OH SNAP! Diablo 2 Ladder reset 6/25!

[quote name='Kayden']Me, Koggit, Crystal and daewezzy all seem to be on pretty consistently.

Mox, GET YOUR CUNT ONLINE![/QUOTE]

Ok, I just started a "zon" last night and I have no idea what I'm doing because the last time I played was like 10 years ago and I've never played an amazon. I'm only level 4 too. Do you think you guys could help me sometime?
 
If my TV is ready, I'll be PS3ing, but if not, I'll help you out.

[quote name='Technique']Ok, I just started a "zon" last night and I have no idea what I'm doing because the last time I played was like 10 years ago and I've never played an amazon. I'm only level 4 too. Do you think you guys could help me sometime?[/quote]
 
Despite my new 360, I might hop on occaisionally. Although my unique and set mules were wiped due to inactivity. Damnit. Still have my 85 Necro though.

~HotShotX
 
I set up a bot to Pindle run with my Blizz Sorc, took a while to figure out and modify to my char, but nice results. Sorry to anyone on my friends list that got annoyed by the constant game creation last night (Your Friend BohemianWonder has joined. . .).

Got a Facet and a Wizspike, and gained 3 levels (from 82 to 85). Not bad, considering I set it up rather conservatively in regard to run speed.


[quote name='Technique']Ok, I just started a "zon" last night and I have no idea what I'm doing because the last time I played was like 10 years ago and I've never played an amazon. I'm only level 4 too. Do you think you guys could help me sometime?[/QUOTE]

My parents just flew in and I haven't seen them in about a year, so I doubt I'll be on today.. I'll probably be back in action tomorrow, though. I plan on starting a new Lightning Sorceress then, and I'll help you out.
 
:shame: (how do you do that?)

When you start your Lit sorc, I'll play my necro. PM me or something if I'm not on.

[quote name='Koggit']I set up a bot to Pindle run with my Blizz Sorc, took a while to figure out and modify to my char, but nice results. Sorry to anyone on my friends list that got annoyed by the constant game creation last night (Your Friend BohemianWonder has joined. . .).

Got a Facet and a Wizspike, and gained 3 levels (from 82 to 85). Not bad, considering I set it up rather conservatively in regard to run speed.




My parents just flew in and I haven't seen them in about a year, so I doubt I'll be on today.. I'll probably be back in action tomorrow, though. I plan on starting a new Lightning Sorceress then, and I'll help you out.[/quote]
 
[quote name='Kayden']:shame: (how do you do that?)

When you start your Lit sorc, I'll play my necro. PM me or something if I'm not on.
[/QUOTE]

If you guys are starting new characters, I'll start a Barb. I'm going on right now. My name is Morgy
 
Even though I'm a bit late to the game, count me in as well for this whole Diablo II CAG allegiance... I started up last night on USWest, making some sort of Javazon (even though at the moment she's only level 17 and is using a pretty horrid bow)... account name's Demetrius.
 
CAGers is not a word.

[quote name='SmellsLikeRandyMossGuy']We should make a day for a fresh restart. So all the new Cagers can play together.[/quote]
 
Blame Blizzard. Bosses always used to drop pretty damn well, but since its all most people did, Blizzard lowered the drops on bosses to "make people enjoy the rest of the game". Since they dropped less, people ran them even more. So they made bots so you didn't have to sit there for 8 hours to get one item.

Blizzard ruined the game by making it so that only those that bot actually get good stuff.

[quote name='etotehpii']You damned bot users ruin the game.

Bunch of cheaters![/quote]
 
[quote name='etotehpii']You damned bot users ruin the game.

Bunch of cheaters![/QUOTE]

It ruins it the same way rushing, Trist runs, Baal runs, etc do.

I've let my bot run at least 100 hours this ladder, and still couldn't even afford a single Enigma if I liquidated everything I own.

Duping is what really ruins the game.
 
I agree, that duping is the main reason for the game's sad state. However, things such as maphack and tppk are unfair advantages others have. I used to play a lot of hardcore, and you had to be very careful because you could be tppked in an instant.

This game has always been a grind fest at some point. For example:

Back in classic, you do cs runs. When the expansion first came out doing Hill runs was the place to get exp. Later on it was hell cows runs. Now its Hell baals.

The problem I have with bots, is I spend X hours myself mfing while you can take care of other life matters such as sleeping and working and still find good stuff.

