@The Monster Under Your Bed true, the bots are rampant, they purged the other day and within that same day there were bots up again using the same game names and everything
The greatest and my favorite game still after all these years. This is how a dark fantasy game should be like. I don't think a game will come out which will surpass diablo 2.
I use to stay up like all night every night even on school nights and get like 2-3 hours of sleep cause I was addicted lol I still feel like I'm catching up on lost sleep from that period in my life.
I was like 10 when playing D2 back in my days. Now I'm 25 and came back to D2R, I was wondering why my memory is so broken and I don't remember any enigmas, some sick cubing recipes, or upgrading runes. After your video, I just realized I spent my childhood time playing 1.09 all the time (unfortunately I had a pirated copy from my friend so no updates) and that's the reason a lot of stuff seems new or forgotten. Thank you for making it so clear, maybe that's the reason I still have sooo much fun grinding it again :) Time to make my first enigma ever
people are still talking about this game. truly legendary. 35 years old, and I played the sheet out of it when I was younger. open BNET hacked duels in .09 to 1.1 closed BNET. From a hackers perspective, they COMPLETELY changed the very foundation of the game when 1.1 dropped. sofa king many memories... I could talk about this game for HOURS.
1.09 - Jab zon with a inventory full of poison charms and rocking a vamp gaze and shaftstop. Also a barb with a Ccbos(cruel colossus blade of swiftness).
I miss d2. Biggest achievement ever in the thousands of hours i had on hardcore was being the first zon to 99 on hardcore ladder season 4. HCK_Titan was its name. Had soo many lvl 96-98s every ladder but only once was i ever able to get a toon to 99.
frozen orb sorc will always be my favorite class/build to play in D2. By far. I remember losing my shit when I finally got the shako to drop, getting my monarch spirit shield, getting oculus, etc.Trap sins were pretty fun too. Never liked hammerdins. I just didn't enjoy playing them.
Been playing from age 11 until I was 17. God do I miss the old CS 1.6 maps and Diablo 2. I grew up playing 1.10. the good days were from 2003 until 2010 I miss it glad to see it's still active. I have 20 bucks I am playing again.
This, and probably complete lack of gameplay. I came here expecting Vanilla 1.0 gameplay no expansion, then 1.09 for a bit, then finally 1.14d... instead, nothing.
Respecs were a major change, since there was no legit way to reset your stat/skill points before that. Therefore I think 1.13 is a notable patch as well - and it's wrong to say that 1.10 and 1.14d are "the same".
Roy Batty Amen. I think it’s 1.13 and onwards. I downloaded 1.12 for PlugY and it took days for me to learn NOT to use physical attacks during Chaos runs.
To be honest, if they brought this back, I don't think it would be too Op anymore with some changes. It would finally give amazon a decent way to solo ubers. If they did something like make the leech only happen on the 1st hit, it could be brought back to not so OP territory. But yes, with fast aspd, and 5 times pierce every guided, and leeching everytime the arrow hits, it was definitely OP. Literally nothing killed you unless it one shot you.
I played at the peak of 1.09 where it got pretty out of hand with the hacks. Not sure if it was just a small minority of the D2 players that possessed them, but there were the Ith colossus blades/swords/matriarchal bows, the occy rings, and the most ridiculous +400 strength gloves. Insane days.
Exactly! Thats why 1.10 was good for the community. Got rid of all the old heads but kept the game alive and well for another decade, which is quite impressive imo
My best D2 years were 1.09. Best balanced and realized vision of the original game and expansion. I played 1.10 for a couple years too and enjoyed it but 1.09 was SO GOOD. Great trading on closed too. USEAST 2001-2005!
33 years old here. Played diablo 2 all the time when I was younger. 1.09 was by far my fav version of Diablo 2. Back then it was a trade fest to try and get ahold of things like Arcanes Valor from 1.08 for my schaefers hammer paladin. It was kinda cool that blizz allowed the items already spawned to remain the same even if they were nerfed in later versions. Such fond memories of so many different applicable builds. It feels like you get too shoehorned nowadays into certain 'applicable' builds.
Yes and before 1.10 there wasn't Ladder and No ladder separation. You could have items all the way from the game release. Only the new ladder seasons didn't show any characters in the ladder list that had been created before the reset.
Until that day where you went into games and there had dozens of windforces and sojs on the floor and you knew there was no coming back from dupeswap/yay
As a kid who played exclusively single player (we didn't have good enough internet to play games online), I remember seeing the new rune words in v1.10, and just getting stars in my eyes...I was SO pumped. Even knowing that I would never find these runes (highest I ever found back then was Fal), I liked to dream of what power my character could be capable of with the new runewords. So for me, there is pretty much no nostalgia around pre 1.10 - I wasn't playing anywhere near the top tier, only had a few single player characters that got to Hell, and even then, never through act 3. I still feel the same way; the top tier rune words are the coolest thing to aspire to, especially now that I am BACK playing single player, trying to farm all the runes on my own (spoiler: it's not going well XD but it's still fun). Interesting to hear the perspective of someone who was active on the realms when these big changes dropped.
i agree with you wholeheartedly. i still love d2 in its current form but, d2 1.09 was a patch that kept me entirely slated to nothing but diablo 2 the entirety of the patch, then 1.10 nerfed and wrecked all of my characters.
Oh Boy. I remember Patch 1.09 like it was yesterday. I remember the sort after Windforce bow was the 1.08 version that added like +20 to dexterity. I remember during 1.09 having the full Bowazon Set and with patch 1.10 they did a complete revamp of the Set Items as well buffing them up and making them powerful but what sucked about it was that you had to re-find the set items to get the benefited boost. Another major change with 1.10 is the added the synergy damage bonuses as well. Another major change from 1.10 to 1.14 would be 1.12 and 1.13 because with patch 1.12 it allowed users to play D2 without using the CD and Patch 1.13 nerfed the Oblivion Knights removing their ability to cast the Curse Skill of Iron Maiden. I remember on how broken the Guided Arrow was in 1.09 being able to pierce multiple times per shot which made Bowazons overpowered as hell.
They also added skill synergies in 1.10 and majorly changed the necromancer specifically, with the amount of skeletons he could have. But skill synergies changes the game a lot.
Crazy watching this in 2023. 1.09 was very fun. I just remember at some point the whole thing went from getting uniques to getting runes and I was confused.
Cow runs with Amazons were really fun using the ETH Titans along with Lightning Fury man Id level people to 99 all the time doing that. Plus back then you could keep doing cow runs with worrying about killing the cow king and not being able to re make.
