctuary, where Diablo resides. But, blocking your way are
Hell's full force of lower monsters. A whole herd of baddies are to be fought on these island bridges. And you haven't even entered the Chaos
Sanctuary proper yet!
After wading thru the hordes of monsters, you will finally enter the Chaos Sanctuary. Being the last line of defense of Hell, all the monsters you will fight here are gonna be hard to defeat!
First and foremost, the Storm Casters can suck up Mana points, become invisible and shoot tracking projectiles at you and your minions. It would be wise to lead them away and let your minions take most of the heat. BONE SPEAR works great here in taking them out en masse while the baddies are busy trying to whack your minions.
The Venom Lords are just like the Pit Lords. But, by this time, they just look imposing. Even in large groups, they aren't too hard to defeat especially with a FIRE GOLEM and AMPLIFY DAMAGE.
The hardest monsters here would have to be the Doom Knights and
Oblivion Knights! You may have faced Doom Knights before, but when they are this plenty and have an Oblivion Knight, who can cast Iron Maiden and Decrepify Curses on you, with them, you can die in a blink of an eye! Oblivion Knights are just like Undead Necromancers! They have various curses that they can cast, and they also have the Bone Spirit tracking spell with them! As much as possible, kill the Oblivion
Knights off first! They can be a bitch!
I prefer to have a lot of Town Portal Scrolls in a neat Tome just in case. This is where the use of FIRE GOLEMS are greatly appreciated.
It loves to charge into the middle of a group of monsters. And, WHEN it dies (you can be sure it will die after being overwhelmed), the resulting explosion will kill of the baddies surrounding him! Create a new FIRE GOLEM quickly and repeat. Help out the process with AMPLIFY
DAMAGE and CORPSE EXPLOSION to take out the baddies quickly.
After polishing all of the monsters in the Chaos Sanctuary, go find the seals. But be careful, 3 of the seals will also release monsters and very tough Uniques! This is when you should use those Gems you've been collecting and the Imbue reward from Charsi from way back in Act I!
Since the sealed Uniques are tough, read Section G, Boss Guide to see ways on how to defeat them.
After all the seals have been broken and all the Uniques have been killed, Diablo will emerge from the center of the Chaos Sanctuary for the final face-off against Good and Evil! I hope you're ready!
The final battle with Diablo is described in Section G. Boss
Guide. Get ready!
After the aurodous battle with Diablo, collect the magic Items that he drops because they are almost always good! If you still have time, talk with Tyrael and Deckard Cain to hear their words of praise for your work!
[FROM: Jason Lane
Above all, you need to keep in mind strategically that Act 4,
Normal difficulty, is not the end of the game. Heck, to anyone who's actually been through the entire game ([Nightmare]/Hell), everything through level 30 is the beginning, and one that only takes a day or two to get through at that. ]
-Jason Lane
That's it! You have finished Diablo II! Now, all you've got to do is wait for the add-on to find out what happened to Baal!
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
G. Bosses Guide:
NOTE: It's always good to have BONE ARMOR active when battling the
Bosses to limit the physical damage done to you. Re-cast BONE ARMOR when it gets destroyed, but be sure to run away from a Boss anytime you feel your Necromancer is about to bite the dust. Heal up and then go back to the Boss.
-------------
Act I Bosses:
-------------
1) BOSS : Blood Raven
ABILITIES : Bow and Arrow attack
Fire Arrows
Rapid Arrow
Summon Undead
STRATEGY : Blood Raven is pretty easy if you're totally ready for her. As I said in the walkthru, it's smart if you clear out the baddies around the border of the area. Afterwards, move in to the center of the Cemetery to face her and her minions.
It would be great if you had a long range attack, but all you have now is TEETH, and that's pretty useless! And
I'm not suggesting to switch to bow and arrows for this battle either. So, you'll have no choice but to go toe-to- toe with her. But she won't like that, being an archer.
With your minions by your side, charge in quickly!
Almost surely, they will attack HER minions and not her, so they won't be of much help for this battle. So, you're the one who has to smash her without relying on your minions for the first time.
Run towards her in a zig-zag fashion to avoid her arrows. When you get close, wail at her with your weapon!
It's a difficult battle only because she runs extremely fast for a tall girl (not that I'm saying all girls run slowly! I mean, I admire the WNBA players!). You'll have to chase her around a lot. If you've got a weapon that can inflict COLD damage, the battle will be easier 'coz she won't be able to run fast anymore when she's frozen.
What you need is against Blood Raven is actually good
Stamina! As long as you have got the Stamina to chase after her, Blood Raven shouldn't be a problem.
2) BOSS : The Countess
ABILITIES : Fire Axe
Fire Wall
STRATEGY : Cakewalk. She doesn't really seem like a boss when you face her! It may be a bit hard because she has assistants with her. But you've got an army of undead monsters with you, so no problem!
