As Seraphim said above Wirt’s leg is key to accessing the Secret Cow Level. Get crazy with that Horadric Cube!
Or you could get Charsi to imbue it.
Dammit! I’m on USWest!! At least, that’s where my kick-ass Barbarian is. For those who didn’t know, each character is stuck to its realm. So on the char selection screen, if you choose a character, it takes you to that realm. If you choose to create a new one, you can choose the realm.
OK, for any other West people, all my games will be named after my character, HeadOBeef. I’ll leave them w/o passwords until I see how many Dopers are around. I usually play online only at work, since we have high speed here - about 5-10 pm pacific time during the week. Look for me, and identify yourself when you come in!
As for sets, diabloii.net has them all listed. This could become an important site if they ever update the damn thing!
Folks, if we’re gonna do this, it needs to be on OPEN B-NET. That way we can use the same characters weather we are at home alone or playing the game together. Open B-net, people, Open!
Dave, what is your character’s name? I’m Sir Monster on open bnet, and on USWest I’m KloonyTheKlown.
Thanks. It’s nice to have someone else confirm my opinions about spells.
One more piece of advice: Thunderstorm reeks. It’s not this Blizzard-like electrical storm which fries everything. Even 2nd level, it’s the occasional random bolt of lightning for 40 seconds. Not really useful.
Blizzard is the one spell to get when you hit 24th. Meteor is damn cool looking(imagine napalm from the sky!), but Blizzard does a ton of damage and freezes the baddies.
I’m thinking about energy shield myself, or maybe another level to Chain lightning.
Static field is quite possibly the most underrated spell in the entire game.
Each cast takes off 1/3 of remaining hit points of ALL monsters in a group. More skill = larger area covered.
Cast 3 times, and the monsters are more than 1/2 damaged.
Hey, i ditched the amazon, got me a necromancer, named soul.
hehe. Level 12. started him at 5pm and he’s L12 as of 10 minutes ago. Am i sick or what?
Question: can you remove gems from sockets after you’ve put them in? if so, how? i can’t it seems. And how come with all those levels, i’ve only encountered two gems. chipped skull and something green, i forget what. I love raising the dead!
You can’t remove socketed gems, soulsling. It’s better to save them for upgrading. The # of gems seems pretty random–my paladin is at lvl 19 with about a dozen. My necro is lvl 15 and has 3 (and no *#@& skull gems yet).
And yes, I love minions. Don’t blow too many points on skeletons, though. Look for a wand that boosts your summon skeleton skill instead. Mine gives me +2 on Summon and +2 on Mastery for 'em. It’s great for Act 1. Golems will be a lot more useful later on–and don’t neglect Corpse Explosion, either.
i like the skeleton mages, they rock.
i tried bnet just now, but nobody wants to play, they all just quit and went home. maybe i should get some sleep and leave it alone already. 7 hours is rough.
Necromancers suck against Diablo. He kills them all with one attack. Although it is cool to have hoardes of minions, especially on bnet. Teaming a paladin and necromancer is near-invincible.
Guess I’ll just have to load the game on both my computers and play my two characters together, then.
Well, My chars are as follows-
WeirdDave- L28 Paladin
WeirdWench-L10 Amazon
WeirdOne-L3 Barbarian
WeirdDead-L2 Necromancer
WeirdWitch-L1 Sorcerer
I usually play SP unless I know someone will be there. Lets make a deal. If anyone wants to play on open B-net, post here before you go, then start a game SDMB, password:Dope.
Dave, I assume you meant “Game name- SDMB with password- Dope”. And when I start doing some major online-stuff (starting Monday, most likely… that’s when the play is over…), I’ll be there all the time.
Oh, yeah, I have to tell everyone… beat Big D today. Bump, when you get the chance, get Blizzard. You don’t even need it very powerful. Diablo was SOOOOOOO easy with it! And Blizzard was only level 1 (granted by a staff). It took forever, and I DID die once, but that was 'cuz I got a bit too cocky, and got caught in a 'lectrical blast of his.
OK, so it sounds like we’re agreed on Open Battle Net, with the appropriate names and passwords. I’m all for it, as long as no one here is heavily into pissing people off. Of course, if you were, you wouldn’t last too long here anyway.
It would help me, at least, if people would also post here the best times to catch them online. Like I said before, I usually do MP in the evenings during the week.