Yeps, cow king was never ok to kill if you wanted to remake. Perhaps you were just under beating hell when you killed King, then made it when you were finally done Hell and were confused. Like person above me said, you were always fucked if you killed King.
Didn't see any fun in that. Ez mode area, eastern egg meant for visiting once per difficulty, not suppose to be core part of the game. Also too much exp which was a big problem the whole 1.08->1.09. 1.06 best patch still. :)
If you want points grab some pens bruh, it's his channel and the discussion is about STUFF. :) It's not labeled "TOP FEW EFFICIENT AND SHORT POINTS FOR NATHAN HASSALL'S LIKING"
I have played diablo 2 for 20 years. I love this game more than anything so I try and respect any man or woman that still makes TH-cam videos about diablo. No matter what the discussion is about.
@@jhondoe6211 Me too man since ver 1.0 I didn't mean to sound like a jerk and obviously I enjoy discussion on the subject too or I wouldn't be here..I didn't say broadcasting a was easy.. only trying to offer constructive criticism..based on the thumbs up I think other people felt the same way.
If I recall correctly, 1.10 added the possibility to buy mana potions in shops (that was major!) and skill synergies. That completely changed the game indeed. (and runewords too, needless to say). I mostly played 1.10 and beyond (like 95% of the time), but now I kinda wanna try 1.09 or even 1.00 lol
Same here.. Running it with 5 clients in my own TCP/IP game. It is fantastic. Back to my roots of online gaming at 2000. Buying mana potions is one of the worst features imo. IT takes away almost completely all the focus on your amount of mana and mana regen. Same thing with increased potion drops and for example the Meditation aura runeword.
LoD was great, jewels & runewords added a lot more depth than just a couple classes did, although I loved the Druid personally as well (another bonus). Ba'al runs are great too for solo MF as well as XP
I played classic, 1.08 up to 1.10 died as #1 hardcore sorc on ladder to the viper bug at lv 98. 1.09 is better then 1.10 but many players hated random rares becoming garbage after 1.08 and the fact certain people myself included had the ability to dupe rares and unqiues from 1.08. if you played us west you prob ran into a guy "Evil Pickles" he had so many broken old rares and he was a clear duper, great pkr and dueler. O the amount of ears I collected over the years. 1.09 was the peak and best time to play though. Sad they changed hostile and way points, and then patched the bug that got around it, so much harder to pk. I was 15 at the time, feel a little bad sometimes I would pk the same newb 3 times in a weekend every time as they got into the 30s with a one shot charge. Shout out to "Free sandwiches" hammer pally lead all our bail runs and was first to #1 if your still alive 21 years later and see this lol.
When I said all of the classes and skills got a boost I meant the synergy trees that's just the way I should have mentioned it. I said at the start of the video I wasn't going into crazy details on the patch. I said to just check the links for the FULL patch notes.1.09 wasn't just about amazons and sorcs Any true d2 veteran will tell you whirlwind barbarian was king.
I can confirm that barbarian could do everything ( but cs ) in any kind of games. I did like 9k with my ww , and back in those times was a lot. With my buffs alone i had 5300 hp. Not the king , but respectable. My friend had the collection of 99 hc barbs.
That stinks. Iron maiden made things a bit more, I dunno, tactical. I mean how many things in Act 3 fuck you up when you kill them, especially in later difficulties? Seems only logical Act 4 would be balls to the wall too and require you to not play with your head up your ass. Sounds like some filthy casuls whined too much, and we know Blizzard likes to pander to filthy casuls these days.
Not only that he forgot to mention from 1.08 to 1.09 fixed a major bug with Tyrael casting an inaccessible town portal and Duriel always dropping a Town portal after killing him so the Player doesn't get stuck in Act 2 and having to save Quit and having to kill Duriel again. Also another major addon is the /players x command in single player and local multiplayer. Also I think in 1.13 Immolation arrow getting a huge buff which decreased the casting cool down. Also 1.10 fixed a bug with the Venom Skill where weapons with Poison damage the venom duration was overridden by the weapons duration.
@@justiciar1964 Iron Maiden was fine in 1.09 but not in 1.10. They increased our damage by a lot and decreased the Life Leech effectiveness in Hell. Also probably increased the iron maiden reflect. I played mostly classic and could also clear Chaos with my whirl barb. I equipped lower damage with + life leech Lance on him and took it careful. I mostly Leaped some oblivs and then short WW to kill them. Leap attack was ranged attack back then and wasn't affected by IM.
I remember some transition between the 1.09 and the latest versions with those crazy runeword who gives people spells from other characters. I remember people who get those same old items but with countless ammounts of sockets and crazy overstatted jewels and occy rings n stuff. Thats what ruined the game before the newer items came out. It was actually the worst period of time. I remember having a very competitive sorceress and overnight, I was shit. The latest items kind of brought back the essence of the game. Still, nothing beats 1.09. If they do a remastered version of 1.09 with some new stuff, i'm gonna cry.
You guys realize you could always play 1.09 in Single Player mode, don't you? You just need to install the game from original discs and apply patch 1.09, which can surely be found and downloaded from somewhere. As long as you keep away from Battle.net, you will stay at version 1.09 ;)
@@WaheedQc Do you really have to "farm" for items? Just play the game - that's what I do. I've beaten the game (both Original and Expansion) in Hardcore without godly items and it was still an amazing experience. That's the real fun, to come on top and win against all odds with whatever gear you find along the way (instead of just getting good stuff without working for it).
My first Diablo 2 came from a crack I download from extinguish ARES ....that was a gold era I download all blizzard games on that time from ARES all were offline and it was so amazing and beautiful for me that I even dream with this age this days 🤩🤩😌
Alas, you didn't talk about the XP Penalty past Level 70 either. That was a HUGE change, and while I don't know if anybody actually *asked* for that back in the day, that *fundamentally* changed the endgame by making it much more of a grind to level past 90 than it already was and vastly extended the time needed to actually get to 99 for a single character from weeks to taking months, even years, to do so. Playing with large 7- or 8-player groups after that for maximum XP gain became essential and forced people into more online interactions, and at the same time also made it MUCH longer and more difficult for (read: one of the only real things in place preventing, even in D2R) banned players and botters to set themselves back up with new endgame accounts, so breaking ToS and losing characters actually started hurting and meaning something at that point. That definitely needed to be mentioned.
