Links

The Lurker Lounge

Here you will find strategy, Diablo mods, and forums with some of the most knowledgable Diablo players around. You can't truely call yourself a Diablo expert until you have surfed this entire site. In my opinion this is the top Diablo site available. You'll probably be able to tell that this is where I got some inspiration for site design.

Jarulf's Guide to Diablo and Hellfire

Hosted at the lurker lounge, this guide is nick named the "Bible" of Diablo. Over 170 pages full of technical aspects of the game. Inside are details covering characters, monsters, items, affixes, item creation, spells and even monster AI routines. Expect tables of attack rates, Armor class, to-hit values, life, mlvl, ilvl, qlvl and formulas for every type of calculation. This guide is a must for any legitimate Diablo gamer.

Freshman Diablo

- a compiled source of articles that will be helpful to new players as they explore the game. Introductory material to the character classes, spells, and some strategy are all hosted here by Lochnar[ITB].

The Caverns of Ice

Ice's homepage that hosts his characters and strategy guides. This is a great source for some insight into Hellfire with guides to the expansion classes, how his hellfire characters are personally built, and weapon anaylsis articles relevant to both Diablo and Hellfire.

Claudio's Page

Claudio specializes in the rogue. His page has a rogue guide, CAT-Rogue guide, a guide to different rogue styles, and his personal characters. You'll find the details about pure and ultra-pure play as well. He's got articles on bow comparison, AC values, melee attack rates, and more.

A Legitimate Manifesto

The Legit Diablo Play Manifesto of Virgil Tibbs. Here Tibbs takes discusing legitimacy to the next level - this document could be admitted as evidence in a federal court. In summary, the article deals with: "Is a player a cheater if they don't know they are cheating?". Tibbs' suggests an answer in this article and touches on some other aspects of playing legitimately.

Experience Point Table

Brought to us by Soul-Toucher, this table gives a clvl by clvl breakdown of the average amount of experience per monster a player can get in various dungeon levels. This is most useful, of course, to determine what area of the game to play to maximize experience gain. The highlighted sections in the table mark these particular areas.