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you can if you want to, usually i start running out of ideas for what to do with skill points later on, because it doesn't matter all that much once CE and IM are maxed. revives can help in some areas like CS.

the official strategy guide on archive dot orb is also very useful, but be sure to check the date that specific pages were archived, as it may not be completely accurate info for 1.00 https://web.archive.org/web/20000815065211/http://www.battle.net/diablo2/ the original lurker lounge forum...

i've definitely gotten a 1.00 glass cannon bowazon to a4 hell. a gothic bow with +2 and ias is pretty good. +max or min is a bonus. the ED bug isn't a death sentence for 1.00, just sayin'...

oh man, i updated to 1.05 for NOTHING!! time to reinstall...

it is definitely useful in classic. after performing the ritual twice back to back, basically all the items that drop are rares, some are uniques, and sometimes you get a set item. the one caveat to this is that magic find only works on regular monsters in classic (unique monsters nearly always...

the burning souls easter egg is pretty useful in classic. this is 1.05, and only a small fraction of the number of rares i found in about an hour (note: literally none of them were good)

has anyone confirmed this works in 1.04 yet? i might actually update my 1.00 install if that's the case (or make a new install for 1.05 or smth)

wow, i have not seen this before. don't normal legit identical rares drop with the same durability too? these don't, even as a percentage of total durability.

nice ring! i should really do a showcase video with all my 1.00 stuff. might get me back into playing d2. i've been mainly learning how to romhack super metroid for the past year or so; aside from the no-vitality barb i posted above, i've hardly played d2 for a while.

finally completed a challenge i started about a year ago: a barbarian with no stat points spent in vitality. although, with that being the only restriction, i still used whirlwind and this is a twinked character on softcore, so not all that impressive (though i did keep track of deaths and it's...

Are you making sure to follow the same walking (or teleporting) path every time? Doing runs like these is basically trying to manipulate the pRNG in the game for the most consistency. imo just run cow king ( by starting over in 1.00 :P ), unlesss you're looking for an item of a type which the...

absolutely agree. don't forget the corpse explosion. there are only a couple places in the game which don't have enough melee-attacking characters to make this anything less than comfortable. act bosses can be difficult in later difficulties but still doable with enough persistence (remember act...

i'm pretty sure that in 1.00-1.06, unique monsters like flamespike can only drop magic items (plus a potion or tome), except in act 4 where they have a chance to drop rares.

not sure if there's any known official reason, but that dude is dangerous. even on single player with certain low-power chars he can kill you if you're careless. i imagine it was even worse on battle.net in the old days because of lag. i can see him just murdering people whose client hadn't even...

I often stat about 200 energy on sorc (and necro) by level 50. that plus two sojs and frostburn gets you close to 1000 mana and allows you to spam orb, aided by wall of the eyeless and warmth. then again, i only play in single player games (only multi to xfer). static should do the bulk of the...

When rushing in 1.00 be careful with Duriel. The rushing char (which presumably has completed the difficulty) can become bugged and lose their character title and ability to create/join games in any difficulty higher than the one the rush is occurring in. E.g., a Baron(ess) rushing another...

wait, really? what about: whether a superfluous item was consumed by the cube during transmutation the type of item consumed by the cube etc. for the uninitiated: when cubing a recipe, all that is required is that the requisite ingredients be in the cube. you can add any superfluous items you...

most definitely. when rolling maps and testing out maps to see if they are worth keeping, you get sooo much data for your brain to process. when killing the king repeatedly, it's hard to precisely remember (and importantly, be able to verify) when you get identical duplicate rares. maybe if they...

I suddenly feel a desire to temporarily leave 1.00 for the world of 1.07.

Been playing a hammerdin lately. levels 1-18 are horrible but it improves rapidly from there, especially if you have 2 sojs to twink your character with. Here's my character shortly after attaining level 39 in hell cs: I'm not going for diablo yet, and i'm terrified of lord de seis, both...