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Fen
Profile Blog Joined June 2006
Australia1848 Posts
Last Edited: 2007-02-02 15:26:24
February 02 2007 15:26 GMT
#1
Ok so im feeling very emo right now. My hardrcore character that ive been playing for about a month with my brother just died (he was a 36 druid). He got surrounded by those big mofo guys that baal summons and I was unable to get out.

Does anyone else play hardcore? and If so whats your highest level character and share with me your crushing stories of character death (So I might feel a little better).
siro)
Profile Joined January 2006
Australia848 Posts
February 02 2007 15:34 GMT
#2
Only time I played hardcore was on LAN with one friend, fairly recently.

Friend went summoner, myself trapper.. very easy. Mostly went around on players 8.

Friend died in one hit to a boss pack gloam getting aura'd from another boss in anya's cellar? i cant remember the damn name right now. Oh, in hell that is.

Haven't really played since because it was just for fun on LAN, trapper is still alive at around level 84 halfway through hell act 5.
IceLeY
Profile Joined September 2003
Germany121 Posts
February 02 2007 18:11 GMT
#3
my necro died on 48 because of lag
i never played hardcore after that again
xM(Z
Profile Joined November 2006
Romania5296 Posts
February 02 2007 18:14 GMT
#4
if u play with your brother only and you are on the same network you should play on lan (hamachi is the next choise is you're on diferent netw.)
if you play on lan u can make back up's of your characters : copy on another location the file <name> .d2s then when your character dies you restore the last backup (you should make backups in game (alt-tab to do that) every 20-30 minutes or so
besides u can make a 36lvl char in 4-5 days at most gl agiaegaergeargaeg
And my fury stands ready. I bring all your plans to nought. My bleak heart beats steady. 'Tis you whom I have sought.
Fen
Profile Blog Joined June 2006
Australia1848 Posts
February 02 2007 18:21 GMT
#5
On February 03 2007 03:14 xM(Z wrote:
if u play with your brother only and you are on the same network you should play on lan (hamachi is the next choise is you're on diferent netw.)
if you play on lan u can make back up's of your characters : copy on another location the file <name> .d2s then when your character dies you restore the last backup (you should make backups in game (alt-tab to do that) every 20-30 minutes or so
besides u can make a 36lvl char in 4-5 days at most gl agiaegaergeargaeg


yeah we do play on lan. But we both agreed that there would be no cheating and no character backing up. It kinda defeats the purpose of playing hardcore.
xM(Z
Profile Joined November 2006
Romania5296 Posts
February 02 2007 18:45 GMT
#6
the purpose for hardcore chars is an extra edge of ...w/e , but its not the end seing that is a game in witch finding items > game pleasure > making quests; the purpose for playing d2 is grinding , lvling , finding items than brag about it
you should bet on chars deaths ; with every death you pay up
And my fury stands ready. I bring all your plans to nought. My bleak heart beats steady. 'Tis you whom I have sought.
LeJe
Profile Joined December 2006
Romania65 Posts
February 02 2007 19:11 GMT
#7
hardcore is too much for lvl 36 imho
LastWish
Profile Blog Joined September 2004
2015 Posts
February 02 2007 19:26 GMT
#8
On February 03 2007 00:26 Fen wrote:
Ok so im feeling very emo right now. My hardrcore character that ive been playing for about a month with my brother just died (he was a 36 druid). He got surrounded by those big mofo guys that baal summons and I was unable to get out.

Does anyone else play hardcore? and If so whats your highest level character and share with me your crushing stories of character death (So I might feel a little better).

I have many hardcore character, some have died - if you play nighmare/hell difficulty lag may often be the reason, or fucking stygian dolls.
Highest character survived 66 hardcore assasin, hell difficulty act 1(half quests completed)... however my disk fucked so I've lost it.

My friend had a nice hardcore death - on normal difficulty in act 4, fighting diablo.
When diablo used the bone prison to trap him and purple lightning to finnish him.
He would have probably survived if he didn't panic and break the prison in the first place.
- It's all just treason - They bring me down with their lies - Don't know the reason - My life is fire and ice -
Fen
Profile Blog Joined June 2006
Australia1848 Posts
Last Edited: 2007-02-02 19:31:41
February 02 2007 19:29 GMT
#9
We play Hardcore because we've played thru the game to hell and it just gets boring. When playing harcore theres always that risk of dieing, So when you go into battles against bosses its like a rush. Its exciting becuase you mess up and ure dead.

The bigger the risk the more fun you have. And the higher level and better items you get, the more valuable ure hardcore character is to you, therefore increasing the risk.

We play on Lan with each other only, because it elimates the chance of a lag death. Because dieing with a hardcore character is sad. But dieing because of a lag spike, well thats a lot more painful
ToT)BrAiN(
Profile Joined March 2003
Austria899 Posts
February 02 2007 20:23 GMT
#10
had a lvl 92 hammerdin with very very nice items (was always doing rushes or baal runs with ovvi, he had a nice sorc)

so i went down a5 last wp to lvl my merc (he needed 1 more level to be able to use the weapon i wanted him to use)

well long story short, while vacuuming the living room, mym mum unplugged the internet
so when i logged back in, i was dead

thats the day when i swore to never play HC again
i can do lvl 50 in one day and lvl 75 in 2 days but HC still is a waste of time imo, cause on day u will most probably die
Ghin
Profile Blog Joined January 2005
United States2391 Posts
February 02 2007 21:13 GMT
#11
90 freezing arrow zon is the highest i ever got. usually i stopped playing when i did hell baal because i would get bored, but freezing arrow zon is amazingly fun because you make the monsters cease to exist when you hit them. i havent played in a long time so im guessing its expired.
Legalize drugs and murder.
ilovezil
Profile Blog Joined August 2006
United States4143 Posts
Last Edited: 2007-02-02 22:30:32
February 02 2007 22:30 GMT
#12
On February 03 2007 05:23 ToT)BrAiN( wrote:
had a lvl 92 hammerdin with very very nice items (was always doing rushes or baal runs with ovvi, he had a nice sorc)

so i went down a5 last wp to lvl my merc (he needed 1 more level to be able to use the weapon i wanted him to use)

well long story short, while vacuuming the living room, mym mum unplugged the internet
so when i logged back in, i was dead

thats the day when i swore to never play HC again
i can do lvl 50 in one day and lvl 75 in 2 days but HC still is a waste of time imo, cause on day u will most probably die


Haha, you must've been screaming bloody murder @ your mom.
Tadzio
Profile Blog Joined October 2006
3340 Posts
February 02 2007 22:49 GMT
#13
http://www.diabloii.net/

Go to the single-player forum. They regularly start up new HC "tourneys" with special conditions (like only using white items, or only 1 skill, or no skills at all, etc) that continually breath new life into the game for me. I hate D2 on bnet, but single player is okay, and the HC tourneys are pretty entertaining. diabloiinet is pretty strict about abusing editors, bots, etc, so if you decide to join the community, stear clear of those third-party programs. Or if you must use those programs, at least avoid the trade forums.
ToT)BrAiN(
Profile Joined March 2003
Austria899 Posts
February 02 2007 23:42 GMT
#14
On February 03 2007 07:30 ilovezil wrote:
Show nested quote +
On February 03 2007 05:23 ToT)BrAiN( wrote:
had a lvl 92 hammerdin with very very nice items (was always doing rushes or baal runs with ovvi, he had a nice sorc)

so i went down a5 last wp to lvl my merc (he needed 1 more level to be able to use the weapon i wanted him to use)

well long story short, while vacuuming the living room, mym mum unplugged the internet
so when i logged back in, i was dead

thats the day when i swore to never play HC again
i can do lvl 50 in one day and lvl 75 in 2 days but HC still is a waste of time imo, cause on day u will most probably die


Haha, you must've been screaming bloody murder @ your mom.


must admit that i was kinda angry
Manit0u
Profile Blog Joined August 2004
Poland17557 Posts
February 02 2007 23:49 GMT
#15
On February 03 2007 00:26 Fen wrote:
Ok so im feeling very emo right now. My hardrcore character that ive been playing for about a month with my brother just died (he was a 36 druid). He got surrounded by those big mofo guys that baal summons and I was unable to get out.

Does anyone else play hardcore? and If so whats your highest level character and share with me your crushing stories of character death (So I might feel a little better).


My highest level hc character (in single player) was necromancer (skellies ftw!), he was level 64 and died in some very very stupid way (I think it was because I didn't pay enough attention for a moment).
The hardest things that I remember there was beating Diablo on normal, damn this dude kicked so much ass, all of my skellies and my merc died so fast... I remember that I had to kill him for like 1-2 hours. That was what I feared at nightmare too but then he proved to be a sissy. I was sure that my hc char will die on nightmare diablo as I still remembered how much trouble I had with him on normal but he died before I even noticed Managed to kill maybe 2 of my skellies.

btw. If anyone would like to make summoner necro there's 2 things you need: merc with thorns aura and 2 curses - life tap (your skellies last much longer) and decrepify (works nice vs bosses).
Time is precious. Waste it wisely.
aseq
Profile Joined January 2003
Netherlands3992 Posts
February 02 2007 23:50 GMT
#16
Diablo2 single player is where it's at. Playing online is just a cheat when you can get to level 75 within 2-3 days. I'm just playing non-hardcore now, but the next character im gonna play with will be a HC one.
Excalibur_Z
Profile Joined October 2002
United States12240 Posts
February 02 2007 23:56 GMT
#17
On February 03 2007 00:26 Fen wrote:
Ok so im feeling very emo right now. My hardrcore character that ive been playing for about a month with my brother just died (he was a 36 druid). He got surrounded by those big mofo guys that baal summons and I was unable to get out.

Does anyone else play hardcore? and If so whats your highest level character and share with me your crushing stories of character death (So I might feel a little better).