You missed a lot of stuff in 09. Grandfather was good, but true top barbs wanted 3 socket Cruel X of Quickness swords, then there were tons of hacked items used by garbage players to think they were good, stuff like Ith runeword weapons, Oculus rings, Hex charms...
I was like 7 but man I was really into hacked items and modded D2. I tried to DL a 2gig mod, 56k AOL meant my parents were constantly DCing me and I had to start over, also they weren't happy.
It was actually easier to get Cruel Colossus Blade of X than a Grandfather :) Those gems were more difficult if you wanted the best. Basically CCB required 3x 15%Ias Gems to hit last breakpoint ot something... so %dmg and IAS was the optimal And yeah for PvP especially.. Eth was mandatory. I guess it bugged and bypassed defence.
DShiflet01 I had some great magic and rare items back then. 1.10 screwed it bad in some ways even though it was also a lot of fun and gave us a fresh experience in our old game Prior to that I had tried to get into some mods and it just was never the same and I missed the trading Now D3 is a great game in terms of gameplay but there is no community and it feels a lot shallower I miss 1.09! Don't miss asshold barbs sorces and zone wrecking Paladin PVP games but it came with the territory :)
The most neglected class in D2 was the Necromancer. There's literally NO runewords (except Bone & White) or actual uniques that make sense for the class. The Nec was just random items from other overpowered builds. Plus the damage is pitiful, the defense is shit, the killing rate was ass, and customizability was dead - summoner was boring, bonemancer was slow as shit, poisonmancer didnt kill with just poison alone. It sucks. I played D2 mostly in the Nec, but I always wanted more.
The fuck you are saying Necromancer is one of the easiest classes to start ladder with and finish hell by yourself easily (one of the fastest too), and with decent build you can almost match a clearing time of hammerdin. Summoner is boring but thats just about every summoner class in every rpg. And poison mancer was great to farm cows back in the days and can be viable as "hipster" build.
Ive quit d2 for close to 15 years, but Frozen orb sorceress and whirlwind barb will never be forgotten. Son, no one really used WFs even back then. Ith bows and CBs were real big back then.
1.09 was definitely the best time on D2 - no surprise considering the direction Blizzard was taking (the toilet direction) they would make such drastic changes without much player feedback beforehand. I get what they were trying to do, but what they should’ve have done was tried to even the classes out a little more maybe try and make all the different builds viable. They were just trying to create some longevity for Diablo like an MMO, but D2 is a well made game and that’s all it needs to stand on.
1.09 broke the mould for RPG's forever. It's and absolute standard in the way we look at RPG's today. I mean ffs Blizzard have reverted back to D2 for D4 and we've got the remaster to look forward too.....hopefully, you guys all have mobiles right? 🤣
The most hated thing was the ladder. We ( a group of 15 from same city in italy + 5 canadians ) have played togather for 2 years in HC . I can stand monster increase and runewords. But this way 2 years of 20 people's life had been nullified. And than we all stopped to play , we restarted one month ago.
there were two MAJOR differences between 1.12 and 1.13, iron maiden was removed from chaos sanctuary (remember this bad boy? this was why no one ran it, either your Merce died as a source or ur barb one hit him self). and second was rune drop rates became a million times eaiser (most high runes were duped or bought in 1.12)
Patch 1.10 destroyed the game for me, strip away the fun to play builds and forced me to play boring chars, he didn't explained anything about 1.14d because there is nothing there, the core game wasn't changed and the only thing noteworthy was the ability to play on modern computers...
Diablo II's history can be divided into "before 1.10" and "after 1.10" - that's how influential this patch was. I started playing after 1.10 - in 2005 and I am used to this type of gameplay. But I have played older versions too, including the original 1.00 ;)
@@akse You are right. In recent years I decided to play some original (since I started with expansion all these years ago) and it does feel pretty different at times. Lots of things I was used to simply don't exist in that version. Most char builds don't work the same way as in LoD. I try to keep the experience as genuine as possible, which means I install only the original game, without LoD. This allows me to see the original title screen and character creation/selection screens. They are quite beautiful.
that feeling when you had all the good complete sets and best unique items... and then being rewarded with the fact that all that stuff was worth nothing anymore...
Ah nostalgia, back before the powercreep runewords rekt everyone's shiz. Remember when Silence was considered one of the best runewords, now nobody would even consider making one. Uniques felt strong. Now it's rare to not have at least 2 1.10 runewords as BiS gear.
For me, the killing move from Blizzard at the time, was that they introduced synergies from 1.09 to 1.10.. And, they did not include a skill/stat reset, effectively making all characters that you'd worked hard to gear and level up, unusable. So for veteran players, with several level 99 characters, perfectly geared and skilled, it was basically; start over or quit the game.. I chose the latter..
wow, people talking about patch 1.10 like it was the apocalypse or something... it just changed the game and I'd argue that was necessary because if there wasn't a 1.10 patch all of you would be saying "remember when Blizzard made the 1.09 patch and they just abandoned the game until it became boring" 1.10 had it's pros and cons but it wasn't bad by any means fact is that even if you create an amazing game it's still gonna get boring after a while if there isn't anything new in it
I really miss seeing things like Dip Dancer's legendary speed run to level 99 in like 24 hours back when we only had Blood Runs (bloody foothills) I remember the first time I got a sky strike bow and had enough leech to keep strafing, then I got goldstrike arch then a kuko then my first Burrito (Buriza Do'Kyanon) and wishing for that ever elusive 1.08 Windy to drop off Pindle... it finally happened. After learning he usually would only drop that TC twice a day it finally happened. I called into work the next few days to wreck shit.... then the rune words came and that feeling of building that magical 488%MF sweet spot to dim returns and finding those dope drops that made your build that bit more godly left me. I never had again in the history of my gaming that feeling of seeing that "Shako" drop and knowing what it was going to be... or finding that perfect .08 8/8/15 vamp gaze. D2 MF was something to behold back then. I remember my boss asking what the hell was these drawings of all these boxes with numbers/percents in each... we would draw the paper doll boxes like the character sheet and put the MF of each item we had and then compare between each other. I miss those days. I even miss the bell I would hear while sleeping to get up and check my pindlebot when that came out... it was like xmas lol. Then WOW came and along with it GLIDER! But Glider and it's community is a whole different story for another time. TL/DR; D2 started it all and I miss that feeling of what it evoked.
Good ol patch 1.09, back when Lord De Siez in A4 had Iron Maiden. Zeal paladins and Whirlwind barbs would clear everything and basically commit suicide to him. Only too wait for a Elementalist to come by and kill him with ease. Ah the good ol days.
