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The Chatterbox => Gaming => Topic started by: NewF on May 11, 2008, 03:32:30 PM
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Anyone got a Diablo 2 LOD CD key I can use for a little while?
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I'm not using mine, so let me know if you need like account info or anything. PM'd
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i know i gave you mine way back when, use that one.
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Yeah I didn't keep it I just typed it down, used it then closed the notepad lol. I don't keep other peoples stuff. Its a one time use thing only for me.
Anyway, been playing for 1 day so far, made my first pally. Already level 85 with a perfect crown of ages, 2xber runes in it, an enigma, a 1650+ defence etheral exile shield, a grief beserker axe, paladin torch and annihilus small charm, and a ton of high runes left over to trade. Got some other gear too but too lazy to name it all off.
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I made my first Paladin on my last D2 game as well. I named him "Pally."
God, I suck.
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(http://img299.imageshack.us/img299/2171/hammerdinsf3.jpg)
offline = MY CHARACTER WILL NEVER DIE
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What is that Dagger? The Diggler? (my favourite unique in the game, actually, lol).
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I'm assuming its the gull. The MF dagger.
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http://www.battle.net/diablo2exp/items/elite/udaggers.shtml
wizardspike
also, that image is out of date, i wear skulders ire for mf and my resistances are slightly lower because of it. also, iirc, my character is level 89 now.
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Enjoy your running Baal 99999999 times to grind out the last 10 levels.
I started playing a pretty bitchtastic mod called Median, you guys should look into it.
http://modsbylaz.planetdiablo.gamespy.com/ (http://modsbylaz.planetdiablo.gamespy.com/)
It's a swap of a single file. Well, and probably backing up your characters.
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Played it. I found i liked Hell Unleashed a lot better.
Median was cool for about 10 minutes, but after that I got bored with the completely redesigned gameplay. Hell Unleashed plays like traditional Diablo + cooler items, and MUCH harder. Median played like a poorly balanced total conversion mod (or near total anyway.)
I might try Median XL when it comes out, to see what that's like though.
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A total conversion's what I -want- though. I've played nearly every variant of D2 character extensively. I want new.
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Yeah, but I'd rather something that doesn't feel incredibly rushed and poorly balanced.
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's not that unbalanced IMO. It's just really hard.
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I dunno, just the whole vibe of it was kinda like an interesting hack that does a lot of cool things, but isn't all that fun to play.
Also, the graphics on the skill trees were ugly as shit. XL seems to have fixed that though.
I'll try it again when XL comes out, maybe I'll come to like it.
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I donno, I thought median was really awesome when you get on with the game. Lots of mods start out crappy in low-level play, but as you get up into Nightmare and Hell they get significantly cooler. Hell Unleashed was cool, that's true, but at the same time it is pretty much just like a harder version of D2.
Off topic, is there any way to harass this game into working on Vista? I love me some D2, but as far as I know, it doesn't work on Vista.
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Try:
1.) Go into c:\program files\diablo II\ or wherever you have the game installed.
2.) Right click on "game.exe" and go to properties.
3.) Click on "Compatibility" tab
4.) Place a check in the box that says "Disable Desktop Composition"
5.) Click Apply. Click Ok.
6.) Run the game! It should load and play normally once this option is checked.
http://forums.d2jsp.org/index.php?showtopic=4953952&f=188
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It runs fine on Vista (64-bit edition, even!). Sharde and I were ripping it up on the LAN the other day.
Desktop composition doesn't need to be explicitly disabled. Vista automatically disables it whenever Direct3D is initialized.
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Ohshi~
Were you guys playing Median? I'd totally play it with you. PS I'll need to pirate a copy first.
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i don't see why people need to pirate cheap games easily avalible in places like wal mart.
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Because people are poor, or don't think the game is worth shelling out the money, or have other priorities and can't pay for it at the moment, etc.
Just because you don't see why, doesn't mean they don't have their own reasons.
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Anyway, to get this back on topic: D2 is awesome.
