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EoFF Shako Number: 14
From Andy: 4
The Universe: 0
Be proud of ourselves.
i really wish i still had time to play =(
Anybody read the stuff about Diablo III =O Wizard class and such. Some of the skill systems they were considering chills my bones. Is this somewhere already and I'm missing it like a boob?
Oh, there's this junk too.
Mmmm, when this comes out I shouldn't be too old for games or married. I hope.
The cutoff age for games is the month of February your 28th year. You still have lots of time, Cim!
You don't have to quit for marriage at all. What else are you gonna do? Have sex? That's not nearly as important as the Wizard class.
Lawl, I forget how long this game takes when you are not being rushed...
Median reminds you how much work is required for Act III.
Oh, god, I know... I couldn't stand going through it time and time again, so I ended up using Hamachi to glide through it.Quote:
Originally Posted by Tavrobel
I hate Act II worse, but at least Vanilla forced us to go through it, so it's conditioned to not suck quite as much, mentally.Quote:
Originally Posted by Nominus ExperseOh, god, I know... I couldn't stand going through it time and time again, so I ended up using Hamachi to glide through it.Quote:
Originally Posted by Tavrobel
I'm officially done for a while. I just uninstalled D2 from my laptop and am taking a break from it. I feel like a weight's been lifted from my shoulders. I do still have it installed on my desktop, which I rarely fire up, but it is there if people need equips or such and I can keep my chars from expiring, especially those with the good equips.
I was just about to ask if I was alone in the Diablo II curse. It would appear I am...
However, if anyone is to ever come back on, these are my accounts if you wish to reach me:
Ithalia
Gorgora
Yjiura
Halja
Lumina
It would appear that you are, at least, on Vanilla.
Hey, is there any way to stop the game lagging whenever I kill Diablo/Baal?
Because whenever the game gets back to a steady pace, all the items are gone. (Save the rubbish ones)
Upgrade your computer's RAM or graphics card. Or even possibly your internet connection. Or learn how to click furiously while having either your inventory open or lots of space in it for multiple items.
You might try lowering the resolution to 600 x 480 or whatever as well.
There are hacks/mods available that will omit certain graphic intensive objects and/or skills as well (no Firestorm, corpses, fire, hurricane, meteor, traps, etc...)
Or if you manage to freeze Baal right before he dies he'll explode and you can skip his puking/dying animation. :p
Or you can get a BaalBot, make a Hammerdin, and have one of the preset speeches to ask people not to Summon (especially Necromancers), use Meteor, Traps, Frozen Orb, Amazons, Torches, any fire spell, Blizzard, Necromancer Bone skills, use Sorceresses, Hurricane, Armageddon (not that anyone uses this one anyways), or Poison Nova.
FoxPaladins only, Final Destination, no items.
Barbs are useless because they are replaced for their worth by CtA and Enigma, thus removing the need for an HP buff or the possibility that you'll be getting hit. By anything.
I thought about playing this game the other day. Instead I looked outside and saw birds flying, heard them singing, saw the green grass shining in the sun light and was content to sit inside and play Disgaea 3.
Traitorous wretch.
<3
/f r *EoFF_\\:_Cim
I know how you feel Cim, I know how you feel.
At least someone understands. :c\
I'd love to play on the server you guys play on, but I have to play on the European server because of timezones. >=(
Hey guys, I made a Wiki for us.
Please vandalize as much as possible.
lol.. awesome... can we edit that? if not add me to the former list. =P
As long as you are logged in, yeah, go nuts. Add yourself if you'd like.
done and done... i shall take my leave but not before dangling this shiny enigma armor in front of ppl still playing! :p:mog::p er.. post if anyone needs something i might still have stuff on my acct
P.S. the nigma isn't going anywhere just in case i decide to put my life on hold again and play
Looking at this Wiki makes me want to play again.
Edit: Going through the old thread makes me want to play again.
Edit-2: Seeing myself say this:
Stupid Bnet
I hate it sooo much
this game sucks.
I quit again.
I'll be on later this weekend -_-'
makes me lol and want to play again.
Save me.
Play it again! Be that potion-finding barbarian, that will make you feared throughout the realms!
Apparently, it has been moved.
GAH! Stop moving our stuff.
Yeah, whoever is moving stuff is getting on my nerves, especially some of the stuff I imported. >_>
Whoever you are: smurf off and die in a fire plzkthx. Stuff that is put in the wiki is fine how it is as long as it's in the right section.
In other words: I didn't do it.
Can I blame you?
I want to write an entry about MAGIC BONER, but I don't know how to make a new page...
Make a link to that page in a page somewhere (probably the DII group), and then when you follow your new link, it'll prompt you to create the page if it doesn't exist. However, since MAGIC BONER and BOOBZORS and such related things were all part of the Brotherhood, I say you should add the content to our group page. Makes it [the Brotherhood page] have more, instead of weird links that people won't ever see.
Like our Brotherhood page?
Updated the page
Much lulz were had. Now if only someone would talk about the time I tried to turn this into my personal LJ and my abundant /f l abuse.
Ah, yes, I do recall that.
When I can be bothered, I think I'll add that.
I updated as well :cD
Do I need to start playing with you guys again ><
I need to start playing, I keep forgetting.
'Twould be fun, for as of right now, I am alone...
Editededed
With my fancy new computer, this game would run so much better now. But alas, my disc would never install it. I'd barely play it before ditching it anyway.
But I never did get to make that useless Poisonzon that used Fend. Oh God, the comments from the other 7 Sorceresses bound to be in the game would have fulfilled me.
It bothers me.
I'll edit it out since Cim never learned to share as a child :aimmad:
YOU DON'T SHARE WHAT YOU STEAL. And I stole that smilie from a friend of mine years ago. I'm not ready to lose it just yet. :c)
Client-side edits are somewhat interesting... since you can make a clay golem or any other summon and/or mercenary another graphic, such as Izual, Diablo, or a mouse.
xD that's so cool!
An announcement from your friendly Brother Laz.