Level 36 is way way too low to try Baal on Hardcore. You should have like a +10-20 level buffer over what's normally considered "safe" before you progress. Level 36 isn't too much to get worked up over, you can hit that in like 1-2 days =)
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MrCanada!
Profile Joined June 2004
Canada124 Posts
February 03 2007 00:13 GMT
#18
i was playing on a private server with other people on tl.net. We all played HC and i dont know how many times i died (too many to count).
My highest was a lvl 65 druid but i had a couple of 40s and high 30s which are obviously harder to get then on battle.net because u dont get rushed most of time, monsters are 10x harder and u really cant beat most quest alone.
I was probably the best D2 player to ever play it with an average of 17 FPS.
Empyrean
Profile Blog Joined September 2004
17030 Posts
February 03 2007 00:31 GMT
#19
I knew a 92 Barb who died <_<

He was so pissed off.
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SIUnit
Profile Joined December 2006
China288 Posts
February 03 2007 00:34 GMT
#20
My only HC was a lvl84 summonmancer. He hasn't died yet, but I kinda quit D2. Yay for hiding behind minions :D
GeneralCash
Profile Joined December 2005
Croatia346 Posts
February 03 2007 00:40 GMT
#21
p&b necro, lvl70 or so. spear/spirit + synergy, 1 lvl in amplify for merc, 1 lvl in fire golem (+synergies) for golem blasting immunes. easiest character to play hardcore with since with prison, u cant die to the bane of every hc char., the msle superuniques. or to anything else xcept those damn vipers and ghosts in act5 last wp and throne room. ghosts are solved with t-gods and corpse explosion (in throne room, so they dont get revived). i used an ammy of teleport (enigma would be better) go get past those pesky vipers. stats as for pvp players: 10 to str to carry breastplate with runewords (mine was coh, but enigma would be ideal), rest into vitality. spent most of my game with a rare wand with +b.spear, +3 p&b, res and cast rate (surprisingly good for a rare), got hoto flail near the end. also trang'ouls gloves, socketed magic circlet i gambled with +3 p&b and something less usefull, regen i think, rest items were switched around a lot as i moved trough acts (this includes the gems in my circlet and ofc charms), for example t-gods in faggot lair or dual dwarf for most of early act5. yes, expensive items, but with a little care, it can be done with only socketed blue items due to strenght of bone prison and the fact that most monsters die to 2-3 spears when you hit lvl 30+ and ir rly starts to level.

this was almost identical build to my normal char, so i got bored with leveling him once the diminishing xp kicked in. besides, he can't do baal runs, and i remember well how boring it got to level my other necro with diablo runs.
ZZangDreamjOy
Profile Blog Joined June 2006
Canada959 Posts
February 03 2007 00:42 GMT
#22
had a level 96 Burizon (Thats right , I was a poor bastard) and well, it died in the most retarded way ever, Cow level. I entered the portal after 3-4 others entered, and it was a swarm fo cows that killed me one shot ;;
HitEmUp
EvilTeletubby
Profile Blog Joined January 2004
Baltimore, USA22258 Posts
Last Edited: 2007-02-03 00:54:19
February 03 2007 00:53 GMT
#23
An old D2 message board I frequented had a thread called the "Hardcore Graveyard", here was a story I posted:







PostPosted: Mon Dec 16, 2002 11:13 pm

*sigh* I hoped I wouldn't have to post in this thread, but alas, here I am.

UndeadTeletubby met his untimely demise today on the snowy peak of MountArreat.

Name: UndeadTeletubby
Class: Necromancer
Level: 75
Cause of Death: Incredibly old crappy computer.

Yesterday, UndeadTeletubby began Hell Difficulty with his two comrades-in-arms, Merrlynne the clumsy, "watch-me-teleport-into-a-mob-like-a-tard" Sorceress and Dr.Ruth_HC, a PMSey yet well talented Amazon warrior. They had a marathon questing session, and starting with no WPs at all, or any outside help, managed to make their way through the temperate western lands, dry arid desert, and the steamy jungles, calling it a night after Mephisto had been slain.

Today, the adventurers set their sites on the youngest of the three brothers, and made their way through the firey pits of Hell, eventually taking him down with surprising ease (although the great beast seemed to have his sights set on Merrlynne, her friends quickly finished the demon off).

Ahh, the frigid, snow covered lands of Harrogath. UndeadTeletubby had his sights set on Baal, as it would give him the title of a noble Guardian. He could feel it, he could taste it.

Onward the trio marched (or teleported), laying waste to that evil Shenk, freeing some captured Barbarians, and saving a young woman trapped in ice. Before they knew it, they were in the Ancient's Way. UndeadTeletubby could feel his growing excitement over the upcoming battle, yet felt confident they'd win over the praise of the great Ancient warriors who guarded the Worldstone of Sanctuary. After locating the waypoint, they made their way up to the Summit, ready to test fate.

With a full compliment of Revived troops, Mercenaries, Golem, and even a glowing Valkyrie, they were ready. Hydras and Decoys were set up, and minions surrounded the three. UndeadTeletubby, being the brave yet perhaps foolish person he was, opted to be the one to bring the ancients to life. Thus was his fatal mistake.

For, after hitting the altar, UndeadTeletubby's world froze around him for about 10 seconds. Apparently, that was all the time it took. Once the world continued to move again, UndeadTeletubby lay slain by the hands of Korlic. Or so they say, for his world was frozen so long that the "xxx was slain by xxx" message had time to show up and go away before his computer unfroze. The only message that could be read, "Your deeds of valor will not be forgotten".

Fortunately, UndeadTeletubby's companions were able to loot his slashed and mangled remains for the gear it possesed. Perhaps a new Necromancer will spring forth to free the world of Sanctuary from the evil that holds sway. Only time will tell.


Just a special thanks to Kimmie and Nausea, I had a great time (until the death of course), and would've never made it that far without either of you. :-)
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Mirage
Profile Joined January 2007
United States36 Posts
February 03 2007 01:50 GMT
#24
I lost my 94 sorc and 92 trapper within 3 days.....Both due to lag in baal run.....quite d2 after that....tals set ss lots of hrs all gonna...and her mf gear ((
Nyovne
Profile Joined March 2006
Netherlands19137 Posts
February 03 2007 02:29 GMT
#25
81 and 87 assasin, both killed by Overseer @ start act 5 with insane stacked auras. 3300 hpish got 1 shotted twice with fade and almost max res all -.-.
ModeratorFor remember, that in the end, some are born to live, others born to die. I belong to those last, born to burn, born to cry. For I shall remain alone... forsaken.
fusionsdf
Profile Blog Joined June 2006
Canada15390 Posts
February 03 2007 02:34 GMT
#26
On February 03 2007 09:53 EvilTeletubby wrote:
An old D2 message board I frequented had a thread called the "Hardcore Graveyard", here was a story I posted:







PostPosted: Mon Dec 16, 2002 11:13 pm

*sigh* I hoped I wouldn't have to post in this thread, but alas, here I am.

UndeadTeletubby met his untimely demise today on the snowy peak of MountArreat.

Name: UndeadTeletubby
Class: Necromancer
Level: 75
Cause of Death: Incredibly old crappy computer.

Yesterday, UndeadTeletubby began Hell Difficulty with his two comrades-in-arms, Merrlynne the clumsy, "watch-me-teleport-into-a-mob-like-a-tard" Sorceress and Dr.Ruth_HC, a PMSey yet well talented Amazon warrior. They had a marathon questing session, and starting with no WPs at all, or any outside help, managed to make their way through the temperate western lands, dry arid desert, and the steamy jungles, calling it a night after Mephisto had been slain.

Today, the adventurers set their sites on the youngest of the three brothers, and made their way through the firey pits of Hell, eventually taking him down with surprising ease (although the great beast seemed to have his sights set on Merrlynne, her friends quickly finished the demon off).

Ahh, the frigid, snow covered lands of Harrogath. UndeadTeletubby had his sights set on Baal, as it would give him the title of a noble Guardian. He could feel it, he could taste it.

Onward the trio marched (or teleported), laying waste to that evil Shenk, freeing some captured Barbarians, and saving a young woman trapped in ice. Before they knew it, they were in the Ancient's Way. UndeadTeletubby could feel his growing excitement over the upcoming battle, yet felt confident they'd win over the praise of the great Ancient warriors who guarded the Worldstone of Sanctuary. After locating the waypoint, they made their way up to the Summit, ready to test fate.

With a full compliment of Revived troops, Mercenaries, Golem, and even a glowing Valkyrie, they were ready. Hydras and Decoys were set up, and minions surrounded the three. UndeadTeletubby, being the brave yet perhaps foolish person he was, opted to be the one to bring the ancients to life. Thus was his fatal mistake.

For, after hitting the altar, UndeadTeletubby's world froze around him for about 10 seconds. Apparently, that was all the time it took. Once the world continued to move again, UndeadTeletubby lay slain by the hands of Korlic. Or so they say, for his world was frozen so long that the "xxx was slain by xxx" message had time to show up and go away before his computer unfroze. The only message that could be read, "Your deeds of valor will not be forgotten".

Fortunately, UndeadTeletubby's companions were able to loot his slashed and mangled remains for the gear it possesed. Perhaps a new Necromancer will spring forth to free the world of Sanctuary from the evil that holds sway. Only time will tell.


Just a special thanks to Kimmie and Nausea, I had a great time (until the death of course), and would've never made it that far without either of you. :-)


I remember when it used to do that. Baals throne room can do the same thing, but its easier to avoid.
SKT_Best: "I actually chose Protoss because it was so hard for me to defeat Protoss as a Terran. When I first started Brood War, my main race was Terran."
decafchicken
Profile Blog Joined January 2005
United States20090 Posts
February 03 2007 02:50 GMT
#27
All these stories are making me want to try hc
how reasonable is it to eat off wood instead of your tummy?
Yogurt
Profile Blog Joined June 2005
United States4258 Posts
February 03 2007 05:16 GMT
#28
On February 03 2007 11:50 decafchicken wrote:
All these stories are making me want to try hc


me toos
ok dont not so good something is something ok ok ok gogogo
SoleSteeler
Profile Joined April 2003
Canada5456 Posts
February 03 2007 05:26 GMT
#29
Had several characters in the 70's-80's in HC, only character I ever lost was a 50 werewolf druid the day after LOD was released... Was rank 2 on the HC ladder and I died to a computer freeze on NM diablo, sigh!

Otherwise, frost sorc 80ish, fire sorc 80ish, sword (zerk) barb 87... 85 zon... 90 summon necro

Just learn to esc click on exit...? Never die
k3fka
Profile Joined November 2004
Argentina1267 Posts
February 03 2007 06:45 GMT
#30
Hardcore requires some things in order to not die:
1) a trustworthy isp (you lag in an uncomfortable place , you die)
2) a group of friends to help each other
3) 80% of your stat points on vitality and any streght charms you can get
4) having a sorc to do meph runs hell (this requires faster cast rate at max , i use to have a level 82 sorc (stasis + frozen orb) who would do meph hell runs in 1-3 minutes at most (without maphack))

Hardcore is indeed the most challenging thing on diablo , but is also very unpredictable due to the lag/disc factor which can often kill you. The easiest char you can play hardcore is a summoning necro , since all those skeletons will tank for you everything and it requires 2 much bad luck for you to die.

my highest was a level 94 pindle runner assasin which died , and a level 99 barbarian with 8k health and 4k armor which would solo cowlevel easily.
V_DrOp)Reaver
Profile Joined June 2006
United States64 Posts
February 03 2007 07:44 GMT
#31
years ago after beating the game for the first time I made a hc character I was in act 1 and level 10 or so some sorc hostiled me and killed me with thunderstorm -.- then a while later I quit diablo but 2-3 years later (now) my sc wont work anymore so I've decided to play this game again if anyone here plays I'm lz817 on uswest
Oxygen
Profile Blog Joined November 2003
Canada3581 Posts
February 03 2007 08:02 GMT
#32
My worst D2 character death was a level 93 bownecro that I designed myself. Mass revives, corpse explosion, and a buriza with some awesome equip. The big problem was that I was entirely damage-oriented. I was a glass cannon with less than 1k life and horrible resists. I was clearing cows, gaining some levels, when I started lagging. I ended up with an interrupted connection. When I logged back on to my account, I saw a dark hoodie. I didn't even get looted. It sucked ass. This was 1.09, so you could rush chars, but this still sucked.
Dont drink and derive. TSL: Made with Balls.
snowbird
Profile Blog Joined October 2005
Germany2044 Posts
Last Edited: 2007-02-03 08:23:52
February 03 2007 08:22 GMT
#33
i didnt even play D2 for a long time, but when i played i played hard
had 94 assassin (alive)
94 assassin (died)
93 assassin (died)
89 assassin (died)
and a bunch of more dead assassins :p

don't even remember how they died, i remember that i got pked with a pretty high char once hmm

good times!

one thing i remember is when i fought that uber diablo ultra guy and he dropped that tight charm thing and ninjaed it HEH
@riotsnowbird
a-game
Profile Blog Joined December 2004
Canada5085 Posts
Last Edited: 2007-02-03 09:22:48
February 03 2007 09:22 GMT
#34
hmm i had a hardcore character, in some game a high level guy came in and asked if i wanted help, so i told him what wp i was at, and then he came and gunned me down.