Sadly, though, they don't allow you to put a space in your character name. I so wanted my pally's name to be "Pally Dean" but it was like oh hell no.
Also, setting /players 8 on a single player game in the first act is a very freaking good idea. You get so much good loot and tons of experience, and the game is actually challenging enough that you might have to use a potion once in a while! Yes, way.
YARRR, I BE SUPPORTIN' PIRACY YE SCURVY DAWGZ.
Yes.
Now let's stop talking about piracy and bad excuses to pirate games and talk about quite possibly the best game that came out in the year 2000, hm?
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Quite possibly?
Anyway, /players 8 kicks serious ass. I absolutely love using that little function.
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players 8 = you are a high enough level for durial by the time you kill andarial
which is all fine and dandy, players 8 4 lyfe!
unless you are in act 4 hell.....players 1 is fine there....
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(http://img233.imageshack.us/img233/1817/mchammergs1.jpg)
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ZOMG, teh BAN HAMMER!
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Nice HP 8)
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i don't see why people need to pirate
Just because you don't see why, doesn't mean they don't have their own reasons.
Now let's stop talking about piracy and bad excuses to pirate games
Because fuck apple.
I need to reinstall this game. I got the battlechest, but yeah, idk. Maybe I just didnt spend enough time to get into it, or am just too tired of grinding. :[
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unless you are in act 5 hell
Fixed because FUCK SOULS ALKJDSAJLKSAJKL.
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I JUST CREATED THE BEST DIABLO II MOD EVER.
Here's a screenshot:
(http://files.spectere.net/pictures/d2-5mod.jpg)
You see that? YOU CAN ACTUALLY TELL THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN A FIVE AND A SIX?! HOLY SHIT. All Blizzard would have needed to do was change TWO PIXELS to do this (I spent the extra five seconds to put a bit of anti-aliasing on the text onoez).
DAMN, I KICK ASS. IN FACT, I KICK SO MUCH ASS THAT I SHOULD BE ILLEGAL.
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lawl. too bad I could tell the difference anyway.
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I could tell the difference if I looked at it, but when I skimmed over text I had a hard time because of those two pixels being there. The shape of the number is completely changed because they don't preserve the proper shape.
It's really bad design...I don't know how something like that would have even gotten into the final product in the first place. Players shouldn't have to train themselves to look at basic things like numbers differently.
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I can tell because the 6 has a slanted line coming off it, and the 5 is much more straight. I don't have to think about it or anything. I didn't even notice that until you mentioned it, lol.
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Yeah, I know the differences that it has in shape. I'm not the only one who has an issue with this. In fact, most of the people I've met who play D2 have run into trouble with this.
In many cases it really doesn't matter much whether the number is a 5 or a 6, but either way, this makes it easier to tell the difference.
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Yeah. how did you do that, anyway? Just enable anti aliasing in d2?
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Nah. The font graphics are all pre-AA'd bitmaps, so I had to crack open d2data.mpq, extract the fonts (the file that the semi-ambiguous 5 is in is data/local/font/LATIN/font16.dc6), extract the 5, load it into <insert any graphics editor here>, save it, import it back into the dc6 file, import that back into the MPQ, and save the MPQ. *gasps for breath*
Truth be told, it took longer to grab the software than it did to do the work. The result? Totally worth it. :)
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i honestly never noticed ;o
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WHAT IS WITH YOU PEOPLE LOL
That's driven me crazy ever since I first started playing the game. XD
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not sure, maby its the fact that ive played the game for 'bout seven years. but i can't recall a time where the 5's and 6's gave me problems.
i think your eyeballs need work.
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i think your eyeballs need work.
agreed.
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Seeing as the tail of the five runs into the angled part of the five and the only way to tell that apart from a six is by looking at an angle, I beg to differ.
It's not like I haven't gotten used to having a five with a loop in it for no good reason, either. At this point it annoys the hell out of me that they would leave that in the game more than anything.
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wait till diablo 3, just see blizzard do it again
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I'd drive to Canadia and slap around their font designer.
