Diablo III Storyline Ideas

[Pale_Horse]

Here is a idea, not sure how to put it though...

Hope this is understandable.
D3 could start off, almost like an expansion, by taking your existing character(s) and continuing where it left off. Tyriel portals the your hero off right before shattering the worldstone. Where does the hero go?
Where ever it was suppost to be, the shattering of the worldstone disrupted that, and sent the hero to the demention that the Prime evils come from.
This world is a complete opposite from your own. Trees grow underground, but the roots are exposed to the sky. water flows upstream ect. Even the image of you is monsterous. (Depending on what class of character will determine what you look like. For example a Minitor for a Barb)
Appearing outside of a town, everyone else looks normal, (human) but you come off as some monster, that no one can understand. All are affaid and run away and/or attack you out of fear.
(basically crossing over into this world you experience the minion side of things, and face what the other side must have felt)

As you go on, you realize their is a artifact collector that has found shards of a stone he calls "stone of the world". These fragments are put together, and create a ever increasingly wave that will engulf the world.

This wave will take the world you are in and combine it with the world you are from forever. The main goal is to stop this from happening, but the lesser of the prime evils have traveled here to take the stone back to their world to use it as a doorway back to the Diablo2 reality.

You find a old man called the wanderer, he somehow can understand you, and, you can speak to him. He begins to tell you that, he also has fought against Diablo, but in order to contain him, he had to merg his body with the soul of Diablo threw the soulstone. Or so he thought. Upon doing so he arrived here. You begin to tell your history and what further happened to you as it trails off.
It is explained to you that a witch in the hills outside of the city can cast a spell on you, which will make you look normal, and talk and listen to everyone else. You venture there fighting against heros from D1 & 2 builds. The only difference is very suttle skill differences for them.
(example would be a bliz sorc and a wind druid can together use their bliz and hurricane skill to create a new skill called "Hail" crating a hurricane with balls of ice that fall from the sky, while protecting them both ect.)
You on the other hand, will have the same level of exp as you did in D2, but your skills will be altered to suit your new form.
(example if you were a wirlwind barb you will now be a minitor using the skill wild swing. Same thing only you swing wildly at every attacker maybe hitting them depending on %)
After reaching the witch, she tells you that everyone here, is in one way or another a decendent of someone who has fought against the prime evils. It turns out that, the whole thing is one big giant circle in time.
The witch also tells you if you are changed to a normal person here, you will be without your skills, and that you must start over. Here you have a choice of become a new character of good, with new skills ect, or bad lvl 1 with whatever class of character you are now, but no memory of things that have happened to you up till now.
From here their is two different story lines to take. Good - find your way back to your world, or bad - try to use the stone of the world to get into the Diablo universe.

Good side: (what actually happened between D1 & 2)
Your goal is to get back to the Diablo universe and stop the chain of events that have happened. You enter tristrum just as the demons attack it in Diablo 1, unfortunitlly you are unable to stop Diablo before he destroys the town. As the story goes on you must you find out you are the orphan child of the hero from D1, but you must kill your father to keep him from becoming Diablo again in D2, then you must kill off Teriel before he can destroy the worldstone and keep the chain of events going.

Badside: (who is the worst evil you, or the Prime Evils)
Use the stone of the world to get to the prime world and try to overthrow the D1 & 2 Universe. Also you will be at every major battle from both series, and destroy the lesser and prime evils for good. The goal is to kill off all to gain total control of the universe. What transpires is that you are the only one that can actually destroy any of them, if a "hero" does so it only sends them back to their world. You find out threw a quest that "Only evil can destroy evil."

In either case, good or bad, you find that nothing can stop what has been done. This loop will continue in time forever.

Side note:
Before every battle with a prime evil their will be a cut seen where it shows that prime battling against some heros. They leave thinking that the evil is vanqueshed. Unknown to them their is a skill that the evils have called spirit transmission. That when near death, they can transfer their soul into another and have that others soul put into their actual body. In the end the body is gone, but the soul remains, only to regenerated soon after, and the prime can transmit back to its body. This is where your character comes in to attack.

