To all those who remember me. Hello. :-) I mentioned I might be back
when the ladder reset so don't say you weren't warned.
Just after the reset, I reinstalled the game and started a fresh account
beginning with a LF/FA amazon and a Fanatic/Zealot paladin. Originally,

Well, Hell Mephisto decided to drop me a unique Amulet... I was hoping
it would be a Mara's... and it was!  A 28 res. one in fact!
I looked closely at it since I've never found one before...
+2 All Skills

Gale Spawn
Balanced Axe
30% IAS
+299% ED

I'm running in minimal MF to find some white/gray stuff, and have seen
numerous elites of varying colour except gold and green drop already, I've
only done Shenk/Eldritch and WSK2 so far/ Messgae *thejabber for a slice...
By the way, anyone else notice that shrine duration is ...

Hello Louis,
In addition to the 3 sets of keys I have for for my wife, me and Misfit
I am working on a second set in hopes that you will be able to come and
visit me on WestUS and go to UT with me.

My FOrb/Lightning sorc is starting to kick some serious rear, in her 4/5
Tal's, Magefists and assorted crap. Opening doors and walking in spraying
Orbs and streams of white death everywhere feels like a gangster movie. OK,
I know I suck.

I am SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO stupid :(. A cpl weeks ago my necro found a vex
so I thought YAY he can make a HOTO but the puls in uww mules got taken
so I been looking 4 1 very hard then 2day samiel lends me 1 and I am
VERY happy I been wanting to make HOTO 4ever. last ladder i found a ...

i'd like to pay it forward.
My only activity on bnet for the past year or so has been to refresh my
chars to keep them from dissolving. the old timers on this newsgroup
have helped me immensely for the past 3-4 years and to them i give my

She was on hiatus for a couple days while I mfd with the necro and
played around with a baby lightning sorc, and pondered what to socket
the Hellrack.
We entered act 4 and started working our way toward Izzy, a task I

I found a rare balanced knife with +1 barb skills and 122 dim vision
charges.  That is high enough in number to actually be worthwhile,
maybe.  Okay, so really I just want to use it so I can see how much it
costs to fix after those 122 charges are gone.  heh.

And I wanted to take a screenshot, but no dice.  I recently upgraded
to SP2 (Windows XP) and that is the only recent change I have made.
No matter what I try, nothing will take a screen shot now (not just
D2)... any ideas?

I went into my nl sc and hc accounts today, and debated creating a free
game to unload the swag, but thought that the average denizen of Bnet
was unworthy.
Because I was offline much of the last season, I don't have a huge

What is a Kookazon?   Well, it's an all encompassing term describing
spearazons and other amazons that use two handed weapons such as staves and
polearms (okay, fine, I just made it up on the spot) - in the interests of
impartiality and maximum confusion, I have removed all ...

How good does a rare need to be before you keep it?  Would a sword
that had good damage for a mid-level character be something you would
keep or would you trash anything that wasn't 300+ed with other good
mods?  Do you pickup every rare you see or only certain item types?

My third torch this ladder and I think it's arguable got the worst
stats of them all.  Fortunately it's at least for a character I'm
planning on building.  But then again, my Necro wasn't going to be
anything other than a char to bring in to help with corpse recoveries,