Cleglaw’s gloves will give you knockback, but they’ll give slow as well (which has been known to teleport fast monsters around).
I’ve grown to hate slow (Nosferatu’s Coil), the monsters are never where I expect them…
Don’t waste a socketing reward on a 4-topaz armor. It’s much more valuable for enhancing rares and uniques, and you can find 4-socket armor easily enough (gothic plate seems to often have 4 sockets). True, it’ll probably be normal armor (not exceptional or elite), and it won’t have any other modifiers on it (unless you’re lucky enough to snag a Jeweler’s armor with something good), but that’s the price you pay for magic find. And high defense isn’t too important for some classes: Bowazons and spellcasters (like your necro and maybe your druid) shouldn’t be in the line of fire in the first place, but I suppose it’s important for your barbarian.
You can also have up to three sockets in a helm, and topazes in helms will also give MF (for 72 total, in a nonmagical helm). This might have less drawbacks for your barbarian, especially since a socketed Barbarian helm can still have skills on it.
Now why didn’t I think of this before? With all these characters, I got perfect gems out the wazoo and my Necro has a empty socketed full plate mail sitting in his stash.
I have:
a 82 lvl converted Javazon use for cow levels
a 58th level assasin in hell
a 68 th level paladin that finished hell
also had a 70th level barbarian…gone now.
I just cannot get the best weapons for any of them.
If they’re battlenet characters, capacitor, I might have the best weapons for each:
- Titans coming out my butt (one can only make so many javzons)
- Two Bartuc’s (but I ain’t giving 'em away)
- Lotsa nice maces
You can have some titans and a hand of blessed light if you like:)
Oh yes please! Thank you. Tell me where and when by e-mail please.
If you’re on USEast capacitor, I may have a Bartuc’s for you… 
Well, I now have a necro with 100MF. Not much, but it comes in handy for making iron golems. He still has a Skin of the Vipermagi for dangerous situtations.
capacitor, I’m playing a bit more than usual this week … whisper lance_mules or one of the other mule accounts and I’ll be able to hook you up with a few shiny objects. Or if you like I can put them on a mule for you. I’d email you but your email address isn’t readily available:)
I’m pissed. I got tagged by b.net.
I don’t have duped (that I know of) or hacked items so it will end eventually, but it keeps me out of games started by non-tagged accounts, unless they’re passworded.
Apparently it happens occasionally when you do something like enter and leave games quickly or some other stuff hackers or dupers do.
Actually it’s only the game activation code that seems to be tagged, I can get into games on my accounts on my old computer with its own copy of the game.
Unless they’re passworded. Which means you can still play in the sdmb games:)
While I’m thinking about it, capacitor, I just got a 7% frw/+1 Shadow Disciplines. Yours if you want it.
Oh. Anyone want/need a 300% bonesnap?
Okay! I’m off the tagged list!
This is ANOTHER way that having two comps with the game helps. 
I seem to have this uncanny ability to find all sorts of things I don’t need.
Does anyon need about a half-dozen Swordguards? I have several and don’t use them (I find the damage and other mods to be inferior to pretty much anything else there is).
Continuing in the tradition of finding stuff I don’t need:
154% Jalal’s mane. My third (first is near perfect spawn, second is 180). I only have two druids and I have no plans to make a third, and I’m not trading until either duped items are guaranteed to stay (I am not trading anything valuable if what I get could get wiped for being a dupe) or all duped items are gone. Plus a Jalal’s wouldn’t fetch much IIRC. So if anyone wants it, it’s yours.
I don’t play LoD very much these days, but I still keep my favourite characters active. (With one exception) I try to avoid cookie cutter builds and over-powered characters, so my characters are a little different to most of Battle.net.
- Clvl 80 Bowsorc, named SueDozon (“Psuedo-zon”, geddit? ;)). Many people don’t realise that Fire Mastery and Lightning Mastery increase fire and lightning damage dealt by your EQUIPMENT. In addition to this, certain bows fire Exploding Arrows, which automatically hit (ie, no minimal Dexterity is needed) multiple targets. Even better, fire damage from your equipment is carried through explosions.
To this end, SueDozon carries a Demon Machine unique CKN crossbow, coupled with a Razortail belt. This gives her automatic exploding hits, which Pierce (just like a Amazon) monsters 99% of the time. Her damage comes from lightning and fire damage granted by equipment: a Dusk Shroud socketed with four Jewels of Thunder; Tal Rasha’s Ammy; two Stones of Jordan; Cow King boots; Hell Mouth gauntlets; and a +2 sorc diadem with lightning damage. This is all topped of with an inventory practically full of high-end fire and lightning damage charms. Coupled with Fire and Light mastery, maximum damage is somewhere over 4000 IIRC (albeit with a low min damage… and hideous resists).