 

[wintersward]

Class and character ideas

:gruntHere’s a summary of my idea on a new story:

The world stone was destroyed, but what was it? When a life is taken its soul returns to where it came from, the “World Stone”. The stone would be the doorway to the afterlife, but without the stone how could any soul pass through its door way? Mephisto tried to summon his brother Diablo through the stone but he failed. After the World Stones destruction the world became broken, death took its tulle, and souls wandered the earth, angry and confused. Unknown to the forces of light, the destruction of the World Stone tore a rift in all four dimensions, hell, heaven, earth, and space. The rift is now slowing spreading shifting the four worlds into one. The fight of evil vs. good begins.

Angels,
After the destruction of the world stone, Tyrell and his brethren are the first to discover Diablo’s plan. The lord of Evil plans to invade earth and then heaven, to create his world of hell. Tyrell as general will gather all the angels in heaven to lead the greatest army of god’s wrath into the deeps of hell, to forever banish Diablo and his world.

Humans,
Broken to leach on to the last strand of life, the humans gather to rebuild their shattered cities. As if the destruction of the World Stone wasn’t enough they find themselves and their world the target for hell to manifest itself in the heart of their souls. The crippled hero of the last war who fought against Diablo and his brothers will lead the battle to save earth from hell and Diablo’s lust for blood.

Demons,
Finally, after the destruction of the World Stone, the demons find fresh blood to slaughter and a new world to enslave. Releasing the tormented spirits from hells fire, Diablo plans to use the spirits along with his evil minions to invade the armies of good.
He will first attack earth, and then heaven.

Spirits,
Lost, confused, and enslaved to hell, the spirits will battle against the Humans and Angels to win their freedom from Diablo’s grasp. During Diablo’s first invasion and his failed attempt to use the soul stones, Wart, the boy with a wooden leg, found Diablo’s layer. For his trespassing Diablo’s minions ripped his soul into the deeps of hell. He now leads the spirits into the war against good.

These characters will play Cains roll for each race.

Tyrell - angels
Hero - humans
Wanderer (Diablo in secret) - hell
Wart - space

Here are some race, class, and skill ideas:

Ok, I agree to the idea of a new and original game so I decided to post some ideas on new character races and classes:

If you’re a little confused please read my last post.

Races:
1. Angels - mind bonus, bonus to magic find, 30% to resist all.
2. Demons - strength bonus, bonus to speed, 80% to resist fire,
3. Humans - dexterity bonus, bonus to gold find, bonus to skills
4. Spirits - life bonus, bonus to light radius, 50% to resist physical damage

Classes:

Ranger; Ranged, specialized at ranged attacks, precise tracking and setting traps.

Kamikaze; Ranged, specialized in ranged explosive attacks, using explosive powders and weaponry.

Conjurer; spell caster, conjurers spirits, demons, and monsters from a plane unknown to our own.

Which; spell caster, specialized in using elemental magic to aid his or her allies or to inflict damage upon foes.

Priest; spell caster/melee, specialized in curses and casting spells to aid his or her self and allies.

Mystic; spell caster/melee, uses his or her mind by psychics, to manipulate and inflict damage to the mind of its foes.

Sword; melee, a skilled warrior specialized in the martial arts of weaponry.

Giant; melee, large in size and powerful he or she is specialized in skills using brute strength and vitality in battle.

Clone; shape shifting, shape shifts his body into whatever creature or character he sees, retains his stats and adds a 30% of the stats of whatever he clones to, loses all skills and gains the skills of his clone.

Shaman; shape shifting, shape shifts into many animals, also specializes in buffs.

Herbalist; potions/specialist, specialized in creating potions and medicine to aid his or her allies or to inflict damage upon foes.

Smith; weapons/specialist, specialized in forging weaponry and armors, but can also damage the weapons of enemies.

Artisan; structures/specialist, specialized in building cities and defenses, all defense structures can be destroyed. Also can build vehicles of war such as battle tanks, war ships, flying machines, etc, where his allies can ride with him to attack his or her foes.

Bodybuilder; stats/specialist, specialized in building up the body in strength, vitality, dexterity, and mind of him or her self and allies.

Some spells:

Sword – mid level spell
Haste; increase movement and attack by 300%

Giant – mid level spell
Flex; increase strength and life by 300% but slow movement and attack by 300%

Which – high level spell
Invisibility; using the elements of nature her or she can cast a character invisible, including herself.

