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Lesser Evils

2019-11-11T14:25:08Z

WitchDoctor: Minor grammar, out of date lore regarding Lilith, slight expansion and changes for relevance. The entire page is totally out of date, but until a game plan's set up, I'm not diving in quite yet

The '''Lesser Evils''' are powerful [[demon]] lords with less power than [[Diablo]], [[Mephisto]] and [[Baal]] (called the [[Prime Evils]]).

==All Lesser Evils==
* [[Andariel]], Maiden of Anguish (prominent daughter of [[Lilith]])
* [[Azmodan]], Lord of Sin
* [[Belial]], Lord of Lies
* [[Duriel]], Lord of Pain (also known as Prince of Pain)

==Background==
The Lesser Evils have have ruled their domains in the [[Burning Hells]] for eons, and fighting among themselves for power within their own ranks. These four Lesser Evils wanted the power of the three [[Prime Evils]].

When the [[Nephalem]] were born in ages past, [[The Three]] focused on securing allegiance of this new power to turn the tide in the war between demons and [[angel]]s. In this time, many demons were annoyed that the war with the [[High Heavens]] had been put to a halt and the Lesser Evils, lead by [[Azmodan]] and [[Belial]] took the chance of overthrowing the three in what is called the [[Dark Exile]].

This was in fact just a manipulated set of circumstances by the Three, but not something they knew about. Unexpectedly by the Prime Evils, they were captured by the [[Horadrim]]. Internal struggles inhibited the Lesser Evils from launching their crusade against the [[High Heavens]].

When [[Mephisto]] and [[Diablo]] were freed, some sort of new revolution happened in hell, as the Three retook the control of at least [[Andariel]] and [[Duriel]], who were punished by their revolt by guarding the path East from any force trying to stop the [[Dark Wanderer]] from releasing [[Baal]] and reaching [[Kurast]].

It's unknown what politics in Hell have gone on in the 20 years since the Three were once again defeated, but most likely, the Lesser Evils are once more forced in line under the Prime Three.

==In-Game References==
[[Andariel]] <nowiki/>and [[Duriel]] <nowiki/>were bosses in the first two acts of [[Diablo II]]<nowiki/>. [[Azmodan]] and [[Belial]] appeared in the second and third acts of [[Diablo III]]; later, all lesser evils were technically represented in the final boss.

==Reference==
* [[Sin War Trilogy]]
* {{iw|Pandemonium_Event Pandemonium Event}}

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User:Fieldengineer112

2019-11-11T14:19:41Z

WitchDoctor: Cleared out ad, dunno who's still checking in to finish the job

Zoltun Kulle's Death (Act II)

2017-11-25T01:01:19Z

WitchDoctor: Stub.

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User:WitchDoctor

2017-11-24T20:45:11Z

WitchDoctor: project bungaloo

WitchDoctor was the name of a player who saw this place decades after it was made. For a long time, said player managed to play diablo without looking at sites like this. He spent a few years on Diablo 3, and then dropped off the face of the earth in favor of more grander things. Now, WitchDoctor is the legacy name of someone who is now called Runic in Diablo 3. It is the name of a user who doesn't have diablo at the forefront of attention. That said, it is also the name of a user who has played diablo for quite a long time, and as such, still has some degree of vested interest bringing him back to the games. Including this site.
==Games==
===Diablo I===
Diablo 1 was, and still is, my favorite for the atmosphere and the gameplay. I'm not like most who play the series; the lore/atmosphere > loot. Rogue (a bit cheesy, I know) is my class of choice, or the "Rogue Mage" as I nicknamed it considering all the spells I use in conjunction with arrows.

===Diablo II===

Diablo 2's a game I've played for quite some time... still play, in fact, including with a few single-player hardcore characters with weird builds these days (melee sorc in hardcore? You bet). On Bnet, alas, most of my characters have vanished, as have all my collections of gear over the years. As such, I'm left with my singleplayer chars, with some being rather big at this point (the melee sorc is doing... pretty good, if mid nightmare counts). Once in a while I look online, but there is nothing on Bnet that is substantial that I have.

===Diablo III===

Diablo 3's where the username WitchDoctor came from, mostly as a result of being unoriginal at the time (WitchDoctor#1834). My main chars were a wizard and a demon hunter, the wizard (Assur) being my main. I had a few more lower end characters. That was early 2014.

I played from the early days of D3, before RoS, removal of the RMAH, rifts, one-build-characters... the game was far from perfect, but I rather liked it. I threw out items to lower level folks, gave them all my money, basically shot myself in the foot for going up to high levels. Diablo's story has always been an appeal to me, and I was never too fond of where Diablo 3 took it. Reaper of Souls marked the end for me, and it was kicked off my hard drive. I haven't downloaded again it or purchased the expansion, and in all honesty probably won't short of someone flat out giving me a copy. I'd play it if I got it, perhaps, but I don't feel like spending money on it. Who knows. My stance may change.

The last time I logged in for a while was February 2014; I moved over to Starcraft for a while, then moved out of blizzard games in favor of stompy mechs in an entirely opposite universe. No regrets for a few years.

Then, mid 2017, I decided to see what Diablo was up to. Picked up RoS, started anew, rebuilt my old wizard. I'm completely out of the meta, with no plan of returning to it. Truth be told, I don't log in all that much at this point, and probably won't until I work on making my main gaming system more viable. That said, I still exist. Enough to be able to speak of Diablo things that aren't ancient. Enough that I can update this and that with Diablo 3 relative content.

I now BS with my old legacy wizard (reborn) and a few extra characters that are very slowly climbing to 70. No powerlevels involved, quirky arrangements included.

==Projects==

Overall? Too many. Right here, just one on the side, which is mostly to do little improvements to this place bit by bit. I have no real plan; only the intent to try and catch outdated pages and make this site a competitive place for diablo knowledge that isn't ancient. I'm largely out of practice with diablo, and it is not as relevant to me as it used to be. For whatever reason, I still get the little urge to chip in every so often. Hence this update.

===Diablowiki===

Late 2013 I got the title "DiabloWiki.Net Ink Slinger" Diablo Incgamers (Yes, that site right next door that isn't called Incgamers anymore). Spambots used to be fun, I would take their wall of spam and throw in some insulting, derisive or otherwise rude comment to the spammer in question (in place of whatever spam they peddled) before the registration system got an overhaul.

Yes, I did more then just waste time on spambots. I suppose the productive parts are where the title came from, though frankly, nothing I ever did would light a candle to other contributors to the site. Certainly not to the old founders.

Now I pop in every so often because I see something that gets on my nerves, be it outdated or simply poor writing, and make the appropriate edits. This update was the direct result of looking up Mephisto, finding an informative article on him right on this site, and then realizing that the article doesn't know about Diablo 3 yet.

If I am being serious, and have a desire to make this wiki competitive to the gamepedia and wikia sites, then I would say the wiki should be approached in stages. Each stage is relative to presentation. The stages are to be approached in order of presentation. Stage "zero" would be to update the home page of the wiki to say "yes, people care, update efforts are being made, please join us" if there's enough life left to make this a project. Stage 1 is to approach the pages that are directly visible from the home page and from diabloii.net.
===First Stage===
The first stage is intended to make the immediately visible content of the wiki (when linked from diabloii.net) look nicer/be properly updated. Currently, they are

https://www.diablowiki.net/Monster ^Absolutely horrible, because while the site prizes itself on "first to know" and such, it appears that this section has become the last to know anything regarding diablo 3 monsters. It needs to be updated with modern mechanics and approached from a total revision scale. The Diablo 3 page needs to be updated to current Diablo 3.

https://www.diablowiki.net/Category:Classes ^ Page visible from diabloii.net navigation (inconsistent given that it's a direct link to a category, not a page). The unpolished nature of its appearance doesn't look appealing. The page that, being consistent, should be there would be: https://www.diablowiki.net/Classes ^ Also in dire need of an update and expansion.

https://www.diablowiki.net/Quest ^ Badly outdated, with too many red links and no RoS content.

If anything is to be updated, the above I would approach first. More brainstorming to enter this section as time goes along.

DiabloWiki:Community Portal

2017-11-24T18:28:52Z

WitchDoctor: Typos fixed. Revisions are far from done, but I should probably talk to someone higher up before getting deep into this.

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#Training costs for leveling up the [[:Template:Jeweler_training|Jeweler]] and [[:Template:Blacksmith_training|Blacksmith]] need updating. [[User:Elly|Elly]] ([[User talk:Elly|talk]]) 03:25, 1 November 2013 (CET)
#The [[Resplendent Chest]] page needs filling out with details of where the chests appear in each act. There are headings for each act under which the name of the dungeon or area and level (if necessary) is required. - [[User:Elly|Elly]] ([[User talk:Elly|talk]]) 06:51, 14 October 2013 (CEST)
#We have started a list of [[Merchants]], again by act, and we need people to add Names of the merchant and whereabouts in the act they can be located. Also note if they are random or always there. -- [[User:Elly|Elly]] ([[User talk:Elly|talk]]) 22:09, 21 October 2013 (CEST)
#The [[Interface]] page needs updating. -- [[User:WitchDoctor|WitchDoctor]] ([[User talk:WitchDoctor|talk]]) 05:45, 9 December 2013 (CET)

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Mephisto

2017-11-24T18:22:54Z

WitchDoctor: Made more Diablo 3 relevant, rewrote a few small segments, removed most red links

:''Were you looking for '''{{iw|Mephisto Mephisto}}''', the [[Diablo II]] act boss' stats?''
'''Mephisto, the Lord of Hatred''' is the eldest of the [[Prime Evils]]. He is brother of [[Diablo]] and [[Baal]] and deals primarily with [[Undead]] creations.

'''Disambiguation:'''
* [[Diablo II]]
** [http://diablo2.diablowiki.net/Mephisto Mephisto's Stats]
** [http://diablo2.diablowiki.net/Uber_Mephisto Uber Mephisto's Stats]
* [[Diablo I]]
** Only mentioned in the [[Diablo I Manual|manual]].

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|portrait= Mephisto2.jpg


|chartype= main
|title= Lord of Hatred
|gender= Male (presumed)
|race= Demon
|status= Alive (presumed)
|occupation= [[Prime Evil]]
|affiliation= [[Burning Hells]]
|friends= [[Baal]], [[Diablo]]
|foes= [[High Heavens]], [[Tyrael]]
|location= Unknown
}}

==Personality==
[[File:Mepisto's_Seal.jpg|thumb|right|Mephisto's Seal.]]
Mephisto is presumed by some to be the most intelligent, strategic and analytical out of the three [[Prime Evils]], but is speculated to be the weakest in terms of power.

He is noted in the [[Book of Cain]] as the most cunning of the three evils, and is considered a more than capable tactician. He specializes in the creation of the [[undead]], filling the corpses and monstrosities with hate for the living and unleashing them upon his enemies, as fitting for the Lord of Hatred. He could be taken as charismatic and possibly even amicable, were it not for the evil of his words and his demonic tone.

==Background==
Mephisto is known to be father of two demons: [[Lucion]] and [[Lilith]]. Mephisto's daughter was the lover of the rebel [[angel]] [[Inarius]], and together they created [[Sanctuary]]. Mephisto's son was Primus of the Triune, a church at its prime during the [[Sin War]] with very strong connections to the Prime Evils. Both of Mephisto's children were heavily involved in the events of the Sin War, with Lilith being one of the core founders of the world of [[Sanctuary]]. [[Lucion]] was 'willed out of existence', leaving Lilith as being the only 'child' to technically still exist.

===Mephisto and Sanctuary===
[[File:Three_Brothers.jpg|thumb|250px|The three [[Prime Evils]] in early concept art.]]
At the end of the first [[Sin War]], the [[Angiris Council]] dictated judgement against [[Inarius]], [[Sanctuary]] and his abominations: the [[nephalem]] and the [[edyrem]] (children of the mating between rebel [[angel]]s and [[demon]]s). Mephisto's shadow appeared before the Angiris Council proposing a truce and a pact.

Mephisto offered to let [[Sanctuary]] be untouched by either angel or demon to see what the children may yet become on their own for good or ill.

:"''We, like you, made false assumptions about this place, false assumptions about the creatures spawned by both our kind. But Sanctuary is much more than we envisioned! And we will let it grow and see where it leads, good or ill, untouched by either side.''"

The Angiris Council didn't believe the word of a Lord Demon. However, Archangel [[Tyrael]] stepped forward and asked Mephisto if he was truly proposing a truce, in order to believe him, he had to cast his mark on a place of Tyrael's choosing. To this Mephisto agreed, with the condition he was given a prize for such a goodwill gesture.

[[File:Mephisto_(Diablo_II).gif|left|thumb|Mephisto in [[Diablo II]], animated.]]
Archangel [[Imperius]] nodded at Tyrael, in agreement to Mephisto's petition. Mephisto requested the Angiris Council to be given the rebel Angel Inarius to pay for the loss of his children: [[Lilith]] and [[Lucion]]; and the sealing of the truce.

The Angiris Council, Mephisto and the three Sanctuary residents ([[Mendeln]], [[Serenthia]] and [[Rathma]]) shifted location instantly. No longer were they at the [[Silver City]], but on the vicinity of the [[Cathedral of Light]]. Tyrael signaled Mephisto to place his mark upon the point where the rebel Angel Inarius had preached to the masses of Sanctuary for centuries.

Mephisto rose his hand and bit it to bleed his black fluids upon the place chosen by Tyrael. Afterwards, Inarius was given to Mephisto to be taken into the [[Burning Hells]] for eternity. Mephisto asked what would be done with the cavern and the find within -- referring to the [[Worldstone]]. Archangel Imperius said a new pact should be done about that. What this pact was is yet unknown. Mephisto agreed with Imperius that the [[edyrem]] were to begin at the beginning with their powers set dormant and their memories of the past events of the Sin War to be wiped from their mind. Mephisto requested the firstborn, [[Rathma]] and the other [[nephalem]] to be able to remember for they were few remaining and their day was at an end.

===New Sin Wars===
[[File:Mephisto_fan_art.jpg|thumb|right|284px|Mephisto illustration fan art by unknown.]]
Millennia after this, the [[Burning Hells]] were still locked in the [[Great Conflict]] with the [[High Heavens]]. The humans' souls could be used by either side as an additional source of power, and thus [[angel]] and [[demon]] kind brought some of the battle to [[Sanctuary]] in stealth, trying to vie for the favour of man. This is also the [[Sin War]].

Neither side dared do it too openly, fearing the other side would notice and simply destroy the world. The amount of energy they could use sourced from their home realm on Sanctuary is also very limited, which means a full invasion would be needed. The [[Prime Evils]] thought out a plan to use angel [[Soulstone]]s in order to directly access their home realm power on Sanctuary, laying the whole world under their feet in one blow. With the additional power from Sanctuary, they would be able to defeat the [[High Heavens]].

[[File:Mephisto's_Soulstone.png|thumb|left|Mephisto's [[Soulstone]].]]
The corrupt angel [[Izual]] facilitated the idea, and the Prime Evils manipulated the [[Lesser Evils]] to throw the trio out of hell, banishing them on Sanctuary in spirit form, greatly weakened. The angels did not see it as a threat because they were so weak.

The weakness was a lot more than the three had considered, however, and they were forced to possess a mortal body in order to keep from hemorrhaging power. With bodies they could consume human souls for energy, and storing it up to the maximum power of their host body. Their demonic essences also warped the bodies to grotesque mirror images of their true demonic forms.

Their rampage was vast, but as the angels expected the Lesser Evils to launch their massive attack against the High Heavens, they withdrew their soldier angels from Sanctuary. Instead [[Tyrael]] gathered a group of mages who created the [[Horadrim]] to capture the demons in Soulstones, just what the Three wanted.

===Capturing the Three===
[[File:Mephisto_fan_art2.jpg|thumb|right|Fan art by klinesmoker]]
Mephisto was the first [[Prime Evil]] to be captured, and the [[Soulstone]] used to hold him was buried in a vault beneath the [[Temple of Light]] in [[Kurast]]. One third of the [[Horadrim]] brotherhood took residence in the tomb awaiting the capture of the remaining two Brothers. With high casualties to the brotherhood, all of The Three were eventually captured.

The original plan was to just take the Soulstone and use it to channel energy from Hell. When each of the Prime Evils were first captured they had been sufficiently weakened to not even be able to escape.

===Modern Days===
[[File:Mephisto3.jpg|thumb|left|Mephisto in his [[Durance of Hate]].]]
[[File:Durance of Hate.jpg|right|thumb|The full layout of Mephisto's [[Durance of Hate]].]]
However, after centuries of trying, Mephisto finally managed to overcome the powers of the Soulstone enough to influence and corrupt the local [[Zakarum]] priesthood.

Mephisto made the use spells to shatter the Soulstone into seven shards, breaking the magical seal and freeing him. The six smaller shards were inserted into the left palms of six Zakarum archbishops by Mephisto, and they were ordered to bring him human sacrifices as nourishment and running their temple. The largest shard pierced the hand of the [[Que-Hegan]] who had replaced [[Khalim]], known as [[Sankekur]]. The Que-Hegan is the highest divine authority of the Zakarum faith; Khalim had been killed due to Mephisto's inability to corrupt him.

Mephisto used Sankekur's body to remain in [[Sanctuary]], warping it as normally happens with possessions. He used his power over the Zakarum faith to send emissaries to the west, eventually bringing [[Leoric|King Leoric]] to [[Tristram]], and ending with [[Diablo]] being freed in the guise of the [[Dark Wanderer]], who freed his brother [[Baal]], and the three met up in Mephisto's Durance of Hate in [[Kurast]]. For years, the corrupted religious leaders of the Zakarum kept Mephisto supplied with information and misguided followers to carry out his plans of conquest.

The three sent Diablo to reclaim [[Burning Hells|Hell]], and Baal to conquer the [[Worldstone]]. Shortly thereafter the group of adventuring heroes arrived, killed the corrupt priesthood and destroyed Mephisto, going on to destroy his Soulstone on the [[Hellforge]], banishing him from the mortal realm permanently. The heroes also went on to kill Diablo in his own domain and Baal on [[Mount Arreat]], although not in time to save the Worldstone from corruption.

What has happened in the last 20 years since then is unknown. Whether or not he's truly dead is also hard to know, but true [[evil]] is very hard to destroy...

==Friends==
Diablo's two younger brothers:
* [[Baal]]
* [[Diablo]]

==Rumors of Mephisto and Auriel==
[[File:Mephisto4.jpg|right|thumb|250px|Mephisto in [[Durance of Hate]].]]
:''This is all truly just speculation and rumours that might or might not turn out to be true.''
It is thought that Archangel [[Auriel]] and [[Mephisto]] might have been lovers. Some different arguments support this hypothesis.

'''A remark and a wink hurled in Auriel's direction after Mephisto said:'''
:''"'We like you, made false assumptions about this place, false assumptions about the creatures spawned by both our kinds.' - A blazing red eye materialized, then winked in the direction of Auriel, who utterly ignored it."'' ([[Mephisto]], page 332 of [[Diablo: The Veiled Prophet]])

'''The [[Kiss of Mephisto]] destined for someone special:'''

When the Kiss of Mephisto (aka ''Blood Marble''), the stone that resurrects [[Morlu]] indefinitely is first mentioned in the [[Diablo: The Sin War]] trilogy, the name was explained to be because it was originally a gift for someone else, other than [[Lucion]].

Since it's the sort of kiss he does not approve of, it could be that it's the sort of kiss a father does not give his son. With that logic it also seem unlikely it's the type of kiss a father gives his daughter, like [[Lilith]]. If it was not for Lilith or Lucion, then Mephisto must have been involved with someone else. Tying in with his wink above, it could have been meant as a gift to [[Auriel]], but for one reason or another instead was used to resurrect Morlu.

:''"Turning his eyes back to the cataclysmic sight below, Lord Lucion gestured toward the very center, where the worst of the carnage had and was still taking place. In the midst of everything, a black gemstone nearly as large as a man sat embedded in a triangular column of red-streaked marble. “Blood marble,” it was named, naturally. The stone was called by Malic’s master the Kiss of Mephisto, although the cleric had, from past comments, reason to believe that it had once been named for another of whom Lord Lucion would not speak." ([[Diablo: Birthright]])''

==Appearances==
Mephisto has only been present in [[Diablo II]] and the [[Diablo novel]]s so far.

===Diablo III===
Mephisto was not present as a character in [[Diablo III]]. His existence only comes from the game story indicating that he is one of the seven souls to be trapped in the [[Black Soulstone]]. However, his minions (such as the [[Sin War]] era [[Morlu]]), like those of the other prime evils, were present in the [[High Heavens]].

===Diablo II===
[[File:Mon-mephisto1.jpg|right|thumb|Mephisto in [[Diablo II]].]]
In [[Diablo II]] we meet Mephisto in the temple city of [[Kurast]], where he has managed to turn the entire population into raging religious fanatics, completely corrupted. The local population fight with their lives to stop the approaching heroes from reaching Mephisto and release his control on the population by destroying his [[Compelling Orb]].

Once killed, the players takes the portal and travel into [[Hell]] to kill [[Diablo]] before his powers recuperates.

Read more about his stats in [[Diablo II]]
* '''{{iw|Mephisto Mephisto}}'''

===Diablo I===
Mephisto is not featured in [[Diablo I]]'s gameplay, but is mentioned to a great extent in the [[Diablo I Manual]], and the creatures you fight are said to be partly sent from Mephisto's realm, as well as [[Baal]]'s and [[Diablo]]'s.

===Novels===
Diablo has appeared or been referenced in the following [[Diablo novel]]s:

* [[Diablo: Legacy of Blood]]
* [[Diablo: The Black Road]]
* [[Diablo: The Kingdom of Shadow]]
* [[Diablo: Demonsbane]]
* [[Diablo: Moon of the Spider]]
* [[Diablo: The Sin War]] trilogy:
** [[Diablo: Birthright]]
** [[Diablo: Scales of the Serpent]]
** [[Diablo: The Veiled Prophet]]

==Media==
You can find pictures in the Diablo 3 screenshot and picture gallery:
* [http://www.diii.net/gallery/ Diablo 3 screenshots and pictures]
* [http://www.diii.net/gallery/showgallery.php?cat=all&si=Diablo Diablo-specific gallery contents]

<gallery>
File:Mephisto2.jpg|Mephisto render
File:Mon-mephisto1.jpg|Mephisto attacking
File:Mephisto_(Diablo_II).gif|Animated render
File:Mephisto_(Diablo_II)2.gif|Render with clouds
File:Mephisto_fan_art.jpg|Fan art by unknown
File:Mephisto_fan_art2.jpg|Fan art by klinesmoker
File:Mephisto3.jpg|Mephisto in his [[Durance of Hate]]
File:Durance of Hate.jpg|Durance layout.
File:Mephisto's_Soulstone.png|Mephisto's [[Soulstone]]
</gallery>

==Trivia==
* The name Mephisto comes from a variation of Mephistopheles, an alternative name for Satan, just like [[Diablo]] is another name for Satan.

==References==
* [http://www.blizzplanet.com/blog/comments/diablo_the_sin_war_trilogy_vol._3_the_veiled_prophet_-_excerpt/ '''Diablo: The Sin War Trilogy, book three: The Veiled Prophet'''] -- pages 331-335
* [[Diablo: Birthright]]
* [[Diablo I Manual]]
* [[Diablo II Manual]]
* [[Diablo II: Lord of Destruction Manual]]
* [[Diablo: Legacy of Blood]]
* [[Diablo: The Black Road]]
* [[Diablo: The Kingdom of Shadow]]
* [[Diablo: Demonsbane]]
* [[Diablo: Moon of the Spider]]
* [[Diablo: The Sin War]]

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User:WitchDoctor

2017-11-24T17:55:27Z

WitchDoctor: I exist.

User:WitchDoctor

2016-11-25T00:29:41Z

WitchDoctor:

WitchDoctor is a player who had played diablo for a while, although no longer uses this name in any situation. For the class, see [[Witch Doctor]]. This page is for some background information on the player.

==Games==
===Diablo I===
Diablo 1 was, and still is, my favorite for the atmosphere and the gameplay. I'm not like most who play the series; the lore > loot. Rogue (a bit cheesy, I know) is my class of choice, or the "Rogue Mage" considering all the spells I use in conjunction with arrows.

===Diablo II===

Diablo 2's a game I've played for quite some time... still play, in fact, including with a few single-player hardcore characters with weird builds these days (melee sorc in hardcore? You bet). On Bnet, alas, most of my characters have vanished, as have all my collections of gear over the years. As such, I'm left with my singleplayer chars, the highest level still existing being a level 67 druid. I might pop back into Battle.net at some point; I've already started up singleplayer, so why not.

===Diablo III===

Diablo 3's where the username WitchDoctor came from, mostly as a result of being unoriginal at the time (WitchDoctor#1834). My main chars were a wizard and a demon hunter, the wizard (Assur) being my main. I had a few more lower end characters.

I played from the early days of D3, before RoS, removal of the RMAH, rifts, one-build-characters... the game was far from perfect, but I rather liked it. I threw out items to lower level folks, gave them all my money, basically shot myself in the foot for going up to high levels. Diablo's story has always been an appeal to me, and I was never too fond of where Diablo 3 took it. Reaper of Souls marked the end for me, and it was kicked off my hard drive. I haven't downloaded again it or purchased the expansion, and in all honesty probably won't short of someone flat out giving me a copy. I'd play it if I got it, perhaps, but I don't feel like spending money on it. Who knows. My stance may change.

The last time I logged in was February 2014; I moved over to Starcraft for a while, then moved out of blizzard games in favor of stompy mechs in an entirely opposite universe. No regrets.

==Projects==

Overall? Too many. Right here, just one, which is mostly to do little improvements to this place bit by bit.

===Diablowiki===

Well, I'm here now, so that indicates I still pay some attention (Hi Elly). 2014 was my peak, spent mostly on Diablo 3, but now I'm here to focus attention on Diablo 2 and Diablo 1, mostly to check for errors, make writing more consistent and identify areas that could use the most attention. Just a little update here and there, you know? :p

Late 2013 I got the title "DiabloWiki.Net Ink Slinger" Diablo Incgamers (Yes, that site right next door that isn't called Incgamers anymore). Spambots used to be fun, I would take their wall of spam and throw in some insulting, derisive or otherwise rude comment to the spammer in question before the registration system got an overhaul.

TLDR: Hi. I'm here.

Talk:Main Page

2015-12-09T00:05:42Z

WitchDoctor: q.r

== Achievements ==
What happened to the achievement links, such as the one below. They do not display anything anymore?
{{achievement header}}<achievement type="single">Cut off the Head</achievement>)

Cant edit this page. Just wanted to say, that the Wizard should be added to the main page with the other 2 classes.

== Typos, etc... ==

"Key Pages for Diablo ''II'' Info" might be misleading... =]
--[[User:Azymn|Azymn]] 08:47, 28 October 2008 (CET)

Can we fix the Diablo 1 link on the main page pointing directly to http://diablo2.diablowiki.net/Diablo_I instead of http://diablowiki.net/Diablo_I ?
--[[User:Diak|Diak]] 21:50, 18 April 2009 (CEST)

The Witch Doctor's "Plague" Skill Tree should be changed to "Zombie", and all the links under the WD should be changed to "--- skills" instead of "--- skill tree", to mesh with the rest of the page.
--[[User:Bran Maniac|Bran Maniac]] 23:02, 11 September 2009 (CEST)

: Oki, fixed :) --[[User:Leord|Leord]] 14:25, 25 September 2009 (CEST)

Under the classes section, the 'Passive Skills' link should point to (for instance) [[Barbarian passives]] instead of [[Barbarian skills#Passive Skills]]. [[User:MrFrye|MrFrye]] 17:00, 22 September 2011 (CEST)

== Request...==
Can you please put a link to [[Resistances]] in the Combat section? That page is orphaned and has only ~350 views.--[[User:TheWanderer|TheWanderer]] 23:21, 12 January 2010 (UTC)

==Skill Trees==
Really need to remove the skill trees from the first page...
--[[User:TheWanderer|TheWanderer]] 01:30, 11 November 2010 (UTC)

== Mathematical Analysis Policy? ==

I'm not sure if this is the right place to ask this, but the Community Portal seems to be empty. My question is: Is it acceptable to include calculated summaries of skill effects? For example, [[Hungering Arrow]] has a 60% pierce chance. That means it hits an average of 2.5 times. Therefore, you could say that on average, it deals 140% * 2.5 = 350% Weapon Damage. You could also do similar calculations for all the other Hungering Arrow runes except Alabaster, since none of them apart from Alabaster deal AoE damage.

Would it be acceptable to include the calculated average weapon damage in the page for Hungering Arrow? I understand this kind of analysis isn't possible in some cases without extensive guesswork, (like Alabaster Rune). However, in some cases it's just single-target damage for each of them so they should be directly comparable.

For the conversion from Pierce Chance to number of hits:

Number of hits
= infinite sum of 0.6^n from n=0 to infinity
= 1 + 0.6 /( 1 - 0.6)
= 2.5

: :O. Can you explain that formula a bit more? I think you can put these calculations in a separate section on the skill page(like calculations or further reading). You can post on the diii.net wiki forum if you have any more questions.
--[[User:TheWanderer|TheWanderer]]

::The equation is ∑(x=0,∞) y^x (y=0.6), what he posted is just the simplification in case where 0>y<1. With that said there will never be and infinite number of mobs on the screen, but as a theoretical maximum average damage I think it has a place somewhere on the skill page.--[[User:Brokenstorm|Brokenstorm]] 17:38, 21 September 2011 (CEST)

:::I think it could be useful to have the formula for skill damage on the skill, but I'm not sure this skill is a good candidate for calculations. According to the last info on the official forums (http://us.battle.net/d3/en/forum/topic/3123248970#8), it'll only hit targets in a straight line behind the original target. So in order to get a damage bonus, there are two conditions that has to be in place;
::::1. You need to get the piercing effect to trigger
::::2. You need to have a target in line with you and the target behind the target.
:::Then, and only then, you'll get an increased damage bonus. So this skills has a requirement that isn't just numbers, and thus, in my opinion it'd be wrong to say that this skill averages on 350% Weapon Damage, because it don't. There are also some reports that when it pierces the first target, it'll apply the damage to that target again, giving it a total of 280%, but I'm not too sure about that until I see some hard proof. But that's just me. But all in all, calculations are probably good, as long as there arn't too many if/then involved in the calculation. --[[User:Grapz|Grapz]]
::::Here's a video of Hungering Arrow.[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rzTv2rBoSYc&feature=player_detailpage#t=2m10s] At 2:11 it pierces a zombie at the top of the screen. At 2:12 it turns around and attacks it again. So it remains guided even after piercing. @Brokenstorm: Simplification in case where 0>y<1? Don't you mean 0<y<1? And even so, how could the pierce chance be negative or greater than 1? @TheWanderer That formula says you have a 100% chance to hit once plus a 95% chance to hit again plus a 95%*95% chance to hit again plus a 95%*95%*95% chance to hit again etc.... On to infinity. It comes out to 20 hits on average.[[User:Strill|Strill]] 06:24, 22 September 2011 (CEST)
:::::Yes i meant 0<y<1, and of course pierce % will always be between 0 and 100%, I was just telling where the 1 + 0.6 /( 1 - 0.6) came from. @Grapz the skill is homing so it will always hit something if it pierce, even the same target as Strill pointed out. @Strill 95% is for the golden runes, is 60% without. --[[User:Brokenstorm|Brokenstorm]] 07:54, 22 September 2011 (CEST)

==Diablo III Monsters==
The animals category should be renamed beasts.--[[User:Brokenstorm|Brokenstorm]] 17:45, 21 September 2011 (CEST)

==Clean up Articles==
I think it is a disaster to mix old information with new information. Things in old patches should not be in the same page as things in new patch. Anything that has been removed from the game shouldn't appear on this wiki. Because those information makes the articles hard to read. At least they should be kept in another articles with obvious sign to show it is not the newest information if anyone is interested in the history.--[[User:Lywzc|Lywzc]] 20:47,8 December 2015

I quite agree and would be willing to try and help at least mark things that are outdated. As soon as I can find the right template... I knew it once, but forgot it. [[User:WitchDoctor|WitchDoctor]] ([[User talk:WitchDoctor|talk]]) 00:05, 9 December 2015 (UTC)

Title=Talk:Elly&action=edit

2015-12-05T03:55:59Z

WitchDoctor: Q.r (too many acronyms, eh?)

==Greetings==

Hello Elly, i would like to say thx for transferring the Artisan NPC article to the Artisan Article, this will make linking it easier... I didnt know how to do it myself, nor do i know if i even could do it and i didnt wanna infringe on a fanmade article. Poor, poor guy...

Anyway, im Leord's apprentice in a way.... i started editing since the Fury reveal and Leord was kind enough to teach me in the Sacred Art of Wiki Editing. Do you know where he went btw? seems like he dissappeared... Wiki seems a bit sad without him. Hope to hear from you soon.

--[[User:DxAxxxTyriel|DxAxxxTyriel]] 12:24, 19 August 2010 (UTC)

Hello Elly,
I am new to the wiki but a long time follower. Was just wondering if any info from http://wowbox.tw/d3/index.php will be added to the wiki, as it contains a lot of info/updates of D3 beta. eg. Mystic - Myriam, Jewelers name, a ton of beasties and heaps of other info.

Either way I am always happy to help anyway I can.
--[[User:Ik'Thar|Ik'Thar]] 14:00, 9 September 2011 (brisbane time)

Hey Elly,
Just curious why you removed the video's I linked a few days back in Media sections. I see other videos on this wiki but they lack updated visuals and wanted to add to the community with skill videos. If I'm breaking a rule on DiabloWiki please let me know. Thanks.
Kioseth

Hello Elly. Some time ago, I logged in IncGamers using Facebook. I've seen that feature has been removed and I can't log in anymore (my username there was the same one as here). I've tried to ask for help in the forums but I've received no answer. I've seen this topic http://diablo.incgamers.com/forums/showthread.php?804127-If-you-used-Facebook-to-log-in-to-IncGamers
so I've come here. Thanks in advance!
--[[User:Chapapote|Chapapote]] 0:50, 16 September 2012 (UTC)

: Hey Chapapote, I can't find an account with that name. That means you can register it. Perhaps it got lost in the move we recently did and as it was a Facebook account the posts didn't transfer over. Can you register it? [[User:Elly|Elly]] ([[User talk:Elly|talk]]) 03:50, 17 September 2014 (CEST)

I'm back :)
I'd like to know how things are updated around here these days, if there's an organized drive to update this, what specifically needs work on. I'd like to at least get back to fix up a few things or at least add a few indications that things are outdated.
[[User:WitchDoctor|WitchDoctor]] ([[User talk:WitchDoctor|talk]]) 04:23, 2 December 2015 (UTC)

Hey, good to see you back. Since the launch of the [[Patch 2.4.0 PTR]] there are numerous sections to be added, including the new zones. Are you playing PTR? I think the PTR provides a handy list to work through or pick the info you do know (if you are on PTR). The skills will be automatically updated when 2.4 goes live through the diablonut database so those stats don't need touching.

