| rdfs:comment | - Returning Boss Fights are The Butcher, Skeleton King, Lazarus and Diablo himself. In addition, every single Unique Monster from D1 can be found and killed, though they are mostly just buffed-up regular monsters with no affixes (and only a few have a single affix at their disposal). They always drop Magic Items of top tier from Diablo I, for example, King's Sword of Haste, Archangel's Staff of Apocalypse or Godly Plate of the Whale (though at maximum level, these items are of little usefulness).
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| abstract | - Returning Boss Fights are The Butcher, Skeleton King, Lazarus and Diablo himself. In addition, every single Unique Monster from D1 can be found and killed, though they are mostly just buffed-up regular monsters with no affixes (and only a few have a single affix at their disposal). They always drop Magic Items of top tier from Diablo I, for example, King's Sword of Haste, Archangel's Staff of Apocalypse or Godly Plate of the Whale (though at maximum level, these items are of little usefulness). Monsters in Anniversary Dungeon are the same as those in D1, but use the graphical assets from D3 with only slight recolor. Some of them do have their old abilities, and some do not. Those monsters, which do not have a direct equivalent in D3, use graphics of the closest possible match (for instance, Winged Demons use graphics of Winged Talus). The Dungeon is 16 levels deep, divided into 4 sections as the original game is (Catacombs are replaced with nephalem ruins, Caves with mines and Hell with Halls of Agony visuals). Any character can enter it: there is even an achievement (challenge for consoles) and reward for beating it in one go with a level 1 character. The Dungeon also gives tremendous amounts of experience, on average, a fresh character completing it on Normal difficulty will acquire level 30 by the end of it. All quests from D1 return, but most have been altered and simplified. For example, Poisoned Water only involves finding a Resplendent Chest in the Dark Passage. Unlike the original game, this event gives access to all of them at once. Unique quest rewards, such as Ring of Truth, are dropped in form of Magic Items with unique graphics and text, but hardly any gameplay use at maximum level. NPCs such as Pepin, Griswold, Farnham and Ogden appear in their corpse (later ghost) form. Though they do not provide speech, and do not serve their direct duties, they are all involved in a semi-secret quest line (which replaces the old Black Mushroom quest). The Dungeon is accessed via a portal in The Old Ruins of Tristram, next to the fountain, and is only accessible in Adventure Mode. The zone itself is simply named Tristram, and all 16 levels of the Dungeon are labeled Labyrinth.
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