The censored word is "realm." Apparently, the facade of justice has been served on the realms. The DII forums are going nuts.Quote:
The recent account ban wave that hit the ***** specifically targetted D2Loader users. As a result, using D2Loader is again a bannable offence because Blizzard considers it an illegal application.
Remember ignorance of the Forum ToS is not an excuse.
Ja, I noticed in other sites that people were being raped by Warden once more becoming a roaming justice.
It made me heckle.
Oh, and on a semi-related note, I talked with a man on the phone today (the man in charge of my internet being as it is), and I happened to mention Diablo II, and his response was thus:
"I remember that game - it made me spend way too much time on it. Lost my wife because of it..."
Lawl, and wtf? why are you telling me this?
Does GMap use d2loader?
I don't believe that any of the worldhack programs use D2Loader. If they are, then, they're doing it wrong because C++ sucks.
xD
That dude lost his wife to this game.
Ah smurf...
I didn't think to realize that Warden would also be looking for edited versions of d2gfx.dll (to allow mutliple instances of Diablo II without some weird hack)...
Now all my keys are banned...
Oh well, Median is more fun anyway, especially since XL was recently released.
Yeah, that tends to be how things work. It'll be a matter of time before they turn off Warden again, though. I believe that they were sweeping for Baalbots in this instance of bans after D2Loader.
You would think that after all of this time, my keys would get banned, too. Fortunately for me, however, I am permanently barred from playing Diablo II online; I had to uninstall, and then reinstall just so I could backpatch to 1.10, for which I could find no other cure to get from 1.12 to 1.10. Now, I can play Dark Alliance, Median, and not have to worry about half of the programming flaws that were introduced into Diablo II with 1.11 (from a technical perspective).
What have you been doing in XL, Nom? I myself have made a 120 Javazon, who can get through most of the little uberquests (Butcher, Creature of Flame, K3KBA, Island of the Sunless Sea, Infernal Machine, and Death Projector). My next builds, I was looking for a Summoner Barbarian and Crucify Assassin, but they are still at level 33. I might have to resort to a SorcDruid again for the rest of the uberquests; it was the only way I could do most of the uberquests last time.
I just started, but I've been playing it as a Necromancer that hops around everywhere using Angel of Death. It's a very safe build, but not very fast about killing monsters - have to do it one at a time basically. Going through on /players8, I've yet to die. On my way to Andarial at the moment.
Patch #?
1.10
EDIT: smurf it, I'm tired of getting an UHANDLEDEXCEPTION everytime I try to do anything.
Diablo is now wiped off my system. Good riddance.
This will last what? 3 more days? :p
Is there a way to open Median XL (yet to try it o_O)
Without a disk? I currently lack a CD Writer.
:|
BUT OMG, I WANT TO SUMMON FRICKEN' RAVENS.
Or three hours...Quote:
Originally Posted by Cim
:sophia:
You probably extracted a couple of files from the PlugY incorrectly. Also, Atma and Median don't get along well together. Remember not to accidentally load M'08 characters or any XL characters from before the .21 patch; those too were wiped. Also remember that all of the .dll files are the correct ones for the patch; you might possibly be using the 1.12 modified d2gfx.dll to run multiple instances when you should be using 1.10's modified.Quote:
Originally Posted by Nominus Experse
If you already have 1.12 and did all of the necessary things to make it run without the CD, then just save a copy of the original d2_patch file into a folder somewhere, and copy/paste the Median XL's version. Otherwise, if you need anything from the CD, such as running the game from any version pre-1.12, or you didn't copy the right files over after you upgraded to 1.12, you might be done for. Alternatively, you can register your CD Key online with Blizzard, and they'll give you the patch; then again, you'll still run into the problem of needing CD files (unless Blizzard also offers the requisite files).Quote:
Originally Posted by Tsukasa
Apparently, Druids and Charm got a massive buff recently. Additionally, PlugY is dead with 1.12. Be forewarned.
I don't use PlugY or Atma
I'm guessing you're trying to load characters from before the wipe, or you're using bad .dll files (from the wrong patch). Not sure how you would be able to check the integrity of your files, other than uninstall and reinstall, unless you remember which files you replaced.
I'm guessing I'm a lost case, imoimo.
edit: and yes, I saw, Ravens, RAVENS... <3
I just had to reinstall it. Diablo likes to get smurfed sometimes, I don't understand why.Quote:
Originally Posted by Tavrobel
It would seem so.Quote:
Originally Posted by Tsukasa
Well, you could get a no-CD crack for whichever patch number you're on.Quote:
Originally Posted by Tsukasa
That's not the weirdest thing to happen. My ijl used to randomly delete itself.Quote:
Originally Posted by Nominus Experse
I don't think I've updated in awhile.Quote:
Originally Posted by TavrobelWell, you could get a no-CD crack for whichever patch number you're on.Quote:
Originally Posted by Tsukasa
That's not the weirdest thing to happen. My ijl used to randomly delete itself.Quote:
Originally Posted by Nominus Experse
Since the one where they bothered to do something in the update last time :S?
Synergies and stuff? Might have been later..
You know you can check which version you have just by going into the game, right? Ohh, yeah, CD.Quote:
Originally Posted by Tsukasa
Chances are you have either 1.11b, because we've played with you on Battle.net during these seasons. 1.11b was the longest one, at about 3 years, pre-dating our original attempt at this by quite some time. If you've played at all after June on Battle.net, you've got 1.12. They have yet to change from 1.12. There's no way in hell you have 1.10 unless you have been consciously thinking about mod and advantages of staying at 1.10.
Try running Diablo II anyways. If you bothered to do the things to allow you to play without the CD, you should be okay no matter what. Just run the damn thing. You can't even remember what patch you're on; am I supposed to expect you to remember which files you copied from a CD because a bright shiny thing on a screen told you to?
You can also check Bnetlog.txt or bnupdate.txt for the latest patch you received. You can even check patch.txt and look at which stuff is at the top.
Quote:
Originally Posted by bnupdate
I've completely glitched it anyway with the things I've attempted... xD
I'm like, amazing like that.
