EoFF Diablo II again, anyone?

[Tavrobel]

I'm mostly perming mules so far. I should be on with my Starcraft account, and I can tell you where to go from there. How much later?

[CimminyCricket]

Now?

[Chzn8r]

I've just discovered the joy of low level runewords for when you don't have much to be working with. My Light sorc's level 20 merc has a Malice Poleax, I'm using a Leaf (just for s and giggles - free lvl 6 Inferno, and +6 to warmth! lol) and at lvl 27 I have a Lore coming while my Merc has an Insight coming.

Now if I could find some 4os shields/swords...

[Tavrobel]

You're going to have to settle for Swords for now. Monarchs have about a 50some level requirement, and 156 Strength to carry. Those are the lowest non Paladin shields that can have four Sockets.

[Chzn8r]

Heh. I guess I'll never be making a Spirit Monarch then. That STR requirement is too high for any sorceress (and I can't count on having sorc gear that provides +50 or more to strength) and there's no point in making a Monarch Spirit for a Paladin.

Also, I took a gamble and traded a Pul I found for 40 Pgems. I got about 10 Amethysts and a bunch of others - I used the others to re-roll a late Hell grand charm a bunch of times and got jack But so far I've made 2 decent crafts with the amethysts. I actually feel gipped - I got a +2 [i]defensive[i] Auras ammy with 10 FCR, 12 Resist All, +18 Dexterity, and plus life and mana as well. I also got another insane level requirement +20 STR (with other stats) ring.

[Tavrobel]

I also got another insane level requirement +20 STR (with other stats) ring.

I actually use a Spirit Monarch on my Sorceress from the previous season. With a 15 Torch and Anni, that covers 30 Str right there. Monarchs are also frequently used to max out Facets.

Hang onto it. If it has certain mods I may be able to use it.

EDIT: It would seem I have acquired the need to expand to a second primary account. Add Tyalieva. As a result of my second accountage (only?), I have found it desirable to want to entertain a host of other builds. First up will be a Poison/Corpse Explosion Necro. Items relevant to my interests are relevant, and if it is not bad, you should not feel bad.

[Chzn8r]

Just FYI, while it's only for Mules at the moment, my play might expand out into using my new second account, IcyLucifer (same as my Last.fm username), so add it if you want.

[Chzn8r]

Can somebody tell me WTF this is?

"You connection has been temporarily restricted to this realm. Please log in at another time."

???

I was just tombing. I was simply in one game, hadn't gone in and out of any or whatever. Just playing. Only game I've even been in for the past few hours. I got a connection interrupted (fair enough, sometimes that happens when a game I'm in gets really busy or lags) but then it kicked me off B.net entirely and now I can't even log back in. Not fair! I didn't do anything wrong!

[Dragonfire]

Not fair! I didn't do anything wrong!

blame the hackers... blizzard to had to resort to such a system to stop the hacks..... of course it didnt work. It's kinda like how in most states in the US, honest law abiding people arent allowed to carry guns but the criminals who dont care about the law have them anyway. I get those realm downs alot... but im legitimately mfing... any of the good mf BOTS out there have pre-programmed game making/exiting delays and other things that prevent them from getting realm downed... while the legit players get screwed... its just how it is now.. nothing u can do

one good thing about whatever blizzard does to control hacks, dupes, etc is that it works on some lvl. does anyone remember how things were in 1.09? a totally duped economy where sojs were the currency instead of legit runes.. where u needed 40 sojs for a windforce, which no one uses anymore and used to sell on ebay for $150+.......... we just gotta deal with it... the games better off

[Nominus Experse]

Except it was easy as smurf to get to 40 SoJs once you finally got your hands on one.

[Chzn8r]

does anyone remember how things were in 1.09? a totally duped economy where sojs were the currency instead of legit runes.. where u needed 40 sojs for a windforce, which no one uses anymore and used to sell on ebay for $150+.......... we just gotta deal with it... the games better off

Those were the days. It was nice to at least be able to outfit all your casters with SOJs since they were so common.

