Has anyone looked at the change, didn't it use to be fixed at -33 def ,
Could be some new planning , DC comes to mind, at lvl20 over 1000def gone
for a good lenght of time.OH sh--  PKers

Does anybody on uswest still play non-ladder softcore? If so I've got loads
of stuff I'd like to unload. Everything from Rixot's Keen to Shakos. I've
got enough to give away for at least one account.
leave a msg to my bot *hard_cider or post here.

I'm playing Gemstone with an assassin and reached Hell. Until now
I didn't experience much difficulties keeping her alive but in Hell
Act 1 I'm dying constantly. Among others I had one-hit-kills by
some boss monsters and I find some of them really hard if not

Howdy,
My son (7.5 years old) has just discovered the love of D2.  I have him
playing the single player version for I don't want him playing on-line yet.
I have a Linksys four port router and I'm curious how the TCP/IP game would

I am building two necromancers, both with maxed skeleton/mastery but one
build I am maxing bone spirit/bone prison, the other I am not using
bone/poison tree at all (except for corpse explosion of course) and maxing
mage/revives. Can anyone comment on these two options? I have ...

I'm having great fun with my PJ/PJ/LF Javazon in the first two acts of hell.
The staff and the amulet are collected but not assembled. It'll be
interesting to see if Duriel's chamber will open for me or not.
Non lightning immunes fall quickly to their death to my maxed out LF, the

If anyone has a ladder meteor sorc on USWest, I found a pretty nice orb
for that build and put it on the public ladder account on the caster
mule. It's +2 to sorc skills, +3 to meteor, +33 to life, 7 to energy and
requires level 51.

Do rune words work in ethereal items? I found an ethereal three socket
Colossus Voulge I'm considering putting Crescent Moon (Shael + Um + Tir) in
for my Javazon's might Mercenary. This is ladder by the way, so I'll be
using my only Um.

I'm not able to play D2 LOD Battlenet, because i have framerate around 5
frames/s, but my PC should have sufficent power to handle D2.
I have a P2 400 Mhz (from 1998) with 327 MB ram, Gforce 3 ti200, IBM
deskstar harddisk (7700 RPM) and a fast ADSL connection.

Last night my USWest HC ladder sorc (50) was PKed using some kind of
hack/cheat/exploit that allowed an assassin (TychoBrahe, account name
Tweak-bz, apparently a very active serial killer) to use the WSK2 WP
immediately after hostiling me.  The subhuman filth was partied with

Anyone know if this maphack is virus free? What about detection?
Unlike mousepad's this maphack loads before you login. It's actually a
DLL run with d2loader. It works, I made a new account and character to
test it out and my virus checker didn't come up with anything.

Anyone want to fill me in on how a horadric staff collected in hell
difficulty is unusable IN hell difficulty?
One thing I should note here... since assembling the staff in question
a couple of weeks ago (what can I say, sometimes I do quests in fits

With the state of the world today so many have little to be thankful for. I
will spend time with loved ones today and for that I am thankful.
Happy Thanksgiving!

Has anyone else had trouble with games not saving? I'm seeing this
issue with a couple of characters: I open a character, play with it,
then save and exit. (As you do).
When I subsequently consult the character page, the character I have

My super loan pc arrived today. (busy setting up an uber Maya animation
pc that can handle rotating 300K polygons on a screen. Which it does,
its unreal and quake framerates are off the charts.
The specs are