Diablo 2 has changed...

[@Coooley]

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[@opto6824]

next do all the dupe methods you can find XD

[@shdwsquatch7172]

I'd love to see if you can make a mock.

[@debacofzomb9889]

I really wanna try D1 "The Hell 3" mod. It looks quite good. I wanna try it so much, I'm going to buy a PC because I'm tired of playing me crappy PlayStation 1 D1 on my tablet with a PS5 controller 😂 Also, did you know that on the PlayStation 1 version of Diablo, there's like an hour or two of lore audiobooks not available on the PC version? They're read by the guy that narrated the countess book, you know "she bathed in the rejuvenating blood of a thousand virgins." Yeah that guy. Anyway, thanks for the video. Nostalgia++

[@Organdonator]

​@@debacofzomb9889didn't know about the audio book part, is it from the hellfire expansion? From what I recall the ps1 version was with hellfire?

[@antonkrastev8719]

This idiot still making videos 🤦

[@kolebuscher5733]

Blizzard North was truly the greatest of all time.

[@d_no_allyn_86]

Most definitely.

[@GundamKenKan]

Diablo II is a serious that can never to be beated

[@lujack1801]

Then they made hellgare London……and it flopped hard

[@lujack1801]

@nunyabeezwax6758 there is borderland series

[@raminMTL]

As was Peter North

[@Stratocaster42]

Sometimes I think back to how bad I was at D2 as a 12 year old kid and how I couldnt beat Hell difficulty, or even Nightmare on most characters. Then I see this and remember how inaccessible a lot of information we now take for granted was at the time, and it makes a lot more sense

[@squidikka]

@Bisgetti Brain rot is also shared by those who think all information is bad information. Even back then, it was by word of mouth and in the game chats where people would brainstorm and create builds. Nothing has changed other than the influx of information. Sorting good from bad information is what distinguishes learning from brain rot. The irony of your comment, but lack of realization, is peak.

[@ganjalord42]

at 12 years old , as long as my toon looked badass i didnt care for stats lool , holy shit did i suck

[@Nerobyrne]

Even today, games still make this mistake. I really like the game TemTem but it's basically unplayable without the wiki, or you writing down what every status effect does. There's like 20.

[@Trailerwalker]

All the information you could ever need was just as accessible back then as it is now. What do you mean? Lol

[@Nerobyrne]

@Trailerwalker it actually wasn't. Firstly, there have actually been several discoveries made about the game in the last few years, due to collaboration on online forums. But more importantly, many people back when D2 was released had no internet, even if they had a computer. And if they did, search engines and web guides were still in their infancy and usually relied on a handful of people.

[@Sistik123]

I sure dont miss iron maiden in chaos sanctuary though.

[@Patrick_The_Pure]

Yeah, gotta use magic damage to get through that, Vengeance, Berserk, those work pretty well, but then those bastard would have a chance to kill you in literally 1 second.

[@GhostWriter-wt8pb]

it gives you ptsd.still have issues when i see it cast.

[@adogawa1974]

@@GhostWriter-wt8pb you needed the 24%+ Life Leech so your WW barb would not die in there.... It was ridiculous

[@akse]

I generally just leap attacked all the mages and the. WW the rest.. LA didn't reflect since it was a ranged attack

[@Justmyopinionsir-q4v]

It was literally hell lol

[@asocci100]

I was 12 or 13 years old when LoD came out. I remember seeing a bowazon decked out with Vamp gaze, Shaftstop, and Windforce utterly destroying Act 2. I remember being destroyed by Tstorm sorcs in duels with shako, vamp gaze, lidless wall, and wizard spike. No skillers.., no rune words, those cruel swords that paladins use to use. God do I miss the old .7 and .8 versions of old LoD.

[@trent9060]

Amen and the god roll rare ww lance barbs. What I miss the most in those days is rares actually having the potential to be better than any predefined item. Truly living up to the name rare. That's an aspect that is pretty much nonexistent in looters nowadays.

[@Meilk27]

.08 vamp gaze was awesome

[@madmardi434]

​@@trent9060 bcowl blinkbat's lance baba's lookin' fine

[@CrizzyEyes]

@@trent9060 Uh, ever played Path of Exile? It's pretty much all about getting good rare rolls.

[@lukespowerhouse]

In early versions of classic you had a chance to get an SoJ from Akara for rescuing Cain. Also it had no level requirement or item level so you could even get one in normal.

[@tarcoles]

I remember starting a lvl 1 Necro with 2 sojs, unique +1 Helm and +2 unique wand, that was fun, also pvp against whirlwind barbs using iron maiden + bone spirit and high life, good times

[@BG1435q]

you can still get SoJ in normal mode, no? im pretty sure i dropped soj from normal before

[@AdamB12]

Pskulls were worth so much back then too. Been playing since 1.02 classic.

