

While otherwise useless and unimpressive looking besides its flavor text, the Staff of Herding is the key you will need, much like the old Wirt’s Leg. The first will be assembling the Staff of Herding, which requires retrieving a Blacksmith plan and five unique ingredients that are used only for the staff, located in remote, random locations or on special monsters. Keep in mind that this is not meant to be an easy undertaking, and it is also best and pretty much necessary that you beat the game on normal before attempting this (much the same as the Cow Level in Diablo 2). There are two main tasks one must accomplish to reach Whimsyshire, which will be grouped into sub-steps to make things easier. Thus the magical faraway land of Whimsyshire was born into existence, in a realm separate from Sanctuary, the High Heavens or the Burning Hells, where both angel and demon fear to tread, but the hero alone can purge this land of the horrors which inhabit it and threaten to spill over all known existence, forever corrupting it. You can pretty much guess what happened from there… Tons of fans got up in arms over the style of graphics, complaining it might as well be filled with ponies and rainbows. With Diablo 3, there were some early development screenshots featuring a more cartoony color pallete than its present day iterartion. This amused the developers to the point where it became a cheat code in Starcraft, then finally an actual secret level in Diablo 2, reached by combining Wirt’s Leg with a Tome of Town Portal in the Horadric Cube. A long time ago there was a rumor that clicking on the cows in the original Diablo could possibly send you to a secret cow level. To give some backstory to the the secret level’s connection with each other, I will first explain the cow level for those who don’t already know. The story of how the level came to creation is actually quite similar to the Secret Cow Level from Diablo II, not to mention even references it (we’ll get to that later). Whimsyshire is the special secret level of Diablo 3, which is pretty hidden and requires a significant amount of effort to reach, let alone stumble upon without knowing about it beforehand.

Upgrading the Staff of Herding: Kevin, Bright, DhamĬhiltara: Azrafael 1.

Whimsyshire, the secret level in Diablo 3.
