This is the place to talk about how well you think Blizzard has done with the new rune percentages and how you have fared in the mix.
Personally, I'm loving it. I have only played offline in nightmare. In about 30 minutes of running nightmare countess I found 2 sheals, 4 io's, 4 amn's, 1 sol. Not bad at all I would say. I can't imagine how nice the runes must be that drop from Hell Countess.
I think this is going to make the game much more manageable for both casual gamers, and offline players.
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Holy crap...That's just awesome. I may have to jump online after hearing that. Dude, I can actually have good stuff now! Lol.
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That's awesome! Have you tried hell countess at all? I wonder if Um will now drop more frequently?
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Hehe. I wish they would let us use the online runewords offline. That's so unnecessary. Speaking of, are there new rune words?
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Man, if this is as good as it sounds, I should probably try and make a new character. Perhaps it's become possible to beat SP Hell with a melee character now
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Hehe. I wish they would let us use the online runewords offline. That's so unnecessary.
PlugY for Diablo II allows you to reset skills and stats, transfer items between characters in singleplayer, obtain all ladder runewords and do all Uberquests while offline. It is the only way to do all of the above. Please use it.
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Since when?!?!? That's awesome! I'm so excited now. I don't know about hell yet Phrozen, but so far dude, nightmare Countess has been dropping way better runes that hell EVER did, every single time.
I made Black yesterday, when I find a 5 socket weapon I'm going to make Honor. Nothing big I know, but with the right weapon it will help my hardcore werebear get through nightmare.
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It's always been that way. When Phrozen said that I was like wtf?
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PlugY for Diablo II allows you to reset skills and stats, transfer items between characters in singleplayer, obtain all ladder runewords and do all Uberquests while offline. It is the only way to do all of the above. Please use it.
Supporting big shoulderpads and flashy armor since 2004.
Select the Mod 1.11b (it is still compatible, no worries)
Extract the data to your diablo 2 directory, it will create a separate "data" folder. Run the shortcut maker, and it creates a new shortcut with the "-direct -txt" commandline, and enables the ladder runewords.
It does however also alter droprates, so if you install this, get the runes and item together, run the altered shortcut, make your runeword, and then exit and go back to your regular shortcut to keep it as legit as possible.
As for the new drop rates, they are pretty awesome.
I had a dark tower spawn with massive rune drops.
I got 2 puls, 1 lum, 2 Io's, and an Ist, and a bunch of minor runes just clearing the tower in one game. Other than that, higher rune drops appear more commonly in higher difficulties than lower runedrops it seems. On Hell setting, I rarely find anything below a tal.
Man, I might have to start playing again after all this buzz! How do you think this will affect the economy? Will runes still be the primary mode of currency? INFLATION ANYONE?
Personally, I'm loving it. I have only played offline in nightmare. In about 30 minutes of running nightmare countess I found 2 sheals, 4 io's, 4 amn's, 1 sol. Not bad at all I would say. I can't imagine how nice the runes must be that drop from Hell Countess.
I think this is going to make the game much more manageable for both casual gamers, and offline players.
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They do. Ladder runewords work offline.
I made Black yesterday, when I find a 5 socket weapon I'm going to make Honor. Nothing big I know, but with the right weapon it will help my hardcore werebear get through nightmare.
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Source is half way down the page.
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Downside is that it still needs to be updated for patch 1.13.
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My bad, I must have been thinking about uniques. Or I've used PlugY for too long.
Come to think of it, I am usually wrong when saying anything about D2 these days. I should probably just shut up from here on.
A better solution to just enable the runewords is to download a mod from the Ladderhall forums,
http://ladderhallrealm.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=15706
Select the Mod 1.11b (it is still compatible, no worries)
Extract the data to your diablo 2 directory, it will create a separate "data" folder. Run the shortcut maker, and it creates a new shortcut with the "-direct -txt" commandline, and enables the ladder runewords.
It does however also alter droprates, so if you install this, get the runes and item together, run the altered shortcut, make your runeword, and then exit and go back to your regular shortcut to keep it as legit as possible.
I had a dark tower spawn with massive rune drops.
I got 2 puls, 1 lum, 2 Io's, and an Ist, and a bunch of minor runes just clearing the tower in one game. Other than that, higher rune drops appear more commonly in higher difficulties than lower runedrops it seems. On Hell setting, I rarely find anything below a tal.
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