(Part 2) Top products from r/Diablo

BOOK 3 OF LIFE RESET JUST CAME OUT: Life Reset: Hobnobbing (New Era Online Book 3). IT'S PRETTY GOOD SO FAR, AND I RECOMMEND THE SERIES. IF YOU LIKE LITRPG HEAD OVER TO r/litrpg IT FILLS THE VOID.

Before D3 it was fucking epic. Some of the best I have ever encountered in three plus decades of gaming.

After D3 it's still above average and very good, just a lot more cliche and a little less coherent.

FYI, get the giant Diablo Archive book of short stories. It is by far some of the best sword and sorcery I have ever read. Virtually nothing else comes close. Just the first story alone blew my mind the first time I read it and still ranks as one of my all time favorite things to have ever read.

https://www.amazon.com/Diablo-Archive-Richard-Knaak/dp/1416576991/ref=sr_1_10?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1527231087&sr=1-10&keywords=diablo

Without delving hugely into it, I'd like to recommend you check out Storm of Light by Nate Kenyon. It covers the events between Diablo III and Reaper of Souls and you get some perspective on what being the Aspect of Wisdom means through Tyrael's eyes (after he takes up the mantle at the end of D3).

It's not wholly unmaddening, and Tyrael spends a fair amount of the story attempting to piece together Malthael's thoughts and motivations behind his disappearance. Probably my personal favorite of the Diablo novels.

nice set looks like its just missing 2 diablo comics!

Diablo: Tales of Sanctuary: https://www.darkhorse.com/Comics/11-429/Diablo-Tales-of-Sanctuary

And Diablo: Sword of Justice: https://www.amazon.com/Diablo-Sword-Justice-Aaron-Williams/dp/1401244971

I mean you have stuff even I dont have, all that DnD stuff Jealous

The Figure and Church GG

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I have the logitech g700 and I like it a lot. I don't know about it for CM wiz specifically but I really like the feel of it and the button layout.

By the way, you probably already know this but just in case you don't: for a CM wiz you can just hold down the keyboard buttons for freeze, armor, and the explosion rather than pressing them repeatedly.

this and the MS Intellimouse Explorer 3.0 are what I've used for the past 14 years, with an average lifespan of 5 years/mouse. They're equivalently awesome and affordable.. I really don't see a reason to use a different one unless you want to go cordless (real gamers don't go cordless though)

I have another Logitech mouse that I like, but it's getting a bit worn out after a couple years now. I'll probably get a Logitech G700 shortly before or after D3 releases. Plenty of buttons so I could keybind everything to the mouse if I wanted to for ease of play.

You are!

I can only RECOMMEND the Sin War book series. It deals with the whole stuff that is referenced in the game (Sanctuary, The Sin War itself, Angels, Demons, Lillith, Inarius, etc.), that can be found in the Lore Books in Act 4.

It's really an amazing read, not expensive and also not that long.

In addition to that, it would be a great preperation for Reaper of Souls, as Tyrael and Malthael are also mentioned in the books!

Book 1 - Birthright

Book 2 - Scales of the Serpent

Book 3 - The Veiled Prophet


They really are an amazing read! Also check out Storm of Light , the Bridge-Book to explain what happened after Diablo 3 and before Reaper of Souls!

> I can't wrap my head around the logic of Tyrael's actions in the trailer.

Someone said that according to the lore his sword can only harm evil things. So everything is pretty logical, he intends and succeeds at sticking the sharp end into the death dude, it's then that he has a totally unexpected problem with the dude turning out to not being evil at all. That's why he asks "why", by the way.

And if you are wondering what's up with hiding the soulstone and using ordinary humans to guard it, that's actually a pretty established trope: you can't store powerful (and especially evil) artifacts at your place because they do bad things to the fabric of reality, you don't want to destroy them forever either because what if you need them again (and in this case, destroying the soulstone would let Diablo to be reborn back in the hell), so you have to hide them in some pretty inaccessible and remote place, preferably lacking in powerful wizards and the like. There's a pretty funny book by Roger Zelazny and some other people entirely built around this idea.

Nice. This is what I'm using.


https://www.amazon.ca/gp/product/0764142615?pf_rd_p=166ffdfc-3741-4c47-bf8d-82d1def52b0e&pf_rd_r=4P8EMPN5F7N5366TT032

The Sin War trilogy is indeed a nice intro, as it details the creation of Sanctuary. After you've read those, I'd recommend reading the Book of Cain and Book of Tyrael, as they formalize the entire lore a little bit. All other books are stories set in the Diablo universe and more or less unrelated to the games, albeit they are great reading. My personal favourites are The Black Road and Moon of the Spider.

TL;DR:

I would read the books in the following order:

The Sin War Trilogy

• Birthright
  
• Scales of the serpent
  
• The veiled prophet
  
  Lore books
  
  
• Book of Cain
  
• Book of Tyrael
  
  Novels
  
  
• Legacy of blood
  
• The black road
  
• Kingdom of shadow
  
• Moon of the spider (this features a char from Kingdom of shadow, so read that first!)
  
• Demonsbane (short story, can be found in this omnibus)
  
  I can't speak for any of the more recent books, as I have not read them yet :)
  
  Enjoy lad!

Do you happen to have the Limited Edition book and use the tips on how to effectively buy and sell items? http://www.amazon.com/Diablo-III-Limited-Edition-BradyGames/dp/0744013569

These leaks from the book that comes out on the 3rd?

The Art of Diablo https://www.amazon.com/dp/1945683651/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_i_i4eVDb4T23S44

This?

http://www.amazon.com/Get-Rich-Tryin-Original-Soundtrack/dp/5558692669/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1334583857&sr=1-2

there are always some keys to be found here

And here I thought you really meant old!

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B000038AAW/

another option

http://www.amazon.com/American-Science-Surplus-Famous-Drinking/dp/B000JSGLBK

There is the Book of Cain (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1608870634) and The Order (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/141655078X), there are some other books, but as far as I know they are not related with Diablo 3 specific and some lore may have changed in Diablo 3.

Diablo II: The Awakening

Actually there are more players in non-season than in season. 75%-25% split in softcore.
>neither did I until I went on Seasons.

You're basically saying you didn't give a shit about non-seasons. Then you joined seasons, and you started giving a shit about non seasons.
A little resource you might find helpful.

Forgot to mention The Order which is a new book coming out on the same day as Diablo III. It follows Deckard Cain and Leah during some of their adventures in the time between Diablo II: Lord Of Destruction and Diablo III. I believe Leah is 8 years old during this story.

When I got D2 I wanted the first game but I also wanted the expansion. I had to buy it on ebay as the only way to get it new was to buy the battlechest but the price was too much and I already owned D2.

D1, on it's own, is still available and it isn't too expensive.

Hellfire, OTOH, is a bit too expensive for a non-canon game but that's just my opinion.

The sad this is that there is a set of used bundle right now being sold that costs about as much as I paid for a slightly used version. Only consolation is that I got the Prima guide.

I'd pick this one up if I were the OP and wanted to get the first one for the collection.