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Diablo 2 gets patched, 9 years after release...say hello to 1.13!

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  • emnmnmeemnmnme Registered User regular
    edited March 2010
    TheBana wrote: »
    Oh noes, I was playing with someone, AxCop and I lost you.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ZquaoUMfIc

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  • BarrakkethBarrakketh Registered User regular
    edited March 2010
    Henroid wrote: »
    At least he's not killing me while my compy loads his room, like back in the day. :o

    Playing from a CD image fixed that for me.

    Plus the lag from his death animation while it loads from CD. That let you snag drops before other players could react :P

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    Rollers are red, chargers are blue....omae wa mou shindeiru
  • TheBanaTheBana Registered User regular
    edited March 2010
    Haha, awesome

    Thanks for seeing me through Act 1, I played a little of Act 2, but it ramps up bit. Need to gear myself out better.

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  • HounHoun Registered User regular
    edited March 2010
    Hrm. Should I try another HC character, or go back to softcore?

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  • themightypuckthemightypuck MontanaRegistered User regular
    edited March 2010
    Should we set up a list with name realm and hc/sc?

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  • emnmnmeemnmnme Registered User regular
    edited March 2010
    Houn wrote: »
    Hrm. Should I try another HC character, or go back to softcore?

    Play 15 or 20 levels with a softcore character and get the hang of how they work. Then recreate that character in HC.

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  • HounHoun Registered User regular
    edited March 2010
    HC. Necro or Sorc? I got a GS/Meteor Sorc up to the 40s once, never played a Necro.

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  • HounHoun Registered User regular
    edited March 2010
    Just fired up a sorc in pahnr2/wang, if anyone's game to start a fresh character.

    Houn on
  • emnmnmeemnmnme Registered User regular
    edited March 2010
    Besides permanent death, does HC have any advantages?

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  • No Great NameNo Great Name FRAUD DETECTED Registered User regular
    edited March 2010
    Houn wrote: »
    Just fired up a sorc in pahnr2/wang, if anyone's game to start a fresh character.

    omw

    I AM HOUN I MAKE GAMES AND POSTS THEN GO AFK

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  • No Great NameNo Great Name FRAUD DETECTED Registered User regular
    edited March 2010
    pahnr3/wang

    5 people, first quest

    YOU WANT IT

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  • Big Red TieBig Red Tie beautiful clydesdale style feet too hot to trotRegistered User regular
    edited March 2010
    emnmnme wrote: »
    Besides permanent death, does HC have any advantages?

    HC has no advantages

    unless being like no great name is what you call an advantage

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    Beasteh wrote: »
    *おなら*
  • KalTorakKalTorak One way or another, they all end up in the Undercity.Registered User regular
    edited March 2010
    emnmnme wrote: »
    Besides permanent death, does HC have any advantages?

    HC has no advantages

    unless being like no great name is what you call an advantage

    Well, you get different titles for beating each difficulty.

    I'm pretty sure that's the only perk.

    Besides the ADRENALINE or whatever.

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  • CripTonicCripTonic Registered User regular
    edited March 2010
    I have a 38 Necro about to finish Act 1 NM and the game just feels way too easy...

    I am going summon-spam (every skill is in Raise Skelly or Mastery with 1 point in Amp Damage) and it seriously feels broken. The only thing I've found even remotely difficult so far was Diablo because I haven't spent the 3 points to get Summon Resist yet, so his flame wave 2 shot my whole army. Once I get an Act 2 NM merc for Might I can see this becoming a complete joke, though.

    Besides physical+poison immune bosses (which I would do exactly 0 damage to) does this ever actually get hard or are Necros that broken?

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  • Al_watAl_wat Registered User regular
    edited March 2010
    Amp damage pretty well negates physical immunity.

    edit: wait

    cant remember how that applies to bosses

    disregard

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  • HenroidHenroid Mexican kicked from Immigration Thread Centrism is Racism :3Registered User regular
    edited March 2010
    It's funny how bad this game's skill system is designed. Even the Arreat Summit site mentions some skills aren't worth investing in.

