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The Secret Cow Level is an [[Easter Egg]]; a funny bonus area in [[Diablo II]] that played on years of jokes about a secret level that could (supposedly) be reached in Diablo, by repeatedly clicking the cows found just outside of town. The Blizzard North guys were inspired by this to work up a full sized level of walking, mooing, halberd-wielding cows, and the Secret Cow Level was born. (See the {{iw|Secret_Cow_Level Secret Cow Level page}} in the Diablo 2 section of this wiki for full details.)
The level was amusing, but only a diversion in Diablo 2 Classic, since it could only be entered once per character/per difficulty level. It wasn't very rewarding, other than in laughs. That changed in the Diablo II Expansion, when characters were able to enter the level repeatedly, so long as they did not get credit for completing the quest by killing the {{iw|Cow_King Cow King}}. Along with this repeat visit ability, the cows were greatly increased in damage, experience value, and item dropping capability. By v1.09 the Secret Cow Level was the most profitable area in the entire game, based on the speed with which it could be entered and the ease with which certain character builds could slaughter the vast numbers of slow, resistance-less {{iw|Hell_Bovine Hell Bovines]}}.
The v1.10 patch lowered the experience reward and item dropping potential of the cows, and largely returned the level to the amusing novelty status it had originally been designed to possess.
