Spawnboy said:
what was d2 like before it came too a downfall? Wat was the most popular character back before it went downhill and was a summon necro more popular then than now? Wat were the best characters too make and did people make a lot of nova sorcs? Were nova sorcs ne good? Were hexomancers ne good? Were frenzy barbs or ww barbs more popular? What was everyones favorite kind of build for characters back then and what was ur favorite build??? Were hammerdins, smiters, and zealers always popular or not? Was a light, ice, or fire sorc favored most? What was ur most favorite armor before d2 came too a downfall? Were there always runes when d2 lod came out? Were most people angry at ladder resets or happy? Wat was the best item u think u ever had?
in 1.09 (before the 1.10 downfall) i was in classic, so these views are all from a Classic POV.
1. most popular characters pvp wise was bowazon, cold sorc, and ww barb, most popular pvm char was bowazon xcept for rushing, in which case it was sorc.
2. the most popular necro around was a blood golem and iron maiden necro. there was a glitch in 1.09 where if you IM'd an enemy and had blood golem, since the enemy would be IM'd and deal damage to himself and the golem had leech, when the monster hit the golem it leached the IM damage back into health, basically making your necro invinsible. in turn, there were different veriations to this character, alot of people would go with Revives, skeles wernt popular cause they died way to easy, others saved tehre stats and maxed out things llike bone armor or teeth, and there were a fwe that would go ahead and make a poison necro. all had the IM blood golem though.
3. Nova sorces were fun cowers, they could own cows pretty well, but i always argued that it wasnt much faster (if any) than a orb sorc.
4. not sure what a hexomancer is
5. if you had a barb, you were ww, if you wernt ww, you were laughed at. granted, me and a friend made frenzy babas to have fun, that ****er would FLY. there were 2 main different types of barbs, regular barbs, and speed barbs, regular barbs had loads of damage, but were normal speed, speed barbs had the increased speed skill pumped into, sometimes maxed, sometimes not, depended on the builder, these guys were built for zons in pvp mainly. my frenzy barb had frenzy and spee dmaxed, so when he got his frenzy all the way up, he was like a bullet. so fast that mh wasnt able to load the red x's to tell me where monsters were, id see them before the map revealed them.
6. my favorite build was my pvp zon, i loved to duel, and there wasnt but a handful of peoplt that could give me and my friends a good challenge. we loved to 4on4 people, and rarely lost. i still have a mule of the "top team duelers in useast classic"'s ears, team i-ii.
7. back in 1.09, hammerdins were shit. no one EVER used the hammer skill. zealers were so-so, there were some but not that popular, most pallys were sidekicks for zons (fana) or freeze pallys to beat zons, theyd have charge + zeal + freeze, freeze to get close and whack with fana on, then switch back.
8. lightning sorces were never around back then, fire sorces were ther ebut not too popular, and cold (orb) sorces took the cake.
9. favorite armor...twitch. because in classic twitch is the armor to use on a zon.
10. yes, runes have been around since LOD was released.
11. ladder didnt reset as far as i know, i played 1.09 for years and never saw a reset. ladder and NL was the same, there was no difference in the 2, when u made a character it was automatically put in L, NL was non-existant.
12. the best item i -ever- had in classic i still have. a 10/30/20/12dtm/9str/22pris(that means 10fhr/30faster block rate/20increased chance of blocking/12 damage taken goes to mana/+9 strength/ 22 to all resistance)
in 09 that shield would have gone for like 30-40 soj's easy.