[@jprec5174]

@@BG1435q yea sojs start dropping from normal diablo.

[@off-meta-michael]

you can still get a SoJ in normal. i got one with a level 29 barb in normal a few ladders ago in the frozen river.

[@TheBlackDeck]

For a short time there was a bug where you could get he ancients to drop items, their loot tables included 100% chance for multiple uniques and set items to drop, per ancient, every game, and each one would also drop half a dozen or so full rejuvenation potions. Here are the steps for the bug. Step 1, open any public game on bnet- and wait 5 minutes. (perms the game circa early 2ks) Step 2, go to the summit, then read the book, then lure the ancietns outside the circle they spawn in, once they are outside, leave the game. Step 3. Rejoin the game, and kill them outside the circle. Step 4, profit. This was patched after a couple days iirc

[@franklinr498]

Cool tidbit. I've never heard that one before.

[@Marine_Dynamite]

I got flashback of my paladin casting 20 hit zeal and missing every hit

[@Coooley]

Great comment! A lot of people think that melee was better in this patch, but it WASN'T. Skills missed so much and there was not much you could do about it.

[@mhebert350]

@@Coooley but we had piercing guided arrows lol

[@Hmongboi228]

Zeal "lock?"

[@hankhill5616]

@@Hmongboi228 Yeah, in very old patches, there wasn't a hit cap on zeal (at least to level 20) so you got an extra hit per level. It was silly, and for some genius reason, I thought using a 2h maul on my zeal pally was a big brain idea :D

[@Timbes]

​@@CoooleyBut we also had -%defense bugged which worked like a jah rune even on bosses 😁

[@fernfloyd]

I still have my copy of D2 an D2: LOD in the original CD cases and boxes. The box of D2 has a gold sticker saying "Game of the Year." Super cool. I'll never get rid of it. Great video, Cooley! So nostalgic.

[@HatredLLC]

I have the same one lol

[@thisoldproperty]

Same here.

[@unixjpn]

i have multiple orginal coppies of D2 on CD because needed more than one account to use as mules since stash space wasnt enough and i still have the case and CD. I still also have the CD and case for diablo1 and its first expansion pack too.

[@PrimaryBuilding]

Good, but cases and boxes doesnt play the game, you have to. Install it on ur PC and play it again, 1.14d nowadays, game is still the best of all time.

[@ZER0-C00L]

Firewall was ridiculously strong back in the day. PvP you could cast it across the exit of town and people couldn’t even leave town. I think it was 30k damage when fully maxed out.

[@sunnysun2030]

...but they could do absolutely nothing against fire immunes :)

[@Necromasa]

I remember this. First thought was why is there a fire blocking the entrance and then I died

[@ZER0-C00L]

@@sunnysun2030 True, but because of no synergy’s back in those days, you could also max thunderstorm, which would often one hit people back in the day, instantly killing them.

[@skraminc]

I love Diablo so much. Played from the start of 1.08 to 1.11 basically as a child. Never had so much fun. Resurrected is such an incredible remake it was fun version 2

[@93Beefcake]

d2 would have needed a major rework on a lot of skills and give melee attacks splash damage to make them viable the game looking at it from todays perspective is just very outdated and unbalanced hence we see the same builds every time and if you don't spend 10+ hrs on off meta builds they just plain suck

[@skraminc]

@@93Beefcake there's never been more viable builds. Up until 1.10 you could have an orb/nova sorc, titan zon, gf ww barb or wf zon.

[@xxxtrackerxxx7769]

@@93Beefcake just no to splash. its not a remake . play d4 instead.. theres enough splash bullshit.

[@SebastianBohn]

Valk Wings with FCR, Shae runes, early bugs… that nostalgia, bro. “I was there Gandalf” Okay, the MF ritual should have been known earlier. How much fun would this have been…

[@xPremo_]

Surprising they were able to keep it secret for so long lol

[@dmagick914]

I remember pre expansion everyone played Whirlwind Barbarian with a rare Lance, Martel de Fer, or Bec-De-Corbin and an Ornate Plate (this was before elite items existed) The Martel de Fer was especially good because it was 3x2 instead of 4x2, so a rare could be rerolled in the cube with 6 Perfect Skulls (these were currency before runes). Rerolling with this recipe did not decrease the ilvl of the item as it does now (it was nerfed).

