i was muling in diabloii yesterday...

[pen^2]

no, those arent just pots, tons of rares lying underneath

 

[cherrytwist]

Wednesday, June 13, 2001 8:40 AM (NEW!)



hehe..that's a lot of crap!

I played D2 religiously for 4 months when it came out, and I'm getting ready to pick it up after many months in preparation for the expansion. So what's changed since then?

Last time I played:

Lances were beginning to drop
SOJ's were selling for $20 each on Ebay
Barb Lances were the most popular combo
Iceblink was the shiznit
The servers were hacked and they gave everybody their items back

 

[pen^2]

So what's changed since then?

Last time I played:

Lances were beginning to drop

-->lances are everywhere

SOJ's were selling for $20 each on Ebay

-->sojs go for 4 perf skulls

Barb Lances were the most popular combo

-->there are many lance barbs, they are mostly the 'easy meat' 🙂

Iceblink was the shiznit

-->goes for 1 soj probably? twitch is the shiznit

The servers were hacked and they gave everybody their items back

-->yeah i remember that. i am so glad i got my kick ass sorcie armor back


much has changed since then, cant expound on everything. just to list a few noticable changes:

-->in post 1.04, zons are considered most dominant. necros can hold their own against them, fast s/s barbs mostly own them or go toe-to-toe. some palys are guite good against them. but most builds after the patch are geared to beat zons. dexazons are still pretty tough

-->everyone thought lance was the shiznit, but they were soon to realize even a wacko s/s barb could toss them around all they want... lance is pretty much magic find only these days

-->sorcies arent near invincible any more, pretty vulnerable to zons in fact... now that zons got a huge boost sorcs are in a relative disadvantage. basically zons took the best all around chracter position from the sorcs

-->everyone and everyones mom has sojs. west is really plagued with dupes, mostly zon gear like carrion song or skull grasp. supposedely they fixed the dupes... when 1.05 came out there was a fiasco with some people losing half of their (duped) soj reserve 😀 skulls became a new currency as people discovered a new cube formula (6 p skulls + 2x4 rare = new rare of that kind)

-->lag hasnt gotten a single bit better, in fact much worse even after the alledged server upgrades. forget about weekend evenings

word of caution: worry about xpack when it actually comes out. personally i am thinking of refraining from it since dueling sound like its turned all upside down and inside out.

 

[Thump553]

Good luck with bnet if you plan on playing after the expansion pack comes out. Given the performance of bnet, and in particular USEast, in the last few weeks, it will be a hopeless, frustrating experience. Dropped connections, all realms down, horrendous lag are becoming the norm. Too bad, cause I really enjoy(ed) this game.

Brotherman: I'm impressed, but I would never take that risk of dropping all that stuff. I've lost good stuff too often to bnet crashes then realm unavailable. Just Sunday morning at about 8 AM (low usage time) I lost a bunch of stuff this way, including a prismic amulet with +19 str which my sorc really, really needed.

 

[Staver]

I'm not getting the expansion for it. I dont like the idea of nerfing people skill choices to make a game harder. Strafe max arrows will be 10 and Multi has reduced arrows and increased pauses. Make a game harder by improving AI and adding tougher monsters and alot more of them, but here is a full list of expected changes.


Not a bad item layout 😉 but let me and a friend start sorting our stuff to re-mule and we fill up all of BloodMoors. Heh 90+ minute muling sessions.

 

[duragezic]

LOL that's nuts. And I thought I had tons of stuff when my friend dropped about 3 characters worth of items.

Imbued that bec last night too.... 98 max dmg, 'nuff said. :|
Transmuted my last 6 pskulls for a +52 mana, +2 sorc skills, +7 str ammy though so that's cool. Woohoo!

edit: Yeah I think most of the xpac changes suck. One is that your share gold with people in your party in the same act. Now I don't have a problem with sharing or giving stuff (I gave away two characters worth of rare items a few days ago) but half the time people don't pick up any of those items that sell for a lot. That's fine that they don't care about gold but what about the people who do and have to pickup everything and it get's shared and you hardly make any gold since no one else is picking up things. Another problem is that I could just party up with some people and go to the right act and sit in town by Charsi like I'm talking to her. Then I could leave for 30 minutes and come back with a bunch of gold that I didn't do sh1t to get. People are so dumb on bnet that they probably wouldn't even notice ya.

Right after the USEast mainteance I thought it was great. It was like two weekend nights in a row that were lag-free and only a few crashes (heh). But last night was the worst yet. A TUESDAY night just lagged to all hell and crashing realms.

Oh yeah I see that you had a guy in the game Brotherman but I still don't know about muling all that stuff... I'd be worried to lose it. I was muling one day with a friend and when I left I got d/c'ed and the realm was down. By the time the realm came back up, the game was gone. My friend picked up my good things like a 46 tarn and 5% eye after I dropped them. Good thing because he got d/c'ed too and the rest of my stuff was lost (though he picked up all the good things).

 

[richleader]

I'm pissed that they're eliminating twinking by putting level reqs on every unique. Ok, so the level 1 paladin I started last night had 125 life and 110 mana with 2 soj's, gull dagger, hotspur boots, tarnhelp, and nightsmoke, and at level 10, he had goldskin and hellplague (dual leech, 50 poison damage)--but what's the point of the non exploitive uniques if you have to be level 29 to use a shield that's built from the normal kit, like the Ward? They said they're going to improve crappy uniques, but I don't believe them. I'll still find Rixot's Xeen and the Tany'r Gorerod in every game.

Other things I don't like:

Necro's being screwed in the expansion: 50% physical resist means that it will take 5 hours for a monster to kill itself on your minions with Iron Maiden--minions whose health no longer scales with the players in the game. The new necro set looks like it sucks too--not giving any more +skills than a typical cookie cutter necro set in diablo 2 classic, plus, you lose frosties! On the otherhand, if people can't leach off of our minions and bonewalls in duels, that would be cool too--not to mention that they'll have to load up on poison resist for the first time as poison nova is going to be wild with people with fastest run gear just weave around the battlefield nova-ing 360 degrees of death. Then again, Teleport-kicking assassins are going to make life miserable for everyone besides barbs who can just go into a whirlwind.

The no gambling uniques is going to fritz over magic users too, and is guaranteeing that dupers and 13 year old geeks are going to be making a killing on eb@y selling off their stock piles of tarns and frosties (not to mention goblin toes and rattlecages now that crushing blow will work on bows, though at 1/2 effectiveness).

 

[duragezic]

I know necros are getting screwed... already they level slow. And if someone hits your minions while iron maiden they only take 50% damage as usually. Well that's really helpful considering IM was the best way to kill them. Even maxed, bone spirit doesn't hurt monsters very much.

 

[pen^2]

it looks like everyone besides amazon is getting shafted...

cast delay and lit dmg absorption -> no more sorc domination X_X
blocking gets whacked -> no more s/s domination X_X

i woudlnt dare to mule the cream of the crop items like that... most of them were junk or ok items at the very best 🙂

eagle__2, thats a pretty decent ammy! hope your sorcie likes it 😀 my dexazon is doing well, but her imbue sucked so hardcore i had to sell it to charsi again 😛