I'm getting sick of all the "elite" players with their infinity, enigma, cta, CoH, etc, from their duped runes and then sit around calling you a noob because you found all your stuff legitly.

I've played this game since it first came out, I preferred it without runes, 1.08 or 1.09 were probably the best patches.
 
I hated the huge blast of rune words. I miss the days of trying to make perfect gems to gan an SOJ. I remember the first time I got an SOJ was like the biggest day in gaming history for me.
 
The biggest thing I miss is rares being the best items. Now, like you said, if you don't have CTA, enigma and all that other shit, you're ridiculed. Not only that, but the fact that Blizzard simultaneously raised the level of gear you need for hell, but has consistently lowered drop rates. They're chiding all the people that do nothing but MF runs but at the same time catering the game to that same 1% with the super elite gear.

You get good gear by doing hundreds of hell runs. Conversely, you can't survive hell runs without good gear. Its a catch-22 Blizzard has done nothing but make worse.

Funky, you're just being nostalgic. There was no point to sockets before runes. You can tell they planned for them beforehand as gems were pretty useless to put in items. They really still are, and they've been IMPROVED since 1.0.

[quote name='etotehpii']I agree, that duping is the main reason for the game's sad state. However, things such as maphack and tppk are unfair advantages others have. I used to play a lot of hardcore, and you had to be very careful because you could be tppked in an instant.

This game has always been a grind fest at some point. For example:

Back in classic, you do cs runs. When the expansion first came out doing Hill runs was the place to get exp. Later on it was hell cows runs. Now its Hell baals.

The problem I have with bots, is I spend X hours myself mfing while you can take care of other life matters such as sleeping and working and still find good stuff.

I'm getting sick of all the "elite" players with their infinity, enigma, cta, CoH, etc, from their duped runes and then sit around calling you a noob because you found all your stuff legitly.

I've played this game since it first came out, I preferred it without runes, 1.08 or 1.09 were probably the best patches.[/quote]
 
[quote name='Kayden']The biggest thing I miss is rares being the best items. Now, like you said, if you don't have CTA, enigma and all that other shit, you're ridiculed. Not only that, but the fact that Blizzard simultaneously raised the level of gear you need for hell, but has consistently lowered drop rates. They're chiding all the people that do nothing but MF runs but at the same time catering the game to that same 1% with the super elite gear.

You get good gear by doing hundreds of hell runs. Conversely, you can't survive hell runs without good gear. Its a catch-22 Blizzard has done nothing but make worse.[/QUOTE]

Wow, Kayden and I have never been on such the same page before. Penis touch? Plz?
 
[quote name='Moxio']Wow, Kayden and I have never been on such the same page before. Penis touch? Plz?[/QUOTE]

no sword fighting with kayden.
 
Not all sockets were useless. A 3d tower was fantastic, meaning 3 perfect diamonds in a tower shield.(I'm talking about classic here) Then you had 4soc armor to put 4 ptopaz. I liked rares actuatally being useful. The only rares that might be worth anything are rare circlets, amulets and rings. The imbue quest is worthless. I'm not against runewords, but quite frankly, they're way too overpowered.

Even perfect skulls were decent before leech was nerfed.

Other things I dislike is how impossible some builds are without dupewords and other rare items. Melee chars are very difficult these days. They made durance of hate level 2 HUGE in order to discouraged mfing meph? I understand the desire to use mh just for durance of hate level 2. I used to mf with my barb back in older patches with no problem. Now its totally impractical unless I have engima.

That is another gripe I have with these rune words. Other than charges of spell X, you're just unbalancing the game to the "elite" players who can afford//dupe the needed runes for it.

I like building my characters from nothing, its fun. You do nightmare meph and andy until you get enough gear to try hell. I was doing pindle, shenk and eldrich for awhile before getting the needed levels and equipment to handle hell andy and meph. I played A LOT when the ladder started and had semi decent gear, and ppl were totally decked out with infinity, engima, CoH, etc.
 
Man you guys are crazy, rares can still be the best items in the game. There is a huge market for rares. Check out this bow I found last season:
stoneharpggbowjw1.jpg

Ended up trading it for 40 high runes. Also, theres eth swords and such that are worth tons to zealots for purist dueling.
 
293% ed? I didn't think rares could go that high. As I remember, the Cruel Prefix was only for magic weapons...