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if by canadia you mean california than ok
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Ah, right...I was thinking of Bioware for some reason.
Hey, if it's in California I won't even have to go anywhere! I can just pay Z to slap them around for me (nevermind the fact that he could very well live four hours from them...he's in the same state, that's all that matters!). :)
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bump for speculation
go to
www.blizzard.com
now look at the screen they direct you too before you can access the site, the other day, the crack was closed, and had only one splash mark on it.
today
(http://img526.imageshack.us/img526/5042/runescj7.jpg)
it clearly shows the shael and hel runes....
y'all know what this means
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it clearly shows the shael and hel runes....
y'all know what this means
runescape III?
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runescape III?
*facepalm*
They hinted toward Diablo III during an interview at some point.
Also, if they come out with it and it's even half as good as Diablo II, I'll happily give the entire development team blow jobs (note: I may or may note be serious about this).
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Yeah, if there's one thing I have to say about diablo 2, it's that they got the item system completely fucking perfect. The level of randomness in the items, the sheer number of possible items at any given level, the amount of magical options you can get, etc. I've never seen a game that came close to matching D2 for items. Most games are so bad that you can pretty much always get the best weapon at level x fairly easily. In D2 there really isn't a best weapon, since things can vary so much.
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Indeed. And how many times did you wind up sitting there for five minutes trying to figure out whether a certain item would work better for you than the one you already have? If you're anything like me, a lot.
I love how things aren't just cut and dry in that game. It definitely takes a lot of care and a lot of thinking to make a game that essentially involves clicking monsters until they die not boring, and Blizzard definitely succeeded in that department.
Even the original Diablo is damn good. The only reason I don't play it is because it doesn't have a run button. :P
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Haha, I got bored with it :/ I mean, it's just not long enough, and too basic. The lack of running hurts it a lot too.
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Well now with d2, basically they're making nothing but runewords the best items in the game, besides a few uniques.
For example, a smite pally would consist of -
Enigma - armor
Exile - shield
Grief - axe
helm - Shako or crown of ages
belt - verdungos
rings - bul kathos
ammy - maras
boots - gore riders
Thats all the "best" stuff for a smite pally. But I mean, for the main items its all runewords. And for other classes most of the best stuff is runewords, like that bow for the zon and what not. I dunno, I got kinda tired of d2 when it took me 1 day to have a lvl 85+ character decked out with the best gear in the game....I made one that one time when I asked to use a cd key, then gave all the stuff away to my friend jesse cause I got bored of the game.
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How the hell did you manage that? And was it online? Because I'm playing it solo. Which means things take a lot longer than "oh, I need this really rare rune for my runeword, I'll just do a couple baal runs and trade off some items until I can get it". It's more like "fuck, this is gonna take forever, however, I may find a better item to use on my character in the mean time."
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online is a different realm than just playing offline, with some lan sprinkled in.
also, a slight disappointment, the first rune "wasn't" a shael rune, it just looked that way because of how the crystal was in the first and second screens, the third one shows it as something different, most likely from a deathknights rune sword.
i say this, because the third symbol, is the protoss symbol in starcraft 2. so its like they are representing all of their franchises, like last year when they announced sc2.
hope isn't lost though, they do this stuff all the time, and they are going to make it, its just a matter of "is it now" or "is it going to be announced in a few years"
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Haha, yeah, blizzard is pretty good at dropping hints about stuff and making rumors fly like mad.
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speculation or not, this stuff is still fun to get excited about.
http://new.sc2pod.com/news/Countdown_to_Diablo_3/
whatever they announce on the 28th or 29th, its going to be awesome.
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i figure id post these
(http://img258.imageshack.us/img258/7450/d31kv4.jpg)
(http://img258.imageshack.us/img258/4302/d32ue3.jpg)
(http://img260.imageshack.us/img260/1179/d33ez2.jpg)
(http://img254.imageshack.us/img254/2201/d34hw6.jpg)
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How the hell did you manage that? And was it online? Because I'm playing it solo. Which means things take a lot longer than "oh, I need this really rare rune for my runeword, I'll just do a couple baal runs and trade off some items until I can get it". It's more like "fuck, this is gonna take forever, however, I may find a better item to use on my character in the mean time."
