Haven't read all of it yet, but...
Ikeren said:
Blood Star in Diablo 1 rather owned...the one the monsters casted was toned down, but when you cast it it would take 12% life and a tonne of mana, and would do an instant 1/3rd (sorta like static field, except that sort of thing was pretty unheard of in Diablo 1)
It's somewhat OT, but this quote contains the largest error density I've ever seen in a paragraph about D1.
- Blood Star didn't take 12% life, but a fixed amount, 4 or 5 IIRC.
- Not exactly a 'ton' of mana, it was more than fireball but less than CL.
- 1/3rd damage was Bone Spirit, which also took life.
- Most importantly, Blood Star didn't exactly
'own':
--- It did only twice the damage of a fireBOLT.
--- It cost about five times as much mana as firebolt plus some life.
--- It moved very slowly and affected only one target.
--- Magic damage, and 3/4th of all monsters were immune.
--- The most expensive spell to buy and one of the highest level ones.
There was not a single redeeming quality about this spell and it was one of the stupidest jokes in the game.
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Back on topic:
There are several Lily pics with corpses about to be exploded, with the mush visible on other pics. DS does 40-80% of corpse life, and the amount of life of the corpse is known [assume they're all level 90, which equals 5068 life for a 100% hp monster]. You can deduct how much life she has!

[not counting fire and physical resist, but the assassin has multiple death sentry traps, which is redundant for CE, so she's using them for damage, and the pally isn't running conviction, so she's definitely not 95% resistant to elemental damage. Also Blizzard is NOT going to put in 95% physical resist. 50%/50% or 50%/75% phys/elem would be likely]
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Why is the barb casting battle command and warcry? BC is only +1 skill level so nobody uses it and it doesn't really affect a battle, while warcry does crap damage and is used mainly for stun, but you can't stun bosses. Perhaps there is added weapon damage in 1.11, like with blade sentinel and fury in 1.10? Perhaps BC now gives more than +1 skill level?