[@ueehurstonsecurity8887]

or you would see bonesnap and steeldriver used a lot too

[@xPremo_]

Yup, wish we still had these ww hit checks in d2r

[@dk0rean]

Also remember mace class implicit was 150% increased to undead, not the current 50%

[@GhostWriter-wt8pb]

i used bloodletters till 08 and got duel grandfathers.

[@mhebert350]

there were also magic cruel col sword we crafted with chipped gems

[@MrFirecam]

I liked version 1.00 1.03 where "Greater Mummy" (Unraveller etc..) could speak. Good immersion right there.

[@Vohtwomax]

I was one of the players who played both pre-LoD and patch 1.07 since I didn’t connect to battlenet. I remember the game being so wildly frustrating before LoD and then HUGE quality upgrades with runes, characters and all that. What REALLY blows my mind, however, is that we are STILL playing the exact same game today, with a new coat of paint. Blizzard still has not figured out how to replicate, and iterate on this premise. Just goes to show you how great this game truly was/is and with the new D2 reimagined mod, it’s even better than ever.

[@matthewgagnon9426]

I played Diablo 2 in the stress test before it was even fully released, when the only class you could play was Barbarian and the only gems were chipped rubies. (I think, I can't fully remember on that last one)

[@MichaelPohoreski]

Blizzard can’t figure out *Itemization* is what made D2 last 24+ years. Diablo 4 is memberberries because it is a bland and boring copy without understanding the multiple currencies were tradable and could serve as upgrades (pgems to reroll GC, crafting gear with runes & gems, upping normal to exceptional or even to elite versions.)

[@flipper2gv]

I remember the days with constant teleport thunderstorm sorc in duels. PvP was a MUCH bigger thing back then, it was THE end game.

[@Methodman27]

Making runes in orange text was a very subtle yet great change they did too. And any day now they'll add a full loot filter..

[@Lubet0TheGreat]

It could be any moment..

[@skraminc]

They stole it from Mousepad's maphack. Mousepads maphack had a lot of quality of life improvements besides just revealing the map that the devs eventually added a ton of as official updates

[@gstvntt]

Aaaany time now, don't worry next season

[@akse]

Loot filter is for lazy rushers who can't stop for a moment to look whats on the ground. What they should do is have an option to have short names for potions and scrolls that really clutter the screen. Also elitepacka drop way too many potions in general..

[@skraminc]

@@akse loot filter is MMO tier stuff that stole the charm from ARPGs.

[@FuzzNutz14]

The best D2 Era was the pre 09 rust storm patch when the ITH's and bugged items were everywhere. I honestly loved running dual ITH CB's With 6 sockets 5 4015s 1 eth rune on a frenzy barb. Bugged Arcane Valor with 4 sockets with Havoc Jewels, and the white ring and the occy ring. Yes it was busted, but it was so much fun. Honorable mention to the Bugged Tals and 7015 charms on a es Sorc with nearly 4k life and 7k mana and max DR

[@test-rj2vl]

What was special about ith? I only joined at 1.11 patch.

[@nikkof5384]

@@test-rj2vlkeeps the rune word but also let’s you put whatever you want into sockets.

[@test-rj2vl]

@@nikkof5384 How did it work? Did it clear the rune word? Like tp + hel?

[@JulianJ58]

ITH runewords -- imagine a grief with 6 open sockets Example of an "ITH grief 240ias" -- Now imagine an ITH grief with all the sockets having 6x 40/15ias jewels Agreed. Best time I had playing D2- the OCCY rings was peak (rings with the Occulus orb stats)

[@nikkof5384]

@@test-rj2vl that’s the best way I can describe it, Coooley has old ass videos that cover exact details on how it was performed but as a player at the time that’s what I’d say it looked like, as if you cleared the slots but kept the rune word. As you can imagine dual wielding on a barb led to some fun results.

[@U_SpoonyBard]

Azurewrath Crystal Sword was my first ever unique in D2. Even remember where I got it. Arcane Sanctuary. I'll likely never forget that.

[@Patrick_The_Pure]

One of my favorite relic items, great to dual wield early on.

[@D0omscream]

I LOVED the monster and item tints in 1.07. They were more gradient and realistic imo instead of the aggressive colours you got in later versions.

[@azazeldeath]

I used to go to my best friends house regularly, lugging my giant desktop pc. We would play tf out of Diablo 2. The D2LOD then D2 Ancestral Recall. And I mean for hours. Get to his around 3:30, first day we get forced to bed around midnight, get back on at 1am play until around lunch, go do some touching of grass like riding quad bikes, making bows and shooting them list goes on, then more d2 until it's time for me to go home around 6pm Sunday. Then Dark Alliance came out on gamecube, played that completely, then Dark Alliance 2 came out same deal. We did try other d2 overhauls. Another game we played a lot of was Battlefield 2, was a beast at flying he was a God on the gunner seat of either attack helo or transport, and final one ill list was Warcraft 3, mostly custom games, main one was the 40k TD, gem TD was another miss those days and those TD games

[@Robert_Shmigelsky]

I'm not sure if I even used runewords whenever I played classic Diablo 2. It's not like the game has recipes you can find ingame. You have to look online; otherwise, you could never know they were in the game.