Yeah online, i'm like a "master trader" I guess you could say. I'm just really good at trading with people.
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I'm usually not much into playing online. I'm not that good at meeting the right people online.
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Theres never any good people online...90% of the d2 community are nothing but fucking idiots and dickheads who think they're cool because they got good gear, to escape the reality of their pathetic lives. You'll find the odd nice person in D2.
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My point. Wow has more nice people but it's even more diluted by the sheer amount of players that actually finding someone cool, mature, and not a fucking dickwad is nearly impossible.
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im just going to keep posting these, i think there's one left after this one (if for some reason there isn't one more, there will be two more, but tomorrow is the day they announce that whatever so yea, the next one should reveal whatever it is)
(http://img397.imageshack.us/img397/2817/d35ns9.jpg)
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this is enough on topic
the original diablo is surprisingly fun, main reason i never really played it for more than 5 minutes was because you can't run...like...you can only walk.
so walking in consideration, and the game being a slower pace, 16 levels of a dungeon is sounding like a surprisingly big game rather than the "30 minute affair" i originally thought it was going to be.
i think i have a little over an hour logged on, and im at the entrance to level 3, so yea, going to take me a little while before i beat it.
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double post for this
(http://img255.imageshack.us/img255/4426/d35andahalftq1.jpg)
doesn't look like arthas, or a protoss to me
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http://www.maxfreak.com/diablo3/
It is official!
http://www.blizzard.com/diablo3/?rhtml=y
They've even got gameplay and cinematic videos available.
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like
my favorite game of all time, diablo 2, after 9 years, gets a confirmed/announced sequel, this is like pure JOY
and the new witch doctor class looks fucking awesome, hes like a necromancer/sorceress with a tribal flare, and how can you not like that?
I CAME
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Im playing D2 LOD on USwest Ladder now. I have a 75 hammerdin thats done with all 3 difficulties. I wan 2 plai wif sum1.
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Im playing D2 LOD on USwest Ladder now. I have a 75 hammerdin thats done with all 3 difficulties. I wan 2 plai wif sum1.
phail for not poasting D3 related joy!
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Watched the Diablo 3 trailer...Looks awesome...But one thing I still don't like...The drops are still random ffa and people are gonna be idiot loot whores still with the whole "Zomg it dropped on the ground GET IT!" bullshit. They should change it so it has rules for loot like WoW. The Diablo 2 community is bad enough with that shit. Honestly...if we have an 8 player game doing baal runs...and we kill baal, in less than 0.5 seconds, all the items are picked up by idiots. They just click click click click grab anything they can. They should really change that.
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im pretty sure they are changing the looting up, but there isn't really information about that.
plus, if you really want looting to be fair, play with friends, i mean, if "EPIC AXE OF DOOM" drops, and you are the only barbarian...if your friends aren't retarded, you should get the axe.
but for random pub games, i do understand, and i do hope they have something in store in terms of looting.
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With the way blizzard is, they quite likely will. It'll be a good question to ask on the forums,s ince Blizzard also has a habit of letting people ask lots of questions about the game (see SC2 forums) and releasing quite a bit of info about random things/ideas/current production status on some things.
It's actually quite surprising how much info Blizzard is willing to let out.
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well, they want to make the best damn game possible, and make all the fans happy.
so what better way to do this? get feedback from the FANS, and they seem to be doing so quite well with starcraft 2, its only logical they do the same thing with diablo 3.
i expect near weekly Q&A threads with questions answered just like the sc2 forums.
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ohh yea, theres an interview video up on gamespot, and the guy did state that they did want to have a good loot system, among other things. so i wouldn't much worry about d3's looting system.
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Awesome. D3 is making e very excited.