: However I did notice that the Crusader page was never finished off and there are major updates needed there (if he's a speciality of yours). [[User:Elly|Elly]] ([[User talk:Elly|talk]]) 14:26, 3 December 2015 (UTC)

: Unfortunately I'm not active in Diablo 3 at this point; more in diablo 2. I was wondering more on the side of identifying that which needs to be updated, properly marking it, correcting things, the like. Side duties since I still feel I have a bit of an investment to keep up on in this site :) I recall we had some templates to identify outdated pages, but I'm rusty as to what they are or how to use them. I keep a little track of D3, but am not much of an authority on it anymore. [[User:WitchDoctor|WitchDoctor]] ([[User talk:WitchDoctor|talk]]) 03:55, 5 December 2015 (UTC)

Title=Talk:Elly&action=edit

2015-12-02T04:24:18Z

WitchDoctor: made formatting a little nicer

Title=Talk:Elly&action=edit

2015-12-02T04:23:54Z

WitchDoctor: Q add

User:WitchDoctor

2015-12-01T05:22:55Z

WitchDoctor: Back :) with a few updates. Will try to get more engaged next week, this week is a little busy for me to do much on this site unfortunately.

WitchDoctor is a player who had played diablo for a while, although no longer uses this name in any situation. For the class, see [[Witch Doctor]]. This page is for some background information on the player.

==Diablo Games==
===Diablo I===
Diablo I was WitchDoctor's favorite diablo game because of its music and atmosphere. He played in vanilla leveling his level 42 rouge. He no longer played after his last game CD broke.

===Diablo II===

WitchDoctor played diablo 2 for several years. He quit back in 2012 and played Diablo 3, leaving his main accounts to expire. He still had single player experimental characters and played on his barbarian Pisa on an alternate account that was still intact when he returned to diablo 2 in October 2013, and had about 5 shared mule accounts still operating. However, he never found a zod rune (although a friend of his did) and does not use the enigma armor. When playing he tried to stray as far away from cookie cutter and normal runs (baal runs, key runs, etc) as possible. He finally discontinued playing Diablo 2 in mid 2014 until much later. Starting in August 2015, he has begun coming back to Diablo 2.

===Diablo III===

WitchDoctor (WitchDoctor 1834) played on his Demon Hunter and his Wizard, and had only a single Witch Doctor, below level 60. Overall, he had 2 Wizards, 1 demon hunter, and 4 small characters.

His time was spent on grinding, giving away gear, and helping newer players in game.

In the months of November and December he collected as many spare items as possible and distributes them to players in game who were newer/just coming back after a while. His activity faltered in January, and stopped playing entirely in February 2014. By March, he played no more Diablo III. This was because of severe hard drive issues, his old ring of diablo friends dissolving, and installation errors. When ROS was released, he decided to not buy it, and left the community. He has not returned to the game since then and presently does not have intention to rejoin.

==Forums==

WitchDoctor occasionally checks back on Incgamers, usually for light reading.

===Diablowiki===

WitchDoctor was particularly fond of improving the diablowiki site in 2013. He considered it to be the best diablo wiki out there, and still thinks it only needs a ''little'' bit of updating. However, he dropped out mid 2014. He returned early 2015 to make small corrections.

For his contributions, on November 23 2013 he was awarded the title DiabloWiki.Net Ink Slinger by Elly on Diablo Incgamers. In the month of December, due to actively playing another game he spent almost no time on working with diablowiki articles, but still found the time to check and delete spam articles and replace him with his own little witty comments. By March 2014, his activity was nothing.

He now still checks back once in a while on a quest to purge outdated contents.

==Known More Personal Information==

Most players typically referred to WitchDoctor as a "he", including himself, so although he never directly states his gender it can be assumed he is male. No other information floating around can be considered as fact about him, and he never directly says information about his life. He had a habit of being on and off, and never was completely dedicated to whatever he is playing since that dang thing called life kept interfering.

==Projects==

All previous projects worked on where discontinued and postponed indefinately. The screenshot archive, containing various screenshots of all diablo games, may be dug up if asked for on the talk page for reference.

==Other Games==

WitchDoctor is presently engaged in the Mechwarrior series and BattleTech as a whole. He checks up on his older games sometimes, including Diablo II.

==References==

All this information was given by WitchDoctor. It is up to the reader to decide the credibility of it.

User talk:Elly

2015-01-26T05:36:15Z

WitchDoctor: side note.

==Message of Greetings==

Sorry to miss the new year. This wiki was something I was interested in, but I burned out. I burned out of Diablo, really. I may still check once in a while to fix some little formatting or grammar issues.

Oh, side note - I like the layout.

So, happy belated new year is what I am getting at. :) [[User:WitchDoctor|WitchDoctor]] ([[User talk:WitchDoctor|talk]]) 06:35, 26 January 2015 (CET)

==Greetings==

Hello Elly, i would like to say thx for transferring the Artisan NPC article to the Artisan Article, this will make linking it easier... I didnt know how to do it myself, nor do i know if i even could do it and i didnt wanna infringe on a fanmade article. Poor, poor guy...

Anyway, im Leord's apprentice in a way.... i started editing since the Fury reveal and Leord was kind enough to teach me in the Sacred Art of Wiki Editing. Do you know where he went btw? seems like he dissappeared... Wiki seems a bit sad without him. Hope to hear from you soon.

--[[User:DxAxxxTyriel|DxAxxxTyriel]] 12:24, 19 August 2010 (UTC)

Hey, no problem. I didn't know how to do it either I just took a stab at it and it worked:) I didn't realise the Artisan page was taken by a fanmade page. No matter. Leord will be back, don't worry. He'll be doing less but will still be around for now he's gone on holiday so he's afk. Still Flux and me though, hopefully we'll do:) --[[User:Elly|Elly]] 15:12, 19 August 2010 (UTC)

* Could you tell me how to do it? i would like to make the [[Blacksmith]] article to stop redirecting to the [[Vendor]], and to a new article about the Blacksmith, the quest and his name. --[[User:DxAxxxTyriel|DxAxxxTyriel]] 19:27, 19 August 2010 (UTC)

::When you get redirected, there's a small message just under the top bar (the bar with "Artricle-Talk-Edit" and stuff), which states "Redirected from <nowiki>[[page]]</nowiki>". Click on the link (in this case: the link to Blacksmith), and press edit :)
::Also; Hi there. --[[User:Vipermagi|Vipermagi]] 16:54, 19 August 2010 (UTC)

::: Thanks for the tip, Howdy-Ho Tim! --[[User:DxAxxxTyriel|DxAxxxTyriel]] 19:29, 19 August 2010 (UTC)

==Testing mob lists==

<mob>Blazing Swordwielder</mob>
<mob list="y">Bone Warrior</mob>
<mob list="y">Dark Skeletal Archer</mob>
<mob list="y">Dark Skeletal Bowman</mob>
<mob list="y">Returned</mob>
<mob list="y">Returned Archer</mob>
<mob list="y">Returned Executioner</mob>
<mob list="y">Returned Shieldman</mob>
<mob list="y">Returned Summoner</mob>
<mob list="y">Skeletal Archer</mob>
<mob acr="5349" list="y">Skeletal Bowmaster</mob>
<mob list="y">Skeletal Marauder</mob>
<mob acr="5278" list="y">Skeletal Raider</mob>
<mob list="y">Skeletal Sentry</mob>
<mob list="y">Skeletal Shieldbearer</mob>
<mob list="y">Skeletal Warrior</mob>
<mob acr="5393" list="y">Skeleton</mob>
<mob list="y">Skull Cleaver</mob>
<mob list="y">Skull Summoner</mob>
<mob list="y">Skull Sword</mob>
<mob list="y">Spine Hewer</mob>
<mob list="y">Swift Skull Cleaver</mob>
<mob acr="5387" list="y">Tomb Guardian</mob>
<mob list="y">Tortured Summoner</mob>

== Can you delete an article? ==

i know you actually cant delete, that it gets stored.... Could you remove the [[Salvage Cube]] article? (its not linking, here's an external one http://www.diablowiki.net/Salvage_cube --[[User:DxAxxxTyriel|DxAxxxTyriel]] 16:12, 21 August 2010 (UTC)

* Done:) --[[User:Elly|Elly]] 16:23, 21 August 2010 (UTC)

==Link not working==
After beginning to listen to the podcast, I decided to have a quick look at your user profile here... noticed a broken link... the link to your profile on the forums does not work (at least on my computer/browser)... I think you're missing a ".com"
--[[User:Belushi81x|belushi81x]] 03:33, 23 June 2011 (CEST)

==Problem with forums==
Really sorry for posting this here, but I can't seem to post or send PMs to anybody. I couldn't even leave a message on the visitor page. Can you please look into this? PS: Thanks for the Inkslinger tag!--[[User:TheWanderer|TheWanderer]] 10:58, 21 September 2011 (CEST)

: Never mind, I managed to send an email and it's working now.

Yep, I fixed it this morning but forgot about putting a message here. Sorry 'bout that. [[User:Elly|Elly]] 18:27, 21 September 2011 (CEST)

==Testing Space==

{{SITENAME}}
{{REVISIONID}}

==Maps==
I would like to contribute to the wiki by making maps for those areas which are lacking. Can you tell me how the maps are made, especially how they are labeled with NPC/quest/event information? [[User:Shane Andrews|Shane Andrews]] ([[User talk:Shane Andrews|talk]]) 19:23, 28 March 2014 (CET)

User talk:Elly

2015-01-26T05:35:29Z

WitchDoctor: Added message.

==Message of Greetings==

Sorry to miss the new year. This wiki was something I was interested in, but I burned out. I burned out of Diablo, really. I may still check once in a while to fix some little formatting or grammar issues.

So, happy belated new year is what I am getting at. :) [[User:WitchDoctor|WitchDoctor]] ([[User talk:WitchDoctor|talk]]) 06:35, 26 January 2015 (CET)

==Greetings==

Hello Elly, i would like to say thx for transferring the Artisan NPC article to the Artisan Article, this will make linking it easier... I didnt know how to do it myself, nor do i know if i even could do it and i didnt wanna infringe on a fanmade article. Poor, poor guy...

Anyway, im Leord's apprentice in a way.... i started editing since the Fury reveal and Leord was kind enough to teach me in the Sacred Art of Wiki Editing. Do you know where he went btw? seems like he dissappeared... Wiki seems a bit sad without him. Hope to hear from you soon.

--[[User:DxAxxxTyriel|DxAxxxTyriel]] 12:24, 19 August 2010 (UTC)

Hey, no problem. I didn't know how to do it either I just took a stab at it and it worked:) I didn't realise the Artisan page was taken by a fanmade page. No matter. Leord will be back, don't worry. He'll be doing less but will still be around for now he's gone on holiday so he's afk. Still Flux and me though, hopefully we'll do:) --[[User:Elly|Elly]] 15:12, 19 August 2010 (UTC)

* Could you tell me how to do it? i would like to make the [[Blacksmith]] article to stop redirecting to the [[Vendor]], and to a new article about the Blacksmith, the quest and his name. --[[User:DxAxxxTyriel|DxAxxxTyriel]] 19:27, 19 August 2010 (UTC)

::When you get redirected, there's a small message just under the top bar (the bar with "Artricle-Talk-Edit" and stuff), which states "Redirected from <nowiki>[[page]]</nowiki>". Click on the link (in this case: the link to Blacksmith), and press edit :)
::Also; Hi there. --[[User:Vipermagi|Vipermagi]] 16:54, 19 August 2010 (UTC)

::: Thanks for the tip, Howdy-Ho Tim! --[[User:DxAxxxTyriel|DxAxxxTyriel]] 19:29, 19 August 2010 (UTC)

==Testing mob lists==

<mob>Blazing Swordwielder</mob>
<mob list="y">Bone Warrior</mob>
<mob list="y">Dark Skeletal Archer</mob>
<mob list="y">Dark Skeletal Bowman</mob>
<mob list="y">Returned</mob>
<mob list="y">Returned Archer</mob>
<mob list="y">Returned Executioner</mob>
<mob list="y">Returned Shieldman</mob>
<mob list="y">Returned Summoner</mob>
<mob list="y">Skeletal Archer</mob>
<mob acr="5349" list="y">Skeletal Bowmaster</mob>
<mob list="y">Skeletal Marauder</mob>
<mob acr="5278" list="y">Skeletal Raider</mob>
<mob list="y">Skeletal Sentry</mob>
<mob list="y">Skeletal Shieldbearer</mob>
<mob list="y">Skeletal Warrior</mob>
<mob acr="5393" list="y">Skeleton</mob>
<mob list="y">Skull Cleaver</mob>
<mob list="y">Skull Summoner</mob>
<mob list="y">Skull Sword</mob>
<mob list="y">Spine Hewer</mob>
<mob list="y">Swift Skull Cleaver</mob>
<mob acr="5387" list="y">Tomb Guardian</mob>
<mob list="y">Tortured Summoner</mob>

== Can you delete an article? ==

i know you actually cant delete, that it gets stored.... Could you remove the [[Salvage Cube]] article? (its not linking, here's an external one http://www.diablowiki.net/Salvage_cube --[[User:DxAxxxTyriel|DxAxxxTyriel]] 16:12, 21 August 2010 (UTC)

* Done:) --[[User:Elly|Elly]] 16:23, 21 August 2010 (UTC)

==Link not working==
After beginning to listen to the podcast, I decided to have a quick look at your user profile here... noticed a broken link... the link to your profile on the forums does not work (at least on my computer/browser)... I think you're missing a ".com"
--[[User:Belushi81x|belushi81x]] 03:33, 23 June 2011 (CEST)

==Problem with forums==
Really sorry for posting this here, but I can't seem to post or send PMs to anybody. I couldn't even leave a message on the visitor page. Can you please look into this? PS: Thanks for the Inkslinger tag!--[[User:TheWanderer|TheWanderer]] 10:58, 21 September 2011 (CEST)

: Never mind, I managed to send an email and it's working now.

Yep, I fixed it this morning but forgot about putting a message here. Sorry 'bout that. [[User:Elly|Elly]] 18:27, 21 September 2011 (CEST)

==Testing Space==

{{SITENAME}}
{{REVISIONID}}

==Maps==
I would like to contribute to the wiki by making maps for those areas which are lacking. Can you tell me how the maps are made, especially how they are labeled with NPC/quest/event information? [[User:Shane Andrews|Shane Andrews]] ([[User talk:Shane Andrews|talk]]) 19:23, 28 March 2014 (CET)

User:WitchDoctor

2015-01-26T05:32:58Z

WitchDoctor: Updated my own state.

WitchDoctor is a player who had played diablo for a while, although no longer uses this name in any situation. For the class, see [[Witch Doctor]]. This page is for some background information on the player.

==Diablo Games==
===Diablo I===
Diablo I was WitchDoctor's favorite diablo game because of its music and atmosphere. He played in vanilla leveling his level 42 rouge. He no longer played after his last CD broke.

===Diablo II===

WitchDoctor played diablo 2 for several years. He quit back in 2012 and played Diablo 3, leaving his main accounts to expire. He still had single player experimental characters and played on his barbarian Pisa on an alternate account that was still intact when he returned to diablo 2 in October 2013, and had about 5 shared mule accounts still operating. However, he never found a zod rune (although a friend of his did) and does not use the enigma armor. When playing he tried to stray as far away from cookie cutter and normal runs (baal runs, key runs, etc) as possible. He finally discontinued playing Diablo 2 in mid 2014. He no longer checks accounts, and they are most likely expired.

===Diablo III===

WitchDoctor (WitchDoctor 1834) played on his Demon Hunter and his Wizard, and had only a single Witch Doctor, below level 60. Overall, he had 2 Wizards, 1 demon hunter, and 4 small characters.

His time was spent on grinding, giving away gear, and helping newer players in game.

In the months of November and December he collected as many spare items as possible and distributes them to players in game who were newer/just coming back after a while. His activity faltered in January, and stopped playing entirely in February 2014. By March, he played no more Diablo III. This was because of severe hard drive issues, his old ring of diablo friends dissolving, and installation errors. When ROS was released, he decided to not buy it, and thus left the series permanently.

==Forums==

WitchDoctor used to check Diablo Incgamers and the main blizzard website. He also has accounts on other fansites, used only if he had a need for them. He no longer checks any of the fansites he is on except for very rare occasions.

===Diablowiki===

WitchDoctor was particularly fond of improving the diablowiki site. He considered it to be the best diablo wiki out there, and thinks it only needs a ''little'' bit of updating. However, he dropped out mid 2014. He has recently returned to make small grammatical and formatting corrections where needed.

For his contributions, on November 23 2013 he was awarded the title DiabloWiki.Net Ink Slinger by Elly on Diablo Incgamers. In the month of December, due to actively playing another game he spent almost no time on working with diablowiki articles, but still found the time to check and delete spam articles and replace him with his own little witty comments. By March 2014, his activity was nothing.

==Known Information==

Most players typically referred to WitchDoctor as a "he", including himself, so although he never directly states his gender it can be assumed he is male. No other information floating around can be considered as fact about him, and he never directly says information about his life. He had a habit of being on and off, and never was completely dedicated to whatever he is playing since that dang thing called life kept interfering.

==Projects==

All previous projects worked on where discontinued and postponed indefinately. The screenshot archive may be dug up if asked for on the talk page.

==Other Games==

Witchdoctor also plays:

* Outwars - Windows 95 action game.
* Airfix Dogfighter - Not played often as it crashes.
* Streets of Simcity - Same as above, crashes more frequent however.
* All simcities up to 3000 - including the original on floppy discs (somewhere). (no longer)
* Mechwarrior 3 and 4
* Mechcommander I
* Starcraft II (no longer)
* Total War games.

Plus some other games not listed here.

==References==

All this information was given by WitchDoctor. It is up to the reader to decide the credibility of it.

Legendary

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WitchDoctor: Formatting modifications, tweaks.

[[File:Legendary-drop-triple.jpg|thumb|300px|Legendary boots and 2 leg crafting plans drop.]]
'''Legendary''' (AKA "leg") items are the (potentially) highest quality items in Diablo 3 and Reaper of Souls. Legendary items are orange in color and announce themselves when dropped by 1) creating a loud *clang* sound effect, 2) sending up a beam of orange or green light, and 3) creating a star or asterisk icon on the minimap. [[Set Items]] are another type of legendary item and act just the same, except their beam coloration is green and they appear as an asterisk * on the minimap.

Legendary gear (legendary or set or crafted) is designed to be the top quality of gear in [[Loot 2.0]] (the system operational in [[D3v2]] and [[Reaper of Souls]])[http://diablo.incgamers.com/blog/comments/blizzard-releases-diablo-3-items-blog]. Back in [[Diablo 3 vanilla]], rare items could spawn equivalent or better than legendaries in many slots. This is no longer true and Legendary items are now always better at the top end, when found with a good combination of [[affixes]] on the item.

Most characters wear a mixture of rare and legendary gear while leveling up, but once they reach the [[end game]] at level 70, the goal becomes finding or [[crafting]] legendary or set items for every slot, since legendaries have higher potential stat rolls, special [[legendary affixes]], and set bonus properties that make better than any Rare items can possibly be.

Legendary items in Reaper of Souls and [[D3v2]] are all [[Bind on Account]] and can not be traded, sold, or given away except to other players who were in the game when the item was found, or for up to 2 hours after the game ends. (The [[legendary trading exception]].)

* All [http://diablo.incgamers.com/diablo3/items/legendary Diablo 3 news about Legendary items].

==Ancient Items==

[[Ancient Items]] were added into the game in [[Patch 2.1.2]] after extensive testing on the [[PTR]]. These are level 70 Legendary Items with a special "Ancient" designation which grants higher values to most of the affixes on the item, including the damage roll on weapons. Ancient Legendary Items can be big upgrades over non-Ancient versions of the same item since they will have higher values to most affixes, but ancient items are not guaranteed to be better since they might not roll with ideal affixes for a specific character or build.

===Appearance===
Ancient items look identical when the drop; there is no way to tell if an item has rolled ancient until it is ID'ed. Once identified, Ancient items have an orange border (green for set items) around the outside of the item tooltip, and say "Ancient" in the item name.

===Frequency===
A small % of level 70 legendary items from all sources found on Torment 1 or higher will spawn as Ancient.
* Ancient items can come from all sources; monster or chest drops, [[gambling]], [[Horadric Cache]]s, or [[crafting]]. (Crafting can produce Ancient, including an Ancient [[Hellfire Ring]] or [[Hellfire Amulet]].)
* The odds increase on higher levels of Torment, from around 1.5% on Torment 1 up to 10% on Torment 6 (from monster drops).
** It's not yet known how the odds of an item being ancient are set for Gambling or Crafting, since if they were tied to difficulty level, players would just create Torment 6 games to do their gambling and crafting.

===Affix Values===
Not all affixes are affected by Ancient. Those that are will always roll with higher numbers on an Ancient item. Examples:
* [[Mainstat]] or [[vitality]] rolls at 500-750 on normal [[legendary gloves]] and 751-1000 on Ancient legendary gloves.
* [[Mainstat]] or [[vitality]] rolls at 416-500 to normal [[legendary rings]] and 501-600 on an Ancient legendary ring.
* [[ResAll]] rolls 80-100 on normal armor and rings, and 101-120 on Ancient armor and rings.

===Not Ancient Boosted===
Some affixes are not boosted by occurring on an Ancient item, and these include many of the most powerful affixes in the game. Affixes not affected by Ancient include:
* [[Critical hit Chance]]
* [[Critical hit Damage]]
* [[Attack Speed]]
* [[+Elemental Damage]] % to a single element.
* [[+Damage to Elites]]
* [[Socketed]] (There are not additional sockets nor better odds for an ancient item to be socketed.)
* All special [[Legendary Affixes]] are unchanged by Ancient items.

===Value by Item Type===

One major point of debate concerning Ancient Items during their PTR testing was the varying utility by item slot. An ancient item of the same type with good affixes was always a big upgrade, but since Ancient items are as random as all other items, in the game, they were more or less likely to be useful depending on the item slot.

'''Ancient weapons''' were the most useful, with guaranteed much higher damage than on any non-Ancient item.

'''Ancient Armor''' was sometimes a big upgrade, with potentially much higher rolls to mainstat and vitality and resistance, but with so many potential affixes on armor it's quite rare to find an ancient piece with bonuses to the properties a character requires. For instance, a typical build would require shoulders with +mainstat, +vitality, +res all, and +%damage to a specific skill. A non-ancient item with all of those would never be improved upon by an ancient version of the same item with only 2 or 3 of those properties.

'''Ancient Jewelry''' is the least improved by Ancient, since most of the best modifiers on jewelry, including crit hit, crit chance, +elemental damage, attack speed, and socket, are unaffected by Ancient. The only likely boost on top end jewelry is to the +mainstat, which is nice to increase with Ancient, but is only worth a couple of hundred points to stat, and thus never worth using at the expense of any of the other affixes. Few players on the PTR testing of [[patch 2.1.2]] were able to find ancient versions of jewelry that were upgrades over non-ancient jewelry, since players found at least 10x more non-ancient legendary jewelry items and it usually takes dozens of pieces of jewelry to find one with close to ideal stats.

==Legendary Items List==

There are many hundreds of legendary items, including Set Items and Crafted Items. See all of them in the huge, multi-tab navigation box at the bottom of this page. A listing of just the Legendary items by type for quicker reference:

{|
| '''Legendary Armor:'''
* [[Legendary Amulets]]
* [[Legendary Rings]]
* [[Legendary Helms]]
** [[Legendary Wizard Hats]] - {{c_slate|Wizard}}
** [[Legendary Spirit Stones]] - {{c_slate|Monk}}
** [[Legendary Voodoo Masks]] - {{c_slate|Witch Doctor}}
* [[Legendary Chest Armor]]
** [[Legendary Cloaks]] - {{c_slate|Demon Hunter}}
* [[Legendary Shoulders]]
* [[Legendary Bracers]]
* [[Legendary Belts]]
** [[Legendary Mighty Belts]] - {{c_slate|Barbarian}}
* [[Legendary Pants]]
* [[Legendary Boots]]
 
'''Legendary Off-Hand:'''
* [[Legendary Shields]]
* [[Legendary Crusader Shields]] - {{c_slate|Crusader}}
* [[Legendary Sources]] - {{c_slate|Wizard}}
* [[Legendary Quivers]] - {{c_slate|Demon Hunter}}
* [[Legendary Mojos]] - {{c_slate|Witch Doctor}}

| '''Legendary Weapons:'''
* [[Legendary Axes]]
* [[Legendary Daggers]]
* [[Legendary Daibos]] - {{c_slate|Monk}}
* [[Legendary Flails]] - {{c_slate|Crusader}}
* [[Legendary Maces]]
* [[Legendary Fist Weapons]] - {{c_slate|Monk}}
* [[Legendary Spears]]
* [[Legendary Swords]]
* [[Legendary Staves]]
* [[Legendary Wands]] - {{c_slate|Wizard}}
* [[Legendary Mighty Weapons]] - {{c_slate|Barbarian}}
* [[Legendary Ceremonial Knives]] - {{c_slate|Witch Doctor}} 
* [[Legendary Bows]]
* [[Legendary Crossbows]]
* [[Legendary Hand Crossbows]] - {{c_slate|Demon Hunter}}
 
'''Others Legendary Items:'''
* [[Legendary Follower Items]]
* [[Legendary Health Potions]]
 
|}

==Legendary Scaling==

During Diablo 3 vanilla, Legendary items had tightly-designated stat ranges, and thus fell into a clear hierarchy of quality. Players in the end game could find legendaries of level 60, 61, 62, or 63, and in almost every case the 61 legendary was better than the 60, the 62 was better than the 61, and so on. This created a system where well-geared characters knew that 90% of legendaries were "trash" even before identifying the item, since most legendary items could not roll with top level stats, and in many cases good Rare items were better than Legendaries. (And 9.9% of the remaining 10% were also trash, if they didn't roll with good random modifiers.)

[[Loot 2.0]] reworked Legendaries in several ways, improving them across the board. (These changes all apply to Set items and crafted leg/set items as well.)

* Legendaries roll with bigger/better stats than Rares. The numbers are simply larger.
* Legendary affix values scale to your character level. Thus a legendary that can first drop from a level 30 target will be a great item (random rolls permitting) if you find that same item at level 50, or level 70, since the numbers scale to be appropriate for your character.
* Many legendary items (including all of the best and most scarce) have [[legendary affix]]es, specially-powerful {{C_orange|orange text properties}} inherent to the item that can not be obtained on other items.

The result of these changes, especially the scaling, is that all legendaries you find, whatever your character's level, have a very good chance to be an upgrade at the time.

It also means that legendary items of the same level are equivalent in value, aside from the luck of the roll and if they have a legendary affix. All the items of the same type pull from the same pool of [[primary affixes|primary]] and [[secondary affixes]], with numbers in the same range, so which item is best generally depends on the luck of the [[RNG]] on which affixes spawn. And [[enchanting]] allows the player to change one affix (though not the legendary affix) to customize the gear to their purpose.

[[File:Leg-comparison-shoulders1.JPG|center|thumb|800px|Three versions of the Death Watch Mantle shoulders at level 70 show the variety in random affixes.]]

==New Legendaries in D3v2 and RoS==

[[File:Drop-set-boots1.jpg|thumb|300px|Set boots show the beam and the mini-map star icon.]]
Loot 2.0 added some new legendary items to Diablo 3, but the main change was the legendary scaling, which made every legendary that dropped potentially a top quality item, better than any Rare could be.

Reaper of Souls was where the real expansion of Legendary and Set Items took place though, with dozens of new items added, most of them Item Sets that can only drop at level 70, with the most powerful set as [[Torment-only]], where they only drop on the Torment1-6 difficulty levels.

In addition to new legendaries and sets and every type, Reaper of Souls also added [[legendary follower items]] for [[followers]], and even [[legendary potions]] with special bonuses on top of their normal healing function.

The full list of Legendary and Set items in Reaper of Souls is too large to be easily read on one page, so see it in the navigation box at the bottom of this page, where multiple tabs can hold all the content without becoming a massive scrolldown.

==Legendary Drop Rates==

Legendary drop rates as of [[Patch 2.0.5]] Reaper of Souls and Diablo 3. The increase is 15% per difficulty level above Torment 1; the actual numbers are larger than 15% since it is a cumulative bonus and is factored into the overall legendary drop rate equation.

These figures are no longer accurate, since the D3Y2 buff was made permanent. We do not yet know the exact new figures, but add +100% to everything, at a minimum. See details below:

* Normal: 0% Legendary drop bonus, 25% bonus in [[Nephalem Rift]]s.
* Hard: 0% Legendary drop bonus, 25% bonus in Nephalem Rifts.
* Expert: 0% Legendary drop bonus, 25% bonus in Nephalem Rifts.
* Master: 0% Legendary drop bonus, 25% bonus in Nephalem Rifts.
* Torment 1: +15% Legendary drop bonus, +44% bonus in Nephalem Rifts.
* Torment 2: +32% Legendary drop bonus, +65% bonus in Nephalem Rifts.
* Torment 3: +52% Legendary drop bonus, +90% bonus in Nephalem Rifts.
* Torment 4: +75% Legendary drop bonus, +119% bonus in Nephalem Rifts.
* Torment 5: +101% Legendary drop bonus, +151% bonus in Nephalem Rifts.
* Torment 6: +131% Legendary drop bonus, +189% bonus in Nephalem Rifts.

[[File:D3y2-community-buff.JPG|thumb|200px|Not so "limited" time.]]
These numbers were increased by a special community buff during Diablo 3's week-long Second Anniversary event. The buff added +100% to legendary drop rate, though Blizzard declined to explain just what that meant, and where in the item drop formula the 100% fit.

Due to popular request, Blizzard decided to make the +100% buff rate the new normal drop rate for legendaries, once the community event ended. [http://diablo.incgamers.com/blog/comments/anniversay-buff-permanent]

<blue>Josh Mosquera: I come bearing exciting news. Due to the overwhelming popularity of our Anniversary buff we have decided to keep the increased Legendary drop rate once the Anniversary celebration ends. Once the buff is disabled tomorrow morning, you will find that the new base line drop rates for Legendary items will be the same as those you have all enjoyed for the last week.</blue>

===Legendary Pity Timer===

Blizzard has tweaked the legendary drop rate repeatedly during testing, most notably in the "doubled it" buff noted above. The game (in D3v2 and RoS) also has a [[Pity Timer]] that ensures a player never goes more than about two hours without finding a legendary item. Travis Day spoke about it in January 2014:[http://diablo.incgamers.com/blog/comments/travis-day-weighs-travis-day-weighs-in-on-reaper-of-souls-legendary-item-drop-rates]

<blue>The fact that some people claim to go for 10+ hours without finding a legendary is not only not our intent, but should in fact be impossible. We added a system in the expansion that tracks the amount of time you spend fighting creatures without finding a legendary and after a certain period of time will slowly start increasing the legendary drop rate. Once a legendary drops for you, actual item not crafting recipe or material, we reset that timer. This is meant to be a safety net so that the random can never be too extreme to the negative end. If players are legitimately going 18+ hours and not seeing a legendary it’s possible that there are some bugs floating around that need to be identified.
 
And before anyone responds saying TWO HOURS IS TOO LONG! let me say that we know as time goes on and we patch content or players get better gear and find better specs that will not be the reality. Higher difficulties do in fact increase your chance to find legendary items, coupled with people playing in coop also increasing the rate that everyone overall finds items, etc. Our final target is roughly in the 90 minute range for advanced players. This doesn’t factor in crafting items, trading with friends in coop or any of the other means that we already know players can use to accelerate their legendary acquisition rate.</blue>

A comment the next day confirmed that the pity timer does not run all the time and can not be exploited by standing in town. It only counts when players are triggering "could have dropped a legendary" events, such as killing monsters and opening chests.

<blue>First the clarification, the timer system that works behind the scenes is meant to be exactly that, behind the scenes. No you can’t afk the system, there are a lot of moving pieces to it and we talked about it extensively before we implemented it to guarantee its not exploitable. At it’s heart Diablo is a game about slaughtering demons and getting random cool rewards. The system that is in place should never be experienced by 99% of the population, it’s there for the 1% who just get really bad random rolls for an excessively long period of time. If we want you to get a legendary every 2 hours, the system basically says “ok it’s been like double/triple that period of time, just help the guy out!”</blue>

===Magic Find===

[[Magic Find]] is present in [[D3v2]] and [[RoS]], but much decreased in value, post-[[D3v]]. Only 10% of a character's Magic Find value is applied to the legendary drop rate, so a character with 50% Magic Find would only gain a 5% boost to legendary finding. Furthermore, in the [[Loot 2.0]] system, Magic Find is very rarely found as an item bonus, is no longer granted by leveling up or via [[Paragon Points]] (it was in the [[Paragon 2.0]] system during development, and during the Reaper of Souls beta test)

This is a major change from the first 2 years of Diablo 3, when Magic Find was of huge importance. During D3v, most players felt that 300% Magic Find was required for a decent legendary drop rate, and well geared characters with high Paragon levels aimed for 400% or more. This was not hard to obtain with sufficient play time, since each Paragon level granted a 3% bonus to Magic Find and Gold Find. The total Magic Find from equipment + Paragon levels was hard capped at 300%, but additional Magic Find added by [[Monster Power]], [[Fortune Shrines]], multiplayer bonuses, and [[Nephalem Valor]] added to the gear bonus with no hard cap limitations.)

* See the [[Magic Find]] article for more details on changes to that property over time.