EDIT: killing hc chars must be so fun lol
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pinenamu
Profile Blog Joined September 2006
United States770 Posts
February 03 2007 09:44 GMT
#35
I played Hardcore before long time ago. I was a barb and died in a PvP at like lv 40. I was so stupid to PvP a throwing barb. Dunno why I did it. Well, after that I made another barb but it died while rushing my friend. The barb got iron maidened or w/e where the spell makes it so when you damage monsters, you damage yourself. That was a sad day Then I never played D2 hardcore ever again.
fusionsdf
Profile Blog Joined June 2006
Canada15390 Posts
February 03 2007 09:57 GMT
#36
You learn really quickly to esc>quit no matter who you are lagging against. Its just not worth it to sit and hope. If I even suspect lag I will cast a tp. If it doesnt come up, or I cant go through it, esc>quit
SKT_Best: "I actually chose Protoss because it was so hard for me to defeat Protoss as a Terran. When I first started Brood War, my main race was Terran."
MyTHicaL
Profile Joined November 2005
France1070 Posts
February 03 2007 18:52 GMT
#37
xM(Z u dont understand hard core at all... hard core was made for players who got bored of sc because after u get to a certain lvl u have no need to ever make another character whereas in hc u can die at almost any time of the game (obviously ud have to have made a shitty char to die in normal at lvl 70+ unless u decide to make a ww barb go ww then have im cast on u... yeah that was my worst death... lvl 85 barb rushing a guy... iron maiden... end of story.
decafchicken
Profile Blog Joined January 2005
United States20090 Posts
February 03 2007 23:08 GMT
#38
On February 03 2007 14:26 SoleSteeler wrote:
sword (zerk) barb 87...


berzerk = 0 defence + HC = i would be scared shitless to do a zerk barb
how reasonable is it to eat off wood instead of your tummy?
SIUnit
Profile Joined December 2006
China288 Posts
February 04 2007 00:58 GMT
#39
The 0 def is only for a split second. As long as you have high HP and not play dumb (get surrounded and mobbed) you'll do fine. At least you wont get IM'd to death, but no mana steal either =\
Red_Dragon
Profile Blog Joined July 2004
Croatia2862 Posts
February 04 2007 01:16 GMT
#40
Guys it there any way we can play together over hamachi? D2 is so cool, think I have somewhere saves of my paladin character, as far as I remember I was over level 80 single player. I just have to find my installation cd`s.
Climbing walls of an endless circle
HungerForMore
Profile Joined September 2006
Afghanistan420 Posts
February 04 2007 01:36 GMT
#41
if u play hardcore, you got absolutely no life at all. Sad but true.
Savior 4 Life
fusionsdf
Profile Blog Joined June 2006
Canada15390 Posts
February 04 2007 01:44 GMT
#42
Yes. Because playing hc automatically means you will be playing 60 hours a week. I had a single player hc who I played maybe 3 hours a week tops.

If you want to troll, at least put some effort into it.
SKT_Best: "I actually chose Protoss because it was so hard for me to defeat Protoss as a Terran. When I first started Brood War, my main race was Terran."
Gokey
Profile Joined November 2006
United States2722 Posts
February 04 2007 01:46 GMT
#43
go back to fucking copenhagen HungerForMore

there's nothing worse than fellow nerd-bashing... i mean, you fucking post on a forum for a 10+ year old video game
ManaBlue
Profile Blog Joined July 2004
Canada10458 Posts
February 04 2007 02:24 GMT
#44
I was never hardcore enough for hardcore. I've heard quite the sad stories of pain and sorrow about it though.
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CharlieMurphy
Profile Blog Joined March 2006
United States22895 Posts
February 04 2007 03:27 GMT
#45
I never wanted to play HC because of the Lag/Disc problems. I remember the good old days though where if you typed @@@@@@@@ @@@@@@@ @@@@@@@@@@@ @@@@@@@@@@ @@@@@@@@@@ into the screen it would disc all the laggy koreans and make them die.
..and then I would, ya know, check em'. (Aka SpoR)
Ganfei1
Profile Joined January 2007
China667 Posts
Last Edited: 2007-02-04 03:51:28
February 04 2007 03:48 GMT
#46
I've had several level 90+ characters and a lvl 99 javazon. I was running solo MF runs in the cow level in 8 player games (FREE HERE!! games hosted by me to bring in the 8 people so I could quickly run the cows). Anyways, I leaned over to change my music (I was listening to music on a separate stereo back then) and I came back and I had died. I was fairly pissed but it wasn't a huge deal to me.

In the duped world of expansion it's not remotely difficult to stay alive for the purposes of PvM anymore. My hammerdin had something like 4k life, 74% block, 15k armor. Enigma, hoto, upped HoZ, 8 GCs with +40 life, with like lvl 50 holy shield...PvM is a joke with these duped runes. I really hate how boring it is now in D2 due to the rune dupes.

The most fun nowadays is basically playing HCCL and dueling around lvl 70. Check channel "olo" on West for basically the only community around but they've almost all moved to East nowadays I think (it's been awhile since I last played).
She prayed for me because she believed I was blind to sin, wanting me to kneel and pray too, because people to whom sin is just a matter of words, to them salvation is just words too.
Red_Dragon
Profile Blog Joined July 2004
Croatia2862 Posts
February 04 2007 03:56 GMT
#47
Ok I have found my old single player character, here are 2 screens. No super duper rune items.
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Climbing walls of an endless circle
xM(Z
Profile Joined November 2006
Romania5296 Posts
February 04 2007 04:09 GMT
#48
MyTHicaL i do understand what u r saying but it does not apply to me or , how you see hardcore has no sense to me ; d2 its not a survival game , you get nothing for dying or for being alive more ; every char death is 'painfull' for the owner be it at lvl 30 , 50 or 98 but is also pointless from the games perspective
it's all in your head and i just can't lie anymore to my self like you do
i do play(played) hardcore but everytime i died it just
-set me back 2-3 hours ,sometime more , of game play
-make me curse ,swear ..for 10-15 min
i play it for the items/gear
And my fury stands ready. I bring all your plans to nought. My bleak heart beats steady. 'Tis you whom I have sought.
NrG.Bamboo
Profile Blog Joined December 2006
United States2756 Posts
February 04 2007 04:13 GMT
#49
do me a favore....
call the cows
adress: act 1 private stash
tell them to go into the red portal
im soo sorry <3
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Pressure
Profile Blog Joined October 2006
7326 Posts
February 04 2007 04:17 GMT
#50
if u die in diablo, it's over?
wow, it's not worth playing hardcore
at least in starcraft if you lose you can always go "re?"
EvilTeletubby
Profile Blog Joined January 2004
Baltimore, USA22258 Posts
February 04 2007 04:26 GMT
#51
On February 04 2007 13:17 Pressure wrote:
if u die in diablo, it's over?
wow, it's not worth playing hardcore
at least in starcraft if you lose you can always go "re?"


Yeah, but normal mode is sooo boring, playing HC is the only way to throw a little excitement back into it. Even then, the game was still boring, but horribly addictive.
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Ganfei1
Profile Joined January 2007
China667 Posts
February 04 2007 06:19 GMT
#52
On February 04 2007 12:56 Red_Dragon wrote:
Ok I have found my old single player character, here are 2 screens. No super duper rune items.
[image loading]

[image loading]


I guess it's good for single player
She prayed for me because she believed I was blind to sin, wanting me to kneel and pray too, because people to whom sin is just a matter of words, to them salvation is just words too.
mdb
Profile Blog Joined February 2003
Bulgaria4059 Posts
Last Edited: 2007-02-05 18:34:33
February 05 2007 18:34 GMT
#53
Hey Guys , I didnt want to start a new thread so I am using this one. So my neighbour gave me his copy of Diablo2 with the expansion. I have never in my life played that game so I have few questions. Which is the most fun hero to play with? Is there a guide somewhere with which skills I have to develope?Can the game be played on singleplayer?
Any tips and advices will be highly apperciated
Thanks in advance!
Kennigit *
Profile Blog Joined October 2006
Canada19447 Posts
February 05 2007 20:15 GMT
#54
Both the assassin and druid of D2ex are fun to play depending on what you want. The expansion really makes the game imo, especially on bnet. There is a single player game, but you get the same (and better) experience by playing it online with a party.
KOFgokuon
Profile Blog Joined August 2004
United States14899 Posts
February 05 2007 20:58 GMT
#55
On February 06 2007 03:34 mdb wrote:
Hey Guys , I didnt want to start a new thread so I am using this one. So my neighbour gave me his copy of Diablo2 with the expansion. I have never in my life played that game so I have few questions. Which is the most fun hero to play with? Is there a guide somewhere with which skills I have to develope?Can the game be played on singleplayer?
Any tips and advices will be highly apperciated
Thanks in advance!


www.diabloii.net
Piste
Profile Blog Joined July 2006
6180 Posts
February 05 2007 21:00 GMT
#56
I played D2 not expansion.. Hardcore ladder I had many 80+ characters. Most of them died to lag and some expired. Duels killed a couple too I always started hardcore ladder when season started. I see nothing funny playing not hardcore and nonladder.

36 level in LoD is something you can do in few hours :D
Patriot.dlk
Profile Blog Joined October 2004
Sweden5462 Posts
February 05 2007 21:14 GMT
#57
I have a ton of stories.. But it's so funny when you play LAN and someone dies.. You go like "oh..man that sucks" but you laugh about it anyway.. And we always tried to like lure eachother into great dangers like when running away from a mob we tried to block ways etc.


I once stood in a doorway and a few lightning champions chased my weak sorc friend.. I wouldnt let him pass and he died haha.

But that stuff was even better in Dungeon Siege.. All those elevators and stuff.. Like always try to get the team8s down alone with one or back up so they would fall behind =)

Tadzio
Profile Blog Joined October 2006
3340 Posts
Last Edited: 2007-02-05 22:11:06
February 05 2007 22:06 GMT
#58
On February 06 2007 03:34 mdb wrote:
Hey Guys , I didnt want to start a new thread so I am using this one. So my neighbour gave me his copy of Diablo2 with the expansion. I have never in my life played that game so I have few questions. Which is the most fun hero to play with? Is there a guide somewhere with which skills I have to develope?Can the game be played on singleplayer?
Any tips and advices will be highly apperciated
Thanks in advance!


I personally think the game is better as a singleplayer experience, and yeah it can be played that way. There are many guides to different D2 builds, diabloii.net is a great resource for that stuff. If you're going to play singleplayer I strongly suggest downloading ATMA-- a muling program-- you can find a link to it on diabloii.net. It's technically a character editor, but the vast majority of D2 players don't consider it a cheat because all it does is speed up the muling process. As for best hero? I dunno.