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ok, i am attempting to do something i haven't yet done.
play diablo 2, solo, from normal to hell, and becoming a patriarch (beating hell difficulty, aka beating the game)
started this character yesterday, im fairly twinked out the ass, currently in a3 nightmare, lets just hope i can drop hell baal when/if i get to him.
also, a few levels ago, it was pretty interesting having a whopping 11 points into skeleton mages...when i didn't even put a single point into the mages. the image shown is maxed skeletons and skeleton mastery, with one point put into everything else. fire golem for standard mobs(his aura = more dudes on him, less on me), clay golem for bosses(decreep + clay golem slow = boss can barely move), summon resist because you are stupid not to get it, revives are pretty much 11 monsters for one point. blablabla, olol at skill level 32 skeleton and skeleton mastery. when i hit level 66 and put on my marrowalks, i will have skill level 34 skeleton mastery. (ohh what i would give for a +1 summons grand charm, i only have +1 poison and bone skills grand charm. i will find one...or three someday.)
BOOYAH!
(http://img59.imageshack.us/img59/3583/fishymancerka6.png)
also, players 8 until i hit hell, haven't died/had ANY problems whatsoever yet.
and a last note, would you be surprised that i don't care if my favorite class (NECROMANCER) doesn't make it to diablo 3?
yep
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ehh to explain the stats
the strength was needed to wear marrowalks, the dex is for maintaining max block because necros get shit for health per vitality point, and i pump vitality when i don't need to invest into dex for obvious reasons. basically if i level, and my block says 75%, its ok to add to vitality, if its anything lower than 75% it goes into dex.
for the most part the skeletons absorb everything, but if the odd ranged attack/me being retarded running into the middle of enemies attack goes to me, i have a high chance of not taking damage.
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Do you play on open battle.net at all, I would be down to play wif u.
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i wouldn't mind taking an offline character on the open battle.net or hamachi.
though, id take either
A- my level 20 conc barb who just finished radament
B- my level 57 and rising necromancer, who is making progress rather quickly
it would be pretty bitchin' to get a few more people together, maby a vent server, and do this all over hamachi (i figure hamachi is awesome because it is online lan pretty much, and the people who hate blizzard and pirate their games can get on) could be a good time.
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Hell, I could set up my own b-net server. I've got everything I need.
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well i mean, if i can't use my offline characters, i won't play.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Having a vent server going for it as well would kick ass.
If you want one, I can make one.
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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.
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Jesus christ, how many hours a day are you playing?
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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
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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.
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What patch version? I'm running 1.10 :/
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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.
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I use an iso and virtual CD drive anyway :P
Do I have to worry about anything being broken when I make the switch?
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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.
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so i pimped my merc out, and he loves me now.
(http://img75.imageshack.us/img75/2946/mercweapondg2.png)
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.
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So who's not doing anything. I want to play diablo2 with someone tonight.
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On Normal b.net? If so, I might play, although I gave all my items to my friend. I was decked out, got bored of it, and gave all my stuff away. But ill still screw around for a bit on there.
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hell andarial went without a hitch, she died fast and my merc was distracted by a few fallens that kept getting revived half the time.
on the next episode of diablo II Z, grapedrank and his totally "heterosexual" male partner Leharas, adventure deep into the sewers of lut gholein to destroy the evil radament!
(http://img155.imageshack.us/img155/1908/grapedrankrx0.png)
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You are a LOT faster than I am at that game :/
Albeit this is the first time I've ever seriously played a character any further than act 3 normal.
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i literally have "beaten" this game well over 50 times(not an exaggeration, ive been playing this sucker since 2001), so i had damn well sort of know what i am doing. the thing is i have "never" "really" beaten the game solo. its easy to do on battle.net, but when you are alone, its a bit harder.
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I know the game though (where to go, and all that stuff) but I guess I just don't know all the little tricks and bits that help people go through it that much quicker. That, and barbs have to tank, which means if I get cornered someplace, fighting a large group of strong mobs on players 8, things can get problematic.
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if you are surrounded, and are going to die, leap attack the fuck out of there
its worth getting for any barbarian build, and it just costs two skillpoints (one for leap, one for leap attack)
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Actually, I have leap, thanks to an item that gave me +2 to it, but i never think to use it.