==Legendary Item Drop Tables==

Some items drop more often than others. This was true in Diablo 1 and Diablo 2, and it's always been true in Diablo 3, though the developers have never shared the exact stats or weighting. That changed to a considerable extent in early May 2014 when [http://diablo.incgamers.com/blog/comments/diablo-3-legendary-drop-rates-revealed Diablo.IncGamers.com revealed] the weighting for each legendary item, revealed via datamining by a Korean gaming site.

The full list of more than 500 items is far too large to include in this page but can be viewed in forum posts:

* [http://diablo.incgamers.com/forums/showthread.php?858142-Legendary-Drop-Rates-Data-Norm-Master-Drop-amp-Gamble Legendary Drop Rates: Normal-Master + Gambling].
* [http://diablo.incgamers.com/forums/showthread.php?858143-Legendary-Drop-Rates-Data-Torment-Drop Legendary Drop Rates: Torment].
* [http://diablo.incgamers.com/forums/showthread.php?858144-Legendary-Drop-Rates-Data-Smart-Loot Legendary Drop Rates: Smart Loot]

[[Smart Drops]]: 
The odds are only relevant for [[smart drops]]. Most item drops in Reaper of Souls are smart drops, in which only the appropriate item types and specific items will drop for each class. For instance, a Wizard will only find boots from item sets the wizard can use, and not from sets designed for other classes. Not all drops are "smart drops" and about 15% of all item drops are completely random. This means any class can potentially find any item or legendary item.

The item drop odds have been tweaked many times in patches, and the overall odds change each time additional legendary items are added to the pool. Even aside from specific items being made more or less likely to drop, the total number of possible items changes the odds. For a hypothetical example, if there were 8 legendary boots (including [[set]] boots) that could drop for a Monk, each boot would have a 1/8 or 12.5% chance of dropping. If a patch added two more legendary boots that could drop for a monk, each boot would then have a 1/10 or 10% chance of dropping, thus making any specific boot slightly harder to find even while the total amount of legendary boots seen by that Monk remained constant.

===The Rarest Legendary Items===

[[File:Hand-xbows.jpg|frame|Legendary Hand Crossbow smart drop odds.]]
All legendary items are weighted to drop as a % of the items of that type. The game first selects a type of item for a legendary drop, then picks which item of that type will drop. If a Smart Drop (about 15% of all drops are not smart and are totally random) then the weighting is applies to determine which of the items of that type will drop.

Gambling with [[Blood Shards]] is always "Smart" and characters will never get random legendary items that way.

Prior to [[Patch 2.1.2]], all items were weighted as 1/1, 1/2, 1/5, or 1/10 odds to drop from a Smart Drop. The following items were all the rarest, at 1/10th chance of dropping. This was relative odds to other items of that type. See the Hand Crossbow drop odds in the table to the right for an example. [[Calamity (Item)|Calamity]] was weighted at 1/10, [[Natalya's Slayer]] and [[K'Mar Tenclip]] were weighted at 1/2, and all the rest were 1/1 (There were no hand crossbows set to 1/5 drop rate.)

The following items were all the rarest to drop, all set to 1/10th rarity, prior to [[Patch 2.1.2]], which boosted all the drop rates of these items to the next tier at 1/5. (One exception: [[The Star of Azkaranth]] was initially set to 1/50 drop rate, the only item with such scarcity in the entire game.)

'''Armor:'''
* [[Legendary Rings]]: [[Focus]], [[Restraint]]
* [[Legendary Amulets]]: [[Mara's Kaleidoscope]], [[Xephirian Amulet]], [[Ancestor's Grace]], [[The Star of Azkaranth]]
* [[Legendary Pants]]: [[Hexing Pants of Mr. Yan]], [[Pox Faulds]]
* [[Legendary Bracers]]: [[Lacuni Prowlers]]
* [[Legendary Gloves]]: [[Frostburn]], [[Tasker and Theo]]
* [[Legendary Boots]]: [[Ice Climbers]]
* [[Legendary Belts]]: [[The Witching Hour]]
* [[Legendary Wizard Hats]]: [[Velvet Camaral]]

'''Weapons:'''

* [[Legendary Swords]]: [[Rimeheart]], [[Shard of Hate]]
* [[Legendary Hand Crossbows]]: [[Calamity (Item)|Calamity]]
* [[Legendary Bows]]: [[Kridershot]]
* [[Legendary Crossbows]]: [[Chanon Bolter]]
* [[Legendary Wands]]: [[Wand of Woh]]
* [[Legendary Orbs]]: [[Winter Flurry]]
* [[Legendary Ceremonial Knives]]: [[Starmetal Kukri]]
* [[Legendary Mojos]]: [[Shukrani’s Triumph]]
* [[Legendary Crusader Shields]]: [[Akarat’s Awakening]]
* [[Legendary 2H Swords]]: [[Cam’s Rebuttal]]
* [[Legendary 2H Maces]]: [[The Furnace]]

 

=Legendary Archive=

{{Archived|March 2014|The remainder of this page covers Legendary items during Diablo 3's development. The information is not accurate for the current game, but is preserved for archival value.}}

==Diablo 3 Legendary Archive==

Information about Legendary items during Diablo 3's development and then after release.

===2008: Unique to Legendary===

The top tier of items in Diablo 1 and Diablo 2 were called "Unique." Diablo 3 changed the term to "Legendary" and this prompted some debate and

Bashiok gave some explanations for the item name change in a forum post in October 2010: [http://diablo.incgamers.com/blog/comments/blue-unique-to-legendary/]

::'''Why else would they rename the Unique items to Legendary?'''
::'''Bashiok:''' Unique items in Diablo II were only “unique” in that only one of them would drop per-game. Using the term “unique” to describe them implies many things, none of which are likely to be true.

::World of Warcraft uses the word a bit more intelligently in that it is indeed unique in that your character can only ever have one of them.

::''Because they will be using the same “Unique” setup that WoW uses''
::'''Bashiok:''' We have no plans to have such a system.

::World of Warcraft uses unique and unique equipped for character balance, so that the designers know what items a character can have equipped at any one time. Balance is important to us, but probably not to the same degree that we would want to restrict use of dual-wielding two of some awesome legendary sword. For instance.

::...I guess I would probably follow that up with the usual, ‘but nothing is set in stone’. I guess if we were to hit a point where dual wielding the most awesome sword in the game completely broke everything, we’d have to do something like unique-equipped.

::But even then, you could still find them, pick them up, and trade them off… so I’m not even sure how unique-equipped kills hoarding.

Fan reaction to this change has been negative to indifferent. Diablo players have come to love Unique items and the golden text that identifies them. The first [http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/unique dictionary definition of "unique"] does mean "one of a kind" but the other meanings just mean "special," so it's not that misleading of a term.

The name is created by the usage in the game, and everyone playing soon knows what unique means. Besides, if they're going to be literal, doesn't this mean that they need a whole lore story for every "legendary" item, or else that name is no more accurate than "unique?" In regards to that question, there still remains many legendary items which, via their description, should be unique, such as [[Tal Rasha's Lidless Eye]] ([http://diablonut.incgamers.com/item/tal-rashas-lidless-eye db]).
In the end, however, this is merely semantics and nostalgia at work.

==Legendary Item Appearance==

Most legendary pieces of armor do not have a unique model, but are rather a re-skinned version of an existing normal armor piece (most often the "balor" item set, or otherwise the "warlord" item set). Sometimes an item, such as [[Ice Climbers]], will simply be colored blue, and that is the only way to signify their difference from a standard, non-legendary item. This includes set items, as well.

Other legendary items do have unique appearances. All [[helms]], [[weapons]], [[off-hands]], and [[shoulders]] will have a unique look that distinctly shows in-game.

==2009: Fans Suggest Legendary Names==

Blizzard asked for fans to suggest names for Diablo 3 Legendary Items via their [[@Diablo]] twitter account in 2009. The contest rewarded 100 of the best Unique name suggestions with a [[Diablo pin]], with five of the best names promised to be used in the game. They never confirmed which five were chosen, but some of the suggestions were:

* Havenrow Skin Peeler, by KarlGrande
* Belial’s Wrath, by Kastrien
* Staff of the Sightless Eye, by Frostblind
* Elzix’s Misfortune, by ChrisEngine357
* Deckard’s Cane, by ClakyDruott
* Archivist’s Scroll, by Maelnison
* Axe of Assimilation, by ScottGallupe
* Que Hegan’s Zeal, by forbrukerombud
* Crown of Divine Right, by MShaneman
* Lord Telrandan’s Hand, by Erignmatic (Reworked to [[Telranden's Hand]] in the game.)
* Skull Crusher of Demise, by ravenneangelle

==2011: Early Legendary Examples==

[[Image:Armoroflucien.jpg|right|frame|Early legendary: Armor of Lucien Tooltip.]]
Early legendary item examples were shown off at GamesCom 2011. They were basically just [[stat stick]]s in those early iterations, with offensive stats like +damage and +Attack Speed on most of the items previewed.

'''Armor of Lucien''', Legendary Chest Armor
624 [[Armor]]
* +0.37 [[Attacks Per Second]]
* +23% Damage
* +269% Armor
* +25 Cold [[Resistance]]
* +45 Attack
* Requires: Level 60
* Durability: 25
* Sell price: 1,405

==2011-2012: Diablo 3's Early Legendary Disappointment==

Legendary items were badly designed, underpowered, and boring in Diablo 3, in the opinion of most players. The developers eventually came to agree, at least judging by the total system overhaul and improvement in [[Loot 2.0]]. The problem with underwhelming legendaries was obvious from the early going, with fans pointing it out as soon as the official game guide went live in early 2012. The issue grew more dramatic shortly after Diablo 3's launch May 2012, as the first players into Inferno began finding blue weapons that had considerably higher damage than the best of the legendary items.

The screen below is from shortly after D3's launch and it compares a legendary weapon from the database vs. an actual blue item, and weapons with over 1000 damage were not uncommon in that time frame.

[[File:D3-leg-vs-blue.jpg|center|thumb|600px|Legendary seen in the game guide vs. blue weapon found in early Diablo 3.]]

[[Bashiok]], the Diablo 3 community manager defended this system as a feature, not a bug. [http://diablo.incgamers.com/blog/comments/end-game-items-broken-legendaries-much-weaker-than-common-magic-items]

<blue>Bashiok: Intended design is for an end-game characters to have a mixture of set/legendary, rare, and crafted items.
Legendary items are commonly not going to be the best items. It’s a title that denotes a named item, with set stats, and a unique model. It does not mean they’re the best items. Completely random rares will be the best items in the game if they roll up the right stats.

The problem is legendary items are complete garbage currently. It was fun to find a great legendary in D2. It is no fun to find rares. It isn’t hard to understand, legendaries should be much, much better then they are, and there should be more of them.

Common, Blue weapons having double the damage on them then the “best” legendary weapons is a broken design, if your goal is to make a fun game.

I will take that feedback. Thank you.

As to the “more of them”, Diablo III at launch has more Legendaries than Diablo II had at launch. I’m sure we’ll add more as time goes on, but I do not agree that we don’t already have a lot.

Loot is messed up, period. This is carrot on a stick gameplay. It’s a simple idea. If most of the time you finally catch a carrot and it’s rotten, eventually you just stop giving chase.

If you’d like to give any specifics I’d be happy to write them down.</blue>

This philosophy changed over time and was completely removed during the run up to [[D3v2]] and Reaper of Souls. By then, the theory was that legendary and set items were always going to be [[BiS]] and Rares were merely stopgap equipment used during leveling and gradually replaced with higher quality gear once a character reached level the maximum level.

===Reaper of Souls Beta Test===

Fans were keenly-interested in the legendary and set items found during the Reaper of Souls beta, after legendary items has proven so lame during the early days of Diablo 3, and been greatly improved in Loot 2.0 leading up to Reaper of Souls. For the most part the items did not disappoint, and fans poured over image galleries.

* [http://diablo.incgamers.com/blog/comments/reaper-of-souls-legendary-item-gallery Legendary Gallery #1]: November 24, 2013.
* [http://diablo.incgamers.com/blog/comments/reaper-of-souls-legendary-items-beta-gallery-2 Legendary Gallery #2]: November 27, 2013.
* [http://diablo.incgamers.com/blog/comments/reaper-of-souls-legendary-items-beta-gallery-3 Legendary Gallery #3]: December 4, 2013.
* [http://diablo.incgamers.com/blog/comments/reaper-souls-legendary-item-gallery-4 Legendary Gallery #4]: January 31, 2014.

==Media==

Millions of images of legendary items can be seen online, with many galleries posted during the game's development.

* [http://diablo.incgamers.com/gallery/showgallery.php?cat=644 Legendary items equipped] (pre-beta).
* [http://diablo.incgamers.com/gallery/showgallery.php?cat=646 Weapons and off-hands equipped] (pre-beta).

Reaper of Souls:
* [http://diablo.incgamers.com/blog/comments/reaper-of-souls-legendary-item-gallery RoS Beta Legendary Gallery #1]: November 24, 2013.
* [http://diablo.incgamers.com/blog/comments/reaper-of-souls-legendary-items-beta-gallery-2 RoS Beta Legendary Gallery #2]: November 27, 2013.
* [http://diablo.incgamers.com/blog/comments/reaper-of-souls-legendary-items-beta-gallery-3 RoS Beta Legendary Gallery #3]: December 4, 2013.
* [http://diablo.incgamers.com/blog/comments/reaper-souls-legendary-item-gallery-4 RoS Beta Legendary Gallery #4]: January 31, 2014.

<gallery>
File:Legendary-drop-leoric.jpg|Legendary ring from Leoric.
File:Drop-set-plan3.jpg|Legendary set plan dropped in Reaper of Souls.
</gallery>

[[Category:Items]]
[[category:legendary]]
[[category:basics]]
[[Category:Item Sets]]

{{Template:Items navbox|armor1}}

User:WitchDoctor

2014-04-04T04:01:00Z

WitchDoctor: profile update

WitchDoctor is a player who has played diablo for a while, although somewhat recently stuck to this name. For the class,see [[Witch Doctor]]. This page is for some background information on the player.

==Diablo Games==
===Diablo I===
Diablo I is currently WitchDoctor's favorite diablo game because of its music and atmosphere. He plays in vanilla leveling his level 30 rouge.

===Diablo II===

WitchDoctor has played diablo 2 for several years. He quit back in 2012ish and played Diablo 3, leaving his main accounts to expire. He still has single player experimental characters and plays on his barbarian Pisa on an alternate account that was still intact when he returned to diablo 2 in October 2013, and has about 5 shared mule accounts still operating. However, he never found a zod rune (although a friend of his did) and does not use the enigma armor. When playing he tries to stray as far away from cookie cutter and normal runs (baal runs, key runs, etc) as possible.

Recently he has been logging back in every once in a while to keep his remaining account(s) up, and has been a little more active lately.

===Diablo III===

WitchDoctor (WitchDoctor 1834) played on his Demon Hunter and his Wizard, and had only a single Witch Doctor, below level 60. Overall, he had 2 Wizards, 1 demon hunter, and 4 small characters.

His time was spent on grinding, giving away gear, and helping newer players in game.

In the months of November and December he collected as many spare items as possible and distributes them to players in game who were newer/just coming back after a while. His activity faltered in January, and stopped playing entirely in February. By March, he played no more Diablo III. This was because of severe hard drive issues, his old ring of diablo friends dissolving, and installation errors. He is still on Starcraft II. When ROS was released, he decided to not buy it.

==Forums==

WitchDoctor frequently checks Diablo Incgamers and the main blizzard website. He also has accounts on other fansites, used only if he has a need for them. He checks his incgamer's profile and recent changes on diablowiki somewhat often, although not much anymore. He used to check his diablofan's profile and post screenshots from all 3 diablo games on it, but due to a recent update that removed all the profile features he liked, he no longer checks that website anymore than once a month, and that is mostly out of old habits dying hard.

===Diablowiki===

WitchDoctor is particularly fond of improving the diablowiki site. He considers it to be the best diablo wiki out there, and thinks it only needs a ''little'' bit of updating. To contact him, just post a comment on his '''talk''' page or pm him on Incgamers (same username).

For his contributions, on November 23 2013 he was awarded the title DiabloWiki.Net Ink Slinger by Elly on Diablo Incgamers. In the month of December, due to actively playing another game he spent almost no time on working with diablowiki articles, but still found the time to check and delete spam articles and replace him with his own little witty comments. By March 2014, his activity was nothing. In april, however, he intends to spend some time on the Diablo II wiki.

==Known Information==

Most players typically refer to WitchDoctor as a "he", including himself, so although he never directly states his gender it can be assumed he is male. No other information floating around can be considered as fact about him, and he never directly says information about his life. He has a habit of being on and off, and never is completely dedicated to whatever he is playing since that dang thing called life keeps interfering.

==Projects==

Currently WitchDoctor is inventorying his diablo 2 mules (taking forever, and he did literally nothing in December 1023) and working on his archive of screenshots, slowly. The archive is on his alternate computer.

==Other Games==

Witchdoctor also plays:

* Outwars - Windows 95 action game.
* Medieval II: Total War and previous games - None of the newer ones.
* Airfix Dogfighter - Not played often as it crashes.
* Streets of Simcity - Same as above, crashes more frequent however.
* All simcities up to 3000 - including the origional on floppy discs (somewhere).
* Mechwarrior 3 and 4
* Mechcommander I
* Starcraft II

Plus some other games not listed here.

==References==

All this information was given by WitchDoctor. It is up to the reader to decide the credibility of it.

User:WitchDoctor

2014-03-07T14:32:57Z

WitchDoctor: another'un

WitchDoctor is a player who has played diablo for a while, although somewhat recently stuck to this name. For the class,see [[Witch Doctor]]. This page is for some background information on the player.

==Diablo Games==
===Diablo I===
Diablo I is currently WitchDoctor's favorite diablo game because of its music and atmosphere. He plays in vanilla leveling his level 30 rouge.

===Diablo II===

WitchDoctor has played diablo 2 for several years. He quit back in 2012ish and played Diablo 3, leaving his main accounts to expire. He still has single player experimental characters and plays on his barbarian Pisa on an alternate account that was still intact when he returned to diablo 2 in October 2013, and has about 5 shared mule accounts still operating. However, he never found a zod rune (although a friend of his did) and does not use the enigma armor. When playing he tries to stray as far away from cookie cutter and normal runs (baal runs, key runs, etc) as possible.

Recently he has been logging back in every once in a while to keep his remaining account(s) up, but play on that game is declining.

===Diablo III===

WitchDoctor (WitchDoctor 1834) played on his Demon Hunter and his Wizard, and had only a single Witch Doctor, below level 60. Overall, he had 2 Wizards, 1 demon hunter, and 4 small characters.

His time spent was some grinding, giving away gear, and helping newer players IG.

In the months of November and December he collected as many spare items as possible and distributes them to players in game who were newer/just coming back after a while. His activity faltered in January, and stopped playing entirely in February. By March, he played no more Diablo III. This was because of severe hard drive issues, his old ring of diablo friends dissolving, and installation errors. He is still on Starcraft II, although there is a high chance he will abandon blizzard gaming altogether.

==Forums==

WitchDoctor frequently checks Diablo Incgamers and the main blizzard website. He also has accounts on other fansites, used only if he has a need for them. He checks his incgamer's profile and recent changes on diablowiki often (taking down some spammers a few notches along the way). He used to check his diablofan's profile and post screenshots from all 3 diablo games on it, but due to a recent update that removed all the profile features he liked, he no longer checks that website anymore than once a week, and that is mostly out of old habits dying hard.

===Diablowiki===

WitchDoctor is particularly fond of improving the diablowiki site. He considers it to be the best diablo wiki out there, and thinks it only needs a ''little'' bit of updating. To contact him, just post a comment on this '''talk''' page or pm him on Incgamers (same username).

For his contributions, on November 23 2013 he was awarded the title DiabloWiki.Net Ink Slinger by Elly on Diablo Incgamers. In the month of December, due to actively playing another game he spent almost no time on working with diablowiki articles, but still found the time to check and delete spam articles and replace him with his own little witty comments.

==Known Information==

Most players typically refer to WitchDoctor as a "he", including himself, so although he never directly states his gender it can be assumed he is male. No other information floating around can be considered as fact about him, and he never directly says information about his life. He has a habit of being on and off, and never is completely dedicated to whatever he is playing since that dang thing called life keeps interfering.

==Projects==

Currently WitchDoctor is inventorying his diablo 2 mules (taking forever, and he did literally nothing in December 1023) and working on his archive of screenshots, slowly. He just moved the whole archive onto a flash drive, freeing up a couple gigs of hard drive space.

He also is working on fully updating diablowiki to its full potential... slooowwwwwlllyyyyy.

==Other Games==

Witchdoctor also plays:

* Outwars - Windows 95 action game.
* Medieval II: Total War and previous games - None of the newer ones.
* Airfix Dogfighter - Not played often as it crashes.
* Streets of Simcity - Same as above, crashes more frequent however.
* All simcities up to 3000 - including the origional on floppy discs (somewhere).
* Mechwarrior 3 and 4
* Mechcommander I
* Starcraft II

Plus some other games not listed here.

==References==

All this information was given by WitchDoctor. It is up to the reader to decide the credibility of it.

User:WitchDoctor

2014-03-07T14:31:41Z

WitchDoctor: update diablo playing (my section)

WitchDoctor is a player who has played diablo for a while, although somewhat recently stuck to this name. For the class,see [[Witch Doctor]]. This page is for some background information on the player.

==Diablo Games==
===Diablo I===
Diablo I is currently WitchDoctor's favorite diablo game because of its music and atmosphere. He plays in vanilla leveling his level 30 rouge.

===Diablo II===

WitchDoctor has played diablo 2 for several years. He quit back in 2012ish and played Diablo 3, leaving his main accounts to expire. He still has single player experimental characters and plays on his barbarian Pisa on an alternate account that was still intact when he returned to diablo 2 in October 2013, and has about 5 shared mule accounts still operating. However, he never found a zod rune (although a friend of his did) and does not use the enigma armor. When playing he tries to stray as far away from cookie cutter and normal runs (baal runs, key runs, etc) as possible.

===Diablo III===

WitchDoctor (WitchDoctor 1834) played on his Demon Hunter and his Wizard, and had only a single Witch Doctor, below level 60. Overall, he had 2 Wizards, 1 demon hunter, and 4 small characters.

His time spent was some grinding, giving away gear, and helping newer players IG.

In the months of November and December he collected as many spare items as possible and distributes them to players in game who were newer/just coming back after a while. His activity faltered in January, and stopped playing entirely in February. By March, he played no more Diablo III. This was because of severe hard drive issues, his old ring of diablo friends dissolving, and installation errors. He is still on Starcraft II, although there is a high chance he will abandon blizzard gaming altogether.

==Forums==

WitchDoctor frequently checks Diablo Incgamers and the main blizzard website. He also has accounts on other fansites, used only if he has a need for them. He checks his incgamer's profile and recent changes on diablowiki often (taking down some spammers a few notches along the way). He used to check his diablofan's profile and post screenshots from all 3 diablo games on it, but due to a recent update that removed all the profile features he liked, he no longer checks that website anymore than once a week, and that is mostly out of old habits dying hard.

===Diablowiki===

WitchDoctor is particularly fond of improving the diablowiki site. He considers it to be the best diablo wiki out there, and thinks it only needs a ''little'' bit of updating. To contact him, just post a comment on this '''talk''' page or pm him on Incgamers (same username).

For his contributions, on November 23 2013 he was awarded the title DiabloWiki.Net Ink Slinger by Elly on Diablo Incgamers. In the month of December, due to actively playing another game he spent almost no time on working with diablowiki articles, but still found the time to check and delete spam articles and replace him with his own little witty comments.

==Known Information==

Most players typically refer to WitchDoctor as a "he", including himself, so although he never directly states his gender it can be assumed he is male. No other information floating around can be considered as fact about him, and he never directly says information about his life. He has a habit of being on and off, and never is completely dedicated to whatever he is playing since that dang thing called life keeps interfering.

==Projects==

Currently WitchDoctor is inventorying his diablo 2 mules (taking forever, and he did literally nothing in December 1023) and working on his archive of screenshots, slowly. He just moved the whole archive onto a flash drive, freeing up a couple gigs of hard drive space.

He also is working on fully updating diablowiki to its full potential... slooowwwwwlllyyyyy.

==Other Games==

Witchdoctor also plays:

* Outwars - Windows 95 action game.
* Medieval II: Total War and previous games - None of the newer ones.
* Airfix Dogfighter - Not played often as it crashes.
* Streets of Simcity - Same as above, crashes more frequent however.
* All simcities up to 3000 - including the origional on floppy discs (somewhere).
* Mechwarrior 3 and 4
* Mechcommander I
* Starcraft II

Plus some other games not listed here.

==References==

All this information was given by WitchDoctor. It is up to the reader to decide the credibility of it.

User talk:WitchDoctor

2014-03-07T14:27:20Z

WitchDoctor: update

==Questions?==
Stick em down in here!

===Other Contacting===

I use this same account name on Incgamers, in case you need to have a chat in private/just want to talk there. Feel free to catch me if you see me in a game (same username in Diablo 3 / Starcraft 2, if you see the name in other games its not me).

Your best chance of talking to me is on incgamers as I do not play diablo anymore.

Crusader

2014-02-20T04:48:57Z

WitchDoctor: did a little bit of updating

The '''Crusader''' is the sixth class and will be available with the first Diablo 3 expansion pack [[Reaper of Souls]].

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!colspan="2" style="text-align: center; line-height: 12px; font-size: 14px;"|'''[[Diablo III Class]]'''
|-
|colspan="2" style="text-align: center;"|[[File:Crusader.jpg|right|250px|Male and female Crusader]]
|-
!colspan="2" style="text-align: center; line-height: 14px; font-size: 16px;"| The Crusader
|-
| [[Skills]]:
| [[Crusader Skills]]
|-
| [[Passives]]:
| [[Crusader Passives]]
|-
| [[Resource]]:
| [[????]]
|-
! colspan="2" | Common [[builds]]:
|-
| colspan="2" | Unknown.
|-
! colspan="2" |
<center>Background</center>
|-
| Origin:
| Distant branch of the [[Zakurum]]
|-
| Affiliation:
| TBA
|-
| Friends:
| TBA
|-
| Foes:
| None known
|}

==History in Diablo 3==
The crusader was first seen in the [[http://us.battle.net/d3/en/blog/10648023/diablo%C2%AE-iii-reaper-of-souls%E2%84%A2-revealed-8-21-2013|Diablo III: Reaper of Souls Revealed]] Article.
===Development===
===Release===
==Skills==
* Crusader active skills can be found [[Crusader Skills|here]].
* Crusader passive skills can be found [[Crusader Passive Skills|here]].

==Resource==

*[[Wrath]]

==Class-Specific Items==

*[[Flails]]
*[[Crusader Shields]]

==Background and Lore==

Crusaders are an off shoot of the Paladins, holy warriors of the [[Zakarum]] church. The developers have described them as a sort of "special forces" branch of the order, specially trained and geared to battle evil in all forms.

Blizzard CM [[Nevalistis]] offered a concise description of the class differences in a forum post from January 2014.[http://us.battle.net/d3/en/forum/topic/11224103008#3]

<blue>The Paladin, Templar, and Crusader are all from different branches of the Zakarum faith. The Zakarum itself is a series of teachings from Akarat, the founder of this religion. Very little is known of Akarat himself, as after he spread his teachings in Kehjistan, he ventured into the east and was never seen again. The worship comes from embodying a series of ideals rather than the belief in a centralized deity. 

The Paladins serve as the militaristic branch of the Zakarum faith. It's important to note that this is an overarching group, and includes but is different from The Order of Paladins, where the Diablo 2 Paladin had his origins. This order broke away during the Zakarum Inquisition and later merged with the Knights of Westmarch. There are several orders of Paladins, so think of them as a very large organization, many with different goals or motivations, though all devoted to the Zakarum.

The Crusaders, at the time of General Rakkis' journey that ended in founding Westmarch, were created in secret and sent to the East, by a Zakarum cleric named Akkhan. He was growing concerned that there was a darkness creeping into his faith. The Crusaders still continue this mission, seeking a way to purge the evil that has tainted their faith.

The Templar are a different branch of the Zakarum founded in Westmarch, well after the city itself was founded. Very little is known about their ultimate goals or internal operations. If this is something you're interested in, I definitely recommend talking to Kormac. ;) His story will be explored a bit more in Reaper of Souls, as will the stories for the other followers and artisans.</blue>

==Trivia==

[[Category:Diablo 3 Expansion]]
[[Category:Classes]]
[[category:Basics]]

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Pandemonium Fortress Level 2

2014-02-20T04:43:34Z

WitchDoctor: touched up, lore section needs sources

The Pandemonium Fortress is an ancient fortress in [[Pandemonium]] that once contained The [[Worldstone]].[[Archangel]] [[Tyrael]] saw its construction (source needed), and since then the fortress changed owners many times - some times under [[Angels]], some times under [[Demons]]. Each of them added to its fortifications.The fortress is known to change in appearance according to who controls it, but according to [[Tyrael]] it has never been in its current state while under any [[Angel]]ic control before.

In [[Reaper of Souls]], Pandemonium Fortress is a 3-level dungeon. It is the last area before facing [[Malthael]]. The player enters it from The Ram after completing [[Breaching the Fortress]] quest. The map of the area is separated into various segments that you travel through. Red gateways known as [[Death Gate]]s sometimes connect paths that are not directly attached,and throughout the area there are archways that at filled with electrical field that stun (and possibly freeze) as well as damage players if passed through.

[[File:Pandemonium_fortress_l2.jpg|right|thumb|250px|]]
==Access to Levels==

*[[Pandemonium Fortress Level 1]]
*[[Pandemonium Fortress Level 3]]

==Quests in {{PAGENAME}}==

*[[Angel of Death]]

==Events in {{PAGENAME}}==

*[[Demon Prison]]
*[[Ancient Prison]]

==Common Monsters found in {{PAGENAME}}==

*Fill this in please?

==Special Monsters found in {{PAGENAME}}==

*[[Celik]]

[[category:Act V]]

{{stub}}

Pandemonium Fortress Level 1

2014-02-20T04:42:02Z

WitchDoctor: touch ups

The Pandemonium Fortress is an ancient fortress in [[Pandemonium]] that once contained The [[Worldstone]].[[Archangel]] [[Tyrael]] saw its construction (source needed), and since then the fortress changed owners many times - some times under [[Angels]], some times under [[Demons]]. Each of them added to its fortifications.The fortress is known to change in appearance according to who controls it, but according to [[Tyrael]] it has never been in its current state while under any [[Angel]]ic control before.

In [[Reaper of Souls]], Pandemonium Fortress is a 3-level dungeon. It is the last area before facing [[Malthael]]. The player enters it from The Ram after completing [[Breaching the Fortress]] quest. The map of the area is separated into various segments that you travel through. Red gateways known as [[Death Gate]]s sometimes connect paths that are not directly attached,and throughout the area there are archways that at filled with electrical field that stun (and possibly freeze) as well as damage players if passed through.

[[File:Pandemonium_fortress_l1.jpg|right|thumb|250px|]]
==Access to Levels==

*The Ram
*[[Pandemonium Fortress Level 2]]

==Quests in {{PAGENAME}}==

*[[Angel of Death]]

==Events in {{PAGENAME}}==

*[[The Souls of Angels]]

==Common Monsters found in {{PAGENAME}}==

*Needs to be populated.

==Special Monsters found in {{PAGENAME}}==

*Needs to be populated.

[[category:Act V]]

{{stub}}

Realm of Pandemonium

2014-02-20T04:32:55Z

WitchDoctor: cant believe i missed this one

'''Pandemonium''' is the realm that lies between the [[High Heavens]] and the [[Burning Hells]].

In diablo lore, it is the battleground of the [[Eternal Conflict]], where demons and angels fought since the beginning of their existence. [[Tyrael]] stated in an in-game quote that he spent 20 years after the destruction of the [[Worldstone]] reforming in the Realm of Pandemonium. In addition, the [[Pandemonium Fortress]] was built in Pandemonium over the [[Worldstone]] before it was stolen by [[Inarius]] to create [[Sanctuary]].

Pandemonium is the place where the second half of [[Act V]] in Diablo 3 takes place.

==Areas within {{PAGENAME}}==

*[[The Pandemonium Gate]]
*[[Path of War]]/Abandoned Siege Camp
*[[Battlefields of Eternity]]
*[[The Siege Outpost]]
*The Ram
*[[Pandemonium Fortress Level 1]]
*[[Pandemonium Fortress Level 2]]
*[[Pandemonium Fortress Level 3]]
*Heart of the Fortress

==Quests in {{PAGENAME}}==

*[[The Pandemonium Gate]]
*[[The Battlefields of Eternity]]
*[[Breaching the Fortress]]
*[[Angel of Death]]

-->

[[Category:Zones]]
[[Category:Act V]]

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{{stub|it requires sources/rewriting/confirmable information badly}}

User talk:WitchDoctor

2014-02-20T04:28:36Z

WitchDoctor: added my little corner

Talk:Realm of Pandemonium

2014-02-20T04:25:31Z

WitchDoctor: added a notice

===Lack of information===

This article could use some information about pandemonium... the problem is, it needs some sources. If anyone can find a good source of information about this area that would be cool :). [[User:WitchDoctor|WitchDoctor]] ([[User talk:WitchDoctor|talk]]) 05:25, 20 February 2014 (CET)

Realm of Pandemonium

2014-02-20T04:24:00Z

WitchDoctor: top article rewriting, needs sources and buffer data THAT HAS SOME REFERENCE.

'''Pandemonium''' is the realm that lies between the [[High Heavens]] and the [[Burning Hells]].

In diablo lore, it is the battleground of the [[Eternal Conflict]], where demons and angels fought since the beginning of their existence. [[Tyrael]] stated in an in-game quote that he spent 20 years after the destruction of the [[Worldstone]] reforming in the Realm of Pandemonium.

Pandemonium is the place where the second half of [[Act V]] in Diablo 3 takes place.

