Yeah but some elemental builds are just fun to play with :)

Paladins can be great fun you build your stats right as well. Vengeance/Conviction is still great. Then spend the rest of your points evenly in the single resists to buff your vengeance. :)

I personally don't go for the mainstream characters that everyone makes. I choose the strange combos, tho I did make a vengeance/conviction pally... started getting popular as I made it oddly enough. I have a meditation pally in the works. He's fun as i don't need mana steal and can cast B Hammer forever.. but damn the more I play AS him.. the more I want to play ALONGSIDE him.. heh.

Summoning Druids are fun too.. they're tough at later difficulties, but they're still fun. :)

Also pally's can own in hell because unlike other classes they can still have kick ass Resists in Hell.

Hehe, I still have a level 80 elemental druid from .09 wearing full aldurs. He's totally orange and has that valkyrie glow for arming the full set. It's neat, but I will probably never play this fellow again, so right now he's just going to be my set mule.

So, as of last night, I finally met with the DC in the middle of doing a Meph run. Even with some help from an amazon and sorc, we couldn't hold him off because he spawned in Travincial, where those Zealots heal each other. It's bad enough that the DC regenerates health! Tried bonewalling him while the sorc used static field and hydra on him, and the zon using a buriza with nature's peace. Turns out that the "prevent monster healing" only works if you actually hit the monster, and the duration only lasts 20-30 seconds, reseting after each hit. We didn't stand a chance. After several deaths we decided we couldn't do it, so we just proceeded with our Meph run. *shakes fist*

At least I only died 3 times, I guess. My necro is now close to level 83 and we just killed Baal in Hell with hardly any trouble. Tried doing a cow run, but they seem to have a lot of health, and we just couldn't kill them fast enough!

I guess all there's left to do now is level up to 99 until the ladder season ends (whenever that is), or do a bunch of magic finding. What I wouldn't kill to get a boneshade lich wand!

Next time I'll be better prepared for that dreaded DC.

I hand an element druid with a basicly all the gear my pally now has. He was great fun till I got to hell and then all the deaths kinda of kept me from enjoying him.

And Collide you saw the DC? Except for those death's I'd say you were lucky. I've been trying to find one in a game for ages now with no luck :(

Yup, I didn't manage to get a screenshot of him out of all the excitement and scrambling, but I did get one of the text at the top where it says "Diablo walks the Earth" while I was talking to Ormus in the Kurast Docks. I know a couple people who've seen him several times a day, but I've only seen him once, so I don't know if they're being completely honest with me. :p

I've seen screenshots of him in red and green, but when we spawned him in Travincial, he was green. I still remember that much without taking any screenshots. :)

The SOJ counter was going off every couple seconds instead of every few minutes, and it became increasingly frequent before he finally appeared. The ground shook and then the text appeared at the top signifying his arrival.

He won't escape us next time. RAWR!!

update:

lol gave up the lvl 44 pally at lvl 72 .. zeal/fanat wont work with out kicking stuff.. started a whirlwind druid..

im in act 3 now at lvl 76 im soloing hell so far..

also on useast.

yeah i maxed so far.. hurricane (wont kill cold immunes in hell) with synergyes almost does 2k dmg average. tornado maxed deals out 3k dmg hehe why this skills? NO CASTING DELAY.. SPAM SPAM SPAM IT SOME MORE!!! Cyclone armor good elemental dmg reduction. twister.. mostly usless but synergies..

each of these 4 give synergies to the others. i can now tank nm diablo in under 5 min.

my pally is now using a bstar, upgraded steelclash kiteshield now a dragon shield of def 150 hehe

and yes ive found gheed charm and annihilius, found a kicking new uni ring.. carrion wind.. the psn nova chance is sweet but hopeing for a natures peace ring.. that way i get "slain monsters rest in peace" (ladder only item) that way you kill something it stays dead. but necros and such hate it cuz you cant use the corpses afterwards.



abotu annihilius.. ever since i got it ive noticed an increass in super unique bosses everywhere.. woot but a pain in hell

NOTE: in hell and some of nightmare beware fire enchanteded super unique bosses.. they have uber dmg.. my sc barb died in one hit with over 5k life

yeah seems diablo clone will, once teh message diablo walks the earth will spawn at the nearest super unique boss you find. the three i killed were in act 1 hell.. lol took me over an hour to kill but i got me charm ..

