I enjoy the occasional D2 romp. I haven't played much at all since the big synergy patch way back, though.
Well...I was playing a summoner and I had him in the low 70s, I think, and I was in Hell skill. Maybe act II. My skellies were kind of starting to suck, so that brings me to a question. Should I have just went and tried to farm skill charms or something at that point? Assuming no trade, that is. I've always wondered what kind of path you veterans choose.
Or if I had been a Barb in crap gear--would that have been a good time to farm for rares or runes or something?
Just curious in case I start up again soonish.
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Zen VulgarityWhat a lovely day for teaSecret British ThreadRegistered Userregular
edited April 2008
If you have crap, go Sorc and run Meph.
Even in shitty gear you can kill Meph in NM and possibly Hell with some trouble.
Or, if you are desperate, get as much gold find crap as you can on a barbarian and go kill hell trav. Get to level 90.
I assume circlets are for trading, right? And...the currency is apparently HRs. The best I can come up with is Hel Rune. Is any of this right? Maybe I'll just fuck around and some day decide to take it up a notch.
Now to find my damn keys. Don't that just beat all.
I had an Orb MF Sorc that just ran Pindleskin over and over. Then one day, as I was doing another fucking run, the mother of all items dropped, a fucking Windforce. I actually stared at the screen for a minute going "is that really it, it does say Hydra Bow in gold", I pick it up, identify it, and I shit my pants. Gave it to my amazon, and she might as well have had a machine gun, cause I was going through enemies like butter.
I then sold it on ebay for a couple hundred. A couple of weeks later, there was item duping on the realms, and the price of the bow went to the shitter. I managed to sell it just in the nick of time.
I would love to go into trade games and people would put up their measly grandfathers and shit, and they would go "what do you have?" I'd go BAM and just place the windforce on there. Oh the things people would offer me for it. Some would beg and beg, wanting to give me their whole inventory for it. It was pretty cool.
Breath of the Dying is even more obscene, if possible.
I used to have the best weapon ever, though. It was a rare Polearm with the name "Pain Wood." :winky:
It helped that it had 300%+ Enhanced Damage.
Grief (I think that was the name; it added 300 flat damage or something like that to the weapon, rather than a percentage) on a Phase Blade (fastest attack speed) was even more obscene.
Enigma-using Summoners are worse. You can at least dodge and outrun a Bone Spirit and sidestep a spear. A Summoner can simply teleport onto you and let his minions hit you 20 times before you can even move.
So would there be any support for getting a weekly group going? Going from Normal to Hell? Say meeting for an hour or two a week?
I'd love that, provided it wasn't too terribly late at night. Since we have to create new characters, it won't even be hard to get everyone on the same network.
Can it possibly not be HC, though? I like permadeath in my true Roguelikes, but like it less in my real-time online games which can fall victim to lag.
If we're doing a group game it doesn't make a lot of sense to do it HC. 'Cause if somone dies either we all have to start over or wait for that person to get back to our level.
Also because we should have like a full part at all time we could all do crazy builds becuase we'll never have to solo.
Do they still make you play through the game on boring normal mode to unlock hardcore?
You DO NOT, I repeat YOU DO NOT HAVE TO BEAT THE GAME ON NORMAL TO UNLOCK HARDCORE!! Instead do this:
1) Go to the Start menu, and open the program called Notepad (it's in the Accessories folder of the start menu).
2) Copy and paste the text below into a newly created document:
3) Press Ctrl+S (or alternatively File --> Save As…) and save the document with the name allowhc.reg making sure the Save as type: is "All Files".
4) Double click on the file you just created, click YES that you do want to add the information to the registry, and click OK afterwards.
5) Proceed to create HC characters at your leisure.
And that's it! No more having to beat the game on boring old normal or getting rushed to make a HC character.
I'd be most interested in hardcore or a mod/weird build experience. Not one for the softcore vanilla stuff. but God knows if I can even find my cds...
Hey did Blizz put in a no-cd patch for diablo ii like they did for warcraftiii and sc?
