It all starter in 2009 when I began playing Diablo 2 - Lord of Destruction on my old PC. My first character was a Paladin. It was a pleasant game and seemed quite easy I may say (at least Normal and Nightmare). At that time I hadn't had internet access at home and I was playing offline. I didn't had all the knowledge I have today about the game's mechanics, synergies and point allocation and all good stuff that make the end game items so powerful. I was unaware of runewords and saw the runes quite useless (only some minor improvements over the Perfect Gems when socketing).
As I said, Normal and Nightmare were easy peasy but when I reached Hell I felt the effect of poorly points allocation on different almost useless spells. I barely finished Act One and then I hit wall at the very beginning of Act Two.
The story was like that: Exit town, merc died instantly at the first pack of Dung Soldier s and I followed him seconds later. Resurrect merc, exit town, died again in seconds, resurrect, died, I went bankrupt and that was the end of the game for the next 15 years. Never played again until last Easter when the Passion reignited. The old PC is at my mother house in the country side and I'm not going there to often or have time to play.
I then bought the D2 Resurrected and played a lot since then, maybe too much (if Battlenet had a time counter like Steam I think I would be worried about that time spent on the game). I managed to level a Hydra Sorceress to 99 and now I'm on course to reach the same level with her cousin, Paladin, now level 97.
Last week I was visiting my mother and played again continuing my first char's journey that finally got to the end reaching level 84 when killed Baal. A journey that lasted 15 years and 3 days (5th of June 2009 - 8th of June 2024). At the exact 15 years mark I was at World Stone Keep 2 but took a couple of days break, until June, 8.
At Resurrected I'm right now at 93% of Holy Grail (502 of 539 items found) and after I'll reach level 99 with my Paladin I guess I'll play a Necromancer or Assassin.
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