That happens Cleg or Clegless (cf: cow level, getting hit from across the screen). Besides, IIRC it’s impossible to get better than 20 IAS on rare/crafted gloves, and the slow 25% is effectively 25 IAS.
Yeah, but you can only stack 2 pots. I’d go with Sigon’s belt and gloves … and boots, too. Some nights I find the entire set twice … though not while looking for it, of course. But then, I’ve found the entire Orphan’s Call set in a night, so maybe my results are skewed.
I’m still running over 400% mf, and after a long dry spell, am up a Highlords and a Corpsemourne today. I’m still looking for the elusive Valor.
One day I’ll hit it rich with a find…
Lessee… I can’t remember all of the stats, but my Amazon currently uses Witchwild, Darksight Helm or Harlequin Crest for a helm, a resist/MF magic amulet, a caster-crafted Archon Plate (that being the heaviest type she can wear, with her strength), blood-crafted belt and boots (both of which happened to get MF on them), Ghoulhide gloves, Nagelring, and a Life Steal/MF ring. On my second weapon tab, I have a five-ort stag bow, for phys immunes. And when I’m actively magic finding, I switch the armor for a three topaz (haven’t found any four socket armor I can wear, yet), switch the belt for Goldwrap, and switch the gloves for Chance Guards.
But keep in mind that I’m doing this all single-player, and none of the stuff I’m currently using was traded, so I think I’m doing pretty well there. I do actually have a Riphook, and while the mods on it are nice, the damage is pretty low. The Witchwild has higher damage even before the almost-guaranteed Deadly Strike kicks in, and Cliffkiller is about twice the damage right from the get-go.
And yeah, Kuko Shakaku is definitely the bow of choice for elemental damage, and I’d definitely use it for that if I had one. When you figure in the plusses to immolation arrow, it works out to something like an average of 300 fire damage.
Chronos, when you say single player, do you mean non-battlenet single player? All my worldly possessions (except for a very few characters on another computer) are on Bnet, and 99.999% of those on USEast.
I’m split about 50/50 between bnet and offline single player. I like the single player for testing out some skill sets and such, but I play almost fully online since I have broadband service. Before I was just getting lag killed all the time and that takes a lot of the fun out of the game!
I mean non-Battlenet. I have broadband, too, but I’ve just never seen the appeal in playing with strangers. You’uns aren’t strangers, of course, but I didn’t know about you guys when I got the game, and now that I’ve invested so much time into my single-player chars, I don’t feel too inclined to start fresh.
But hey, I’d be quite willing to do open games with Dopers. Who else has open/single player characters, in the level 80 range?
I finally hit a bit of luck yesterday! Not even trying to MF, just leveling when a random whichdoctor in the Barraks of Act I dropped me a very nice Silks of the Victor!
Yay!
I never get anything good, but luckily my brother is freakin’ Fort Knox of D2X crap. Pretty much every decent item I have I’ve gotten from him. He won’t give me this one though. 
I’m looking forward to our group all starting anew on the ladder when 1.10 hits. I’m so far behind it isn’t even funny.
Bump…
Can we agree on a certain Game Name that we can look for each one us on both US West & US East? I would very much like to level-up, trade (and just beg for stuff from people I do kind of know:p) on both US East and US West - anyone (in US East) else want to start over in US West - I can help run you through.
My recommendation:
GAME: “sdmb”
PASSWORD: "cecil"
When 1.10 rolls around, I’m sure things will jump around here again…
I kind of do my gaming around 10pm-2am Pacific Daylight time…four out of seven nights…
My characters always have the name of “Yeti” contained in them.
Q: I have a level 74 Paladin that constantly gets killed in Hell. Have the new changes in 1.10 made Paladins equal to other character classes yet? Also, I saw the screen shot of the one handed sword listed earlier in the thread. Have they Finally started to come out with items that are useful to a Paladin?
PPS- Boots & other items gim him +40 speed, but he’s always the slwest poke on the board. Why is that?
Who knows what 1.10 will bring for the Pali. They haven’t shown anything for him at all as far as skills. I imagine that there will be some interactions, but I can’t imagine what. Resists that add to each other?
I don’t know what the gripe is with Paladins, I stopped playing my zealot because it was too easy…just one click makes lots of people fall down!
What kind of build are you using?
Who was on US East last night? I tried to log on the “smdb” game, but my paladin is only on Normal Acts and the game was at Hell difficultly…somebody actually read this!
Probably me 
Punha and I and a few others use that name regularly. I’ll probbly see you on there soon, as I’m leveling a were-Driud through normal now.
quietman1920
either you need to toggle on your run/walk ability, or use the run button…check your configuration by pressing ESC and the configuration option to change buttons (hotkeys) or see what buttons do what.
