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I never got into Starcraft; all of my friends ground it into dust though. I'll willing to give Starcraft 2 a go if it ever comes out.

Subscription games make me very, very sad.

Too bad? If Games Workshop had been making kickarse games for the past fifteen years there wouldn't have even been a need for Blizzard. Except for Diablo and Warcraft 2. They were just great.

I still think Battle Realms is more fun the Warcraft 3 though.

I liked star craft and did a run through on it earlier in the year.

But star craft 2 doesn't really hold much excitement for me.

Day off yesterday and working all day today, but will knock down a quest tomorrow.

Thinking about whirlwind, now I have 2 4% mana leech per hit items I should replenish most of my mana with each use (and bonus for kill), negating the need for lots of points in mana or heaps of mana potions.

Mid Act 3 is where I would normally lose interest. But am still enjoying it ATM.

Just wait until you reach Travincal. The council are NOT fun.

New Sorc... up to level 8. I've been trying HBMC's "sell everything, carry one scroll" tactic...

You are not wrong. I have a lot of gold. Got up to level 8 between the Den and Cold Plains, and have just rushed Blood Raven.

Corpsefire was dropping one or two yellows every time I killed him, and the first two gems I got were topaz. Socketed helm!

I had a great barbarian going once where the Countess dropped 2-4 runes every time I killed her. It's weird, I sort of wish you could 're-roll' your character's world after a while. I used to play a lot online, but for some reason my LoD key doesn't work any more. My original does, but who wants to play unexpanded Diablo 2 online?

It'll be like five bucks at the nearest game store, I wager.

My brother and I were playing the crap out of Diablo II earlier in the summer, trying to dig up whole sets and rare runes just for the hell of it. It was a lot of fun. I used a Druid with Lycanthropy/Summoning most of the time.

Interesting that so many people are still playing a game that is 'so' old.

Then again I still love to play Panzer Generals every now and then and its from the mid 90s.

Had a hankering to play Doom 3 a couple of months ago but can't find it in the games stores anywhere, and too lazy to order it in.

I'm a classics junkie. I even have a Commodore 64 emulator... it was my first computer, and I can still occasionally get a kick out of Pool Of Radiance. Not sure why.

The Close Combat series and similar are still some of my faves...

BTW, Gonads, I just wanted to thank you for plugging Medieval II earlier last month... Found it for $20. Still love it. Cheers dude!

probably because it is a good game. Pool of Radiance has this bizarre mix of exploration and fun. But I digress.

Did you ever play the C64 version with 9+ disks?

haha no. PC.

Making a seperate thread for classic games so that this doesn't go off-topic.

Thanks Cheese Elemental.

Just got to the spider forest (or whatever its called) way point.

Have Kalims eye.

Then as I was so close to level 25 I went back to kill duriel (a real struggle this time) and andariel (much more profitable) and ran through one of the 4 arms of the arcane sanctuary.

Now level 25.

Tomorrow night I'll plow onto the next way point.

My favourite chracters are the thorns paladin and ice sorceress.

For my favourite paladin I use thorns and grow it to 20pts as soon as possible. I buy no other aura. Everything else is on fighting skills, zeal, vengeance, shield bash and the like.

Oner thing I only play hardcore. In order to play hardcore in LoD from the outset I borrowed a savegame so to unlock hardcore for every first character.

Thorny paladins are funny. Quite, quite effective. Skulled out shields...

Arcane sanctuary is great for experience up to 25ish sort of point... Act 3 is probably the toughest for a single fighter.

I loved my Javazon until I realized that Nightmare would be Hell due to
monster resists.

Not sure if I play tonight now, I have to sit down with the wife and sort out our tax and my roster requests for next year the the hospital.

*Shakes fist at real life*

Waaagh_Gonads wrote:Thanks Cheese Elemental.

Just got to the spider forest (or whatever its called) way point.

Have Kalims eye.

Then as I was so close to level 25 I went back to kill duriel (a real struggle this time) and andariel (much more profitable) and ran through one of the 4 arms of the arcane sanctuary.

Now level 25.

Tomorrow night I'll plow onto the next way point.

feth (G A K) I want to play now.

I like Necro too but I never know how to spec it. I might make some kind of crazy poison Necro.

Yeah! This is right up my alley.

I recently got my Class A CDL and I am currently doing alot of Over The Road stuff. I have my notebook and it is not that great of a machine, but it will run DII. So, I have been playing that like mad!

Currently running a Pally w/ Holy Freeze/Smite and been doing rather well. To go along with the beginning of this thread, I hire the opposite of what I am running. Pally with Axe/Shield combo, so I have a Amazon to shoot from a distance. I found this sick, sick bow that I gave her. It is called Skystrike and it is nasty. It has a +200% Damage, +100 to Attack Rating, Add 1-250 Lighting Damage, 30% Increased Attack Speed and the best thing (to me anyway) is: 2% chance of casting Lv. 6 Meteor on Striking! That bow is sick and the meteor is a nice touch.

I love the Necros. That has to be my favorite class. Bone Spear, Summons Skellies, Golems, Poison Explosion. What is not to like with a Necro?

My second is the Werebear Druid. I was reluctant with this one, but giving it a run and, Wow, I was impressed. Thing is a tank and I had alot of fun with it.

Tried my hand with the Socr., got killed way to often. Not for me.

Have yet to try an Assassin. Might try one later.

Did run a Barb. once, got bored with him. Not my style, I guess.

But, I have to agree, this game is so addictive. For me, I can't wait to see what I'm going to find next. I can't tell you how many times I did a Pendleskin run to see what I could get next. Accually lost count this time around.

Here's to hoping that DIII is on the same level of fun that DII is. If it is, then I need to get a better computer.

I like Summonancers personally. Nothing like swarming bosses with loads of skeletons.

level 6 Frenzy Barb (eventually). I am never playing this game again. THANKS GUYS.

Now I remember why I hate act 3.

The stupid maze like twisting paths are very annoying.

Have gotten to the flayer jungle way point, cleared the flayer hole but not the swamp pit.
Have gotten the gidbinn.

Still level 25.

Also found another set (green) item however its from yet another set.

So do people keep all their set items (if useable by their class).

Ok mate, google for a Diablo II hero editor. A good one will let you save your items, which is handy for retreiving that set you're looking for. You can also use it like a sandbox; testing items and characters and the like.

Finally got through the flayer jungle, and have made it into lower kurast.

I ran around, killing a few monsters but as Heroes opening episode for the new season is about to start on TV I had to just find the way point.

I'll clear it next time I play.

Picked up a great set of gloves with level 3 frost nova at 10% chance per hit.
Along with my merc having a horned helm and plate armour with 5% chance frost nova each we are freezing enemies all the time.
Also got him a super pike.

Now level 26.

My clvl25 druid just made it to ActIV after smashing in Mephisto's face witha 296%ED Bonesnap. That thing is awesome in the early game.

Is bonesnap a unique mace? If so, where did you find it?

http://www.battle.net/diablo2exp/items/normal/umaces.shtml

My barb is 3pts in Swords, 1 pt in Axes and a duel-weilder. Finding that would make me cry.

Last time I played I got my sorcerer up to 13 in Act 1; going to go flatten Andariel now.
I've saved my points for Fire Ball (Lv12), only spending on the prerequisites for Frozen Orb and Meteor.

I haven't died once. Sorcerers aren't weak, they just have severe potion dependencies when facing archers.

Just cleared Lower Kurast and Kurast Bazaar, but have to go down into the lower levels there.

Have golden daemon tomorrow... not sure if I'll do any gaming as I may watch a movie too...