Personalization Quest Woes

Now, I know I'm one of the sentimental few who actually uses the personalisation quest, but...

When I started up in d2r, a very, VERY kind soul gave me a free Stone of Jordan to help me get started as I was scrounging about freebie lobbies to gear up a sorceress to farm with in my first week. A couple weeks later, my partner got wildly lucky and found a

Bul-Kathos' Wedding Band on his necromancer. Of course, my main is an Amazon who would benefit much more from that than a SoJ, so as we're gearing up for Ubers I jokingly said I'd put my name on it before we swapped as I was quite attached to my SoJ (seeing as it was the first one I'd ever possessed in all my years) and I would want it back when we were done.

Come to find, you can't personalise rings or amulets! Won't even let me put it in the box. I swear I personalised a

Raven Frost way back in the day, but... perhaps I'm thinking of the

Raven Claw bow? Perhaps I ran into the same issue back then when I tried to personalise my

Raven Frost to match and just forgot about it..? Either way, what started as a joke now has me questioning my Memory, and also just genuinely a little miffed that we can't both personalise our prize rings before we swap them. Seems to me jewellery would be one of the things most people would WANT to put their names on, if your partner plays with you that would make for a really cute way to propose or marry your characters, so what gives? You can personalise

Wirt's Leg, but not a ring?! Why???

Anyway, it had me wondering if anyone else had run into that issue. For those of you who DON'T just cringe in fear at the thought of lost trade-in value and DO like to leave your mark on items of exceptional sentimental value, is there anything you would have personalised if you could?

I kinda feel like IF someone cares about branding their character's stuff, they'd need more than 3 chances to do so to cover it. And since you can't do that without re-making the entire character (online at least), it inevitably ends up half-baked at best.

Luckily, I never cared about any of that and prefer my stuff to be "nameless" (and will never accept a personalized piece in a trade for that matter). So the only things getting personalized is "whatever random item was last found on the way to handing in the quest" which are then immediately sold to her right after to get rid of them.

But yeah, far as I remember, there have always been restrictions as to what you can or cannot personalize with her.

Personally, I'd love to see that quest reward replaced or at least expanded with (an alternative option of) the ability to instead change the color or appearance of an item.

EmaTheVampire wrote: 13 hours ago

Now, I know I'm one of the sentimental few who actually uses the personalisation quest, but...

When I started up in d2r, a very, VERY kind soul gave me a free Stone of Jordan to help me get started as I was scrounging about freebie lobbies to gear up a sorceress to farm with in my first week. A couple weeks later, my partner got wildly lucky and found a

Bul-Kathos' Wedding Band on his necromancer. Of course, my main is an Amazon who would benefit much more from that than a SoJ, so as we're gearing up for Ubers I jokingly said I'd put my name on it before we swapped as I was quite attached to my SoJ (seeing as it was the first one I'd ever possessed in all my years) and I would want it back when we were done.

Come to find, you can't personalise rings or amulets! Won't even let me put it in the box. I swear I personalised a

Raven Frost way back in the day, but... perhaps I'm thinking of the

Raven Claw bow? Perhaps I ran into the same issue back then when I tried to personalise my

Raven Frost to match and just forgot about it..? Either way, what started as a joke now has me questioning my Memory, and also just genuinely a little miffed that we can't both personalise our prize rings before we swap them. Seems to me jewellery would be one of the things most people would WANT to put their names on, if your partner plays with you that would make for a really cute way to propose or marry your characters, so what gives? You can personalise

Wirt's Leg, but not a ring?! Why???

Anyway, it had me wondering if anyone else had run into that issue. For those of you who DON'T just cringe in fear at the thought of lost trade-in value and DO like to leave your mark on items of exceptional sentimental value, is there anything you would have personalised if you could?

Same here, jewelry: Rings, Amulets, jewels. It totally does not make sense that they are "not allowed" for personalization.

I only used the personalization quest intentionally once! To make GreenGoblin's

Goblin Toe.

vued wrote: 10 hours ago

I only used the personalization quest intentionally once! To make GreenGoblin's

Goblin Toe.

Yeah, personalization as a meme is a thing for some - I know someone who made an Edge in Edge's

Edge Bow... and a Demon's

Demon Machine, upgraded to

Demon Crossbow.

