I ended up with a tome of town portals with 30 of them, only used 3 to kill her, so it’s no big waste for me. but neat idea, i’ll try it with my barbarian. somebody post when they’re gonna be on open b-net so we can jam.
I’m going on Battle.net in a minute or two (I’m getting all your guys’ AIM names so’s I can tell you when I’m going in easier).
I’ll be in Game: SDMB Pass: dope
SPOOFE and I just spent an hour trying to get a game going, but neither of us could see each other on the chat rooms in the open b-net for a while, and then i couldn’t join a game he was in, and vice versa. We have the same versions, 1.02, and we were logged on, I have DSL, why wouldn’t it work? Anyone else have these problems?
I dunno, I just went looking for the game, and it said invalid game name. The chat rooms are split up. Look at the top left and it will tell you which room you are in, the other person has to swich to that room, then you can see each other. I have never had a problem joining a game before, though.
Yeah, we tried getting into the same chat room (chat room name: SDMB, of course). The closest we got was Soulsling was able to see me, but I wasn’t able to see him, or the stuff that he wrote.
How come StarCraft Battle.Net was never this buggy?
Dammit. I was going to beat the last dragon warrior before going back to Diablo, but you bastards have me hooked again. Oh well. Back to Act II. 19th level paladin…
gonna try again maybe wednesday, tomorrow i got me a date with a real female carbon based life form. They exist…
Trust me…
yes, but does she have Cold Mastery? 
is it just me, or is Mephisto easier to kill than Duriel? Anyone else have that experience?
Duriel’s a stinking bastard and should be squicked with a Superior Giant Axe.
Mephisto, on the other hand, is a whiny little prick who needs a good kick in the pants.
Andariel, on the other-other hand… what a hottie…
Ohhhhh… if my date looked like Andariel, I would ask her to marry me in a second. …loooooovvve…
all those arms and tentacles and that sexy blueish skin…
I sent my poor Palidan in against the cows and found it hopeless. I then started again with a Barbarian and also a Necromancer but have ended up with a new Palidan, making my way through the game again(a little more slowly and wisely). I didn’t like the Barbarian; he was too soft and took too much damage. I think I got a lemon that couldn’t find a good item to save his life.
This Palidan is interesting. I’m well into the jail levels and have never found an “increase gold from monsters” or “more likely to find magic” item, yet I find plenty of magic items and have all the gold I need. Very sweet is “Cleglaw’s Claw” small shield: defense 26, poison length reduced 75%.
The main reason for this post is that I was inspired by a post to this thread - when my Palidan brought the hammer back from the monastery barracks and was offered a weapon upgrade by the blacksmith I tossed in Wirt’s leg. I ended up with “Carrion Crack Wirt’s Leg”: very fast attack, causes flee, requirements -20%, enhanced damage, adds 2-9 fire damage, +89 attack rating, 160% damage to undead. This is an awesome little weapon that just mows 'em down, most monsters in the jail fall to one hit. If the first hit doesn’t kill them they get little green swirls over their heads and try to run away. The leg is fast enough and has a long reach so when they turn and start to run a second hit usually kills them. Also, I guess those wraith ghosts are classed as “undead” because this upgraded Wirt’s leg mows them down. Once I ran into three low level wraiths and killed them all with three hits.
I like swords but it looks like Wirt’s leg is going to be my main weapon for a long while. That little bastard Wirt (R.I.P.) would be proud.
Whoops, forgot to add that “Carrion Crack Wirt’s Leg” causes 4-11 basic damage (plus the aforementioned 2-9 fire damage). Also, I picked up a unique cap that adds 10 to all elemental resistances. I’ve romped around in Act I with about six different characters now and none of them have found so many unique (gold coloured items) as this one and, like I said, he has nothing to “increase chance of finding magic items”.
There appears to be a strong random element at work here. Don’t get too attached to your individual characters. Some are lots luckier than others when it comes to finding goodies - a damned Bloodhawk dropped my sweet little unique shield.
I’ve been going to job interviews. I had two contacts yesterday - “a group of merchant bankers” have developed an “inovative method of corporate financing” and want me to assist in marketing this and raising $100 million. Another group is developing a business website that they hope to sell for $15 million and want my participation in the content development and want me to market it to companies. I’ve got to eat so I guess I’ll have to pitch in but it’s all very annoying and will certainly interfere with my Diablo II playing. My wife has had a few tantrums but, deep down inside, all women like to know what their man is doing and where he is at all times, so she shows up with snacks and a coffee pot from time to time in my computer den. I have a nice big third floor window beside me at my computer station and a pair of giant woodpeckers come by every day and feed around 10 feet away. Life is good.
Damn Al, i like your life. But I like mine too. Good tip on wirts leg, next time around I’ll try it. I found the necromancer to be my favorite. Though I believe with him, you need to build him up longer in ActI, and develop skills more in the distance attacks and golems. Skeletal mages and warriors aren’t all that great in ActII, and you have to waste skill levels on upgrading not only the amount of them, but the quality as a seperate skill mastery. I’d rather keep upgrading the novas and teeth and have a good distance weapon, as well as the protective shield (forget what its called) when going into battle and my golems to fight alongside me. That cracked carrions wirts leg sounds awesome. I have a full body of gold armor. I have the same shield, a nice gemmed gold helmet that gives me +2 strength, +3 Light, 7% finding magical items, and right now a nice gemmed morning star with 6-12 lightening damage and a chipped skull for the mana and life steal. Now, to see about getting Andariel to be my bride…
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I’ve had a houseguest for the past week and have pitifully small progress in Diablo. So would someone mind filling my sorry ass in on who Wirt is, and how to get to the stupid cow level? I scanned quickly through the rest of the posts and didn’t see any instructions. So I’m behind…sue me.
MR
Ok, I’ve been following this thread since it started, and I can’t get enough DII info.
I have a question for y’all.
My current computer (actually, my roommate’s) is not DII compatible. I know that I’m going to have to be getting a computer in the near future if I’m to be going back to grad school.
Should I do this now, and get a DII compatible computer, or is this an entirely bad idea, as I will never want to leave the house?
And if I do get a DII compatible, how much should I spend, what should I get, and how soon will this new purchase be outdated?
Thx in advance.
Quick summary for Maeglin:
Wirt is little &*%#^%*%# from the first game who sold horribly overpriced magic items. In DII you get to loot his corpse (yay!). In addition to gold, his wooden leg is retrievable. If you want to reach the cow level, you need it. You finish the game and then use the Horadric Cube to transmute Wirt’s leg and a Tome of Town Portal (thanks Stoidela) and a portal to the cow level appears. It is not for the faint of heart.
Thanks a lot, Balance. So where is Wirt’s corpse?
MR