Somewhere on teh intarweb "duird_ESCNL" typed:

I have multiple CD keys and PCs. Last night I was doing a few Nilly runs
with my strafer and I found a nice three socket hat. I decided that I'd try
a "Delerium" runeword as I had the runes and had never made one before. I
bought my (obviously hell-capable) rune mule into the game on another boxen
and made the hat.

It's quite interesting. I'm not sure if I'm going to keep it on my strafer
or not yet. As it is she has Dracs and her merc has Reaper's Toll so there
are constantly Life Tap and Decrepify being cast. With the Delerium Confuse
is also thrown into the mix, at a lot higher rate than Life Tap.

Anyway, to test how powerful she is I go to one of my favourite testing
grounds, the Icy Cellar. (Off Ancient's Way.) Well, talk about stair trap!
The steps came out in the centre of the cellar and there were *three* boss
packs of Frenzytaurs (one extra fast, one Fana, two of the bosses PI), a
boss pack of Flying Witches and champion Gloams. She died in seconds. I
would say *a* second but I think she lasted slightly longer than that. As
she was close to leveling I really wanted her corpse back.

So, I took the rune mule out of the game and bought my Freezealot in.
Unfortunately it was one of my slower computers (1.4GHz Tualatin Celeron,
GF2, 384MB SDRAM...) as I'd only intended to mule with it. He survived for
about 5 seconds. There were so many creatures on screen that the frame-rate
was down to about 1 per second. With that and the fact that the PC is off to
the side of my desk it was really hard to position the cursor so that he was
actually trying to hit things that were around him.

So here I am with two of my most powerful characters dead. The screen with
the red writing on and the dead pally shows that he managed to kill perhaps
20% of the Frenzytaur minions. I ponder just quitting at this stage, I don't
really have another character that is suited to this situation. However, I
figure "What the hell" and fire up a medium-speed computer (Athlon XP2600+,
GF440ti, 1GB DDR-RAM) and enter the game with my Skellimancer. He has Enigma
so I figure I'll get a full army and tele away from the foot of the stairs
and attempt to take on the monsters on the edge of the island.

(I should mention here that I have a 2M/128kbps broadband connection.
However, if I download/upload 1GB of traffic in a day my speed gets set to
64/64kbps until 2am. I was doing this last night at 1am and was "throttled".
I have a flat-mate and a house-guest who both use the internet as much as I
do. Also, as my internet connect costs me a good chunck of my income, I like
to use all of my data allocation. Why pay for something you're not using
when money's tight for other things right?)

So, although PC number three is reasonably specced, by the time I have the
full compliment of skellies, Mages and about 9 Urdars from the ROF I am
getting lagged quite a bit. I use the strafers TP at the top of the stairs
(I've learnt to always leave a TP before going into the Icy Cellar. I only
need it rarely but when I do, I do. <g>). I select teleport as my
right-click and then click to go down the stairs. My minions disappear but
the Necro stands there for 2 seconds or more. I hit a fat purp. Next thing I
know I'm surrounded by frenzytaurs, witches and gloams and trying to
teleport over to the back of the stairs and get clear. I manage to first
part of the mission but am killed at the back of the stair-island. I'm
reasonably confident that my tactic would have had a good chance of working
if not for the lag monster.

Now my only three characters who have the slightest chance of surviving this
situation are all dead. I look at the screen where the necro died and see
that some 30% of the monsters are now at the back of the stairs. Once again
I contemplate just exiting the game and forgetting it. It's past bed-time,
this was supposed to be a quick Nilly run before bed. I decide to give it
one more attempt.

I exit with the pally on the slow computer. I exited D II completely and
started videtest.exe and changed the setting from 3D to 2D. (It was a bit
ambitious having it set to 3D with a GF2 anyway.) I re-started D II , logged
in and once again into the breech....

