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Oh Diablo II, I keep coming back to you
16 years ago
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When all else fails, Diablo II has just always been something I can sit down and enjoy every time. I don't know how it manages to never get boring, but suspect it has to do with the plethora of variable stat items that can drop randomly. I started like my 5th paladin. I always have to play a zealer.
I decided to do things a little differently this time though. By the time I was fighting Andariel in Act I I was lv 14 and have 40%ish magic find in my gear. I fought her over and over until I was lv 18 and had a few yellow quality items that had dropped in that time. I feel like uniques are unable to drop in Act I of Normal Mode actually.
So after I went to Lut Gholein in Act 2 I immediately went crunching through the skeleton hordes in the sewers for Radamnet's Lair, MF gear still on and with a new merc to provide Defiance Aura. Radament went down pretty fast and BAM! Nokozan Relic amulet drop. The amulet gives like 50% fire resist and +10% to max fire resist. The poor Demon Lords and Diablo himself are going to hardly be able to hurt me wearing that because of just those two bonuses. The other stats were pretty bleh.
Slapping my way through the Dry Wastes one of the cat enemies dropped a unique axe! It had +4 mana per kill and hit blind enemies. With this equipped, even with my tiny mana pool I can zeal to my heart's content, and enemies that live won't be able to see me!
Then on the 2nd floor of the tomb with the Horadric Cube a skeleton dropped a unique saber! It had 15% life drain on hit! I don't think I need to explain how brokenly good 15% life drain is going to be in a Normal Mode game. o_0
Combine these two weapons in the weapon set swap and you have a recipe for boss rape. Zeal with the axe and if your hp gets low zeal with the saber to rapidly refill your hp. And this is with a total of 52% MF! I'm having too much fun with this. XD
I decided to do things a little differently this time though. By the time I was fighting Andariel in Act I I was lv 14 and have 40%ish magic find in my gear. I fought her over and over until I was lv 18 and had a few yellow quality items that had dropped in that time. I feel like uniques are unable to drop in Act I of Normal Mode actually.
So after I went to Lut Gholein in Act 2 I immediately went crunching through the skeleton hordes in the sewers for Radamnet's Lair, MF gear still on and with a new merc to provide Defiance Aura. Radament went down pretty fast and BAM! Nokozan Relic amulet drop. The amulet gives like 50% fire resist and +10% to max fire resist. The poor Demon Lords and Diablo himself are going to hardly be able to hurt me wearing that because of just those two bonuses. The other stats were pretty bleh.
Slapping my way through the Dry Wastes one of the cat enemies dropped a unique axe! It had +4 mana per kill and hit blind enemies. With this equipped, even with my tiny mana pool I can zeal to my heart's content, and enemies that live won't be able to see me!
Then on the 2nd floor of the tomb with the Horadric Cube a skeleton dropped a unique saber! It had 15% life drain on hit! I don't think I need to explain how brokenly good 15% life drain is going to be in a Normal Mode game. o_0
Combine these two weapons in the weapon set swap and you have a recipe for boss rape. Zeal with the axe and if your hp gets low zeal with the saber to rapidly refill your hp. And this is with a total of 52% MF! I'm having too much fun with this. XD
Heh... I think it was the 3rd ladder? I was actually somewhat of a celebrity there. People came into the room going 'hey, it's Mike!'
Mostly due in part that my poison necro did enough damage to actually kill with the poison nova... oh how often I was accused for hacking.
I made a nerco once for offline to try out. It was amazing. I didn't have to really do anything myself except decrepify, or blood tap or something like that and my revived minions just...massacred everyhting! And poison nova was just icing on the cake. Green icing that flies everywhere and looks really cool. Also, corpseexplosionlol.
I can't play online anymore because I've lost the cd holders to the original Diablo II with that cd key. I can't ge ton bnet with only the LOD expansion key, and the key generator's keys won't work for bnet. T.T
I hope I find a Reaper's Toll quickly in hell mode for my merc. The thing has like a 50% chance to cast some level of Decrepify. It's ruinous to bosses! It's also the best thing ever decking them out in a bunch of crushing blow and deadly strike. Gotta love those guillaum's winged helms. I wonder how long it will take meph to yield me a Highlord's Wrath amulet though. :)
Clay golems and decrepify is fun.
Aw man that's a bummer... here's to finding one from someone else?
I swear that game had some of the best items ever, not to mention overlooked.
But Diablo II is fun. :D