One of the stronger non-twinked characters is the sorceress, which makes them good as a first character to magic find so you can twink future characters. I prefer Blizzard sorc, Meteorb, and CL/FO sorc builds, but you can be successful with a lot of stuff (maxed static field can be a fun experiment). Other strong non-twinked characters: Hammerdin; Lightning Trapsin; Fury Javazon; and Fishymancer.

Fishymancer (also known as Skelliemancer) is practically unkillable, and is easily the safest build in the game... but it's a little slow. A properly equipped and skillfully used Hammerdin is the most powerful character in the game, but prone to stupid deaths and Blessed Hammer is kinda funky to use in tight spaces. Fury Javazons destroy rooms of monsters like nobody's business, but struggles a little vs bosses. Lightning Trapsin can have mana problems and the occasional lightning immune will slow you down. Every sorc build that isn't tri-elemental (most of them) will have some problems with immunes in hell difficulty.

If you don't care about magic find for twinking purposes, just play whatever attracts you. My first character ever was a poorly constructed Fanazealot that liked to die during zeal-locks, and it was fun enough without any decent equipment or carefully planned stat/skill placement.

You can find guides to all the builds I mentioned on diabloii.net. Have fun!
mdb
Profile Blog Joined February 2003
Bulgaria4059 Posts
February 06 2007 00:48 GMT
#59
Hey Tadzio00 thanks a lot for your help ,but all these termins you use I am not familiar with ;(. I started the game 1 hour ago. I started playing with Barbarian and have few questions.
What skill trees,warcries ,combat masteries and skills I should develope. The same goes to for the other stuff : strength,dexterity etc... should I put points to? Also why when I save and quit I start again at the starting base?
I know these questions sound like "How to build barracs" for SC, but I know that in games such like Diablo its very important to develope your hero properly .
Tadzio
Profile Blog Joined October 2006
3340 Posts
Last Edited: 2007-02-06 02:09:50
February 06 2007 02:01 GMT
#60
Go to diabloii.net and use the search function (you'll have to register) or read random threads until you can glean general D2 terms. To get you started:

Blizzard sorc is a sorceress that specializes in the blizzard spell and its synergies.

Meteorb is a sorceress that uses the spells Fireball, Meteor and Frozen Orb.

CL/FO sorc is a sorceress that uses the spells Lightning, Chainlightning and Frozen Orb.

Hammerdin is a Paladin that specializes in using Blessed Hammer and its synergies along with the Concentration aura to kill foes. Blessed Hammer is classified as "magic" damage (as opposed to elemental or physical or poison damage) and as a result, only monsters that are immune to magic damage can resist it. Blessed Hammer also ignores the immunities of any undead or demon class monster. As a result, there's only 1-2 very very rare types of monsters that can resist Blessed Hammer. IMBA ;p

Lightning Trapsin is an assassin that specializes in Lightning Sentry, and Death Sentry to kill foes.

Fury Javazon is an Amazon that specializes in the Javalin skill tree and uses the Lightning Fury skill as it's main attack.

Fishymancer is a Necromancer that uses an army of skeleton minions (Raise Skeleton + Skeleton mastery) along with the 1 point wonder curse Amplify Damage and a Might aura merc to kill foes, it uses the skill Corpse Explosion to to speed up killing. Decrepify and Clay golem (both 1 point wonders) are used to battle bosses.

Fanazealot is a Paladin that uses Zeal as it's main attack and combines that with the Fanatacism aura. It's a melee character that attacks very fast. Zeal-lock has been patched, but in the old days if you had many points in Zeal you could attack 20ish times in a row, and you'd continue to attack even if there were no monsters in range, leaving you exposed to ranged attackers that could kill you while you were locked in place.

Some monsters, especially in Hell difficulty, are immune to certain attack types. There are physical immunes, and immunities to each of the element types. In Hell difficulty, it isn't uncommon to run accross foes with more than one immunity.

Twinking is a term used to describe the act of transfering items earned by one character to a new character that can use the items to its advantage.

A 1 point wonder is a skill that is very front loaded as far as it's usefulness goes. Generally, spending more points in these skills only affect the radius of the area of effect or the duration/life/or mana cost of the spell. Some examples of 1 point wonders are: static field, most of the necromancer golems, Corpse Explosion, Shadow Warrior, Shadow Master, Teleport, Double Swing, Fade, Mind Blast, and most of the necromancer curses.

The reason you start in the starting base after you save and quit is because that's how the game works. Don't fret over it, killing monsters again is a good thing (more chances to get good items).

Barbarians are a pretty item-dependant class, which is why I didn't mention any barb builds when I was talking about non-twinked characters. I think Frenzy Barbs are pretty fun so I'll share that build with you. Follow this link.

General stat placement rules for D2:
Strength: enough to wear your gear.
Dexterity: enough to wear your gear unless you use a shield, then enough to get 75% blocking (how much you'll need for this depends on your level and your shield).
Vitality: Everything else.
Energy: Base. Don't ever spend anything here.
mdb
Profile Blog Joined February 2003
Bulgaria4059 Posts
February 06 2007 03:00 GMT
#61
Thanks a lot Tadzio00 ,you are the coolest guy ever.
fusionsdf
Profile Blog Joined June 2006
Canada15390 Posts
February 06 2007 06:02 GMT
#62
damnit tadzio

Now I want to play
SKT_Best: "I actually chose Protoss because it was so hard for me to defeat Protoss as a Terran. When I first started Brood War, my main race was Terran."
rel
Profile Blog Joined January 2005
Guam3521 Posts
February 06 2007 06:12 GMT
#63
Anyone know how to play hardcore without having to play softcore again.
I'll tank push my way into her heart. ☮♥&$!
Tadzio
Profile Blog Joined October 2006
3340 Posts
February 06 2007 06:17 GMT
#64
Sacajawea, I'll rush you through normal difficulty if you want, then you can play hardcore. Over hamachi. Ask me tonight (I'm worst[sr] if you didn't know). If you want bnet hardcore you'll have to get a rush from someone else.
Yogurt
Profile Blog Joined June 2005
United States4258 Posts
February 06 2007 06:45 GMT
#65
On February 06 2007 11:01 Tadzio00 wrote:

Energy: Base. Don't ever spend anything here.


except for that one sorc who uses energy shield + enchant



god i wish i could find my disks and play again T_T
ok dont not so good something is something ok ok ok gogogo
rel
Profile Blog Joined January 2005
Guam3521 Posts
February 06 2007 07:00 GMT
#66
Worst-_-
I'll tank push my way into her heart. ☮♥&$!
Empyrean
Profile Blog Joined September 2004
17030 Posts
February 06 2007 07:18 GMT
#67
On February 06 2007 15:45 Yogurt wrote:
Show nested quote +
On February 06 2007 11:01 Tadzio00 wrote:

Energy: Base. Don't ever spend anything here.


except for that one sorc who uses energy shield + enchant



god i wish i could find my disks and play again T_T


A dual dreamer?

Also, most pvp blizz sorcs max energy shield.
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zdd
Profile Blog Joined October 2004
1463 Posts
February 06 2007 09:54 GMT
#68
anyone wanna ironman d2 hc? if we get a decent number of people it'll be fun
All you need in life is a strong will to succeed and unrelenting determination. If you meet these prerequisites, you can become anything you want with absolutely no luck, fortune or natural ability.
0x64
Profile Blog Joined September 2002
Finland4601 Posts
February 06 2007 14:59 GMT
#69
On February 03 2007 08:56 Excalibur_Z wrote:
Show nested quote +
On February 03 2007 00:26 Fen wrote:
Ok so im feeling very emo right now. My hardrcore character that ive been playing for about a month with my brother just died (he was a 36 druid). He got surrounded by those big mofo guys that baal summons and I was unable to get out.

Does anyone else play hardcore? and If so whats your highest level character and share with me your crushing stories of character death (So I might feel a little better).


Level 36 is way way too low to try Baal on Hardcore.


I think anyone who tries hardcore with baal dies.

EDIT: oh you were talking about Diablo 2
Dump of assembler code from 0xffffffec to 0x64: End of assembler dump.
oneofthem
Profile Blog Joined November 2005
Cayman Islands24199 Posts
February 06 2007 16:09 GMT
#70
On February 06 2007 15:12 Sacajawea wrote:
Anyone know how to play hardcore without having to play softcore again.
download a softcore char that has finished everything seems to be the quickest way.
We have fed the heart on fantasies, the heart's grown brutal from the fare, more substance in our enmities than in our love
evanthebouncy!
Profile Blog Joined June 2006
United States12796 Posts
May 22 2010 13:03 GMT
#71
Hi sorry to bump this after 3 years...

I started playing HC with friends and I have a trapAssassin.

NM mode atm, max resist via fade and some good o "THE WARD" shield xD

Doing pretty good but I read you guys saying you get 1 shotted in hell level and I am very veyr worried...

Is max resist not enough? Is max resist with 1.2k life not enough?! I mean I'll be careful and everything but you cannot dodge 1 shotters from across the screen...

thx!
Life is run, it is dance, it is fast, passionate and BAM!, you dance and sing and booze while you can for now is the time and time is mine. Smile and laugh when still can for now is the time and soon you die!
Deleted User 50491
Profile Blog Joined July 2009
721 Posts
June 04 2010 00:28 GMT
#72
I have a lvl 95 on Hardcore atm and a lvl 92 so contact me if you want gear I have a lot of stuff.

*bc-kuo
Helios.Star
Profile Blog Joined May 2010
United States548 Posts
June 04 2010 00:40 GMT
#73
It wasnt a death of mine personally, but its one I still feel horrible about to this day. It was right after the patch that made it so people HAD to group up in hell difficulty just to survive. There was a group of us from levels 85-92, I cant remember exactly where I was. We were in baals room on the way to the minions when we ran into a pack of those stygian dolls, the ones who explode when they die. I dropped a meteor on them, killing about 10 or so. Unfortunately another sorc was standing about 5 feet away and was instantly killed from the blast. Goddamn dolls...Those and the stupid clouds that shoot out that lightning have killed more hc characters than I care to remember.
luminaire
Profile Joined May 2010
United States56 Posts
June 04 2010 00:42 GMT
#74
On May 22 2010 22:03 evanthebouncy! wrote:
Hi sorry to bump this after 3 years...

I started playing HC with friends and I have a trapAssassin.

NM mode atm, max resist via fade and some good o "THE WARD" shield xD

Doing pretty good but I read you guys saying you get 1 shotted in hell level and I am very veyr worried...

Is max resist not enough? Is max resist with 1.2k life not enough?! I mean I'll be careful and everything but you cannot dodge 1 shotters from across the screen...

thx!


As long as you keep dumping all your points into vitality you should be fine. Whenever I started up a new diablo account I would always use a trapasin as my MF'er, and I did fine even in hell with crappy gear.

Don't worry too much about hell - fade is good but also use cloak of shadows, its really useful considering you just want to stand back and let your traps do the work. Max resist on a trapasin isnt as crucial as a lot of the other classes because you really don't expect to get hit at all as long as you're careful.
Work hard and never give up.
AeroGear
Profile Joined July 2009
Canada652 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-06-04 00:52:20
June 04 2010 00:43 GMT
#75
On February 06 2007 15:12 rel wrote:
Anyone know how to play hardcore without having to play softcore again.


Last patch removed (AFAIK) the requirement to complete normal difficulty.