Ryan Kirkpatrick Standard Oblivion Knights in the Chaos Sanctuary had Iron Maiden up until patch 1.13. I play on a 1.12 version with PlugY and they’re a fucking nuisance.
Along with the patch notes do you have an links for builds during this 1.09 patch? And do you have any other things to note that is different at all for the 1.09 patch. Anything from different grinding spots or just things to know for the game.
Fury balrog blade and ccboq was probably the best sword in .09. They also cleaned up the game majorly as far as bugged items. I had a totally bugged out Amazon with 160-60 bugged valor, bugged zephyr, the whole works. Bowazons and barbs were still good in 1.10 just needed really good gear.
any idea what patch removed all my inventories, drastically changed in game color and mechanics? me and all my friends quit. definitely got robbed, i never duped myself but we were in an inner circle for sure
Yeah 1.09 was the best version of D2 by far and away. They really screwed things up with all the changes. I am probably a bit biased I mean I met the one true love of my youth through D2 so I have all sorts of memories attached to this period in D2 history but even so (and trying to put that aside) the game was just better.
Once they took life leech away in melee duels. I lost interest in pvp. I had a couple of godly pvp hammerdins & smiters. The old melee duels lasted for ever and no one did crazy damage. After that I just built lvl18 pker for hardcore. I still like diablo but now that it's just glass cannon pvp i just play pvm hardcore.
The first Diablo 2 (in 2000, before LOD) was also very fun, remember : * the best combo was sorc + barb (ie BO + Static field). * (even if static field was overpowered because their was no 30% or 50% hard limit in NM and Hell). * Pal + Ama was also fun Indeed the 1.09 Lod 1 year later didn't change too many thing and fun slightly increase , but It made me forgot my lvl 85 sorc, and rebuild new ones because her 20 skill points in static fields become useless.
You should have mentioned before actual patches took place a few items that where new and now they are not in the game like the “king jewel” +1 to all skills with other contributions. Or the 290 poison sc and the 3/20/20 sc. When cow runs are what made experiencing happen. Shortly after these items came out they declared patches.
1.09 is when I started playing the game. 1.09 was also right before I quit the game. ...Or maybe it was a patch before then that I started playing, but the point is I started around that time, and after I took a break and came back, I tried to play the game again and it just wasn't fun anymore. I really miss my teleporting ice orb sorc, nothing before or since has ever compared to how fun that was. Maybe one day Blizzard will pull their collective heads out of their asses and stop nerfing the fun out of their games. Forcing unnecessary meta changes and capitulating to crybabies doesn't make your game better. Until they realize this, I'm done buying their games.
lol a bit of an old video to be commenting on but since the topic is discussing something from nearly 2 decades ago i believe it to still be relevant. i was looking for an explanation ever since i was like 12 years old when 1.10 came out because i could never get over that hurdle of switching to the updated builds and what not. now at the age of 26 i'm considering playing again
What is best VS. What was actually fun. Even when when I played with friends or acquaintances, we always played for fun. Having the Barbarian to make items or potions only (minimum in combat), Just Curse Necros and Aura Paladins.... Teams with niche utility in actual gameplay. Sure our mains were optimized, but even if they were our mains, we would more often play with new characters to just fool around.
i use to like it very much ... if you just want new hero it was so easy ;] ... just 1 hour in and you go 86lvl.... ofc its impossible now ;( thats why i wont start to play again...
Can't find what would be so fun about it. Idea of the game is to level up and build your character. IF you do it solo self found in hardcore .. even better. Before Expansion (LoD) leeching was not working at all. Even if you were 60 and your friend 80 .. the lvl 80 would get almost all the exp. So you had to be inside 10 levels.. preferably inside 5 levels with party members.
Nice vid. I played 09 had a 99 zon with wf and buri on switch. Had a 10 vita sorc that was 89 and she wouldn’t get hit (occy and storm shield. High dex). The night 10 came out, a buddy and I loaded a cows and went in. Struggled like crazy. It was insane. I stopped playing that night. The changes were so overwhelming that it turned many of us off for ever. Nice vide
I remember bloody runs. I had a necro, I'd sneak in and solo the cow level because nobody knew how good it was. I think I peaked out at number 43 on the ladder before people caught on to this source of exp. :) Also hammerdins were always a thing, once the bug that became a feature was discovered. They suffered when foothills was the place to level, but they existed as the power house paladin spec even before LOD was released.
Like a lot of the comments below 1.09 was a great patch - unfortunately with one major flaw - that doesn't seem to be mentioned much if at all. The Necromancer was largely a curse bitch in it. If you love the Necro - 1.09 does it no justice. 1.10+ rectified that.
fuck, im proud to be a true D2 fan and veteran.. started with the hexes, white rings, and white gloves.. then it was the time where death cleaver zealers were the shit.. then runewords came and changed the game forever.. had my 90 smiter with eth HOZ, beafy ass barb, 92 windy druid.. good times
In 1.09 people didn't do bloody foothills run, literally all they did was cow runs. Also I think it's wrong to put occy, lidless and stormshield as valuables of this patch; occy was 3 sojs, lidless hardly one and stormshield 1-3. To give an idea of comparison windforce was 40 sojs.
I miss the days when your inventory wasn't full of charms
I agree that and also when you didn’t have a rune word hint going but just instead a good game play through for u is yes that actually were good
@The Monster Under Your Bed 1.09 was the best
1.07 was nice as well
@The Monster Under Your Bed true, the bots are rampant, they purged the other day and within that same day there were bots up again using the same game names and everything
@The Monster Under Your Bed 1.10 = everyone and their dog was using enigma teleporting around the map doing the exact same thing.
*2001 vs 2003 Version - Diablo 2*
The greatest and my favorite game still after all these years. This is how a dark fantasy game should be like. I don't think a game will come out which will surpass diablo 2.
Vivek Acharya Yeah D3 felt to calm, predictable & didn't have that erry feeling D1 & D2 do.
Pillars Of Eternity?
@@dzikripratama3776 no
Diablo 2 resurrected has spoken
@The Monster Under Your Bed I have actually, it honestly wasnt for me. I put a good amount of time and just couldnt get into it.
Diablo 1.09 was the best game of all time. There is still no competition to that nowadays.
I use to stay up like all night every night even on school nights and get like 2-3 hours of sleep cause I was addicted lol I still feel like I'm catching up on lost sleep from that period in my life.