Also, some stuff I've got right now (Buriza, Shaftstop, Vamp Gaze, String of Ears) used to be uber-high-level valuable back in the day, and now it's like... yeah some of it's good but nobody really cares. Nobody wants a Buriza, but it used to be the uber PVP weapon in the day when Bowazon was the best build by far.

[Nominus Experse]

Buriza Druids still exist, but yeah, nothing compares to the Burizon

Anyone else recall the days when Baranar's Star was the end-game item?

[Dragonfire]

uber runewords changed everything... if there was a +3 all skill helm runeword... shakos would be garbage.

[Chzn8r]

Crafted a caster ammy that has 85 lvl requirement and could probably go both ways in terms of what kinds of builds could use it (caster vs physical)

8% fcr
+22 strength
+15 resistance to all
4% mana stolen per hit

I forget the rest, it's a mix of mana, mana regen, and some other useless stat (probably attack rating).

Between this ammy and a couple rings I have, I could totally outfit a sorc w/ low base strength with a Spirit monarch

[Tavrobel]

First off: PUNISHMENT GAME

I found this show [AIR TV] to be an inane waste of my time.

Nominus, for your wasteful, trolling-so-bad-that-you-leveled-Aura-instead-of-Stats-and-now-you're-pushing-the-enemy-tower troll post, hatefully hateful, and insidious crime against humanity, you are now banned from receiving my items for two weeks, starting from the next time I see you actually online. I will not tolerate such ignorant behavoir. This is not the TDA forums. This is not Blizzard's forums.

Next topic, coming from Blizzard's forums

I just started to play D2 again and first time i logged on, i noticed something that has been bothering me for years, yes im talking about the in-game goldspam. Since it cannot or wanted be fixed by Blizzard, i can show you how normal players can beat spammers in their own game. I have also posted this in AoC forums and some players already started doing that. I hope we gonna see some results soon, we just need more people who are willing to use few minutes on this matter. So here are the steps:

1) Take a note of spammers website name, don't visit it.

2) Change the link into an IP address. In Windows you can do this with command prompt:

start button -> run -> write: cmd
In command prompt type: nslookup stupidgoldsellingwebsite.com <- The website you saw in-game. (without http:// and www. parts)
press enter to get an IP address that looks something like this:


C:\>nslookup stupidgoldsellingwebsite.com
Server: xxxxxxxxxxxxx.xxx <- ignore all these
Address: xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx <- ignore all these

Non-authoritative answer:
Name: stupidgoldsellingwebsite.com <- address you looked for
Address: xxx.xx.xx.xxx <- here is what you need to look for, an IP address


3) Copy the IP address from the command prompt and go to the American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN) - Home Page , this is also pretty nice site, it shows the map about the IP address location What Is My IP Address? - Lookup IP, Hide IP, Change IP, Trace IP and more... so if you live near, you can pay a visit (just kidding, you dont want to do that)

4) Insert that IP address into a search field and hit the search button, after you get the results, look for the e-mail address that starts with abuse@... or something similar address to report network abuse.

5) Send them a short e-mail about the spammer website and what they are doing. Tell about the problem in-game, how its against game Terms Of Use (ToU) and dont spam them, one e-mail is enough per player.

Well thats about it, this game or any other mmo game have pretty huge player database so if even every 100th player will send this e-mail, it will greatly harm goldselling websites if ISP's that hosting those websites receive a huge amount of complainings about them they will surely investigate whats going on. Trust me, they dont want to see those complains, its more work for them.

Edit: Another nice thing is when you see google ads offering gold/powerlevel services on some useful website, you can report them also by clicking Ads By Google text at the bottom of ad, scroll at the bottom of page and click Send Google your thoughts on the site or the ads you just saw. This will take you on a short webform which you can fill out in about 15seconds.

Accompanying link. Let's screw the spammers. Make them get their hands off of my waifu.