Never mind. sigh I’d equipped the wrong sacred globe. Everything’s back to where it’s supposed to be. Now all I have to do is figure out what’s going on with my Dad’s game–although it’s probably a similar screw-up. Sorry for the wasted time. I thought I’d checked that already.
I still hate lightening-enchanted beasties, though.
Hehe, I thought that was your problem…
a simple solution to such an “elusive” bug to you.
Sometimes the most basic answer is the best place to start.
MSLE or Multi-Shot & Lightning Enchanted uniques are the worst of the lot… then allow them to have conviction aura and that spells instant death.
Well for me, i have an act2 merc (nightmare defensive or simple the holyfreeze aura merc) tank versus any Lightning Enchanted uniques. He has on Duriel’s Shell(no freeze, good resists, and life bonus), 3 Amn Runed (for 21% Life Leech) Hone Sundan, and the lightning absorber Blackhorn’s face.
Sorc’s are quite fragile and need a tank to take the brunt of the damage while you sit back and cast with impunity… btw i play on USEast and have a lvl99 Tri-elemental sorc and she can take down any monster in hell… my most prized character made.
If you need help leveling on battle.net, need to talk to anyone, or need some items (not the really good ones mind you) come drop by the channel SDMB.
me and Who_Me? hang out there on the occasion.
USEast, anyone from SDMB is welcome to congregate there.
Madawc:
Thanks for the invite and the advice–I knew I should have looked more closely at my equipment. I’ve enjoyed games on Battle.net in the past (on the USEast servers) with a number of Dopers but haven’t played there in, oh, months and months now. I expect my characters are things of history.
Lately I’ve been playing solo and using “players #” to increase the difficulty–a bad idea with the Multishot Lightenings, as you’ve mentioned–so getting a brick isn’t happening unless it’s a LAN game or an Open Battle.net game. I’ve spent a fair bit of time on my Tri-elemental sorceress and don’t feel like starting over from scratch (again).
[ pardonable pride ] She’s coming along nicely, too, level 70 and working hard on 71. [ /pardonable pride ]
One of these days I should finish up Nightmare, but as I’m still gaining almost a full level just from the first three areas in Act V (with “players 3”), I’m not certain I’m ready for Baal yet. Even if I reset to “players 1”. Of course, eventually I’ll get bored and go do him, anyway, so I can go kill cows again. Love those "mahmoo moo, moo!"s.
Oh, Single Player… I’ve been fiddling around there too.
Battle.net is actually A LOT better after the purge of the so-called hackers (really d2hackit users and bot users). The lag isn’t so bad on USEast.
If you want to stay legit in Single Player, I’d admire you for it…
but if you want to make some characters, and help your muling between chars, try using the Shadowmaster Character Editor.
found here,
http://home1.tiscalinet.de/shadowgate/
Check for trojans, and viruses… I dloaded it here and it was safe/clean, but make sure for yourself.
you can make all the runes, gems, copy items that you found, fiddle with character stats, wp’s, quests and more. I also found an item editor somewhere, but can’t find the source and man it is SO fun making whacked out items that have like +7 all skills, huge dmg and other over-powered modifiers. We can meet in an open battle.net game and i can give you a few choice items that were created by me if you like, or even items that i found i can create a copy for you to use. Mind you i havent found the best items on single player (i have most on battle.net, but not on single)
Us d2 addicts need to stick together hehe
With a Lvl70 Sorc, you’re probably better off doing the Bloody Foothills and the Chilly Caves (Drifter Cavern et al) on “players 8” - that’s worth more than a level and goes faster too.
Incidentally, I know this is being a cheap-ass SOB, but do you have a Sol rune you could give me in a TCP-IP game? I’ve been looking for one for weeks to complete a Memory staff, but I can’t find one anywhere. At this point, I’d probably give you a Shael for it.
hehe, i can give you any rune you want in TCP/IP (that’s single player right?) Just set up a time you want to meet on open b.net or an ip address… i think an open b.net game would be better tho. Or try fiddling with the Shadowmaster Char Editor to get runes and better muling ability.
So all you want is a SOL rune? I’ll take other requests, i can make any rune with the Shadowmaster Char Editor. I have an ample inventory to play with in Single Player.
Oh well, send me an email at crovine@yahoo.com for further details on obtaining a SOL rune from me. Oh and it’s for free, since single player chars can be manipulated and hacked, i couldn’t care less about giving these runes or items.
All youse Single Player players need to high themselves over the the diabloii.net Single Player forum and download themselves a copy of ATMA - a great new muling tool for all your single player needs. It’ll open up your character w/o DII running, read your characters, move stuff around, etc. You can take items and e-mail them to others, if you choose.
Also, the forum is very well self-policed regarding dupes and hacks - they’re very much for legitimacy.
Sounds like a plan, Munch, thanks. I use diabloii.net all the time, but never knew about that gizmo.
Apparently that proggie is no longer at Diabloii.net as I can not find it…
any one else use this / know where I can find it?
ALSO note that Blizzard has taken a hard line to these types of programs and it is possible to be banned from online play by using programs like this!