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  • JarsJars Registered User regular
    edited March 2010
    Jars wrote: »
    I maxed out freezing arrow and cold arrow, what should I go for frost immunes? immolation arrow probably still sucks so one of the physical damage skills.

    One of the physical skills is the standard route, they buffed immolation arrow a bit this patch though.

    which physical skill though? after cold arrow, valk, and freezing arrow I don't think I have a full 20 points to spare.

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  • HounHoun Registered User regular
    edited March 2010
    Houn wrote: »
    Just fired up a sorc in pahnr2/wang, if anyone's game to start a fresh character.

    omw

    I AM HOUN I MAKE GAMES AND POSTS THEN GO AFK

    Yeah yeah yeah. My kids started bugging me about Pokemon, so I transfered all my best Pokes to my daughter, and wiped the card for my son to start playing.

    I'm the best dad ever, pretty much.

    Houn on
  • ronyaronya Arrrrrf. the ivory tower's basementRegistered User regular
    edited March 2010
    CripTonic wrote: »
    I have a 38 Necro about to finish Act 1 NM and the game just feels way too easy...

    I am going summon-spam (every skill is in Raise Skelly or Mastery with 1 point in Amp Damage) and it seriously feels broken. The only thing I've found even remotely difficult so far was Diablo because I haven't spent the 3 points to get Summon Resist yet, so his flame wave 2 shot my whole army. Once I get an Act 2 NM merc for Might I can see this becoming a complete joke, though.

    Besides physical+poison immune bosses (which I would do exactly 0 damage to) does this ever actually get hard or are Necros that broken?

    It gets harder, yes, if only because of monsters with piercing attack (gloams). Have fun dodging lightning bolts.

    Also, eventually (Hell Act IIIish) the monsters do become tough enough to slow you down. But by then you should be able to waste them with CE anyway.

    Amp does remove most physical immunities. It is possible to meet a PI monster you can't remove via Amp but these are pretty rare (it must have over 120% physical immunity - there are no monsters naturally this resistant so it would be a PI monster with Stone Skin mods or somesuch). For those you'll just have to trust to poison, or whatever elemental damage your mercenary can dish out. Or CE, which does 50% fire.

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  • BahamutZEROBahamutZERO Registered User regular
    edited March 2010
    I usually deal with super-physical immune monsters on my summoner necro with corpse explosion and skeletal mages+revives with elemental attacks.

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  • nealcmnealcm Alvarian AlvarianRegistered User regular
    edited March 2010
    Houn wrote: »
    Houn wrote: »
    Just fired up a sorc in pahnr2/wang, if anyone's game to start a fresh character.

    omw

    I AM HOUN I MAKE GAMES AND POSTS THEN GO AFK

    Yeah yeah yeah. My kids started bugging me about Pokemon, so I transfered all my best Pokes to my daughter, and wiped the card for my son to start playing.

    I'm the best dad ever, pretty much.

    holy awesome


    also, cannot believe i still had this on my computer

    i already have about 9 too many games to play

    not to mention i am in the SC2 beta

    i think blizzard really knows how to take over people's lives, i'm just glad i quit WoW months ago

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  • JarsJars Registered User regular
    edited March 2010
    is there some game I can drop off stuff that's good but not quite good enough people will give me anything for it and wastes all my stash space?

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  • Samir Duran DuranSamir Duran Duran Registered User regular
    edited March 2010
    Hardcore jungle action in pahnr1/wang

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  • EspantaPajaroEspantaPajaro Registered User regular
    edited March 2010
    Ughh Bear form ALWAYS manages to run out in the middle of a fight . Its like a rule for it to run out on a boss so it can one shot me.