==Areas within {{PAGENAME}}==

*[[The Pandemonium Gate]]
*[[Path of War]]/Abandoned Siege Camp
*[[Battlefields of Eternity]]
*[[The Siege Outpost]]
*The Ram
*[[Pandemonium Fortress Level 1]]
*[[Pandemonium Fortress Level 2]]
*[[Pandemonium Fortress Level 3]]
*Heart of the Fortress

==Quests in {{PAGENAME}}==

*[[The Pandemonium Gate]]
*[[The Battlefields of Eternity]]
*[[Breaching the Fortress]]
*[[Angel of Death]]

-->

[[Category:Zones]]
[[Category:Act V]]

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{{stub|it requires sources/rewriting/confirmable information badly}}

Fezuul

2014-02-20T04:17:32Z

WitchDoctor: clarification

Fezuul is a [[superunique]] [[Grotesque]] that spawns in the [[Dahlgur Oasis]]. This monster appears in an area containing three piles of bones near a small pond. If you click on one of the piles, they all break open, releasing [[Skeleton]]s from them and other points around the pond. Eventually, Fezzul himself will spawn, saying a few words and finishing with, "Drink and be blessed!". Killing Fezzul dropps [[The Promises of Fezuul al-Kazaar]] lore book (if not already picked up by that character), which is required for the [[Judge of Character]] [[achievement]].

[[File:Fezuul_1.jpg|thumb|left|570px|Fezuul, the master of bone (V1.08)]]
[[File:Fezuul_2.jpg|thumb|left|420px|Fezuul and its friendly face (V1.08)]]

[[category:Superuniques]]

Realm of Pandemonium

2014-02-19T04:52:37Z

WitchDoctor: updated stub desc

'''Pandemonium''' is the realm that lies between the [[High Heavens]] & the [[Burning Hells]]. It is where where the angels & demons fought the eternal conflict.
It is where Archangel [[Malthael]] first found the eye of Anu & recognized its importance, followed by him renaming it the [[Worldstone]] & declaring that the angels should protect it & where the angels first encountered the demons who sought to control the world stone & its powers & so the Archangel [[Tyrael]] saw the construction of the Pandemonium Fortress to protect it

Pandemonium is the place where the second half of [[Act V]] takes place

==Areas within {{PAGENAME}}==

*[[The Pandemonium Gate]]
*[[Path of War]]/Abandoned Siege Camp
*[[Battlefields of Eternity]]
*[[The Siege Outpost]]
*The Ram
*[[Pandemonium Fortress Level 1]]
*[[Pandemonium Fortress Level 2]]
*[[Pandemonium Fortress Level 3]]
*Heart of the Fortress

==Quests in {{PAGENAME}}==

*[[The Pandemonium Gate]]
*[[The Battlefields of Eternity]]
*[[Breaching the Fortress]]
*[[Angel of Death]]

-->

[[Category:Zones]]
[[Category:Act V]]

__NOTOC__

{{stub|it requires sources/rewriting/confirmable information badly}}

Realm of Pandemonium

2014-02-19T04:51:54Z

WitchDoctor: small fix

Realm of Pandemonium

2014-02-19T04:51:34Z

WitchDoctor: oh em gee.... i really need to COMEPLETELY REWRITE THE ENTIRE top paragraph.

'''Pandemonium''' is the realm that lies between the [[High Heavens]] & the [[Burning Hells]]. It is where where the angels & demons fought the eternal conflict.
It is where Archangel [[Malthael]] first found the eye of Anu & recognized its importance, followed by him renaming it the [[Worldstone]] & declaring that the angels should protect it & where the angels first encountered the demons who sought to control the world stone & its powers & so the Archangel [[Tyrael]] saw the construction of the Pandemonium Fortress to protect it

Pandemonium is the place where the second half of [[Act V]] takes place

==Areas within {{PAGENAME}}==

*[[The Pandemonium Gate]](technically it's in the high heavens)
*[[Path of War]]/Abandoned Siege Camp
*[[Battlefields of Eternity]]
*[[The Siege Outpost]]
*The Ram
*[[Pandemonium Fortress Level 1]]
*[[Pandemonium Fortress Level 2]]
*[[Pandemonium Fortress Level 3]]
*Heart of the Fortress

==Quests in {{PAGENAME}}==

*[[The Pandemonium Gate]]
*[[The Battlefields of Eternity]]
*[[Breaching the Fortress]]
*[[Angel of Death]]

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User:WitchDoctor

2013-12-30T04:36:57Z

WitchDoctor: updated my page

WitchDoctor is a player who has played diablo for a while, although somewhat recently stuck to this name. For the class,see [[Witch Doctor]]. This page is for some background information on the player.

==Diablo Games==
===Diablo I===
Diablo I is currently WitchDoctor's favorite diablo game because of its music and atmosphere. He plays in vanilla leveling his level 30 rouge.

===Diablo II===

WitchDoctor has played diablo 2 for several years. He quit back in 2012ish and played Diablo 3, leaving his main accounts to expire. He still has single player experimental characters and plays on his barbarian Pisa on an alternate account that was still intact when he returned to diablo 2 in October 2013, and has about 5 shared mule accounts still operating. However, he never found a zod rune (although a friend of his did) and does not use the enigma armor. When playing he tries to stray as far away from cookie cutter and normal runs (baal runs, key runs, etc) as possible.

===Diablo III===

WitchDoctor (WitchDoctor 1834) currently plays on his Demon Hunter and his Wizard, and only has 1 Witch Doctor, who is below level 60. He has 2 Wizards, 1 demon hunter, and 4 small characters.

He currently gives away gear, tags along starting character games, fights ubers with his friends, does some pvp, and collects screenshots. He typically does not do runs or use cookie cutter builds, and likes to experiment with builds and gear.

In the months of November and December he collects as many spare items as possible and distributes them to players in game who are newer/just coming back after a while.

==Forums==

WitchDoctor frequently checks Diablo Incgamers and the main blizzard website. He also has accounts on other fansites, used only if he has a need for them. He checks his incgamer's profile and recent changes on diablowiki often (taking down some spammers a few notches along the way). He used to check his diablofan's profile and post screenshots from all 3 diablo games on it, but due to a recent update that removed all the profile features he liked, he no longer checks that website anymore than once a week, and that is mostly out of old habits dying hard.

===Diablowiki===

WitchDoctor is particularly fond of improving the diablowiki site. He considers it to be the best diablo wiki out there, and thinks it only needs a ''little'' bit of updating. To contact him, just post a comment on this '''talk''' page or pm him on Incgamers (same username).

For his contributions, on November 23 2013 he was awarded the title DiabloWiki.Net Ink Slinger by Elly on Diablo Incgamers. In the month of December, due to actively playing another game he spent almost no time on working with diablowiki articles, but still found the time to check and delete spam articles and replace him with his own little witty comments.

==Known Information==

Most players typically refer to WitchDoctor as a "he", including himself, so although he never directly states his gender it can be assumed he is male. No other information floating around can be considered as fact about him, and he never directly says information about his life. He has a habit of being on and off, and never is completely dedicated to whatever he is playing since that dang thing called life keeps interfering.

==Projects==

Currently WitchDoctor is inventorying his diablo 2 mules (taking forever, and he did literally nothing in December 1023) and working on his archive of screenshots, slowly. He just moved the whole archive onto a flash drive, freeing up a couple gigs of hard drive space.

He also is working on fully updating diablowiki to its full potential... slooowwwwwlllyyyyy.

==Other Games==

Witchdoctor also plays:

* Outwars - Windows 95 action game.
* Medieval II: Total War and previous games - None of the newer ones.
* Airfix Dogfighter - Not played often as it crashes.
* Streets of Simcity - Same as above, crashes more frequent however.
* All simcities up to 3000 - including the origional on floppy discs (somewhere).
* Mechwarrior 3 and 4
* Mechcommander I
* Starcraft II

Plus some other games not listed here.

==References==

All this information was given by WitchDoctor. It is up to the reader to decide the credibility of it.

User:AbbieLambrick

2013-12-28T05:05:27Z

WitchDoctor: spammer

O.o

User:SheltonIronside

2013-12-26T22:39:58Z

WitchDoctor: spammer

spammers really need to learn english, or maybe just some good grammar.

Rakanoth

2013-12-21T16:57:46Z

WitchDoctor: minor update

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|armament= Arm Blades
|dps= Unknown
|dmg_low= Unknown
|dmg_high= Unknown
|range= [[Melee]]
|speed= Unknown
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|spells= Unknown
|found= The Library of Fate
}}''Rakanoth'' is the ''Lord of Despair''. His design was originally used by the Blizzard North development team for [[Azmodan]], but was changed at some unknown point in time by the current Diablo III development team into his current model.

Little is known of Rakanoth. He was once a lieutenant of Andariel, granted the title of Lord of Despair. He presided over the Realm of Despair, serving as a warden and keeper of prisoners. After Andariel's death, Rakanoth's actions are undocumented, but would eventually shift his allegiance to Diablo when he assaulted the High Heavens. During Diablo's assault, Rakanoth was summoned to imprison Auriel, the Archangel of Hope. He was defeated by the [[Nephalem]]

==Boss Abilities==

Rakanoth, like [[Izual]], is a heavy melee fighter. However, he doesn't move as much as the fallen angel, but he is no less dangerous. Rakanoth will utilize ranged [[AoE]] attacks, summons, and can also teleport. His instant hitting teleport attack is by far his most dangerous ability, and it can instantly one-hit kill most players on Inferno, or even on Hell. Players without top quality gear and high hit points must learn the timing to avoid it with some sort of evasion skill, or suffer.

Below are a list of his abilities:

* '''Cleave''' - [[Cleave]], like that of the [[Barbarian]], is Rakanoth's standard melee attack. He will attack with either one or both of his arm blades, hitting anything in range. This attack is capable of hitting multiple players or minions.

* '''Teleport''' - Rakanoth is able to [[teleport]] to the player, but usually only does this when they are out of range of his attacks. He also has a "teleport away" ability where he will teleport across the arena in order to begin his summoning ability.

* '''Blade Strike''' - Rakanoth will teleport to the player and, turning a bright blue, will lunge his arm blades into the hero. This attack does very high damage.

* '''Volley''' - The Lord of Anguish will rise into the air, spread his arms outwards, and fire off a volley of blue spinning blades. The blades will not penetrate the pillars that are around the arena, so the player can take shelter behind them during this attack.

* '''Summon Minion''' - Rakanoth will appear as if he is going to fire a volley, rising into the air, but instead he'll spin around slowly in a circle, lobbing volley blades around the arena. After the attack is finished, two to three [[Soul Devourer]]s will spawn near the hero, in full tongue-lashing glory. The minions drop [[health globes]].

* '''[[Inferno]] Difficulty''' - As of [[Patch 1.0.3]], Rakanoth has an [[enrage timer]] where after three minutes, he becomes much more aggressive, attacking the player and using abilities more often.

==Statistics==

Rakanoth's statistics.

{| border="1"
|+ Rakanoth's Stats Per Difficulty
! Difficulty !! Max. Health !! Min. Damage !! Damage Delta !! Run Speed !! Level
|-
! Normal
| 17,825|| 738|| 295|| 0.540|| 29
|-
! Nightmare
| 168,799|| 5,742|| 2,296|| 0.569|| 49
|-
! Hell
| 760,406|| 23,196|| 9,278|| 0.600|| 60
|-
! Inferno
| 4,281,295|| 283,717|| 113,486|| 0.629|| 63
|}

==Associated Achievements==

{{Template:Associated Achievement}}
{{achievement header}}<achievement type="single">Death From Afar</achievement>

==Post Release Changes==

Rakanoth was modified slightly in the v1.0.4 patch.[http://diablo.incgamers.com/blog/comments/official-patch-1-0-4-notes/]

<blue>Rakanoth Bug Fixes
* Rakanoth is now properly immune to crowd control effects when enraged in Inferno difficulty</blue>

==Gallery==

Images of Rakanoth in game and in concept art.

<gallery>
File:Rakanoth_ingame.jpg|Rakanoth in-game.
File:Rakanoth_volley.jpg|Volley.
File:Rakanoth_summon.jpg|Summon Minion.
File:Rakanoth_bladestrike.jpg|Blade Strike.
File:Rakanoth_melee.jpg|Cleave.
File:Map_libraryoffate.jpg|Rakanoth's boss arena.
</gallery>

==Media==

<gallery>
File:Portrait_boss_Rakanoth.png‎|Rakanoth's boss portrait.
</gallery>

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Quest

2013-12-19T04:18:17Z

WitchDoctor: article update, probably could use some revising and needs more pics to it

'''Quests''' lead the story and progression of Diablo 3.

==What Are Quests?==

Quests are the meat of Diablo's plot, story, and progression. They must be followed to progress.

==How Quests Work==

Quests are triggered and continued by following the instructions below the minimap on the side of the screen. When completed, they provide experiance and gold (only), which is a big change from how the Diablo II quest system worked. In addition, all quests ''must'' be completed, one after another in the order they are given. There is no way to fail a quest in Diablo III. It is possible to have a high level character "carry" you through content, until you reach level caps. It is even possible to [[powerlevel]] through the content.

[[Waypoints]] and [[Checkpoints]] are unlocked based on quest progress.

==Quest Interface==

[[Image:Q-the-skeleton-king1.jpg|thumb|125px|Blizzcon 2008 display.]]
[[File:Quest-window2.jpg|left|thumb|150px|Blizzcon 2009 display.]]

The final quest interface was modified from the blizzcon versions. The final version consists of a small description of the task to accomplish, and a journel entry for whatever class the player is using. A very easy way to check what is needed to be done on a quest is to look to the right of the screen, which has the instructions on how to progress in the quest.

==List of Quests==

Below are all the quests in [[Diablo III]].

===Events===

[[Events]] are mini quests that build off, but are not directly connected to (usually) the main quests.

===Act I Quests===

[[Act I]] has 10 quests.
The following quests are in Act I:

* [[The Fallen Star]]
* [[The Legacy of Cain]]
* [[A Shattered Crown]]
* [[Reign of the Black King]]
* [[Sword of the Stranger]]
* [[The Broken Blade]]
* [[The Doom in Wortham]]
* [[Trailing the Coven]]
* [[Imprisoned Angel]]
* [[Return to New Tristram]]

The [[Return to New Tristram]] is manditory for doing the [[Infernal Machine]] event.

===Act II Quests===

[[Act II]] has 10 quests.
The folling quest are in Act II:

* [[Shadows in the Desert]]
* [[The Road to Alcarnus]]
* [[City of Blood]]
* [[A Royal Audience]]
* [[Unexpected Allies]]
* [[Betrayer of the Horodrim]]
* [[Blood and Sand]]
* [[The Black Soulstone]]
* [[The Scouring of Caldeum]]
* [[The Lord of Lies]]

===Act III Quests===

[[Act III]] has less quests than the other acts, with only 7.
The following quests are in Act III:

* [[The Siege of Bastion's Keep]]
* [[Turning the Tide]]
* [[The Breached Keep]]
* [[Tremors in the Stone]]
* [[Machines of War]]
* [[Siegebreaker]]
* [[Heart of Sin]]

===Act IV Quests===

[[Act IV]], like [[diablo II]]'s {{iw|Act_IV Act 4}}, is the smallest act in Diablo III, with a grand total of 4 quests.
The following quests are in Act IV:

* [[Fall of the High Heavens]]
* [[The Light of Hope]]
* [[Beneath the Spire]]
* [[The Prime Evil]]

==Events==

[[Events]] are small sub-quests that have a random chance to spawn in an area. They can appear accross every act besides [[Act IV]]. Typically, they consist of completing a task for an npc, such as the [[Matriarch's Bones]] event or the [[Forged in Battle]] event.

==Quest Development==
[[Image:Q-the-skeleton-king1.jpg|thumb|125px|Blizzcon 2008 display.]]
[[File:Quest-window2.jpg|left|thumb|150px|Blizzcon 2009 display.]]
<blue>Atomic Gamer: Is there anything specifically from Diablo II that the team felt needed improvement and wanted to tweak for Diablo III? 
Kevin Martens: The questing and story. I think we’ve added way more quests, more variety of quests. We’ve randomized the quests, and have these sort of quests that are self contained. For example, if you enter a dungeon in Diablo III, there might be somebody standing at the entrance, like a treasure hunter, saying, “Hey, I heard stories about The Idol of Rygnar is hidden somewhere in this dungeon. Help me find it and you can share in the reward.” Then you go through the dungeon and protect this guy. Then you’ll find the idol and you’ll get the reward.

People will turn on you…you’re never quite sure what is going to happen. We’re adding all those random elements all over the world. There is way more quest content overall than Diablo II, period. Also, I think we wanted to do a much better job on the storytelling aspects, not just the cinematics, which are fantastic, but also in the storytelling itself, like more twists and turns, more interesting quests, more variety of experiences. That’s what we spent a lot of time on, and making the co-op nature of it better as well.</blue>

This was one of the first statements blizzard made on behalf of quests in diablo III. As you can see, blizzard was origionally intending to make quests diverse, interesting, and much improved to diablo 2.

===Blizzcons===

At [[Blizzcon 2008]], a couple of quests were playable. They were:

* [[Little Girl Lost]]
* [[Escort Mission]] (not actual name, the real one was never stated)
* [[The Skeleton King]]

All were featured in Tristram/ nearby dungeons. Quest rewards were small items (random boots and the like). Only the skeleton king quest appeared in the final game.

At [[Blizzcon 2009]], many more quests than the last year were avaible, based in the deserts in [[Act 2]]. They were:

* [[Find Alcarnus]]*
* [[Blood Money]]
* [[Stranded]]
* [[The Lost Girl]]
* [[Alesar's Pendant]]
* [[The Collapsing Tomb]]*
* [[The Lost Wagon]]
* [[The Necromancer's Book]]
* [[A Miner's Gold]]*
* [[The Idol of Rygnar]]*

Some of these quests appeared in some form or another in the final game (*'s). Rewards were items and experiance.

A couple small quests appeared at [[Blizzcon 2010]]. They were:

* [[The Torture Chambers of the Mad King]]
* [[Escort the Weapon Maker]]
* [[Queen Alyssa's Servants]]

All 3 of these quests appeared in the final game, although the first mention was expanded upon as the [[Imprisoned Angel]] quest.

===Early Stances===
<blue>I think Jay hinted during Blizzcon that there might be updated quests to keep higher level content exciting to keep people coming back and playing again. 
Julian Love: It's not so much actually high level versus low level. I think we have a plan that facilitates high level content. What I think you're really getting at there is replayability, and what that gets down to is the way we're exercising randomness within the game. We've put a lot of focus towards what kinds of randomness are really beneficial in supporting replayability and what things are just, heh, not all that important or not all that awesome. One of the things that we have in the system that we have is something that we call - well, we have a really technical name for it -- sub-scenes.

What it comes down to is we can sort of like create a hole in the world that's like a socket that we can fill with just about anything that we want. It could be empty ground with a bunch of monsters on it, it could be a giant canyon that a really elaborate scripted event happens, it could turn into a caravan walking across the desert that you have an escort quest on. The point being is that this hole in the earth can randomly, at any time become something totally different. It could even be a doorway to a whole new dungeon that you've never seen before. So, the fact that the world is able to change things up and actually deliver different events, stories and quests is what's really going to make the game a lot more replayable at the both the low and high ends.</blue>

This was somewhat implamented in the final game, but not to a great extent.

<blue>We’re doing -– there’s a main storyline that is, parts of it might be randomized depending on the area, depending on what the quests are, depending on what the actual objective is. But apart from the main quest, most of our other content is randomized, so from game to game it will be completely different. I can’t give you any kind of percentage because we’re still playing with those numbers, but that’s really the way we built this game is so that we can have a lot of randomized content, including story elements and including quests.</blue>

This did appear in the final game in the form of events. However, the main story is completely static.

====Randomized Quests====
<blue>DF: Will there be class specific quests in the game? If so, can you explain how they would work? 
Jay Wilson: We are still discussing whether or not we would like to include class-specific quests in the game mainly because of the simple fact that it may not really fit in with the fast-paced play-style known to the Diablo series. While this is definitely something we would like to consider, we just haven't agreed on how just yet.

However, we would like to do something in regards to character specificity. We are looking into having different dialogues and experiences for the same quest or interaction for each of the classes. Each character will react differently and have different responses for different scenarios. For example, the Barbarian may do or say one thing in response to what an NPC has to say, whereas a Witch Doctor will treat the encounter in a complete opposite manner.</blue>
<blue>Can you tell us anymore about the class-specific quest system in the game? 
Jay Wilson: Not a a lot but I can tell you we do intend to do some class quests and mostly what we want to do is give [[story]] arcs to the characters. We don't want them to be kind of nameless...I think we've reached a point where we are trying to build a universe and a universe is filled with characters. And so a lot of what we want to do with the class quests is support that idea to build characters.

: So when you start the game will the different classes begin in the same place or will you start at some sort of origin level to setup your character? 
Jay Wilson: Originally we wanted to do an origin - we wanted to actually have the characters start in their own location but it was a monumental cost for us to do it so we decided that we would have everyone start in the same place. We do try to set the characters up though. We have a little event early on that's going to try to setup where the characters come from and what their mindset is.</blue>

Blizzard has not yet added class specific quests in Diablo III.

===Summary===

Long story short, blizzard appears to have had goals for making quests more interesting but ended up scrapping most of it, and now we have what we do today.

===Quests in the Expansion===

No changes to quests have been made so far in the expansion [[Reaper of Souls]].

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[[Category:Featured articles]]
[[stub:it requires pictures of the modern quest interface]]

Diablo 3 Basics

2013-12-11T04:44:38Z

WitchDoctor: updated to be more "wiki writing worthy"

This is the '''Diablo 3 Basics''' page, which is the main '''Fact Sheet''' of known '''Diablo III''' information. Regardless if you just started playing diablo 3 or returned after a long vacation to other games, this page will get you up to speed!

[[Image:Diablo III Logo.jpg|right|150px]]If you are looking for the '''Basics Section''' of the wiki, you can find that in the '''[[:Category:Basics|Basics Category]]'''.

==Introduction==

Diablo III, while featured completely in '''3D''' with a 3D environment, follows closely in Diablo II's track by using the classic isometric view, fast gameplay, and randomized content for high replayability. Some changes have been made in order to make the game more welcoming to new players, to ramp up the difficulty more smoothly, and to create a "deep and engaging" combat system. The Diablo III developers took inspiration from previous games in the series, as well as [[World of Warcraft]], and other different games such as ''Zelda'' and ''God of War''.

Remember that if you're a newcomer to Diablo, you can find more related articles in the '''[[:Category:Basics|Basics Category]]'''.
 
 

== Character Classes ==
The Following classes are in diablo 3:

{|
! colspan="3" | Barbarian
|-
| [[File:Barbfemale.jpg|85px]]
| [[File:Barbmale.jpg|80px]]
| '''The [[Barbarian]]''' - The one returning class is still a mighty brawler, but he's gained countless new tricks, with only a few skills returning, and all of them modified in various ways.
* [[Barbarian Skills]]
* [[Barbarian passive skills]]
* [[Resource]]: - [[Fury]]
|-
! colspan="3" | Demon Hunter
|-
| [[File:Demon-hunter-art4.jpg|center|125px]]
| [[File:Demon-hunter-male.jpg|90px]]
| '''The [[Demon Hunter]]''' - The game's ranged weapon specialist, Demon Hunters are fast-moving archers with devastating offensive capabilities and a wide variety of tactical traps and demonic gadgets.
* [[Demon Hunter Skills]]
* [[Demon Hunter passive skills]]
* [[Resource]]: - [[Hatred]] & [[Discipline]]
|-
! colspan="3" | Monk
|-
| [[File:Monkfemale.jpg|85px]]
| [[File:Monkmale.jpg|85px]]
| '''The [[Monk]]''' - The follower of a thousand Gods, Monks from [[Ivgorod]] are holy warriors. Combining fast-hitting, melee-ranged martial arts with holy magics, auras, and defensive tactics.
* [[Monk Skills]]
* [[Monk passive skills]]
* [[Resource]]: [[Spirit]]
|-
! colspan="3" | Witch Doctor
|-
| [[File:Witchfemale.jpg|85px]]
| [[File:Witchmale.jpg|70px]]
| '''The [[Witch Doctor]]''' - A mysterious class from the jungles of [[Teganze]], the Witch Doctor wields a huge array of magical attacks, as well as the ability to mind control enemies and summon up pets to fight alongside him.
* [[Witch Doctor Skills]]
* [[Witch Doctor passive skills]]
* [[Resource]]: [[Mana]]
|-
! colspan="3" | Wizard
|-
| [[File:Wizardfemale.jpg|85px]]
| [[File:Wizardmale.jpg|70px]]
| '''The [[Wizard]]''' - An evolutionary improvement from the Sorcerer and Sorceress seen in previous Diablo titles. Wizards boast an impressive array of offensive spells that are useful for every situation, as well as defensive spells and escape abilities that combine to create this murderous [[glass cannon]].

* [[Wizard Skills]]
* [[Wizard passive skills]]
* [[Resource]]: [[Arcane Power]]
|-
|}

=== Skills ===
When just starting the game, you have a basic attack, which is a [[primary skill]]. The next level will unlock another skill, and so on. At level 6, you unlock [[skill runes]], which alter the way skills work. For example, a [[Wizard]]'s basic fire [[Hydra]] can use a skill rune turning it into a frost or lightning hydra. Each 10 levels up to level 30, you unlock a [[passive]] slot, which change the way your character functions. For example, there is a [[Barbarian]] passive that makes it so instead of losing fury over time, you regenerate it. All basic skills are unlocked by level 30, but it takes until level 60 for your character to reach full potential.

Skills can be changed at your convenience. At level 60, changing skills makes you loose [[Nephalem Valor]]. When changed in town, there are no cooldowns.

Unlike diablo 2, many skills have cooldowns ranging from 5 seconds to a whooping 2 minutes. Skills with cooldowns tend to be more powerful than normal skills and area worth the wait.

==Monsters==

In [[Sanctuary]], you face many [[monsters]], [[demons]], [[beasts]], [[undead]], etc. They range from small, such as the [[imp]] found in crypts, or large, like the mighty [[Siegebreaker]]s that are employed by lords of hell. It will be neccessary to know the stengths and weaknesses of these monsters. You can begin learning about them here: http://www.diablowiki.net/Category:Monsters.

==Death==

In [[softcore]], death is very mild, punished only by 10% durability loss and a need to run back to where you came from. The task is made much easier by [[checkpoints]], which help with this, and [[waypoints]], which make going places a very simple task.

One planned feature that didn't make it into the game were specially gruesome player fatalities, which some bosses were to have the ability to inflict when they killed players.

==Difficulty Levels==

There are four [[difficulty]] levels in Diablo III, [[Normal difficulty]], [[Nightmare difficulty]], [[Hell difficulty]], and [[Inferno difficulty]]. Each difficulty level repeats the same game content, but with monsters, items, and everything else increased in level to keep scaling up the challenge. Normal is designed to be fairly easy, especially early on, to usher new players into the game and teach them the ropes without too much challenge. Difficulty starts to increase in Nightmare and Hell, and characters should max out at level 60 around the end of Hell. In addition, there are 10 [[monster power]] options that increase loot drops, experience gain, and the life and damage of your foes.

==Gold==

[[Gold]] is the main trading resource in diablo, and is common to find. It is used for repairs, buying potions and other services from vendors, trading, and the [[Auction House]].

==The Auction House==

The [[Auction House]] is a huge trading base, where you can buy and sell nearly every item in the game, excluding account bound items. It is being removed in March 2014.

==Items==

[[Image:Barbarian swing.jpg|thumb|right|[[Barbarian]] swinging two magical axes.]]
Armor and weapons function much as they did in previous games in the series. Players find low level gear early on, and one of the major goals/enjoyments of playing is to find better quality gear and thus improve your character's performance. One big change to the appearance of armor is the elimination of exception and elite versions of gear. Unlike in Diablo II, Diablo III characters will not find the exact same looking armor repeated on each difficulty level. Instead there are 18 "tiers" of armor, organized into something the developers call [[gear sets]].

Each gear set has a distinctive, organized look, and thus a character wearing all (or most) of say, gear set 14, would have a cohesive, coherent appearance as the items would match each other. The developers have released numerous screenshots of the classes in complete gear sets, and they are stylish indeed. It's less clear, in advance of playing the higher levels, just how often (if ever) a character will have most or all of the same gear set on, or if characters will always be clad in a mixture of different level equipment.

Item quality is similar to that of Diablo II, with item scarcity progressing [[normal]] > [[magical]] > [[rare]] > [[set]] > [[legendary]] (unique items). There should be more mixing and matching at the highest levels, with rare, set, and legendary items of approximately-equivalent quality, depending on the random mods they spawn with.

Item and weapon types can be seen below.

===Item Crafting===

[[Crafting]] returns in Diablo III, in a major game system that combines elements of the item crafting and item gambling systems from Diablo II. Players use the [[Blacksmith]] NPC [[Artisan]] to create semi-random weapons and armor, including (eventually) set items and legendary items. Each crafted item requires [[gold]] and [[materials]], and crafted items all have some pre-set and some random mods, making the item creation a gamble that player may wish to repeat many times, in hopes of spawning an item with better [[modifier]]s.

The Blacksmith must first know the [[recipe]] to create the item, and these are taught to the Artisans by [[training]] them to higher levels, as well as by finding crafting [[plans]], including rare ones, as drops from monsters and chests.

The [[Jeweler]] works very similar to the blacksmith, however he specializes in gems and some account bound rings + amulets, rather than gear.

===Armor and Weapon Types===

*[[Armor]]: [[helms]], [[shields]], [[Chest Armor|chest armor]], [[Hands|gloves]], [[Feet|boots]], [[rings]], [[amulets]], and [[belts]] return. Belts are now just another piece of armor; they do not have any special potion-holding function.
** New armor types compared to Diablo 2: [[pauldrons (item type)|Shoulders]], [[Wrists|bracers]], and [[pants]].
** New class-specific armor types compared to Diablo 2: [[Mighty Belts]] for the Barbarian; [[Cloaks]] for the Demon Hunter; [[Spirit Stones]] (helms) for the Monk; [[Voodoo Masks]] for the Witch Doctor, and [[Wizard Hats]] for the Wizard.

* [[Weapons]]: [[Axes]], [[Spears]], [[Polearms]], [[Swords]], [[Maces]], [[Bows]], [[Crossbows]], [[Wands]], [[Shields]]. (There are no throwing weapons in D3v, and many of these weapon types have class limitations -- Monks can not use bows/xbows, only Wizards and Witch Doctors can use wands, etc. See the individual items pages for full details.)
** New types of weapons compared to Diablo 2: [[Fists]], [[Daggers]] (no longer a type of sword).
** New class-specific weapons compared to Diablo 2: [[Mighty Weapons]] for Barbarians; [[Hand Crossbows]] for the Demon Hunter, [[Daibos]] and [[Fist]]s for the Monk, and [[Ceremonial Knives]] for the Witch Doctor.
*** Class specific weapons, off-hand only: [[Mojos]] for the Witch Doctor, [[Orbs]] for the Wizard, [[Quiver]]s and [[1 handed Crossbows]] for the Demon Hunter.

===Other Items Information===

* [[Runes]] are no longer found in Diablo III. They were never item socketables, but were socketed into skills, until a major system overhaul in early 2012.
* The [[inventory]] is much larger than it was in Diablo II, and after numerous permutations, it's settled on a large grid with all items either 1x1 or 1x2 in size, which allows for many more items than Diablo 2 ever did.
* The [[stash]] in town is large (though it shrunk from 5 to 3 pages during beta testing), and is shared between all characters on the same account. (But not HC and normal characters.) You must buy all the stash upgrades to take advantage of the space, though.
* All gold and item drops from monsters, chests, quests, etc, are specific to your character. You only see items you can pick up, and do not see items for other characters, nor do they see yours in party or public games.
** Items dropped by a character are seen by all, and can be picked up unless account bound.
* Trading is supported, both between characters and in a much larger way through the Battle.net [[Auction House]], which has two version, the gold and the [[real money]] version.
* [[Potion]]s are much simpler in variety than in previous Diablo games. There are no mana or rejuvenation potions, just health, and they come with a long cooldown between uses. Potions are intended for emergency use only, and players must learn to survive with life leech, hit point regeneration from equipment, and by using the [[health globes]] that monsters drop. Successful players must be a bit more cautious than they were in previous games of the series.

==NPCs==

[[Image:Cain-concept1.jpg|thumb|right|75px|[[Cain]]]]
As in previous games in the series, [[NPCs]] will feature importantly in Diablo III. Much of the game [[story]] will be given by the NPCs, and they will be more interactive, while their speeches will be shorter, more to the point, and can be listened to while playing; you are no longer forced to "stay awhile" to "listen."

[[Followers]]: Diablo III's answer to mercenaries from D2, the followers have their own skillset and rings, amulet and weapon slots that you can customize. In addition, you can give them follower specific items, such as the [[Templar Relic]].
[[Artisans]]: Are special NPCs who craft items and provide other essential services, as well as much dialogue and information about the game world and quests. They are the [[Blacksmith]] and [[Jeweler]], after the [[Mystic]] was removed during beta testing. She will return in [[Reaper of Souls]].

==Locations==

[[Image:Sanctuary World Map.jpg|thumb|225px|[[world map|Sanctuary world map]], with locations noted.]]The [[world map]] of [[Sanctuary]] was actually released with the second Diablo game's manual, but a new and improved map has been made by Blizzard, outlining the continents and the major [[settlement]]s. Many of these locations will be visited in [[Diablo III]], including [[Tristram]]. Areas close by that were never visited in the previous games will also have a chance, like the [[Leoric Highlands]] and [[Westmarch]], and much of Act Three takes place in the Barbarian Lands around the [[Arreat Crater]].

The scorching deserts of the [[Aranoch]] will be revisited by the player when they have the opportunity to visit one of the largest capital cities in Sanctuary: [[Caldeum]]. The player will also explore the depths of the [[Archives of Zoltun Kulle]], ex-horadric mage.

Outdoor areas will be less randomized than dungeons, and the terrain will for the most part be static. Instead, a lot of random scripted events will take place. You will find interactive environments with dangerous traps, obstacles, and [[destructible]] elements, such as vases and bookshelves. There will be "numerous" outdoor locations. These portions of the map that are randomised are called [[events]], and can even happen within randomised dungeons. Some are more common than others.

==Dungeons==

The land is filled with dungeons, as in Diablo II. Dungeons vary widely in size and design, and are much more randomized than outdoors.

