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The biggest difference a new player notices, going from D2 to D1, is the pacing. Diablo feels very slow, especially as your character walks around Tristram, and one of the best innovations added in [[Hellfire]] was the ability to doubletime jog in town. Thats not an option in Diablo, so players just have to accept it and get used to it.  Fortunately, Tristram is rather small, and the slow walking speed isn't noticeable in the dungeons (aside from when you must move through a long, already cleared out section). Also, all characters can learn the Teleport skill, and while this can not be cast in town (except in some mods), it enables very rapid movement around the dungeons, all of which are much smaller (though more monster-packed) than any of the dungeons in Diablo II.

 

Another big change between the games is that everything in Diablo is laid out on a rigid X/Y axis. The game world can be thought of as a large sheet of graph paper, and every item, character, and monster can only take up one square. This is evident when you drop items, since 8 will surround you, and 9th will fall where you are standing, and it's impossible to drop any more. Only 8 monsters can fit in around a character, and if you put yourself into a corner only 3 can get into range.  This makes using the terrain in the dungeons a major part of the game's strategy.

Players and monsters will always stand exactly in a square when they finish their movement. It's impossible to attack or cast a spell while moving between two squares. This can be used to your advantage, since monsters hit while moving between two squares will be knocked back to the last one they were standing in. Thus if a monster is trying to advance on you and you keep hitting it before it can move entirely into the next square, it will be repeatedly pushed back.  

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There are only three types of resistances in Diablo I: fire, lightning, and magic. All direct damage spells fit into one of these categories, with one exception; [[D1_Spellbooks#Apocalypse|Apocalypse]], which deals a special type of damage that can not be resisted and that nothing is immune to.  Players can raise their resistances to 75% at most. They max out there, and can not be raised any higher by any equipment.  Many spells can be blocked by characters who are standing still and equipped with a shield, though this isn't always desired (low damage spells like Charged Bolt can cause you to block and interrupt your attack animation).

 

Monsters are resistant and immune to the three types of magic as well. All monsters with a resistance have 75% to it, without exception. Monsters that are immune to a type of magic are totally immune to it; fire immune monsters won't be touched by flame spells, or even notice them. Many monsters are double immune, and a few  types are "triple immune" and can not be hurt by any type of spell except for Apocalypse. No monsters in Diablo have a resistance or immunity to physical damage though, so immunities and resistances are of little concern to most Warriors and Rogues. Sorcerers must join them in bashing sometimes, since they can only use Stone Curse and their weapon (and perhaps a Golem) to kill triple immunes.

Playing multiplayer Diablo requires skill to '''avoid''' killing other players. Warriors can play in close proximity without accidentally chopping other players, but Rogues have a lot of trouble not hitting nailing other players (usually when they walk into the Rogue's firing line), and Sorcerers have a hard time playing on the same level, much less the same screen, as other players. It's surpassingly easy to kill a friend with a stray Fireball or Chain Lightning, even if they're well out of visual range. When the inevitable happens, clear the area as quickly as you can and use a resurrection scroll or else cast a safe Town Portal (if they've restarted in town) near the pile of items your dead friend popped.

 

There are very few differences between playing single-player or multi-player Diablo II. This is not the case in Diablo I.  Most obviously, single player Diablo characters are truly single player. They can not play in any sort of MP game. Single player games are saved exactly as they are; all the monsters, level layouts, items on the ground, etc, are preserved exactly. Be sure you save frequently, since if you did you will have to load from the last save point, and it's no fun to have to clear a level for the second time since you forgot to save for the past hour.  Diablo does not support nightmare or hell difficulties for single player characters (Hellfire does). There is a work around possible in Diablo, though. If you play a multiplayer game, then exit it and start a single player game, the difficulty of the SP game will be the same as the MP game played before hand.

Multiplayer Diablo I is equivalent to singleplayer Diablo II. Characters are saved on your computer and can be played solo or with friends in a TCP/IP or LAN game. There are no saved games; just your character's state and the equipment they're using and carrying is saved. There are only 4 [[Diablo Quests|quests]] in multiplayer Diablo I, and the same four are found every game. Multiplayer is also much harder on Nightmare and Hell, where the monsters have about double the hit points they do in single player. You must be level 20 to create a nightmare game and level 30 to create a hell game.

Another major difference between SP and MP Diablo and Hellfire is level up speed. Multiplayer monsters have more hit points, and are worth far less experience. Characters gain no more than 200 exp/Clvl in MP Diablo or Hellfire (up to 10,000 at level 50), while there is no cap in SP, and each monster in hell can be worth 100,000 and more. A SP character can reach level 44 or 45 in the time it takes to get to level 29 or 30 multiplayer, and getting an MP character over level 40 requires many dozens more games than it does in singleplayer.

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