I know that a pure Fire Druid will experience problems with Fire and
Lightning Immunes in Hell.  But I was wondering if this could be
circumvented by putting points in the summoning tree and ccutting back
on Armegeddon, which I understand can be a bit problematic.  

On previous postings to this group I asked about the viability of a pure
fire Druid, and his chances completing the game in Hell.
The consensus was that it just was not a good build.
So, can anyone recommend a good Druid build.  I have enjoyed playing a

I seem to remember this could be done.  What file or files do you swap out
if you want to play 1.09 SP versus 1.11 MP?

I was looking at GG to see the really long subject lines that some fools
put up, and I wonder if everyone sees what I see:
http://groups.google.com/group/alt.games.diablo2/topics?gvc=2
alt . games . diablo2

Which lvl /area is best to search for 2 socket War Hat (I want to make
'Lore')?

I was just wondering if anyone still had a copy of the old v.15 Gemstone
Mod for D2 1.09 lying around?
I recently uncovered an archive of old 1.09 Gemstone characters and
would like to fire them up again, so if anyone DOES have the old

I had to share!
I was playing my Freezon and I generated a Valk that had a grey armor. Now
of course Act 1 Hell had a few cold immunes so I normally just let my Valk
tank and I let my merc slowly ebb away at them.

In 1.09 before the Zon got nerfed?  I couldn't wait to trade for my duped
SOJ's so I could spam the trade channels to trade for one.  Is the Buriza
even in the game anymore?  Been a few years since I played.
-gk-

hello all, I have been lured in by WoW. If anyone here wants my accounts on
USW SCL, they are there for the taking. My playing account got closed for
using maphack, oops. Started playin WoW at the same time a created a new
playin account so there is not much of value there, but ...

I have a friend (no not me, it really is a friend) who was given a computer
that had D2: LOD on it up to 1.09.  Are there any build guides still out
there for 1.09 characters?  He's never played the game at all and I haven't
played since 1.10.  Sorc and Zon builds are the ...

Is there a new newsgroup or is everyone just too busy to ask
questions? I know the spam was terrible. If I need to do something to
find new newsgroup, please advise.
Chemo

Any tips to help me kill Diablo greatly appreciated. I tried very
briefly to whack him at lvl 28 Druid, 3 dire wolves, poison vine,
merc, oak spirt, volcano.  I have pretty good armor (Defense 130
armor, nice shield, boots, etc. I know I need lightning resistance but

Man, I made a Crescent Moon in a phase blade, and those charges of spirit
wolf cost over 386,000 EACH! They don't last 5 minutes, either. Whew! Not
using that *bonus* again.
Mark.

An Amazon using a thrown weapon with a shield, same set up on switch if that
is the way to go. Years back I had one that was very good till Hell and then
everything went south. If possible some clarification on strength and
dexterity skill point distribution, with advice on the ...