Well, honestly, I dont like the new patch. Dont say its cause my items were taken away, I'm fully legit. The new patch has afew things that I really like, but over all the patch was a waste of time. Old chars cant do well most of the time, and new chars take weeks on end to build... I liked being able to level fast because I dont have all the time in the world to spend on a game. So I guess blizzard can kiss my money goodbye, cause they're not getting any more of it.

wait, your mean your going stop buying blizzard games all together b/c of this patch? If so that's silly. Or if for some odd ball reason you were paying a monthly fee to play this game someone seriously ripped you off...

Although I do agree the new patch has nerfed some char builds to the point that they are totally useless now...

If you payed monthly, you have someone to sue. If you REALLY like 1.09... Go find the 1.09 patch and play that somewhere, I do believe there is some guy that set up his own servers to play on, he might run a 1.09, if not there's always single-player/LAN games.

If you're giving up on blizz completely? Thats a harsh move. I mean this.. IS.. an old game. I mean look at Half Life, that game is freakin' old too, and then there is the CS mod.. lots of people played it up until about STEAM and then they stopped. Though I don't recall people saying they'll never buy another game by that company again. You can stop playing the game whenever you want, but to quit because of a patch? Sorry but thats just sad. (I really hope this isn't what you meant)

Collide, that happens with every patch though. They would nerf some skills, buff others in every patch and people had to fix things. Same thing happened in 1.10. So once again things get changed a bit Ah well, I'm still having a blast and so is my best friend so thats all I really care about.

If you're on USEast, drop me a line, my LADDER account is
AnimatedArmor

I have 3 others :D (though non ladder)

actually.. it took me 5 hours to reach lvl 71 on new ladder.. by playing public games to lvl and get through acts.. and a few solo mf runs.. not hard.. its just hard when you get to act 5 and have nothing in nightmare.

you guys play more hardcore in D2 than I do ;)

DII 1.10 Ladder teammates
 

I saw a few people mentioning their account names for DII and thought I'd start a new thread just for that purpose. My wife and I have reduced ourselves to only playing in private games with one or two other personal friends in order to keep from being harrassed or crashed hacked etc.

Sounds like we have a number of people here that are interested more in playing than ruining the game for others, and we'd love to play with more people in the game. However we only play hardcore!!

If interested on USEast, I'm Ahnicus1 with a lvl30 ladder barb. I have higher level druid and sorcie that are non ladder. The wife has a lvl30 ladder druid.

Sometimes I feel like the only person who plays on USWest. :p

USwest here as well!!

You say that about everyone though...

the game is now a pain in the ass... my lvl 96 zon stil has her wf but i lost both .08 shakos, she can barely solo raven, and i guess i never got credit for killing the ancients in hell... so i cant even go into the tp for worldstone hehe.... the game is a shitload harder now, as ive said before, it takes me now like 7 hours to hit lvl 76 as opposed to almost instantaneously when the cow lvling was up. ive found a few ladder specific items and have a few new sorcs each around lvl 82-84 one with an occy! yet since points are not maxed as well as synergies she cannot handle anything much further than act 3 hell.... thats solo... if other people are in... then shes gettin hell... so i decided to make a synergistic one element sorc and shes doin quite well... yet i dont like the fact in hell most creatures (uniques have 2 of the 4 (main) resistances) i dont know what to do.

Hey I play games hardcore.. but when it comes to D2.. holy crap when you people have a few lvl 80's SINCE the 1.10 patch! Yikes!

Of course, D2 IS my casual game. ;) but YIKES! all the same :D

I was just going to start this thread. I'm hoping to find some people that play Softcore USeast. Help with transfers, questing, lvling, etc.. etc...

My account names are:
Cybermike
Cybermike1 and
Cybermikex

I play USEast Ladder HC as well, lvl 71 Fire druid at the moment, if you're looking for some help or something my acct name is *TheFallenAngel.

US East Ladder -
BuddyHawks
I Have a Hammerdin, cant remember the lvl

I play west. Account gar_1976.