<gallery>
Image:Screenshot 20.jpg|[[Dark Berserker]]s and a [[Grotesque]] in the [[Forgotten Tombs]].
Image:Screenshot 19.jpg|Several [[Walking Corpse]]s.
Image:Screenshot 16.jpg|[[Witch Doctor]] who's [[Skull of Flame|flameskulling]] some [[Walking Corpse]]s.
</gallery>

==Transportation==

As in Diablo II, travel is on foot. Unlike Diablo II, there is only one movement speed, rather than a walk and run option. This speed can be increased with item mods and some skills, and there is no stamina drain while moving. There are no [[mounts]] in Sanctuary, to ride about the world at a higher rate of speed.

The main method of speedy transportation in the game comes from [[waypoint]]s, of which there are dozens per act, many more than were found in Diablo II. Waypoints are tied to quests and there are multiple waypoints in connected areas, tied to each quest. For instance, a player can only use the waypoint to the start of an area, and then while clearing that area and deeper dungeons within it, additional waypoints will be encountered, for easy returns to town. This allows for more travel without cluttering up the waypoints menu with dozens of them, as well as preventing players from warping right to the end of a quest, Diablo 2 boss run style.

The [[town portal]] system evolved repeatedly during Diablo III's development. TPs were in as [[scroll]]s, then out entirely, then back in via the [[Stone of Recall]] system, then changed back to a town portal activated directly from the [[belt interface]]. See those pages for more details.

==Easter Eggs==

There are numerous small [[Easter Eggs]] already seen in Diablo III during the beta testing. These include funny item and monster names, developer names carved on headstones, inside jokes via the [[Achievements]], and more. There are certain to be many other discovered in the full game.

===Secret Level (SPOILER!)===

Most fans believed there would be a secret level in Diablo III with rainbows and unicorns and happy clouds, based on various hints and jokes the developers had been making stemming from the [[art controversy]]. The fans were right, as [[Whimsyshire]], the Diablo 3 secret level, was found shortly after the game's release. See that article for full details.

* [http://diablo.incgamers.com/forums/showthread.php?708777-The-secret-rainbow-level Rainbow Level forum thread from 2008]

==Art Changes==

Diablo III uses more color, or at least uses color more obviously, than previous games in the series, and this spawned numerous fan debates shortly after the title was revealed in June 2008. The early screenshots and gameplay movies sparked the [[art controversy]] and angry online petitions, which Blizzard reacted to by defending their design choices.
* The [[Art controversy]] article goes into great detail on this topic.

==Story Line==

[[Image:Cinematic 10.jpg|thumb|right|300px|Mystical comet overlooking a settlement in the western part of [[Sanctuary]].]]The [[story line]] of the game takes place twenty years after a few powerful heroes saved [[Sanctuary]] from the demonic onslaught in [[Diablo II]]. Those events took place out of the sight of the common populace, and have become myth or legend over the intervening years. Most of the principles are dead or insane, and no one has had any sight of the Archangel [[Tyrael]] since he destroyed the Worldstone, triggering an explosion that erased [[Mount Arreat]] and shattered the Barbarians' civilization.

Since the destruction of the [[Worldstone]], those few humans (such as [[Deckard Cain]]) who did know of the danger to the world have been expecting an imminent demonic invasion, without the Worldstone to keep them in the [[Burning Hells]]. This has not happened because, and players will eventually learn, the two remaining lords of Hell, [[Belial]] and [[Azmodan]], have been building armies for a full-on invasion, intended to utterly destroy humanity.

Additional information on the story line and specific details can be found here:http://www.diablowiki.net/Category:Lore

===Character Personalities===

Unlike the blank cyphers that all characters were in previous games in the series, the individual characters in Diablo III will have personalities. The Wizard is young, brash, and headstrong. The Monk is powerful and quietly confident. The Barbarian is strong and stoic. The Demon Hunter is angry and reckless in her (or his) need for vengeance. And the Witch Doctor is spiritual, mysterious, and misunderstood by the populace at large.

The characters behave accordingly, and inspire different replies and behavior from the NPCs. The [[Followers]] such as the [[Templar]] and [[Enchantress]] each have a distinct personality with a fleshed-out background and will not only banter to the player character, but also to other NPCs (and even to each other within the camp or town). The same holds true for other NPCs, such as [[Leah]], who may on occasion follow the player into the fray during a quest.

==Quests==

There are a lot more quests in Diablo 3 than Diablo 2, at least 10 each act. They are all manditory to progress though the game, although that is subject to change in the [[Reaper of Souls|expansion]].

Quests can be repeated in Diablo III through the game creation menu.

==Single Player and Multiplayer==

The main focus of Diablo III is co-op [[PvE]] style play. Up to four players (yes, just four) can join up in a game and play together, and players in the same game are always friendly and in the same party. Players can, however, do some [[Brawling]].

Game creation and group formation will be easier in Diablo III than in the past: it is mostly automated. Diablo III, being on "battle.net 2", is using a match-making system very similar to that which is seen in ladder play in [[StarCraft II]] or the dungeon finder in [[World of WarCraft]]. A player can choose a few options for their game, including whether or not they want it to be private, , which quest they would like to start on (if they don't wish to simply resume the quest they were last playing), and a tag (Monster Slaying, Key Warden or Brawling). Players can instantly join games in which people on their [[Friends List]] are playing.

Diablo III takes place over Battle.net. There is no offline mode: the game is online only. Diablo III is following in Starcraft's footsteps and does not include LAN support. Though Blizzard always claims that this is a benefit, enabling greater player connectedness, most players regard it as an annoyance implemented as a security feature, since all Diablo III play requires players to possess a Battle.net account and valid cd-key.

===Battle Arena===

[[File:Battle-arena-new-round1.jpg|frame|350px|A new round begins in the Battle Arena.]]

Arenas were first delayed, then delayed again, then replaced by [[Brawling]] with the promise better would be coming out. So far, no improvements have been made to pvp in Diablo 3.

[http://eu.battle.net/d3/en/blog/3828550/Diablo_III_PvP_Update-09_03_2012#blog]

===Battle.net 2.0===

Battle.net 2.0 for Diablo III includes a [[Friends List]], numerous matchmaking and automatic game joining options, and limited [[chat channel]] support.

==Other Changes==

Among the things that are not listed under their own headline, there are a few other things to highlight about Diablo III:
* '''[[Chest]]s''' will not ever spawn in a locked version.
* Monster corpses are no longer something that players can interact with. There are no corpse skills like Diablo II's {{iw|Corpse_Explosion Corpse Explosion}} or {{iw|Find_Item Find Item}}, and bodies on the ground will vanish after certain criteria have been met. However, dead bodies can be affected by [[physics]].
** There are no player corpses either, in the sense of lootable objects as they were in Diablo II. Like monsters, dead players are subject to the game's physics and can be blasted aside or out of sight by spells, and will vanish after a few seconds.

=== System Requirements ===

See the [[System Requirements]] article for full details on minimum and recommended system specs for PC and Mac.

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{|
| Windows Minimum Requirements:
* Windows® XP/Vista/7 (latest service packs) with DX 9.0c
* Intel Pentium® D 2.8 GHz or AMD Athlon™ 64 X2 4400+
* NVIDIA® GeForce® 7800 GT or ATI Radeon™ X1950 Pro or better
* 1 GB RAM (XP), 1.5 GB (Vista/7)
* 12 GB available HD space
* DVD-ROM (required for retail disc versions only)
* Broadband* Internet connection
* 1024x748 minimum resolution

| Mac Minimum Requirements
* Mac® OS X 10.6.8, 10.7.x or newer
* Intel® Core 2 Duo
* NVIDIA® GeForce® 8600M GT or ATI Radeon™ HD 2600 or better
* 2 GB RAM
* 12 GB available HD space
* DVD-ROM (required for retail disc versions only)
* Broadband* Internet connection1024x768 minimum resolution
|}
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{|
|
PC Recommended System Requirements
* Windows® Vista/7 (latest service packs)
* Intel® Core 2 Duo 2.4 GHz or AMD Athlon™ 64 X2 5600+ 2.8 GHz
* 2 GB RAM
* NVIDIA® GeForce® 260 or ATI Radeon™ HD 4870 or better

|
Mac Recommended System Requirements
* Mac® OS X 10.7.x or newer
* Intel® Core 2 Duo
* 2 GB RAM
* NVIDIA® GeForce® GT 330M or ATI Radeon™ HD 4670 or better

|}
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===Diablo Beta Testing===

The [[Diablo 3 beta]] test began in early September, 2011, and continued through the end of the year and into 2012. The frequency of patches and number of beta testers increased dramatically in early 2012, as the game neared completion and balancing changes grew more frequent.

Prior to the start of the test, the developers had repeatedly said it would be a quick beta test, devoted largely to technical issues and Battle.net stress testing. That turned out to be very untrue.

===Game Age Rating===

* '''America ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entertainment_Software_Rating_Board ERSB])''' - "M" Mature Rating (player should be at least 17 years old). No law enforcement.
* '''Europe ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PEGI PEGI])''' - 16+ (player should be at least 16 years old). No law enforcement (for most countries).
* '''Germany ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unterhaltungssoftware_Selbstkontrolle USK])''' - USK 16+ (player should be at least 16 years old). Law enforcement of USK.
* '''Read more''' in the '''[[rating]]s''' article.

==Who's in Charge?==

[[Blizzard Entertainment]] , with the Diablo III Game Director being [[Josh Mosqueira]]. [[Jay Wilson]] was formerly the Lead Designer and Game Director, but quit.

==Expansions, MMO or Diablo Movie==

[[Mike Morhaime]] said they would like to make '''Diablo III expansions annually'''[http://www.diii.net/blog/comments/diablo-3-will-have-several-expansions], and confirming plans for multiple expansions for the game. So far, [[Reaper of Souls]] has been announced.

==References==

(more references needed}

* [http://www.blizzard.com/us/press/080628.html Blizzard Press Release]

[[Category:Diablo III]]
[[Category:Basics]]
[[Category:Featured articles]]

Merchant

2013-12-11T04:39:48Z

WitchDoctor: updated article

'''Vendor''', '''merchant''', '''blacksmith''' and other related words all refer to a [[NPC]] who is selling and/or buying and/or [[repair]]ing goods and/or services. It's a pretty broad term for the sort of "useful" NPCs that are (mostly) not directly involved with [[quest]]s and story progression. Merchants are also the goal of a handful of [[achievements]] in Diablo III.

==Background==
Since the beginning of [[RPG]]s, there has always been someone there who was interested in buying your "Rotten Apples" or "Diamond Rings", and also able to sell you new treasure for [[gold]], or whatever the local currency would be.

These can be called by some generic term like ''merchant'' or ''vendor'', but is sometimes referred to with their real profession, like a ''blacksmith''. Depending on title, the items they sell can vary, like a potion master would only sell [[potion]]s.

Vendor NPCs are able to [[repair]] equipment and other functions, and while they mostly are not involved in [[quest]]s or have proper dialogues, they sometimes do that as well. The merchants in Diablo III are often NPCs who take part in side-stories, whether they are adventures in a desert cave, or even [[Event]]s like [[The Precious Ores]].

==Merchant Locations==

===Town Merchants===
Town merchants are static and will always be found in their own part of town.

They fall into a few general categories: Fence, Miner, and Collector. There are a few that are exclusive to each act.
* Fences sell bows and similar items, rings, amulets, and armor.
* Miners sell armor and melee weapons.
* Collectors sell weapons that are not really fitting into the other categories, armor, potions and dyes.

* Quartermasters are rather bland as they only sell potions. The only one in the game is in act 3.
* Barkeeps/Inkeepers have a very similar function, and that is that they sell potions, exactly like the Quartermaster.
* Peddlers sell weird weapons fitting for a Collector and all the special stuff in the game, such as the [[Hellfire Ring]] Plan and crafting plans. The only peddler in the game also sells [[Wirt's Bell]], essential for creating the [[Staff of Herding]].

===Act I===

* [[Tashun the Miner]] - Right next to [[Cain's House]].
* [[Arghus the Collector]] - Right along the path to the lower part of [[New Tristram]].
* [[Radek the Fence]] - Near the [[Jeweler]], by the lamp post.
* [[Bron the Barkeep]] - Right in the [[Slaughtered Calf Inn]].

===Act II===

* [[Squirt the Peddler]] - Right by the waypoint to the north. You might miss her if you do not know what to look for. She used to be in the [[Caldeum Bazaar]], but in a later patch was moved to the [[Hidden Camp]].
* [[Silmak the Fence]] - Far to the northwest of the [[Hidden Camp]].
* [[Lugo the Miner]] - Right by the gate to the [[Black Canyon Bridge]] in the [[Caldeum Bazaar]].
* [[Tilnan the Collector]] - Difficult to miss, just look for the round patch of green by the gate to Caldeum.
* [[Sadeir the Innkeeper]] - Located in the [[Searing Sands Inn]] in the [[Caldeum Bazaar]].

===Act III===

* [[Gorell the Quartermaster]] - Right by the [[Followers]].
* [[Botulph the Miner]] - Southeast of the waypoint.
* [[Litton the Fence]] - South of the waypoint.
* [[Vidar the Collector]] - Northwest of the waypoint.

===Act IV===

Same as Act III, as the town is the exact same.

===Act V (Beta)===
* [[Delilah the Collector]] - in town center.
* [[Ruthie the Fence]] - town center.
* [[Victor the Quartermaster]] - center.
* [[Powell the Miner]] - near the [[Overgrown Ruins]].

===Wandering Merchants===
Wandering merchants are ones you can find while exploring [[sanctuary]]. Note that they will not always spawn.

===Act I===

* [[Adenah the Curio Vendor]] - [[House of Curios]], [[Fields of Misery]], (random)
* [[Kyr the Weaponsmith]] - [[Highlands Passage]], (random)
* [[Rodger the Alchemist]] - [[Wortham]], (random)
* [[Vendel the Armorsmith]] - [[Watch Tower]], [[Southern Highlands]], (random)
* [[Wandering Tinker]] - [[Fields of Misery]], (random)

===Act II===

* [[Javad the Merchant]] - [[Rotting Cellar]], [[Dahlgur Oasis]]
* [[Karla]] - [[Flooded Causeway]], [[Caldeum]]
* [[Larra]] - [[Deserted Cellar]], [[Black Canyon Mines]], (random)
* [[Lugo the Miner]] - [[Caldeum Bazaar]] and [[Storage Cellar]] in the [[Dahlgur Oasis]]
* [[Zaven the Alchemist]] - [[Dahlgur Oasis]], (random)

===Act III===

* [[Halmin the Alchemist]] - [[The Foundry]] in [[The Battlefields]].

===Act IV===

No merchant appears outside of town in Act 4.

===Act V===

Unknown.

==Associated Achievements==

{{Associated_Achievement}}

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Patches

2013-12-10T04:46:50Z

WitchDoctor: one section = full beta stuff

{{BC))

* '''''Looking for [[Diablo 3 Console patches]]?'''''

A patch is an update to a computer program that fixes bugs, makes changes, and adds content. Most computer games are patched regularly, to fix problems, adjust game balance issues, and sometimes add content. Patches are designated by version numbers; v1.01, v1.02a, v1.2b, etc.

Patches are usually embraced by players, as they bring desired bug fixes and can shake up the game with rebalances, added items, and more. Opinions always differ though, since while everyone likes improvements and buffs to their character, cries of "[[nerfed]]!" always ring out, as various overpowered skills, items, monsters, and other things are reduced in value or power, much to the chagrin of players who had come to count on those imbalances working to their favor.

==Diablo 3 Patches and Hotfixes==

'''Patches''' are released by Blizzard to fix bugs and remedy issues with game balance and gameplay issues. Most patches are minor with just a few bug fixes and game tweaks. Some patches are major content updates with dozens of important game changes or even new features, such as the PvP [[Battle Arena]].

'''Hotfixes''' are small, urgent changes that are fixed directly to the servers, without requiring a full patch. A number of skills that the developers felt were overpowered were nerfed via hotfixes, shortly after Diablo III's release.

===Full List of Diablo 3 Patches===

See the following pages for full details on each patch that's been released for Diablo III. Refer to the [[Diablo 3 console patches]] article for patches for the Xbox360 or Playstation3 version, as these are very different in content from the PC version patches.

There is also a section listing patches released for the [[Reaper_of_Souls_beta_patches|Reaper of Souls Beta]].

{{:Diablo 3 patches}}

==What to Expect in Diablo 3 Patches==

The Diablo III developers will support their game with regular big fixes and other patches; this is standard for Blizzard games, since the company has a legacy of providing excellent long term game support. The [[D3 Team]] is not planning to include a great deal of new content in the patches though, since they want to save it up and make major updates in expansion packs. [[Jay Wilson]] spoke on their philosophy in an interview from Blizzcon 2010.<ref>[http://diablo.incgamers.com/blog/comments/blizzcon-2010-interview-jay-wilson-diablo-esp/ Jay @ BlizzCon 2010] - Diablo 3 ESP, November 15, 2010</ref>

<blue>We haven’t really looked into our post-release content plans, but I would not expect us to do big content patch updates. Not like WoW or like an MMO. We’ll add in content in patches, but it will be smaller, like the way Starcraft 2 sometimes does in their patches. It won’t be something that’s on a regular schedule. It’ll be based on need, or based on “we have a really cool new thing we want to put out now and not wait on an expansion.” I’m sure we’ll do some things, but we don’t have any formal plans.</blue>

When asked in January 2012 on Twitter by @Procrastajason, "Is the retail release of the game the entirety of the content we'll see for a while or will there be content patches ala WoW?" Blizzard reiterated<ref>[http://diablo.incgamers.com/?p=13456 Patch Content Tweet] - Blizzard, 7/2/2012</ref>

<blue>Well, WoW is a subscription game. We'll have patches. New items, probably. New zones or bosses? Probably not.</blue>

===Diablo III Beta Patches===

Blizzard patched the beta client 18 times, making changes both large and small. All these patches came with lists of feature changes, and many more details about them were uncovered by data mining. See the [[Diablo 3 Beta patches]] article for more details, or click on the individual patch pages.

==Diablo 2 Patches==

There were numerous patches issues to Diablo II. The game is up to v1.13c, with the most recent patch released in May 2010. Blizzard has not released a patch since then.

Diablo II has released more content and major changes via patches than is common for computer games; especially ones that have been on the market for years and years. Several of Diablo II's patches, most notably v1.10, introduced a great deal of new content and brought about sweeping changes in the balance of the skills, characters, monsters, and more.

==References==


<references/>


[[category:basics]]
[[category:Blizzard]]
[[category:Patches]]

Patches

2013-12-10T04:45:24Z

WitchDoctor: updated

* '''''Looking for [[Diablo 3 Console patches]]?'''''

A patch is an update to a computer program that fixes bugs, makes changes, and adds content. Most computer games are patched regularly, to fix problems, adjust game balance issues, and sometimes add content. Patches are designated by version numbers; v1.01, v1.02a, v1.2b, etc.

Patches are usually embraced by players, as they bring desired bug fixes and can shake up the game with rebalances, added items, and more. Opinions always differ though, since while everyone likes improvements and buffs to their character, cries of "[[nerfed]]!" always ring out, as various overpowered skills, items, monsters, and other things are reduced in value or power, much to the chagrin of players who had come to count on those imbalances working to their favor.

==Diablo 3 Patches and Hotfixes==

'''Patches''' are released by Blizzard to fix bugs and remedy issues with game balance and gameplay issues. Most patches are minor with just a few bug fixes and game tweaks. Some patches are major content updates with dozens of important game changes or even new features, such as the PvP [[Battle Arena]].

'''Hotfixes''' are small, urgent changes that are fixed directly to the servers, without requiring a full patch. A number of skills that the developers felt were overpowered were nerfed via hotfixes, shortly after Diablo III's release.

===Full List of Diablo 3 Patches===

See the following pages for full details on each patch that's been released for Diablo III. Refer to the [[Diablo 3 console patches]] article for patches for the Xbox360 or Playstation3 version, as these are very different in content from the PC version patches.

There is also a section listing patches released for the [[Reaper_of_Souls_beta_patches|Reaper of Souls Beta]].

{{:Diablo 3 patches}}

==What to Expect in Diablo 3 Patches==

The Diablo III developers will support their game with regular big fixes and other patches; this is standard for Blizzard games, since the company has a legacy of providing excellent long term game support. The [[D3 Team]] is not planning to include a great deal of new content in the patches though, since they want to save it up and make major updates in expansion packs. [[Jay Wilson]] spoke on their philosophy in an interview from Blizzcon 2010.<ref>[http://diablo.incgamers.com/blog/comments/blizzcon-2010-interview-jay-wilson-diablo-esp/ Jay @ BlizzCon 2010] - Diablo 3 ESP, November 15, 2010</ref>

<blue>We haven’t really looked into our post-release content plans, but I would not expect us to do big content patch updates. Not like WoW or like an MMO. We’ll add in content in patches, but it will be smaller, like the way Starcraft 2 sometimes does in their patches. It won’t be something that’s on a regular schedule. It’ll be based on need, or based on “we have a really cool new thing we want to put out now and not wait on an expansion.” I’m sure we’ll do some things, but we don’t have any formal plans.</blue>

When asked in January 2012 on Twitter by @Procrastajason, "Is the retail release of the game the entirety of the content we'll see for a while or will there be content patches ala WoW?" Blizzard reiterated<ref>[http://diablo.incgamers.com/?p=13456 Patch Content Tweet] - Blizzard, 7/2/2012</ref>

<blue>Well, WoW is a subscription game. We'll have patches. New items, probably. New zones or bosses? Probably not.</blue>

===Diablo III Beta Patches===

Blizzard patched the beta client 18 times, making changes both large and small. All these patches came with lists of feature changes, and many more details about them were uncovered by data mining. See the [[Diablo 3 Beta patches]] article for more details, or click on the individual patch pages.

==Diablo 2 Patches==

There were numerous patches issues to Diablo II. The game is up to v1.13c, with the most recent patch released in May 2010. Blizzard has not released a patch since then.

Diablo II has released more content and major changes via patches than is common for computer games; especially ones that have been on the market for years and years. Several of Diablo II's patches, most notably v1.10, introduced a great deal of new content and brought about sweeping changes in the balance of the skills, characters, monsters, and more.

==References==


<references/>


[[category:basics]]
[[category:Blizzard]]
[[category:Patches]]

DiabloWiki:Community Portal

2013-12-09T04:45:44Z

WitchDoctor: added something needing to be updated

==Community Portal==

This is the Community Portal for {{WikiTitle}}, and is informs the contributors of this site on the current comings and goings of the Wiki.

==Current DiabloWiki Focus==
'''Remember that the {{wl|[http://diablo2.diablowiki.net/DiabloWiki:Community_Portal Diablo 2 Wiki]}} also needs help.'''

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Mana Globe

2013-12-09T04:41:57Z

WitchDoctor: updated article

[[Image:Mana-orb1.jpg|thumb|250px|Mana globes and a level up.]]'''Mana Globes''' were orbs of magical energy that functioned much like [[Health Globe]]s; they restored mana (25% of the maximum as a default, though some character skills were designed to boost this total) when a character picked them up. As you might expect, they looked just like health globes, but were blue, instead of red.

Mana globes were removed from the game prior to the Blizzcon demo build in August 2009.

==How They Dropped==
When mana globes were a feature, they only dropped when a Witch Doctor or Wizard was in the game. At that time Wizards used mana for their resource, and had a (since removed) skill called [[Mana Recovery]] which gave a % chance for a dead monster to drop a mana globe. Mana globes did not benefit Barbarians, since they did not provide any boost to their [[Fury]] [[resource pool|resource]]. Monks and Demon Hunters were not in the game at that time.

==Removal Explanation==

The Diablo 3 team explained that while mana globes were functional, they weren't necessary. Only Wizards (prior to their mana becoming [[Instability]], and then [[Arcane Power]]) and Witch Doctors were able to use mana globes, and this added needless complexity to the game. It was easier to make health globes replenish both health '''and''' mana. This is not always the case; Witch Doctors must spend some points in the various skills and traits to enable them to gain mana from health globes.

Giving health orbs that double purpose also made the health orbs more valuable to all characters. [[Jay Wilson]] said[http://diablo.incgamers.com/blog/comments/jay-wilson-exclusive-full-transcript/] that prior to the change, Witch Doctors often had no use for health orbs, since they weren't taking much damage while staying behind their tanking pets. Post-mana globes, Witch Doctors need regular health orbs, since even if they aren't low on hit points, they generally want the mana boost.

::'''''Diii.net:''' Do you envision the health globes will boost [non-mana resources] in the way that the Wizard and Witch Doctor gained mana from them at Blizzcon?
::'''Jay Wilson:''' Um, maybe? *sounding intrigued* Usually in the third or fourth skill revision on classes we look at that kind of thing. For the Witch Doctor we figured that a lot of the mana things we had on the Wizard would work better on the Witch Doctor. We were having trouble maintaining enough mana while play testing the Witch Doctor. Especially if players didn’t take a specific mana recovery skill. So we focused on spreading that out across a lot more of the class so he can pull mana back more easily. When we get to other classes I’m sure we’ll look for more of that.

==References==
* [[GamesCom 2009 demo]]
* [[Wizard Gameplay Blizzcon 2008]]

[[Category:Items]]
[[Category:Wizard skills]]
[[Category:Witch Doctor skills]]
[[category:Gameplay]]
[[Category:Archives]]

Help:Structure

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WitchDoctor: more oops found n terminated

If you were looking for a complete list of categories, see:http://www.diablowiki.net/Special:Categories
If you are here for learning a bit about categories and diablowiki structure, continue.

==Structure==
Categories are essential to the structure of Diablowiki. A large part of what is searched in Diablowiki depends onthe use of categories. When adding pages to categories, add them in the largest yet most fitting category available.This article will help with that.

Keep in mind that the category structure is rather confusing at the moment and needs some organising, and that articles can fit into multiple categories

===Adding Articles to Categories===
The line used for adding pages and images to categories is [[:Category:<category name
here>]]. There should not be a need to create new categories, as plenty of them exist to cover all the topics here in Diablowiki.

If you need help with understanding where to put pages, use your best judgement. Alternatively, if you cannot decide, you can ask [[Elly]] or another dedicated editor where to put them.

Remember, when adding pages to a category, punctuation and grammar matter. For example, you will not successfully put a article about witch doctors into [[:Category:Witch Doctor]] by typing [[:Category: witch doctors]].

==Default Category:Root==
The "category to rule them all", is [[:Category:Root]]. From here is where all other categories expand from. There should not be a need to add pages to this category.

==Category:Content==

[[:Category:Content]] is where most categories about Diablo start from. It includes all the categories that are about Diablo 3's content. Articles still do not need to be in this category, as they are covered by sub-categories.

===Category:Basics===
[[:Category:Basics]] is where general descriptions of topics, such as [[Acts]], go. [[Acts]] would fit into this category, instead of into [[Category:Acts]].

==Category:Gameplay==

[[:Category:Gameplay]] is another main category, specifically for diablo 3's gameplay. Again, it is unnecessary to put pages into this category, as most will fit into sub-categories.

===Category:Classes===

[[:Category:Classes]] is a general category for information regarding all classes. For example, a general page about [[skill runes]] would fit in this category, whereas information about [[Fury]] would belong in a class-specific section.

Other special class categories include:

* [[:Category:Classes (Diablo II)]] - Diablo 2 classes.
* [[:Category:Fan classes]] - Fan-made classes.

===Category:(Specific Classes)===
* [[:Category:Barbarian]] - Specific class information about Barbarians.
** [[:Category:Barbarian Skills]] - Specific information about Barbarian skills.
* [[:Category:Demon Hunter]] - Specific class information about Demon Hunters.
** [[:Category:Demon Hunter Skills]] - Specific information about Demon Hunter skills.
* [[:Category:Witch Doctor]] - Specific class information about Witch Doctors.
** [[:Category:Witch Doctor Skills]] - Specific information about Demon Hunter skills.
* [[:Category:Wizard]] - Specific class information about Wizards.
** [[:Category:Wizard Skills]] - Specific information about Wizard skills.
* [[:Category:Monk]] - Specific class information about Monks.
** [[:Category:Monk Skills]] - Specific information about Monk skills.

===Category:Acts===

[[:Category:Acts]] contains information relevant to all of Diablo 3's acts. Specific act categories contain information relevant to only one act. Even more specific categories, such as the Quests and Levels categories, contain specific information about specific quests and levels
in each act.

* [[:Category:Act I]]
** [[:Category:Act I NPCs]]
** [[:Category:Act I Quests]]
***[[:Category: Act I Events]]
** [[:Category:Act I Levels]]
* [[:Category:Act II]]
** [[:Category:Act II NPCs]]
** [[:Category:Act II Quests]]
***[[:Category: Act II Events]]
** [[:Category:Act II Levels]]
* [[:Category:Act III]]
** [[:Category:Act III NPCs]]
** [[:Category:Act III Quests]]
***[[:Category: Act III Events]]
** [[:Category:Act III Levels]]
* [[:Category:Act IV]]
** [[:Category:Act IV NPCs]]
** [[:Category:Act IV Quests]]
***[[:Category: Act IV Events]]
** [[:Category:Act IV Levels]]
* [[:Category:Act V]]
** [[:Category:Act V NPCs]]
** [[:Category:Act V Quests]]
***[[:Category: Act V Events]]
** [[:Category:Act V Levels]]

===Category:Quests===
[[:Category:Quests]] should only contain act quest sub-categories and special quests, like the [[Infernal Machine]], that cannot be bound to one
act.

===Category:Items===
[[:Category:Items]] contains general articles about items and items not covered by a sub-category. Sub-categories include:

* [[:Category:Weapons]]
* [[:Category:Armor]]
* [[:Category:Jewelry]] (rings and amulets)
* [[:Category:Artefacts]] (lore books, special items)

===Category:Monsters===
[[:Category:Monsters]] Contains information about monsters in diablo 3 not covered by a sub-category, or contains broad information about
monsters. Some sub-categories are:

* [[:Category:SuperUniques]] - General category for purple titled bosses.
* [[:Category:Objects]]
* [[:Category:Undead]]
* [[:Category:Demons]]
* [[:Category:Monster images]] - General monster images category.

===Category:Skills===
[[:Category:Skills]] contains Diablo 3 skill information. Previously mentioned skill categories are sub-categories of this one.

===Other Categories===

* [[:Category:NPCs]] - Diablo 3 NPC's category.
* [[:Category:Reference]] - Contains other bits of information, such as a glossary, acronyms, and statistics.
* [[:Category:Play styles]] - Various play styles developed in Diablo 3.

==Category:Lore==
[[:Category:Lore]] contains lore information for the diablo series. The major sub-categories are:

* [[:Category:Characters]] - Characters important to the Diablo story, like [[Tyrael]] and [[Deckard Cain]].
* [[:Category:Angels]]
* [[:Category:Demons]]
* [[:Category:Factions]] - Factions in the Diablo Universe.

There are several other categories in this area, but they are, for the most part, covered by articles already in these sections.

==Category:Guides==
* [[:Category:Guides]] - User-made guides for the Wiki. Guides might end up in multiple categories.

 
 

== Category:Community==
[[:Category:Community]] Contains community-related articles/categories.
** [[:Category:Fansites]] - Diablo fansites' own category.
*** [[:Category:Diii.net]] - All articles relating to Diii.net.
**** [[:Category:Diii.net images]] - Images for or about Diii.net.
** [[:Category:Guilds]] - Listing of guilds.
** [[:Category:Users]] - Listing of wiki users.
** [[:Category:Trivia]] - Fun facts, easter eggs etc.
** [[:Category:Diablo lingo]] - Expressions and concepts that are common for Diablo.
** [[:Category:Reference]] - A category to collect terms of the game as a handy encyclopaedia.
*** [[:Category:Abbreviations and Acronyms]] - Sub category specifically for Abbreviations and Acronyms.
** [[:Category:Blizzard]] - Articles with information about Blizzard and Blizzard employees.
*** [[:Category:BlizzCon]] - Articles about BlizzCons.
*** [[:Category:WWI]] - Articles about WWIs.
*** [[:Category:BlizzCast]] - [[BlizzCast]]-related articles.
** [[:Category:Fan-made]] - Articles and other content made by fans. Non-canon.
*** [[:Category:Fan art]] - Everything related to fan art.
**** [[:Category:Fan art images]] - Fan art images.
*** [[:Category:Fan fiction]] - Everything related to fan fiction.
*** [[:Category:Fan classes]] - Classes made by fans.
** [[:Category:Merchandise]] - All types of Diablo-related merchandise should go here.
** [[:Category:Speculation]] - Speculation about things involving the games.
** [[:Category:People]] - Articles with information about important figures in the Diablo Community.
*** [[:Category:Modders]] - List of individuals who make Diablo mods.
** [[:Category:Mods]] - Articles about diablo [[mod]]s.



==Category:Games==
[[:Category:Games]] Has general articles about the various diablo games.
** [[:Category:Diablo I]] - D1 + exp.
*** [[:Category:Diablo I dialogues]] - Articles with Diablo I dialogues. (*)
** [[:Category:Diablo II]] - D2 + exp.
*** [[:Category:Classes (Diablo II)]] - Diablo 2 Classes. (*)
*** [[:Category:Diablo II dialogues]] - Articles with Diablo I dialogues. (*)
** [[:Category:Diablo III]] - D3
*** [[:Category:Diablo IIII dialogues]] - Articles with Diablo I dialogues. (*)
*** [[:Category:Diablo III images]] - D3 images. (*)
*** [[:Category:Classes]] - Diablo 3 Classes. (*)
** [[:Category:World of WarCraft]] - WoW
** [[:Category:WarCraft]] - WarCraft (the [[RTS]] games)
** [[:Category:StarCraft]] - StarCraft

== Sources - [[:Category:Sources]] ==
''[[:Category:Sources]] has All types of Diablo information sources. Games, books, graphic novels, or similar products should be added to '''[[:Category:Sources]]''', the main sources category.''

* [[:Category:Archives]] - Category for all old articles saved for archiving purposes.
** [[:Category:Barbarian skill archive]] - Older, unused skills

* [[:Category:Merchandise]] - Category for all products in the Diablo franchise that are not games or expansions.
** [[:Category:Roleplaying books]] - Diablo RPG books.
** [[:Category:Novels]] - Diablo Novels.

