Ruby Fire Resist 31-50% Wands, Staves, Boots, Rings, Amulets
Sapphire Cold Resist 31-50% Wands, Staves, Bows, Boots, Rings, Amulets
Amber Lightning Resist 31-50% Armor, Staves, Wands, Bows, Boots, Belts, Rings, Amulets
Emerald Poison Resist 31-50% Scepters, Rings, Amulets
I suggest you start in SC. 1.00 Classic is one of the most difficult patches I have played, you may want to get the feel of it first.
Please have a read of the rules - An intro thread would be nice too
a bit off topic here but, if you're as interested in classic diablo II as i am, give this forum archive a look: http://www.network54.com/Forum/31101
it covers from september 1999 to april 2001, so pre-release to a bit before the expansion's release in 2001. many of the classic bugs we are aware of now (n-1, the 4x monster AR, etc) are discussed there and it's super interesting to me. jarulf is even present here and he's one of the first people i can identify as being interested in and able to gather technical info about the game.
the only problem is, there is no search function. i tried to make an archive with a script but it took more than 24 hours and the script crashed. is there anyone here who could archive, analyze, sort, and make a working sort function for these forums? i feel like it's important to the game's history.
Damnit.. it seems they've recently changed the forum to use the Tapatalk format, which has effectively removed a big portion of the information, and made searching even harder. Many, many replies were (partly) posted as Titles, but those titles were deleted with the change, destroying a lot of good information in the process.
I started pre-LOD only a few weeks ago, and since I found your post with a link to that forum, I've been thoroughly enjoying the amount of information that is not yet "polluted" by all the post-Classic info.
The wayback machine is way slow, and the majority of the site is broken via it.
Quite bummed out. I don't suppose you've ripped the entire forum? ^^