memories of d2 ...what do you remember?

My earliest Memory is playing simply classic in 2004 on a Paladin where I thought

Zeal and

Holy Fire was cool. I never even made it past Act II! I didn't play LoD until like 5 or 6 years later and my mind was blown by Act 5, Runewords, and Charms, along with the bigger stash.

I started playing when I was about 11. Me, my cousins, my uncle and some of his friends were like our own little D2 community. Keep in mind that we didn't have an internet connection, so all the information we had was what we found out among ourselves.

• My favorite character was the necromancer from the get go. However, I played an unusual, off-meta build: buncha points into everything, shield and
  Crystal Sword, run into stuff and hit with the basic attack.
• With that said,
  Iron Maiden was incredible. Especially with
  Blood Golem. Didn't need a guide to discover that and be extremely excited.
• There was a bug in an early version of D2 that made the game crash with, I think, transparencies. This meant that the game froze whenever you entered the
  Chaos Sanctuary (windows) or when you ran into a
  Willowisp. Playing through Act III (or going into the
  Plains of Despair) was nerve-wracking and I couldn't kill Diablo. So, for a long, long time I could only play normal. When we finally installed LoD, getting to see Diablo (and kill him) was amazing. And yes, my necro whacked him to death with a rare
  Crystal Sword.
• Because of the same bug,
  Fire Golem also crashed the game. This made me incredibly excited when I finally got to use it. And incredibly disappointed when I eventually discovered that it sucked.
• I'm not 100% sure about this, but I think
  Bone Spirit also crashed the game.
• Laughing like idiots whenever
  Deckard Cain said "Stay awhile and listen" (or, in our version, "espera un poco y escucha") because we joked that the "identify all" sound was a fart.
• Playing a new character and getting excited to get
  Frostburn,
  Tarnhelm, or a few other low-level uniques that felt like old friends and equipping them just because of that.
• Getting wrecked in PVP by my uncle's
  Leap Attack barbarian because, I think, it always hit. And my necro's build was as described above. Then feeling like a badass when I built an actual bone necro and completely destroyed him with
  Bone Spirit.

Remember the time when reskill was not an option. One wrong click and your build was doomed...

Not something you expect, but I remember, not so long ago, you could get a Sunder Charm by casually playing the game.

Sulchin wrote: 2 months ago

Remember the time when reskill was not an option. One wrong click and your build was doomed...

Oh yes. D2 felt rogue-like back then!

Sulchin wrote: 2 months ago

Remember the time when reskill was not an option. One wrong click and your build was doomed...

Gold remembrance from the 2000s (Classic and LoD)... I remember having printed guides and notebooks with the builds, exactly to do not mess with the skill points :S

I remember post LOD release (well before 1.10) when there would be certain exploits found that would be used in the most public way.

Baal did not exist other than some boss we needed to get past, Cows were the game. I remember well before a massive ban wave occured one would join a game and people were openly duping items. On the Ground one could see Windforces & Schaefers, SOJs, and the Constricting Ring being freely dropped. I still remember a specific Cow game players were lining up with items to dupe. It was the WiId Wild West of Tristam in play.

My next favorite Memory was post 1.11, and the beloved Temp Bans. I don't remember if there ever was truly some metric that was shared, but I do remember that you could enter and exit multiple games without issue, and other times exit a game twice in a minute and find you are temporarily banned. Sometimes this could last 15 minutes, other times hours. We had no way of knowing how long this would last. So instead we loaded up Open Bnet where everyone was a level 99 with the most insane items ever thought to exist. A player could have an

Axe that did 80k-150k damage that was hacked from the 800-1500 damage weapon.

I remember

Baal bots were kind of more like an unofficial leveling service. It was easy to join a

Baal run. Even better if you could join that

Baal bot with no other players as most of the drops would be yours . But then the downside was we had to put up with the SPAM bots. Any and all public games would have a SPAM bot join. Some would fill our screen with useless junk. Sometimes they were bugged and repeat the SPAM message over and over. Other times they would SPAM, leave, and reenter later.

I most remember the never ending ladder season, where thousands of voices were crying out "When is ladder reset" and Blizzard just ignored. Many of us thought to ask "Do they even know this game still exisits?"