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I'm not computer savvy and even though the classic disc I use says 1.00, it automatically updates to1.03. That is no problem for me because it is so much farther back and I am sure I can find some really cool rares and have fun playing the game. I haven't played prior to 1.09 on xpac or classic.
 
So why and how does it automatically update to 1.03 when installing from a CD that says it's 1.00?
 
OK, that's why. But how? Is the 1.03 patch already on the 1.00 CDs? If not, how does it update if connections to bnet are blocked?
 
I have been playing a barb on 1.03 and it is really slow, can only pay on players setting 1, the drops are very minimal and do not match up with the drops in later patches. Like a unique might drop a magic club and a minor healing potion.

I guess there is only thing I would like to know before I continue on:

~~Is there any items in 1.03 that are really worth having in newer patches? Such as rare rings, amulets, boots, etc. Or is the pain in the butt of this patch not worth it? My 1.00 classic disc turned it into 1.03

~~I have an expansion disc that is labeled 1.07. Now I know there are some good unique items such as Shako, Vamp Gaze and Valor. I am also pretty sure that there are some amazing rare rings, amulets and boots in 1.07 that have mods that are far better than ones in 1.09 and up.

When I was young in my D2 playing, back in the 1.09 days, I was always under the impression, and told that the great items came from 1.08. But on this forum I always hear people speaking of 1.07 as being the patch for those good items. I had what I always thought was an ".08" Valor that gave tons of life and a ".08" shako that gave tons of life again. I had nice dual leach rings like Raven Spiral and Plague Master that I thought were brought up from 1.08.

My main questions I need help with are:
1) Is 1.03 worth playing for any reason at all? I am not having much fun with it.
2) Were those items I mentioned above actually from .07 and not .08? Or were they perhaps the same?
3) I'm not bright enough to switch patches at will, so if 1.07 has great items, like the ones that I thought were from 1.08, is it ethical to upgrade on the second laptop I have now from 1.03 classic to play 1.07 xpac for fun and to get some nice items to bring up to future characters? If that is something that isn't frowned upon, I would love to do it.

Thanks for always answering my millions of questions peeps! It's so much easier to talk about things person to person for me, rather than trying to find old topics and conversations and finding answers that don't mesh exactly with my questions lol.
 
Well the new stupid way of installing D2 and having to have all of these extra discs and what not, screwed me over. I don't have the "LoD disc 1" apparently to update to xpac on this particular PC. I luckily had the new extra long cd keys. My other PC has had d2 and the expansion on it forever. So I will either have to go buy a new chest or get one of the few that I loaned out to friends.

If I install LoD off of a new battlechest, is it automatically going to send me past 1.07 and up to a newer patch? The LoD CD that I was trying to use was from the year 2001. Am I pretty much screwed? Why does it make me install it like this way now?

I guess I am going to install Sacred and try that game out again and if I don't like that I'm going to give Dungeon Siege a try. Both of those are the original ones. I remember liking them, I could just never stay off Diablo 2 for too long to actually get far on games like Guildwars, WoW, Sacred, Dungeon Siege, Baldur's Gate.
 
I liked the original Sacred a lot. But I was so bad at games back then, that I never even finished the game, despite sinking enough time in it to do so.

Can't you just use the version switcher floating around here? I haven't ever used it myself, but from what I have read, it's really easy to use and get you to play any old patch.
 
If you don’t want to use the switcher, just open the Trenshadow files and copy the patch files into the D2 folder. Multi instance DLLs are there too, almost mandatory for classic.

You can change your classic 1.03 to 1.00 by doing this I think.

Links are in the Community sticky.
 
Just to be clear, you would need to start fresh if you did go back to 1.00. But I think it is worth it as you can then farm the Cow King.
Starting 1.00 & 1.07 are pretty hard. I thought 1.00 was one of the biggest challenges in D2 until clvl30
 
Jamie said:
I have been playing a barb on 1.03 and it is really slow, can only pay on players setting 1, the drops are very minimal and do not match up with the drops in later patches. Like a unique might drop a magic club and a minor healing potion.
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Champions and unique monsters in classic (1.00-1.06) will only drop a potion and gold, or a potion and a magic item. Magic find only works on normal monsters, not champions, or act bosses. The exception is in act 4 where champions and uniques have a fixed 12.5% chance to drop a rare. Act bosses are not worth running at all as the drops are pitiful.

