Diablo 2 LOD

[Spectere]

I just started a game as a barbarian today.

I've never played as a barb before...this should be interesting.  I usually either play as a furfag or a pally.

[Bobbias]

Hmm, I dunno if it would host an open b-net server. I've never tried hamachi or anything, that's why I was mentioning that. I don't have any decent characters on b-net either.

[vladgd]

hamachi is just like the lan thing, only you can do it online. 

like lan as in, take your offline characters, and play in a lan...only over hamachi its over lan...with people from the internets connected to the hamachi thing.  i have no experiance with hosting a game over hamachi, but i can't see it being too hard.

[Bobbias]

I knew what hamachi did, but I've never touched it, so I didn't really know what was involved with hosting a game over it. Having a vent server going for it as well would kick ass.

[Spectere]

Hamachi is a ridiculously easy-to-use VPN system, so it's literally just like hosting a LAN game.

The only problem that you might have with it mainly stems from playing games that aren't aware of multi-homed systems.  Since VPN connections act like network interfaces the game either has to listen on all available ports or allow you to select which port it uses.

[Zakamiro]

Having a vent server going for it as well would kick ass.

If you want one, I can make one.

[vladgd]

wellp, whatever y'all decide, what would you want to do.  fresh characters or what? 

and, my necromancer is in act 1 hell, level 73.

ONE DEATH because of something stupid, p8 nightmare pindleskin, my group of skeletons was scattered around fighting random crap around the general area, so i town portal, and town portal back to get em bunched up...the instant i town portal back like 6 of those zombies charge me killing me instantly.

other than that, the ancients didn't kill anything, and nm baal couldn't even manage to pick off a skeleton.

now is where things start getting....tricky....hell, gogogo.

also, im not fucking doing players 8 hell with a fishymancer.  ill die of old age by the time i finish act 3.

[Bobbias]

Jesus christ, how many hours a day are you playing?

[vladgd]

well i played my necro for about two hours yesterday, about enough time to kill act 3 and 4 players 8 nm.

and today, about 2.5 hours to finish p8 act 5 nm.

the game isn't exactly "long"

i mean, if you count beating a difficulty as beating the game, it shouldn't take more than about 8 hours per difficulty.

plus you underestimate how little effort it takes a fishymancer to beat normal and nightmare difficulty.

not to mention

-no job
-no school
-friends are at work

= free time

[Shoop Da Whoop]

PICK A TIME, IT SHALL BE DONE

I have a 42 windy druid I can take, but he has absolutely no gear. He's my only true offline character.

[Bobbias]

What patch version? I'm running 1.10 :/

[vladgd]

patch 1.12, why use anything else?  its an awesome patch, no longer need to use my cd to play.

just install the patch, copy "D2XMUSIC.MPQ" from your expansion disk into your diablo 2 folder, and bam, it should work and you can play without using your expansion cd.

[Bobbias]

I use an iso and virtual CD drive anyway

Do I have to worry about anything being broken when I make the switch?

[vladgd]

not as far as i know, the only real changes from 1.10 to 1.12 are the cd thing, and the marrowalk boots glitch fixed.  well, that i know of anyway.

*edit*

so i pimped my merc out, and he loves me now.



not quite sure what to fill the other socket with, the amn is for 7% life leech, i may stick another amn in there or if i get another shael i could pop that in there. 

the armor covers damage reduction (shaftstop)

the helm covers crushing blow/deadly strike (Guillaume's Face)

so the weapon will cover leech, and RAPE

and you can faintly see in the screenshot that he does about 1k-4k damage, add in the deadly strike, bone spear proc, and crushing blow and he is no longer human, he is 100% rape.

ohh and did i mention he provides my skeletons with might aura?  making them rape too, yeah, then stack that with amp damage that i liberally apply onto every non boss enemy and i think im doing pretty well with this character.

[Shoop Da Whoop]

So who's not doing anything. I want to play diablo2 with someone tonight.