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leap sucks, leap ATTACK is where its at.
leap = you jump a small distance...and thats that
leap attack = you jump anywhere you see and if you clicked an enemy you attack him as you land.
also, hell maggot lair with a fishymancer is among one of the most unenjoyable things to do in this game.
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I still want to play on open B.net bishes
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Well I can't play on b-net, so if we're doing bnet I'm out.
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We can all connect to one persons IP, if you can do that, TCPIP games yo.
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Works for me, as long as I'm not hosting :/ I don't think I could get it hosting properly. Other that that, IP games should work for me.
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I'm hosting a game right now, Contact Shooop da whoop on AIM for the IP.
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ME HAVE NO AIM. ME HATE AIM.
Also, my GF will be leaving around 1, so I can play after that.
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Waiting for you to reply to me on AIM damn it............................!!!
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duriel, more like burial, OLOLOLOLolOLol
a note, i found an immortal king maul, and since i have no use for it (i have like 3 of them, and my ik barb has one with 2x shaels in it) i made an iron golem as seen in the screen. its like 38% crushing blow so i figure i may as well get some use out of it, when i got to act 3, it randomly died for no reason at all, like my minions like to do, no big, back to the fire golem with me.
(http://img177.imageshack.us/img177/433/durielhj7.png)
on the next episode of diablo II Z, grapedrank and his totally "heterosexual" male partner Leharas, adventure deep into the jungles of act 3 to assemble a flail of some sort to break some red ball!
and another note, if you want to make an iron golem out of something "rare" don't worry about logging off, when you log back on, the golem will be there with your merc. so, in short, it doesn't die when you log off like the other golems do.
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soon as meph moved in position where my merc could hit him, he went down quickly. pretty anticlimactic for the hell that the durance of hate level 2 was. it took forever to find the waypoint and level 3, and if i fucked up, i could die fast. the stygan dolls come at you fast and hard, and when they die, they fucking hurt. but being careful + spamming corpse explosion does the trick.
(http://img177.imageshack.us/img177/116/mephoy1.png)
on the next episode of diablo II Z, grapedrank and his totally "heterosexual" male partner Leharas, adventure deep into the bowels of hell to put diablo out of his misery once and for all!
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my friggin necromancer and my 5 skeles and 2 mages cant take out andariel. wtf sauce.
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He has some uber gear.
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my gear is like, almost as good as you can get. im missing some soj's, and summoning skillers, but other than that, im decked out in nearly the best stuff you can get.
seriously, the last time i took a fishymancer into hell act 4, i got MY ASS REAMED (i didn't die at all, but fuck, there was too many close calls to count) and my friend was in game with me with a level 80 something conc barb(he died over 20 times, but i got so fucking lucky with porting out it was a miracle i didn't die). when we fought diablo, my skeletons died, and died, and died, but i had gear that i was using at level 20....but we eventually killed him, it just wasn't easy.
(http://img87.imageshack.us/img87/6273/helldiablogo5.png)
took off my merc weapon for the chaos sanctuary...suprised how piss easy it was compared to last time
fought hell diablo....it was like he didn't even have time to bend over and kiss his ass goodbye.
on the next episode of diablo II Z, grapedrank and his totally "heterosexual" male partner Leharas, adventure high into the mountains in a search for baal, to destroy him, and save all of sanctuary!
anyway, zak, i could probably set up some gear i have to spare (it should definatley be better than what you got) so when i get around to arranging that i can just give it to you over open battle net or whatever.
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How did you get all that uber shit anyway?
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i believe i explained it earlier, but if not i will explain it again.
