Geez.. this thread really took off while I was gone. First off, I would like to say that my skin is too thick to be terribly bothered by this, but this post has certainly changed my perspective of the SPF.
One of the reasons I came to SP was to get away from the bnet type people and I thought SP would be a whole lot better. So, I switch over and have some luck and decide to share my finds with the community, and because of that I have multiple people thinking I'm hacking my items. I was excited at having such incredible luck when I've never had such a streak before (and btw, I first started playing Diablo II classic back in 2000 and have probably played many, many more hours than most of the people in this thread - not all obviously, but even with taking a couple years off, I probably have more hours played than most people ever will), and since there isn't a friends list to share my finds with, I come onto the forum and post in the thread where people are supposed to go to share their finds. I can say this, if I ever want to share my finds again, I wont. Just isn't worth the hassle of having this happen because of a run of good luck.
If theres anyone who still thinks my items are hacked, I just don't know what to say. I posted readouts with the fingerprints for every item that I listed. Also, if I were hacking my items, why would I have given myself such ****ty rolls on most of them? If I were cheating, I'd tell no one about it and give myself perfect rolls on everything. And why would I make a post listing a bunch of items that I just used a hack/tool to get? I'm playing self found so it's not like building credibility matters, not going to be trading anyways.
Oh, and about me preferring to use dupes on bnet, that was just a really stupid point to bring up. Of course I used dupes on bnet, I like to compete. As has been mentioned, you're not going to get high end runewords on SP, or at least very, very rarely. I'm ok with that in a SP setting (not even using RWM), but if you think I'm going to duel someone using duped runewords while I'm sitting there in crap gear when I have the option to be on equal ground, forget it.
Speaking of high end runewords, if I were using tools to get any items I wanted, where's my multiple enigmas (got a summoner coming, he could use one also), fortitude for my new barb, ebotds for him also, maybe a nice infinity for my merc? Altho I'm not using RWM, only RRM, and can't make those runewords, if I were giving myself any item I wanted, I would have made myself those runewords before making myself four shakos (and one of them ethereal none the less).
To sum it up, I'm probably not going to be posting much if at all on this forum anymore. I'll still read it as I actually enjoy seeing people have good luck, but I doubt I'll be posting anymore, maybe in a tourney or two. I don't post much anyways as you can tell by my postcount, but the point stands. Not sure what the deal is here, this forum seems friendly from the outside, but being new here is not nearly worth the effort just to be part of a community that'd prefer to attack ya instead of welcome ya anyways.
Oh, and to the guy who asked about my mf gear as I was going, I didn't use any topazed armor. Too lazy to do that honestly. I found a nice pair of 37% chancies really early on, and got a skullder's when I still had very low mf. Of course found a pair of nagels pretty fast. Used rare boots with mf 'til I found the travs. Used Alibaba/rhyme on switch. That much gave me about 100-150 mf, more on switch, and that's really all you need to mf with. After that, I just increased my mf as I found better gear. Still waiting for a Gheed's however, would have figured after those finds I'd be able to find an item that I normally consider a pain in the *** with how often it drops, but apparently not.
One of the reasons I came to SP was to get away from the bnet type people and I thought SP would be a whole lot better. So, I switch over and have some luck and decide to share my finds with the community, and because of that I have multiple people thinking I'm hacking my items. I was excited at having such incredible luck when I've never had such a streak before (and btw, I first started playing Diablo II classic back in 2000 and have probably played many, many more hours than most of the people in this thread - not all obviously, but even with taking a couple years off, I probably have more hours played than most people ever will), and since there isn't a friends list to share my finds with, I come onto the forum and post in the thread where people are supposed to go to share their finds. I can say this, if I ever want to share my finds again, I wont. Just isn't worth the hassle of having this happen because of a run of good luck.
If theres anyone who still thinks my items are hacked, I just don't know what to say. I posted readouts with the fingerprints for every item that I listed. Also, if I were hacking my items, why would I have given myself such ****ty rolls on most of them? If I were cheating, I'd tell no one about it and give myself perfect rolls on everything. And why would I make a post listing a bunch of items that I just used a hack/tool to get? I'm playing self found so it's not like building credibility matters, not going to be trading anyways.
Oh, and about me preferring to use dupes on bnet, that was just a really stupid point to bring up. Of course I used dupes on bnet, I like to compete. As has been mentioned, you're not going to get high end runewords on SP, or at least very, very rarely. I'm ok with that in a SP setting (not even using RWM), but if you think I'm going to duel someone using duped runewords while I'm sitting there in crap gear when I have the option to be on equal ground, forget it.
Speaking of high end runewords, if I were using tools to get any items I wanted, where's my multiple enigmas (got a summoner coming, he could use one also), fortitude for my new barb, ebotds for him also, maybe a nice infinity for my merc? Altho I'm not using RWM, only RRM, and can't make those runewords, if I were giving myself any item I wanted, I would have made myself those runewords before making myself four shakos (and one of them ethereal none the less).
To sum it up, I'm probably not going to be posting much if at all on this forum anymore. I'll still read it as I actually enjoy seeing people have good luck, but I doubt I'll be posting anymore, maybe in a tourney or two. I don't post much anyways as you can tell by my postcount, but the point stands. Not sure what the deal is here, this forum seems friendly from the outside, but being new here is not nearly worth the effort just to be part of a community that'd prefer to attack ya instead of welcome ya anyways.
Oh, and to the guy who asked about my mf gear as I was going, I didn't use any topazed armor. Too lazy to do that honestly. I found a nice pair of 37% chancies really early on, and got a skullder's when I still had very low mf. Of course found a pair of nagels pretty fast. Used rare boots with mf 'til I found the travs. Used Alibaba/rhyme on switch. That much gave me about 100-150 mf, more on switch, and that's really all you need to mf with. After that, I just increased my mf as I found better gear. Still waiting for a Gheed's however, would have figured after those finds I'd be able to find an item that I normally consider a pain in the *** with how often it drops, but apparently not.
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