* [[:Category:Game dialogues]] - Dialogues transcripted from the games.
** [[:Category:Diablo II dialogues]] - Articles with Diablo II dialogues go here.
** [[:Category:Diablo I dialougues]] - Same as above, yet for Diablo I.

* [[:Category:Controversies]] - Controversies in diablo.

* [[:Category:Media Coverage]] - Media Coverage.
** [[:Category:Events]] - BlizzCons, WWIs and other events.
*** [[:Category:BlizzCon]] - Articles about BlizzCons.
**** [[:Category:BlizzCon images]] - Images from BlizzCons.
*** [[:Category:WWI]] - Articles about WWIs.
**** [[:Category:WWI images]] - Images from WWI's.
*** [[:Category:BlizzPress]] - Articles about Blizzard press releases, updates and other, smaller events.
*** [[:Category:BlizzCast]] - [[BlizzCast]]-related articles.
** [[:Category:Media Coverage Templates]] - Templates used specifically in the [[Media coverage]] articles.

* [[:Category:Manuals]] - Manuals from the Diablo games.

==Category:DiabloWiki==
''All articles used by DiabloWiki or its contributors should be added to '''[[:Category:DiabloWiki]]''', the main DiabloWiki category.''

* [[:Category:Disambiguations]] - A list of all Disambiguation pages.
* [[:Category:Boilerplates]] - DiabloWiki's [[boilerplate]]s listed.
* [[:Category:Help]] - Help pages sorted.
* [[:Category:Main Page]] - All pages related to [[Main Page]].
** [[:Category:Featured articles]] - A category of articles of higher value, featured on main page.

* [[:Category:Templates]] - Templates sorted.
** [[:Category:DiabloWiki templates]] - Templates used for/by {{WikiTitle}}.
** [[:Category:Featured templates]] - Templates of [[Featured]] articles.
** [[:Category:Formatting templates]] - Templates used for/by {{WikiTitle}} formatting
*** [[:Category:Media Coverage Templates]] - Templates used specifically in the [[Media coverage]] article.
** [[:Category:Infoboxes]] - Templates used to give information in an article.
** [[:Category:Navboxes]] - Templates used to give navigation in an article.

* [[:Category:Stubs]] - Articles to clean up or evolve.
** [[:Category:Images to clean up]] - Images up for replacement.
* [[:Category:Delete]] - Articles, categories, templates etc that need to be deleted.
* [[:Category:Featured articles]] - A category of articles of higher value, featured on main page.
** [[:Category:Featured templates]] - Templates of [[Featured]] articles.

== Images - [[:Category:Images]] ==
''All image categories should be added to '''[[:Category:Images]]''', the main image category.''

Some of these categories might go unused for a long time, but if the need arises, use these.

* [[:Category:Monster images]] - Images of monsters. (*)
** [[:Category:Monster art]] - Art of monsters. (*)
** [[:Category:Monster screenshots]] - Shots of monsters. (*)

* [[:Category:Character images]] - Images of characters. (*)
** [[:Category:Character art]] - Art of characters. (*)
** [[:Category:Character screenshots]] - Shots of characters. (*)

* [[:Category:Artwork]] - All artwork.
** [[:Category:Diablo I artwork]] - D1 (*)
** [[:Category:Diablo II artwork]] (*)
** [[:Category:Diablo III artwork]] - D3 (*)
** [[:Category:Diablo unsourced artwork]] - Unknown
** [[:Category:Monster art]] - Art of monsters. (*)
** [[:Category:Character art]] - Art of characters. (*)
** [[:Category:Items art]] - Art of ingame items
** [[:Category:Fan art images]] - Fan art (*)
** [[:Category:Merchandise art]] - Group category for merchandise art.
*** [[:Category:Graphic novel images]] - Images from the graphic novels.
*** [[:Category:Book covers]] - Covers from the Diablo books.
*** [[:Category:Statuette images]] - Images of statuette.

* [[:Category:Screenshots]] - Screenshots of the games.
** [[:Category:Official screenshots]] - Official [[Blizzard]] released screenshots.
** [[:Category:Diablo I screenshots]] - Shots from Diablo I. (*)
** [[:Category:Diablo II screenshots]] - Shots from Diablo II. (*)
** [[:Category:Diablo III screenshots]] - Shots from Diablo III. (*)
** [[:Category:Skill screenshots]] - Shots of skills used, or stats.
** [[:Category:Character screenshots]] - Shots of characters. (*)
** [[:Category:Monster screenshots]] - Shots of monsters. (*)
*** [[:Category:Goatmen screenshots]] - Shots of goatmen.
** [[:Category:Level screenshots]] - Shots on in-game levels and areas (struct).
*** [[:Category:Kurast screenshots]] - Shots on Kurast.
*** [[:Category:XXX screenshots]] - Shots on XXX. (continue)
** [[:Category:UI images]] - Pictures of loading screens.
*** [[:Category:Diablo I UI images]] - Pictures of User Interface details. (*)
**** [[:Category:Diablo I loading screens]] - Pictures of loading screens.
*** [[:Category:Diablo II UI images]] - Pictures of User Interface details. (*)
**** [[:Category:Diablo II loading screens]] - Pictures of loading screens.
*** [[:Category:Diablo III UI images]] - Pictures of User Interface details. (*)
**** [[:Category:Diablo III loading screens]] - Pictures of loading screens.

* [[:Category:Game images]] - General category for alternate navigation.
** [[:Category:Diablo I images]] - D1 images.
*** [[:Category:Diablo I artwork]] - Artwork from D1 (*)
*** [[:Category:Diablo I screenshots]] - Shots from Diablo I. (*)
*** [[:Category:Diablo I UI images]] - Pictures of User Interface details. (*)
** [[:Category:Diablo II images]] - D2 images.
*** [[:Category:Diablo II artwork]] - Artwork from D2 (*)
*** [[:Category:Diablo II screenshots]] - Shots from Diablo 2. (*)
*** [[:Category:Diablo II UI images]] - Pictures of User Interface details. (*)
** [[:Category:Diablo III images]] - D3 images. (*)
*** [[:Category:Diablo III artwork]] - Artwork from D3 (*)
*** [[:Category:Diablo III screenshots]] - Shots from Diablo 3. (*)
*** [[:Category:Diablo III UI images]] - Pictures of User Interface details. (*)

* [[:Category:DiabloWiki images]] - Images used by the Wiki.
** [[:Category:Template images]] - Images used in templates.

* [[:Category:Community images]]
** [[:Category:Guild images]]
** [[:Category:Fan art images]] - Fan art. (*)
*** [[:Category:Fake screenshots]] - Fan art.
** [[:Category:Diii.net images]] - Images for or about Diii.net. (*)

* [[:Category:Blizzard images]] - Images for or about Blizzard. (*)
** [[:Category:BlizzCon images]] - Images from BlizzCons. (*)
** [[:Category:WWI images]] - Images from WWI's. (*)

* [[:Category:Maps]] - Images of maps (*)

* [[:Category:Images to clean up]] - Images up for replacement. (*)

== Final Words==

Adding a few final words here.

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Help:Structure

2013-12-08T00:27:06Z

WitchDoctor: another minifix

If you were looking for a complete list of categories, see:http://www.diablowiki.net/Special:Categories
If you are here for learning a bit about categories and diablowiki structure, continue.

==Structure==
Categories are essential to the structure of Diablowiki. A large part of what is searched in Diablowiki depends onthe use of categories. When adding pages to categories, add them in the largest yet most fitting category available.This article will help with that.

Keep in mind that the category structure is rather confusing at the moment and needs some organising, and that articles can fit into multiple categories

===Adding Articles to Categories===
The line used for adding pages and images to categories is [[:Category:<category name
here>]]. There should not be a need to create new categories, as plenty of them exist to cover all the topics here in Diablowiki.

If you need help with understanding where to put pages, use your best judgement. Alternatively, if you cannot decide, you can ask [[Elly]] or another dedicated editor where to put them.

Remember, when adding pages to a category, punctuation and grammar matter. For example, you will not successfully put a article about witch doctors into [[:Category:Witch Doctor]] by typing [[:Category: witch doctors]].

==Default Category:Root==
The "category to rule them all", is [[:Category:Root]]. From here is where all other categories expand from. There should not be a need to add pages to this category.

==Category:Content==

[[:Category:Content]] is where most categories about Diablo start from. It includes all the categories that are about Diablo 3's content. Articles still do not need to be in this category, as they are covered by sub-categories.

===Category:Basics===
[[:Category:Basics]] is where general descriptions of topics, such as [[Acts]], go. [[Acts]] would fit into this category, instead of into [[Category:Acts]].

==Category:Gameplay==

[[:Category:Gameplay]] is another main category, specifically for diablo 3's gameplay. Again, it is unnecessary to put pages into this category, as most will fit into sub-categories.

===Category:Classes===

[[:Category:Classes]] is a general category for information regarding all classes. For example, a general page about [[skill runes]] would fit in this category, whereas information about [[Fury]] would belong in a class-specific section.

Other special class categories include:

* [[:Category:Classes (Diablo II)]] - Diablo 2 classes.
* [[:Category:Fan classes]] - Fan-made classes.

===Category:(Specific Classes)===
* [[:Category:Barbarian]] - Specific class information about Barbarians.
** [[:Category:Barbarian Skills]] - Specific information about Barbarian skills.
* [[:Category:Demon Hunter]] - Specific class information about Demon Hunters.
** [[:Category:Demon Hunter Skills]] - Specific information about Demon Hunter skills.
* [[:Category:Witch Doctor]] - Specific class information about Witch Doctors.
** [[:Category:Witch Doctor Skills]] - Specific information about Demon Hunter skills.
* [[:Category:Wizard]] - Specific class information about Wizards.
** [[:Category:Wizard Skills]] - Specific information about Wizard skills.
* [[:Category:Monk]] - Specific class information about Monks.
** [[:Category:Monk Skills]] - Specific information about Monk skills.

===Category:Acts===

[[:Category:Acts]] contains information relevant to all of Diablo 3's acts. Specific act categories contain information relevant to only one act. Even more specific categories, such as the Quests and Levels categories, contain specific information about specific quests and levels
in each act.

* [[:Category:Act I]]
** [[:Category:Act I NPCs]]
** [[:Category:Act I Quests]]
***[[:Category: Act I Events]]
** [[:Category:Act I Levels]]
* [[:Category:Act II]]
** [[:Category:Act II NPCs]]
** [[:Category:Act II Quests]]
***[[:Category: Act II Events]]
** [[:Category:Act II Levels]]
* [[:Category:Act III]]
** [[:Category:Act III NPCs]]
** [[:Category:Act III Quests]]
***[[:Category: Act III Events]]
** [[:Category:Act III Levels]]
* [[:Category:Act IV]]
** [[:Category:Act IV NPCs]]
** [[:Category:Act IV Quests]]
***[[:Category: Act IV Events]]
** [[:Category:Act IV Levels]]
* [[:Category:Act V]]
** [[:Category:Act V NPCs]]
** [[:Category:Act V Quests]]
***[[:Category: Act V Events]]
** [[:Category:Act V Levels]]

===Category:Quests===
[[:Category:Quests]] should only contain act quest sub-categories and special quests, like the [[Infernal Machine]], that cannot be bound to one
act.

===Category:Items===
[[:Category:Items]] contains general articles about items and items not covered by a sub-category. Sub-categories include:

* [[:Category:Weapons]]
* [[:Category:Armor]]
* [[:Category:Jewelry]] (rings and amulets)
* [[:Category:Artefacts]] (lore books, special items)

===Category:Monsters===
[[:Category:Monsters]] Contains information about monsters in diablo 3 not covered by a sub-category, or contains broad information about
monsters. Some sub-categories are:

* [[:Category:SuperUniques]] - General category for purple titled bosses.
* [[:Category:Objects]]
* [[:Category:Undead]]
* [[:Category:Demons]]
* [[:Category:Monster images]] - General monster images category.

===Category:Skills===
[[:Category:Skills]] contains Diablo 3 skill information. Previously mentioned skill categories are sub-categories of this one.

===Other Categories===

* [[:Category:NPCs]] - Diablo 3 NPC's category.
* [[:Category:Reference]] - Contains other bits of information, such as a glossary, acronyms, and statistics.
* [[:Category:Play styles]] - Various play styles developed in Diablo 3.

==Category:Lore==
[[:Category:Lore]] contains lore information for the diablo series. The major sub-categories are:

* [[:Category:Characters]] - Characters important to the Diablo story, like [[Tyrael]] and [[Deckard Cain]].
* [[:Category:Angels]]
* [[:Category:Demons]]
* [[:Category:Factions]] - Factions in the Diablo Universe.

There are several other categories in this area, but they are, for the most part, covered by articles already in these sections.

==Category:Guides==
* [[:Category:Guides]] - User-made guides for the Wiki. Guides might end up in multiple categories.

 
 

== Category:Community==
[[:Category:Community]] Contains community-related articles/categories.
** [[:Category:Fansites]] - Diablo fansites' own category.
*** [[:Category:Diii.net]] - All articles relating to Diii.net.
**** [[:Category:Diii.net images]] - Images for or about Diii.net.
** [[:Category:Guilds]] - Listing of guilds.
** [[:Category:Users]] - Listing of wiki users.
** [[:Category:Trivia]] - Fun facts, easter eggs etc.
** [[:Category:Diablo lingo]] - Expressions and concepts that are common for Diablo.
** [[:Category:Reference]] - A category to collect terms of the game as a handy encyclopaedia.
*** [[:Category:Abbreviations and Acronyms]] - Sub category specifically for Abbreviations and Acronyms.
** [[:Category:Blizzard]] - Articles with information about Blizzard and Blizzard employees.
*** [[:Category:BlizzCon]] - Articles about BlizzCons.
*** [[:Category:WWI]] - Articles about WWIs.
*** [[:Category:BlizzCast]] - [[BlizzCast]]-related articles.
** [[:Category:Fan-made]] - Articles and other content made by fans. Non-canon.
*** [[:Category:Fan art]] - Everything related to fan art.
**** [[:Category:Fan art images]] - Fan art images.
*** [[:Category:Fan fiction]] - Everything related to fan fiction.
*** [[:Category:Fan classes]] - Classes made by fans.
** [[:Category:Merchandise]] - All types of Diablo-related merchandise should go here.
** [[:Category:Speculation]] - Speculation about things involving the games.
** [[:Category:People]] - Articles with information about important figures in the Diablo Community.
*** [[:Category:Modders]] - List of individuals who make Diablo mods.
** [[:Category:Mods]] - Articles about diablo [[mod]]s.



==Category:Games==
[[:Category:Games]] Has general articles about the various diablo games.
** [[:Category:Diablo I]] - D1 + exp.
*** [[:Category:Diablo I dialogues]] - Articles with Diablo I dialogues. (*)
** [[:Category:Diablo II]] - D2 + exp.
*** [[:Category:Classes (Diablo II)]] - Diablo 2 Classes. (*)
*** [[:Category:Diablo II dialogues]] - Articles with Diablo I dialogues. (*)
** [[:Category:Diablo III]] - D3
*** [[:Category:Diablo IIII dialogues]] - Articles with Diablo I dialogues. (*)
*** [[:Category:Diablo III images]] - D3 images. (*)
*** [[:Category:Classes]] - Diablo 3 Classes. (*)
** [[:Category:World of WarCraft]] - WoW
** [[:Category:WarCraft]] - WarCraft (the [[RTS]] games)
** [[:Category:StarCraft]] - StarCraft

== Sources - [[:Category:Sources]] ==
''[[:Category:Sources]] has All types of Diablo information sources. Games, books, graphic novels, or similar products should be added to '''[[:Category:Sources]]''', the main sources category.''

* [[:Category:Archives]] - Category for all old articles saved for archiving purposes.
** [[:Category:Barbarian skill archive]] - Older, unused skills

* [[:Category:Merchandise]] - Category for all products in the Diablo franchise that are not games or expansions.
** [[:Category:Roleplaying books]] - Diablo RPG books.
** [[:Category:Novels]] - Diablo Novels.

* [[:Category:Game dialogues]] - Dialogues transcripted from the games.
** [[:Category:Diablo II dialogues]] - Articles with Diablo II dialogues go here.
** [[:Category:Diablo I dialougues]] - Same as above, yet for Diablo I.

* [[:Category:Controversies]] - Controversies in diablo.

* [[:Category:Media Coverage]] - Media Coverage.
** [[:Category:Events]] - BlizzCons, WWIs and other events.
*** [[:Category:BlizzCon]] - Articles about BlizzCons.
**** [[:Category:BlizzCon images]] - Images from BlizzCons.
*** [[:Category:WWI]] - Articles about WWIs.
**** [[:Category:WWI images]] - Images from WWI's.
*** [[:Category:BlizzPress]] - Articles about Blizzard press releases, updates and other, smaller events.
*** [[:Category:BlizzCast]] - [[BlizzCast]]-related articles.
** [[:Category:Media Coverage Templates]] - Templates used specifically in the [[Media coverage]] articles.

* [[:Category:Manuals]] - Manuals from the Diablo games.

==Category:DiabloWiki==
''All articles used by DiabloWiki or its contributors should be added to '''[[:Category:DiabloWiki]]''', the main DiabloWiki category.''

* [[:Category:Disambiguations]] - A list of all Disambiguation pages.
* [[:Category:Boilerplates]] - DiabloWiki's [[boilerplate]]s listed.
* [[:Category:Help]] - Help pages sorted.
* [[:Category:Main Page]] - All pages related to [[Main Page]].
** [[:Category:Featured articles]] - A category of articles of higher value, featured on main page. (*)

* [[:Category:Templates]] - Templates sorted.
** [[:Category:DiabloWiki templates]] - Templates used for/by {{WikiTitle}}.
** [[:Category:Featured templates]] - Templates of [[Featured]] articles.
** [[:Category:Formatting templates]] - Templates used for/by {{WikiTitle}} formatting
*** [[:Category:Media Coverage Templates]] - Templates used specifically in the [[Media coverage]] article. (*)
** [[:Category:Infoboxes]] - Templates used to give information in an article.
** [[:Category:Navboxes]] - Templates used to give navigation in an article.

* [[:Category:Stubs]] - Articles to clean up or evolve.
** [[:Category:Images to clean up]] - Images up for replacement.
* [[:Category:Delete]] - Articles, categories, templates etc that need to be deleted.
* [[:Category:Featured articles]] - A category of articles of higher value, featured on main page.
** [[:Category:Featured templates]] - Templates of [[Featured]] articles.

== Images - [[:Category:Images]] ==
''All image categories should be added to '''[[:Category:Images]]''', the main image category.''

Some of these categories might go unused for a long time, but if the need arises, use these.

* [[:Category:Monster images]] - Images of monsters. (*)
** [[:Category:Monster art]] - Art of monsters. (*)
** [[:Category:Monster screenshots]] - Shots of monsters. (*)

* [[:Category:Character images]] - Images of characters. (*)
** [[:Category:Character art]] - Art of characters. (*)
** [[:Category:Character screenshots]] - Shots of characters. (*)

* [[:Category:Artwork]] - All artwork.
** [[:Category:Diablo I artwork]] - D1 (*)
** [[:Category:Diablo II artwork]] (*)
** [[:Category:Diablo III artwork]] - D3 (*)
** [[:Category:Diablo unsourced artwork]] - Unknown
** [[:Category:Monster art]] - Art of monsters. (*)
** [[:Category:Character art]] - Art of characters. (*)
** [[:Category:Items art]] - Art of ingame items
** [[:Category:Fan art images]] - Fan art (*)
** [[:Category:Merchandise art]] - Group category for merchandise art.
*** [[:Category:Graphic novel images]] - Images from the graphic novels.
*** [[:Category:Book covers]] - Covers from the Diablo books.
*** [[:Category:Statuette images]] - Images of statuette.

* [[:Category:Screenshots]] - Screenshots of the games.
** [[:Category:Official screenshots]] - Official [[Blizzard]] released screenshots.
** [[:Category:Diablo I screenshots]] - Shots from Diablo I. (*)
** [[:Category:Diablo II screenshots]] - Shots from Diablo II. (*)
** [[:Category:Diablo III screenshots]] - Shots from Diablo III. (*)
** [[:Category:Skill screenshots]] - Shots of skills used, or stats.
** [[:Category:Character screenshots]] - Shots of characters. (*)
** [[:Category:Monster screenshots]] - Shots of monsters. (*)
*** [[:Category:Goatmen screenshots]] - Shots of goatmen.
** [[:Category:Level screenshots]] - Shots on in-game levels and areas (struct).
*** [[:Category:Kurast screenshots]] - Shots on Kurast.
*** [[:Category:XXX screenshots]] - Shots on XXX. (continue)
** [[:Category:UI images]] - Pictures of loading screens.
*** [[:Category:Diablo I UI images]] - Pictures of User Interface details. (*)
**** [[:Category:Diablo I loading screens]] - Pictures of loading screens.
*** [[:Category:Diablo II UI images]] - Pictures of User Interface details. (*)
**** [[:Category:Diablo II loading screens]] - Pictures of loading screens.
*** [[:Category:Diablo III UI images]] - Pictures of User Interface details. (*)
**** [[:Category:Diablo III loading screens]] - Pictures of loading screens.

* [[:Category:Game images]] - General category for alternate navigation.
** [[:Category:Diablo I images]] - D1 images.
*** [[:Category:Diablo I artwork]] - Artwork from D1 (*)
*** [[:Category:Diablo I screenshots]] - Shots from Diablo I. (*)
*** [[:Category:Diablo I UI images]] - Pictures of User Interface details. (*)
** [[:Category:Diablo II images]] - D2 images.
*** [[:Category:Diablo II artwork]] - Artwork from D2 (*)
*** [[:Category:Diablo II screenshots]] - Shots from Diablo 2. (*)
*** [[:Category:Diablo II UI images]] - Pictures of User Interface details. (*)
** [[:Category:Diablo III images]] - D3 images. (*)
*** [[:Category:Diablo III artwork]] - Artwork from D3 (*)
*** [[:Category:Diablo III screenshots]] - Shots from Diablo 3. (*)
*** [[:Category:Diablo III UI images]] - Pictures of User Interface details. (*)

* [[:Category:DiabloWiki images]] - Images used by the Wiki.
** [[:Category:Template images]] - Images used in templates.

* [[:Category:Community images]]
** [[:Category:Guild images]]
** [[:Category:Fan art images]] - Fan art. (*)
*** [[:Category:Fake screenshots]] - Fan art.
** [[:Category:Diii.net images]] - Images for or about Diii.net. (*)

* [[:Category:Blizzard images]] - Images for or about Blizzard. (*)
** [[:Category:BlizzCon images]] - Images from BlizzCons. (*)
** [[:Category:WWI images]] - Images from WWI's. (*)

* [[:Category:Maps]] - Images of maps (*)

* [[:Category:Images to clean up]] - Images up for replacement. (*)

== Final Words==

Adding a few final words here.

{{Help navbox}}

Help:Structure

2013-12-08T00:16:36Z

WitchDoctor: another

If you were looking for a complete list of categories, see:http://www.diablowiki.net/Special:Categories
If you are here for learning a bit about categories and diablowiki structure, continue.

==Structure==
Categories are essential to the structure of Diablowiki. A large part of what is searched in Diablowiki depends onthe use of categories. When adding pages to categories, add them in the largest yet most fitting category available.This article will help with that.

Keep in mind that the category structure is rather confusing at the moment and needs some organising, and that articles can fit into multiple categories

===Adding Articles to Categories===
The line used for adding pages and images to categories is [[:Category:<category name
here>]]. There should not be a need to create new categories, as plenty of them exist to cover all the topics here in Diablowiki.

If you need help with understanding where to put pages, use your best judgement. Alternatively, if you cannot decide, you can ask [[Elly]] or another dedicated editor where to put them.

Remember, when adding pages to a category, punctuation and grammar matter. For example, you will not successfully put a article about witch doctors into [[:Category:Witch Doctor]] by typing [[:Category: witch doctors]].

==Default Category:Root==
The "category to rule them all", is [[:Category:Root]]. From here is where all other categories expand from. There should not be a need to add pages to this category.

==Category:Content==

[[:Category:Content]] is where most categories about Diablo start from. It includes all the categories that are about Diablo 3's content. Articles still do not need to be in this category, as they are covered by sub-categories.

===Category:Basics===
[[:Category:Basics]] is where general descriptions of topics, such as [[Acts]], go. [[Acts]] would fit into this category, instead of into [[Category:Acts]].

==Category:Gameplay==

[[:Category:Gameplay]] is another main category, specifically for diablo 3's gameplay. Again, it is unnecessary to put pages into this category, as most will fit into sub-categories.

===Category:Classes===

[[:Category:Classes]] is a general category for information regarding all classes. For example, a general page about [[skill runes]] would fit in this category, whereas information about [[Fury]] would belong in a class-specific section.

Other special class categories include:

* [[:Category:Classes (Diablo II)]] - Diablo 2 classes.
* [[:Category:Fan classes]] - Fan-made classes.

===Category:(Specific Classes)===
* [[:Category:Barbarian]] - Specific class information about Barbarians.
** [[:Category:Barbarian Skills]] - Specific information about Barbarian skills.
* [[:Category:Demon Hunter]] - Specific class information about Demon Hunters.
** [[:Category:Demon Hunter Skills]] - Specific information about Demon Hunter skills.
* [[:Category:Witch Doctor]] - Specific class information about Witch Doctors.
** [[:Category:Witch Doctor Skills]] - Specific information about Demon Hunter skills.
* [[:Category:Wizard]] - Specific class information about Wizards.
** [[:Category:Wizard Skills]] - Specific information about Wizard skills.
* [[:Category:Monk]] - Specific class information about Monks.
** [[:Category:Monk Skills]] - Specific information about Monk skills.

===Category:Acts===

[[:Category:Acts]] contains information relevant to all of Diablo 3's acts. Specific act categories contain information relevant to only one act. Even more specific categories, such as the Quests and Levels categories, contain specific information about specific quests and levels
in each act.

* [[:Category:Act I]]
** [[:Category:Act I NPCs]]
** [[:Category:Act I Quests]]
***[[:Category: Act I Events]]
** [[:Category:Act I Levels]]
* [[:Category:Act II]]
** [[:Category:Act II NPCs]]
** [[:Category:Act II Quests]]
***[[:Category: Act II Events]]
** [[:Category:Act II Levels]]
* [[:Category:Act III]]
** [[:Category:Act III NPCs]]
** [[:Category:Act III Quests]]
***[[:Category: Act III Events]]
** [[:Category:Act III Levels]]
* [[:Category:Act IV]]
** [[:Category:Act IV NPCs]]
** [[:Category:Act IV Quests]]
***[[:Category: Act IV Events]]
** [[:Category:Act IV Levels]]
* [[:Category:Act V]]
** [[:Category:Act V NPCs]]
** [[:Category:Act V Quests]]
***[[:Category: Act V Events]]
** [[:Category:Act V Levels]]

===Category:Quests===
[[:Category:Quests]] should only contain act quest sub-categories and special quests, like the [[Infernal Machine]], that cannot be bound to one
act.

===Category:Items===
[[:Category:Items]] contains general articles about items and items not covered by a sub-category. Sub-categories include:

* [[:Category:Weapons]]
* [[:Category:Armor]]
* [[:Category:Jewelry]] (rings and amulets)
* [[:Category:Artefacts]] (lore books, special items)

===Category:Monsters===
[[:Category:Monsters]] Contains information about monsters in diablo 3 not covered by a sub-category, or contains broad information about
monsters. Some sub-categories are:

* [[:Category:SuperUniques]] - General category for purple titled bosses.
* [[:Category:Objects]]
* [[:Category:Undead]]
* [[:Category:Demons]]
* [[:Category:Monster images]] - General monster images category.

===Category:Skills===
[[:Category:Skills]] contains Diablo 3 skill information. Previously mentioned skill categories are sub-categories of this one.

===Other Categories===

* [[:Category:NPCs]] - Diablo 3 NPC's category.
* [[:Category:Reference]] - Contains other bits of information, such as a glossary, acronyms, and statistics.
* [[:Category:Play styles]] - Various play styles developed in Diablo 3.

==Category:Lore==
[[:Category:Lore]] contains lore information for the diablo series. The major sub-categories are:

* [[:Category:Characters]] - Characters important to the Diablo story, like [[Tyrael]] and [[Deckard Cain]].
* [[:Category:Angels]]
* [[:Category:Demons]]
* [[:Category:Factions]] - Factions in the Diablo Universe.

There are several other categories in this area, but they are, for the most part, covered by articles already in these sections.

==Category:Guides==
* [[:Category:Guides]] - User-made guides for the Wiki. Guides might end up in multiple categories.

 
 

== Category:Community==
[[:Category:Community]] Contains community-related articles/categories.
** [[:Category:Fansites]] - Diablo fansites' own category.
*** [[:Category:Diii.net]] - All articles relating to Diii.net.
**** [[:Category:Diii.net images]] - Images for or about Diii.net.
** [[:Category:Guilds]] - Listing of guilds.
** [[:Category:Users]] - Listing of wiki users.
** [[:Category:Trivia]] - Fun facts, easter eggs etc.
** [[:Category:Diablo lingo]] - Expressions and concepts that are common for Diablo.
** [[:Category:Reference]] - A category to collect terms of the game as a handy encyclopaedia.
*** [[:Category:Abbreviations and Acronyms]] - Sub category specifically for Abbreviations and Acronyms.
** [[:Category:Blizzard]] - Articles with information about Blizzard and Blizzard employees.
*** [[:Category:BlizzCon]] - Articles about BlizzCons.
*** [[:Category:WWI]] - Articles about WWIs.
*** [[:Category:BlizzCast]] - [[BlizzCast]]-related articles.
** [[:Category:Fan-made]] - Articles and other content made by fans. Non-canon.
*** [[:Category:Fan art]] - Everything related to fan art.
**** [[:Category:Fan art images]] - Fan art images.
*** [[:Category:Fan fiction]] - Everything related to fan fiction.
*** [[:Category:Fan classes]] - Classes made by fans.
** [[:Category:Merchandise]] - All types of Diablo-related merchandise should go here.
** [[:Category:Speculation]] - Speculation about things involving the games.
** [[:Category:People]] - Articles with information about important figures in the Diablo Community.
*** [[:Category:Modders]] - List of individuals who make Diablo mods.
** [[:Category:Mods]] - Articles about diablo [[mod]]s.



==Category:Games==
[[:Category:Games]] Has general articles about the various diablo games.
** [[:Category:Diablo I]] - D1 + exp.
*** [[:Category:Diablo I dialogues]] - Articles with Diablo I dialogues. (*)
** [[:Category:Diablo II]] - D2 + exp.
*** [[:Category:Classes (Diablo II)]] - Diablo 2 Classes. (*)
*** [[:Category:Diablo II dialogues]] - Articles with Diablo I dialogues. (*)
** [[:Category:Diablo III]] - D3
*** [[:Category:Diablo IIII dialogues]] - Articles with Diablo I dialogues. (*)
*** [[:Category:Diablo III images]] - D3 images. (*)
*** [[:Category:Classes]] - Diablo 3 Classes. (*)
** [[:Category:World of WarCraft]] - WoW
** [[:Category:WarCraft]] - WarCraft (the [[RTS]] games)
** [[:Category:StarCraft]] - StarCraft

== Sources - [[:Category:Sources]] ==
''[[:Category:Sources]] has All types of Diablo information sources. Games, books, graphic novels, or similar products should be added to '''[[:Category:Sources]]''', the main sources category.''

* [[:Category:Archives]] - Category for all old articles saved for archiving purposes.
** [[:Category:Barbarian skill archive]] - Older, unused skills

* [[:Category:Merchandise]] - Category for all products in the Diablo franchise that are not games or expansions.
** [[:Category:Roleplaying books]] - Diablo RPG books.
** [[:Category:Novels]] - Diablo Novels.

* [[:Category:Game dialogues]] - Dialogues transcripted from the games.
** [[:Category:Diablo II dialogues]] - Articles with Diablo II dialogues go here.
** [[:Category:Diablo I dialougues]] - Same as above, yet for Diablo I.

* [[:Category:Controversies]] - Controversies in diablo.

* [[:Category:Media Coverage]] - Media Coverage.
** [[:Category:Events]] - BlizzCons, WWIs and other events.
*** [[:Category:BlizzCon]] - Articles about BlizzCons.
**** [[:Category:BlizzCon images]] - Images from BlizzCons.
*** [[:Category:WWI]] - Articles about WWIs.
**** [[:Category:WWI images]] - Images from WWI's.
*** [[:Category:BlizzPress]] - Articles about Blizzard press releases, updates and other, smaller events.
*** [[:Category:BlizzCast]] - [[BlizzCast]]-related articles.
** [[:Category:Media Coverage Templates]] - Templates used specifically in the [[Media coverage]] articles.

* [[:Category:Manuals]] - Manuals from the Diablo games.

== DiabloWiki - [[:Category:DiabloWiki]] ==
''All articles used by DiabloWiki or its contributors should be added to '''[[:Category:DiabloWiki]]''', the main DiabloWiki category.''

* [[:Category:Disambiguations]] - A list of all Disambiguation pages.
* [[:Category:Boilerplates]] - DiabloWiki's [[boilerplate]]s listed.
* [[:Category:Help]] - Help pages sorted.
* [[:Category:Main Page]] - All pages related to [[Main Page]].
** [[:Category:Featured articles]] - A category of articles of higher value, featured on main page. (*)

* [[:Category:Templates]] - Templates sorted.
** [[:Category:DiabloWiki templates]] - Templates used for/by {{WikiTitle}}.
** [[:Category:Featured templates]] - Templates of [[Featured]] articles. (*)
** [[:Category:Formatting templates]] - Templates used for/by {{WikiTitle}} formatting
*** [[:Category:Media Coverage Templates]] - Templates used specifically in the [[Media coverage]] article. (*)
** [[:Category:Infoboxes]] - Templates used to give information in an article.
** [[:Category:Navboxes]] - Templates used to give navigation in an article.

* [[:Category:Stubs]] - Articles to clean up or evolve.
** [[:Category:Images to clean up]] - Images up for replacement. (*)
* [[:Category:Delete]] - Articles, categories, templates etc that need to be deleted.
* [[:Category:Featured articles]] - A category of articles of higher value, featured on main page. (*)
** [[:Category:Featured templates]] - Templates of [[Featured]] articles. (*)

== Images - [[:Category:Images]] ==
''All image categories should be added to '''[[:Category:Images]]''', the main image category.''

