I Started Playing Diablo 2 Again

Bosnian_Cowboy · February 2004

<div class="IPBDescription">oh God help me</div> I used to hate this game so much and now I can't stop playing. I've gotten the expansion pack and now that all the things I couldn't stand are out of the way like the low resolution the loneliness of it (I got friends to play with now) I play it all the time. But it still doesn't make sense. I used to get mad at people for liking this game because it's so mindless and now I love it.

I have a level 43 Barbarian, Paladin level 28, Assassin level 26, Necromancer level 18, Druid level 16, and Amazon level 6.

Share your experiences with it here. Maybe I can play with some of you guys.

Lightning-X · February 2004

you're screwed

i started playing 1.10 patch when it came out

had level 89 hardcore pally
level 84 hardcore pally died

i was mad but i couldnt stop

level 78 mf sorc found me godly stuff

finally i just had work and school for a good solid week and had no time to play, and my characters expired. lost all my stuff but im free <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif' />

chis1 · February 2004

Them kind of games seem to bore me after a while

it all seems like the only objective is to get a l33t level and just go around bashing monsters O_o

Bosnian_Cowboy · February 2004

It basically is. The part that is really draws you in is building up your character in different ways with skills and getting different mixes of itemst. I believe my understanding of that and playing it with friends has hooked me to it.

BizZy_9mm_Messiah · February 2004

Leave Diablo2 alone now or be forever addicted.

RyoOhki · February 2004

D2 is one of those games you play for months, get bored, then a year or so later you take it up again and get addicted once more. I recently finished my latest D2 phase (brought on by patch 1.10, I LOVE my zookeeper necro <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif' /> ). Really the only way to get through it is to work it our of your system by playing; going cold turkey will just make you delusional. When I tried that I was woken up by my phone ringing but I didn't want to answer it because it was giving me +30% cold resist, and I really needed that resistance.

2of12B0RG · February 2004

I stopped playing D2 2 weeks after the widespread 1.09 duping began. I STARTED playing during v 1.03, before the expansion.

When I stopped playing, I had amassed at least one of every item in the game except for the grandfather, and 1 or more lvl 99 hardcore character of each class.

When the duping made the game retarded, I sold my accounts for a measly $76 on ebay and tossed my d2 cds at an old friend of mine.

When the 1.10 patch went live, I picked up the D2 box set at wal mart, thinking it might be a little better now.

2 weeks later, with a HC character in the upper 80s, and not much luck in finding anything due to not having any friends to play with this time around, I realized this game is nothing more than a deathtrap.

DO NOT PLAY DIABLO2!

If anybody wants my account, PM me. The account may not be there anymore due to expiration, but hell. There's a shaftstop on it somewhere. And this all depends on whether or not I remember my password.

ZupiCo · February 2004

Well, you're not alone, I used to hate Diablo 2 too, until i discovered how much fun it was to play on battle.net, with other people. <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif' />
I love doing unusual chars that aren't much played, so much more fun than the standard cookie-cutter kill em' all-builds. <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif' />
If someone wants to play with me, I play on Us East and sometimes on the Europe realm with the nick ZupiCo on both.

Demiguise · February 2004

cant find my second cd case <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif' />

Epidemic · February 2004

I was totally addicted to it at one point. It's harsh stuff :X

Zig · February 2004

</div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> </td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'>oh God help me</td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'>

nobody can help you now. if diablo never existed, i would be 3 years younger.

weggy · February 2004

Diablo II does get old. But its one of those games where I come back to it a few months out of every year. My new character is a Lvl79 Necro Zookeeper on USEast.

Xyth · February 2004

I'm remember my 1 month binge of D2, staying up every night to 5am, because I had become sure that mfing was better in the morning XD. I must have killed mephisto upwards of 200 times, I memerized how to get to his dungeon from any possible setup of the level of his dungeon just above it.right, up, right, up etc).... *shudders* Then I just stopped playing when the new patch didn't come out and started playing half life, go figure....

twoflow · February 2004

I played it for a few months before PSO shook my world. I could never go back, just the thought of D2's lifeless environments and incessant clicking makes me all queasy. I understand that people are drawn to the addiction of levelling up, but wouldn't it be more fun in a vibrant game world? And one with, you know, less clicking?

Hawkeye · February 2004

</div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (flintpaper @ Feb 17 2004, 03:43 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> I played it for a few months before PSO shook my world. I could never go back, just the thought of D2's lifeless environments and incessant clicking makes me all queasy. I understand that people are drawn to the addiction of levelling up, but wouldn't it be more fun in a vibrant game world? And one with, you know, less clicking?  </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> 
No.