"how to get uber gear, from scratch, in single player Diablo 2: LoD"
-make a meteorb sorcress (http://forums.diii.net/showthread.php?t=254070)
-use said sorceress to farm nightmare mephisto, untill you have decent gear to fund a hammerdin
-make a hammerdin (http://strategy.diabloii.net/news.php?id=535)
-get your hammerdin to hell mephisto and farm farm FARM FARM FARM FARM him
-after 2000 or so runs(you will find nice stuff sooner, but for EVERYTHING its going to take a while), you should have just about every item you could want to make nearly any character you want
note, you can run the meteorb sorc untwinked, and killing nightmare mephisto should be done with the moat trick (http://forums.diii.net/showthread.php?t=143676)
you should be able to accumulate enough gear to get the hammerdin geared up nicley. he won't be UBER with just nightmare gear, but with a herald of zakarum (http://www.battle.net/diablo2exp/items/normal/upaladin.shtml) with an um rune (or pdiamond if you can't find an um rune) with a spectral shard (http://www.battle.net/diablo2exp/items/normal/udaggers.shtml) for a weapon, with other nice uniques you find, you should be able to make it to hell mephisto. but making a hammerdin takes a bit of patients, as they aren't good at the start, and the hammers take a little while to be used as your main weapon. you WILL need to drink A LOT of mana potions durring your levels, but as you hit level 40+ you should get into the groove of things, and own anything in your path.
or if you can manage, you can keep using the sorc up to hell, i just found the hammerdin to be easier, but leveling him wasn't exactly the easiest thing ive ever done.
this worked for me, your millage may vary, but as you can see i have many nice items. i hope this helps.
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here are my current stats
(http://img528.imageshack.us/img528/9796/myfishyyr5.png)
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i didn't run into any gloams in the great marsh (hell i didn't enter the great marsh so yea), or the city of the damned. but i did encounter some in the frozen river, accounting for my second death, it was a quick death, and i didn't see my attackers.
because of that, i change my belt (losing 1 to all skills, but survival > a minor skill increase) and add some + lightning resist charms
(http://img53.imageshack.us/img53/7717/gloamscantouchthiswn0.png)
i see gloams as an overpowered enemy, they can nearly instantly kill you, from two screens away
so with this setup, i should heal from taking lightning damage, SUCK IT GLOAMS JUST TRY AND HURT ME NOW
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I finally got around to playing Median 2008, per Sharde's suggestion way back when.
Wow, it's...really fun. I got my ass handed to me at the beginning. "Okay, strolling out, hmm, some guys...I think I'm going to k-HOLY FUCKING SHIT WHAT THE FUCK."
I kind of dismissed it as being ridiculous at first, but after I adapted to the more frantic pacing and different feel of it I really started to dig it.
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grapedrank and his totally "GAY" male partner Leharas TRIUMPH!
(http://img520.imageshack.us/img520/3203/hellbaalxb4.png)
(http://img520.imageshack.us/img520/8897/patriarchpn0.png)
i beat diablo 2: LoD
level 82 necromancer, my first offline patriarch
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See, I'm not running a high level sorc (I find them to be an absolute PAIN IN THE ASS to level at the start), and I'm doing all my farming with my main (who happens to be a level 51 conc barb) farming mostly normal meph, and occasionally pindle as well, but I don't have the patience to do long farming runs.
I also sometimes run through meph, diablo and baal in normal one after the other, just to spice things up.
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level 51...NORMAL mephisto....don't you mean nightmare? running normal is a waste of your time, especially when you are at a level to kill nightmare mephisto.
but i recommended meteorb because when you got the moat trick set up. you could have no gear on at all with a level 1 meteor and kill nightmare or hell mephisto, the only difference being the amount of time it takes to kill. not to mention when you get frozen orb, its smooth sailing to nm meph.
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also i was against even attempting to try a mod of diablo 2(median), but my friends are all like "omfgomfogmfogmfomgfomggfgfplayyyyyyyyyyyy" so im giving it a try. but im not going to post anything save for this edit about it, im keeping my conversation kosher straight d2xp here.
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k so i ran baal again, this time there were gloams. unfortunatley my merc lacks resistances so they picked him off, but after taking a bajillion megajules of lightning, my health bulb was still full, proving that my belt/charm setup fucks their koolaid. the minions of destruction died in about 5 seconds, due to me exploding the corpses of the venom lords, and baal took about a minute, but the son of a bitch didn't drop any uniques.
anyway, i can run hell baal now, its cool.
