My gripe time . . .
Greetings - I love playing Diablo 2LOD, but there are some things that drive me nuts.
First, I busted my behind for days saving up runes and looking for the right weapon to place them in and finally found the Plague Scalpel Giant Sword to put a Tir and and El to make the Steel rune word. Well, guess what. Doesn't work. So I will add that to the exceptions listed for that particular rune word.
Also, I've had over 300MF for days, and I've found duplicates for many sets, even triplicates. I've found duplicates for many, many Unique items. I've found Unique's and great Exceptional items for dozens of swords, claws, staves, maces, etc., but one . . . ya, that's right, one Unique for an axe which I picked for my Whirlwind Barb, and that was about a week ago, when I was at about level 20. Now I'm at level 57 and I haven't seen a Unique axe OR an exceptional axe in days . . . no wonder axes are not popular as a main weapon.
All these different weapon types are interesting but make it a long wait to find one that fits your character.
Finally, trying to craft a WW Barb, I'm finding out something that is not in the guide to making one. Namely, that WW is pretty much a loser of an attack until its worked up to at least 13 or 14. Also, it is absolutely essential that ya have moderate to high, and better yet very high mana leech. Unfortunately, those items that provide mana leech per hit (which is what ya have to have . . . not per kill as it just isn't enough leeching to fill the mana bulb after it is emptied by the huge mana costs of a WW attack) are extremely rare. Now, I am very fortunate that I have found a giant axe that has 6% mana leech per hit, but that is barely enough.
I'm going on faith right now that as I increase in level and through Hell, into Nightmare these items I need and want will appear.
In the mean time I am poring my skill points into WW which is still mostly ineffective at this point, which leaves me with little else but poor skills to kill of those demons that get harder and harder to kill each level I increase.
I've done killed the Countess over and over again to get runes and my storage is almost full of them. But with the accuracy of the rune word list know thrown in doubt . . . well?
Finally, weapons with sockets have suddenly disappeared from the scene when they are dropped. I've tried eliminating all MF to get the socketed weapons dropped but it isn't happening. So I've got fifty runes and no sockets to place them it. So I guess that means going to the cube to try and craft sockets in items . . . here's wishing myself good luck on that one . . . will it work as advertised?
Well, I'll keep at it . . . but if this fails I'm going to make a Frenzy Barb with Flails which is the weapon I usually use.
Anyone have any encouragement?
Regards, TDurden1937
Greetings - I love playing Diablo 2LOD, but there are some things that drive me nuts.
First, I busted my behind for days saving up runes and looking for the right weapon to place them in and finally found the Plague Scalpel Giant Sword to put a Tir and and El to make the Steel rune word. Well, guess what. Doesn't work. So I will add that to the exceptions listed for that particular rune word.
Also, I've had over 300MF for days, and I've found duplicates for many sets, even triplicates. I've found duplicates for many, many Unique items. I've found Unique's and great Exceptional items for dozens of swords, claws, staves, maces, etc., but one . . . ya, that's right, one Unique for an axe which I picked for my Whirlwind Barb, and that was about a week ago, when I was at about level 20. Now I'm at level 57 and I haven't seen a Unique axe OR an exceptional axe in days . . . no wonder axes are not popular as a main weapon.
All these different weapon types are interesting but make it a long wait to find one that fits your character.
Finally, trying to craft a WW Barb, I'm finding out something that is not in the guide to making one. Namely, that WW is pretty much a loser of an attack until its worked up to at least 13 or 14. Also, it is absolutely essential that ya have moderate to high, and better yet very high mana leech. Unfortunately, those items that provide mana leech per hit (which is what ya have to have . . . not per kill as it just isn't enough leeching to fill the mana bulb after it is emptied by the huge mana costs of a WW attack) are extremely rare. Now, I am very fortunate that I have found a giant axe that has 6% mana leech per hit, but that is barely enough.
I'm going on faith right now that as I increase in level and through Hell, into Nightmare these items I need and want will appear.
In the mean time I am poring my skill points into WW which is still mostly ineffective at this point, which leaves me with little else but poor skills to kill of those demons that get harder and harder to kill each level I increase.
I've done killed the Countess over and over again to get runes and my storage is almost full of them. But with the accuracy of the rune word list know thrown in doubt . . . well?
Finally, weapons with sockets have suddenly disappeared from the scene when they are dropped. I've tried eliminating all MF to get the socketed weapons dropped but it isn't happening. So I've got fifty runes and no sockets to place them it. So I guess that means going to the cube to try and craft sockets in items . . . here's wishing myself good luck on that one . . . will it work as advertised?
Well, I'll keep at it . . . but if this fails I'm going to make a Frenzy Barb with Flails which is the weapon I usually use.
Anyone have any encouragement?
Regards, TDurden1937
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