Yup, I still play every night. They reset the ladder 3 days ago so I've started another MF fire sorc. She's lvl 6x atm, ready for some NM Meph runs [thumbup]
Have they done any updating on the b.net realms? I remember doing runs and quitting and entering a server too fast being banned for a couple minutes, it was really annoying. That and the hacking was the biggest grip that killed it for me.
Anyone into those GP-forums where you can save up your runes via a currency over a trade forum? It seems really cool considering it saves after ladder reset and such.![]()
This doesn't occur regularly for me now, but maybe it's because I've learnt to wait a few seconds before creating the next game. You only need to wait 5 seconds or so, not a big deal.
AFAIK those forums are founded on the botting/hacking/duping community. How else are they supposed to obtain all those items you've saved after a fresh ladder reset?
So that's why I keep well away from them as they do more harm to the game than good.
Hehe, yeah I did read about that and found that a guy had done an extensive search that if you wait like 16 seconds or something you will not likely get it unless there are lot of people online at that very moment and the do the same thing.
About the forums I guess you're right but the principal for it is good. I mean if you're planning on quitting or take a break for a new months you could always sell all your stuff to someone there, get some forum currency and then quit but still keep your forum account active.
I haven't really PLAYED in about 9 or 10 months now but I keep my account active, I login once a month(well twice when it bans me for logging too many chars too fast) to keep all my guys from expiring. I managed to acquire some REALLY rare/good items in ladder when I last really got into it and I didn't want to lose it all. 'Course they are all non-ladder now since it has reset but I got pretty lucky with rune/socket armor drops and managed to trade for a pair of torches(sorc and necro I think? Pally too expensive cause of all the hammerdins = high demand) and a ebotdz.
I managed to trade a bunch of moderately decent items for some summon necro stuff too like uhh...that axe that gives you fanaticism aura I forget the name, and some pike thing that gives concentration aura for act 2 merch, and some armor that has thorns...gave that to act 2 merc too...it's pretty awesome. My army of skeletons can run through hell worldstone keep no problem. The main issue is you need corpses to start but if you join a game with the pindleskin portal open you can go in there and use raise skeleton on all of the zombies before they "wake up" to get a good jump start.
A lot of people seem to complain that my army of summons causes lag though. I mean I have ~30 minions when you include golem + skeletal mages(prereq, might as well use them) and revives but come on, lag? Do these people play on 56k or something?
Last edited by TigerHawk; 04-02-2011 at 12:44 AM.
Patch 1.13 added support for widescreen so that is not an excuse not to play the D2. With all of the attention Blizzard has been giving Starcraft and WoW they will be putting the last nail in their coffin if they screw up D3; Diablo historically has more of a following than WoW and Starcraft together. Some people are just playing WoW and Starcraft to pass the time till D3 gets released.
Didn't Blizzard say around the time the widescreen patch was released that they were working on some HD resolution patch for the game? We didn't get any specifics on like what by what resolutions but they were going to increase it "considerably" I think is the word they used.
I'm hoping that is still in the works. I doubt we will get 1920x1080 or anything but even an increase to 1680x1050 or around there would be sweeeeeet. It's prolly just going to be 1280x720 but still...if you are going to dream you might as well dream big!
If they do something like that, is it like the option going from 640x480 to 800x600 where everything on screen is actually smaller, and you have a larger vision area? I'm guessing so, because if not, that would mean redoing all the sprites in the game, which would really take too much of their time with their current projects...
I think everything would be way to small in D2 playing at a res like 1920x1080.