I haven't personalized anything since the old D2LoD days... well, except that one time when I gave a Metamorphosis away to someone and they asked me to personalize it for them first as a form of memento

ShadowHeart wrote: 10 hours ago

vued wrote: 10 hours ago

I only used the personalization quest intentionally once! To make GreenGoblin's

Goblin Toe.

Yeah, personalization as a meme is a thing for some - I know someone who made an Edge in Edge's

Edge Bow... and a Demon's

Demon Machine, upgraded to

Demon Crossbow.

I haven't personalized anything since the old D2LoD days... well, except that one time when I gave a Metamorphosis away to someone and they asked me to personalize it for them first as a form of memento

Wait, not even a "Shadowheart's Shadow Heart"?!

(I have seen a Shadow Heart rare jewel before but no personalizable rare item, yet)

Not yet anyway

Amulets can also be called "Shadow Heart" for that matter, IIRC, but I dunno about other items. Maybe body armor?

ShadowHeart wrote: 9 hours ago

Not yet anyway

Amulets can also be called "Shadow Heart" for that matter, IIRC, but I dunno about other items. Maybe body armor?

Aren't the rare names randomly generated from the same list for any item type?
https://user.xmission.com/~trevin/Diabl ... Names.html

A rare

Demon Heart as base would be nice .

vued wrote: 9 hours ago

Aren't the rare names randomly generated from the same list for any item type?

Not according to the files rareprefix.txt and raresuffix.txt.

"Shadow" prefix can appear on: armo weap misc
"Heart" suffix can appear on: amul orb jewl

(I think misc is an umbrella term for rings, amulets and jewels - and, well, some other items too but nothing that's relevant when talking about rare item names)

So the only personalizable item named "Shadow Heart" would be a sorceress orb, I guess.

Time for another challenge/giveaway?! First one to make a Shadowheart's Shadow Heart wins!

vued wrote: 9 hours ago

ShadowHeart wrote: 10 hours ago

vued wrote: 10 hours ago

I only used the personalization quest intentionally once! To make GreenGoblin's

Goblin Toe.

Yeah, personalization as a meme is a thing for some - I know someone who made an Edge in Edge's

Edge Bow... and a Demon's

Demon Machine, upgraded to

Demon Crossbow.

I haven't personalized anything since the old D2LoD days... well, except that one time when I gave a Metamorphosis away to someone and they asked me to personalize it for them first as a form of memento

Wait, not even a "Shadowheart's Shadow Heart"?!

(I have seen a Shadow Heart rare jewel before but no personalizable rare item, yet)

Not to forget the prospect of having a necromancer named Grim, so that he can wield Grim's

Grim's Burning Dead

Grim Scythe.

That is pretty cold-hearted.

She painstakingly carves your name with magical runes, putting all of her gratitude on every stroke, and hands the item over to you, full of pride.
"Thank you for saving our people. Thank you for saving... me," she says, her eyes glistening with held-back tears.
Then you throw it on her pile of gamble garbage and snatch up a bit of

Gold without even looking at her.

Personally, I like naming stuff that already has a name. Just makes me laugh. The only items I have ever named with the intention of keeping and using were a

Wormskull for my OG necro when I was 12 (just a unique that looked cool) and the only

Windforce I've ever found, which happened to be perfect, so I also had

Larzuk punch a hole in it. Still used by my bowazon.

Schnorki wrote: 10 hours ago

I kinda feel like IF someone cares about branding their character's stuff, they'd need more than 3 chances to do so to cover it. And since you can't do that without re-making the entire character (online at least), it inevitably ends up half-baked at best.

Luckily, I never cared about any of that and prefer my stuff to be "nameless" (and will never accept a personalized piece in a trade for that matter). So the only things getting personalized is "whatever random item was last found on the way to handing in the quest" which are then immediately sold to her right after to get rid of them.

But yeah, far as I remember, there have always been restrictions as to what you can or cannot personalize with her.

Personally, I'd love to see that quest reward replaced or at least expanded with (an alternative option of) the ability to instead change the color or appearance of an item.

Wow, lots more responses than I expected! Been at work all day, collecting my thoughts to format them all properly as when I get home.

My personal meme goal in the meantime, after seeing the Green Goblin Toes above: I want an Edgelord’s Edge

Edge Bow. The real question is… who’s the edgiest edgelord? I’m honestly leaning Warlock over Necromancer after hearing all the new guy’s dialogue on my playthrough.