Me too, 30 now
I was like 10 when playing D2 back in my days. Now I'm 25 and came back to D2R, I was wondering why my memory is so broken and I don't remember any enigmas, some sick cubing recipes, or upgrading runes. After your video, I just realized I spent my childhood time playing 1.09 all the time (unfortunately I had a pirated copy from my friend so no updates) and that's the reason a lot of stuff seems new or forgotten. Thank you for making it so clear, maybe that's the reason I still have sooo much fun grinding it again :) Time to make my first enigma ever
people are still talking about this game. truly legendary. 35 years old, and I played the sheet out of it when I was younger. open BNET hacked duels in .09 to 1.1 closed BNET. From a hackers perspective, they COMPLETELY changed the very foundation of the game when 1.1 dropped. sofa king many memories... I could talk about this game for HOURS.
1.09 - Jab zon with a inventory full of poison charms and rocking a vamp gaze and shaftstop. Also a barb with a Ccbos(cruel colossus blade of swiftness).
blizzard seem to be really good at making something super awesome and then fucking it up
Rip 1.09. Loved those days. So amazing.
yeah honestly i would make D2R 1.09 and be happy about it xd. They nerfed all the favorite builds. They should at least boost frozen orb and Bowazons.
I miss d2. Biggest achievement ever in the thousands of hours i had on hardcore was being the first zon to 99 on hardcore ladder season 4. HCK_Titan was its name. Had soo many lvl 96-98s every ladder but only once was i ever able to get a toon to 99.
Erik Berg dude I remember you
frozen orb sorc will always be my favorite class/build to play in D2. By far. I remember losing my shit when I finally got the shako to drop, getting my monarch spirit shield, getting oculus, etc.Trap sins were pretty fun too. Never liked hammerdins. I just didn't enjoy playing them.
Been playing from age 11 until I was 17. God do I miss the old CS 1.6 maps and Diablo 2. I grew up playing 1.10. the good days were from 2003 until 2010 I miss it glad to see it's still active. I have 20 bucks I am playing again.
The good days were right after Diablo 2 released and all the skills were crazy strong. Firewall and Nova were the best skills!
You didn’t explain how 2017 is right now I think that’s why you got so many dislikes
This, and probably complete lack of gameplay. I came here expecting Vanilla 1.0 gameplay no expansion, then 1.09 for a bit, then finally 1.14d... instead, nothing.
he did. he said that it was just like 1.10
@@termitektermit7889 well the patches after 1.10 added Uber Tristram bosses and respecs.
Respecs were a major change, since there was no legit way to reset your stat/skill points before that. Therefore I think 1.13 is a notable patch as well - and it's wrong to say that 1.10 and 1.14d are "the same".
@@AlexeiVoronin A1Q1 den achievement gave you 1 respec reward at atma. So you had 3 respec available before 1.14
The patches I like most were the ones that:
1) Got rid of Iron Maiden
2) Got rid of Iron Maiden
Roy Batty
Amen. I think it’s 1.13 and onwards. I downloaded 1.12 for PlugY and it took days for me to learn NOT to use physical attacks during Chaos runs.
Iron maiden in 1.09 was okay. If you had some life leech you were doing okay.
In 1.10 the iron maiden got too hard and life leech didn't help anymore.
Same
1.09, when I knew nothing about how to play Diablo 2 other than apparently SOJs were like dollar bills and were the established currency.
Man I miss my guided arrow piercing 5 times every shot more than anything... Solo'd Hell Mephisto at lvl 42! lol
Signed :D I loved my burizon.
yeah not sure why they patched it so it does not do that anymore loved that skill.
You are not sure? That is immensely overpower :D I missed that too. And hell a lot. But lets be reasonable. It was a little bit breaking the game :-)
To be honest, if they brought this back, I don't think it would be too Op anymore with some changes. It would finally give amazon a decent way to solo ubers.
If they did something like make the leech only happen on the 1st hit, it could be brought back to not so OP territory. But yes, with fast aspd, and 5 times pierce every guided, and leeching everytime the arrow hits, it was definitely OP. Literally nothing killed you unless it one shot you.
what ? just get the game and make another amazon ? :P
1.09 was also "N GF O 40 SOJ"
Translation: need Grandfather, offering 40 Stones of Jordan. Ah the good ol days when 40 P gems equaled an SOJ. Was that 2004?
I played at the peak of 1.09 where it got pretty out of hand with the hacks. Not sure if it was just a small minority of the D2 players that possessed them, but there were the Ith colossus blades/swords/matriarchal bows, the occy rings, and the most ridiculous +400 strength gloves. Insane days.
Michael Du you forgot bugged Valor and constricting rings 160/60 45/120 .09 was the best I thought everyone experienced those
Exactly! Thats why 1.10 was good for the community. Got rid of all the old heads but kept the game alive and well for another decade, which is quite impressive imo
My best D2 years were 1.09. Best balanced and realized vision of the original game and expansion. I played 1.10 for a couple years too and enjoyed it but 1.09 was SO GOOD. Great trading on closed too. USEAST 2001-2005!
.09 was the wild west of patches. I remember the melt down leading up to .10 too. Good freaking days and BEST GAME EVOR.
Eivor?
33 years old here. Played diablo 2 all the time when I was younger. 1.09 was by far my fav version of Diablo 2. Back then it was a trade fest to try and get ahold of things like Arcanes Valor from 1.08 for my schaefers hammer paladin. It was kinda cool that blizz allowed the items already spawned to remain the same even if they were nerfed in later versions. Such fond memories of so many different applicable builds. It feels like you get too shoehorned nowadays into certain 'applicable' builds.
Xanthius zealot Schaefers hammer barb was my jam.
Yes and before 1.10 there wasn't Ladder and No ladder separation. You could have items all the way from the game release.
Only the new ladder seasons didn't show any characters in the ladder list that had been created before the reset.
this was the best .09... lil kids were up all night
Until that day where you went into games and there had dozens of windforces and sojs on the floor and you knew there was no coming back from dupeswap/yay
Darkerfire2 that was some crazy shit! I remember! Had an account catch a ban for the chest bug in 9th grade ;_; ah, the good ol' days
Why?
