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memories of d2 ...what do you remember?

Renton212 · 2026-02-25T14:46:32-08:00

- i remember when runes were white making them even harder to find - Using the website Arreat Summit as my database, I consider this site as the new and impr…

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Danzalight `58`

1 hour ago (pre-Resurrected)

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.

Burning out in the Burning Hells since 2004.

human_being `806`

38 minutes ago (pre-Resurrected)

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.