Some of these categories might go unused for a long time, but if the need arises, use these.

* [[:Category:Monster images]] - Images of monsters. (*)
** [[:Category:Monster art]] - Art of monsters. (*)
** [[:Category:Monster screenshots]] - Shots of monsters. (*)

* [[:Category:Character images]] - Images of characters. (*)
** [[:Category:Character art]] - Art of characters. (*)
** [[:Category:Character screenshots]] - Shots of characters. (*)

* [[:Category:Artwork]] - All artwork.
** [[:Category:Diablo I artwork]] - D1 (*)
** [[:Category:Diablo II artwork]] (*)
** [[:Category:Diablo III artwork]] - D3 (*)
** [[:Category:Diablo unsourced artwork]] - Unknown
** [[:Category:Monster art]] - Art of monsters. (*)
** [[:Category:Character art]] - Art of characters. (*)
** [[:Category:Items art]] - Art of ingame items
** [[:Category:Fan art images]] - Fan art (*)
** [[:Category:Merchandise art]] - Group category for merchandise art.
*** [[:Category:Graphic novel images]] - Images from the graphic novels.
*** [[:Category:Book covers]] - Covers from the Diablo books.
*** [[:Category:Statuette images]] - Images of statuette.

* [[:Category:Screenshots]] - Screenshots of the games.
** [[:Category:Official screenshots]] - Official [[Blizzard]] released screenshots.
** [[:Category:Diablo I screenshots]] - Shots from Diablo I. (*)
** [[:Category:Diablo II screenshots]] - Shots from Diablo II. (*)
** [[:Category:Diablo III screenshots]] - Shots from Diablo III. (*)
** [[:Category:Skill screenshots]] - Shots of skills used, or stats.
** [[:Category:Character screenshots]] - Shots of characters. (*)
** [[:Category:Monster screenshots]] - Shots of monsters. (*)
*** [[:Category:Goatmen screenshots]] - Shots of goatmen.
** [[:Category:Level screenshots]] - Shots on in-game levels and areas (struct).
*** [[:Category:Kurast screenshots]] - Shots on Kurast.
*** [[:Category:XXX screenshots]] - Shots on XXX. (continue)
** [[:Category:UI images]] - Pictures of loading screens.
*** [[:Category:Diablo I UI images]] - Pictures of User Interface details. (*)
**** [[:Category:Diablo I loading screens]] - Pictures of loading screens.
*** [[:Category:Diablo II UI images]] - Pictures of User Interface details. (*)
**** [[:Category:Diablo II loading screens]] - Pictures of loading screens.
*** [[:Category:Diablo III UI images]] - Pictures of User Interface details. (*)
**** [[:Category:Diablo III loading screens]] - Pictures of loading screens.

* [[:Category:Game images]] - General category for alternate navigation.
** [[:Category:Diablo I images]] - D1 images.
*** [[:Category:Diablo I artwork]] - Artwork from D1 (*)
*** [[:Category:Diablo I screenshots]] - Shots from Diablo I. (*)
*** [[:Category:Diablo I UI images]] - Pictures of User Interface details. (*)
** [[:Category:Diablo II images]] - D2 images.
*** [[:Category:Diablo II artwork]] - Artwork from D2 (*)
*** [[:Category:Diablo II screenshots]] - Shots from Diablo 2. (*)
*** [[:Category:Diablo II UI images]] - Pictures of User Interface details. (*)
** [[:Category:Diablo III images]] - D3 images. (*)
*** [[:Category:Diablo III artwork]] - Artwork from D3 (*)
*** [[:Category:Diablo III screenshots]] - Shots from Diablo 3. (*)
*** [[:Category:Diablo III UI images]] - Pictures of User Interface details. (*)

* [[:Category:DiabloWiki images]] - Images used by the Wiki.
** [[:Category:Template images]] - Images used in templates.

* [[:Category:Community images]]
** [[:Category:Guild images]]
** [[:Category:Fan art images]] - Fan art. (*)
*** [[:Category:Fake screenshots]] - Fan art.
** [[:Category:Diii.net images]] - Images for or about Diii.net. (*)

* [[:Category:Blizzard images]] - Images for or about Blizzard. (*)
** [[:Category:BlizzCon images]] - Images from BlizzCons. (*)
** [[:Category:WWI images]] - Images from WWI's. (*)

* [[:Category:Maps]] - Images of maps (*)

* [[:Category:Images to clean up]] - Images up for replacement. (*)

== Final Words==

Adding a few final words here.

{{Help navbox}}

Help:Structure

2013-12-08T00:15:49Z

WitchDoctor: fixed an oops

If you were looking for a complete list of categories, see:http://www.diablowiki.net/Special:Categories
If you are here for learning a bit about categories and diablowiki structure, continue.

==Structure==
Categories are essential to the structure of Diablowiki. A large part of what is searched in Diablowiki depends onthe use of categories. When adding pages to categories, add them in the largest yet most fitting category available.This article will help with that.

Keep in mind that the category structure is rather confusing at the moment and needs some organising, and that articles can fit into multiple categories

===Adding Articles to Categories===
The line used for adding pages and images to categories is [[:Category:<category name
here>]]. There should not be a need to create new categories, as plenty of them exist to cover all the topics here in Diablowiki.

If you need help with understanding where to put pages, use your best judgement. Alternatively, if you cannot decide, you can ask [[Elly]] or another dedicated editor where to put them.

Remember, when adding pages to a category, punctuation and grammar matter. For example, you will not successfully put a article about witch doctors into [[:Category:Witch Doctor]] by typing [[:Category: witch doctors]].

==Default Category:Root==
The "category to rule them all", is [[:Category:Root]]. From here is where all other categories expand from. There should not be a need to add pages to this category.

==Category:Content==

[[:Category:Content]] is where most categories about Diablo start from. It includes all the categories that are about Diablo 3's content. Articles still do not need to be in this category, as they are covered by sub-categories.

===Category:Basics===
[[:Category:Basics]] is where general descriptions of topics, such as [[Acts]], go. [[Acts]] would fit into this category, instead of into [[Category:Acts]].

==Category:Gameplay==

[[:Category:Gameplay]] is another main category, specifically for diablo 3's gameplay. Again, it is unnecessary to put pages into this category, as most will fit into sub-categories.

===Category:Classes===

[[:Category:Classes]] is a general category for information regarding all classes. For example, a general page about [[skill runes]] would fit in this category, whereas information about [[Fury]] would belong in a class-specific section.

Other special class categories include:

* [[:Category:Classes (Diablo II)]] - Diablo 2 classes.
* [[:Category:Fan classes]] - Fan-made classes.

===Category:(Specific Classes)===
* [[:Category:Barbarian]] - Specific class information about Barbarians.
** [[:Category:Barbarian Skills]] - Specific information about Barbarian skills.
* [[:Category:Demon Hunter]] - Specific class information about Demon Hunters.
** [[:Category:Demon Hunter Skills]] - Specific information about Demon Hunter skills.
* [[:Category:Witch Doctor]] - Specific class information about Witch Doctors.
** [[:Category:Witch Doctor Skills]] - Specific information about Demon Hunter skills.
* [[:Category:Wizard]] - Specific class information about Wizards.
** [[:Category:Wizard Skills]] - Specific information about Wizard skills.
* [[:Category:Monk]] - Specific class information about Monks.
** [[:Category:Monk Skills]] - Specific information about Monk skills.

===Category:Acts===

[[:Category:Acts]] contains information relevant to all of Diablo 3's acts. Specific act categories contain information relevant to only one act. Even more specific categories, such as the Quests and Levels categories, contain specific information about specific quests and levels
in each act.

* [[:Category:Act I]]
** [[:Category:Act I NPCs]]
** [[:Category:Act I Quests]]
***[[:Category: Act I Events]]
** [[:Category:Act I Levels]]
* [[:Category:Act II]]
** [[:Category:Act II NPCs]]
** [[:Category:Act II Quests]]
***[[:Category: Act II Events]]
** [[:Category:Act II Levels]]
* [[:Category:Act III]]
** [[:Category:Act III NPCs]]
** [[:Category:Act III Quests]]
***[[:Category: Act III Events]]
** [[:Category:Act III Levels]]
* [[:Category:Act IV]]
** [[:Category:Act IV NPCs]]
** [[:Category:Act IV Quests]]
***[[:Category: Act IV Events]]
** [[:Category:Act IV Levels]]
* [[:Category:Act V]]
** [[:Category:Act V NPCs]]
** [[:Category:Act V Quests]]
***[[:Category: Act V Events]]
** [[:Category:Act V Levels]]

===Category:Quests===
[[:Category:Quests]] should only contain act quest sub-categories and special quests, like the [[Infernal Machine]], that cannot be bound to one
act.

===Category:Items===
[[:Category:Items]] contains general articles about items and items not covered by a sub-category. Sub-categories include:

* [[:Category:Weapons]]
* [[:Category:Armor]]
* [[:Category:Jewelry]] (rings and amulets)
* [[:Category:Artefacts]] (lore books, special items)

===Category:Monsters===
[[:Category:Monsters]] Contains information about monsters in diablo 3 not covered by a sub-category, or contains broad information about
monsters. Some sub-categories are:

* [[:Category:SuperUniques]] - General category for purple titled bosses.
* [[:Category:Objects]]
* [[:Category:Undead]]
* [[:Category:Demons]]
* [[:Category:Monster images]] - General monster images category.

===Category:Skills===
[[:Category:Skills]] contains Diablo 3 skill information. Previously mentioned skill categories are sub-categories of this one.

===Other Categories===

* [[:Category:NPCs]] - Diablo 3 NPC's category.
* [[:Category:Reference]] - Contains other bits of information, such as a glossary, acronyms, and statistics.
* [[:Category:Play styles]] - Various play styles developed in Diablo 3.

==Category:Lore==
[[:Category:Lore]] contains lore information for the diablo series. The major sub-categories are:

* [[:Category:Characters]] - Characters important to the Diablo story, like [[Tyrael]] and [[Deckard Cain]].
* [[:Category:Angels]]
* [[:Category:Demons]]
* [[:Category:Factions]] - Factions in the Diablo Universe.

There are several other categories in this area, but they are, for the most part, covered by articles already in these sections.

==Category:Guides==
* [[:Category:Guides]] - User-made guides for the Wiki. Guides might end up in multiple categories.

 
 

== Category:Community==
[[:Category:Community]] Contains community-related articles/categories.
** [[:Category:Fansites]] - Diablo fansites' own category.
*** [[:Category:Diii.net]] - All articles relating to Diii.net.
**** [[:Category:Diii.net images]] - Images for or about Diii.net. (*)
** [[:Category:Guilds]] - Listing of guilds.
** [[:Category:Users]] - Listing of wiki users.
** [[:Category:Trivia]] - Fun facts, easter eggs etc.
** [[:Category:Diablo lingo]] - Expressions and concepts that are common for Diablo.
** [[:Category:Reference]] - A category to collect terms of the game as a handy encyclopaedia. (*)
*** [[:Category:Abbreviations and Acronyms]] - Sub category specifically for Abbreviations and Acronyms.
** [[:Category:Blizzard]] - Articles with information about Blizzard and Blizzard employees.
*** [[:Category:BlizzCon]] - Articles about BlizzCons. (*)
*** [[:Category:WWI]] - Articles about WWIs. (*)
*** [[:Category:BlizzCast]] - [[BlizzCast]]-related articles. (*)
** [[:Category:Fan-made]] - Articles and other content made by fans. Non-canon.
*** [[:Category:Fan art]] - Everything related to fan art.
**** [[:Category:Fan art images]] - Fan art images. (*)
*** [[:Category:Fan fiction]] - Everything related to fan fiction.
*** [[:Category:Fan classes]] - Classes made by fans. (*)
** [[:Category:Merchandise]] - All types of Diablo-related merchandise should go here.
** [[:Category:Speculation]] - Speculation about things involving the games.
** [[:Category:People]] - Articles with information about important figures in the Diablo Community.
*** [[:Category:Modders]] - List of individuals who makes mods. (*)
** [[:Category:Mods]] - Articles about [[mod]]s.



==Category:Games==
[[:Category:Games]] Has general articles about the various diablo games.
** [[:Category:Diablo I]] - D1 + exp.
*** [[:Category:Diablo I dialogues]] - Articles with Diablo I dialogues. (*)
** [[:Category:Diablo II]] - D2 + exp.
*** [[:Category:Classes (Diablo II)]] - Diablo 2 Classes. (*)
*** [[:Category:Diablo II dialogues]] - Articles with Diablo I dialogues. (*)
** [[:Category:Diablo III]] - D3
*** [[:Category:Diablo IIII dialogues]] - Articles with Diablo I dialogues. (*)
*** [[:Category:Diablo III images]] - D3 images. (*)
*** [[:Category:Classes]] - Diablo 3 Classes. (*)
** [[:Category:World of WarCraft]] - WoW
** [[:Category:WarCraft]] - WarCraft (the [[RTS]] games)
** [[:Category:StarCraft]] - StarCraft

== Sources - [[:Category:Sources]] ==
''[[:Category:Sources]] has All types of Diablo information sources. Games, books, graphic novels, or similar products should be added to '''[[:Category:Sources]]''', the main sources category.''

* [[:Category:Archives]] - Category for all old articles saved for archiving purposes.
** [[:Category:Barbarian skill archive]] - Older, unused skills

* [[:Category:Merchandise]] - Category for all products in the Diablo franchise that are not games or expansions.
** [[:Category:Roleplaying books]] - Diablo RPG books.
** [[:Category:Novels]] - Diablo Novels.

* [[:Category:Game dialogues]] - Dialogues transcripted from the games.
** [[:Category:Diablo II dialogues]] - Articles with Diablo II dialogues go here.
** [[:Category:Diablo I dialougues]] - Same as above, yet for Diablo I.

* [[:Category:Controversies]] - Controversies in diablo.

* [[:Category:Media Coverage]] - Media Coverage.
** [[:Category:Events]] - BlizzCons, WWIs and other events.
*** [[:Category:BlizzCon]] - Articles about BlizzCons.
**** [[:Category:BlizzCon images]] - Images from BlizzCons.
*** [[:Category:WWI]] - Articles about WWIs.
**** [[:Category:WWI images]] - Images from WWI's.
*** [[:Category:BlizzPress]] - Articles about Blizzard press releases, updates and other, smaller events.
*** [[:Category:BlizzCast]] - [[BlizzCast]]-related articles.
** [[:Category:Media Coverage Templates]] - Templates used specifically in the [[Media coverage]] articles.

* [[:Category:Manuals]] - Manuals from the Diablo games.

== DiabloWiki - [[:Category:DiabloWiki]] ==
''All articles used by DiabloWiki or its contributors should be added to '''[[:Category:DiabloWiki]]''', the main DiabloWiki category.''

* [[:Category:Disambiguations]] - A list of all Disambiguation pages.
* [[:Category:Boilerplates]] - DiabloWiki's [[boilerplate]]s listed.
* [[:Category:Help]] - Help pages sorted.
* [[:Category:Main Page]] - All pages related to [[Main Page]].
** [[:Category:Featured articles]] - A category of articles of higher value, featured on main page. (*)

* [[:Category:Templates]] - Templates sorted.
** [[:Category:DiabloWiki templates]] - Templates used for/by {{WikiTitle}}.
** [[:Category:Featured templates]] - Templates of [[Featured]] articles. (*)
** [[:Category:Formatting templates]] - Templates used for/by {{WikiTitle}} formatting
*** [[:Category:Media Coverage Templates]] - Templates used specifically in the [[Media coverage]] article. (*)
** [[:Category:Infoboxes]] - Templates used to give information in an article.
** [[:Category:Navboxes]] - Templates used to give navigation in an article.

* [[:Category:Stubs]] - Articles to clean up or evolve.
** [[:Category:Images to clean up]] - Images up for replacement. (*)
* [[:Category:Delete]] - Articles, categories, templates etc that need to be deleted.
* [[:Category:Featured articles]] - A category of articles of higher value, featured on main page. (*)
** [[:Category:Featured templates]] - Templates of [[Featured]] articles. (*)

== Images - [[:Category:Images]] ==
''All image categories should be added to '''[[:Category:Images]]''', the main image category.''

Some of these categories might go unused for a long time, but if the need arises, use these.

* [[:Category:Monster images]] - Images of monsters. (*)
** [[:Category:Monster art]] - Art of monsters. (*)
** [[:Category:Monster screenshots]] - Shots of monsters. (*)

* [[:Category:Character images]] - Images of characters. (*)
** [[:Category:Character art]] - Art of characters. (*)
** [[:Category:Character screenshots]] - Shots of characters. (*)

* [[:Category:Artwork]] - All artwork.
** [[:Category:Diablo I artwork]] - D1 (*)
** [[:Category:Diablo II artwork]] (*)
** [[:Category:Diablo III artwork]] - D3 (*)
** [[:Category:Diablo unsourced artwork]] - Unknown
** [[:Category:Monster art]] - Art of monsters. (*)
** [[:Category:Character art]] - Art of characters. (*)
** [[:Category:Items art]] - Art of ingame items
** [[:Category:Fan art images]] - Fan art (*)
** [[:Category:Merchandise art]] - Group category for merchandise art.
*** [[:Category:Graphic novel images]] - Images from the graphic novels.
*** [[:Category:Book covers]] - Covers from the Diablo books.
*** [[:Category:Statuette images]] - Images of statuette.

* [[:Category:Screenshots]] - Screenshots of the games.
** [[:Category:Official screenshots]] - Official [[Blizzard]] released screenshots.
** [[:Category:Diablo I screenshots]] - Shots from Diablo I. (*)
** [[:Category:Diablo II screenshots]] - Shots from Diablo II. (*)
** [[:Category:Diablo III screenshots]] - Shots from Diablo III. (*)
** [[:Category:Skill screenshots]] - Shots of skills used, or stats.
** [[:Category:Character screenshots]] - Shots of characters. (*)
** [[:Category:Monster screenshots]] - Shots of monsters. (*)
*** [[:Category:Goatmen screenshots]] - Shots of goatmen.
** [[:Category:Level screenshots]] - Shots on in-game levels and areas (struct).
*** [[:Category:Kurast screenshots]] - Shots on Kurast.
*** [[:Category:XXX screenshots]] - Shots on XXX. (continue)
** [[:Category:UI images]] - Pictures of loading screens.
*** [[:Category:Diablo I UI images]] - Pictures of User Interface details. (*)
**** [[:Category:Diablo I loading screens]] - Pictures of loading screens.
*** [[:Category:Diablo II UI images]] - Pictures of User Interface details. (*)
**** [[:Category:Diablo II loading screens]] - Pictures of loading screens.
*** [[:Category:Diablo III UI images]] - Pictures of User Interface details. (*)
**** [[:Category:Diablo III loading screens]] - Pictures of loading screens.

* [[:Category:Game images]] - General category for alternate navigation.
** [[:Category:Diablo I images]] - D1 images.
*** [[:Category:Diablo I artwork]] - Artwork from D1 (*)
*** [[:Category:Diablo I screenshots]] - Shots from Diablo I. (*)
*** [[:Category:Diablo I UI images]] - Pictures of User Interface details. (*)
** [[:Category:Diablo II images]] - D2 images.
*** [[:Category:Diablo II artwork]] - Artwork from D2 (*)
*** [[:Category:Diablo II screenshots]] - Shots from Diablo 2. (*)
*** [[:Category:Diablo II UI images]] - Pictures of User Interface details. (*)
** [[:Category:Diablo III images]] - D3 images. (*)
*** [[:Category:Diablo III artwork]] - Artwork from D3 (*)
*** [[:Category:Diablo III screenshots]] - Shots from Diablo 3. (*)
*** [[:Category:Diablo III UI images]] - Pictures of User Interface details. (*)

* [[:Category:DiabloWiki images]] - Images used by the Wiki.
** [[:Category:Template images]] - Images used in templates.

* [[:Category:Community images]]
** [[:Category:Guild images]]
** [[:Category:Fan art images]] - Fan art. (*)
*** [[:Category:Fake screenshots]] - Fan art.
** [[:Category:Diii.net images]] - Images for or about Diii.net. (*)

* [[:Category:Blizzard images]] - Images for or about Blizzard. (*)
** [[:Category:BlizzCon images]] - Images from BlizzCons. (*)
** [[:Category:WWI images]] - Images from WWI's. (*)

* [[:Category:Maps]] - Images of maps (*)

* [[:Category:Images to clean up]] - Images up for replacement. (*)

== Final Words==

Adding a few final words here.

{{Help navbox}}

Help:Structure

2013-12-08T00:15:31Z

WitchDoctor: another structures fix

If you were looking for a complete list of categories, see:http://www.diablowiki.net/Special:Categories
If you are here for learning a bit about categories and diablowiki structure, continue.

==Structure==
Categories are essential to the structure of Diablowiki. A large part of what is searched in Diablowiki depends onthe use of categories. When adding pages to categories, add them in the largest yet most fitting category available.This article will help with that.

Keep in mind that the category structure is rather confusing at the moment and needs some organising, and that articles can fit into multiple categories

===Adding Articles to Categories===
The line used for adding pages and images to categories is [[:Category:<category name
here>]]. There should not be a need to create new categories, as plenty of them exist to cover all the topics here in Diablowiki.

If you need help with understanding where to put pages, use your best judgement. Alternatively, if you cannot decide, you can ask [[Elly]] or another dedicated editor where to put them.

Remember, when adding pages to a category, punctuation and grammar matter. For example, you will not successfully put a article about witch doctors into [[:Category:Witch Doctor]] by typing [[:Category: witch doctors]].

==Default Category:Root==
The "category to rule them all", is [[:Category:Root]]. From here is where all other categories expand from. There should not be a need to add pages to this category.

==Category:Content==

[[:Category:Content]] is where most categories about Diablo start from. It includes all the categories that are about Diablo 3's content. Articles still do not need to be in this category, as they are covered by sub-categories.

===Category:Basics===
[[:Category:Basics]] is where general descriptions of topics, such as [[Acts]], go. [[Acts]] would fit into this category, instead of into [[Category:Acts]].

==Category:Gameplay==

[[:Category:Gameplay]] is another main category, specifically for diablo 3's gameplay. Again, it is unnecessary to put pages into this category, as most will fit into sub-categories.

===Category:Classes===

[[:Category:Classes]] is a general category for information regarding all classes. For example, a general page about [[skill runes]] would fit in this category, whereas information about [[Fury]] would belong in a class-specific section.

Other special class categories include:

* [[:Category:Classes (Diablo II)]] - Diablo 2 classes.
* [[:Category:Fan classes]] - Fan-made classes.

===Category:(Specific Classes)===
* [[:Category:Barbarian]] - Specific class information about Barbarians.
** [[:Category:Barbarian Skills]] - Specific information about Barbarian skills.
* [[:Category:Demon Hunter]] - Specific class information about Demon Hunters.
** [[:Category:Demon Hunter Skills]] - Specific information about Demon Hunter skills.
* [[:Category:Witch Doctor]] - Specific class information about Witch Doctors.
** [[:Category:Witch Doctor Skills]] - Specific information about Demon Hunter skills.
* [[:Category:Wizard]] - Specific class information about Wizards.
** [[:Category:Wizard Skills]] - Specific information about Wizard skills.
* [[:Category:Monk]] - Specific class information about Monks.
** [[:Category:Monk Skills]] - Specific information about Monk skills.

===Category:Acts===

[[:Category:Acts]] contains information relevant to all of Diablo 3's acts. Specific act categories contain information relevant to only one act. Even more specific categories, such as the Quests and Levels categories, contain specific information about specific quests and levels
in each act.

* [[:Category:Act I]]
** [[:Category:Act I NPCs]]
** [[:Category:Act I Quests]]
***[[:Category: Act I Events]]
** [[:Category:Act I Levels]]
* [[:Category:Act II]]
** [[:Category:Act II NPCs]]
** [[:Category:Act II Quests]]
***[[:Category: Act II Events]]
** [[:Category:Act II Levels]]
* [[:Category:Act III]]
** [[:Category:Act III NPCs]]
** [[:Category:Act III Quests]]
***[[:Category: Act III Events]]
** [[:Category:Act III Levels]]
* [[:Category:Act IV]]
** [[:Category:Act IV NPCs]]
** [[:Category:Act IV Quests]]
***[[:Category: Act IV Events]]
** [[:Category:Act IV Levels]]
* [[:Category:Act V]]
** [[:Category:Act V NPCs]]
** [[:Category:Act V Quests]]
***[[:Category: Act V Events]]
** [[:Category:Act V Levels]]

===Category:Quests===
[[:Category:Quests]] should only contain act quest sub-categories and special quests, like the [[Infernal Machine]], that cannot be bound to one
act.

===Category:Items===
[[:Category:Items]] contains general articles about items and items not covered by a sub-category. Sub-categories include:

* [[:Category:Weapons]]
* [[:Category:Armor]]
* [[:Category:Jewelry]] (rings and amulets)
* [[:Category:Artefacts]] (lore books, special items)

===Category:Monsters===
[[:Category:Monsters]] Contains information about monsters in diablo 3 not covered by a sub-category, or contains broad information about
monsters. Some sub-categories are:

* [[:Category:SuperUniques]] - General category for purple titled bosses.
* [[:Category:Objects]]
* [[:Category:Undead]]
* [[:Category:Demons]]
* [[:Category:Monster images]] - General monster images category.

===Category:Skills===
[[:Category:Skills]] contains Diablo 3 skill information. Previously mentioned skill categories are sub-categories of this one.

===Other Categories===

* [[:Category:NPCs]] - Diablo 3 NPC's category.
* [[:Category:Reference]] - Contains other bits of information, such as a glossary, acronyms, and statistics.
* [[:Category:Play styles]] - Various play styles developed in Diablo 3.

==Category:Lore==
[[:Category:Lore]] contains lore information for the diablo series. The major sub-categories are:

* [[:Category:Characters]] - Characters important to the Diablo story, like [[Tyrael]] and [[Deckard Cain]].
* [[:Category:Angels]]
* [[:Category:Demons]]
* [[:Category:Factions]] - Factions in the Diablo Universe.

There are several other categories in this area, but they are, for the most part, covered by articles already in these sections.

==Category:Guides==
* [[:Category:Guides]] - User-made guides for the Wiki. Guides might end up in multiple categories.

 
 

== Category:Community==
[[:Category:Community]] Contains community-related articles/categories.
** [[:Category:Fansites]] - Diablo fansites' own category.
*** [[:Category:Diii.net]] - All articles relating to Diii.net.
**** [[:Category:Diii.net images]] - Images for or about Diii.net. (*)
** [[:Category:Guilds]] - Listing of guilds.
** [[:Category:Users]] - Listing of wiki users.
** [[:Category:Trivia]] - Fun facts, easter eggs etc.
** [[:Category:Diablo lingo]] - Expressions and concepts that are common for Diablo.
** [[:Category:Reference]] - A category to collect terms of the game as a handy encyclopaedia. (*)
*** [[:Category:Abbreviations and Acronyms]] - Sub category specifically for Abbreviations and Acronyms.
** [[:Category:Blizzard]] - Articles with information about Blizzard and Blizzard employees.
*** [[:Category:BlizzCon]] - Articles about BlizzCons. (*)
*** [[:Category:WWI]] - Articles about WWIs. (*)
*** [[:Category:BlizzCast]] - [[BlizzCast]]-related articles. (*)
** [[:Category:Fan-made]] - Articles and other content made by fans. Non-canon.
*** [[:Category:Fan art]] - Everything related to fan art.
**** [[:Category:Fan art images]] - Fan art images. (*)
*** [[:Category:Fan fiction]] - Everything related to fan fiction.
*** [[:Category:Fan classes]] - Classes made by fans. (*)
** [[:Category:Merchandise]] - All types of Diablo-related merchandise should go here.
** [[:Category:Speculation]] - Speculation about things involving the games.
** [[:Category:People]] - Articles with information about important figures in the Diablo Community.
*** [[:Category:Modders]] - List of individuals who makes mods. (*)
** [[:Category:Mods]] - Articles about [[mod]]s.



==Category:Games==
[[:Category:Games]] Has general articles about the various diablo games.
** [[:Category:Diablo I]] - D1 + exp.
*** [[:Category:Diablo I dialogues]] - Articles with Diablo I dialogues. (*)
** [[:Category:Diablo II]] - D2 + exp.
*** [[:Category:Classes (Diablo II)]] - Diablo 2 Classes. (*)
*** [[:Category:Diablo II dialogues]] - Articles with Diablo I dialogues. (*)
** [[:Category:Diablo III]] - D3
*** [[:Category:Diablo IIII dialogues]] - Articles with Diablo I dialogues. (*)
*** [[:Category:Diablo III images]] - D3 images. (*)
*** [[:Category:Classes]] - Diablo 3 Classes. (*)
** [[:Category:World of WarCraft]] - WoW
** [[:Category:WarCraft]] - WarCraft (the [[RTS]] games)
** [[:Category:StarCraft]] - StarCraft

== Sources - [[:Category:Sources]] ==
''[[:Category:Sources]] has All types of Diablo information sources. Games, books, graphic novels, or similar products should be added to '''[[:Category:Sources]]''', the main sources category.''

* [[:Category:Archives]] - Category for all old articles saved for archiving purposes.
** [[:Category:Barbarian skill archive]] - Older, unused skills

* [[:Category:Merchandise]] - Category for all products in the Diablo franchise that are not games or expansions.
** [[:Category:Roleplaying books]] - Diablo RPG books.
** [[:Category:Novels]] - Diablo Novels.

* [[:Category:Game dialogues]] - Dialogues transcripted from the games.
** [[:Category:Diablo II dialogues]] - Articles with Diablo II dialogues go here.
** [[:Category:Diablo I dialougues]] - Same as above, yet for Diablo I.

* [[:Category:Controversies]] - Controversies in diablo.

* [[:Category:Media Coverage]] - Media Coverage.
** [[:Category:Events]] - BlizzCons, WWIs and other events.
*** [[:Category:BlizzCon]] - Articles about BlizzCons.
**** [[:Category:BlizzCon images]] - Images from BlizzCons.
*** [[:Category:WWI]] - Articles about WWIs.
**** [[:Category:WWI images]] - Images from WWI's.
*** [[:Category:BlizzPress]] - Articles about Blizzard press releases, updates and other, smaller events. (*)
*** [[:Category:BlizzCast]] - [[BlizzCast]]-related articles.
** [[:Category:Media Coverage Templates]] - Templates used specifically in the [[Media coverage]] articles.

* [[:Category:Manuals]] - Manuals from the Diablo games.

== DiabloWiki - [[:Category:DiabloWiki]] ==
''All articles used by DiabloWiki or its contributors should be added to '''[[:Category:DiabloWiki]]''', the main DiabloWiki category.''

* [[:Category:Disambiguations]] - A list of all Disambiguation pages.
* [[:Category:Boilerplates]] - DiabloWiki's [[boilerplate]]s listed.
* [[:Category:Help]] - Help pages sorted.
* [[:Category:Main Page]] - All pages related to [[Main Page]].
** [[:Category:Featured articles]] - A category of articles of higher value, featured on main page. (*)

* [[:Category:Templates]] - Templates sorted.
** [[:Category:DiabloWiki templates]] - Templates used for/by {{WikiTitle}}.
** [[:Category:Featured templates]] - Templates of [[Featured]] articles. (*)
** [[:Category:Formatting templates]] - Templates used for/by {{WikiTitle}} formatting
*** [[:Category:Media Coverage Templates]] - Templates used specifically in the [[Media coverage]] article. (*)
** [[:Category:Infoboxes]] - Templates used to give information in an article.
** [[:Category:Navboxes]] - Templates used to give navigation in an article.

* [[:Category:Stubs]] - Articles to clean up or evolve.
** [[:Category:Images to clean up]] - Images up for replacement. (*)
* [[:Category:Delete]] - Articles, categories, templates etc that need to be deleted.
* [[:Category:Featured articles]] - A category of articles of higher value, featured on main page. (*)
** [[:Category:Featured templates]] - Templates of [[Featured]] articles. (*)

== Images - [[:Category:Images]] ==
''All image categories should be added to '''[[:Category:Images]]''', the main image category.''

Some of these categories might go unused for a long time, but if the need arises, use these.

* [[:Category:Monster images]] - Images of monsters. (*)
** [[:Category:Monster art]] - Art of monsters. (*)
** [[:Category:Monster screenshots]] - Shots of monsters. (*)

* [[:Category:Character images]] - Images of characters. (*)
** [[:Category:Character art]] - Art of characters. (*)
** [[:Category:Character screenshots]] - Shots of characters. (*)

* [[:Category:Artwork]] - All artwork.
** [[:Category:Diablo I artwork]] - D1 (*)
** [[:Category:Diablo II artwork]] (*)
** [[:Category:Diablo III artwork]] - D3 (*)
** [[:Category:Diablo unsourced artwork]] - Unknown
** [[:Category:Monster art]] - Art of monsters. (*)
** [[:Category:Character art]] - Art of characters. (*)
** [[:Category:Items art]] - Art of ingame items
** [[:Category:Fan art images]] - Fan art (*)
** [[:Category:Merchandise art]] - Group category for merchandise art.
*** [[:Category:Graphic novel images]] - Images from the graphic novels.
*** [[:Category:Book covers]] - Covers from the Diablo books.
*** [[:Category:Statuette images]] - Images of statuette.

* [[:Category:Screenshots]] - Screenshots of the games.
** [[:Category:Official screenshots]] - Official [[Blizzard]] released screenshots.
** [[:Category:Diablo I screenshots]] - Shots from Diablo I. (*)
** [[:Category:Diablo II screenshots]] - Shots from Diablo II. (*)
** [[:Category:Diablo III screenshots]] - Shots from Diablo III. (*)
** [[:Category:Skill screenshots]] - Shots of skills used, or stats.
** [[:Category:Character screenshots]] - Shots of characters. (*)
** [[:Category:Monster screenshots]] - Shots of monsters. (*)
*** [[:Category:Goatmen screenshots]] - Shots of goatmen.
** [[:Category:Level screenshots]] - Shots on in-game levels and areas (struct).
*** [[:Category:Kurast screenshots]] - Shots on Kurast.
*** [[:Category:XXX screenshots]] - Shots on XXX. (continue)
** [[:Category:UI images]] - Pictures of loading screens.
*** [[:Category:Diablo I UI images]] - Pictures of User Interface details. (*)
**** [[:Category:Diablo I loading screens]] - Pictures of loading screens.
*** [[:Category:Diablo II UI images]] - Pictures of User Interface details. (*)
**** [[:Category:Diablo II loading screens]] - Pictures of loading screens.
*** [[:Category:Diablo III UI images]] - Pictures of User Interface details. (*)
**** [[:Category:Diablo III loading screens]] - Pictures of loading screens.