You can also just copy a character from someone else into your save folder.


And to the trapsin guy, you dont need any resists in hell if you dont get hit or barely ever. Trappers will have 1200+ hit points (without BO) since they can dump all their points into vit once they have the claw requirements for runic talons or the exceptionnal version. The thing that will stop you from getting further in hell diff is poor damage, you will need a ton of skillups with synnergies (sadly you wasted points into fade) and a beefy merc.

I'd copy paste my level 91 HC trapper gear setup but she DIED, joining the ranks of R.I.P. guardians along with my 94 furyzon, 88 fishymancer T_T

Basicly you want to run with 2 double claw setups
1 for prebuff on fade/bos/you name it (+shadow skills/+fade)
and your main setup would be ideally +3traps/+3 Lightning sentry +3 fireblast but just a double +3 traps setup is already pretty good.

The forums that were linked diabloiii.net is a great source for info, there's also a german calculator (for skillpoints and synnergies) but I dont have the link handy atm.
Driven by hate, fueled by rage
AeroGear
Profile Joined July 2009
Canada652 Posts
June 04 2010 00:55 GMT
#76
On June 04 2010 09:40 Helios.Star wrote:
It wasnt a death of mine personally, but its one I still feel horrible about to this day. It was right after the patch that made it so people HAD to group up in hell difficulty just to survive. There was a group of us from levels 85-92, I cant remember exactly where I was. We were in baals room on the way to the minions when we ran into a pack of those stygian dolls, the ones who explode when they die. I dropped a meteor on them, killing about 10 or so. Unfortunately another sorc was standing about 5 feet away and was instantly killed from the blast. Goddamn dolls...Those and the stupid clouds that shoot out that lightning have killed more hc characters than I care to remember.


You're talking about gloams, and yea they are indeed scary.

Tomb vipers (In nilhatak's temple) are a major pain in the ass too, for mercs anyway.
Driven by hate, fueled by rage
Deleted User 50491
Profile Blog Joined July 2009
721 Posts
June 04 2010 00:57 GMT
#77
guys lets play pm me :D
SoManyDeadLings
Profile Blog Joined April 2010
Canada255 Posts
June 04 2010 00:59 GMT
#78
This is why you only play D2 in HC mode with Chicken plugin and Redvex (Auto quit game at a certain % of your overall health ^^).
wsrgry
Kesler
Profile Joined September 2009
Canada175 Posts
June 04 2010 01:03 GMT
#79
i haven't played in a long time... but i've had uswest hardcore ladder sorcs at level 94/95/96/97 and 97/95 zons.

my advice is to get as much resistance as possible. lower resist/conviction really really takes your resist down. i'd also suggest max block with stormshield as that gives 35% damage reduction (huge!) pump the majority of your stats to vitality, the rest should be dexterity, again for max block and a few sparingly to strength as stormshield requires 156 strength i believe.
what do you mean barq's has bite?!
Deleted User 50491
Profile Blog Joined July 2009
721 Posts
June 04 2010 01:11 GMT
#80
yea if you play on east il hook you up I have been playing on HC since launch.
clusen
Profile Joined May 2010
Germany8702 Posts
June 04 2010 01:23 GMT
#81
On June 04 2010 09:59 SoManyDeadLings wrote:
This is why you only play D2 in HC mode with Chicken plugin and Redvex (Auto quit game at a certain % of your overall health ^^).

Playing hc with chicken is actually the most stupid thing you can do. There is no reason to do it except you want to lie to yourself and pose to others(in a 10 year old videogame which is very very easy to beat, even on hc....lol) Just play softcore.

It it pretty much like playing wc3 with drophack.

I have to say that chicken is one of the "better" hacks because it does not fuck up other people, though.

BTW
New runedrops are awesome :D
Found jah/cham/vex/lo/zod this ladder.

Never found any HR before at all, then I rape my way through cs with my hammer and all of a sudden a Zod lies in front of me O_O Found them all in the same week, I even found the Jah and the Lo in the same game.

And the start of the ladder was so good - I have never witnessed that many noobs outing themselves and getting killed by Dia norm etc. Happens if all you can is getting rushed :p
SnK-Arcbound
Profile Joined March 2005
United States4423 Posts
June 04 2010 01:46 GMT
#82
On June 04 2010 10:23 clusen wrote:
Show nested quote +
On June 04 2010 09:59 SoManyDeadLings wrote:
This is why you only play D2 in HC mode with Chicken plugin and Redvex (Auto quit game at a certain % of your overall health ^^).

Playing hc with chicken is actually the most stupid thing you can do. There is no reason to do it except you want to lie to yourself and pose to others(in a 10 year old videogame which is very very easy to beat, even on hc....lol) Just play softcore.

It it pretty much like playing wc3 with drophack.

I have to say that chicken is one of the "better" hacks because it does not fuck up other people, though.

BTW
New runedrops are awesome :D
Found jah/cham/vex/lo/zod this ladder.

Never found any HR before at all, then I rape my way through cs with my hammer and all of a sudden a Zod lies in front of me O_O Found them all in the same week, I even found the Jah and the Lo in the same game.

And the start of the ladder was so good - I have never witnessed that many noobs outing themselves and getting killed by Dia norm etc. Happens if all you can is getting rushed :p


By increasing high rune drops, they've brought down all the dupes, and in addition item prices. Mara doesn't cost 10 HR's, but something like 2 Ber. The lower HR's aren't worth nearly as much, but Jah and Ber definately sell well.

Recently I've had a Cham, 48 War travs, arach, Eth CV, Eth CS drop. I really need a Lo so I don't have to babysit my bitch with full rejuvs when fighting Andy/Meph. I also need a torch .

I found 3 HR's last season (if I remember correctly), and I've found 2 so far this season.
starcraft911
Profile Blog Joined July 2008
Korea (South)1263 Posts
June 04 2010 01:57 GMT
#83
I didn't know people still played diablo2. I remember rushing the day the game came out through the normal game just so i could play hardcore and there was nobody to play with because everyone stayed on softcore.

I deffinately missed the vanilla diablo2 though. I thought the "rare" items being the best in the game was awesome. The random chance of getting a godly item. You would see a rare lance drop and it could be total shit or godly.

I remember my 298% sword 1 killing anyone w/ one whirlwind and blocking 75% w/ minimum in dex lol.. pure sta with str boot rares. Oh the good old days before "uniques" which are far from unique became good and ruined it.
mint_julep
Profile Joined October 2009
United States254 Posts
June 04 2010 02:16 GMT
#84
I lost a couple of high 60's on the same day due to lag and stopped playing diablo 2 after that. That was years ago. When D3 comes out I'll be playing hardcore.
I hope Plexa's sig is right.
Sokalo
Profile Joined May 2010
United States375 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-06-04 04:29:29
June 04 2010 04:28 GMT
#85
To everyone who responds with "but you'll just lose it in the end": it's about the journey not the ending.

Played a freezing orb/fire wall sorc (or something like that, it's been a long time) up into the 70s. I Was in act 3 when I got a lag spike and was torn down by a pack of those jungle midgets.

I didn't yell or break anything. I felt the blood rush out of my face and just stood at the screen for at least a good five minutes in silence.

It's one of those handful of moments in my gaming life that I'll probably never forget. In the end I'm glad to have had the experience.
"Sometimes I wonder whether the world is being run by smart people who are putting us on, or by imbeciles who really mean it."
Smu
Profile Joined July 2009
Serbia164 Posts
June 04 2010 04:42 GMT
#86
Playing hardcore characters is just ... I dunno. It doesn't really elevate the experience, it just brings stress in.

I personally made like 10 chars and geared them up in single player trading only items with my friend who I played with over hamachi occasionally. We did it all, hammeradin, shockadin, minion-less werewolf, summoner, bonemancer etc ... we even tried the dentist - lol. If you think you did it all and are still hungry for more you can try Median XL mod (just google it), it changes all the characters a lot, and the outside world too, bringing in special challenges for items in a few instanced zones. It is actually very hard, and it might take some time getting used to new skills and mechanics. I strongly advise you to read the pdf the game comes along with if you decide playing it.
Take us into orbit Mr. Malmsteen. We've seen enough.
sob3k
Profile Blog Joined August 2009
United States7572 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-06-04 05:31:10
June 04 2010 04:47 GMT
#87
On June 04 2010 10:57 starcraft911 wrote:
I didn't know people still played diablo2. I remember rushing the day the game came out through the normal game just so i could play hardcore and there was nobody to play with because everyone stayed on softcore.

I deffinately missed the vanilla diablo2 though. I thought the "rare" items being the best in the game was awesome. The random chance of getting a godly item. You would see a rare lance drop and it could be total shit or godly.

I remember my 298% sword 1 killing anyone w/ one whirlwind and blocking 75% w/ minimum in dex lol.. pure sta with str boot rares. Oh the good old days before "uniques" which are far from unique became good and ruined it.


I still play D2, quite a bit... rare items are still the best and rarest in the game...godly circlets and ammies, trap claws, 5nado/6bo helms...rare as hell. No unique can compete.

Never play HC though except for LAN and funny LLD tourneys. Trading and finding items is the fun part of the game...not dying.

If anyone wants to start playing USWEST Softcore I can hook you up with starting gear and give you some tips...I'm rather rich. PM me
In Hungry Hungry Hippos there are no such constraints—one can constantly attempt to collect marbles with one’s hippo, limited only by one’s hippo-levering capabilities.
lu_cid
Profile Joined April 2008
United States428 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-06-04 04:50:03
June 04 2010 04:47 GMT
#88
Last time I played D2 I got my hc bliz sorc to 89 in CLASSIC. Oh yeah baby, that was some serious fun. There's nothing like teleporting to the center of hell chaos to tp for your party for some super fast runs. That is a rush. We also had sorcs running act1 finding exp shrines to use on D. Then our team leader, 92 bone nec died in a chaos run. I died a week or so later while MFing the high council. Man I'm starting to miss the game talking about it. Anyway, I wasn't too sad when my char died, I've been playing hc for a long time. It's the only way to play D2 imo.

Sadly I probably won't ever be able to play again.

Edit: I also had some LEET items. Classic's much more fun simply for the fact that some items are once in a lifetime irreplaceable. T_T Still never found a single soj though, after hundreds and hundreds of nm andy and meph runs.
Xenocide_Knight
Profile Blog Joined January 2008
Korea (South)2625 Posts
June 04 2010 05:05 GMT
#89
Oh shit this thread just reminded me.. I forgot to make sure my characters didn't expire



Such a waste of so much gear.. And i'll miss my poor kicksin too, she was my favorite
Shine[Kal] #1 fan
xxsoulhunterxx
Profile Joined April 2010
United States16 Posts
June 04 2010 05:09 GMT
#90
Not this ladder season but last ladder season. I got home drunk and decided to mf meph. But i started a hell game instead of nm on the second best sorcy. I had mostly mf gear equiped with wizard spike and gull dagger. I found some fanta dolls and instead of alt f4 i decided I could pot past them. too bad my potion button wasn't end process.
Flushot
Profile Joined August 2009
United States218 Posts
June 04 2010 05:20 GMT
#91
On June 04 2010 14:05 Xenocide_Knight wrote:
Oh shit this thread just reminded me.. I forgot to make sure my characters didn't expire



Such a waste of so much gear.. And i'll miss my poor kicksin too, she was my favorite


I usually just log on. My character names are complicated so even if they expire, I can usually get them back.