So what would you guys consider the best suited music to listen to while playing Diablo?
My vote goes for either Moonsorrow or Dimmu Borgir.
What do you think, eh?
Fight music. But then again, I'll listen to everything while playing DII. I've just heard the soundtrack so many times before. I should listen to it again just for kicks.
Playing Diablo II wile listening to Cranberry's Zombie or Cake's Shadow Stabbing made me privately lol over the irony of the quasi-puns of game and music title.
A delightful romp, I'm sure of it.
Heh, what if we made an EoFF mod for Diablo II?
If you're going for mood lighting..Quote:
Originally Posted by Nominus Experse
Silent Hill Soundtrack/Complete, there's absolutely NO happy tracks on that..
If you want "music while playing that suits it and keeps you epicified"... I could construct a playlist from your preferrrrrrred-ness :3
Did Laz get rid of Area Effect weapons for the Necromancer in XL? How disappointing...
Just thought I'd share that I found a +3 skills/15% lit/20% fire Eschuta's and went to trade it in a game asking for it. The person offered a jewelers four socket elite armor of some sort. I thought they were joking at first. xD
I just made my first enigma.
*happy dance*
I lost my key-code and can't get online anymore. >=[
I have 5, but each and every one of them is banned. I think Cim has a few that work.
I believe that they recently banned all CD-Keys that appeared to have been used from the same computer, under the argument that any multiple CD-Key instance for any single IP was being used illegitimately.
It's a stupid argument, because anyone who even looked at Warden at Blizzard would be able to tell you the differences among anything Red Vex, d2loader, and different installs.
At this point, I'm just waiting on DIII, which apparently, is slated for a release before SCII, from reports that I have heard. More people at Blizzard are working on DIII than SCII. Not a smart move, because I know for sure that even with my Blizzard-rage, I am more than happy with anything that they'll come up with for SC. DIII has to be good from the start; SC has a larger room for error thanks to the near-guaranteed expansion packs.
I was using RedVex (for Slut and Condom), but it was not this that had me banned. It was the blasted edit of gfx.dll that I foolishly and painfully forgot to update when theuselesspatch suddenly came out.
Warden found me and obliterated my chances of enjoyingmy slaveryany more.
It wasn't that sudden. But it was near useless, especially since they have done nothing to stop the backpatching. I don't even think that there were any code edits to the game engine.
Sarcasm is difficult to express/sense on the net sometimes, I know.
1.12 was just a minor update for Intel based Macs and Blizzard stating that they had no idea how to combat piracy and such.
Says the company that employs spyware.
Was there any word as to when there may be some new DIII "revelations"?
No idea. Blizzard will do as Blizzard does. Which will ultimately be leading us to a crack addiction and the story ending badly with me, covered in my own sweat and drool, crying somewhere in a corner while I watch the Ravens Fan make out with her ex-boyfriend, while he sits on my couch, drinking my beer, watching my TV, eating my food, making more money than me.
smurf this game, it had taken way too much time away from my life lol
But didn't we all agree to play it together when DIII comes out?
So I decided to start dumping the low-level sets and uniques I find in "free" games. I was in one and people kept asking to trade to give them free when I said I would drop stuff when I felt like it. Eventually I was fed up with it and hostiled them all, and continued to hand out free stuff. After a couple of minutes, once I was out of stuff, I ran outside and everyone followed me, thinking I would drop more stuff. I killed them all and collected the ears. Then I offered the ears as free stuff but no one else seemed amused.
This is why Diablo II needs a replay system like in SC and WCIII.
Agreed full heartedly.
And yes, Fonz, for all of us that can have the game be handled by our pockets and machines, the plan was to tackle DIII together.
Ohh, God, if they give us anything that is even a tenth of the power of Median crafting, I will never actually play Diablo III. My time will be spent number crunching in town.
Blood Axes, anyone?
I plan on buying DIII on release actually :3!
[B!
I've only been impressed so far *wants to make a wall of zombies*
I plan to get it 6 months after it's out. By then Cim will have lots of nice things to give me. McLeech, activate!
Is the UK release date the same as the NA one? I really, really hope so.
Woah, and myself, Nominus, Mullet, SRL, Fonzie, and others did not give things freely?Quote:
Originally Posted by Noctiluca
Okay, you might have a case for me, since I required babies in exchange.
Not a chance in Hell. We, of course, as part of the loyal Blizzard community, will do whatever we can to create a CD-Key generator within 72 hours and a hack of the .mpq files.Quote:
Originally Posted by DD
The first 36 hours are devoted to driving around town to pick up our multiple reserve copies and ogling the box art, while we say goodbye to our theoretical girlfriends as we leave their lives forever. The next 6 are for playing without showering, eating, or human interaction (unless you jumped straight onto Battle.net v.2), because Blizzard makes piss easy games. After that 6 is another 6 of planning how we're gonna screw it up and what we can complain about. The next 24 are for hacking.
The process is sacred.
I'll leech off all of you if it makes you happy. But nobody gives me stuff like Cim does, is all. That guy gave me all kinds of uniques, sets, runes, STDs, funny one-liners, and some military information.Quote:
Originally Posted by TavrobelWoah, and myself, Nominus, Mullet, SRL, Fonzie, and others did not give things freely?Quote:
Originally Posted by Noctiluca
Okay, you might have a case for me, since I required babies in exchange.
FEAR MY WALL OF ZOMBIES *-*!~ EVER IMMOBILE AND STRUGGLING!!
So I managed to collect three keys for the first time on my own, and decided to pop open a portal to go play. :D
I wonder if my accounts have been kept alive this whole time, Mulley. Coma started playing again. And I changed Tavrobel's password to a different password for security reasons.
No, you chars had all expired, at least on your main account. I checked it when I started playing again. :spin:
In an odd way it's been fun though, as I've done everything on my own from level 1.
That's all I can do now, since I've been banned...
Median is a little more fun, in my opinion, anyway. I do miss playing with you guys, though, sometimes.