[@kapitan27]

There were no runes in classic Diablo 2. Or am I misunderstanding your comment?

[@Robert_Shmigelsky]

@@kapitan27 Even in LOD? It's been so long, I don't remember.

[@kapitan27]

@ They were introduced in LOD. But I’ve always understood “classic” to mean non-LOD. The original before the expansion came out. Maybe I’m wrong.

[@Robert_Shmigelsky]

@@kapitan27 It probably does, but I meant pre-resurrection.

[@kapitan27]

@ makes sense! But yeah I’m not sure what they expected with the runewords. Maybe they expected people to play around to discover the recipes. Or they just knew that recipes would be published online quickly enough. I feel like the original D2 manual had some cube recipes. Back in the days of manuals.

[@Anthony-uz5tj]

its insane how much 1.10 actually changed the game. ruined pre patch chars with no reset to stats deleted tons of bugged items from the server while also creating the zod bug at the same time changed tons of items added tons of runewords that changed currency from 290s and sojs to runes and the most important corrected the spelling of berserker axe

[@Jordan-co2re]

Lost so many players from that patch. No more cows, bowzons, ts, orb, ww, all got nerfed. I still played but it def took an adjustment .... Before 1.10 will always be peak Diablo 2

[@du4lstrik3]

1.09, for me, was peak D2. Cows were amazing, uniques:runewords was in a great spot, and bnet had enough chaos to make interactions a total joy. Spent countless days worth of time on this game. But 1.10 caused so many issues with reworks, synergies, cow nerfs, a lot of my friend group lost interest after. We still play every now and then today, but nowhere near like we did in 1.09.

[@unixjpn]

I remember the days when 3perfect skulls could buy you an SOJ. I miss the classic necro build it was silks armor and wormskull it gave a nice black evil and bluish shine to the necro and every necro had that setup. Good ol days. D2 rune works in LOD took a lot of the fun out of grinding uniques as rune words like greifs, fortitude breath of the dying, enigma just destroyed uniques. I renenber always using a full sigon set during early lvling. Also I remember that selling SOJs to the merchant over a several times would spawn uber diablo randomly and public alert was sent and you would try to figure out which server it is and start or join a game to face the diablo.

[@JulianJ58]

You circling Shako giving you 40% life unleashed a flood of memories lol you are a gifted content creator Cooley!

[@ArchangelsBookClub]

When you were asking “what was the most OP sorceress skill?” I kept saying, “Charged bolt, charged bolt, charged bolt” Dude; Charged Bolt was stupid powerful.

[@Duocek]

Static field, wtf % dmg to bosses at lvl 1

[@ArchangelsBookClub]

@@Duocek Dude Static Field on classic is insane. It's not capped in Nightmare and Hell like it is in Expansion. You can bring Diablo down to like 1/5 life in just a few seconds. Monstrous.

[@-Keith-]

@@ArchangelsBookClub Static damage also used to be affected by conviction because it is lightning based, meaning that sorcs used to be able to kill entire screens of enemies in 4-5 casts regardless of how many players were in game.

[@bacchus8081]

From all of my D2 memories the one that stands out the most is still just the basic demo that came with PC Gamer or so, Barb in the Blood Moor. That was all. I remember putting that weapon in the offhand and that was it. They had me hook, line and sinker.

[@Fender178]

My favorite version of D2 was 1.09 because the Guided ArrrowZon was freaking broken and OP as hell. I played a lot of Bnet back then.

[@austinsmith4895]

It’s crazy because I remember all of this. Before LoD, 1.07, 1.08. When they introduced runewords. Then I didn’t play until 1.13c or something and came back to confusion.

[@plkpg]

Playing D2 patch 1.09 with my two neighbours was my golden era

[@SirKrux]

What a time to be a 13 year old with a PC.. thanks for taking me all the way back! Honestly loved every second of this.

[@0matic1112]

1.08 and 1.09 were by far the best and funnest for pvp. Hell cows to get to 99 easily, bugged / duped items. It was sooo much fun

[@CASSD2RTV]

I mainly play Resurrection, but sometimes in the early stages of Classic Ladder, I get together with members and have some fun :)

[@Sunandor]

Hands down 1.09 was my favorite era in d2 before all the overpowered runewords were added to the game. The runewords changed the game completely and forever. Especially Enigma killed the exploration part of the game totally.

