OH SNAP! Diablo 2 Ladder reset 6/25!

[quote name='crystalklear64']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.[/QUOTE]

[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]


I'm not entirely sure where the confusion is coming from, but characters have never expired due to a patch.

There have been four resets so far, in which ladder characters become non-ladder, where everyone who wants to be ranked on the ladder (or make ladder-only runewords, or do the world events like Uber Diablo and Uber Tristam) must make new characters.

The non-ladder characters can still be played on the closed Battle.net servers after a reset. There are surely some non-ladder characters played today that have probably existed ever since the game was launched. Items changed, but often items found or made in the older patches retail those stats. That's why people want older Vamp Gazes (when Damage Reduction could be 25%, but in newer patches it's capped at 20% -- on non-ladder you can still find 25% Vamp Gazes, if they were found from a long time ago).

The only time a character expires -- which is the only time you can no longer play that character -- is after 90 days of inactivity.
 
are most items still duped? I started playin a month or two before the last ladder reset so I quit. I couldn't be bothered to learn the values of the items on non ladder.

I may start playing again if a bunch of people are playing. What server do you guys play on?
 
Do the servers still lag alot? Right after the patched it so you couldn't use bone necro or meteor sorc I tried doing uber runs and it would boot you several times. Does that still happen?
 
[quote name='dragonsho']Do the servers still lag alot? Right after the patched it so you couldn't use bone necro or meteor sorc I tried doing uber runs and it would boot you several times. Does that still happen?[/QUOTE]
Not really sure what you're asking.

Heres some info probably related to whatever you're talking about:

Meteor and Bonewall can cause a game to drop if spammed. It does so to prevent server-wide lag.

With a Hellfire Torch, multi hitting skills such as multishot, strafe, and lightning fury, can also cause the game to drop, if there are other players in the game aside from yourself.

Uber-runs, aka using 2 hammerdins to kill the minions to get from 1-80 in a super short amount of time, will always drop after about 2 hours. This is most likely due to the insane amount of corpses that are left behind.

Uber-runs, as in using a smite pally to solo the uber's just to get a torch, has no such issue.

Hopefully one of those answers your question.
 
Sorry, I was saying that once they introduced the drop from game when ping got too high, everyone would get kicked from uber runs because so much stuff was going on. Also, sometimes baal runs got dropped when he sent out the minions because of so much going on. I was just wondering if this was still happening.

Would you be willing to rush my char to hell? I think I would start playin if I had someone to play and help get an initial character up.

Oh, also, can you still glitch it so you can skip ancients and go straight to baal?
 
crystal, what's your acct name? I'm gonna make a hammer pally first so I don't need top notch gear.

Any good build sites?

edit:
Can't play on west, too laggy. My acct on east is the same

egigs
 
Hammerdin needs relatively good gear. Enigma is nearly a requirement.

I think Sorceress is probably the best with crap gear. Necro is pretty good too. Either one can be completely outfitted for less than Enigma.

Well... maybe runewords are worth less now than they were, considering the market of dupes has had time to grow.
 
I havn't made a fire or lightning sorc before but did have an ice orb (I think that's what it's called) and a blizz sorc before.

What would be the best to use when just starting out with nothing (as in what would have best mf and be easiest to outfit in gear)
 
Meteor sorceress was always good to me for Meph runs. You can just roll with topazed stuff for a while and use the moat trick until you get better gear.
 
A sorceress with bad gear won't be as strong as a Necro for PvM questing, but she'll be much better for MFing. I actually like Blizzard Sorceresses best as a first MF char. Since you already had one you might want to try something else, but Blizzard is the best for low-budget hell Meph runs, which is a great way to boost your wealth until you can afford to outfit other characters. Blizzard is ideal because non-cold spells don't do much damage in Hell without +skills, due to resistances. Cold Mastery cuts resistances, while Fire/Light do not. Hell meph has 75% cold resist, but cold mastery will bring it down to -100, doubling your cold damage.

You can get gear that cuts resists for other elements, but it's usually pretty expensive, and it ties up gear slots that could be better used for raising MF.

The best way to go IMO is a cheap sorceress with a fast cast rate (to get through Durance), decent resists (so council doesn't one-hit kill you) and as much MF as possible.
 
Somehow in all my years of PC gaming, I've completely missed the Diablo series. Before buying the Battle Chest, I'd like to know how the game plays. I like fast games and have hated every MMORPG I've played (including WoW). Do you think I'd enjoy Diablo?
 
You'd probably like it. The only combat system in a rpg sort of game I've preferred is either Hellgate's (which is extremely similar) or Risk Your Life, which is full on control like an action game.

But no worries, you probably won't buy it.
 
So who all plays D2 still? I'm considering reinstalling my copy, but want to make sure that there is someone to play with still. A list of current servers/players would be appreciated if possible.
 
Jam424, I just started and should be playing for at least a couple months (unless there's a ladder reset)

I play on East Ladder

My account name is

egigs

I am currently about lvl 7 in hell (I grushed) and am about to start chaosing. I'm making a blizz sorc (all power right now) and get mf later.
 
[quote name='crystalklear64']But no worries, you probably won't buy it.[/quote]

Ha! Got D2 + expansions for $20 at the Circuit City sale. All I'm missing is D1 (is it even worth playing?)
 
If you're willing to shell out $5 shipped for it, I'd recommend it. It's a great game, though it's fair to say Diablo 2 is miles ahead of it.
 
I've basically only played D2, but trying to play diablo 1 after it is the most aggravating thing. You can't change resolution (I'm using a 22" and I'm stuck at 640x480). I really can't see anything so this is what bothers me the most. Although I may download an editor and just breeze through the game to learn the story.
 
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