Yeah, Median is way more fun. Mostly due to the expanded crafting and Cube options (I spend a lot of time in town). Then again, endgame content keeps me coming back. I'm building a Crucify Assassin (yeah, call me conventional) with maxed Ways. I'll have a load of spare skill points, no doubt.
CtCs, reanimates, and other procs. God yes.
I was always enamored with Laz's method concerning crafts.
Rant time.
Diablo II is such a peculiar game. Even despite all of its enormous and often aggravating flaws, I find myself coming back to this game over and over and over. Often it has led to the detriment of my social life, spurning an opportunity to hang out with my friend (who is equally annoying, but at least he can do Physics), an opportunity to talk about whatever I can with the Ravens Fan, homework, EoFF frontsite information and planning, or any other number of things. I figure I might be a better person if I just uninstalled the damn thing.
But I don't. So, anyways, I was moving items to and from pages in the PlugY stash while I was playing Median. This wonderful mod, expanded and horribly oversized can overwhelm even the most veteran of Blizzard players due to the sheer number of options. Unfortunately, these options are based entirely on luck and a flawed integer generator that, as it comes with any computer randomizer, is not truly random. Yes, bitch all you want about statistics, but computer randoms are not truly random. Especially not Blizzard coded-randoms. I had a case study with Starcraft mapmaker Shmidley about this randomizer. Case in point: it sucks.
So here I was, trying to twink out my would-be Assassin at level 94 with some good crafted gear. For the longest time, I resisted upgrading to the newest patches, because I barely got by without 60+ Resistance Magical Shrines and the 3x 10% Elite Reanimates from the Hidden Shrine. I resisted the change simply because it was a major nerf; God forbid I do anything that doesn't crash my system, and even then, 1.95 comes off the heels of a difficulty nerf. Yes, the game is easier. I do not like that. But anyways, I making some boots for myself, and rolled a very lucky level 71, +1 Assassin Skills, 250% ED, and 2% Dark Queen Elite reanimate. It even had some bonus lightning resistances on it. I was moving jewels around, comparing which ones were best, after unsocketing my loaded Jitan's Kamon Unique Armor.
I go to put in the final Jewel. BZZT CRASH
"Diablo II error: the character has too many items."
Suffice it to say, I have yet to recreate anything even close to +1 Assassin Skills, anything with ED, or an Elite reanimate. Furthermore, I lost 4 legacy -12% Req jewels with fire resistances (which I needed), and my loaded Jitan's. Gone. Poof. I didn't get the boots back. I had to go dupe myself a pair of boots with higher Strength requirements just to get a pair of Sacred boots with an item level above 84. Ran out of Hidden Shrines, no less, after trying to get back to where I started. I did however, make a +1 Necro Skills, 300% ED, and a 1%Adder/1% Living Flame boots. I raged, so I re-crafted. smurf Necromancers.
So, why do I bother with this game? I have a theory: I like the conventional, things which I know and know well. After all, for the last four years, I have more strongly embraced a love of Chemistry as opposed to a love of Physics. Chemistry sucks; it's counter intuitive, almost completely conceptual, and is in large parts, 100% rote memorization. Who cares if I know that the atomic mass of Flourine is 19.00 AMU (grams if you have a mole of them), its electronegativity is 4.0, and that it's the only group 17 element that will not potentially form a Strong Acid? Physics is like boys with big toys. Hell, yes!
I have a second theory: I like twinking more than I do actually playing the game. Peculiar thing, I had no trouble with Terror Acts I, II, and III. IV had Firebloods, which, everyone has problems with. Then I get to Act V. I die to the unique Ghost Pheonix halfway up the first stretch of land. Fine. It's happened before. But then I got a 120 monster mob. I died.
WAIT I DON'T DIE I MADE A LIVING OFF OF IT LOL NINETY ONE SORCERESS WITH INFINITY
I get my body back. I died.
HOW DID I DIE TO A MOB THIS DOESN'T HAPPEN TO ME
Mobs aren't particularly dangerous.
I DIED TO LOWLY MOBS HOW INSULTING IS THAT THAT I SHOULD DIE TO ANYWHERE OTHER THAN WHERE I EXPECT TO DIE
I get my body back. I died again.
SO THIS WHOLE TIME I'M EIGHTY NINE AND CAN'T GET TO NINETY I WANT MY GODDAMN UBERSKILLS
Made it Shenk. Cast a TP. I actually have a Dark Queen reanimate or a few from my non-legacy belt. No quest. Okay, I can live with that. It happens due to whatever glitch it was, even in cLoD. Then I go to town, upgrade to my new and shiny Sacred Crafts. Weapon (400-600 range), Shield (+4 Skills), Gloves (random mods that were just plain better than Pollice Versio, and didn't interrupt me to cast Vanquish), and a new Amulet (+2 skills, -enemy res). I died. Drop of a hat. My bar went from full to 0 in less than an instant.
wut
I finally made it to 90 after reaching Anya and dealing with Serafiends. A whole hour it took! Then I fight Pindleskin. Three seconds later...
N --> Level 92
...
Then I try to cool, off. I went to do the BRC challenge and get the final portion in the Amazon Islands, killing the Lightning and Ice Priestesses. I died. Real quick, actually. My mercenary lived longer. Okay, that's fine, I'll come back at level 120; at least I stored a copy of the Brains on my Amazon so I can dupe them (which means no more Fautzinville). I decided to bust out my 119 Blood Hatred/Earthquake Barbarian after a few months of neglect. I'm owning, running all over stuff. Then I go to do Cathedral of Vanity. BAM SPIRAL TO THE FACE, but that's okay, because I expected it. If only it didn't take 10 seconds. I went back to get my body, I'm running around for a full minute before anything stops me (and I didn't get my body back, by the way). Five deaths. In a row. And every single time, the screen read "Mar_Lindo was killed by Inarius." Wait a minute, I thought I was spiraled to the face every time? Well, apparently, I was, and I lived. Then he Blinkstriked or did some crazy voodoo thing, and killed me anyways.