As a kid who played exclusively single player (we didn't have good enough internet to play games online), I remember seeing the new rune words in v1.10, and just getting stars in my eyes...I was SO pumped. Even knowing that I would never find these runes (highest I ever found back then was Fal), I liked to dream of what power my character could be capable of with the new runewords. So for me, there is pretty much no nostalgia around pre 1.10 - I wasn't playing anywhere near the top tier, only had a few single player characters that got to Hell, and even then, never through act 3. I still feel the same way; the top tier rune words are the coolest thing to aspire to, especially now that I am BACK playing single player, trying to farm all the runes on my own (spoiler: it's not going well XD but it's still fun). Interesting to hear the perspective of someone who was active on the realms when these big changes dropped.
what? you can do 500 LK runs and find 3-4 high runes easily
@@deviantan021 You think people got time to make 500 LK runs just instantly?
i agree with you wholeheartedly. i still love d2 in its current form but, d2 1.09 was a patch that kept me entirely slated to nothing but diablo 2 the entirety of the patch, then 1.10 nerfed and wrecked all of my characters.
Oh Boy. I remember Patch 1.09 like it was yesterday. I remember the sort after Windforce bow was the 1.08 version that added like +20 to dexterity. I remember during 1.09 having the full Bowazon Set and with patch 1.10 they did a complete revamp of the Set Items as well buffing them up and making them powerful but what sucked about it was that you had to re-find the set items to get the benefited boost. Another major change with 1.10 is the added the synergy damage bonuses as well. Another major change from 1.10 to 1.14 would be 1.12 and 1.13 because with patch 1.12 it allowed users to play D2 without using the CD and Patch 1.13 nerfed the Oblivion Knights removing their ability to cast the Curse Skill of Iron Maiden. I remember on how broken the Guided Arrow was in 1.09 being able to pierce multiple times per shot which made Bowazons overpowered as hell.
1.09 HC US West Zerk Barb Duelers ... good times got me a few good ears
4:41
at this time Zealer Paladin:
I see no god up here.
They also added skill synergies in 1.10 and majorly changed the necromancer specifically, with the amount of skeletons he could have. But skill synergies changes the game a lot.
I'm surprised he didn't mention this. This was a huge deal of why some old builds no longer worked and gave way to newer builds.
Crazy watching this in 2023. 1.09 was very fun. I just remember at some point the whole thing went from getting uniques to getting runes and I was confused.
Cow runs with Amazons were really fun using the ETH Titans along with Lightning Fury man Id level people to 99 all the time doing that. Plus back then you could keep doing cow runs with worrying about killing the cow king and not being able to re make.
It is still the same I believe; if you kill CK, you are f**ked.
Yeps, cow king was never ok to kill if you wanted to remake. Perhaps you were just under beating hell when you killed King, then made it when you were finally done Hell and were confused. Like person above me said, you were always fucked if you killed King.
Ah I remember doing my ama with Buriza + whatever that mask was with 30% life and mana leech on cow level with multishot = infinite health and mana :D
actually up until patch 1.02 you could still make portal if you killed the king
Didn't see any fun in that. Ez mode area, eastern egg meant for visiting once per difficulty, not suppose to be core part of the game.
Also too much exp which was a big problem the whole 1.08->1.09.
1.06 best patch still. :)
its taking you way too long to make only a couple of points man
ikr
If you want points grab some pens bruh, it's his channel and the discussion is about STUFF. :) It's not labeled "TOP FEW EFFICIENT AND SHORT POINTS FOR NATHAN HASSALL'S LIKING"
I want my 8 mins back
I have played diablo 2 for 20 years. I love this game more than anything so I try and respect any man or woman that still makes TH-cam videos about diablo. No matter what the discussion is about.
@@jhondoe6211 Me too man since ver 1.0 I didn't mean to sound like a jerk and obviously I enjoy discussion on the subject too or I wouldn't be here..I didn't say broadcasting a was easy.. only trying to offer constructive criticism..based on the thumbs up I think other people felt the same way.
If I recall correctly, 1.10 added the possibility to buy mana potions in shops (that was major!) and skill synergies. That completely changed the game indeed. (and runewords too, needless to say). I mostly played 1.10 and beyond (like 95% of the time), but now I kinda wanna try 1.09 or even 1.00 lol
I play classic 1.06b I prefer it to LoD
Same here.. Running it with 5 clients in my own TCP/IP game. It is fantastic. Back to my roots of online gaming at 2000.
Buying mana potions is one of the worst features imo. IT takes away almost completely all the focus on your amount of mana and mana regen.
Same thing with increased potion drops and for example the Meditation aura runeword.
LoD was great, jewels & runewords added a lot more depth than just a couple classes did, although I loved the Druid personally as well (another bonus). Ba'al runs are great too for solo MF as well as XP
I played classic, 1.08 up to 1.10 died as #1 hardcore sorc on ladder to the viper bug at lv 98. 1.09 is better then 1.10 but many players hated random rares becoming garbage after 1.08 and the fact certain people myself included had the ability to dupe rares and unqiues from 1.08. if you played us west you prob ran into a guy "Evil Pickles" he had so many broken old rares and he was a clear duper, great pkr and dueler. O the amount of ears I collected over the years. 1.09 was the peak and best time to play though. Sad they changed hostile and way points, and then patched the bug that got around it, so much harder to pk. I was 15 at the time, feel a little bad sometimes I would pk the same newb 3 times in a weekend every time as they got into the 30s with a one shot charge. Shout out to "Free sandwiches" hammer pally lead all our bail runs and was first to #1 if your still alive 21 years later and see this lol.
You forgot 1.12a where gamble bug, you can gamble unique higher rate than farming for it
When I said all of the classes and skills got a boost I meant the synergy trees that's just the way I should have mentioned it. I said at the start of the video I wasn't going into crazy details on the patch. I said to just check the links for the FULL patch notes.1.09 wasn't just about amazons and sorcs Any true d2 veteran will tell you whirlwind barbarian was king.
i strarted this ladder season 2018 in classic. the ww baba in classic with a martel 25x 2h dmg and enough leech brings the old feeling back ;)
You can also play Path of Exile, they have 'cyclone' which is whirlwind.
Or a paladin with fanaticism and zeal :-))
Yea , synergies suck . They messed all.
I can confirm that barbarian could do everything ( but cs ) in any kind of games. I did like 9k with my ww , and back in those times was a lot. With my buffs alone i had 5300 hp. Not the king , but respectable. My friend had the collection of 99 hc barbs.
109 killed most of uniques
You forgot that between 110 and 114 they removed Iron Maiden from Oblivion Knights, that was huge
That stinks. Iron maiden made things a bit more, I dunno, tactical.
I mean how many things in Act 3 fuck you up when you kill them, especially in later difficulties? Seems only logical Act 4 would be balls to the wall too and require you to not play with your head up your ass.
