WHat does hr mean? And how do you know if somethings duped or not. When i played in 2004 there wasn't dupes besides a few so no worries but from reading this it sounds theres alot now?
And perming means to make a duped item no disappear?

Im gonna start this week anyone on tl have some free items or want to start together? Any gateway just no hardcore
Probably gonna make a mf necro with summon/corpse explosion or meteorb(or is blizzard better?)

Want to eventually make a hammerdin again. Should i start ladder or non which is easier to get rich. I want to be able to get enigma,hoto, hoz, cota.
and what is g rushing?

SoMuchBetter

Australia10606 Posts

April 03 2007 18:12 GMT

#122

hr means high rune (vex+)
you'll know when it disappears (most high runes are duped though)
i dont think theres any method to make a duped item not disappear. you just need to trade it off before it does.
grushing is when you rush a character to the next level of the game ignoring the ancient's level requirements. by grushing you can have a level one character in hell mode

i started playing east ladder because of this thread. too bad i havent been able to convince my old d2 friends to play the game again

TrueLove_hu

Hungary38 Posts

April 03 2007 20:53 GMT

#123

glitch rushing, otherwise known as grushing, is when you ignore the lvl requirements to finish normal and nightmare, in order to get to hell mode. This is done so that you can further rush to act 4 and do chaos sanctuary runs, leaching off of a high level charicter (most often a hammerdin) as they clear the sanctuary. You will litterally watch your exp bar shoot up with 9 levels a run not being uncommon.

To grush, you (the low level person in need of a grush) need 2 things.

1.) A party member capable of killing baal.

2.) A party member who is in need of the baal quest and MEETS the level requirements needed to kill baal legitly.

If both of these elements are present in a game, you can simply join the party with your low level charicter and sit in town while your party kills baal. When he is dead you also get credit, since a member of your party who had the level requirements needed the quest also. This is the glitch rush.

TheosEx

United States894 Posts

April 04 2007 02:13 GMT

#124

You can't really tell if something is a dupe. You can just assume based on popular duped items. For example, I know that a few weeks ago a very heavily duped item was a 397/37 Grief Berserker Axe so I stayed away from trading for that. The only way to really avoid dupes is to find stuff on your own (guaranteed way, of course) or to trade for lower stat items. For example, you can almost be positive that a 350/31 Grief Berserker Axe won't be duped. Before you trade, you can also ask someone to join/leave a couple times without perming to see if the item poofs. That isn't 100% foolproof because sometimes items just won't disappear, as explained in my previous post.

Now, that brings us to the question of PERMING. Perming means you temporary "permament...ize" your item when you join/leave a game. To do this, you have to click on someone, enter the trade screen, click the accept button on/off real fast, hit Esc, and leave the game real fast.

Here are a list of Most Probably Duped Items:
3 max damage / 20 attack rating / 20 life small charms aka 3/20/20
5 resist / 20 life small charms aka 5/20
Perfect BerBer Crown of Ages (that means 31% Damage Reduction)
High stat (damage and increased attack speed) Grief Berserker (up to 400 damage and 40 ias)
High stat Call to Arms (normally +4-6 BO)
Skill charms (i.e. Paladin Combat, Lightning, Fire, etc.)

Basically, all of the good items you want to watch out for.

Empyrean

17058 Posts

April 04 2007 02:51 GMT

#125

On April 04 2007 11:13 TheosEx wrote:
Here are a list of Most Probably Duped Items:
3 max damage / 20 attack rating / 20 life small charms aka 3/20/20
5 resist / 20 life small charms aka 5/20
Perfect BerBer Crown of Ages (that means 31% Damage Reduction)
High stat (damage and increased attack speed) Grief Berserker (up to 400 damage and 40 ias)
High stat Call to Arms (normally +4-6 BO)
Skill charms (i.e. Paladin Combat, Lightning, Fire, etc.)

Basically, all of the good items you want to watch out for.

520s and berber CoAs aren't duped that much. Neither are high CtAs (which pisses me off because I insisted on making my own when I actually got the runes...1bo. useless as hell) or skillers. I'd say more common are high griefs, all the rare items (have storm circlets been haxed by blizzard yet? They were really popular about a year ago), bTals (have they been haxed as well? I've been away so I don't know if blizz fixed the problem yet), 12020s, etc.

zdd

1463 Posts

April 04 2007 10:12 GMT

#126

40/15 jewels used to be duped alot, since you could just dupe and socket, as long as you had a non-duped 5os zerk (crazy dmg for zeal, ww, and psn strike). I dunno runewords might do more dmg now, but this was definitely popular when I played.

On April 04 2007 11:51 Empyrean wrote:

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Heh back when I played, cta's were rarely duped, so I got really rich on ladder off making my own cta's, cuz I'd usually get 3-4 bo, and trade that for 4 hr or so, enough to make 2 more cta's and then when I got 6 bo cta's, it was like jackpot, because I could auction those for like 8-9 hr's easily. But yeah duping them would've been much easier.

TheosEx

United States894 Posts

April 04 2007 13:17 GMT

#127

40/15's were duped alot until word came out that it doesn't work with most of the characters (Barbarians, Paladins, and Druids I think). It works only for like an Amazon, if I remember correctly. Some kind of bug that doesn't allow ED/Max Damage to work together on a jewel... probably hasn't been fixed yet...

Anyways, almost anything can be duped. That's all I'm saying.

kAra

Germany1424 Posts

April 04 2007 16:52 GMT

#128

anyone knows when the new season is comin?

Hurricane

United States3939 Posts

April 04 2007 22:16 GMT

#129

Hopefully soon.

Ilikestarcraft

Korea (South)17741 Posts

April 07 2007 18:41 GMT

#130

Starting d2 lod anyone willing to give me some frees and advice?

decafchicken

United States20159 Posts

April 07 2007 21:58 GMT

#131

On April 08 2007 03:41 Ilikestarcraft wrote:
Starting d2 lod anyone willing to give me some frees and advice?

i might have some random shit i can give you, it wont be great or anything though ><
i'm on useast, i'll be on later today

Ilikestarcraft

Korea (South)17741 Posts

April 07 2007 23:18 GMT

#132

I'll pm you when i get on. Trying to make a hammerdin.

Kassios

France1424 Posts

April 08 2007 02:59 GMT

#133

hammerdin isnt the best character if u just started the game, as it's at the beggining of the topic you should make a mf sorc

fusionsdf

Canada15390 Posts

April 08 2007 03:03 GMT

#134

hammerdin can be really frustrating without the proper gear.
I too would suggest a sorc. Probably blizz-synergy.

I love lightning syn sorcs though. My favorite to play.