[@StonedDiablo2Guy]

Truly, the most fun I’ve had playing D2 was D2R Ladder season 1. The nostalgia of my favorite childhood game with some refreshing changes like TZs, the ability to be a FOH paladin, The community was huge, and most importantly, I had real life friends and family to play with. Compared to the 1000s of hours I played back in the LOD days, I truly believe that was peak D2

[@sakurya972]

I love how you continue to create new and engaging content for Diablo 2, a game that is over 20 years old and most of us think we know everything about.

[@TimJBucci]

I swear I remember my friend made some runeword that doesn't exist with Shae Ral Tal Tal in a Poleaxe or something, and I was always wondering how he knew how to make that runeword, and he said confidently that, "It's like music. I just played the notes."

[@frankenstein3163]

like ye played classic song's courses ? That would be cool.

[@balazsszabo1317]

The original version was tough as F and in the same time we had almost no knowledge regarding everything. My first character was a physical spearzon, I managed to bring her to Hell on single. I was 16 and we were not able to play the game online. (without arreat summit it was even thougher) This version bringed so much fun and challenge to me! In my opinion: 1st "original" 2nd and Actual D2R and Lod last version simultanously (20k+ hours minimum in D2 world)

[@commytee]

I recall the bug with Marrow Walks applying level 33 bone prison to skill tree - made for an extremely OP bone nec

[@CamUsername123]

One thing I really miss, was bartering to trade. Back when you'd offer a whole trade window of random stuff for a really good item. Before sojs got duped into oblivion and any good item cost 40 sojs, but even that was memorable. Oh and I miss Oculus rings a little bit.

[@Someonehahaha]

I remember when meteor could be spammed. And did not have a long cool down. Shit was fire.

[@klasykapolskiegohh8798]

Yes and every baal run people were spamming in the chat "pls no meteor or game will ceash" haha

[@RareFXChrisC]

I remember people spamming Frozen Orb and causing the game running at 1 FPS

[@zvalera]

I started around 2002 and both 1.09 and the huge 1.10 update were fun, but getting some of that 1.07 flavor into d2r would be cool even if it's just for an event and the items are temporary and expire at midnight, I'd still search for them

[@gregorybarnard5593]

Charged Boltress was my favorite starter lightning build

[@danj3051]

Used to love static before the nerf, level 1 used to hit most of the screen and was just ridiculous. I hated that boss that was near the inner sanctum way point who would kill you while you were loading up. And very fast sorceress was just so much fun. I remember my first proper sorceress fondly and still have to use the same name. When you hit the mid 20s the power jump was noticeable. The fun of Teleport, static, run, orb, telekinesis up the loot, teleport etc etc

[@andrewhoff8782]

Found your channel a couple hours ago and I already finished your diablo 2 video playlist and am craving more. KZbin finally recommended me something worthwhile. 👌

[@johnwayneasgenghiskhan4699]

4:52 the ED looks bugged here. That number in that base should be more in the 1200 defense range.

[@Vilehand]

Never had i had to pause so much in a video to read all the stats

[@JjDodo-nu4mb]

Need more nostalgia content if you have the time. It's always great! I want to see pictures or videos of colored ornate plates before they went vibrant. V1.08 or before. On a barb ofc.

[@petervlcko4858]

Coronets, tiaras and circlets were insane in 1.07 and a bit up. They were abundant and many times spawn with skills and other goodies. Not that they are bad now but are more rare to get out of monsters before they were very common. Anyway i like completely something different when once upon time you can spam as much hydras or orbs as you like (meteor or any skill does have delay now doesn’t had before) it was beauty. Of course hydras has at level 20 something like 50 dmg per fire bolt but have them full screen was something magical.

[@kishell]

Excited for new pd2 season where I can actually craft those 3 socket armors, helmets and 6 socket weapons

[@TheCoreyStoryTM]

Man playing Diablo 2 LOD back in like 2001-2003 was some of the best gaming days of my life.

[@mofriday2307]

love that nostalgic music you add in there. i remember those days of D2... that excitement when expansion came out was unreal

[@Nick-jz9yz]

I need everyone to know that i correctly guessed charged bolt was the OP one

[@flyjum]

My favourite time as a PvP player was during the first ladder season of 1.10 but I played non ladder so we didnt have most of the really broken runewords. No grief no spirit no infinity no insight. Ebotd or insane rares were top melee weapons EDC was good too. I played a lot of 08 09 and 10 versions of D2. I had a cube full of insane rare rings and accidentally transmuted all of them into one. I had a few of the insane duped I assume 1.07 crafted skill amulets as perms in 1.10. I remember an assassin running cows died and got with inven stacked thus popped dropping all their gear on ground and I got one from that.