Liquefy; the witch casts a spell on an enemy group, weakening their life and dexterity.

Conjurer – highest level spell
Summon Odin – praying to the god of war (Odin), a 40% chance Odin will arrive to aid the conjurer in a battle. Odin stats, 300% all stat bonus of players character, 300% resistance of players character.

Priest – high level spell
Stone Curse, turn any target for a period of time, including allies to stone, they cannot move but they gain a 400% life and a 400% defense bonus.

Pelage, the priest calls a cloud of his god’s wrath to smite his enemies, wasps, scarabs, decease.

Sword – highest level spell
Dance Strike, uninterruptible, the sword leaps into the air dancing his sword into a group of enemies.

Shaman – highest level spell
Dragon morph; morphs self into a powerful flying dragon.

Clone – highest level
Inhabit body; for a period of time the clone can inhabit the body of its enemy.

Kamikaze – high level spell
Death Wish; Aura, if the kamikaze dies in battle there is a 50% chance he will be resurrected and his enemy will die. If he kills his enemy, there is a 50% chance he will die and his enemy will be resurrected.

Let me know what you guys think of these ideas.
:grunt

 

[xXEnvyXx]

Finally I got a break from school. Ok, one of my questions is this:
At the end of Lord of Destruction, the Worldstone is supposedly destroyed by Tyreal, and he states that the "tides of hell will flood the mortal plane". So what actually happens? I think Blizz already has an idea of what they want to do about this situation.

 

[Snyd]

well i beleive the 3rd game should start right where the 2nd 1 ended, with tyreal destroying the worldstone, it mentions how he doesnt know what will happen.

I think some thing bad should happen from it and like the boundary between hell and earth be briken and so all evil reign and the prime evils are still a factor but no t the main focus. i beleive the main focus should go upon the lesser evils who join togather and are now running loose or just other significant things that are running around hell but the primes should still be a factor since they are powerful.

i also think tyreal and the angels should help yall out ,and you should eventually get one 4 a merc :], but ya they need to help becuz they kinda messed up so ya they need to help make alliances between the races and make an army to meet hell and return the gap between the two worlds or somthin like that

i dont know i havent put deep thoyght into it but i might come back and edited after i have looked into it deeper

 

[Snyd]

dang it yall must have typed at the exact same time as me lol i didnt see yalls till after i was done lol

yes the destruction of the worldstone needs to provide the basis 4 the next game

and you should get angels as mercs or somthin :]

 

[Tirocupidus]

I would still like to see a prequel. Something that ends with the emprisonment of Baal within Tal Rasha. Of course, it's also nice to not know how it will end. Maybe a prequel even further back.

 

[Sh1n0m3ga]

:loopy

 

[Darkness8]

ok the only one that is truelly destroyed is Meph but is he truelly dead? i think wut they should do is this a priest breaks away from a priest hood and searches for diablo and baal's soulstones he gathers them and starts to preform a ritual opon doing so it brings back andy duriel meph the other two lesser evils that Blizzard left out of the game and diablo and meph.
Heaven is unawair of this and the evils know it so they plan an attack on heaven but before they get to heaven they must enter apon the earth.

 

[Sh1n0m3ga]

well i would like to reply 4 two.....u see there is EYDAIMON ...and KAKODAIMON...the good mastermind and the evil! And Tirocupidus...In fact im not reading all the staff here..but...i think a prequel is a very good idea...a game located at pre-earth time.. heaven n hell...and warriors demons or angels to choose...And also the young Tyrael of the angel clan PP

 

[Arkillo]

Good god, this thread sucks. On a more serious note;

Never have I heard of any lore or anything from any fantasy setting that makes it where Demons die out completely. They all just get banished from their earthly physical form if killed for X amount of years. Normally around 100-200.

Just set D3 100-200 years later and explain that fact.

 

[arkus_of_landra]

This is my frist post, so please bear with... :nooob

I've read some of these posts and here is what I think...

The prime evils are dead, their soul stones are gone, and they are never to return again. so an actual sequel that calls itself diablo and doesn't feature diablo without a DAMN good reason is going ot be dumb regardless of how good the gameplay is and how well it looks. Blizzard might as well try there hand at making a FF XI rip off, which would be lame...and no one wants that.