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Uhh, I'm still in Act 1 NM. Unlike you, my characters aren't decked out in uber gear. Plus, I am playing players 8, and when I'm doing something like 650 max damage with conc, I'm not exactly strong at the moment.
You see, unlike you, I'm not very good at this game. This is my first time playing any character above level 30ish without having hacked. I never played much b-net, I never played much solo. I've owned the game for a long time, but never really played a decent character in my life.
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Make a hammerdin, they're powerful with no gear at all. With skills alone they do like 4-5k a hammer.
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this was taken with no gear, save for some +life charms, they don't add to damage so its irrelevant
max blessed hammer, vigor, concentration, blessed aim
(http://img521.imageshack.us/img521/9130/nogearhammernq0.png)
so the correct answer is 3.5k, no gear. 6.5k with gear.
note, this would be less without concentration up, but since no hammerdin doesn't have it up, it doesn't matter.
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lol d2 nazi
so get a little gear, and make a hammerdin that does 4-5K
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thing is, you can kill nm meph easily with under 2k damage. though, both hammerdins and sorcs (blizzard/meteorb) suck to level up to 30, after that it starts getting better, and you don't need to be twinked at all to get them to kill stuff.
not to mention, BECAUSE you don't need much gear, you can load up on assloads of magic find without much detriment to your killing speed.
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See, I usually prefer not to powergame in some games. I'm just gonna enjoy this thing at my own pace, if I have to be level 65 to kill NM meph, oh well. My gear sucks ass right now, and I'm not going to seriously play another character until I beat the game with this char (and by that, I mean kill hell baal).
EDIT: Hamachi is finally working. Looks like most of my networking shit was likely from leftover crap from viruses fucking up my networking.
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The last time I played LOD was almost 6 years ago over my friends house and I think I had a level 13 Necro....fun times.
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sup guise. I just beat normal on players 8. Here's my char after I beat baal: (yes, I named it zakamiro.. I name everything else the same thing.. so fuck it)
(http://i36.tinypic.com/289ymx1.png)
EDIT:
THIS GAME IS SO FUCKING AWESOME. URYBVGFKUSGHBVSLJGHSFKLHBSFG
That is all.
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Why do you have NO points in vitality? If anything, ALL your points should be in vitality :(
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Why do you have NO points in vitality? If anything, ALL your points should be in vitality :(
well for this build, it uses max block, so the stat makeup would be.
strength- enough for gear
dexterity- enough for max block
vitality- when max block is attained for X level, dump points into here
energy- doesn't exist, ignore this, reroll if you put even one point here
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NECRO BUMP
anyone have any wearabouts how to get mouse buttons (save for m1 and m2...of course) to work on d2: lod running on windows vista 64?
i have a friend with a vista laptop having the same problems as i have. i use the scroll wheel heavily to change skills..and well now i have to use the f buttons entirely. also, clicking the mousewheel to bring up the map i do rather than tab, AND one of the thumb buttons i use early in a characters lifespan to toggle run/walk.
anywho if anyone had ran into the same problem and has a solution, i would appreciate it. it isn't a major issue, but it's one high enough on the food chain to be very annoying.
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I had that issue as well. I fixed it once, but I'm not entirely sure what I had to do. I think I might have had to set the compatibility to like, windows 95 or something stupid like that. But yeah, this is a common issue with Vista or laptops, or something like that, because I've seen a number of posts online about it.
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i don't see how it would be specific for laptops since im talking about my behemoth desktop here. but what you said actually helped, i ran it in compatibility mode for windows 98/2000 and i get the click for map, and scroll for skills. i don't have the toggle run on the side mouse button, but that's very minor, the scroll wheel for skills was the major thing, and i have it back now.
badass.
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just read that you said vista OR laptops, not vista and laptops, my bad.
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BUMP!
Does anybody have an original D2 CD key I could use for a little while?
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ANYbody at all!?!?!? I RUV YEW RONG TIME!