I might try hardcore again. It's a shame none of my friends would currently LAN it, so I might have to take the risk and run with some random people.
Class of 2013
AeroGear
Profile Joined July 2009
Canada652 Posts
June 04 2010 11:05 GMT
#92
There's a few HC dedicated channels (PK free) which you can find about at the diabloiii forums. I'm not sure wether its only europe gateway though but they seem to have a decent amount of players and they do KTA (Kill them all) clears fairly often.

They also host Baal/CS runs, possibly do ubers too I dunno.
Driven by hate, fueled by rage
OPSavioR
Profile Joined March 2010
Sweden1465 Posts
June 04 2010 11:23 GMT
#93
On February 03 2007 03:14 xM(Z wrote:
if u play with your brother only and you are on the same network you should play on lan (hamachi is the next choise is you're on diferent netw.)


why the fuck would you make a FAKE LAN when youre on a real LAN!
i dunno lol
Monsen
Profile Joined December 2002
Germany2548 Posts
June 04 2010 11:32 GMT
#94
I quit D2 a long, long time ago. But I always played hardcore, exactly because of the threat of dieing. It made D2 into a whole new game, where you were constantly on your toes, you would level your character quite different, and you'd learn how to actually play really well. (However, hackers made it unplayable in public games.)
While I understand the incentive of playing without any kind of pressure, that's not the way I like it.
I'm supprised so many members of a competitive gaming site do.
11 years and counting- TL #680
Deleted User 50491
Profile Blog Joined July 2009
721 Posts
June 04 2010 11:36 GMT
#95
there no more TPPK anymore anyway. And you can avoid any pk its simple rule, if you get hostile by a LLD just leave the game lol.
Malderon
Profile Joined September 2009
Netherlands136 Posts
June 04 2010 11:50 GMT
#96
I agree that playing HC with Chicken basically eliminates the entire point of HC, unless all of your friends refuse to play anything but HC, and you still want to play with friends.

Also, I find the entire item trading and MFing business entirely unattractive, but then the game that gets played on the Ladder is a completely different game than just playing through it from Act I normal to Act V Hell. That's why I play mostly Single Player. A pity Gloams are such a pain for an untwinked Sorceress tough. Thank heavens I got lucky enough to find a Wizard spike and Shaftstop (those resists from spike andthat 30% DR from shaft saved my life from nasties like stygian dolls more than once), or I'd have been in a far bigger world of hurt. (She isn't HC, btw, but dying still sucks)
sob3k
Profile Blog Joined August 2009
United States7572 Posts
June 04 2010 11:56 GMT
#97
On June 04 2010 20:36 Kuo wrote:
there no more TPPK anymore anyway. And you can avoid any pk its simple rule, if you get hostile by a LLD just leave the game lol.


uhh, TPPK and other PK glitching is alive and well
In Hungry Hungry Hippos there are no such constraints—one can constantly attempt to collect marbles with one’s hippo, limited only by one’s hippo-levering capabilities.
writer22816
Profile Blog Joined September 2008
United States5775 Posts
June 04 2010 13:14 GMT
#98
They fixed it in 1.13.

"Fixed an issue where some players could kill other players while in town
(“TPPK”)."
8/4/12 never forget, never forgive.
Owarida
Profile Joined April 2010
United States333 Posts
June 04 2010 13:21 GMT
#99
Ive lost multiple level 90s+ and 3x99s -_- QQ more
igotmyown
Profile Blog Joined April 2009
United States4291 Posts
June 04 2010 13:52 GMT
#100
Level 85 Blaze sorc, it was pre-synergies so it might have been vanilla.

I knew a guy who played D2 like he played nethack. Play from scratch, and when you die, start the next character. Soloed (although in multiplayer games), no leeching.

You mourn each character when it dies and ponder the meaning of life when you actually earn your progress.
Latham
Profile Blog Joined May 2007
9568 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-06-04 14:16:45
June 04 2010 14:13 GMT
#101
lost a fire soso lv 72 in act 2 sewers thx 2 TPPK. Lost a 89 fishymancer in travical thx 2 lag and imba boss/champion faithful+hierophants spawns on hell diff.
Lost a very well equipped kicksin around lv 60 in flayer jungle because of surround on hell difficulty.
Lost another soso (ice) around lv 65 to doom beetles in the maggot nest on hell difficulty.

The pain is huuuuge, but also, those 4 characters are my proudest moments in my D2 career. Once you go HC you'll never go back to SC.
For the curse of life is the curse of want. PC = https://be.pcpartpicker.com/list/4JknvV
rei
Profile Blog Joined October 2002
United States3594 Posts
June 04 2010 14:19 GMT
#102
what's a fishymancer?
GET OUT OF MY BASE CHILL
Corr
Profile Joined January 2009
Denmark796 Posts
June 04 2010 14:43 GMT
#103
On June 04 2010 23:19 rei wrote:
what's a fishymancer?


A standard summon+corpse explosion necro, somehow it got that name because a guy called Nightfish made a pretty comprehensive guide for it a couple of years ago.

I'm at the point where playing HC doesn't really matter. I know what to do survive at every point in the game so the only thing that kills me is my connection or if I decide to sacrifice some safety to gain speed when doing runs.

I did manage to lose my level 96 sorceress this ladder season to a double pack of soul/gloam bosses with conviction though. It was a combination of bad preparation in terms of my equipment and lack of reflexes.
rei
Profile Blog Joined October 2002
United States3594 Posts
June 04 2010 16:08 GMT
#104
why do they hurt so bad when ppl have max lightning resist, do you ignore resists?
GET OUT OF MY BASE CHILL
Jayme
Profile Blog Joined February 2009
United States5866 Posts
June 04 2010 16:15 GMT
#105
On June 05 2010 01:08 rei wrote:
why do they hurt so bad when ppl have max lightning resist, do you ignore resists?


Gloams for some reason have a tendency often come with elites that have conviction aura.

Other than that the lightning spell they use has a high damage range. It's something like 50-5000 or some crazy crap....75% of 5000 is still going to hit you for 1250
Python is garbage, number 1 advocate of getting rid of it.
CrunkOwns
Profile Joined April 2010
United States138 Posts
June 04 2010 16:20 GMT
#106
I played Diablo 2 hardcore for 3 years when I was younger.. Ended up selling all my characters including a 94 hardcore sorcy for $4500 Yes, it is the worst feeling in the world to have ur internet connection go out while doing a mephisto run and losing a lvl 85 hardcore character.. Caused me much depression lol
Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful. – Seneca the Younger
MyStiC_Chaos
Profile Blog Joined March 2008
United States499 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-06-04 16:38:56
June 04 2010 16:38 GMT
#107
On June 04 2010 20:23 OPSavioR wrote:
Show nested quote +
On February 03 2007 03:14 xM(Z wrote:
if u play with your brother only and you are on the same network you should play on lan (hamachi is the next choise is you're on diferent netw.)


why the fuck would you make a FAKE LAN when youre on a real LAN!


if u play with your brother only and you are on the same network you should play on lan (hamachi is the next choise is you're on diferent netw.)

You're going to have to obviously assume that he made a typo and meant "hamachi is the next choice IF you're on different netw."

I've also started playing Hardcore again. I get bored...
Nikon
Profile Blog Joined May 2009
Bulgaria5710 Posts
June 04 2010 17:09 GMT
#108
On June 05 2010 01:08 rei wrote:
why do they hurt so bad when ppl have max lightning resist, do you ignore resists?


Part of their damage is physical, and the lightning thing deals damage several times per second. Multiply that times however many gloams you got beating on you and it gets ugly fast.
Irrelevant
Profile Blog Joined June 2009
United States2364 Posts
June 04 2010 17:31 GMT
#109
Lost a 97 7/8th Firesorc, perfect gear, tossing out 32k firebolts, could 1stack kill anything. Was teleing baal dc'd and relogged back into to find it dead
Deleted User 3420
Profile Blog Joined May 2003
24492 Posts
June 04 2010 17:35 GMT
#110
On June 05 2010 01:20 CrunkOwns wrote:
I played Diablo 2 hardcore for 3 years when I was younger.. Ended up selling all my characters including a 94 hardcore sorcy for $4500 Yes, it is the worst feeling in the world to have ur internet connection go out while doing a mephisto run and losing a lvl 85 hardcore character.. Caused me much depression lol


wtf ?
are u serious? 4500 for a d2 character??
Terranist
Profile Blog Joined March 2009
United States2496 Posts
June 04 2010 17:37 GMT
#111
had a lvl 83 barb and i went afk near town entrance. someone used a1 merc glitch to kill me and i havent played hc since then.
The Show of a Lifetime
Jayme
Profile Blog Joined February 2009
United States5866 Posts
June 04 2010 17:40 GMT
#112
On June 05 2010 02:35 travis wrote:
Show nested quote +
On June 05 2010 01:20 CrunkOwns wrote:
I played Diablo 2 hardcore for 3 years when I was younger.. Ended up selling all my characters including a 94 hardcore sorcy for $4500 Yes, it is the worst feeling in the world to have ur internet connection go out while doing a mephisto run and losing a lvl 85 hardcore character.. Caused me much depression lol


wtf ?
are u serious? 4500 for a d2 character??


Back in the good ole days you could make quite a killing off of D2 things before the massive duping came in.

Actually Blizzard games have a weird tendency to do that. I'm not ashamed to say that I paid my car off by selling excess gold in WoW because I was so good at playing the auction house. If people are willing to pay....lol
Python is garbage, number 1 advocate of getting rid of it.
besiger
Profile Blog Joined July 2006
Croatia2452 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-06-04 17:49:35
June 04 2010 17:46 GMT
#113
God, I hate gloams so much, its a bitch to die whilst getting shot from 2 screens away, atleast i get some satisfaction when i raise them back with my summonmancer.

and hi nikon ^^
A weak will coupled with delusions of grandeur
myopia
Profile Blog Joined June 2009
United States2928 Posts
June 04 2010 17:49 GMT
#114
I love playing Nethack and think permadeath in Roguelikes makes things interesting - BUT - I have not and will never play HC Diablo because things outside of my control (internet) can make a hundred hours of work go up in smoke.
it's my first day
starcraft911
Profile Blog Joined July 2008
Korea (South)1263 Posts
June 04 2010 17:57 GMT
#115
wtf ?
are u serious? 4500 for a d2 character??


My old college roomate and I pulled in over 80k off diablo2. We sold the first duped carrion song for $740 on ebay which was the best bow in vanilla. Pimped out accounts were worth a lot, but I just sold individual (duped) items back before it was rampant. We weren't the only ones duping back then, but I think we might have been the first ones to start to make money off of it.

I made more money off D2 than any MMO i've sold for. Shadowbane was probably 2nd highest with duped gold being the only real way to afford a city but the market got saturated so quickly after the dupe method we were using got leaked by someone.
KiLL_ORdeR
Profile Blog Joined June 2009
United States1518 Posts
June 04 2010 18:22 GMT
#116
On June 05 2010 02:57 starcraft911 wrote:
Show nested quote +
wtf ?
are u serious? 4500 for a d2 character??