Sounds like some filthy casuls whined too much, and we know Blizzard likes to pander to filthy casuls these days.
Well, I was a filty casual with my Zealot, and I liked that change :S
Removing iron maiden made chaos runs possible on hardcore.
Not only that he forgot to mention from 1.08 to 1.09 fixed a major bug with Tyrael casting an inaccessible town portal and Duriel always dropping a Town portal after killing him so the Player doesn't get stuck in Act 2 and having to save Quit and having to kill Duriel again. Also another major addon is the /players x command in single player and local multiplayer. Also I think in 1.13 Immolation arrow getting a huge buff which decreased the casting cool down. Also 1.10 fixed a bug with the Venom Skill where weapons with Poison damage the venom duration was overridden by the weapons duration.
@@justiciar1964 Iron Maiden was fine in 1.09 but not in 1.10. They increased our damage by a lot and decreased the Life Leech effectiveness in Hell. Also probably increased the iron maiden reflect.
I played mostly classic and could also clear Chaos with my whirl barb. I equipped lower damage with + life leech Lance on him and took it careful.
I mostly Leaped some oblivs and then short WW to kill them. Leap attack was ranged attack back then and wasn't affected by IM.
I remember some transition between the 1.09 and the latest versions with those crazy runeword who gives people spells from other characters. I remember people who get those same old items but with countless ammounts of sockets and crazy overstatted jewels and occy rings n stuff. Thats what ruined the game before the newer items came out. It was actually the worst period of time. I remember having a very competitive sorceress and overnight, I was shit. The latest items kind of brought back the essence of the game. Still, nothing beats 1.09. If they do a remastered version of 1.09 with some new stuff, i'm gonna cry.
enjoyed the video. I started playing seriously around 04 so it's nice to hear how it all played out. 1.09 sounds like it was amazing lol.
1.09 was absolutely the best. And the server population was very high back then.
who remembers occy rings?
Wizard Spike gloves.
No way one of the most powerful builds was an orb sorc. Sorcs in 1.09 used either Firewall (MF runs on meph) or Nova (cowruns)
orb was one of the most powerful, they used nova in conjunction with orb and ts, i know because i had one.
Classic d2 was hugely popular in 1.09 and every sorc was orb
1.09 was the best time of my entire Diablo gaming history. Hands down.
#Jacob Nelson pls share the #Diablo 2 #1.09 link
someone should make a 1.09 private server
i'd join, no bots allowed, no dupes, bring back pvp rules and tournaments from euro-pvp.net
@@Unnefable That game would sell billions of copies.
You guys realize you could always play 1.09 in Single Player mode, don't you? You just need to install the game from original discs and apply patch 1.09, which can surely be found and downloaded from somewhere. As long as you keep away from Battle.net, you will stay at version 1.09 ;)
@@AlexeiVoronin Yea its the keeping away from B.net part I dont like. I dont wanna farm for items if they wont be used to kick people's asses ;)
@@WaheedQc Do you really have to "farm" for items? Just play the game - that's what I do. I've beaten the game (both Original and Expansion) in Hardcore without godly items and it was still an amazing experience. That's the real fun, to come on top and win against all odds with whatever gear you find along the way (instead of just getting good stuff without working for it).
My first Diablo 2 came from a crack I download from extinguish ARES ....that was a gold era I download all blizzard games on that time from ARES all were offline and it was so amazing and beautiful for me that I even dream with this age this days 🤩🤩😌
Alas, you didn't talk about the XP Penalty past Level 70 either. That was a HUGE change, and while I don't know if anybody actually *asked* for that back in the day, that *fundamentally* changed the endgame by making it much more of a grind to level past 90 than it already was and vastly extended the time needed to actually get to 99 for a single character from weeks to taking months, even years, to do so. Playing with large 7- or 8-player groups after that for maximum XP gain became essential and forced people into more online interactions, and at the same time also made it MUCH longer and more difficult for (read: one of the only real things in place preventing, even in D2R) banned players and botters to set themselves back up with new endgame accounts, so breaking ToS and losing characters actually started hurting and meaning something at that point. That definitely needed to be mentioned.
You missed a lot of stuff in 09. Grandfather was good, but true top barbs wanted 3 socket Cruel X of Quickness swords, then there were tons of hacked items used by garbage players to think they were good, stuff like Ith runeword weapons, Oculus rings, Hex charms...
I was like 7 but man I was really into hacked items and modded D2. I tried to DL a 2gig mod, 56k AOL meant my parents were constantly DCing me and I had to start over, also they weren't happy.
yeah .. ITH was so insane and this stupid oculus rings hahahaha
I think 2 sockets was max? And one had to be an eth rune:)
It was actually easier to get Cruel Colossus Blade of X than a Grandfather :) Those gems were more difficult if you wanted the best. Basically CCB required 3x 15%Ias Gems to hit last breakpoint ot something... so %dmg and IAS was the optimal
And yeah for PvP especially.. Eth was mandatory. I guess it bugged and bypassed defence.
DShiflet01 I had some great magic and rare items back then. 1.10 screwed it bad in some ways even though it was also a lot of fun and gave us a fresh experience in our old game
Prior to that I had tried to get into some mods and it just was never the same and I missed the trading
Now D3 is a great game in terms of gameplay but there is no community and it feels a lot shallower
I miss 1.09! Don't miss asshold barbs sorces and zone wrecking Paladin PVP games but it came with the territory :)
I had a 1.09 lvl 95 Hybrid zon with ethereal titans, shaftstop, vamp gaze, storm shield, constricting ring and wind force
This hould be Diablo 2001 vs Diablo 2003. You mention 2017 version for like 30 seconds at the end
The most neglected class in D2 was the Necromancer. There's literally NO runewords (except Bone & White) or actual uniques that make sense for the class. The Nec was just random items from other overpowered builds. Plus the damage is pitiful, the defense is shit, the killing rate was ass, and customizability was dead - summoner was boring, bonemancer was slow as shit, poisonmancer didnt kill with just poison alone. It sucks. I played D2 mostly in the Nec, but I always wanted more.
The fuck you are saying
Necromancer is one of the easiest classes to start ladder with and finish hell by yourself easily (one of the fastest too), and with decent build you can almost match a clearing time of hammerdin. Summoner is boring but thats just about every summoner class in every rpg. And poison mancer was great to farm cows back in the days and can be viable as "hipster" build.
I just started playing D2 LoD ladder and I got novamancer. He is wicked fun, and good to play solo, but weak in a large group sadly
You must not understand how powerful the fishymancer truly is.