Point being, why do I come back to this game? It clearly infuriates me. It is so heavily flawed, and there is no hope for the online community. I've lived it. I've lived it for ten years. Do not doubt that my exposure to this word has crafted me into this bastard coated bastard with bastard filling that I am, hoping to make other people my bitches and laughing at their misery. The engine sucks. The game is heavily unbalanced (cLoD, mostly), and the "pseudo-difficulty" as instituted by Laz in Median, though acceptable, is not true difficulty.
"But Tav, you're not allowed to complain because you can't do better."
THE BLOODY HELL I WON'T COMPLAIN
I'm not going to go into how I broke my old keyboard with the worn out letters by spilling Orangeade all over it. I'm now using the original keyboard, fresh out of its packaging that came with this five year old computer. Screw snow days. It has deprived me of precious time with Haley and irritated me an ungodly amount.
And furthermore, no one has even noticed how I compared FFVII to the Jonas Brothers. I swear, no one cares anymore. I can deal with hate mail. At least tell me that what I'm doing matters enough to get you to notice.
want to do this, will wait until i get paid or hack diablo 2 for myself
also tl;dr wtf is this like an essay thread?
I wish I had a working copy :(
Buy it with your change instead of wasting it on fatties!Quote:
Originally Posted by Bert
I don't have that much change
I'm not currently playing many videogames in my free time...
Diablo's dirt cheap now:Quote:
Originally Posted by Bert
Diablo Battle Chest - Mac/Windows
Believe it or not, Blizzard's doing a new content patch (1.13).
Fun with local hacks. This is a picture of my army and I on a lovely vacation to Tristram last fall to see the leaves change color.
Needs more overpowered Auras, Mulleybear.
A patch... see, they do love you guys [B
I've picked up three key sets so I can make three portals in the same game to get the full organ set. :D
Another thought I just had, outside of the hell forge, the highest rune drop I've ever had was a Pul, and that was only once. How many times, if any, has anyone had a highish rune drop outside of the hell forge?
I've seen that broken maw spit out Hel runes and Gul runes far too often for my liking...
A random Fallen Shaman dropped a Vex rune once. But other than that, it's always been Puls and Ists from the various enemies in Chaos Sanctuary. There was once a game where I saw a Ja drop but there was a pickit in my midst...
My highest was a Zod in the Worldstone, but it was single player.
On Battle.net, the second highest was a Sur Rune from Hell Council two seasons ago. The highest was a Cham somewhere on Arreat Plateau, three seasons ago. Various Ists, Mals, Puls, and Ums from Countess. But those don't really count.
This is a post from Coma asking for advice. He and SS are planning a Machinegun Sorceress (Fire skills, maxed FCR). There are two major breakpoints, 105 and 200. The way FCR works, is that any values in between are completely useless for the sake of argument. I need to think of ways he can reach 200 FCR. 105 is easy: Eschuta's/Hoto (40), Skin of the Vipermagi (30), Spirit Monarch (35). But at the same time, he wants to max out his +Skills.
Now we need the other 95.
Helm: Rare Circlet (20), +2 Sorc skills, rainbow Res, FWR, Life, Mana, in that order. 6 mods, that's filled out for a rare Circlet-class; Griffon's Eye Diadem (25), +1 Skills; using this, he can switch out an FCR Ring for an SoJ, but misses the potential for an awesome Circlet, and two customizable Rings
Crafted Caster Amulet (20), +2 Sorc skills, rainbow Res, Life. 4 mods, that' all he can get from a Crafted item (plus the 3 automods)
Arachnid's Mesh (20), +1 skills
Magefist (20), +1 Fire skills
FCR Rings (10 + 10), rainbow Res, Life (anything else works, in this case after the first two)
That's what I'm thinking is optimal for an FCR Sorc. Is there anything else I missed? Jewels and Charms don't give FCR.
The other request was the build for an effective Multishot Amazon. This one is made for MFing; Cows to be more specific. I was thinking that he shouldn't need Vitality for this build (he shouldn't be getting hit, so). But then again, he shouldn't need anything else, and especially not Dexterity for Block. But, be that as it may, since Dexterity does increase damage; Multishot doesn't have an ED% component.
Full killer gear set:
Faith in a +3 Bow skills Grand Matron (Tier 3) Amazon Bow (everything he needs, Reanimates; what is this, Median?)
Andariel's Visage (+2 Skills, 20 IAS); Giant Skull Bone Visage (2Os, Knockback, Crushing Blow, +loads of Str)
Chains of Honor AP (+2 Skills, + 65 all Res); I can't think of anything else, since Fortitude doesn't help Bowazons, iirc
Gore Rider Boots (seriously, now)
Nosferatu's Coil Belt; Razortail for piercing attack (it's cheaper, too)
Dracul's Grasp Gloves (Life Tap proc on striking); Lava Gout Gloves (20 IAS, Enchant Proc on striking)
Amulet of choice (Highlord's, Mara's, Crafted, whatever)
Rings of choice (Res, Life, Dex)
MF gear set:
Anything with MF? I'll fill this out later. 24 was on.
Oh yeah, my normal hell forge quest coughed up an El rune!
Hah, I just gambled a Stoutnail. I'm so amazing!
I got my friends code! I can finally start wasting my life away again. =D
You know, I'm tempted to put this on my new computer.
So, I'm ultimately satisfied with Median's XL edition, very nice indeed.
From the Median XL FAQ:
I can't believe people would think that they do. xDQuote:
Can I play Median XL with other people?
Median XL officially supports TCP/IP multiplayer and open battle.net. It does not work on closed battle.net ('realms') because a realm game runs on the server and all your computer does is display the graphics. Blizzard's servers do not have Median installed.
Yeah it happens everywhere :D!
What should I make next in Median?
I was thinking a Charm Druid but then I remembered I'm sane.
Says the person who doesn't think that you can Charm enemies in Uberlevels, too.
Wait. Oops.
Well, what have you made so far? I'm afraid I've only made a Javazon, an EQ Barbarian, and a Crucify/mixed-Ways Assassin. I really shouldn't have tried to do the attribute challenges on the first run of a class. 3000 life and only 14k damage on my Barbarian is not enough to do Cathedral of Vanity.