This time the frame-rate is far better. There are no speakers attached to
this PC but I don't think it'll be too much of a problem. I pick up my
corpse from beside me at the top of the stairs in Harrogath, ressurect my
merc and take the plunge. There are initially less Frenztaurs at the bottom
of the stairs but they soon mob me due to my Holy Freeze aura attracting
them from around the Necro's corpse (I see this peripherally on the other
monitor). With the video set to 2D the game is far less jerky but, man,
those Frenzytaurs hit hard! My merc insta-dies and even after life tap
triggers I still have to use a couple fat purps. However the pally wins the
day and soon he's dispatched all the monsters surrounding him.

He has negligable magic-find so I'm not expecting much. I open a TP and
press <alt>. I nearly missed it.

http://test.internet-webmaster.de/upload/1206319012.jpg

I'm pleased now that I persevered and recovered the bodies. I'm also a
little annoyed that I'd used up my only IST less than an hour before to make
the Delerium.

My best drop ever on the realms. I had an OHM drop for me a month ago too.
Kinda makes up for my bad luck this ladder MFing. It seems that when Kaytie
steals your luck it stays stolen. I'm pleased she only stole my MF luck and
mot my rune luck. <g>

Cheers,

You don't want to read about Diablo II, then don't come to the Diablo II
newsgroup. Idiot.

IAWTP. *nods*

Sorry, no can do.

Użytkownik "Goran" <stpetersgate@googlemails.com> napisał w wiadomości
news:47e51bed.439718@news.motzarella.org...

It is your private opinion.
Please post on group topic, or dont disturb.

Keep the pressure on Mouth to shut his mouth in forums he infests for no
other purpose than to disrupt.

Have a nice childish, game playing day.

Recent "truths", by Mickey Ben Tovim (a.k.a. Micky Marine, Micky Mouth
et. al.)

WARNING: Do not drink while reading this

"I am an Israeli"
"I am an American"
"People think I'm Italian"
"I have a B'rooklyn accent you could cut with a chainsaw"
"I served with the IDF"
"I served with the US Marines"
"I was wounded in Vietnam"
"I was decorated in Vietnam"
"I wasn't even in Vietnam most of the time"
"I played bridge with Omar Sharif"
"I am a multi-millionaire"
"I drive a Ferrari"
"I own 1.65 million shares of Comcast"
"My grandchildren couldn't spend all the money I made"
"I would starve on $250 million"
"I'm retired"
"I work as a systems analyst in Detroit"
"I get paid $155 an hour"
"I live in Tiberias, Israel"
"I live in Sarasota, Florida"
"I have an apartment in NYC"
"I have an apartment in Atlanta"
"I have an apartment in California"
"I own property in London"
"I have a home (sic) in Bern"
"I like to eat myself into a stupor"
"My wife is half-Italian"
"My wife is half-Scottish"
"My wife is Native American"
"My wife is jewish"
"I'm hung like a horse"
"I don't need Viagra"
"I have nine children"
"My eldest son died in his sleep"
"My dead son was a Presbyterian"
"I have MS"
"Radavich is a jew"
"Radavich is a Serbian child-molestor"
"Radavich is afraid I'll trap his IP address"
"I pissed on the bathroom wall in Seredin's shop"
"The Broward - Palm Beach New Times reporter was objective"
"The Broward - Palm Beach New Times reporter used poetic (sic)
licence"
"I offered to pay Radovich's fare to Florida"
"The UN didn't create Israel, God did"
"I am a bullet-riddled half-cripple"
"I have proved everything I've said"

But the best I saved for last:

"If you and she are examples of what jewish women have come to, I'm
glad I didn't marry one. I would bet you could nag a man to death as
well."

Oh, we could go on for days, but you get the picture.

Duird_ESCNL

He'll be convinced, or his a.g.d2 is destined for the sh.tter.

Somewhere on teh intarweb "Polarhound" typed:

LOL!!! Yet another change of return addy Frozen Pooch? Confirmed troll.

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