* [[:Category:Game images]] - General category for alternate navigation.
** [[:Category:Diablo I images]] - D1 images.
*** [[:Category:Diablo I artwork]] - Artwork from D1 (*)
*** [[:Category:Diablo I screenshots]] - Shots from Diablo I. (*)
*** [[:Category:Diablo I UI images]] - Pictures of User Interface details. (*)
** [[:Category:Diablo II images]] - D2 images.
*** [[:Category:Diablo II artwork]] - Artwork from D2 (*)
*** [[:Category:Diablo II screenshots]] - Shots from Diablo 2. (*)
*** [[:Category:Diablo II UI images]] - Pictures of User Interface details. (*)
** [[:Category:Diablo III images]] - D3 images. (*)
*** [[:Category:Diablo III artwork]] - Artwork from D3 (*)
*** [[:Category:Diablo III screenshots]] - Shots from Diablo 3. (*)
*** [[:Category:Diablo III UI images]] - Pictures of User Interface details. (*)

* [[:Category:DiabloWiki images]] - Images used by the Wiki.
** [[:Category:Template images]] - Images used in templates.

* [[:Category:Community images]]
** [[:Category:Guild images]]
** [[:Category:Fan art images]] - Fan art. (*)
*** [[:Category:Fake screenshots]] - Fan art.
** [[:Category:Diii.net images]] - Images for or about Diii.net. (*)

* [[:Category:Blizzard images]] - Images for or about Blizzard. (*)
** [[:Category:BlizzCon images]] - Images from BlizzCons. (*)
** [[:Category:WWI images]] - Images from WWI's. (*)

* [[:Category:Maps]] - Images of maps (*)

* [[:Category:Images to clean up]] - Images up for replacement. (*)

== Final Words==

Adding a few final words here.

{{Help navbox}}

Help:Structure

2013-12-08T00:12:03Z

WitchDoctor: an another

If you were looking for a complete list of categories, see:http://www.diablowiki.net/Special:Categories
If you are here for learning a bit about categories and diablowiki structure, continue.

==Structure==
Categories are essential to the structure of Diablowiki. A large part of what is searched in Diablowiki depends onthe use of categories. When adding pages to categories, add them in the largest yet most fitting category available.This article will help with that.

Keep in mind that the category structure is rather confusing at the moment and needs some organising, and that articles can fit into multiple categories

===Adding Articles to Categories===
The line used for adding pages and images to categories is [[:Category:<category name
here>]]. There should not be a need to create new categories, as plenty of them exist to cover all the topics here in Diablowiki.

If you need help with understanding where to put pages, use your best judgement. Alternatively, if you cannot decide, you can ask [[Elly]] or another dedicated editor where to put them.

Remember, when adding pages to a category, punctuation and grammar matter. For example, you will not successfully put a article about witch doctors into [[:Category:Witch Doctor]] by typing [[:Category: witch doctors]].

==Default Category:Root==
The "category to rule them all", is [[:Category:Root]]. From here is where all other categories expand from. There should not be a need to add pages to this category.

==Category:Content==

[[:Category:Content]] is where most categories about Diablo start from. It includes all the categories that are about Diablo 3's content. Articles still do not need to be in this category, as they are covered by sub-categories.

===Category:Basics===
[[:Category:Basics]] is where general descriptions of topics, such as [[Acts]], go. [[Acts]] would fit into this category, instead of into [[Category:Acts]].

==Category:Gameplay==

[[:Category:Gameplay]] is another main category, specifically for diablo 3's gameplay. Again, it is unnecessary to put pages into this category, as most will fit into sub-categories.

===Category:Classes===

[[:Category:Classes]] is a general category for information regarding all classes. For example, a general page about [[skill runes]] would fit in this category, whereas information about [[Fury]] would belong in a class-specific section.

Other special class categories include:

* [[:Category:Classes (Diablo II)]] - Diablo 2 classes.
* [[:Category:Fan classes]] - Fan-made classes.

===Category:(Specific Classes)===
* [[:Category:Barbarian]] - Specific class information about Barbarians.
** [[:Category:Barbarian Skills]] - Specific information about Barbarian skills.
* [[:Category:Demon Hunter]] - Specific class information about Demon Hunters.
** [[:Category:Demon Hunter Skills]] - Specific information about Demon Hunter skills.
* [[:Category:Witch Doctor]] - Specific class information about Witch Doctors.
** [[:Category:Witch Doctor Skills]] - Specific information about Demon Hunter skills.
* [[:Category:Wizard]] - Specific class information about Wizards.
** [[:Category:Wizard Skills]] - Specific information about Wizard skills.
* [[:Category:Monk]] - Specific class information about Monks.
** [[:Category:Monk Skills]] - Specific information about Monk skills.

===Category:Acts===

[[:Category:Acts]] contains information relevant to all of Diablo 3's acts. Specific act categories contain information relevant to only one act. Even more specific categories, such as the Quests and Levels categories, contain specific information about specific quests and levels
in each act.

* [[:Category:Act I]]
** [[:Category:Act I NPCs]]
** [[:Category:Act I Quests]]
***[[:Category: Act I Events]]
** [[:Category:Act I Levels]]
* [[:Category:Act II]]
** [[:Category:Act II NPCs]]
** [[:Category:Act II Quests]]
***[[:Category: Act II Events]]
** [[:Category:Act II Levels]]
* [[:Category:Act III]]
** [[:Category:Act III NPCs]]
** [[:Category:Act III Quests]]
***[[:Category: Act III Events]]
** [[:Category:Act III Levels]]
* [[:Category:Act IV]]
** [[:Category:Act IV NPCs]]
** [[:Category:Act IV Quests]]
***[[:Category: Act IV Events]]
** [[:Category:Act IV Levels]]
* [[:Category:Act V]]
** [[:Category:Act V NPCs]]
** [[:Category:Act V Quests]]
***[[:Category: Act V Events]]
** [[:Category:Act V Levels]]

===Category:Quests===
[[:Category:Quests]] should only contain act quest sub-categories and special quests, like the [[Infernal Machine]], that cannot be bound to one
act.

===Category:Items===
[[:Category:Items]] contains general articles about items and items not covered by a sub-category. Sub-categories include:

* [[:Category:Weapons]]
* [[:Category:Armor]]
* [[:Category:Jewelry]] (rings and amulets)
* [[:Category:Artefacts]] (lore books, special items)

===Category:Monsters===
[[:Category:Monsters]] Contains information about monsters in diablo 3 not covered by a sub-category, or contains broad information about
monsters. Some sub-categories are:

* [[:Category:SuperUniques]] - General category for purple titled bosses.
* [[:Category:Objects]]
* [[:Category:Undead]]
* [[:Category:Demons]]
* [[:Category:Monster images]] - General monster images category.

===Category:Skills===
[[:Category:Skills]] contains Diablo 3 skill information. Previously mentioned skill categories are sub-categories of this one.

===Other Categories===

* [[:Category:NPCs]] - Diablo 3 NPC's category.
* [[:Category:Reference]] - Contains other bits of information, such as a glossary, acronyms, and statistics.
* [[:Category:Play styles]] - Various play styles developed in Diablo 3.

==Category:Lore==
[[:Category:Lore]] contains lore information for the diablo series. The major sub-categories are:

* [[:Category:Characters]] - Characters important to the Diablo story, like [[Tyrael]] and [[Deckard Cain]].
* [[:Category:Angels]]
* [[:Category:Demons]]
* [[:Category:Factions]] - Factions in the Diablo Universe.

There are several other categories in this area, but they are, for the most part, covered by articles already in these sections.

==Category:Guides==
* [[:Category:Guides]] - User-made guides for the Wiki. Guides might end up in multiple categories.

 
 

== Category:Community==
[[:Category:Community]] Contains community-related articles/categories.
** [[:Category:Fansites]] - Diablo fansites' own category.
*** [[:Category:Diii.net]] - All articles relating to Diii.net.
**** [[:Category:Diii.net images]] - Images for or about Diii.net. (*)
** [[:Category:Guilds]] - Listing of guilds.
** [[:Category:Users]] - Listing of wiki users.
** [[:Category:Trivia]] - Fun facts, easter eggs etc.
** [[:Category:Diablo lingo]] - Expressions and concepts that are common for Diablo.
** [[:Category:Reference]] - A category to collect terms of the game as a handy encyclopaedia. (*)
*** [[:Category:Abbreviations and Acronyms]] - Sub category specifically for Abbreviations and Acronyms.
** [[:Category:Blizzard]] - Articles with information about Blizzard and Blizzard employees.
*** [[:Category:BlizzCon]] - Articles about BlizzCons. (*)
*** [[:Category:WWI]] - Articles about WWIs. (*)
*** [[:Category:BlizzCast]] - [[BlizzCast]]-related articles. (*)
** [[:Category:Fan-made]] - Articles and other content made by fans. Non-canon.
*** [[:Category:Fan art]] - Everything related to fan art.
**** [[:Category:Fan art images]] - Fan art images. (*)
*** [[:Category:Fan fiction]] - Everything related to fan fiction.
*** [[:Category:Fan classes]] - Classes made by fans. (*)
** [[:Category:Merchandise]] - All types of Diablo-related merchandise should go here.
** [[:Category:Speculation]] - Speculation about things involving the games.
** [[:Category:People]] - Articles with information about important figures in the Diablo Community.
*** [[:Category:Modders]] - List of individuals who makes mods. (*)
** [[:Category:Mods]] - Articles about [[mod]]s.



==Category:Games==
[[:Category:Games]] Has general articles about the various diablo games.
** [[:Category:Diablo I]] - D1 + exp.
*** [[:Category:Diablo I dialogues]] - Articles with Diablo I dialogues. (*)
** [[:Category:Diablo II]] - D2 + exp.
*** [[:Category:Classes (Diablo II)]] - Diablo 2 Classes. (*)
*** [[:Category:Diablo II dialogues]] - Articles with Diablo I dialogues. (*)
** [[:Category:Diablo III]] - D3
*** [[:Category:Diablo IIII dialogues]] - Articles with Diablo I dialogues. (*)
*** [[:Category:Diablo III images]] - D3 images. (*)
*** [[:Category:Classes]] - Diablo 3 Classes. (*)
** [[:Category:World of WarCraft]] - WoW
** [[:Category:WarCraft]] - WarCraft (the [[RTS]] games)
** [[:Category:StarCraft]] - StarCraft

== Sources - [[:Category:Sources]] ==
* [[:Category:Sources]] - ''All types of Diablo information sources. Games, books, graphic novels, or similar products should be added to '''[[:Category:Sources]]''', the main sources category.''

* [[:Category:Archives]] - Category for all old articles saved for archiving purposes.
** [[:Category:Barbarian skill archive]] - Older, unused skills (*)

* [[:Category:Merchandise]] - Category for all products in the Diablo franchise that are not games or expansions.
** [[:Category:Roleplaying books]] - Diablo RPG books.
** [[:Category:Novels]] - Diablo Novels.

* [[:Category:Game dialogues]] - Dialogues transcripted from the games.
** [[:Category:Diablo II dialogues]] - Articles with Diablo II dialogues go here. (*)

* [[:Category:Controversies]] - Controversies.

* [[:Category:Media Coverage]] - Media Coverage.
** [[:Category:Events]] - BlizzCons, WWIs and other events.
*** [[:Category:BlizzCon]] - Articles about BlizzCons. (*)
**** [[:Category:BlizzCon images]] - Images from BlizzCons. (*)
*** [[:Category:WWI]] - Articles about WWIs. (*)
**** [[:Category:WWI images]] - Images from WWI's. (*)
*** [[:Category:BlizzPress]] - Articles about Blizzard press releases, updates and other, smaller events. (*)
*** [[:Category:BlizzCast]] - [[BlizzCast]]-related articles. (*)
** [[:Category:Media Coverage Templates]] - Templates used specifically in the [[Media coverage]] article. (*)

* [[:Category:Manuals]] - Manuals from the Diablo games.

== DiabloWiki - [[:Category:DiabloWiki]] ==
''All articles used by DiabloWiki or its contributors should be added to '''[[:Category:DiabloWiki]]''', the main DiabloWiki category.''

* [[:Category:Disambiguations]] - A list of all Disambiguation pages.
* [[:Category:Boilerplates]] - DiabloWiki's [[boilerplate]]s listed.
* [[:Category:Help]] - Help pages sorted.
* [[:Category:Main Page]] - All pages related to [[Main Page]].
** [[:Category:Featured articles]] - A category of articles of higher value, featured on main page. (*)

* [[:Category:Templates]] - Templates sorted.
** [[:Category:DiabloWiki templates]] - Templates used for/by {{WikiTitle}}.
** [[:Category:Featured templates]] - Templates of [[Featured]] articles. (*)
** [[:Category:Formatting templates]] - Templates used for/by {{WikiTitle}} formatting
*** [[:Category:Media Coverage Templates]] - Templates used specifically in the [[Media coverage]] article. (*)
** [[:Category:Infoboxes]] - Templates used to give information in an article.
** [[:Category:Navboxes]] - Templates used to give navigation in an article.

* [[:Category:Stubs]] - Articles to clean up or evolve.
** [[:Category:Images to clean up]] - Images up for replacement. (*)
* [[:Category:Delete]] - Articles, categories, templates etc that need to be deleted.
* [[:Category:Featured articles]] - A category of articles of higher value, featured on main page. (*)
** [[:Category:Featured templates]] - Templates of [[Featured]] articles. (*)

== Images - [[:Category:Images]] ==
''All image categories should be added to '''[[:Category:Images]]''', the main image category.''

Some of these categories might go unused for a long time, but if the need arises, use these.

* [[:Category:Monster images]] - Images of monsters. (*)
** [[:Category:Monster art]] - Art of monsters. (*)
** [[:Category:Monster screenshots]] - Shots of monsters. (*)

* [[:Category:Character images]] - Images of characters. (*)
** [[:Category:Character art]] - Art of characters. (*)
** [[:Category:Character screenshots]] - Shots of characters. (*)

* [[:Category:Artwork]] - All artwork.
** [[:Category:Diablo I artwork]] - D1 (*)
** [[:Category:Diablo II artwork]] (*)
** [[:Category:Diablo III artwork]] - D3 (*)
** [[:Category:Diablo unsourced artwork]] - Unknown
** [[:Category:Monster art]] - Art of monsters. (*)
** [[:Category:Character art]] - Art of characters. (*)
** [[:Category:Items art]] - Art of ingame items
** [[:Category:Fan art images]] - Fan art (*)
** [[:Category:Merchandise art]] - Group category for merchandise art.
*** [[:Category:Graphic novel images]] - Images from the graphic novels.
*** [[:Category:Book covers]] - Covers from the Diablo books.
*** [[:Category:Statuette images]] - Images of statuette.

* [[:Category:Screenshots]] - Screenshots of the games.
** [[:Category:Official screenshots]] - Official [[Blizzard]] released screenshots.
** [[:Category:Diablo I screenshots]] - Shots from Diablo I. (*)
** [[:Category:Diablo II screenshots]] - Shots from Diablo II. (*)
** [[:Category:Diablo III screenshots]] - Shots from Diablo III. (*)
** [[:Category:Skill screenshots]] - Shots of skills used, or stats.
** [[:Category:Character screenshots]] - Shots of characters. (*)
** [[:Category:Monster screenshots]] - Shots of monsters. (*)
*** [[:Category:Goatmen screenshots]] - Shots of goatmen.
** [[:Category:Level screenshots]] - Shots on in-game levels and areas (struct).
*** [[:Category:Kurast screenshots]] - Shots on Kurast.
*** [[:Category:XXX screenshots]] - Shots on XXX. (continue)
** [[:Category:UI images]] - Pictures of loading screens.
*** [[:Category:Diablo I UI images]] - Pictures of User Interface details. (*)
**** [[:Category:Diablo I loading screens]] - Pictures of loading screens.
*** [[:Category:Diablo II UI images]] - Pictures of User Interface details. (*)
**** [[:Category:Diablo II loading screens]] - Pictures of loading screens.
*** [[:Category:Diablo III UI images]] - Pictures of User Interface details. (*)
**** [[:Category:Diablo III loading screens]] - Pictures of loading screens.

* [[:Category:Game images]] - General category for alternate navigation.
** [[:Category:Diablo I images]] - D1 images.
*** [[:Category:Diablo I artwork]] - Artwork from D1 (*)
*** [[:Category:Diablo I screenshots]] - Shots from Diablo I. (*)
*** [[:Category:Diablo I UI images]] - Pictures of User Interface details. (*)
** [[:Category:Diablo II images]] - D2 images.
*** [[:Category:Diablo II artwork]] - Artwork from D2 (*)
*** [[:Category:Diablo II screenshots]] - Shots from Diablo 2. (*)
*** [[:Category:Diablo II UI images]] - Pictures of User Interface details. (*)
** [[:Category:Diablo III images]] - D3 images. (*)
*** [[:Category:Diablo III artwork]] - Artwork from D3 (*)
*** [[:Category:Diablo III screenshots]] - Shots from Diablo 3. (*)
*** [[:Category:Diablo III UI images]] - Pictures of User Interface details. (*)

* [[:Category:DiabloWiki images]] - Images used by the Wiki.
** [[:Category:Template images]] - Images used in templates.

* [[:Category:Community images]]
** [[:Category:Guild images]]
** [[:Category:Fan art images]] - Fan art. (*)
*** [[:Category:Fake screenshots]] - Fan art.
** [[:Category:Diii.net images]] - Images for or about Diii.net. (*)

* [[:Category:Blizzard images]] - Images for or about Blizzard. (*)
** [[:Category:BlizzCon images]] - Images from BlizzCons. (*)
** [[:Category:WWI images]] - Images from WWI's. (*)

* [[:Category:Maps]] - Images of maps (*)

* [[:Category:Images to clean up]] - Images up for replacement. (*)

== Final Words==

Adding a few final words here.

{{Help navbox}}

Help:Structure

2013-12-08T00:11:28Z

WitchDoctor: another one

If you were looking for a complete list of categories, see:http://www.diablowiki.net/Special:Categories
If you are here for learning a bit about categories and diablowiki structure, continue.

==Structure==
Categories are essential to the structure of Diablowiki. A large part of what is searched in Diablowiki depends onthe use of categories. When adding pages to categories, add them in the largest yet most fitting category available.This article will help with that.

Keep in mind that the category structure is rather confusing at the moment and needs some organising, and that articles can fit into multiple categories

===Adding Articles to Categories===
The line used for adding pages and images to categories is [[:Category:<category name
here>]]. There should not be a need to create new categories, as plenty of them exist to cover all the topics here in Diablowiki.

If you need help with understanding where to put pages, use your best judgement. Alternatively, if you cannot decide, you can ask [[Elly]] or another dedicated editor where to put them.

Remember, when adding pages to a category, punctuation and grammar matter. For example, you will not successfully put a article about witch doctors into [[:Category:Witch Doctor]] by typing [[:Category: witch doctors]].

==Default Category:Root==
The "category to rule them all", is [[:Category:Root]]. From here is where all other categories expand from. There should not be a need to add pages to this category.

==Category:Content==

[[:Category:Content]] is where most categories about Diablo start from. It includes all the categories that are about Diablo 3's content. Articles still do not need to be in this category, as they are covered by sub-categories.

===Category:Basics===
[[:Category:Basics]] is where general descriptions of topics, such as [[Acts]], go. [[Acts]] would fit into this category, instead of into [[Category:Acts]].

==Category:Gameplay==

[[:Category:Gameplay]] is another main category, specifically for diablo 3's gameplay. Again, it is unnecessary to put pages into this category, as most will fit into sub-categories.

===Category:Classes===

[[:Category:Classes]] is a general category for information regarding all classes. For example, a general page about [[skill runes]] would fit in this category, whereas information about [[Fury]] would belong in a class-specific section.

Other special class categories include:

* [[:Category:Classes (Diablo II)]] - Diablo 2 classes.
* [[:Category:Fan classes]] - Fan-made classes.

===Category:(Specific Classes)===
* [[:Category:Barbarian]] - Specific class information about Barbarians.
** [[:Category:Barbarian Skills]] - Specific information about Barbarian skills.
* [[:Category:Demon Hunter]] - Specific class information about Demon Hunters.
** [[:Category:Demon Hunter Skills]] - Specific information about Demon Hunter skills.
* [[:Category:Witch Doctor]] - Specific class information about Witch Doctors.
** [[:Category:Witch Doctor Skills]] - Specific information about Demon Hunter skills.
* [[:Category:Wizard]] - Specific class information about Wizards.
** [[:Category:Wizard Skills]] - Specific information about Wizard skills.
* [[:Category:Monk]] - Specific class information about Monks.
** [[:Category:Monk Skills]] - Specific information about Monk skills.

===Category:Acts===

[[:Category:Acts]] contains information relevant to all of Diablo 3's acts. Specific act categories contain information relevant to only one act. Even more specific categories, such as the Quests and Levels categories, contain specific information about specific quests and levels
in each act.

* [[:Category:Act I]]
** [[:Category:Act I NPCs]]
** [[:Category:Act I Quests]]
***[[:Category: Act I Events]]
** [[:Category:Act I Levels]]
* [[:Category:Act II]]
** [[:Category:Act II NPCs]]
** [[:Category:Act II Quests]]
***[[:Category: Act II Events]]
** [[:Category:Act II Levels]]
* [[:Category:Act III]]
** [[:Category:Act III NPCs]]
** [[:Category:Act III Quests]]
***[[:Category: Act III Events]]
** [[:Category:Act III Levels]]
* [[:Category:Act IV]]
** [[:Category:Act IV NPCs]]
** [[:Category:Act IV Quests]]
***[[:Category: Act IV Events]]
** [[:Category:Act IV Levels]]
* [[:Category:Act V]]
** [[:Category:Act V NPCs]]
** [[:Category:Act V Quests]]
***[[:Category: Act V Events]]
** [[:Category:Act V Levels]]

===Category:Quests===
[[:Category:Quests]] should only contain act quest sub-categories and special quests, like the [[Infernal Machine]], that cannot be bound to one
act.

===Category:Items===
[[:Category:Items]] contains general articles about items and items not covered by a sub-category. Sub-categories include:

* [[:Category:Weapons]]
* [[:Category:Armor]]
* [[:Category:Jewelry]] (rings and amulets)
* [[:Category:Artefacts]] (lore books, special items)

===Category:Monsters===
[[:Category:Monsters]] Contains information about monsters in diablo 3 not covered by a sub-category, or contains broad information about
monsters. Some sub-categories are:

* [[:Category:SuperUniques]] - General category for purple titled bosses.
* [[:Category:Objects]]
* [[:Category:Undead]]
* [[:Category:Demons]]
* [[:Category:Monster images]] - General monster images category.

===Category:Skills===
[[:Category:Skills]] contains Diablo 3 skill information. Previously mentioned skill categories are sub-categories of this one.

===Other Categories===

* [[:Category:NPCs]] - Diablo 3 NPC's category.
* [[:Category:Reference]] - Contains other bits of information, such as a glossary, acronyms, and statistics.
* [[:Category:Play styles]] - Various play styles developed in Diablo 3.

==Category:Lore==
[[:Category:Lore]] contains lore information for the diablo series. The major sub-categories are:

* [[:Category:Characters]] - Characters important to the Diablo story, like [[Tyrael]] and [[Deckard Cain]].
* [[:Category:Angels]]
* [[:Category:Demons]]
* [[:Category:Factions]] - Factions in the Diablo Universe.

There are several other categories in this area, but they are, for the most part, covered by articles already in these sections.

==Category:Guides==
* [[:Category:Guides]] - User-made guides for the Wiki. Guides might end up in multiple categories.

 
 

== Category:Community==
[[:Category:Community]] Contains community-related articles/categories.
** [[:Category:Fansites]] - Diablo fansites' own category.
*** [[:Category:Diii.net]] - All articles relating to Diii.net.
**** [[:Category:Diii.net images]] - Images for or about Diii.net. (*)
** [[:Category:Guilds]] - Listing of guilds.
** [[:Category:Users]] - Listing of wiki users.
** [[:Category:Trivia]] - Fun facts, easter eggs etc.
** [[:Category:Diablo lingo]] - Expressions and concepts that are common for Diablo.
** [[:Category:Reference]] - A category to collect terms of the game as a handy encyclopaedia. (*)
*** [[:Category:Abbreviations and Acronyms]] - Sub category specifically for Abbreviations and Acronyms.
** [[:Category:Blizzard]] - Articles with information about Blizzard and Blizzard employees.
*** [[:Category:BlizzCon]] - Articles about BlizzCons. (*)
*** [[:Category:WWI]] - Articles about WWIs. (*)
*** [[:Category:BlizzCast]] - [[BlizzCast]]-related articles. (*)
** [[:Category:Fan-made]] - Articles and other content made by fans. Non-canon.
*** [[:Category:Fan art]] - Everything related to fan art.
**** [[:Category:Fan art images]] - Fan art images. (*)
*** [[:Category:Fan fiction]] - Everything related to fan fiction.
*** [[:Category:Fan classes]] - Classes made by fans. (*)
** [[:Category:Merchandise]] - All types of Diablo-related merchandise should go here.
** [[:Category:Speculation]] - Speculation about things involving the games.
** [[:Category:People]] - Articles with information about important figures in the Diablo Community.
*** [[:Category:Modders]] - List of individuals who makes mods. (*)
** [[:Category:Mods]] - Articles about [[mod]]s.



==Category:Games==
* [[:Category:Games]] - Articles relating to other games.
** [[:Category:Diablo I]] - D1 + exp.
*** [[:Category:Diablo I dialogues]] - Articles with Diablo I dialogues. (*)
** [[:Category:Diablo II]] - D2 + exp.
*** [[:Category:Classes (Diablo II)]] - Diablo 2 Classes. (*)
*** [[:Category:Diablo II dialogues]] - Articles with Diablo I dialogues. (*)
** [[:Category:Diablo III]] - D3
*** [[:Category:Diablo IIII dialogues]] - Articles with Diablo I dialogues. (*)
*** [[:Category:Diablo III images]] - D3 images. (*)
*** [[:Category:Classes]] - Diablo 3 Classes. (*)
** [[:Category:World of WarCraft]] - WoW
** [[:Category:WarCraft]] - WarCraft (the [[RTS]] games)
** [[:Category:StarCraft]] - StarCraft

== Sources - [[:Category:Sources]] ==
* [[:Category:Sources]] - ''All types of Diablo information sources. Games, books, graphic novels, or similar products should be added to '''[[:Category:Sources]]''', the main sources category.''

* [[:Category:Archives]] - Category for all old articles saved for archiving purposes.
** [[:Category:Barbarian skill archive]] - Older, unused skills (*)

* [[:Category:Merchandise]] - Category for all products in the Diablo franchise that are not games or expansions.
** [[:Category:Roleplaying books]] - Diablo RPG books.
** [[:Category:Novels]] - Diablo Novels.

* [[:Category:Game dialogues]] - Dialogues transcripted from the games.
** [[:Category:Diablo II dialogues]] - Articles with Diablo II dialogues go here. (*)

* [[:Category:Controversies]] - Controversies.

* [[:Category:Media Coverage]] - Media Coverage.
** [[:Category:Events]] - BlizzCons, WWIs and other events.
*** [[:Category:BlizzCon]] - Articles about BlizzCons. (*)
**** [[:Category:BlizzCon images]] - Images from BlizzCons. (*)
*** [[:Category:WWI]] - Articles about WWIs. (*)
**** [[:Category:WWI images]] - Images from WWI's. (*)
*** [[:Category:BlizzPress]] - Articles about Blizzard press releases, updates and other, smaller events. (*)
*** [[:Category:BlizzCast]] - [[BlizzCast]]-related articles. (*)
** [[:Category:Media Coverage Templates]] - Templates used specifically in the [[Media coverage]] article. (*)

* [[:Category:Manuals]] - Manuals from the Diablo games.

== DiabloWiki - [[:Category:DiabloWiki]] ==
''All articles used by DiabloWiki or its contributors should be added to '''[[:Category:DiabloWiki]]''', the main DiabloWiki category.''

* [[:Category:Disambiguations]] - A list of all Disambiguation pages.
* [[:Category:Boilerplates]] - DiabloWiki's [[boilerplate]]s listed.
* [[:Category:Help]] - Help pages sorted.
* [[:Category:Main Page]] - All pages related to [[Main Page]].
** [[:Category:Featured articles]] - A category of articles of higher value, featured on main page. (*)

* [[:Category:Templates]] - Templates sorted.
** [[:Category:DiabloWiki templates]] - Templates used for/by {{WikiTitle}}.
** [[:Category:Featured templates]] - Templates of [[Featured]] articles. (*)
** [[:Category:Formatting templates]] - Templates used for/by {{WikiTitle}} formatting
*** [[:Category:Media Coverage Templates]] - Templates used specifically in the [[Media coverage]] article. (*)
** [[:Category:Infoboxes]] - Templates used to give information in an article.
** [[:Category:Navboxes]] - Templates used to give navigation in an article.

* [[:Category:Stubs]] - Articles to clean up or evolve.
** [[:Category:Images to clean up]] - Images up for replacement. (*)
* [[:Category:Delete]] - Articles, categories, templates etc that need to be deleted.
* [[:Category:Featured articles]] - A category of articles of higher value, featured on main page. (*)
** [[:Category:Featured templates]] - Templates of [[Featured]] articles. (*)

== Images - [[:Category:Images]] ==
''All image categories should be added to '''[[:Category:Images]]''', the main image category.''

Some of these categories might go unused for a long time, but if the need arises, use these.

* [[:Category:Monster images]] - Images of monsters. (*)
** [[:Category:Monster art]] - Art of monsters. (*)
** [[:Category:Monster screenshots]] - Shots of monsters. (*)

* [[:Category:Character images]] - Images of characters. (*)
** [[:Category:Character art]] - Art of characters. (*)
** [[:Category:Character screenshots]] - Shots of characters. (*)

* [[:Category:Artwork]] - All artwork.
** [[:Category:Diablo I artwork]] - D1 (*)
** [[:Category:Diablo II artwork]] (*)
** [[:Category:Diablo III artwork]] - D3 (*)
** [[:Category:Diablo unsourced artwork]] - Unknown
** [[:Category:Monster art]] - Art of monsters. (*)
** [[:Category:Character art]] - Art of characters. (*)
** [[:Category:Items art]] - Art of ingame items
** [[:Category:Fan art images]] - Fan art (*)
** [[:Category:Merchandise art]] - Group category for merchandise art.
*** [[:Category:Graphic novel images]] - Images from the graphic novels.
*** [[:Category:Book covers]] - Covers from the Diablo books.
*** [[:Category:Statuette images]] - Images of statuette.

* [[:Category:Screenshots]] - Screenshots of the games.
** [[:Category:Official screenshots]] - Official [[Blizzard]] released screenshots.
** [[:Category:Diablo I screenshots]] - Shots from Diablo I. (*)
** [[:Category:Diablo II screenshots]] - Shots from Diablo II. (*)
** [[:Category:Diablo III screenshots]] - Shots from Diablo III. (*)
** [[:Category:Skill screenshots]] - Shots of skills used, or stats.
** [[:Category:Character screenshots]] - Shots of characters. (*)
** [[:Category:Monster screenshots]] - Shots of monsters. (*)
*** [[:Category:Goatmen screenshots]] - Shots of goatmen.
** [[:Category:Level screenshots]] - Shots on in-game levels and areas (struct).
*** [[:Category:Kurast screenshots]] - Shots on Kurast.
*** [[:Category:XXX screenshots]] - Shots on XXX. (continue)
** [[:Category:UI images]] - Pictures of loading screens.
*** [[:Category:Diablo I UI images]] - Pictures of User Interface details. (*)
**** [[:Category:Diablo I loading screens]] - Pictures of loading screens.
*** [[:Category:Diablo II UI images]] - Pictures of User Interface details. (*)
**** [[:Category:Diablo II loading screens]] - Pictures of loading screens.
*** [[:Category:Diablo III UI images]] - Pictures of User Interface details. (*)
**** [[:Category:Diablo III loading screens]] - Pictures of loading screens.

* [[:Category:Game images]] - General category for alternate navigation.
** [[:Category:Diablo I images]] - D1 images.
*** [[:Category:Diablo I artwork]] - Artwork from D1 (*)
*** [[:Category:Diablo I screenshots]] - Shots from Diablo I. (*)
*** [[:Category:Diablo I UI images]] - Pictures of User Interface details. (*)
** [[:Category:Diablo II images]] - D2 images.
*** [[:Category:Diablo II artwork]] - Artwork from D2 (*)
*** [[:Category:Diablo II screenshots]] - Shots from Diablo 2. (*)
*** [[:Category:Diablo II UI images]] - Pictures of User Interface details. (*)
** [[:Category:Diablo III images]] - D3 images. (*)
*** [[:Category:Diablo III artwork]] - Artwork from D3 (*)
*** [[:Category:Diablo III screenshots]] - Shots from Diablo 3. (*)
*** [[:Category:Diablo III UI images]] - Pictures of User Interface details. (*)

* [[:Category:DiabloWiki images]] - Images used by the Wiki.
** [[:Category:Template images]] - Images used in templates.

* [[:Category:Community images]]
** [[:Category:Guild images]]
** [[:Category:Fan art images]] - Fan art. (*)
*** [[:Category:Fake screenshots]] - Fan art.
** [[:Category:Diii.net images]] - Images for or about Diii.net. (*)

* [[:Category:Blizzard images]] - Images for or about Blizzard. (*)
** [[:Category:BlizzCon images]] - Images from BlizzCons. (*)
** [[:Category:WWI images]] - Images from WWI's. (*)

* [[:Category:Maps]] - Images of maps (*)

* [[:Category:Images to clean up]] - Images up for replacement. (*)

== Final Words==

Adding a few final words here.

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