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Clvl 80 Hybrid Cleric Paladin. The rarest of the rare: a variant paladin! This guy is equipped to run in two weapon-switch modes: (i) healing party members with Holy Bolts (Wizardspike and Lidless Wall) at 8 frames per cast and running Defensive auras; and (ii) melee fighting with a Shaeled Lightsabre, attacking with a 4 frame zeal and Concentration. He also wears Guardian Angel armor (gives resists in the 90s), Thundergods Vigor and a rare Paladian Tiara.
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Clvl 86 cookie cutter Nova/Meteor Sorc, named HelenBack (“Hell and back”. ;)) Wizardspike, Lidless, Skin of the Vipermagi, two Stones, +3 Light ammmy with MF, Silkweaves, Harlequin Crest, Crafted Caster belt with 10% FCR, Magefists. Skulder’s Ire and War Travellers, Nagels, Gull, Rhyme shield and Chance Guards stashed for MF’ing. This is a terribly boring character, but effective enough.
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Another rare character: a clvl 90 duelling Necro (strictly mutually-consensual PvP only)! This guy has about three sets of equipment, chosen depending on my opponent. He uses maxxed Lower Resist, Bone Spirit, Bone Armor and Poison Nova, plus smatterings of Decrepify and Bone Prison. Despite only having one point in Corpse Explosion and only a Clay Golem as a summon, this guy also does pretty well in non-duelling games: his cast rate is down to 8 frames per cast, which is pretty good for rapidly exploding bodies.
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Sub-clvl 70 Spearazon, named NancyDrew. Yes, Spearazons do exist in Hell difficulty! Nancy uses a ShaelShael Cruel Hyperion Spear, Lionheart Russet Armor (for the fashion :)), War Travellers, Mara’s amulet, a Manald and a life leech ring.
She also uses Death’s set sash and Death’s gloves, which is a terribly underrated combination. If you can get over having only two rows of potions, having Cannot Be Frozen, 30% IAS, resist all, and 10% lifeleech are unbeatable mods.
Dang. Can’t wait to get to Hell. Heck of a collection, Munch.
I’d be playing a lot more if there was any way to self-mule on a Mac. (I checked dii.net’s FAQ on it, and the link there led to a dead site. And apparently there is no other software that allows you to do it.) As it is, I’m totally out of room, and I have stuff that I need to trade to my other characters. I’d mule with my roommate, but he’s running 1.10 now and says he can’t multi with me on 1.09.
I only mention this 'cause I know I’m not the only D2 player on a Mac. Chronos, weren’t you looking for something similar? Did you ever find a solution?
He can revert back to 1.09 simply by running a file included in the 1.10 download, Audrey.
I found about half a dozen solutions, all of which were dead links. I’m tempted to try to crack the encoding myself, and write one, except I don’t have the time. In the meantime, though, you can clear up some space.
In your Diablo II directory, there’s a directory called “Save”, and in that directory, there are files named after your characters. For instance, my bowazon is named “Hippolyta” (yeah, I know, very creative), so I’ve got files there called “Hippolyta.d2s”, “Hippolyta.key”, “Hippolyta.map”, etc. These files hold all of your character’s information.
Now, create a couple more directories (anywhere on your computer, not necessarily there). One directory is to back-up your character info, and the other (or many others) is to store items. I called these directories “d2backup” and “schlep1” (and schlep2, and schlep3, etc.), but you can call them anything you want. Now, copy all of the files named after your character to that item directory. Poof, they’re saved. Feel free to sell them off at this point, or dump them on the ground, or whatever. Your main character now has inventory space again. Keep playing as usual.
Then, whenever you do find a way to self-mule, or you find someone to help you trade, or you otherwise want to access those items: First, copy all of your character files from the Save directory to your backup directory. This is necessary to keep all of your progress from being erased. Now, copy the files from your item directory to the Save directory. Start up Diablo. What you’ll see is exactly what you had before you started this whole business (you’ll be lower level, you won’t have any new items, etc.). Make whatever trades you want, and then exit the game. Now, copy the files from your backup directory back to the Save directory, and resume where you left off.
If your inventory fills up again, and you want to repeat this process, then just create another item directory. I’m up to something like 23 item directories so far… A muling program really would be nice. I recommend that if you go this route, you keep a list of what items are in which directories (and with which character: A single directory will work for any number of different characters).
Personally, I think it’s a good idea to back up files every so often, anyway, because sometimes your computer can crash and Weird Things can happen.
Is all of this clear? If not, I can write you a couple of little shell scripts to do it for you (you’re using OS X, right?).