Yeticus
USEast’ers usually hang out in channel SDMB, whether they play Warcraft2, 3, Starcraft/BroodWar, or whatever on battle.net. I hang out there sometimes, but not many ppl show up, it gets lonely. Also the game you mentioned gets created when dopers want to gather.
Currently, I’m not giving away free stuff. The latest cube recipe that upgrades the weapon type of any unique weapon (except the Buriza, and maybe more) is totally crazy and I’m hoarding items left and right. I have many desired ethereals like HoneSundan (perfect dmg), Crainte Vomir (perfect dmg), lycanders’ flank, 2 bartuc’s claws and more. I think amassing items is my thing hehe.
If you need some tips to get yourself some good items, I can give them. If you need help other than free handouts, I’m more than willing. However, I’m a USEast player and will not ever move to USWest.
And to all of you that use Maphack, beware because Blizzard is cracking down on them. Maybe 1.10 is imminent with this recent culling.
We’ve been waiting forever for this patch, it will be good.
Clarification on that: So that would mean that it would turn, say, Raven Claw (unique long bow) into Kuko Shakaku (unique cedar bow)? Or into a cedar bow version of Raven Claw? This is the first I’ve heard of any such thing… It sounds way too powerful.
quietman, most other players will beef up on fast r/w charms. As a pally, you can also use Smite to dash around, which is a big speed boost.
The latter, Chronos. It would be a Cedar Raven Claw. It makes a lot of items look extremely powerful, especially those mentioned by madawc.
However, it sounds like they are very much beefing up the monsters - faster, smarter, stronger. Should be interesting. My prediction is that items with “Slow monsters” are going to be popular.
Chronos: you would end up with a cedar bow that has the same modifiers as the Raven Claw. Same mods, new item class. You can look up all of the information that they have given out at www.battle.net/diablo2exp
also
quietman1920
there are plenty of good onehanded weapons out there that aren’t really that hard to find or trade for. And I hope you’re playing D2:LOD and not classic D2. I think all of us play the expansion pack in SDMB. And the item selection is better in D2:LOD.
Stats are from Arreat Summit.
Baranar’s Star
DevilStar
One-Hand Damage: 132 To 162 (147 Avg)
Required Level: 65
Required Strength: 153
Required Dexterity: 44
Durability: 172
Base Weapon Speed: [10]
+200% Enhanced Damage
150% Damage To Undead
Adds 1-200 Fire Damage
Adds 1-200 Lightning Damage
Adds 1-200 Cold Damage
50% Increased Attack Speed
200% Bonus To Attack Rating
+15 To Dexterity
+15 To Strength
(Only Spawns In Patch 1.09 or later)
LightSabre
PhaseBlade
One-Hand Damage: (90-106) To (120-138) (105-122 Avg)
Required Level: 58
Required Strength: 25
Required Dexterity: 136
Base Weapon Speed: [-30]
+150-200% Enhanced Damage (varies)
Adds 10-30 Damage
Adds 60-120 Magic Damage
Adds 1-200 Lightning Damage
5-8% Mana Stolen Per Hit (varies)
5% Chance To Cast Level (8-16) Chain Lightning On Attack (varies)
20% Increased Attack Speed
Ignore Target’s Defense
Lightning Absorb 25%
+7 To Light Radius
(Only Spawns In Patch 1.09 or later)
those are the easier to find Elite weapons, that can be traded for relatively cheaply or found by doing Hell Meph runs with decent MF on.
then you have these average weapons not going to list stats, they can be seen at Arreat Summit , the gold means Unique, Green means Set items, and you can find some decent blue and yellow or magical and rare items.
Bloodletter (sword)
HeadStriker (sword)
The Atlantean (sword)
The Fetid Sprinkler(scepter)
Hand of Blessed Light
(scepter)
Baezil’s Vortex(mace)
Aldur’s Rhythm(mace)
Runewords that are ok are:
Black 3 Socket Hammers/Maces/Mauls. THUL-IO-NEF
Holy Thunder 4 Socket Scepter. ETH-RAL-ORT-TAL
Honor 5 Socket Melee Weapon. AMN-EL-ITH-TIR-SOL
King’s Grace 3 socket Sword/Scepter. AMN-RAL-THUL
quietman1920: where does he get killed so easily? Cow lvl? Pallys aren’t really good cowing chars. Paladins are underrated. If you want me to help you with your pally, give me more stats on him.
What skills does he use?
What is his str/dex/vit/energy?
What does he wear currently?
Where are you trying to lvl?
Are you a newbie to D2:LOD? (meaning you don’t know much and having trouble with some game mechanics)
Give us at the SDMB more info, then we can give you a chock full of help. Or just check out www.diabloii.net their forums and guides are really helpful.
I just heard an interesting theory on the patch…
Diablo 2 was released June 30, 2000
Diablo 2 LOD was released June 30, 2001
His theory is that the patch will be released on the 30th. (or had you already figured where this was heading ;))
Sounds good to me… all I want is the patch eventually…