I had a similar experience to Smeghead and my Paladin lost all his stuff after an aborted dead-body rescue experience. This sucked, and I decided to start again. I got lucky early on and got a bunch of topazes, which I held and improved with the cube and now have a helmet that gives me a huge chance (40-something %) to get magic items (I also have boots which also add to that.
Here’s the problem though: Yeah, I’m finding magic items, but they all suck. Glimmering Chain-mail of Ease. Armor of Life that adds +1 to life. (I’d say about 1/3d of all armor I’ve found is glimmering) My old Paladin, I couldn’t decide between multiple suits of armor (something-reinforced?)-Splint Mail of the Mammoth which gave me like 50 to life and had almost 300 points of armor and another similar one. Same with weapons. I keep having to buy my weapons, 'cause I can’t find any decent ones.
I’m also not finding Paladin specific items (scepters, etc) as much as I was before. I’m getting a ton of socketed items (bows and mauls in particular) though.
I’m wondering if the “Find Magic Items” guarantees that, yeah, you’ll find a ton of stuff, but it’ll all be sh*t. Maybe the less stuff you find, the better it’ll be.
Anyone else notice this?
Fenirs
Well, Fenris, not to be philosophical, but shit is relative.
As I said before, I’ve got a Barbarian with a +68 chance of finding magic items. In the early half of Act I, I got kick-ass stuff: The Centurion and Death’s Guard (both of which I’m still using, even halfway into Act II).
Since then, I’ve been finding plenty of rare and general magic items, but never stuff I can use (Crossbow? What the hell am I going to do with a Crossbow?). Still, I’ve been getting a lot more magic items- and more rare, unique, and set items- than the other five characters I created combined.
I feel like i’m ready to do battle on open B-Net, so i’ll be on today at about 4:30-5pm. Tried it last night while my eyeballs were ready to pop out of my skull from a 7 hour game. I’ve got my L12 Necromancer to use, and he’s chalk full of magic armor and stuff, a very fast attack sword with a green gem and a chipped skull socketed in it, should have waited a bit, cause i found a mace with two sockets that does more damage and 160% damage to undead. damn! but the sword is 22% added to attack. Man, one day and i’m addicted worse than a crack fiend. It’s almost worse than the SDMB! So who’s up for teaching a newbie the ropes on B-Net! I’ve conquered universes with StarCraft Broodwar there, time for some real action!
Ack! I can’t get on today! So I’ll be there Monday, perhaps with a new char. Also 5:30-6 or so, EST.
Since this is open bnet, we gotta set some rules. I tend to play distance attack kinds of characters, and rely on minions and ranged spells/weapons. But I’ll be damned if there’s a barbarian felcher out there who thinks he’s going to snag all the items when I did a solid chunk of the work. So like I asked before, do you mp vets have any procedures for booty distribution?
MR
Blizzard always seems to suck ass when I use it. Fire Wall was my boss killer, and Meteor my crowd killer. (Fire, Fire!) Chain lightning is nowhere near as sick as in the first game, but still a lot of fun. I like thunderstorm (only at level 1) when I’m forced to fight something that I know is going to mess me up if I go toe to toe. The extra 1-100 pts of damage every few seconds helps.
Anyone notice that most gems are bloody useless? So far Skulls and Diamonds are all I’ve ever bothered with. Saphires are okay in weapons, and topaz is fun to load into a helm, but ultimately, there’s better items out there that do the exact same thing as anything you can buy.
Mind, there are exceptions. The shield I’m running around with has 3 perfect diamonds. That almost maxes my resistances right there (the prismatic amulet does the rest).
MadPoet, at least your’e finding gems, all i got was one bloody chipped skull and an emerald. I’m on for monday as well. But if anyone wants to do it today, i’m there. Just post what the game and password is gonna be. I’m playing my L12 Necropheliac, i mean mancer. Name’s Soul.
Agreed, MadPoet. The only useful gems for me (as a two sword wielding Barbarian) are Skulls and Topazes. Most magic items not only duplicate the benefits of the gems, but usually surpass them. The exceptions are Skulls in helms (great regen abilities); Topazes in helms (great ‘find magic’ abilities) or weapons (huge electrical damage bonuses); and Diamonds in Shields (great ‘all resistance’ bonuses).
Unfortunately, as I don’t use a Shield, and as my main focus in getting weapons is Mana-Drain (which the skulls are no good at- a Perfect Skull is 5%, and each of my Vampiric Swords hits for 10%), the only real gems for me are Skulls and Topazes.