Fergusson: It's interesting. When you play the D2R Items game, strongholds are, according to RPG terms, instances where there is no privacy. So when you come to a strongerhold, or you go to liberate a stronghold, it's a private moment. So you go in with your party and you go and do that fight.
If you win that fight, the area transforms into an open space for social interaction. So now it becomes an area that, as Joe had said earlier it could be a town, it might be a dungeon. It could even be a new point that you can teleport to. But now, the other players could be there as well.
So that's the idea of going through and finding all these private strongholds that can be transformed into social spaces which offer you benefits to assist you in your journey--new gear and looping through a dungeon for instance--[isan entertaining method to alter the world in the process of playing.
Shely: Local events are dynamic events that happen in the world over time. In other words, while running through the world, maybe you're going to embark on a journey or perhaps you'll find an dungeon, or you may stumble across an event local to you. There are a variety of types of events that happen over durations of time.
So you might run through the exact same area, and one occasion, an event is happening but another time it's not and the type of event you see could differ too. When you're working on the event, you may have other players conducting the event at same time. This is because it is a shared space.
Fergusson The events are marked on your map . So as you're traveling you'll come across, "Oh, there's an event, a shared event happening there." You can D2R Ladder Items Buy then steer away from it and bring your group with you. Because it's visible in the map, other people will notice it too.