This is just insane. Read the WHOLE thing. I just had to post this.

Believe it or not but the secret of diablo 3 is within the Dol rune. 


By now, you are all probably thinking wtf this guy is trolling. But before you discredit me let me show to you this jaw-dropping truth. 

The stats of a Dol rune: 
Weapons: Hit causes monster to flee 25% 
Armor: Replenish Life +7 
Helms: Replenish Life +7 
Shield: Replenish Life +7 

Some simple mathematics: 

25x7x7x7 = 8575 

Why Is this important you ask? 

Well. In diablo 1, the lord of terror had PRECISLY 8,575 hit points. Are you getting scared? There's more 

Note the stat on the dol rune that stands out the most, 
"Hit causes monster to flee 25%" 

Now, naturally this ONLY works on regular monsters but not bosses ... right? 

That's were you are wrong. In diablo II "normal" difficulty has PRECISLY 34300 Hit points ( 8575 being exactly 25% of his health!) 
What does this mean to us? Well, because of some glitch in the hardcoding of d2:lod this fact somehow allows you to surpasse the boundary of "hit causes monster to flee" not affecting bosses. In otherwords, because of this fault on behalf of the blizzard programmers aslong as you have a dol socketed into a weapon you can make diablo run away from you with each successfull hit. Ironic isn't it? The lord of terror, in TERROR. ( Some argue this was initially an intentional "easter-egg" the programmers added for a twist) 

Okay... okay. After making you read all of this I won't disappoint you. There is indeed an even greater scandal revolving around the dol rune. One that will literally make you ##%# bricks after reading this. Let's move on! 

Anagrams. Guess what? An anagram of "Dol" is Lod. Coincidence? Lod stands for Lord Of Destruction which is an expansion for diablo. 
An anagram of Lord Of Destruction is: consider fold trout. 

Consider fold trout ... 

For months these words echoed in my head and it wasn't untill tonight I realised what impact these words bare and I felt compelled to type out this thread and share it with you all. 

I quote Merriam websters: 

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TROUT 
Middle English, from Old English trūht, from Late Latin trocta, tructa, a fish with sharp teeth, from Greek trōktēs, literally, gnawer, from trōgein to gnaw 

Please notice the word gnaw. I knew I had seen this very word somewhere in the game before, but where? 

Gnaw Fold. It was a rare ring I had left in my stash since 1.07. According to recent databases, the prefix Gnaw and the suffix Fold no longer exist, however they did in 1.07. I was one of the lucky few to recieve this ring randomly from as far as my memory serves me, from the gidbin quest. 

Enough about the ring, let me explain to you all how this fits together... PERFECTLY. 

Gnaw Fold - Unique ring 
stats: 
Attack rating +25 
Vitality +7 
Life +7 
Energy +7 
Mana +7 

Do you see the similarities yet? Well, if you don't than look back at are old friend the dol rune. 

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The stats of a Dol rune: 
Weapons: Hit causes monster to flee 25% 
Armor: Replenish Life +7 
Helms: Replenish Life +7 
Shield: Replenish Life +7 

Admit it, you are scared? This is where this little discovery takes a VERY, VERY awkward and interesting turn. 

They're three difficulties on d2 'Normal', 'Nightmare' and 'Hell' 
In the "Hell" mode of diablo lod, diablo has a 0.05575% chance of dropping a Dol rune. Why Is this important? Apart from the scary number-patterns this tells us that JUST as with the dol rune glitch that allowed you to make diablo flee from you, here a very simliar glitch occurs. Once again, because of the "Sloppy Hardcoding" of D2 LOD (Mind, it was a rush job after the sky-rocketing sales of classic) whenever you kill diablo in hell with this ring in your ring slot the game crashes. I bet you all are thinking now, WOW what a waste of time! He made us read ALL of this to tell us that because of the incompetence of blizzard employee's the game crashes if you wear some really rare ring and just HAPPEN to get a dol rune drop for you. This is wrong. As you will find out in just a sec there is something special about this error message. It returns the following value to your screen: 64 69 61 62 6c 6f 20 33 20 20 30 39 2f 30 39 2f 30 39. 

At first glace 64 69 61 62 6c 6f 20 33 20 20 30 39 2f 30 39 2f 30 39 seems completly random, just some error code right? This is where you are wrong, deeply wrong. 

64 69 61 62 6c 6f 20 33 20 20 30 39 2f 30 39 2f 30 39 is hex for : Diablo 3 09/09/09. Don't believe me? Google ANY Hex translator and try it yourself. 

From this ASTONISHING information I would like to conclude that based on my findings I believe (and believe all you others should acknowledge aswell) that diablo 3's official release date is 09/09/09.

All credit goes too Nevereon @ D2jsp.org

I've beaten both games probably 20-30 times.

And I have no idea what is being said in the post above.

But that was awesome.

(p.s. as is the idea (hallucination?) that we will be playing D3 later this year, even if it means I have to find a decent pc somewhere.)

not sure i understand this all either...but I wish my computer could handle diablo 3 because the second one was awesome

To sum it up basically, aside from all the numbers matching up (Diablo's health, the stats on the item) there was a ring in the game that, if you had it on and killed diablo, your game would crash and you would get an error (the programmers threw that in). You would get a bunch of hex digits as an error code, if you translate the hex it comes out to Diablo 3 9/9/09.

Sweet, but Blizzard releasing Diablo 3 in September of THIS year. I can wish all I want,......but.......they cant even decide on StarCraft 2's release, let alone Diablo 3.

Here's to hope though (and scrounging enough money for a new rig)..........

Well, keep in mind that diablo 3 has been in developement for over 3, or 4 years. So anything is possible, that theory could very likely be possible 9/9/09.

This post is a parody of gamers who attempt to read too deeply into Diablo. However, it wouldn't surprise me if Blizzard used something like this when deciding the release date, just to keep em guessing.

Imagine if it accually came out 9/9/09, this guy would be considered a genius lol. Yeah, he looked very deeply into it too get all this information, but it's still a well done, legit theory in my opinion.

I don't know if it'll be ready by then, but it would be great marketing to set that as the release date because when you turn it upside down..

Really interesting. Would be awesome if it did come out then. Then again, this could be programmers having fun and just throwing in funny stuff in their error code.