

Situated at the base of Mount Arreat, it is home to the humans who are sworn protectors of the mountain. His first attack, against the city of Sescheron, capital city of the Barbarian homelands, leads to the stage where Diablo II: Lord of Destruction is set: Harrogath. Marius was subsequently murdered.īaal is leading an invasion against the northern barbarian lands. However, the narrator Marius was tricked into surrendering the last Soulstone to a false Archangel Tyrael which was revealed to be Baal, the third brother and the very last remaining Prime Evil. Two of the three Prime Evils, Mephisto and Diablo, have been defeated and their Soulstones have been destroyed, preventing their return. The story continues where Diablo II ended. As a result, LoD is largely considered a "must-buy" instead of only being an addition, making it a huge multiplayer success and one of the most successful expansion packs of all time.

More than a standard expansion, Lord of Destruction not only added content in the form of new character classes and an additional scenario, it also dramatically revamped the gameplay of the existing Diablo II for solo and especially multiplayer.


Unlike the original Diablo's expansion pack ( Diablo: Hellfire), it is an official expansion designed by Blizzard Entertainment. You can now use this *hack* online as Blizzard has removed its illegitimacy and disabled the automated Warden from detecting this online anymore as many Vista and 7 users have to use this to use their middle mouse buttons, hehe.Diablo II: Lord of Destruction (commonly abbreviated LoD) is an expansion pack for the popular Action Role-Playing game Diablo II. mode for XP SP2, disable desktop composition)ĥ.) The only way I was able to use the 3rd mouse button was by using the older, non-legit version of D2loader.exe (An old hack they used for the no-cd thing until Patch 1.12 came out). These effects are not compatible with the game.Ĥ.) Go to your Diablo 2 folder and change game.exe to the same settings (Run as admin, Compat. It temporarily disables Windows Aero and other Visual effects until the game has been exited. This will allow Diablo II's 3D effects to render correctly. because it thinks the game is trying to exclusively access your sound device) and while you're there, check the box that says *Disable desktop composition*. Try these steps, these should help:ġ.) Make sure you are running at least v 1.12 so you can use the now-legit "NO CD* fix, Running from the CD often causes a read-buffer issue in W7, and having all those files on your harddrive will result in increased performance.Ģ.) YOU MUST Run Diablo II in Compatibility mode for *Windows XP SP 2* (Running in SP1 or 3 will cause error messages during gameplay)ģ.) Run the Shortcut as an Administrator (Running as a local user causes W7 to limit its *AUDIO* functions. Yes there is a fix, I had the same problem initially.