[@debacofzomb9889]

I miss my wizardspike gloves 😂

[@Algonqiun]

Probably 1.09 was my favorite, all the cruels XX of quickness or the quarks weapons. White/occy rings, Ith weapons, Btals. Shaft/Gaze/WF zons were an iconic look. If you had an Eaglehorn, you were broke.

[@TheBoredTroll]

I still miss that look, Btals smiter str bugged wep sheild... the animation without the shield/wep always made me rock solid..

[@ThePhreakyPyro]

I personally remember the epic feeling of remaking your characters 1 by 1 as you built your wealth and you finally finished trading for the last piece of your vison of a "perfect" item set for your charater relying on rushes and carries because every stat point matter and every skill point mattered. Normally only adding stat points and skill points to a build at around 72-74 once you were able to start to wear your gear you invisioned and the epic feeling of failure whenyou accidently over looked the +stat on a lower stat requiring item and realizing you were 2 stat points over the absolute minimum required str and the haunting feeling knowing your char will always have 1 or more fewer points in vitality than it could have had if you only thought about your damn +2 stats from your damn shako LOL

[@Greynth]

Late v1.08 through entirety of v1.09 was legitimately the fucking GOAT era of all time for any Diablo game and I will die on that hill. EVERYBODY can get this smoke if they disagree.

[@ApathyBM]

Just before synergies were added, it was the purest form of the game

[@winnieatshunny]

playing a trap assassin on US west when white rings were the norm was a pain. Kept getting called a hacker for name locking and casting traps and mindblast 3 screens away. Was so hard to find a decent pvp pub room too. Clan GI had some cool guys but the amount of wealth some players there had was insane kinda hard to match for someone who didn't bot 24/7, or at all. Had good memories with this game, even after all these years

[@rpgs6218]

I got the battlechest around 2004 as a gift and i played D2 for up to 2012 or so. I would play that nonstop almost evrryday.

[@ItsARCHIEftw]

I have 1.07 on CD. Gawd, the good ol days! fav version/mod - 1.09 - ZyEl mod

[@HeartDelSwarm]

it's so weird, because i was like 5 when i remember watching my dad play diablo 2 for the first time and so many things seemed so much different for him than when i started to play it myself years later. I remember him killing the barbarians and putting multiple skill levels in, only to do it myself years later and only get one. I just chalked it up to remembering it as a kid incorrectly, but it really was different. Great video.

[@woochitelj]

I loved the version where Guided Arrow would pierce through the enemy and then come back to him and then pierce again and again and again... :) Killing bosses was so easy. I remember having my Amazon equip Kuko Shakaku and destroy everything! Guided arrows would literally swarm Baal. I cannot remember which patch it was, but it was amazing :)

[@Hmongboi228]

D2 classic player here who retired for good about 2 months ago, Bowazons don't even exist anymore in D2 classsic once multishot was nerfed. It's a shame, it really is. D2 was dead regardless but long gone are the gothic and rune bow Bowazons in D2 classic.. 😞😓 You find a high damage gothic/rune with no increased attack speed? Sell it or drop it..

[@Zodiak747]

I miss playing the game in times where no one was reading guides and tips how to hit meta asap…

[@unixjpn]

back in the days we have private channels with friends we find in chat and we would talk about blue prints for the best builds. Majority of the builds dump all points into lvl 30 skills like WW or frozen orb etc. The cow in hell mode was where everyone was leaching EXP and getting to lvl 99

[@jaysoniorg2950]

Agreed, but that isn't necessarily because there wasn't an "ideal" sort of place to arrive with your build, or anything generally considered BiS. Rather, it's because there were so many potential avenues where you could arrive at BiS, no one really cared about guides. Hell, I remember trading off a 3os Cruel Balrog Blade of Switfness and refusing offers of Grandfather + SoJ's, lol. To put that into context, Grandfather was the best unique sword in the game, and the sword I was trading off was blue rarity. So nearly any item rareness could be BiS.

[@arc-sd8sk]

actually we did that back then too, you just weren't invited to the irc channels lol

[@malygos9301]

DLC ruined Diablo 2. Runewords completely changed and ruined Diablo 2. People can pretend all they want, resurrected was almost a 1 for 1 copiy and no one plays it. D2 has like 20 viewers on twitch.