"Imsoconfused" (lvl 78 sorc)
"Abbithedog" (lvl 80 barb)

If anyone wants some cheap low-level stuff, let me know, it's clogging my mule.

I just succumbed to the addiction and re-installed the game yesterday. I'm on USEast, the username's ro-ck-zi-ll-a

I've got about 4 chars right now, trying different builds. I'm mostly using a melee sorc and an axe barb right now.

I'm on USWest as Zapp47.

I never know which character I'll choose to play on any given day, but I usually end up playing alone in passworded games.

USEast!

I have numerous Non Ladder Accounts, but Currently I only play Ladder.

AnimatedArmor <--- is the name.

Softcore <-------------- is my game.

LVL 24 Meditation Pally
LVL 31 Frenzy Barb
LVL 25 Valkzon (hmm I need a good name for that class)
LVL 22 Confusor (necro)
LVL 19 Bone Warrior.

Msg me sometime! :) Also AIM Name = GakFace ... msg me on there to start up a game.

AUGH!

Bnet Servers!

Disconnecting!

3 Minute Games!

AUGH!

can you say rollback :)

Edit: It seems not so far after the famed 1.10 was released that we see total failure of the realms :(

For those of you that don't know happened I'll explain things to you as I understand them. Someone posted the method of duping items in ladder on the offical Diablo II forum at www.battle.net The servers then got overloaded and blizzard was forced to take action. Anyone notice Battle.net says the realms are down for Realms down for emergency maintenance

Yeah I found this all out in the games.. as after everyone was dropped from the game you'd hav +30,000 people in the chat rooms all of the sudden, and we were all tagged for at least 5 minutes. Someone perfected a duping method and posted everywhere s/he could think of. Now all the memory and b/w on battle.net disappears. I can't believe how many low lifes are willing to cheat like this. I personally think that how one plays a game shows how they will perform in life. If you're willing to go to extremes to just cheat at a GAME... god only knows what they might do in their career.... :(

hmmm its moving good for me right now. Just made a game stayed in it for 15 minutes, then muled some items, some runes, and lots of gems. total time spent of about 35 minutes... I think thats good. Didn't drop once! weeee!

You don't by any chance have parts to Iratha's set that you don't want, eh? Looking to complete Milabrega's too (need everything but the shield).

Always accepting bloodfists, gorefoot, frostburns, magefists, and chance guards (I will trade crafting runes/gems/etc. for a good pair).

That would rawk.

I'm going to pick this game up soon, so I'll prolly see youse there!@!

LOL i havnt played in Forever.
When i lived in Florida i played west.
Now i live in Utah and i see alot of East and if i get i might play east...

I just thought that was funny...

Where in utah you living? Right now i'm living witha couple buddies downtown SLC but might move back to my parents to do school full time. they live a little below wasatch BLVD

Right on.. im abought 5300 South and 5th west
i go to school at Stev. Hen. Collage on 53 and 6th west
Lets talk in PM age, how long you lived in utah Blah blah blah

I usually toss them, but will start saving them up for you. Leave an account name so I can throw them your way.

Haven't checked back in awhile since everyone seemed to be uswest! Names of hc useast'ers have been noted. :)

We just started laddering, and don't do the rushing and so forth, so it takes us longer to get somewhere. We're now up to lvl37.

I have a non-lader sorcie and a non-ladder Werebere druid as well. Somewhere in the upper 50's. We're usually on in the eve. central time zone.

i am getting it for X-mas (talked wife into it). but i think i am going to play west.

That'd be awesome. I'm trying to avoid spending too many hours playing online until finals are over, so I'll PM you when the next two weeks are over. (Don't worry about saving too much if they begin to really take up space.)

I waited for a long time for the 1.10 patch to come out. Once it came out, I downloaded it, and haven't played the game since.

Diablo 2
 

Anyone out there still play this? I just got back into it again after not playing for MONTHS because of the new patch, I must say it has made things much better. Anyone else have any thoughts?

i dunno about MP but SP got very very boring after 2-3 weeks
i took a necromancer and chose bad upgrades...i ended up not being to even get close to mephisto!
i gave up then.