But wouldn't it be a more fun world if everyone could level up?

You'd be studying, and you'd hear a voice in your head that says "You're studying skill has just increased by 1 point!"

Or when you eat breakfast, it'd say "You are full and cannot eat anymore." after enough bites.

And oh.. you'd be able to fit ANYTHING in a backpack. <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif' />

BizZy_9mm_Messiah · February 2004

</div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Hawkeye @ Feb 17 2004, 04:04 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> </div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (flintpaper @ Feb 17 2004, 03:43 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> I played it for a few months before PSO shook my world. I could never go back, just the thought of D2's lifeless environments and incessant clicking makes me all queasy. I understand that people are drawn to the addiction of levelling up, but wouldn't it be more fun in a vibrant game world? And one with, you know, less clicking? </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'>
No.

But wouldn't it be a more fun world if everyone could level up?

You'd be studying, and you'd hear a voice in your head that says "You're studying skill has just increased by 1 point!"

Or when you eat breakfast, it'd say "You are full and cannot eat anymore." after enough bites.

And oh.. you'd be able to fit ANYTHING in a backpack. <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif' />  </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> 
-D2 Addict For Life

Zig · February 2004

"I cast Lvl 3 Eroticism. You turn into a real beautiful woman."

=3

Palmaneen · February 2004

I never really got into diablo 2 but some years ago I played the first one all the time.

Btw. your stories reminds me of me and counter-strike. I've played since beta 1 but when 1.0 was released I began to hate it. Now when I can use steam to play ns I also play cs very often. <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif' />

Geminosity · February 2004

I'm in the same boat as flint... diablo seemed fun and stuff then PSO took over my life like a crack cocaine addiction ^^;

After PSO Diablo and Diablo 2 just felt dull... it's like all the colours had been turned down. Never, ever play PSO, it'll ruin your gaming life forever because it gives you a taste of games gone right; but only a taste <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif' />

SoulSkorpion · February 2004

I've also started playing it again <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif' />

I only ever played necromancers. Well, one necromancer - a level 67 summoner with too many points in bad skills. At the moment, I've got a barbarian, a paladin, an assassin, and a melee necromancer (which I call a "dark paladin").

And I still have yet to reach Hell with any of my characters, ever <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/wink.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='wink.gif' />.

By the way, if you play a lot of Open Diablo2, I <i>highly</i> recommend <a href='http://www.luminatrix.com/ATMA/' target='_blank'>ATMA</a>. It allows you to move items between characters, and store items in "stash" files (which can be any size. So finally you gem and rune hoarders don't have to worry about running out of stash space <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/wink.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='wink.gif' />)

pardzh · February 2004

I actually traded in my D2 and XP discs to EB to stop myself. Never really played hardcore, but I kept going back to it and then getting bored, so I figured I'd just end the cycle and as a plus, get some money back out of it.

I know how you feel with the addiction though, I'm an EverCrack-fiend. Recently relapsed too, and the by-product is a twinked Bard who got bored in about 25 levels... I'll be back and I know it.

Quaunaut · February 2004

Eh. Put a real story to Diablo and I'd love it.

Grillkohle · February 2004

I used to laugh at my brother who played Diablo all day long a year ago, and now im addicted myself, its retarded. I just cant stop.

kuperaye · February 2004

lol i played d2 for a long time about a year ago back when sojs were the currency my best items were shako and ss and trangs set. But now i started last week i have 1 char a lvl 75 (just lvled him to this like 5 min ago) Druid. Man i love druids i play them any game i can. But in 1 week ive been playing im richer now than i was for like 5 months constant playing. Ie i have Tals Armor Aldurs Armor ( ONLY 1 LVL TO GO WEWT) and i got shako like 4 occy and a ss for my druid. I started playing cuz kids at my school were i was like WTH mate and they were like OMG pwnz0rz. well if you want to play with me on useast my account is none other than kuperaye

Har_Har_the_Pirate · February 2004

oi
I have a level 83 sorcerous and am one piece short of tal rasha's wrappings

SoulSkorpion · February 2004

You know what I find so strange? Diablo 2 is so addictive (lewt addiction is powerful stuff <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/wink.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='wink.gif' />), but when Blizzard finally decide to make a MMORPG they make a Warcraft one. I mean... hypothetically speaking, if Diablo 2, exactly as it is, were a MMORPG in the first place they'd have been raking in money for years now. Even more so than they currently are. Not that I'm suggesting they <i>should</i> charge for Battle.net, of course.

I Started Playing Diablo 2 Again

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