This week's Diablo III session

[lathany]

Most Wednesday evenings, I play Diablo III on-line with chrisvenus and Alistair J for a couple of hours. We've finally reached the third difficulty (I think it's called Hell?) after a little faffing around getting my character to level fifty (I was a bar and a half off at the end of the previous difficulty run-through). I play a witch doctor, chrisvenus has a demon hunter and Alistair plays a wizard. My computer isn't a particularly good spec, but I can keep up with most of the action. Also, I can use the chat channel. We had an exchange this week that I thought I would share.

I can't remember the exact words, but it went something like this:

chrisvenus: Oooh, a black mushroom. Great.
Me: Found mine.
Alistair: Black mushroom?
Me: Yeah, they were in [Diablo] I.
chrisvenus: That was sarcasm. I have three.
Me: Oh.
Alistair: What's it for?
chrisvenus: It's part of a recipe to reach the cow level.
Me: OK.
Alistair: Cows.
chrisvenus: Yeah, I think Diablo is supposed to drop the recipe.
Me: Makes sense.
Alistair: Cows.
chrisvenus: Haven't seen it yet.
Me: Maybe we will.
Alistair: Cows.
chrisvenus: Not sure what else is in it.
Alistair: Cows.
Me: There was a secret cow level in [Diablo] II.
Alistair: ?
Me: Yeah, I never saw it myself, but it was one of the big secrets.
Alistair: Oh *that* sort of secret.
Me: Really. I saw it on YouTube.
Alistair: Yeah, yeah.
Me: There was talk about a cow level on [Diablo] I too, but that really was a myth.
Alistair: Sure.
chrisvenus: We are totally going to the cow level.

However, we didn't have a recipe at that point, so we were back to turning bosses into pigs and killing those instead.

Comments

[chrisvenus]

There may be a pleasant surprise in store for people next time we play. I've just spent the afternoon farming for all the bits and pieces needed as well as the cash. I now have access to the hell difficulty (ie where we are currently) cow level. :)

[zandev.livejournal.com]

The Diablo III "Cow" level is quite... special.

One warning if you are playing it as part of your normal game: it's at a difficulty level roughly comparable to the next difficulty level's act I.