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  • BahamutZEROBahamutZERO Registered User regular
    edited March 2010
    Ughh Bear form ALWAYS manages to run out in the middle of a fight . Its like a rule for it to run out on a boss so it can one shot me.

    Ha ha. Murphy's Law, as applied to werebears.

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  • Big Red TieBig Red Tie beautiful clydesdale style feet too hot to trotRegistered User regular
    edited March 2010
    countess has never been so profitable
    two runs in a row i got hel + shael/sol and on the second run a +1 elemental skills +27 life grand charm

    did the drop rates of all the runes get raised? i've been getting two runes at a time off countess a lot of unusually high quality (no more el thank god)
    edit: just got lum and an essence off meph. suspicious

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    Beasteh wrote: »
    *おなら*
  • KorlashKorlash Québécois TorontoRegistered User regular
    edited March 2010
    The first version of the patch on the public beta test servers had increased quality of rune drops. Unless they changed it, that's what you're seeing.

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  • Big Red TieBig Red Tie beautiful clydesdale style feet too hot to trotRegistered User regular
    edited March 2010
    it's pretty fucking great
    if only countess dropped essences too

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    Beasteh wrote: »
    *おなら*
  • nealcmnealcm Alvarian AlvarianRegistered User regular
    edited March 2010
    every time i have done a countess run so far it has been 2-3 runes

    usually 3

    i love it

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  • KrunkMcGrunkKrunkMcGrunk Registered User regular
    edited March 2010
    SCL East

    panr2//wang

    About to run my sorc through Act 1 if anyone wants to come along

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  • zhen_roguezhen_rogue Registered User regular
    edited March 2010
    I'm down to try this new ladder and patch out - where are the majority of you silly gooses playing?
    East/HCL? or East/SCL?

    I'll likely make a fishy to start, would love to get him rolling and share the phat lewts I find with a PA crew.
    Can find me as *zhen_rogue once I determine HC or SC.

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  • KalTorakKalTorak One way or another, they all end up in the Undercity.Registered User regular
    edited March 2010
    nealcm wrote: »
    every time i have done a countess run so far it has been 2-3 runes

    usually 3

    i love it

    That orange text...

    Sexy

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  • EspantaPajaroEspantaPajaro Registered User regular
    edited March 2010
    I have not seen a shael , amn or sol drop in my life in the span of two hours I saw two of each drop. Nightmare has been kind to me.

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  • No Great NameNo Great Name FRAUD DETECTED Registered User regular
    edited March 2010
    zhen_rogue wrote: »
    I'm down to try this new ladder and patch out - where are the majority of you silly gooses playing?
    East/HCL? or East/SCL?

    I'll likely make a fishy to start, would love to get him rolling and share the phat lewts I find with a PA crew.
    Can find me as *zhen_rogue once I determine HC or SC.
    We had a full game on hc east last night, most went from lvl 1 to 26ish.

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  • KrunkMcGrunkKrunkMcGrunk Registered User regular
    edited March 2010
    OK, panr2 is in Act 3 now.

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  • themightypuckthemightypuck MontanaRegistered User regular
    edited March 2010
    I'm in for now. HC or SC? I'm themightypuck on ladder east. I'll make a toon for both hc and sc and see what happens.

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  • RakaiRakai Registered User regular
    edited March 2010
    We're starting a fresh hc run in pahnr1///wang if anyone wants to join.

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  • VeeveeVeevee WisconsinRegistered User regular
    edited March 2010
    Fate told me to make a fire sorc, so I did

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  • nealcmnealcm Alvarian AlvarianRegistered User regular
    edited March 2010
    jaaaaaaaaaaaaam son

    dats a good runeword

    edit: it could use some +3 meteor all up ins though

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  • TheBanaTheBana Registered User regular
    edited March 2010
    level 12 assassin, SC, norm, starting from Act II. (I need to regedit to get HC/NM/HL, that still works, right?)

    PAbana//wang

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