My old college roomate and I pulled in over 80k off diablo2. We sold the first duped carrion song for $740 on ebay which was the best bow in vanilla. Pimped out accounts were worth a lot, but I just sold individual (duped) items back before it was rampant. We weren't the only ones duping back then, but I think we might have been the first ones to start to make money off of it.

I made more money off D2 than any MMO i've sold for. Shadowbane was probably 2nd highest with duped gold being the only real way to afford a city but the market got saturated so quickly after the dupe method we were using got leaked by someone.


Ya it was retarded how much you could make off of D2 back in the day, of course back then my friends and I were "too noble" to do stuff like that, we were also 12-15 years old and didn't need money, if only if only...

anyway, this is nostalgic, might have to start playing D2 after Beta closes.
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Irrelevant
Profile Blog Joined June 2009
United States2364 Posts
June 04 2010 23:52 GMT
#117
Me and some friends used to have 6-8 comps running 3-4 bots each 24/7 we were pulling in over $1k a week each, good times we thought we were such pimps walking around school flashing stacks of $100 bills to buy lunch even though we knew they couldn't break it, this was like 6th/7th grade.
vGDaverave
Profile Blog Joined December 2009
Scotland110 Posts
June 05 2010 01:05 GMT
#118
i have a level 75 sorc in hardcore but iv lost 2 barbs one level 50 something and one level 30 something at the same bit!!! in the ancients way those pots of evil things people keep opening them and the monster that come out own me it happened twice!
billyX333
Profile Blog Joined January 2008
United States1360 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-06-05 01:54:44
June 05 2010 01:43 GMT
#119
On June 05 2010 02:57 starcraft911 wrote:
Show nested quote +
wtf ?
are u serious? 4500 for a d2 character??


My old college roomate and I pulled in over 80k off diablo2. We sold the first duped carrion song for $740 on ebay which was the best bow in vanilla. Pimped out accounts were worth a lot, but I just sold individual (duped) items back before it was rampant. We weren't the only ones duping back then, but I think we might have been the first ones to start to make money off of it.

I made more money off D2 than any MMO i've sold for. Shadowbane was probably 2nd highest with duped gold being the only real way to afford a city but the market got saturated so quickly after the dupe method we were using got leaked by someone.


lol!! carrion song!
i remember those days!
i remember SOJ in d2c being the most valuable item with only silks being near its equivalent but SOJ could get you anything
then right before LoD, SOJ turned into a currency and high ED gothic bows were all the craze
right in the middle of the duping exploits it took ~20-40 SOJs to get a carrion song or a high enhanced damage gothic bow
it was carrion song on USWest and then some inferior bow (i can't remember the name of it for the life of me) on USEast

ehh those were the days

on topic: I used to play hc mode almost exclusively in LoD
I got a 91 sorc who was ranked top 100 on ladder right when patch 1.10 was released (i think thats what it was called)
I had pretty much every single valuable item out there at the time so I could've died 10 times over and still have full gear for a new character
did a ton of MF until I got bored and never made any other characters

shouldve ebayed it all, had about a dozen of pimped out mules T_T!
(couldve made a couple grand easily, oh well)

I know dying in HC can turn a lot of people off right away, but if you have a nice network of friends, they'll hook you up fast with a rush through hell mode
and then hook you up w/ some gear and help you with quests
you'll be pimpin it up in no time, then start doin MF/leveling eventually on your own for better gear

You should've also been saving all the drops incase its a new ladder season to make for smooth leveling incase you need to start over
And if you get to lvl 80-90 then you can just non stop MF until you have a ridiculous amount of good gear saved up to make dying less upsetting since it'll b easy to start over
writer22816
Profile Blog Joined September 2008
United States5775 Posts
June 05 2010 02:29 GMT
#120
On June 05 2010 08:52 Irrelevant wrote:
Me and some friends used to have 6-8 comps running 3-4 bots each 24/7 we were pulling in over $1k a week each, good times we thought we were such pimps walking around school flashing stacks of $100 bills to buy lunch even though we knew they couldn't break it, this was like 6th/7th grade.


LOL you guys are ballers!
8/4/12 never forget, never forgive.
Glull
Profile Blog Joined November 2009
Germany404 Posts
June 05 2010 02:52 GMT
#121
for some reason people still believe that d2 is a game where online cheating is accepted and necessary to play the game or something you should brag about - i rarely use the word, but anything short of pathetic fails to describe this unfortunate reality.
Sokalo
Profile Joined May 2010
United States375 Posts
June 05 2010 03:18 GMT
#122
On June 05 2010 08:52 Irrelevant wrote:
Me and some friends used to have 6-8 comps running 3-4 bots each 24/7 we were pulling in over $1k a week each, good times we thought we were such pimps walking around school flashing stacks of $100 bills to buy lunch even though we knew they couldn't break it, this was like 6th/7th grade.


For as many people I run into who make a killing selling virtual items, you'd think I'd run into at least some who are buying.

Either they stay shut up about it or they just exist in circles that are far, far away from me.
"Sometimes I wonder whether the world is being run by smart people who are putting us on, or by imbeciles who really mean it."
Hidden_MotiveS
Profile Blog Joined February 2010
Canada2562 Posts
June 05 2010 03:45 GMT
#123
On June 05 2010 08:52 Irrelevant wrote:
Me and some friends used to have 6-8 comps running 3-4 bots each 24/7 we were pulling in over $1k a week each, good times we thought we were such pimps walking around school flashing stacks of $100 bills to buy lunch even though we knew they couldn't break it, this was like 6th/7th grade.

Rofl, whoever came up with that plan is a genius. I considered making some macros for neopets, doing dailies and games, but never got around to it. I didn't think I'd be able to.
celious
Profile Joined September 2009
United States195 Posts
June 05 2010 11:30 GMT
#124
if anyone wants to do some hardcore i would be up for it. just send me a pm or something
sob3k
Profile Blog Joined August 2009
United States7572 Posts
June 06 2010 09:47 GMT
#125
On June 05 2010 11:52 Glull wrote:
for some reason people still believe that d2 is a game where online cheating is accepted and necessary to play the game or something you should brag about - i rarely use the word, but anything short of pathetic fails to describe this unfortunate reality.


Thats because it is, Diablo 2 is an economy game, If you somehow manage to game the system and cash out with a ton of RL or ingame loot, you are a baller. The whole point of D2 online is just to accumulate as much value as possible. If you want to just play the standard game you can do single player, or lan, or just play standard online (there are basically 2 economies, the rich mass running and botting economy, and the regular players poor economy, these only cross in the occasional free game.)

Its not like an FPS where using exploits and cheating just ruins everyones experience. In D2, ripping people off, exploiting glitches, and cheating, IS the game.


In Hungry Hungry Hippos there are no such constraints—one can constantly attempt to collect marbles with one’s hippo, limited only by one’s hippo-levering capabilities.
sob3k
Profile Blog Joined August 2009
United States7572 Posts
June 06 2010 09:51 GMT
#126
On June 05 2010 12:18 Sokalo wrote:
Show nested quote +
On June 05 2010 08:52 Irrelevant wrote:
Me and some friends used to have 6-8 comps running 3-4 bots each 24/7 we were pulling in over $1k a week each, good times we thought we were such pimps walking around school flashing stacks of $100 bills to buy lunch even though we knew they couldn't break it, this was like 6th/7th grade.


For as many people I run into who make a killing selling virtual items, you'd think I'd run into at least some who are buying.

Either they stay shut up about it or they just exist in circles that are far, far away from me.


The days of making cash off of D2 are largely over, there are so many established bots that anyone with 10 decent computers can open up a shop, the market is saturated, and nobody is spending 100's of dollars on rare items for a 10 year old game.

You will never make money off of something anyone and everyone could/is doing. You gotta get in at the stage where it takes real ingenuity to program your own bots and hacks.
In Hungry Hungry Hippos there are no such constraints—one can constantly attempt to collect marbles with one’s hippo, limited only by one’s hippo-levering capabilities.
k20a
Profile Blog Joined December 2009
Canada412 Posts
June 06 2010 10:11 GMT
#127
anyone want to duel? east soft core non ladder?

pm me or lets get a tl duel game going z.z
"It's like that one time Luke Skywalker threw the ring in to Mordor to kill Hitler, or something" - Tasteless
Pinkcarebear
Profile Joined June 2010
Netherlands46 Posts
June 06 2010 11:11 GMT
#128
I got to lvl 90 in just a matter of hours and got enigma and all other items as well:
Skipping the story; Botruns; Duped runes etc etc, spoiling it all.
So no more d2 for me, the game is dead. Just as Blizzard wanted it to, like what will happen to sc1.

I will only play D2 during the summer on LAN just for fun, and not skipping any parts.
sob3k
Profile Blog Joined August 2009
United States7572 Posts
June 06 2010 12:02 GMT
#129
On June 06 2010 20:11 Pinkcarebear wrote:
I got to lvl 90 in just a matter of hours and got enigma and all other items as well:
Skipping the story; Botruns; Duped runes etc etc, spoiling it all.
So no more d2 for me, the game is dead. Just as Blizzard wanted it to, like what will happen to sc1.

I will only play D2 during the summer on LAN just for fun, and not skipping any parts.


You started a new account and got 90+ and enigma within a few hours?...thats pretty impressive...is this on ladder?
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Jibba
Profile Blog Joined October 2007
United States22883 Posts
June 06 2010 12:11 GMT
#130
In a matter of 144 hours.
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k20a
Profile Blog Joined December 2009
Canada412 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-06-06 12:36:16
June 06 2010 12:35 GMT
#131
On June 06 2010 21:02 sob3k wrote:
Show nested quote +
On June 06 2010 20:11 Pinkcarebear wrote:
I got to lvl 90 in just a matter of hours and got enigma and all other items as well:
Skipping the story; Botruns; Duped runes etc etc, spoiling it all.
So no more d2 for me, the game is dead. Just as Blizzard wanted it to, like what will happen to sc1.

I will only play D2 during the summer on LAN just for fun, and not skipping any parts.


You started a new account and got 90+ and enigma within a few hours?...thats pretty impressive...is this on ladder?

As far as I know it's impossible to get that high within a few hours anymore. They removed ubers levelling which was the prime way to get to 85+ in around two hours. Oh, and enigma is not that big of a deal.. maybe on ladder near the beginning of the season but definitely not non-ladder (I have 4 mules filled with enigmas only on NL)

Starting a fresh ladder season is the best way to make money, as high runes go for absurd prices, along with virtually any other good/godly item found that early.
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Eiserne
Profile Blog Joined February 2010
United States340 Posts
June 06 2010 12:42 GMT
#132
couldn't we just do a TL kinda thing where we just have a running game going? no bots and shit just a running hardcore game.
clusen
Profile Joined May 2010
Germany8702 Posts
June 06 2010 12:51 GMT
#133
On June 06 2010 21:42 Eiserne wrote:
couldn't we just do a TL kinda thing where we just have a running game going? no bots and shit just a running hardcore game.

We could do something like Iron Man, trying to beat the game naked(hell ofc) or something like that.

k20a
Profile Blog Joined December 2009
Canada412 Posts
June 06 2010 12:53 GMT
#134
On June 06 2010 21:51 clusen wrote:
Show nested quote +
On June 06 2010 21:42 Eiserne wrote:
couldn't we just do a TL kinda thing where we just have a running game going? no bots and shit just a running hardcore game.