Once you enter the room where she's at, she'll cast Fire
After Izual is dead and his soul released, Izual reveals that it was he who told the Three Prime Evils how to corrupt the Soulstones, so, in fact, he wasn't corrupted by them. He was corrupted already!
With your coversation with Izual is over, head back to Tyrael.
He'll say that he is dissapointed with his brother, but since you did complete your mission, he allows you to develop your skills with two
Skill Points.
QUEST II: The Hellforge
Available when : Talk to Cain after completing Quest I
Goal of Quest : Collect the Hellforge Hammer and smash
Mephisto's Soulstone.
Reward given : Lots of gems.
Recommended Level : 28 - 31
Now, Cain will tell you that in order to destroy Mephisto's evil forever, you must smash his Soulstone that contains his essence. In order to do so, there is only one place and one item that can do so, the Hellforge and the Hellforge Hammer. Both are located in the River of Flame.
Return to the Plains of Despair and pass it to enter the City of the Damned. More new baddies are located here and all of them are tough. It's a good thing there's a Waypoint in the area for you to make a quick escape back to the Pandamonium Fortress. But, they do give off a healthy chunk of experience points!
Pass the City of the Damned and enter the next area, the River of
Flame. Here, you'll find new and improved monsters to kill. All of them are just revisions of the monsters you have faced before. But, they are plentiful and tough. Use your minions to take most of the heat away from you while you pelt away with BONE SPEARS and CORPSE EXPLOSIONS.
Here, you will also face Hephasto the Armorer, and he holds the
Hellforge Hammer. So, you have to kill him to redeem the Hammer. He is bound to be surrounded by a group of Blood Maggots (like Sand Maggots) and the like, so be careful!
To see how to defeat Hephasto the Armorer, refer to Section G.
Boss Guide for info.
After Hephasto is dead, he will drop the Hellforge Hammer. Pick it up and then take it to the Hellforge, which should be pretty close to where you encountered Hephasto. Once again, the place will be swarming with baddies. Clear them all out with AMPLIFY DAMAGE and CORPSE
EXPLOSIONS with your minions help, of course.
With the place clean of monsters, you can now work in peace. Place
Mephisto's Soulstone on top of the Hellforge. Equip the Hellforge
Hammer and use it to smash Mephisto's Soulstone into small fragments.
The fragments are various gems, so pick them up.
Move past the Hellforge a bit and find the Waypoint so you can return to Tyrael and give a report. But first...
Since you've got all these Gems, and you have been saving and upgrading Gems since the start of the game, it's time to finally use them! It's near the end of the game anyway. Better make the best
Headgear and Shield you can now before the final battle!
Go back all the way to the Pandamonium Fortress and get a really good Socketed Crown or Socketed Great Helm and stick in a Skull. This will replenish some life and Mana while you run around avoiding attacks. Also, stick in an Emerald in that piece of Head Gear. This will increase your Dexterity value, so you can hit more accurately and dodge attacks better.
Go get a Socketed Gothic Shield. Now, put in as many Diamonds (two is good enough) so your resistance to all elemental attacks will increase. You may want to stick in a Skull so that damage will be returned to the monsters who do manage to strike you. But I prefer to add an extra Amethyst instead of a Skull to increase your Defense rating.
[FROM: Jason Lane
Your advice telling everyone to build 3d (triple diamond socketed) shields is dead on. However, make them Tower Shields, not Gothic.
Higher blocking is the best attribute a shield can have, and imperative.. If you have trouble locating a Tower Shield, wander Act 3 for a while. They show up there regularly.
Gems in equipment, other than a 3d shield, are basically garbage compared to exceptional rares. Gems at higher difficulties are mainly useful to brew up full rejuvenation potions - and you want your shield to be three diamonds, not two diamonds and a sapphire, because of the resistance reduction in the higher difficulties! ]
-Jason Lane
After getting the best mix of Gemmed Headgears and Shields, talk to Tyrael. He will give you two more Stat points for you to better your skills. You're gonna need it! Why? It's nearly the end of the game!
QUEST III: Terror's End
Available when : Talk to Tyrael after completing Quest II
Goal of Quest : Kill Diablo.
Reward given : The Epilogue cinema of Diablo II.
Recommended Level : 28 - 32
With Mephisto's Soulstone out of the way, Diablo is next. Diablo is being protected in the Chaos Sanctuary. He is your target now.
Tyrael charges you to find Diablo and finally destroy his evil forever.
Easier said than done, pal!
Use the Waypoint and use it to go to the River of Flame. You will meet Hadriel, the Angel guarding the path to the Chaos Sanctuary to ensure that the forces of evil do not suddenly charge forth into Earth.
He lets you pass and informs you that Diablo is protected by 5 seals.
In order for Diablo to appear, you must break all 5 seals and the Lord of Terror will appear in the center.
