How much will the Expansion set cost?
What exactly is new about the Diablo II Expansion?
Will players who do not have the Expansion set be able to see those new classes in their games?
Will players with the Expansion set be able to play in games with Diablo II players?
Will there be Exceptional Uniques and Set Items?
Will the Class Specific items be better than anything that is out there already, including Rare and Unique items?
Some fan sites list skill trees for the Druid and the Assassin. Is this information correct?
Will I have to play through the game again to access the new Expansion Act?
Will the Battle.net Interface look different than Diablo II?
How much more room will be available in the Stash?
Will the Vendors in Act V sell new items?
Will the level limit be raised from 99 for the Expansion set?
Will there be new quests, if so how many?
About what size will Act V be as compared to the other Acts?
Does the Assassin know Kung Fu?
The Diablo II Expansion has an expected street price of $30.
Two new character classes each with 30 unique skills/spells, the ability to play the new character classes through the original four acts of Diablo II, new monster types (including Bosses, Uniques and Subordinates), interactive environments (such as Siege Towers, Town Walls and Fortified Battlements), thousands of new weapons, armor and magical items (including class-specific Quest items), new recipes for the Horadric Cube, and increased storage space in your Stash.
People who only have Diablo II will be able to see the two new character classes represented in their basic armor, much as the basic Warrior is used to represent the original Diablo in the chat room. Expansion and standard characters will not be able to play in the same game, however, which is similar to the restrictions between Starcraft and Brood War games.
This is still being looked at by the development team as this distinction between character types can be very confusing to the player. While we would like people with the Expansion to be able to create or play standard characters and then create and join standard Diablo II, we may need to totally seperate them. Also, it is likely that in any case, if you take a Diablo II character into an Expansion game, that character becomes an Expansion-based character and cannot create or join in any standard Diablo II games.
Yes. There will also be some sets that are have both Exceptional and high-level, normal items.
The Class specific items are another basic type of item. For example, a Katar is similar to a short sword, but only Assassins can use them. We are still designing what kinds of extra attributes these items will have and how they are acquired.
Since we are constantly evaluating and changing skills and spells for the new character classes, chances are excellent that rumors and inferred information on the fansites are already obsolete.
No, you can take your existing character directly to Act V if you have already defeated Diablo. This is true for each difficulty level you have completed.
The interface may undergo some cosmetic changes, but we expect the functionality to remain consistent.
While the amount of additional room is primarily a game balance decision and is, as yet undetermined, we have heard the cries from our fans for more space to stash their loot and will address this in the Expansion set.
While we are not creating any new basic item classes, the vendors in Act V will sell the best equipment from Act III and IV.
We have not yet determined if there will be a new cap set for level limits.
Yes, there will be six (6) new quests in Act V.
The new Act set in the Barbarian Highlands should be somewhere between Act III and Act IV in size.
The Assassin will employ various martial art styles in melee combat