Diablo 2 1.09 memories - Page 2

On October 19 2011 09:34 Spessi wrote:
i tried to play Lord of Destruction a week ago.

You can't anymore without being in a solo game, or creating a game where anything below level 5 can't enter. Not if you wish to see your screen through all the fucking chat spam anyway.


All i really think at this point is, "please god let there be no global chat in diablo 3, or else the spammers will absolutely kill any multiplayer"

On October 19 2011 07:00 jacosajh wrote:
It's pretty interesting how everyone's string of experiences are so similar on D2.

I started playing in 1.08 and went through the same string of experiences, except even worse.

I got hacked by Mouse (by using his Maphack), and he actually hooked me up with everything you needed to be a "bad" D2 player: Trading hacks, Duping programs (without flooding the server, just pressing a button), etc.

Luckily, I got out of that stage quick. It got boring have every possible character in the game and entire accounts full of mules with SoJs.

So I started trying to do more challenging things, like fighting Uber Diablo and Uber Tristram in the quickest time possible.

Hunting Uber Diablo added an entirely new aspect, it was so fun. I forget the name of the website now, but (recalling from memory, I'm not sure if this is 100% accurate anymore) basically, Uber Diablo showed up after 100 SoJs were sold to NPC Merchants on a server. Blizzard had like 100 servers, so the website had a tracker (which wasn't 100% accurate) and you had to have a program that would tell you which server you were on. The website would label which servers were hot (close to 100 SoJs sold), so you had to keep re-logging in until you were on that server. Then you would either create/join a game and sell some SoJs and hope that Uber Diablo popped up. Then you would have to hunt for him in the game. He usually showed up in ACT I near the Cairne Stones.

I was always at the edge of my seat, hoping to see the words pop up on screen "Diablo walks the earth..." Or the big disappointment when you would join a game and everyone would say in all-chat, too late, he's dead. He would drop what's called the Annihilus, which was a small charm that gave +1 to all skills, and +10-20 (random) to all attributes. You could only have one per character. It was cool, but I had one on every champ. It was just more fun hunting Uber Diablo.

I'll never forget, my most fun experience in D2 ever involved Uber Diablo. I was hunting him, and got lucky. As soon as I got on the server, and created the game, I saw "Diablo walks the earth..." Then I see:

".... has joined the game"
".... has joined the game"
".... has joined the game
etc.

The name of my game was like "ACT I help", so when I saw they were all level 80+ I knew what they were all after. Every body auto-hostiled each other and the mad race to the Cairne Stones Waypoint started. I got lucky and since I was there first, I was waiting at the other end of the waypoint spamming hammers (Hammerdin) on whomever unlucky fella decided to use the waypoint to get there. I kill like 2 or 3 people who were stupid enough to do that. Some got smart and just took the long way there. So, basically began the epic battle of 8 high-level fully-geared Characters duking it out and trying to kill Uber Diablo (who wasn't easy to kill alone) at the same time. You can imagine all the dead bodies in that area, lol.

The kicker, for me anyways: I already had an Anni on my Hammerdin, so in the middle of all the fighting, I took the waypoint to some random place in ACT 2, and dropped my Anni. I managed to kill everyone AND Uber Diablo, picked up THAT Anni, and made them all think I won it. I somehow managed to NOT die in the middle of all this fighting, drop off my Ani, kill Uber Diablo and everyone else, all while trying to call my little brother to get to get online. They all left, and my little brother got on to pick up my other Anni (obviously, I told him were it was).

I have no idea why everyone joined my game instead of creating my own. But it was pretty crazy to see so many Uber Diablo hunters in one game. Pretty rare anyways.

It was so Epic, to me It'd be pretty cool to see if someone else had a similar experience.

Man great times. It makes me want to re-install and play lol.

Long post, I know. Sorry to hijack your thread