[@CSholler51]

1.08 - late 1.09 was possibly one of the best time frames, and that was without people knowing all the calculations they know now fcr, ias, etc. once everything changed over currency wise from sojs to runes and bots started taking over and flooding the market on any of the good uniques in the game and runes the seasons were basically over after 1-2 weeks

[@frostblog]

Two things that I remember about 1.07 ladder. Most OP Chars back then was the chain lightning sorc (at least it was the world's first 99 char in lod on the europe realm). If I'm not mistaken its cast rate was based on attack speed and not faster cast items. Also we had Multilight enchanted bosses (MLEB) back then, which most players tried to avoid. Which still existed in 1.09 I guess.

[@JiminalPrime]

That first play through experience I had of this game coming off the back of diablo 1 was so incredible. I mean if you ever wanted to see the most ridiculously spec'd necromancer you e ever seen in your life, mine was it. With points in ever skill and nothing specialized. However It was fun crashing games with my 60+ minions 🤣. I don't wish for them to turn back the clocks but I do wish they would listen to the fans of D2 and implement some of the legitimately great ideas that would bring people home. Great vid man. Thanks

[@xijinpig7978]

You asked me what is my most fav Diablo Version? Diablo 4. It ends my unholy love for Blizzard once and for all.

[@FoolingAroundMyPlace]

I remember 1 or 2 days before offical LoD Launch 2 people of my guild already owned a LoD copy each and were able to log into the battlenet chatromms. I think they even were able to create an Assa and Druid but their avatars were not shown the correct skin for druid or assa. But if you moved over their avatar it said druid /assa :p

[@siatama476]

i did not know diablo looked so good now, im still used to retro graphics from when i alst played it lol

[@KevinCarlino]

This was great... now go back to vanilla CD version :D. More generally, would love a "history of D2" series... talk about old currencies and what happened to them... This was originally how I found your channel a few years ago, talking about the old bugged items.

[@Coooley]

Not a bad idea. There's certainly a LOT of history especially when you bring currencies into it. Video would be an hour long but entertaining lol

[@mhebert350]

@@Coooley Do it. :)

[@ViscusLupus]

I member playing original D2 (withoute lod) and died 17 times to Hephasto Armorer on nightmare because he spawned with: enhanced streangth, fire + fanaticism lol. First death was during the fight with him and other 16 was me trying to get the corpse. From the other hand Diablo himself I killed first time no problem lmao. Hell difficulty... was sth else man, I coulndt get to blood raven and ofcourse I was playing the barbarian. Best times of my life ;))

[@Floww21]

I played a lot of D2 1.09 Fury Within. You had new tipes of gems, they highest rune was Sky Rune +1 all skills, Secret Diablo the Elder and...omg the frozen giants who could kill you off the map when they were stomping the ground. I also played the Rising Sun mode, but Fury Within was sooo damn good.

[@shoestringsev4529]

Originally the idea was that a Zod rune would grant +1 to all skills. Also the rouge used to change skills based on plus skills items. She could even get Diablo lighting hose.

[@DankChi66]

i played D2 for about a whole decade when i was a kid/teenager. this brings back so many memories

[@Cobearzz]

the "Other Multiplayer" lobbies full of hacked characters. People be in Rogue Encampment as a fetish and soon as you walk outside of town for a duel INSTA RIP with no attacks done. Shit was just...cool back then. Good Ole Hero Editor.

[@colon_sausage]

Not being able to respec and having your character auto deleted after 3 months of being inactive on bnet. Classic.

[@SwampusMcGarniglus]

the last patch before synergies 1.14b i think it was, that was the golden era d2. Every class was in the Hell 8 player cow levels destroying.

[@ChibiAkagi]

This might be a little off point from a version of the game, but during the days of edited items and characters, the Super Boss Mod was an awesome experience. I'll never forget stepping out of town and being immediately surrounded by monsters that would have destroyed anyone with no edited gear.

[@andregagnebouchard1505]

I would absolutely love to see more content about earlier patches

[@CommanderReplay]

Melee might actually be playable without grief with a stash of 40max damage charms.

[@Coooley]

I agree. But the charms max bowazons far too powerful. While some people rally behind that, those players don't PvP

[@8888disturbed]

on 1.7 melee and bow are your best choice. zeal pal was monster

[@jprec5174]

@@Coooley i was always of the idea that instead of the poopy bone break charm, melee/phys characters get 1 unique charm that works like gheed and torch that gives you 20-40 max damage 200-400 AR but reduces your defense by a %.

[@DDadams0]

​@@8888disturbed1.7? We aren't even at patch 1.7 now. What the hell are you smoking lol

[@8888disturbed]

@@DDadams0 dude are u idiot or what? current patch is 2.8 or somethin. 1.7 is the original LoD do u even play on this patch?

