Who would have thought that we'd be wishing the Dark Lord a happy tenth birthday, but there you have it. With the Diablo game sporting a 1996 copyright, 2006 marks the ten year anniversary of its release! Although Blizzard hasn't announced plans as of yet to mark the event, some of the D1 faithful have gotten together to suggest what they'd like to see happen. Check this thread at the Griswold's Shop in the Lurker Lounge http://www.lurkerlounge.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=7041 or this thread at Jim's Forum: http://p205.ezboard.com/fthedsfcommunityfrm1.showMessage?topicID=383.topic  

Food for thought: what changes would YOU like to see implimented if a tenth anniversary edition of Diablo were to be released?

And hello, Diablo faithful -- this is Attika here, taking over from Lemming who is moving on to other things. A deep bow to our previous administrator for all his efforts these past three+ years at the Lurker Lounge Diablo site. Three years! We should be wishing him an anniversary! Thanks for all your past work, Lemming.

Now that we've given Diablo our kudos, time to give him the edge of our blades! For all those Dot@Level, Living off the Land, or just plain Ironman adventurers, check out Sabra and Attika's post on Unique items that can kill Diablo over half the time whilst in the hands of a clevel 22 warrior. The research for this took over 8 months to complete and required a small Mod be constructed (by Lemming; thanks once again) to do it in any truly reasonable amount of time. If you want to know what weapon your IM team's warrior should have when facing Diablo, checking out this weapons' test will give you some good ideas.  http://www.lurkerlounge.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=3117

Sabra writes in with an amazing series of tests using Fire-damage bows! She notes their ability to stop monster hit point regeneration, and also notes how you can accidentally cause the monsters to begin their regeneration anew! Plus information about how multiple players on (and off) the level affect monster hit point regeneration, tests determining that monster hit point regeneration is stopped even for monsters whose movement routine supposedly includes allowing them to regenerate hit points faster, the fact that fire-bows stop hit point regeneration in "fire-immune" monsters, and other interesting bits of information. For those of you thinking about buying that merciless bow of burning at Wirt's, take a gander at this post first.  http://p205.ezboard.com/fthedsfcommunityfrm1.showMessage?topicID=264.topic

Most every Diablo guide simple calls Phasing a "random Teleport" spell -- and yours truly found out that the truth is anything but! Again, for the LoL or Dot@Level player, if you need to use Phasing, you need to read this report.  http://www.lurkerlounge.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=6597  Be careful of the buggy nature noted in some dungeon layouts when trying to use this spell!

After all these years of game play Nystul discovers a previously un-remarked and certainly un-recorded bug in Diablo -- the rare case of the reappearing foe! Turns out that if a monster (or monsters) is destroyed by a trap (exploding barrels, arrow-trapped coffins, etc.) and you leave the level, when you return that monster "killed" by the trap will be revived by the game! Whoa! To get the story directly from the source, read here.  Amazing pick up on that bug, Nystul!

Anyway, the point of this whole mess is I've assembled a D1 FAQ, which you'll find linked-to on the left navbar. Yup, right there under "Community" and "Information" in pretty purple letters: D1 FAQ. It's fairly short at the moment, but it covers many common issues. (Read: Things I've gotten repeat e-mails about.) So, Lurkers, if you've any suggestions for valuable additions to the FAQ or things that could be explained more clearly, you *

*(Note: Not the STSI address. Many people have made the mistake of thinking the STSI mailbox is for questions like "Where can I download a trainer?" That's just ... tacky.)

1. Hellfire: Fixed now features single player support.
2. More bug fixes, features, and improvements
3. A multiplayer-only expansion!