After 20 years: Puzzles for mysterious Diablo

Anyone who fights into the endgame in Diablo 2 is rewarded not only with powerful equipment but also a supposedly useless item. In the new edition Diablo 2: Resurrected has the enigmatic status of the heroes now finally a purpose.

The two end opponents Diablo and Baal on the highest degree of difficulty to defeat hell is far from the biggest challenge in Diablo 2. Especially motivated players can try at the Pandemonium Event.

For this, a series of rare items must first be collected and bosses are defeated to finally open a secret portal after over Tristram. Your final challenge is there, to defeat over Mephisto, over Diablo and Uber Baal, the strongest opponents throughout the game.

Whoever has grown the fight is rewarded with a hellfire torch, one of the best items in Diablo 2. However, you will receive a standard of the heroes for the victory and that has been causing question marks over the heads for 20 years.

While the hellfire torch offers immense bonuses on skills and resistors, has no effects of heroes. It is just one item in your inventory, without any effects, so to speak a kind of certificate that you ve survived the pandemonium event.

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Standard of heroes finally has a benefit

So 20 years of puzzled fans, what it has with the strange item. So it could give a secret crafting recipe or the item is needed for an event that is in a future update. The second guess has now been confirmed more or less.

Diablo 2: Resurrected is not only on the PC, but for the first time also playable on consoles. On the PlayStation, this means that your trophies can be unlocked. One of these trophies bears the eye-catching title: She has a purpose! and demands from you to get the standard of heroes.

So if you want to earn the coveted platinum trophy on the PlayStation, you must either deny the sophisticated pandemonium event or act for the standard with other players. In this way, the useless item could become a coveted exchange object for console players after all the time. If you play Diablo 2 yourself in recent years and have reached the endgame, you have hopefully off your standard status of the heroes.