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Diablo 3 Forum Watch #81: D3 Logo Secrets, Beta Bosses
Post: 2012-03-29 01:34:10Another thread full of great game info comes from TobiasAmaranth, who created detailed maps of all the static surface areas in the Beta. These show the full layout, with boxes drawn on the places where random events occur, where quest events are located, where the Old Keepsake Boses may spawn, and more. He even covers the bonus content we saw(briefly) in the Fields of Misery and Festering Woods. It’s excellent work.
A number of fans have asked for a progress bar, instead of/in addition to our main page day/hour/minute/second counter, to better measure the time until May 15th. Presumably the 0.0% would be set to March 15th (when the release date was announced) or some other recent day of note, rather than June 28, 2008, or else the bar would be sitting on like,
99.2% and would advance at the thrilling rate of .1 per week. We might add such a feature, but if want your own, check the thread you can find a working script, courtesy of LuMpX.
If you look closely at the official Diablo III logo, you see a golden scrollwork, star-map type diablo3 power leveling thing beneath it. This was extracted from the artwork way back in mid-2008 and put into a wallpaper by VioletJoker, and in the large size a great deal of secret details can be seen within it. I remember reading some discussion of the mysterious artwork back in the day, but when Hales revived the topic the discussion went quickly down the rabbit hole.
As he usually does when Internet searching is involved, Fmulder won the thread diablo3 gold with images taken from Opus Mago-Cabbalisticum et Theosophicum, a book by Herrn Georgii von
Welling from 1735. See the thread for two images from that book, which some unknown Blizzard artist copied almost exactly to create a major portion of Diablo III’s logo. The
book is about Kabbalah mysticism, and the images relate to astronomical methods for predicting the precise end of the world. I bet you guys grasp the Diablo III connection
there, eh?