We could do something like Iron Man, trying to beat the game naked(hell ofc) or something like that.


seriously, lets get this going at some point today
"It's like that one time Luke Skywalker threw the ring in to Mordor to kill Hitler, or something" - Tasteless
FortuneSyn
Profile Blog Joined July 2008
1826 Posts
June 06 2010 13:42 GMT
#135
There are 2 major HC groups that have password games/channels etc. I was in the european one with plenty of 90+ toons. You're gonna have to find out the names yourself, and you need someone to refer you.
PainBall
Profile Joined April 2010
Sweden111 Posts
June 06 2010 15:30 GMT
#136
i was founder of swc hardcore europe clan but i only made lvl 97 pala last season in 1 month and stopped cos didnt had steady parties to go to 99 but nowadays its jst boring with so many shoppers/hackers dont wann take part to this ...
SilverSkyLark
Profile Blog Joined April 2008
Philippines8437 Posts
June 07 2010 02:14 GMT
#137
I remember my Pp&b necro dying against Duriel on Nightmare because I couldn't pull off the bone prison + bone spirit combo and end up doing bone spear instead. Can't really micro in d2, I tried doing running then casting bone spear right behind me and it really takes time to do so. I think I wouldn't have enough mana to support bone spirit continuously though even if I had tons of pots.
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illu
Profile Blog Joined December 2008
Canada2531 Posts
August 04 2010 00:15 GMT
#138
I was very bored so I started up D2 and played a little bit of HC ladder on USEast. It was fun until I got to level 9 and started to find every single player (except myself) suspicious.

I know I will get flamed for this, but I think HC is only fun with a chicken =[ without chicken it's just way too stressful and I am still too young to maintain such high blood pressure.
:]
evanthebouncy!
Profile Blog Joined June 2006
United States12796 Posts
August 04 2010 00:34 GMT
#139
On August 04 2010 09:15 illu wrote:
I was very bored so I started up D2 and played a little bit of HC ladder on USEast. It was fun until I got to level 9 and started to find every single player (except myself) suspicious.

I know I will get flamed for this, but I think HC is only fun with a chicken =[ without chicken it's just way too stressful and I am still too young to maintain such high blood pressure.


hahaha when I played I had 5 chickens and 1 char.
Then i stopped playing and didn't park my chicken
so only 2 chicken now haha
i'll let those die too.

D2 is dead. THere's few pockets of worthwhile experience, but you have to find them. Friends and I tried to play online hardcore, one of my friend went into the "open", let's call it. He got to lvl 80 within a day, died, then repeated 4 times, killed the uber trist, and stopped playing. And that was the end of our adventure.

so sad
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illu
Profile Blog Joined December 2008
Canada2531 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-08-04 00:39:32
August 04 2010 00:38 GMT
#140
On August 04 2010 09:34 evanthebouncy! wrote:
Show nested quote +
On August 04 2010 09:15 illu wrote:
I was very bored so I started up D2 and played a little bit of HC ladder on USEast. It was fun until I got to level 9 and started to find every single player (except myself) suspicious.

I know I will get flamed for this, but I think HC is only fun with a chicken =[ without chicken it's just way too stressful and I am still too young to maintain such high blood pressure.


hahaha when I played I had 5 chickens and 1 char.
Then i stopped playing and didn't park my chicken
so only 2 chicken now haha
i'll let those die too.

D2 is dead. THere's few pockets of worthwhile experience, but you have to find them. Friends and I tried to play online hardcore, one of my friend went into the "open", let's call it. He got to lvl 80 within a day, died, then repeated 4 times, killed the uber trist, and stopped playing. And that was the end of our adventure.

so sad



I noticed for 1.13 firewall get a buff and I have always wanted a firewall sorc. I really want to try it for PvE.

The problem right now is that I can't find a chicken that works for 1.13c. Like I said, I am not going to maintain a high blood pressure for this.

Maybe I should just play softcore. I donno. Just by myself...
:]
Cade
Profile Joined August 2010
Canada1420 Posts
August 06 2010 10:00 GMT
#141
My lvl 86 HC Sorc died today, caught some awful lag on Baal. What a sad day
rei
Profile Blog Joined October 2002
United States3594 Posts
August 08 2010 01:45 GMT
#142
what is a diablo2 chicken? some kind of hack?
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Glull
Profile Blog Joined November 2009
Germany404 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-08-08 01:48:47
August 08 2010 01:46 GMT
#143
its a hack that auto-leaves the game if you drop below a certain amount of hp.

edit: reading the previous page, they are talking about "chickens" meaning mule... which is absolutely not common in d2. chicken is always the above explained hack.
(a mule is a character you store items on)
Xiran
Profile Joined July 2010
United States50 Posts
August 08 2010 02:51 GMT
#144
During the beta downtime between phase 1 and phase 2 I leveled a 73 necro in that amount of time..died in hell when my internet encountered a huge lag spike...I was pissed but beta returned in 2 days =D
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-Desu-
Profile Blog Joined June 2010
Turkey173 Posts
August 08 2010 02:58 GMT
#145
there was a level 98 dead HC character on ladder. I didn't know what to do , cry or laugh
illu
Profile Blog Joined December 2008
Canada2531 Posts
August 08 2010 03:24 GMT
#146
On August 08 2010 11:58 -Desu- wrote:
there was a level 98 dead HC character on ladder. I didn't know what to do , cry or laugh


1st in the USEast HC Ladder (lvl 99) is dead.
:]
xZiGGY
Profile Joined August 2010
United Kingdom801 Posts
August 08 2010 03:45 GMT
#147
dying in hc is upsetting but you get over it, dying to lag is just so depressing though D:
Meh.
EvilTeletubby
Profile Blog Joined January 2004
Baltimore, USA22258 Posts
August 08 2010 04:04 GMT
#148
Playing again on Hardcore East... kind've boring with all the bots, but meh... if anyone wants to play let me know.
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poppa
Profile Joined December 2005
United States329 Posts
August 24 2010 05:14 GMT
#149
playing in Hardcore on East, hit me up

my ign is fugitivo
snotboogie
Profile Blog Joined August 2009
Australia3550 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-08-24 05:39:23
August 24 2010 05:39 GMT
#150
I will never play Diablo 3 Hardcore because I know I would break something really expensive when my character inevitably dies. My respect to all Hardcore players.
Cloud
Profile Blog Joined November 2004
Sexico5880 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-08-24 13:20:20
August 24 2010 13:08 GMT
#151
I'll play hardcore on East!

account: BlueLaguna

Btw are you guys playing ladder?
BlueLaguna on West, msg for game.
Cloud
Profile Blog Joined November 2004
Sexico5880 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-08-25 05:16:34
August 24 2010 19:01 GMT
#152
Well I'm playing ladder, if anyone wanna join me, I'm against duriel at this point.

Well I just killed meph and so far my equipment is all a bunch of crap. Took me like ten mins to kill meph. And no one is dropping anything decent. T.T
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Enderbantoo
Profile Blog Joined December 2009
United States465 Posts
August 25 2010 16:27 GMT
#153
its probably been mentioned here, but portal chicken is quite suggested if playing D2 HC, because if you get to a certain % life it instantly leaves the game (can also do things like if someone aggs you etc... or if you get iron maiden (no longer applicable)). However do your research because while i haven't had any trouble with it, i'm not sure its 100% unbannable safe.
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Frits
Profile Joined March 2003
11782 Posts
August 25 2010 16:32 GMT
#154
On August 26 2010 01:27 Enderbantoo wrote:
its probably been mentioned here, but portal chicken is quite suggested if playing D2 HC, because if you get to a certain % life it instantly leaves the game (can also do things like if someone aggs you etc... or if you get iron maiden (no longer applicable)). However do your research because while i haven't had any trouble with it, i'm not sure its 100% unbannable safe.


this takes away all of the fun of hardcore, why would you do this, might as well play softcore
illu
Profile Blog Joined December 2008
Canada2531 Posts
August 25 2010 17:47 GMT
#155
pm me if you want freebies on USEast HC Ladder. I might be able to provide some while I clean out my mules (not guaranteed, however).

poppa got a doom bringer, lolz. Not a great item but owel. I might be able to find more.
:]
Bub
Profile Blog Joined June 2006
United States3518 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-08-25 18:48:50
August 25 2010 18:46 GMT
#156
I'm tempted to get back in D2 HC.......... I've never had as much fun in SC as I had in HC. I guess once you go, you never go back! =]

I quit after getting most of my accts banned because I was...... multi tabbing? I legally owned all my cd keys so I don't know what the problem was. Whatever. I already proved everything in there anyways, especially after soloing uber tristram with no bo or any assist hehe

edit: the perfect storch I got off that solo made it so much more rewarding. I guess that was a good time to retire anyways.
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Vaporized
Profile Joined July 2010
United States1471 Posts
August 25 2010 21:00 GMT
#157
i loved hc mode back in the day.

had a level 71 assassin that got pk'd by a firewall sorc fighting duriel in nightmare.

havent really played again since.
Eiserne
Profile Blog Joined February 2010
United States340 Posts
August 25 2010 21:19 GMT
#158
I just installed D2 LOD and it won't let me connect to b.net at all; it says 'Unable to connect to battle.net' and seems to think I don't have an internet connection. Any advice?
Chrispy
Profile Blog Joined June 2009
Canada5878 Posts
August 25 2010 21:21 GMT
#159
Me and my little brother have been playing tons of Diablo II recently. We played it like crazy when we were kids but we were noobs then. Anyways we aren't on Hardcore but we made it to Hell with me as a lvl 72 Druid and him as a lvl 71 Necromancer. All we do is summon things hahaha it's pretty fun except now on Act II it's getting ridiculously hard. His golems die really fast and my bear/wolves can only do so much.

One question,
Do the monsters drop better items on Hardcore?
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Latham
Profile Blog Joined May 2007
9568 Posts
August 25 2010 21:32 GMT
#160
On August 26 2010 06:21 Chrispy wrote:
Me and my little brother have been playing tons of Diablo II recently. We played it like crazy when we were kids but we were noobs then. Anyways we aren't on Hardcore but we made it to Hell with me as a lvl 72 Druid and him as a lvl 71 Necromancer. All we do is summon things hahaha it's pretty fun except now on Act II it's getting ridiculously hard. His golems die really fast and my bear/wolves can only do so much.

One question,
Do the monsters drop better items on Hardcore?


No. And who uses golems? normal skele's is where it's at. Revives and clay golem too.
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terr13
Profile Joined April 2007
United States298 Posts
August 25 2010 21:34 GMT
#161
Chicken is for pussies, what's the point of chicken, can't you just play softcore? I just started playing a couple of weeks ago on West HCL. Within the month my friends and I have lost a 89 hdin (pretty well geared), 91 fo sorc (pretty well geared as well), 2 70ish necros, 2 70ish zons, and about 6 characters before level 30. But now we still have some high level Wind Druid, Lightning Sorc, Uber Smiter, Meteorb Sorc, etc.
Garaman
Profile Blog Joined April 2010
United States556 Posts
August 27 2010 00:19 GMT
#162
i think im gona start d2 hard core on east yet again.
i havent played d2 in a few years, haven't been up to date since beginning of 1.10 patch

can someone enlighten me on some of the changes in economy primarily?
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