This means the best strategy for finding rares is to load up with magic find and kill as many normal monsters as possible plus any uniques and champions, typically in the river of flame or chaos sanctuary. That is, of course, unless you are running 1.00 and then in that case you need to kill the cow king over and over.

Starting in a classic patch other than 1.00 is pretty difficult. But in 1.00 with unlimited cow king drops, you can just beat normal and run cows until you find some decent gear and then continue on to nightmare (same with heck).

Tips for spending hundreds of hours killing the cow king over and over are:

-You'll be able to find sojs relatively easily once you have a manald and a nagel in the stash
-You can keep wormskull and the undead crown in your stash to get failed unique rares pretty reliably (and other item types too, just that rare bone helms and crowns are pretty desirable helms imo)
-The cow king's drops are able to be manipulated somewhat by map seed selection, and character movement (same as 1.07 racks, if you run around the map in the same way, you can get some of the same items to drop. takes a lot of practice)
 
I never hear of any people MFing the area down the stairs immediately after Pindleskin, the Halls of Anguish . It's easy to get a game with no cold immunes and most of the monsters aren't particularly hard and the convenience of it being right in between Pindleskin and Nithlaak makes it an area with good reason to be in. Why is it that it is never mentioned for a place to MF and level up while you're doing it? I'm bringing it up because I just found my first Griffon's Eye last night when I decided to kill Pindle and mess around down there.

I'm not sure the area level and how it compares to Pits, Ancient Tunnels and those two places by the Blood Raven, but I have found Death's fathom and Griffon's in the matter of I am pretty sure less than a year now on my blizz sorc. I found a unique Sacred Armor from there and tons of good socketable items. One time I found 2 Crown of Ages within a half hour of killing Pindleskin on my way heading there. So the bonus of always getting to start the run out with Pindleskin is great and ending if you want (I don't) to you can end on the Nithlaak (sp?) dude. The only bad part is the next level after that one has the waypoint that you have to remember to not click if you plan on killing Nithlaak and it usually has tons of cold immunes, so I do pindle/halls of anguish and then get out of there.

The Halls of Anguish has provided far more for me than Ancient Tunnels or The Pits during my reboot on single player over the last year and during my battle.net time spanning from 1.09 up until one of the seasons during 1.13 I believe. Why is it that nobody at all mentions this place as a place to MF and level and what is the area level compared to the popular places like Pits, AT, CS, WSK123, Mausoleum and Crypt(?)? Is it just my dumb luck, or is this perhaps an underrated area that has been overlooked by people?
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I was really hoping to go back to 1.07, but I ended up not being able to get the patch switcher to work and the LoD CD the game forced me to use, brought my patch up to 1.12. Was very frustrating. I had the old 1.03 classic CDs, but when I went to install Xpac I used my old xpac disc from like 15 years ago and then halfway through it said to "please insert LOD disc 1" so I had to get the boxset I loaned someone and grab the LoD Disc from out of there to continue the update and in turn, my plan of staying on an old patch was busted by the game forcing me to use a newer LoD disc to play. What kind of BS is that anyway and why would it do that and not be able to use the LoD disc that I had that was from 1.07?
 
Recently I found a 5socket 266%ed runemaster, so 4% off perfect. I am playing with the idea of building a char around it - does any1 have experience with this matter?
 
Thanks for the inspiration. Sadly, it's not ethereal and I fear I am only one or two CS runs away from one.

I don't think I would use it 5* Ist'ed. I figured the ED roll could be worth a more direct approach. The druid one sounds fun, though! It's going to stay in the stash until I have more useful jewels... Thanks!
 
My Java Lightning Zon just hit Hell and I am no longer max'd out resists, in fact I'm short more than charms can help me at this point. Is an Um in my newly found Griffon's Eye a good decision? I can always pull it out and put in a perfect facet if I ever find one and once I get my resists figured out. I have a 4/4 Lit Facet I was thinking of putting in until I got a 5/5, but now im having resist issues.

EDIT: I managed to remedy my situation with charms and a pair of boots and now have 79/75/84/79(that 1 point in lightning is going to bug me at 84). That is because I only have 1 Java GC and a 1 Passive/12 FHR GC taking up a slot and the rest left plenty of room for resists. Luckily I found enough with other mods to keep my life up where it was (with plenty of stats I haven't used yet), 77 FRW, and 67 FHR (6 frames). I guess I can go with the 4/4 Facet for now and worry about what I am going to do later if I run across a 5/5 (I haven't found a Facet in months) or more Java Skillers.
 
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