You will have to pass a series of floating bridge islands to reach the Chaos Sanctuary, where Diablo resides. But, blocking your way are
Hell's full force of lower monsters. A whole herd of baddies are to be fought on these island bridges. And you haven't even entered the Chaos
Sanctuary proper yet!
After wading thru the hordes of monsters, you will finally enter the Chaos Sanctuary. Being the last line of defense of Hell, all the monsters you will fight here are gonna be hard to defeat!
First and foremost, the Storm Casters can suck up Mana points, become invisible and shoot tracking projectiles at you and your minions. It would be wise to lead them away and let your minions take most of the heat. BONE SPEAR works great here in taking them out en masse while the baddies are busy trying to whack your minions.
The Venom Lords are just like the Pit Lords. But, by this time, they just look imposing. Even in large groups, they aren't too hard to defeat especially with a FIRE GOLEM and AMPLIFY DAMAGE.
The hardest monsters here would have to be the Doom Knights and
Oblivion Knights! You may have faced Doom Knights before, but when they are this plenty and have an Oblivion Knight, who can cast Iron Maiden and Decrepify Curses on you, with them, you can die in a blink of an eye! Oblivion Knights are just like Undead Necromancers! They have various curses that they can cast, and they also have the Bone Spirit tracking spell with them! As much as possible, kill the Oblivion
Knights off first! They can be a bitch!
I prefer to have a lot of Town Portal Scrolls in a neat Tome just in case. This is where the use of FIRE GOLEMS are greatly appreciated.
It loves to charge into the middle of a group of monsters. And, WHEN it dies (you can be sure it will die after being overwhelmed), the resulting explosion will kill of the baddies surrounding him! Create a new FIRE GOLEM quickly and repeat. Help out the process with AMPLIFY
DAMAGE and CORPSE EXPLOSION to take out the baddies quickly.
After polishing all of the monsters in the Chaos Sanctuary, go find the seals. But be careful, 3 of the seals will also release monsters and very tough Uniques! This is when you should use those Gems you've been collecting and the Imbue reward from Charsi from way back in Act I!
Since the sealed Uniques are tough, read Section G, Boss Guide to see ways on how to defeat them.
After all the seals have been broken and all the Uniques have been killed, Diablo will emerge from the center of the Chaos Sanctuary for the final face-off against Good and Evil! I hope you're ready!
The final battle with Diablo is described in Section G. Boss
Guide. Get ready!
After the aurodous battle with Diablo, collect the magic Items that he drops because they are almost always good! If you still have time, talk with Tyrael and Deckard Cain to hear their words of praise for your work!
[FROM: Jason Lane
Above all, you need to keep in mind strategically that Act 4,
Normal difficulty, is not the end of the game. Heck, to anyone who's actually been through the entire game ([Nightmare]/Hell), everything through level 30 is the beginning, and one that only takes a day or two to get through at that. ]
-Jason Lane
That's it! You have finished Diablo II! Now, all you've got to do is wait for the add-on to find out what happened to Baal!
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
G. Bosses Guide:
NOTE: It's always good to have BONE ARMOR active when battling the
Bosses to limit the physical damage done to you. Re-cast BONE ARMOR when it gets destroyed, but be sure to run away from a Boss anytime you feel your Necromancer is about to bite the dust. Heal up and then go back to the Boss.
-------------
Act I Bosses:
-------------
1) BOSS : Blood Raven
ABILITIES : Bow and Arrow attack
Fire Arrows
Rapid Arrow
Summon Undead
STRATEGY : Blood Raven is pretty easy if you're totally ready for her. As I said in the walkthru, it's smart if you clear out the baddies around the border of the area. Afterwards, move in to the center of the Cemetery to face her and her minions.
It would be great if you had a long range attack, but all you have now is TEETH, and that's pretty useless! And
I'm not suggesting to switch to bow and arrows for this battle either. So, you'll have no choice but to go toe-to- toe with her. But she won't like that, being an archer.
With your minions by your side, charge in quickly!
Almost surely, they will attack HER minions and not her, so they won't be of much help for this battle. So, you're the one who has to smash her without relying on your minions for the first time.
Run towards her in a zig-zag fashion to avoid her arrows. When you get close, wail at her with your weapon!
It's a difficult battle only because she runs extremely fast for a tall girl (not that I'm saying all girls run slowly! I mean, I admire the WNBA players!). You'll have to chase her around a lot. If you've got a weapon that can inflict COLD damage, the battle will be easier 'coz she won't be able to run fast anymore when she's frozen.
What you need is against Blood Raven is actually good
Stamina! As long as you have got the Stamina to chase after her, Blood Raven shouldn't be a problem.
2) BOSS : The Countess
ABILITIES : Fire Axe
Fire Wall
STRATEGY : Cakewalk. She doesn't really seem like a boss when you face her! It may be a bit hard because she has assistants with her. But you've got an army of undead monsters with you, so no problem!
Once you enter the room where she's at, she'll cast Fire
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