Thursday, May 24, 2012

Diablo 4! Diablo 5! Not anytime soon...



After more then a week, most players that played during release would have slain poor ol' Diablo at least once (probably making his death count in the millions...), players are now buzzing over the fail end game content that they paid for.

  1. Make a character
  2. Kill mobs, level up & complete quests
  3. Kill bosses and complete acts
  4. Reach Diablo, slay the foul demon & advance to next difficulty
  5. Rinse and repeat in higher game difficulty
  6. and sell/buy junk on gold auction house
Essentially, players are now stuck in this loop that cost them $60 bucks. The end game content for max level 60 players are to load up a game in Inferno difficulty, roam around Act 3 & 4 killing Rare Boss Mobs for items, close the game and reload it again. I feel soooooooooooo excited for them...

Without any additional content coming soon (content will come every 3 months at the fastest as releasing them too often will give players the expectation that all new content will come out that fast), player are now locked in the eternal rinse and repeat cycle above.

With that in mind, there will be no sequel coming within the next couple of years but fret not, there will be at least 1 major expansion and maybe a couple of DLCs (that is if Blizzy goes into the DLC crap).

After going through the lore, stories, content, etc, I have provided some predictions (partially based on game facts) on what will take place in the coming expansions/DLC/sequel.


SPOILER ALERT, prepare your mind.



  • Adria the Witch will be involved (yes, like duh!)
  • Will involve Black Soul Stone once again
    • Clearly shown in the ending cut-scene that it falls back to sanctuary.
  • Leah is only physically dead and her soul resides within the Black Soul Stone
  • The Evils within the  Black Soul Stone cannot be unleashed without a proper host.
    • Either they will introduce a new host
    • Or the  Black Soul Stone will be destroyed somehow (player has to seek for the  Black Soul Stone and destroy it at some location using some item)
    • All the Evils is though to be destroyed with the Black Soul Stone gone but they are actually sent back to Black Abyss (place in Burning Hell that all demons spawn/respawn).
    • Now all the evils are back and once again it repeats?
  • Imperius is not shown or heard of after the Diamond Gate collapses on him.
    • He has become a partially fallen Angel, feeling sad and weak he couldn't protect the heavens.
    • He seeks for the Black Soul Stone and sticks it into himself
    • Mutates into some Mega Angel Demon monster (I personally would like this to happen)
  • There must always be a balance between Good and Evil.
    • All the Evils cannot be destroyed unless all the Good (angels) is also gone.
    • Angels all give up their powers and join Nephalems to destroy Evil and Sanctuary is the only world left where Nephalems and humans rule themselves without any Angels/Demons
    • Or player finds out that there cannot be only Good or Evil alone and needs a balance, so the player plays the role of stopping and all out ending war between Good and Evil.
  • Will feature Fallen/Mutilated Inarius and/or Lilith and their storyline.
  • 1 to 2 new class will be introduced
    • Sad but Blizzy will probably recycle at least 1 class from Diablo1 or 2.
    • Druid is the highest possibility as the rest of the classes in Diablo 1 or 2 already has an equal in Diablo 3.
      • Demon Hunter > Amazon / Assassin / Rogue / Druid (summons)
      • Monk > Assassin / Paladin / Monk(D1: Hellfire)
      • Witch Doctor > Necromancer / Sorceress
      • Wizard > Sorceress
      • Barbarian > Barbarian / Warrior
    • New Class will
      • focus more on summons
      • use spears / pikes
      • throwing weapons (less likely, but maybe)
      • use shield (have skills that utilizes shield)
  • Players will be introduced to new locations (if Blizzy once again keeps player looking at the same venues, they are truly condemning their own creativity)
    • Skovos Isle - Amazon's place of origin
    • Sharval Wilds / Entsteig - Druid's place of origin
      • Druids were one Barbarians from the north/Arreat and they migrated south, etc etc
    • Westmarch, Kingsport - Human city hub
    • Xiansai, Frozen Sea - Wizard's place of origin
    • Pandemonium Fotress - But this time controlled by Legions of Burning Hell
    • Dreadlands - It is supposed to be filled with fun beast, demons, cute monsters, etc
    • Eastern parts of Sanctuary - About Sisterhood of the Sightless Eye lore

Here is a nice map of Sanctuary locations that players have been through in the game.



Do know that all this are speculations based on what I manage to scour off the internet and through my reading on Diablo lore (I love their love, wish I could say the same for 3rd installation)



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