Diablo II: Resurrected (With the Reign of the Warlock DLC)

To celebrate the spookiest month of this year, it seemed like a good idea to take on the Prime Evils of Sanctuary. It’s been more than five years since I did a few Mephisto runs together with friends. Does this game still hold up, more than 25 years later after its initial release? Even the fresh lick of paint called Resurrected is five years old now. I don’t have a modern Windows machine, and unfortunately, Blizzard decided with the remaster to skip macOS, leaving me with the Switch version to explore. At least they did something right by adding completely new content to a two decade old game! For this run, I went ahead and created a warlock to explore the new skill trees. The following playthrough report was originally posted on Mastodon (starting 9th October) and later collected into this article. I’ll try to reach a verdict below the play log. 09/10: Act I Porting/visibility issues aside; this game is exactly as I remember. I played D2 to death (ha!) in 2000. My last runs date six…