Ooooh never thought of that... mind you, wouldn't screwing up your charm kinda screw you over X.X?
Javazon.
Totem Minion Master
Crucify Assassin (They were buffed so hard in Median XL <333)
AoD/SS Necro
Ice/Poison Hybrid Druid.
I was thinking a Spider Sorc, ... I'm yet to see Carpet of Spiders, it sounds badass!
Or the Charm druid... hrm.
Spiders are quite fun, but I haven't really used them extensively I remember putting a Thul rune into my Javazon's weapon, and fighting in Travincal. I got that proc once, and the whole screen was cleared in an instant, due to the multitude of successive procs. I'm trying to get my Assassin to 120, but it's discouraging not being able to do the last part of the Black Road Challenge (Tran Althula's priestesses in 30 seconds). Once that happens, I'll be crafting 15 Orbs onto my weapon. Crucify with a chance to Crucify?Quote:
Originally Posted by Tsukasa
Yes. Although now, I'm tempted to want to do that Charm Druid.
xD! Oh LORD! Crucify with a chance to Crucify, screenshot that for me won't you XD?
Yeah I think I'll try the Charm Druid properly, myself.
It works just like a regular Crucify according to my tests, oddly enough. Same blue sparks, except the damage varies, depending on which of the 8 things hits which enemy. Overall, it is a DPS increase, though I'm sure there's more effective ways to do it; this one was the only way I could think of to increase my AoE capabilities without investing into the Flower skills/Energy.Quote:
Originally Posted by Tsukasa
Decided to make a Paladin. No idea what I am to do with him though.
EDIT: I made it to the Rescue Caine quest using an interesting Holy build of the Paladin, I think. I don't know if it's already been attempted or not, but I am investing heavily in Defense, Life, Mana, and the Holy Skills of Searing Orb and Ring of Light as well as Wrath; and investing as much as possible into the Neutral skills of Vessel of Judgment and its Passive Light and Shadow, and I don't know quite what else to put my points into yet. Rapture is fun, but don't see how it can be much use if the spell timer is fixed at 10 seconds.
EDIT EDIT: This build sucks.
Holy Caster Paladins need a lot of equipment, due to no real +spell damage skills; Unholy has that Terror Strike of theirs to increase damage, along with Superbeast and Dark King. Effectively, untwinked casting (and fighting) is for the Unholy, along with the attribute challenges.
I'm going to make an Elemental Druid. I enjoy cheesing the Summoning uberquests with Fire Fountain and Gamma Field.
I just recently (like 2 days ago) fell back in love with this game <3 Strongest character is a level 10 ladder and expansion sorceress. When I'm stronger, if you guys have a game going and I'm in the mood, maybe I'll join in?
Have I ever told you guys just how scared I am of the "too many items" error? I can't even look at PlugY anymore.
Good for you, Celes.
EDIT: I hate the Cathedral of Vanity, too. See, in the old Median, it only shoots once. Now, it shoots twice. TWICE IN A SIXTY DEGREE COOLDOWN ARC HOW THE HELL AM I SUPPOSED TO DODGE THAT WITH A BARBARIAN AND A PHYSICAL IMMUNITY BOSS THAT I CAN'T TELL IS IMMUNE?
EDIT II: I lied. I'm going to make a Holy Caster, not an Elemental Druid. Fortunately, I'm twinked out to world's end; my Assassin is almost 120, and I finally finished Cathedral of Vanity (the key was to use Shower of Rocks and Bear Stance, oddly enough), which means I did the AC500 challenge for the Assassin and Barbarian classes. I'm going to be abusing Fascinating Shrines a hell of a lot, since all I can do is Physical/Fire damage. My first attempt at a real caster since the Alpha.
Laz lies about the Lucky Modifier recipe: I've gone through so many El runes and random weapons just to see if it will work, and it hasn't yet. 1:5 odds my ass I've done this 12 times now.
LIES
Btw: Crucifix Assassins are so much fun
Yeah, it's a little on the low side, but, at least we can upgrade something past the maximum modifiers without a major drawback. Runes are so common, that it's worth doing it for virtually free.
Crucifiers are fun, but the last time I tried to do the Black Road Challenge, my mercenary accidentally killed one of the Priestess while I was running, so he got the swirlies, but not me. I was pissed. On the downside, its AoE capabilities, while substantial, are less than optimal for the conditions that I play on.
Nom, which skills/equipment/stats did you use for your Holy Paladin? And more importantly, what level did you get him to?
I made an Honorific Naginata that is fun...
What Paladin do you speak of? The Holy Mage made it to the Smith and that was it, whereas my Retaliator made it to Act III at players8 easily (both untwinked since I just began playing Median XL since the initial beta was made public way the smurf back during last summer).
EDIT: smurf you .cpp fog whatever error. smurf. You.
Speaking of which, apparently the intended 1.99 full patch will have Naginata Crafted weapons capable of getting +10 Assassin Skills. It's already in the Beta 2.Quote:
Originally Posted by Nominus Experse
The Holy Mage. I didn't know you made a Retaliator (oddly enough, the Paladin has more builds that are capable of doing the game untwinked; a stark contrast to Vanilla). But the Holy Caster does need to play twinked. There's no hope for it otherwise, but it just plain runs through everything. I can't wait to bring it to Fautzinville and get the right Azmodan's Heart/Worldstone Key/Scroll of Kings with the OSkills I want to make him godly. I already have a Key with Dark King on it.
After reading all of this, I might have to check out Median again. I played on version for a couple of hours a year or two ago. The biggest pain is learning all of the game mechanics, skills, equipment details, etc...
The key is to keep your internet browser open at all times, multiple tabs to the information you need, and plan ahead. I spent half my time with cLoD in town; I spend a good 90% of it in Median. It's pretty easy to pick up.
Thank the universe that I made a caster character and a caster mercenary. The way to get damage is so radically different from melee (procs, ED, that kind of stuff). It's a bit of a relief, really, and it's doing wonders to my PlugY stash. I'm not even level 40 yet.
