Re: The Questions Thread
Hotmuling is the process of muling items off a character into an ATMA stash *while* you're still playing. Mainly used for Gheeds, which you can only carry one of, but may be used if you want to mule stuff and free up space but don't want to end your session. This is how it works
1) Alt+Tab or hit Windows to get out of D2, open up your character in ATMA. Mule the item(s) you want off to a stash
2) Go back to Diablo 2. Here is the important bit: take the item(s) you just transferred to a stash and throw them on the ground and never touch them again, or in any other way benefit from them. If you're playing with others, make sure they don't take them or benefit from them either. From the moment you moved the item to a stash in ATMA what you essentially did was create a dupe, as one version exists in a stash, and one exists on your character right now. Now you're just dumping the original item and getting rid of it. It might be obvious, but I may as well state it as well: this does *not* work in reverse. You can't mule items on to your character mid-game, if you tried, you'd end up losing the copy from ATMA you tried to mule as D2 would auto-save over the character file containing it with the one you're playing right now that isn't holding it.
So long as you're smart about it, you should be fine, but the potential is there to accidenatly create duped items, so be careful.
EDIT: Also, is it alright if I make my HotO in a Superior Flail?
Honestly, probably makes no difference. Its technically best to make it in an ethereal flail for the lower dex requirement, and the same idea applies: just never, ever swing it and you'll be fine. Change your left-click to something other than attack to avoid doing it accidentaly as well.