Next D2 patch to be huge.

Anarchist Bunny · Post by **Anarchist Bunny** » 2003-05-20 08:23pm

Hamel, I meant huge in content.

Hamel · Post by **Hamel** » 2003-05-20 08:31pm

anarchistbunny wrote:Hamel, I meant huge in content.

I had the feeling you did, however I wanted to counter the "hey it's gonna be 100 megs like the HL patches" before they started

I play mostly HC, btw

Keevan_Colton · Post by **Keevan_Colton** » 2003-05-20 08:55pm

Hamel wrote: 5) I'm one of the 50 legit people on east

Well, I'm there too....so that only leaves 48 of us to be found

Soontir C'boath · Post by **Soontir C'boath** » 2003-05-20 09:09pm

Hamel wrote:Have you actually made a vindicator? They own all manner of shit outside the cow level.

Never played as a Paladin per say so no.

You could say i'm one of those Sorc/Ama whores. *avoid slings of dung*

Cyaround,
Jason

Spyder · Post by **Spyder** » 2003-05-20 09:48pm

The last time I played diablo 2 was shortly after they added a whole shitload of rare item prefixes and suffixes that resulted in hundreds of rare items being dropped that were absolute garbage. In the end it was like "oh, a rare, should I even bother?"

Anarchist Bunny · Post by **Anarchist Bunny** » 2003-05-20 09:54pm

From what I hear all rares will have 6 effects if possible, so that should help clear that problem up.

Hamel · Post by **Hamel** » 2003-05-20 10:14pm

anarchistbunny wrote:From what I hear all rares will have 6 effects if possible, so that should help clear that problem up.

It isn't about the number of mods, its the quality and chances of getting good mods

It is possible to get "godly" rares that even approach the power of uniques and lower-end cruels, but

1) The mods have to be -->perfect<--
2) It should be ethereal, and since rares only have one socket, you can only zod them
3) It needs of quickness suffix

For a rare balrog blade that'd be godly you'd need

100 ED perfect master's mod
100 ED perfect king's mod
Screaming suffix (+.75 max dam per level)
Of quickness suffix (40 ias)
Another +dam suffix below butchery

I think rares can get six mods, but it isnt set in stone as you can definately get 1 mod rares

Even if you ended up with six don't be surprised if you get junk like 5% fire resists

Sriad · Post by **Sriad** » 2003-05-21 02:24am

Hamel wrote:
anarchistbunny wrote:From what I hear all rares will have 6 effects if possible, so that should help clear that problem up.
It isn't about the number of mods, its the quality and chances of getting good mods

It is possible to get "godly" rares that even approach the power of uniques and lower-end cruels, but

1) The mods have to be -->perfect<--
2) It should be ethereal, and since rares only have one socket, you can only zod them
3) It needs of quickness suffix

For a rare balrog blade that'd be godly you'd need

100 ED perfect master's mod
100 ED perfect king's mod
Screaming suffix (+.75 max dam per level)
Of quickness suffix (40 ias)
Another +dam suffix below butchery

I think rares can get six mods, but it isnt set in stone as you can definately get 1 mod rares

Even if you ended up with six don't be surprised if you get junk like 5% fire resists

A rare can also be "godly" if it has +2 skills and +2 to a skill tree (or skill), but that's only certain types of course.

Edit: I'm one of the 63 legit players on USWest, account names are Lord.Sloth and T-Jay. I think. It's been a while.

Hamel · Post by **Hamel** » 2003-05-21 02:41am

Sriad wrote: Edit: I'm one of the 63 legit players on USWest, account names are Lord.Sloth and T-Jay. I think. It's been a while.

You westies have one fucked up realm

The white charms/rings/gloves put East's bugged and iths on a lower level

Thunderfire · Post by **Thunderfire** » 2003-05-21 10:43am

I switched to mods more than 1 year ago. Realms are as bad as
open today.

Anarchist Bunny · Post by **Anarchist Bunny** » 2003-05-21 08:25pm

I'm Legit on both East and West. I like to keep characters on each Realm incase one is down for matinance.

EmperorMing · Post by **EmperorMing** » 2003-05-21 10:17pm

Thunderfire wrote:I switched to mods more than 1 year ago. Realms are as bad as
open today.

What do you recommend for mods?

Rubberanvil · Post by **Rubberanvil** » 2003-05-22 05:57am

To this day I've never got a SoJ in single player. Is it that common as people said it is on B-Net?

Ravencrow · Post by **Ravencrow** » 2003-05-22 06:20am

I've never gotten an soj either. It's only particularly important for spell casters. The realms are a chaotic place these days, a lot of them (sojs and other unique items) could be duped.

What do you recommend for mods?

I heard Middle Earth mod is pretty good. You can get it and other mods from Phrozen Keep,
http://d2mods.xfernet.com/index.php.

Hamel · Post by **Hamel** » 2003-05-22 08:40am

Rubberanvil wrote:To this day I've never got a SoJ in single player. Is it that common as people said it is on B-Net?

I've not found a single stone since my dii debut, and that was years ago

They're not necessarily duped either~ Here's what happened

People found out that if you brought a nagelring and a manald heal into the game, the next time a unique ring would appear it would definately be an soj

This worked on gambling, too~ if you had the mentioned rings you would get an soj if you ended up gambling a unique ring

Back then the chances of getting uniques while gambling were high compared to today, which is 1/100,000 chance~

However, you had the people that used packet sniffers to decifer what kind of item you were going to get before you actually gambled~ they would retry the gambling screen over and over until the packet sniffer showed that the ring was gonna be an soj~ Tens of thousands of players did this and that's why we have so many sojs. Even if all the duped sojs somehow disappeared (which they can't since they don't have an item id), you would still have tens of millions of them still sitting on old mules

Thunderfire · Post by **Thunderfire** » 2003-05-22 10:25am

EmperorMing wrote: What do you recommend for mods?

I am currently using gemstone. You should be
able to get it at the site posted by Ravencrow.
This mod has a slightly better class balance
compared to normal LoD.