Have I mentioned that I hate Act III? Not because it's particularly difficult, but because it's just so poorly designed.
EDIT: So I tried putting a Naginata runeword with the ATMG Sentry OSkill (Io) on my Assassin. It works great with a half-maxed Doom; I still have 40 skill points to use, but I don't have Way of the Raven, so I can't sink all of my points in, just quite yet. It's fun, and seems as though it goes naturally with a Crucify main attack skill (for AoE and CB procs), but unfortunately, none of the Mystic Orbs are "on Striking," which is what ATMG uses. Anyone got any ideas on how to rectify this?
Are there Shrine craft affixes that could add the "Striking" modifier, perhaps? Mind you, I've not made it very far yet, and so haven't been able to play with Shrines as of right now. Laz has secreted away the actual list of modifiers again, right?
Do modifiers such as +x% to Poison Skill Damage / Duration also multiply the flat added bonus awarded to me by the various Ways within the Assassin skill tree? I ask this because I've been hunting the Demonstone Blood Jewels for the added tri-elemental damage bonus, but am wondering perhaps if hunting instead for the Eye of the Storm jewel instead due to its bonus to Spell damage.
I believe that there are some "on Striking" mods, but they are Rare affixes, not Shrine affixes, so it wouldn't help anyways (but they could be generated). There is a list of what can or can't proc somewhere on Laz's Forums, but I haven't bothered to look. The only ones worth using are the ones on Runewords, Uniques, or Sets, but those don't always provide the bonuses I need, nor are they the procs I necessarily like to use. And even if there were good rare procs, a majority of them are "on killing," anyways.
Poison skills in melee get the +%spell damage, but not the missile component, which means the main strike from Crucify gets the +poison, but not the 8 extra pins. I've heard it's more effective to mod on some -%enemy spell resistance mods. In an Assassin's case, Poison and Fire. If you're farming jewels, I would upgrade as many of them as I could to rares, and then use the ones either with +%spell (relevant element) damage or -%enemy res. Until you get some one of the ones you like, invest in Runes and Gems.
Ex-Diablo 2 player here and I quit playing after the patch with the Keys and Ubers came out...it was way to easy to get to 99 then killed the fun of MFing and doing manual (ie. no bots or super |337 hammerdins) Baal/Diablo runs. Have there been any real big changes that would interest me in coming back?
If you quit after 1.11, then all you missed was the over-saturation of high runes on the Ladder market, the Uber Duriel waypoint hack, and a patch that was identical to the previous (1.12) with the exception of a legitimate no-CD crack. There's even ways to backpatch from 1.12 to 1.11b without the servers recognizing anything different.
So, no, you missed nothing.
Uber duriel way point hack?
Suffice it to say, it overloaded the market with Baal's Eyes. Forgotten Sands was a great place to level up, too.
Original mod thread at Edge of Nowhere.
I used it to level
TEEHEEHEE LOOK AT WHAT I STOLE FROM KURAST3KBA
http://img156.imageshack.us/img156/3...enshot001c.jpg
By the way, yes, it does work with Way of the Spider! So I just added a big giant boost to my limited AoE capabilities, and I'm going to go abuse my collection of Shimmering Shrines (%Poison crafting). TEEHEEHEE
EDIT: Works great with ATMG on my Naginata. I just set up seven or of the traps, cast Doom, and switch back over to my regular weapon at a choke point. The number of green sparklies, my blue sparks from Crucify, and 20% Spike Nova proc is more than enough to clear everything that dares to get in my way. Furthermore, Time Strike from Scales will proc from each Spike Nova if it rolls the chance and hits an enemy. My "pitiful" AoE before is now ungodly powerful. I clear screens without thinking about it. Ohh, and Doom is awesome.
EDIT II: Finished the BRC with my Assassin. Dear God, if I could count the number of times I accidentally killed a Priestess while three screens away because of the number of procs I have on my equipment. I'm still only 119, though; I'd really like to get on with my Edyrem summons at 120.
EDIT III: Screw that. I got to 120 after spending about 3 seconds in Act IV, and a Signet of Experience (which actually put me about 990 EXP above the cap required to level to 120. Everything has been maxed. Life is good.
Lol me and my bf play this whenever I have to go back home. I'll be the first person to admit that I'm terrible at it though :S I'm stoked for diablo 3. I'll work on failing less when that comes out I think.
It's finally mine.
EDIT: Astrogha is a bitch. But now mine.
EDITRA: I still don't understand why I've yet to come across a unique Mystic Orb.
Show us yourtitsstats and equipment!
Because the chances for one are like, 1/350. I have 4 PlugY pages of MOs, and have thus far found only two: Kara's Trinket and Larzuk's Round Shot. I'm too afraid of using them properly because they are so rare, so I dupe them when I get the chance. Apparently, they have the highest chances of dropping in A1 and A2 Hatred, probably because MOs are level 1 items.
Suffice it to say, most of them aren't that great. I only bother using MOs on Crafted items, and the Honorific items that I have on my Holy Caster's A3 Cold Merc.
I feel like playing again, but using median. :eek:
So almost all Sacred Uniques and Great Runewords. I myself am stuck with single-crafted equipment (though my Barbarian does use blessed-craft items, they are also Legacy and lag to Hell and back), buffed to rLvl 119/120 in MOs. The only SU I'm using is Scales, and I can see that you are capable of farming Fautzinville. I'll post my Assassin's stuff one day. I've retired my dedicated Javazon after that duration nerf to Fairy Ring (though I have to yet to give her my Worldstone Key with Bloodlust on it).Quote:
Originally Posted by Nominus Experse
Circlets, I believe, can get +3 All Skills. It appears to be a rare modifier, as I've seen it using both a Stone and a Shimmering Shrine in 1.95 (and it definitely does not roll as a Shrine component). As for your Carpet, that's odd; mine always spawns wherever I was standing when the monster died. I've seen instances where I've Blinked away before a Carpet began.