[@genki2469]

the crafted items look insanely fun. would be a sick alternative to runewords and uniques if they were adjusted a little

[@cvsouther]

My two best memories.. It was the age of Life leech, when it still meant something while dueling! Possibly the best time I had.. Was the "Bugged Items" days. 6os Windforce, bugged Vamp Gaze, bugged Ark Valor, bugged Tals, 451 Psn sc's, bugged War Travelers, bugged, SS, bugged SOE, Oculus SOJ and bugged Ith Colossus Blade. Sadly, I think those are just memories now :/ (Unless you edit your own, which is not the same.)

[@Coooley]

09 Zealot duels hit different

[@cvsouther]

@@Coooley I couldn't agree more! A little later it was perma nk, by the FC Zon. (Getting killed off-screen was crazy.) The wild west days!

[@kuurakarahka]

1.09 was the best in a way. I played almost only SP, and back then, mostly S/S WW. Had a Doombringer and a cruel CB, and boy did my prized 90+ baba turn to shit with 1.10. Especially the a5 vipers were dreadful. But, got better gear later on, now my best char is a self-found Infini light sorc. Took an admirable amount of chest runs, that! Now, I think the increased difficulty was for the better, overall.

[@LoDDEMOCIDE]

I like these videos way more than the PvP stuff. I hope you keep making them!

[@rlibtech1080]

1.08 with the Buriza do Kyanon (spelling off) and amazon's guided arrow was some of the most fun I've had

[@Arutima]

I have version 1.00 on a original CD. I cannot imagine the kind of broken things you can do with that version of the game

[@FXXRVLCXDXX]

Very few people know the bug with dual wielding... but you can also put 2 TWO HANDED in the same way with W and LMB :D

[@frankenstein3163]

This should have ben left in. How hard is it to swing 2 knifes or if you have training to swing 2 2-handed weapons IRL. Aside from big axe's and big hammers.

[@slantize]

My d2 pvp sorc in 1.08 was max charged bolt and tstorm. One shotted most with tstorm while teleporting around but could also teleport right in front of a guy and shoot a lvl 40 charged bolt in the face

[@sheepwshotguns42]

its wild how close to perfect diablo 2 is. i swear to god, with just a few tweaks like the powerful crafting in this video. remove level difference from attack rating and instead make each lvl give you like +2 to base mele damage. and swap a high lvl rune modifier with teleport to open up new armor possibilities. nerf spirit so other shields become viable. fix some synergies. the possibilities become crazy...

[@fangorn23]

I remember the valley of haradrim was great for early farming. sure you only have to enter the specific temple to do the quest.... but you can also clean the whole valley and get some nice loot in the process

[@zandiskoul]

Played POE but joined the Army and took D2out the box, failed some builds but got 3 lv90+ in HC offline. The "new/normal" D2 most people are used to online I skipped and joined ressurgence HC server. Love the old no patch stuff.

[@Sistik123]

1.08 barbarian with fury Balrog blade destroyed.

[@U_SpoonyBard]

Right? I distinctly remember a badass rare sword for my barb that had at least cruel on it, if not fool as well. All I remember for certain is that it was called Death Mar Balrog Blade.

[@GubbaGamin]

I was there and remember when it patched from 1.07 to 1.08 at then right away to 1.09. Old unique were still trading in SOJs and vamp gaze (which I was finding a lot) went from like 24 sojs to less than 1. People don't remember but it was actually awful to play. The servers were often down, lots of queues and the game was full of dupers and hackers.

[@unixjpn]

Dont forget how great it was to use maphack for meph runs back in those days

[@OldManRogers]

I just played the 'warchest' version that had D2 + Lod + strategy guide but was probably obsolete by the time I got it. No internet meant I just was bumbling around with my assassin chopping things. Never did anything harder. Now I have a lvl 80+ frost arrow amazon and part way through Hell difficulty.

[@SmoketySm0ke]

Back in 1.0 of d2, the game couldn't spawn a unique if that specific unique already existed in the world, including your inventory. Also, there were only 3 unique rings. People would make a gambling game with Manald Heal and Naglering in their inventories, and gamble until they got a guaranteed Stone of Jordan. Put the SoJ on a mule, repeat. This is one of the ways that the SOJs first began to populate the servers, before it would eventually become the de facto currency of d2.

[@TheWolfman91rs]

D2 was wild when you were playing with a barb and then an ob knight in the chaos sanctuary hits you with iron maiden in mid swing and you off yourself.

[@kyronhatfield1168]

I have never seen those runewords before, great content!!

[@tommyfredstrains2945]

Thanks for the Video prompted me to refresh my expired toons on East & West : )

[@ch-arts-us]

wow i remember expired character lol