If we're doing a group game it doesn't make a lot of sense to do it HC. 'Cause if somone dies either we all have to start over or wait for that person to get back to our level.
Or it'll make getting past Hell hardcore all the better.
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If what you say is true, the Shaolin and the Wu-Tang could be DANGERISK.
If we're doing a group game it doesn't make a lot of sense to do it HC. 'Cause if somone dies either we all have to start over or wait for that person to get back to our level.
Or it'll make getting past Hell hardcore all the better.
I've done a few of these. Trust me when you get through hell on HC with just 1 goup and you didn't trick out your characters feels great. But when somone dies midway through Nightmare (and someone will) it tends to wreck the group. 'cause people wont want to start over, and people won't want to wait for the new person.
There's sufficent things we can do in Softcore that would make it relatively hard. Hell we could play it as if it was HC and try not to die. But it wouldn't be that bad if we did.
If we're doing a group game it doesn't make a lot of sense to do it HC. 'Cause if somone dies either we all have to start over or wait for that person to get back to our level.
Or it'll make getting past Hell hardcore all the better.
I've done a few of these. Trust me when you get through hell on HC with just 1 goup and you didn't trick out your characters feels great. But when somone dies midway through Nightmare (and someone will) it tends to wreck the group. 'cause people wont want to start over, and people won't want to wait for the new person.
There's sufficent things we can do in Softcore that would make it relatively hard. Hell we could play it as if it was HC and try not to die. But it wouldn't be that bad if we did.
We could try doing a no-twinking group. Everybody makes a new account, and they can ONLY use that account. If a character on that account finds something then they can use it, but no transferring of items between accounts. It'd be like starting from scratch for everyone without Duriel ripping everyone apart when we all lag into Hardcore Act 2's Tomb of Tal Rasha.
Are you guys playing hardcore. I'd be down if we could get a decent group (maybe 8). I just hate how HC becomes HC SP once you get to NM. Right now I'm on west in SC messing around from time to time.
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― Marcus Aurelius
Sorry dudes, still been really busy with final papers and exams and work. I'll update the op and try to get a group going on Tuesday.
We had a lot of fun with a pretty decent group around this time last year before the ladder reset doing hardcore. There develops a kind of gallows humor cameraderie as everyone's characters sooner or later get whacked.
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99 with full stats still available and all skill/attribute/life questions done is where it's at.
Well...I was playing a summoner and I had him in the low 70s, I think, and I was in Hell skill. Maybe act II. My skellies were kind of starting to suck, so that brings me to a question. Should I have just went and tried to farm skill charms or something at that point? Assuming no trade, that is. I've always wondered what kind of path you veterans choose.
Or if I had been a Barb in crap gear--would that have been a good time to farm for rares or runes or something?
Just curious in case I start up again soonish.
Even in shitty gear you can kill Meph in NM and possibly Hell with some trouble.
Or, if you are desperate, get as much gold find crap as you can on a barbarian and go kill hell trav. Get to level 90.
Then, gamble the fuck out of circlets.
Now to find my damn keys. Don't that just beat all.
I then sold it on ebay for a couple hundred. A couple of weeks later, there was item duping on the realms, and the price of the bow went to the shitter. I managed to sell it just in the nick of time.
I would love to go into trade games and people would put up their measly grandfathers and shit, and they would go "what do you have?" I'd go BAM and just place the windforce on there. Oh the things people would offer me for it. Some would beg and beg, wanting to give me their whole inventory for it. It was pretty cool.
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I'm curious though, what makes them bad now? And what bow is the shit now?
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It's all about the runewords.
Shit like that is retarded.
Breath of the Dying is even more obscene, if possible.
I used to have the best weapon ever, though. It was a rare Polearm with the name "Pain Wood." :winky:
It helped that it had 300%+ Enhanced Damage.
Faith wins.
Oh. And Smiteadins are fucking obscene.
Grief (I think that was the name; it added 300 flat damage or something like that to the weapon, rather than a percentage) on a Phase Blade (fastest attack speed) was even more obscene.
WOOOSH
PvM maybe.