EDIT: Fonzie, in response to your AIM query about bodies, they work the same way in single-player as they do in multiplayer, with the exception of %loss of money in the stash on death. You only lose the money you currently have on the character, and bodies are restored based on which one dropped first (and therefore, which items you can equip; don't strength glitch). As long as you don't strength glitch, you can Save and Exit and get all of your stuff back.
I don't know what's going on on this page... what's all that crazy hacked stuff?
Anyhow, I just wanted to bump this to update you guys:
The Arreat Summit - News
LADDER RESET COMING SOON! Could be in a couple days! Along with 1.13 patch (which probably won't do anything, just kill hacks).
Get in any last playing that you want to before the ladder resets ^_^
Will anybody play the new ladder season?
I'm currently working on a Weaponless Melee Sin (Way of the X) in Median... and while this is the longer time I've had with an Assassin.
... I love her attack speed like THAT much it's crazy, it's faster than "psh psh psh" or "pshpshpsh" it's more like "pshshshshshshshshshshshshshshshshshshshshshshshshshsh" :D!
I'm currently a small few quests away from Baal.
I have a question about those items. Where, how, and can I make them? LOL, I don't like b.net much anymore, obviously those are not b.net items so how can I make something like that?
They're all part of a mod called MedianXL. It's not supported by blizzard and you can't play on b.net as it's technically a hack: Median XL - Diablo 2 Mods by Brother Laz
Sweet, i never liked b.net. So this might be interesting. Also, the last time i tried installing D2 on my Vista machine it wouldn't run. Anyone been able to get it to run on vista, gone through all the admin ad compatibility and :bou::bou::bou::bou: like that still no luck. Anyone have any suggestions?
I just installed it and played it straight up. Haven't had any Vista-related issues.
Any comments on the potentially soon-happening ladder reset?
Run with compatibility for Windows XP Service Pack 2, run as admin... if those didn't work try disable visual themes.Quote:
Originally Posted by captkrill
If not!... >_<; do a backflip, combo it into a barrel roll (also make sure you've downloaded the newest update patch from the official website).
Ive updated it to the current patch and still nothing.
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I finally got my computer running the way I want it. Aint no way I am reformatting now...at least not until I get a 2TB HDD and partition it for 250 for XP and 1.75TB for Vista/7
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I've had problems with this too, and I just gave up.
That's the first place I went to after i saw Diablo on the not compatible list of games for Vista. Did everything to the "t" and still no luck.
Woohoo!
Finally found a way to get it working by modding the DEP in Win7 and running the game.exe instead of the diablo2.exe. Also running under Windows XP SP2 and as admin.
Did I say I'm playing through Median with ma' sister :O
I can also connect to others this time, WHICH IS AWESOME... so, someone play with me :3
Yeah, I recently had to make a switch from a purely grounded line to wireless router. I can't play with anyone even with no firewall (which you shouldn't b using anyways).
I also believe that you would have to have been playing Median on the 1.10 patch, not anything afterwards to play with me anyways.
Yah I have upgraded to 1.12, they introduced a damage cap sometime around there ,-,;~ right?Quote:
Originally Posted by Tavrobel
Even with all the mixed types of damage one can get, I can totally see someone like Tav' being able to achieve 84k of a damage type rather easy.
So right now I'm making my way through with a passive Assassin I made on the side yesterday afternoon... gave her one of those uncommon Naginata... OH GAWD they own...
I am surprised this is still going xD
You guys play together at all or is this just a blog about how you're doing?
Quote:
Originally Posted by Cim
Everyone's too lazy to play with me :{...
and yeah, the thread is kinda going nowhere :p
... I've named my Naginata "Wilson"
1.11, to be precise.Quote:
Originally Posted by Tsukasa
I actually haven't broken or reached the damage cap, yet. However, all of my characters are melee built for AoE capabilities (a severe hamstringing, as it were). I'm also not someone who abuses Jewel-duping or gets perfect rerolls with +4 Skills and all of the mods that I need to make perfect equipment. I also have not made a caster character (where it is far easier to break the cap with). The closest I have, though, is my Assassin who can reach a huge maximum with some less-than-great survivability gear. Otherwise, she does a decent 54k with Crucify. 73k with Shadow Refuge (and I have a 20% Spike Nova Proc). The actual damage done is greater with Doom.
I'm not so sure about my Amazon, though. Since I used the respec tool recently, I turned her into a Spearazon, instead, and one of the charms that she is using has Bloodlust. She is using the complete Spear Set, pre-1.95.
Laz released a character pack with level 100 characters and most challenges done. You still need to have an original character to be able to do the Priestess-based level challenges, but those are easy (and you can dupe the Charms, if you can't stand doing them more than once).
It's a blog until 1.13's patch. I may consider coming back. Even Median is beginning to bore me.Quote:
Originally Posted by Cim
OH GOOD JESUS smurf I WAS BORED AND I WAS LIKE WHAT SHOULD I DO AND THEN I HAD GAMING FLASHBACKS TO DIABLO II
THIS IS BULL:bou::bou::bou::bou: I JUST INSTALLED THE GAME, CREATED MY ACCOUNT AND RIGHT AFTER I CREATE MY CHARACTER, GUESS WHAT HAPPENS?
REALM DOWN
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I wonder if they've released the new patch and are resetting the ladder.
Hmm, no news on The Arreat Summit.
Probably not. Ladder Resets are accompanied by large announcements and lots of freaking out. It could just be regular maintenance.
Vista sucks. I downloaded the patch, as I was forced to, played online for a bit and logged out. NOW I CANNOT PLAY IT BECAUSE BATTLENET CANNOT RESOLVE MY APPLICATION.
There must be some gaming God I forgot to pray to.
In case you guys haven't quite gotten the memo:
Quote:
Originally Posted by Bashiok's original 1.13 thread
Also, I've been playing Diablo II again, this time once again with Dark Alliance. A new patch was released some time back in March (which I missed, because, you know, "I didn't play DII anymore"). A few screenshots.Quote:
Originally Posted by Bashiok's update for the delay
I'm replaying with a friend. :3