If the next diablo game is after the world stone is gone, then lets not call it diablo, diablo is dead, and he isn't coming back. The title should reflect the conflict to come, while remaining firm in it's roots to the orginal games.

A prequel was mentioned, and personally I think thats the best way to go, perhasp a story on how Diablo's soul stone got to Tristan, or a story the chrpnoicles the history of the world stone and how the soul stones were forged.

The game should stick to a class sytem (as I believe most of you want) but more customizable. I suppose the best example i can think of is how 3rd edtion D&D works. Your character has ablilites that are only attainable by that class, with a varity of ablilities that every class can dip into.

For example, in the first diablo a warrior could learn spells, but his weren't as powerful. Instead of that warrior learning spells, he could take a class abilitie that improves his attack rating and take an "open" abilitie that improves his running speed.
Or a Necromancer that takes a class abilitie to create more undead and take an "open" abilitie that improves his attack speed.

I think the world has to be vast and expansive perhasp even travel the cosmology of the diablo universe. Personally I would like to see a slightly less randomized world then whats been provided in past games....allow me to furthur explain before you get up in arms as well
A world that youget an atlas and the dungeon you are trying to get to is always in the same place, but the dungeon itself has a random layout.
To keep the gameplay exciting, I'd like the game engine to constanly create random enemy encouters, and not just random undead or demons. I want cuthroats to jump out from behind a tree in the forest and demand a toll to pass through. This is so that even the world is the same, the adventure isn't.

I also want more RP aspects to come up, I want more motivation to save the world other then I was in the right place at the wrong time. Maybe the game engine could create random character backgrounds so that I have a good rp reason to enter that first dungeon that starts my adventure against evil (Yes I believe the theme of you vs. evil should remain).

Well I've posted alot of my thoughts, if I come up with more I'll post them I guess...

 

[Brain on a Stick]

First post, woohoo! Anyway, this is the idea I had... maybe it's kind of dumb; I actually dont' know the Diablo lore very well, but, VERY briefly...

The Prime Evils are dead. The Lesser Evils take over hell. Now, a lot of s*** goes down, and in their desire to control everything, The Lesser Evils somehow manage to conquer Heaven. This has obviously left Earth pretty beat up - and The Lesser Evils start an attack on Earth from both Heaven and Hell.

So a huge war starts, between the Evils and Earth. (with the help of Tyreal and other angel refugees)

You'll be able to participate in the war, and go down to Hell and up to Heaven to try to get to the source and end the whole thing.

So yeah, the crap really hits the fan.

 

[Arkillo]

The lesser evils are too busy fighting with each other for control over hell to bother with the affairs of man.

 

[Hamtaro]

The lesser evils are too busy fighting with each other for control over hell to bother with the affairs of man.

Meph, Andy, you get the idea, are still in bed w/ each other.

 

[Arkillo]

Meph and Andy are both destoryed.

 

[Siver Nric]

You Take on the role of a Dead Hero in Heaven Living up your much desired reward. When you hear the sound of an evil voice that you cannot make out. when you go to the source you get flashbacks of your previouse adventure flash through your brain and you see the great lord of darkness standing at the very gates of heaven.

Imagin going up the steep hill of out of the city of herogoth and the war that is taking place and times it by 100. you will have a mount and will ride through the the mass armies of the demons using a Frozen Orb killing hundreds in your path and having them fly 20 feet in the air exploding into tiny ice chunks, or having a huge 7 foot tall barbarian picking up and throwing zombies at the other undead and Whirlwinding cutting everthing into shreds.

Thats the kind of next generation of diablo that i would want to see pack that all into a mmo and having all of your buddies and them some on your side fighting with you.

 

[cashmoney]

thats not a bad story line brain on stick but your wrong. you see the truth is that tyrael has aids. o yea there was a love triangle between tyrael andariel and diablo. So in d3 theres no tyrael to fight with you so you gotta take all them bitches by yourself. I think the new d3 needs to have kind of a little porno aspect to it. That way i dont have to lag up games dlin porno. I mean how can this idea go wrong atract way more types of audiances. lol im jk that would go wrong.