Duels? Bone Spirit Necros are god damn brutal.
Enigma-using Summoners are worse. You can at least dodge and outrun a Bone Spirit and sidestep a spear. A Summoner can simply teleport onto you and let his minions hit you 20 times before you can even move.
After seeing those shots of those weapons, oh man is it tempting me to play the game again.
Blood golem/iron maiden necros were so great to play when they were broken. It is to bad they fixed em.
Spear barbs with icemail doing WW's all over the place, and seeing guys just shatter was fun as hell, then they fixed em.
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think I'll make another pally...
Do... Re... Mi... So... Fa.... Do... Re.... Do...
Forget it...
I'd love that, provided it wasn't too terribly late at night. Since we have to create new characters, it won't even be hard to get everyone on the same network.
Can it possibly not be HC, though? I like permadeath in my true Roguelikes, but like it less in my real-time online games which can fall victim to lag.
I'll probably join in even if it is HC.
Maybe my character will be... a bowazon?
Also because we should have like a full part at all time we could all do crazy builds becuase we'll never have to solo.
You DO NOT, I repeat YOU DO NOT HAVE TO BEAT THE GAME ON NORMAL TO UNLOCK HARDCORE!! Instead do this:
1) Go to the Start menu, and open the program called Notepad (it's in the Accessories folder of the start menu).
2) Copy and paste the text below into a newly created document:
----
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Blizzard Entertainment\Diablo II]
"AllowHardcore"=dword:00000001
----
3) Press Ctrl+S (or alternatively File --> Save As…) and save the document with the name allowhc.reg making sure the Save as type: is "All Files".
4) Double click on the file you just created, click YES that you do want to add the information to the registry, and click OK afterwards.
5) Proceed to create HC characters at your leisure.
And that's it! No more having to beat the game on boring old normal or getting rushed to make a HC character.
I'd be most interested in hardcore or a mod/weird build experience. Not one for the softcore vanilla stuff. but God knows if I can even find my cds...
Hey did Blizz put in a no-cd patch for diablo ii like they did for warcraftiii and sc?
They did that?! Does it work on Macs?
Edit: and I'd be up for a diablo night. Though I can only do it Sat-Mon due to work.
Do... Re... Mi... So... Fa.... Do... Re.... Do...
Forget it...
Or it'll make getting past Hell hardcore all the better.
AKA [PA]Ilovepandas
I've done a few of these. Trust me when you get through hell on HC with just 1 goup and you didn't trick out your characters feels great. But when somone dies midway through Nightmare (and someone will) it tends to wreck the group. 'cause people wont want to start over, and people won't want to wait for the new person.
There's sufficent things we can do in Softcore that would make it relatively hard. Hell we could play it as if it was HC and try not to die. But it wouldn't be that bad if we did.
Do... Re... Mi... So... Fa.... Do... Re.... Do...
Forget it...
We could try doing a no-twinking group. Everybody makes a new account, and they can ONLY use that account. If a character on that account finds something then they can use it, but no transferring of items between accounts. It'd be like starting from scratch for everyone without Duriel ripping everyone apart when we all lag into Hardcore Act 2's Tomb of Tal Rasha.
This ALWAYS happened. One of us would get a lag burst and die and then Duriel would destroy us. Why is Duriel such an asshole?
― Marcus Aurelius
Path of Exile: themightypuck
We had a lot of fun with a pretty decent group around this time last year before the ladder reset doing hardcore. There develops a kind of gallows humor cameraderie as everyone's characters sooner or later get whacked.
― Marcus Aurelius
Path of Exile: themightypuck
― Marcus Aurelius
Path of Exile: themightypuck
Agreed. Flip a coin, pick one, put it in the OP.
From what I know, the current version requires the CD to _start_ the game. You can then remove the CD after it's been launched.
Also, there are third party applications which start Diablo 2 without the CD.
Diablo2's cheat prevention system does detect it, and Blizzard has decided not to do anything about it.
Holy Freeze aura + no Ravenfrosts + Charge + lag on entry to Tomb = dead HC characters.