Cite:
http://www.battle.net/Forums/thread.aspx?ForumName=battlenet-status&ThreadID=65
and here for a clarification:
http://www.battle.net/forums/thread.aspx?FN=battlenet-status&T=67&P=1&ReplyCount=0#post67
I believe this will apply to anyone who uses maphack and other “trainers” (cheats) no matter how innocent they may seem…
Ok, let me find the ATMA thing, i’ll even send you to where I found it. If you don’t trust where i got it from Dii.net
http://mywebpages.comcast.net/tokusanya/ATMA/
pointed from
http://forums.rpgforums.net/showthread.php?threadid=144104
or simply put the Single Player Forum.
Ok and with what you know about those posts, they DO NOT apply to the Character Editors that we’ve been talking about in this thread.
Those so-called “hack” programs or third party programs are only applied when playing on-line or more specifically the closed Realms (USEast, USWest, Europe, or Asia Realms). So DO NOT think that this applies to playing alone on your cpu or even on Open Battle.net/ TCP/IP games.
And furthermore, Blizzard CANNOT detect Maphacks that DO NOT send packets to the Blizzard Closed Realm Servers. Maphacks simply gather data that’s being sent to your cpu when playing on-line and uses this data to show you what is around you and what the map looks like. I’m 75% sure that Maphack users did not get banned for using the Maphack since it cannot be detected, but some people claim that’s how they lost their accounts (I think they’re bullshitting us)… Unless Blizzard is using “spyware” to see what your cpu is running during an on-line game, they’ll never know that Maphack is running.
The people that did get banned were of the Bot-Using variety or D2Hackit users. These programs send packets (or information) from your personal Cpu to the Blizzard Servers. Thus altering gameplay either beneficially (or thought to be). Bot-Users were caught using these programs that did continuous Magic-Finding (or MF) runs. Mini-Bosses like Pindleskin who can drop any item in the game, or Mephisto the third Act Boss had bots aimed to them. The bots killed the Boss and picked up the booty. This is where the Bot-Users got caught with their pants down. To pick up the booty, they used the D2Hackit program. This D2Hackit program sent packets to force the character to grab the item that was indicated for pick-up. The sending of packets CAN be monitored by Blizzard/Battle.net and therefore all bot users or D2hackit users were caught.
How Blizzard monitors these people, who knows? But to make sure you don’t get your accounts banned from on-line play, don’t use any sort of grey area programs that enhance your gameplay.
They stated that third party programs aren’t allowed but this applies to closed realm on-line play. Hack away on your Single player characters. I sure have, and I play mostly legit on the realms.
I’ve been playing D2 for a long time. Since day one of the release. I played through all the patches, and I sort of know all the public duping methods, character builds, item fads, and other things. I have a friend who lost a crap load of accounts from using the Bot. I haven’t been banned on-line, and i use the Shadowmaster Character Editor (for Single player action and which is a trainer/mulning program) and dare i say it… Maphack on the occasion. Oh and I also fiddled around with d2hackit, and bots about a year ago, so Blizzard was catching people more recently. I’ve also duped items years ago too, but I wasn’t greedy enough to continue my duping ways or continue using bots for items.
So don’t be so scared of fiddling around in single player but be scared of toying with packet senders on a closed realm. I am a lot more cautious now, I have a lot to lose.
I agree with your logic here Madawc. Blizzard seems to only want to protect their servers from being hammered by BOTS that over- utilize their resources but at the same time have taken an aggressive stance on ANY cheats that effect online gameplay on their “Realms”. Maphack does this by giving you the ability to see those special monsters that have better chance to drop items. Which, I think will give power gamers a little push when the new patch comes out. My wife and I both use Maphack as it enhances our game. Afterall its my game I should be able to do what I want with it at home…
but realms is a different story
As to their ability to detect its use it would not be hard at all even though it is client based. I would wager that Blizzard will insitute a patch (1.10) that detects these trainers etc and consequently warns / bans the key from online play. Remember the opt out box with the expansion pack, I believe that actually does the same thing. Would it be immoral for Blizzard to do this even without our permission? Even if the “spy ware” only attempted to make Realms online play cheat free?
… anyway is there an intellegent forum where gamers discuss these ideas? I just love sarcasm the Diabloii forum with their crying and all the hax0rz. I mean it is a kids game but you dont have to be a kid to enjoy it. Lets start another thread instead of hijacking this one? (sorry)
That ATMA tool sounds really cool… That would allow you to trade items between single-player characters, as I read that? I’ve been wondering for a goodly while if that were possible. I mean, when my Amazon finds a really nice Necromancer item, and vice-versa, it’s nice to be able to switch 'em around. Is it available for Mac?
Actually, it only allows you to view mules; you need Shadowmaster to actually move them around (and it’s almost as fiddly as solo-muling). Unfortunately neither program is available for the Mac, but that’s what you get for wanting to avoid the mainstream. 
Come on dude. Don’t try to bullshit a bullshitter. Nobody uses maphack “on occasion”. You either use it or you don’t. Once you use it you don’t voluntarily go back to not using it.
Chronos, there are a couple of other programs that will allow you to run two instances of DII on one computer and connect between them - allowing you to mule between characters. There should be a sticky in the SP forum of diabloii.net that links you to various sites to get it.
Get it, use it, love it. I will absolutely revolutionize your game. Gem mules, jewel mules, rune mules, set mules, unique mules, etc!