 

[Skjaar]

LOL First Post so not flame PLZ

New Great Ideas:Comedy or Tragedy

Comedy first

After the destruction of the worldstone, Mt. Arreat starts to shake and then explodes sending fireworks to all over the place!!!
Then a barbarian comes and says: "w00t u guyz rok the wordl me big fan me watn autograffff!!!!!!"
The heroes(yeah all of them were in the storyline) are now superstars!

Mavina the bowazon is now the master of coke and shouts "feer mi L337 sKILLs, I am queen of nikinaha watta!"

Frederick the pally, oh well (sigh) he really sucks! (He's a FAG) he's worse than Big D from Diablo 1 (yeah weak body to possess weak D)

btw BIG d is now cain's pet (he possessed a dog).
Cain died in D3 coz he was watching footchbowl and he fell from the stadium!

Dagon the Necromancer is still after Kaa (lolz reference to a real necro player who always fights kaa. the score is sth like dagon 2 vs kaa 37)

Tyrael is now a buissness manager and owns the angel Co.

all the others are fag charz exept for the sorc who is real cool!
She escaped the place and blows all cityieszz with K-BOOM!

D3 PLOT

after the battle at worldstone the heroes went through a portal to paradise
(song playin: stairway to heaven)
then all goees wrong and Wakka Wakka lord enters Sanctuary (Diablo universe world btw)
then the heroes have two missions: destroy the Fags and wipe out the sorceress before she blows everything up.
they entered a tournament called:

MORTAL KOLLAB

then wakka wakka master says you suck and Frederick falls dead. But in heaven Tyrael hires him as vicepresident and guess what (remember he is a fag) ??? they went into bankrupcy!!!!

so the MK continues:

assassin vs druid (shewykiller)

Shewy shoots his Buriza Do'Kyannon and kills Natalya in one hit then transforms into werewolf and strikes him
WWM says Animality!

after all only shewy survived vs the sorc but she fled

then WWM says no mortal can kill me
shewy says im no mortal im Pezcri the mighty fish!
(TADA!!!!!)

AKKWAMAN STRIKE!!!!!!!

after a rare battle of strange master vs fish the sorc came and guess what
she blowed up earth so then the heroes had to go to hell (again) the bad guy Diablo had a story to tell:

"Siempre te encontre, una vez estabas sentada ahi, y a mi me encanto que estuvieras sentada ahi, porque yo pase por ahi y te vi (wow wtf diablo is ****ing latin lover guy like Louis Michael) y despues yo te pedi q comieras un cacho de pizza conmigo (hey hey) pizza conmigo (si queres de muzzarella, yeah, come on check this out!) Si queres de muzzarella la q vos quieras pq yo no me cago cuando pido pizza, yo pido cualquier pizzaaaaaaaaaAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!
Again the sorc blew him up( luckily he was fire inmune) so uncle D taught them the magik words (Wea goro lere peipei terira! Warari warari watuttia pupu prrphu pipu phipi!).
So they went and Diablo said " arriba la palma o te quemo!"

the confronted WakkaWakkaMaster for third and last time and the spirit of Cain said WTF IM DEAD????????!!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?

YES!!!!!!! tey seid

Battle raged pow crash kpow oofff kill sound

666 hit combo of death!!!!!

Finish him!!!!


Super attack
WWM exploded!
BIG D: NOOOOOO u foolz the fag!!!!!
all: OH RLY?
D: YA RLY!
all oks
Frederick: uh-oh

THE END


yeah RLY nice idea isnt it?????

PLZ COMMENT NOT FLAME!!!!!

FIRST POST PLX!!!!!!

 

[Arkillo]

You're a ****ing idiot.

 

[Pale_Horse]

You're a ****ing idiot.

For once I am in agreement, WTH was the point of that?

Since everyone is consumed with a storyline involving heaven and hell why not this:

The hero(s) are dead in heaven, but find out that, a gateway has opened on earth, and evil is coming in swarms. Heaven unable to get involved, in earthly affairs, makes a deal with the hero(s). If they can cull the evil by going threw the gatway, fight the Prime Evils on their own ground, the earth will forever be free of evil monsters.
They are brought back to earth (in a astral form to pass threw the gateway unharmed) and now must fight their way past hoards of evil and make it to each of the prime evils.
They begin to be currupted by the land they are in, and it changes them, adding new skills ect.