{"id":4428,"date":"2026-02-12T21:23:23","date_gmt":"2026-02-12T20:23:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/oelna.de\/blog\/?p=4428"},"modified":"2026-02-12T21:23:23","modified_gmt":"2026-02-12T20:23:23","slug":"rise-of-the-warlock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oelna.de\/blog\/4428","title":{"rendered":"Rise of the Warlock"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I used to be a huge fan of Diablo II and have played quite a bit. Some D2R even. But with Blizzard going to shit, and me being a Mac user (and Mac support long gone from the D2 codebase), I had kind of given up on it ever becoming a desirable franchise again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When the initial hype around Diablo II Resurrected died down and seasonal changes kind of fizzled out, I figured that was it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I have to hand it to them though: didn&#8217;t have a <a href=\"https:\/\/news.blizzard.com\/en-us\/article\/24243863\/rain-annihilation-in-reign-of-the-warlock\">huge (paid, ofc) update, <\/a>complete with a new player class, on my bingo card for 2026!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>PS: I play sorc and amazon, and the warlock looks kinda dumb, so I guess I&#8217;ll pass on the new class. Also, Mac support in Crossover broke some time ago. Until it comes back, I can&#8217;t even launch the game.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The biggest improvement for me is Steam support! Finally got rid of the awful Battle.Net launcher! Huge get!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I used to be a huge fan of Diablo II and have played quite a bit. Some D2R even. But with Blizzard going to shit, and me being a Mac user (and Mac support long gone from the D2 codebase), I had kind of given up on it ever becoming a desirable franchise again. When [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"federated","footnotes":""},"categories":[3,859],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4428","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english","category-thoughts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oelna.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4428","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oelna.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oelna.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oelna.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oelna.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4428"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/oelna.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4428\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4429,"href":"https:\/\/oelna.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4428\/revisions\/4429"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oelna.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oelna.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oelna.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}