[quote name='crystalklear64']Man you guys are crazy, rares can still be the best items in the game. There is a huge market for rares. Check out this bow I found last season:
stoneharpggbowjw1.jpg

Ended up trading it for 40 high runes. Also, theres eth swords and such that are worth tons to zealots for purist dueling.[/quote]
 
[quote name='Kayden']293% ed? I didn't think rares could go that high. As I remember, the Cruel Prefix was only for magic weapons...[/quote]

Rares can get quite high, actually. I've seen some rares up to 350%. It all depends on the mods that it rolls with.
 
I was doing Pit runs with my zealot and found me an IK armor yesterday. My zealer now has a Crescent Moon phaseblade as a result :D Now I just need to find a 4 socket non-eth berserker axe and I'll be ready to tackle all of hell.
 
I have a 5 socket phaze on a mule.


[quote name='crystalklear64']I was doing Pit runs with my zealot and found me an IK armor yesterday. My zealer now has a Crescent Moon phaseblade as a result :D Now I just need to find a 4 socket non-eth berserker axe and I'll be ready to tackle all of hell.[/quote]
 
D2 is falling off the front page! Nooo! Play D2! Play now! Play always!

Viva la Diablo!


My Hammerdin is decked to the gills with badass.
 
News from the Diablo 2 world:
Koggit is a rich bastard, he's already made it to the point where he has everything he wants.

Kayden is following aways behind with decent loots but throws good stuff away too often.

I'm following way behind Kayden with essentially crap that I've found and hand me downs from Kog/Kayden. However, I'm armed to the teeth with knowledge and low level junk!

Apparently, they've reached the point of farming keys and doing uber trist for the torches of unbalance.

I would love to comment about other CAGs but...well you guys aren't playing.

More news later!
 
Hey people.
Some exciting news! We now have a total of 4 people who play.

Also, Kayden, where ya at? Kog too for that matter your usual um... personas haven't been spamming me for a couple days. Someone break something?
 
I spent hours debugging a bot Friday and then realized I was just wasting time trying to find a way to find more items that I would put on characters I never play.

I think I'm done playing... again. I'm probably going to give first pick to my GF and then let you have whatever you want.
 
[quote name='Kayden']I spent hours debugging a bot Friday and then realized I was just wasting time trying to find a way to find more items that I would put on characters I never play.

I think I'm done playing... again. I'm probably going to give first pick to my GF and then let you have whatever you want.[/QUOTE]
Well, like I asked you last time I saw ya, what was the point of running all those things anyway. You could put those things to use and play PvP, but if you're done you're done.. though it seemed like you had fun playing with your GF... I know I did :wink: :wink: :nudge: :nudge: :saynomore:
 
I think I might have to get back into this game. I had a necromancer that killed servers. I would summon the max of everything and had no room to move. Also had two druids. One I was building like the tank in the guid only trying to fit full skulls in all the socket armor or the sword. that way every attack would get me health back. the other was in wolf form and was just fast poison attacks built some what the same way as the bear.

Only thing that made me stop playing was when they had any big update it expired the toon. Do they still do that. I really don't want to start playing get to 50 or so like I did before and not be able to play it again when they have a large update.
 
They don't expire from an update. They do get "demoted" to non-ladder when theres a reset but no expiring. Plus, I don't expect there to be an update anytime soon if ever.
 
I logged onto my mule today and found 4 chars with "Expires Today"... close one.

I've been playing a lot of Warcraft 3 lately. Taking a short break from D2.
 
[quote name='crystalklear64']They don't expire from an update. They do get "demoted" to non-ladder when theres a reset but no expiring. Plus, I don't expect there to be an update anytime soon if ever.[/QUOTE]

Well I might have to get back into it then. About 2 years ago they would expire or atleast the update they did then made them. They had said that the next update was a mager one and that all toons will expire. I had someone that I worked with at the time tell me that every now and then(at that time about ones a year 2 times a year at most) they did that. Is it still 90 days of not playing the toon and it will still expire or was it 30?
 
[quote name='sendme']Well I might have to get back into it then. About 2 years ago they would expire or atleast the update they did then made them. They had said that the next update was a mager one and that all toons will expire. I had someone that I worked with at the time tell me that every now and then(at that time about ones a year 2 times a year at most) they did that. Is it still 90 days of not playing the toon and it will still expire or was it 30?[/QUOTE]
The reason for the expiration that time was the move from 1.09 to 1.10. It changed a hell of a lot including skill animations, adding in synergies, and balancing out all the skills (lol). Usually, a patch doesn't require that.
 
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