JokeDeity indeed always first HC char I made every season is fishmancer for MF
CE op.
Ive quit d2 for close to 15 years, but Frozen orb sorceress and whirlwind barb will never be forgotten.
Son, no one really used WFs even back then. Ith bows and CBs were real big back then.
1.09 was definitely the best time on D2 - no surprise considering the direction Blizzard was taking (the toilet direction) they would make such drastic changes without much player feedback beforehand. I get what they were trying to do, but what they should’ve have done was tried to even the classes out a little more maybe try and make all the different builds viable. They were just trying to create some longevity for Diablo like an MMO, but D2 is a well made game and that’s all it needs to stand on.
You also forgot about the blood golem/iron maiden Necro, which got destroyed by the newer patches.
1.09 broke the mould for RPG's forever. It's and absolute standard in the way we look at RPG's today. I mean ffs Blizzard have reverted back to D2 for D4 and we've got the remaster to look forward too.....hopefully, you guys all have mobiles right? 🤣
Do you play 1.09d on VPN and LAN? are there any communities where do play those older versions?
There is a private server for 1.09
@@Rumblingbelly info bro
The most hated thing was the ladder. We ( a group of 15 from same city in italy + 5 canadians ) have played togather for 2 years in HC . I can stand monster increase and runewords. But this way 2 years of 20 people's life had been nullified. And than we all stopped to play , we restarted one month ago.
there were two MAJOR differences between 1.12 and 1.13, iron maiden was removed from chaos sanctuary (remember this bad boy? this was why no one ran it, either your Merce died as a source or ur barb one hit him self). and second was rune drop rates became a million times eaiser (most high runes were duped or bought in 1.12)
Patch 1.10 destroyed the game for me, strip away the fun to play builds and forced me to play boring chars, he didn't explained anything about 1.14d because there is nothing there, the core game wasn't changed and the only thing noteworthy was the ability to play on modern computers...
I played SO MUCH
1.09 as a kid. I’ve had to completely re learn gearing and grinding areas now
Diablo II's history can be divided into "before 1.10" and "after 1.10" - that's how influential this patch was. I started playing after 1.10 - in 2005 and I am used to this type of gameplay. But I have played older versions too, including the original 1.00 ;)
Yeah actually. Pre-Expansion Post 1.10
Expansion really changed the original game massively.. maybe even more than 1.10.
@@akse You are right. In recent years I decided to play some original (since I started with expansion all these years ago) and it does feel pretty different at times. Lots of things I was used to simply don't exist in that version. Most char builds don't work the same way as in LoD.
I try to keep the experience as genuine as possible, which means I install only the original game, without LoD. This allows me to see the original title screen and character creation/selection screens. They are quite beautiful.
that feeling when you had all the good complete sets and best unique items... and then being rewarded with the fact that all that stuff was worth nothing anymore...
1.09 was the BEST D2: LOD ever!
absolutely
Damn TH-cam for recommending D2 videos!
Now I have to buy the game again...
There goes my free time
Exactly what happened to me now 2 weeks ago. A D2R video came up and I was like okay it’s on!
1.09 Amazon with Balista was a monster, with Hydrabow she was unstoppable! 1.09 was undoubtedly the best version of the game.
The good ole days!!!
Imagine they downgrade to 1.09 now how many people will play again make Diablo 2 great again.
Ah nostalgia, back before the powercreep runewords rekt everyone's shiz. Remember when Silence was considered one of the best runewords, now nobody would even consider making one. Uniques felt strong. Now it's rare to not have at least 2 1.10 runewords as BiS gear.
For me, the killing move from Blizzard at the time, was that they introduced synergies from 1.09 to 1.10.. And, they did not include a skill/stat reset, effectively making all characters that you'd worked hard to gear and level up, unusable. So for veteran players, with several level 99 characters, perfectly geared and skilled, it was basically; start over or quit the game.. I chose the latter..
wow, people talking about patch 1.10 like it was the apocalypse or something... it just changed the game and I'd argue that was necessary because if there wasn't a 1.10 patch all of you would be saying "remember when Blizzard made the 1.09 patch and they just abandoned the game until it became boring"
1.10 had it's pros and cons but it wasn't bad by any means
fact is that even if you create an amazing game it's still gonna get boring after a while if there isn't anything new in it
I really miss seeing things like Dip Dancer's legendary speed run to level 99 in like 24 hours back when we only had Blood Runs (bloody foothills)
I remember the first time I got a sky strike bow and had enough leech to keep strafing, then I got goldstrike arch then a kuko then my first Burrito (Buriza Do'Kyanon) and wishing for that ever elusive 1.08 Windy to drop off Pindle... it finally happened. After learning he usually would only drop that TC twice a day it finally happened. I called into work the next few days to wreck shit.... then the rune words came and that feeling of building that magical 488%MF sweet spot to dim returns and finding those dope drops that made your build that bit more godly left me. I never had again in the history of my gaming that feeling of seeing that "Shako" drop and knowing what it was going to be... or finding that perfect .08 8/8/15 vamp gaze. D2 MF was something to behold back then. I remember my boss asking what the hell was these drawings of all these boxes with numbers/percents in each... we would draw the paper doll boxes like the character sheet and put the MF of each item we had and then compare between each other.
I miss those days. I even miss the bell I would hear while sleeping to get up and check my pindlebot when that came out... it was like xmas lol. Then WOW came and along with it GLIDER! But Glider and it's community is a whole different story for another time.
TL/DR; D2 started it all and I miss that feeling of what it evoked.
I quit playing after 1.10 came out. For me personally, it just changed way too much.
Thanks for this videos and other your very descriptive and informative which I like.
Good ol patch 1.09, back when Lord De Siez in A4 had Iron Maiden. Zeal paladins and Whirlwind barbs would clear everything and basically commit suicide to him. Only too wait for a Elementalist to come by and kill him with ease.
Ah the good ol days.
Ryan Kirkpatrick
Standard Oblivion Knights in the Chaos Sanctuary had Iron Maiden up until patch 1.13. I play on a 1.12 version with PlugY and they’re a fucking nuisance.
Are people still playing This? I love this game
Along with the patch notes do you have an links for builds during this 1.09 patch? And do you have any other things to note that is different at all for the 1.09 patch. Anything from different grinding spots or just things to know for the game.
1.09 was the best
Dont forget about tppk! Biggest change for HC players
Fury balrog blade and ccboq was probably the best sword in .09. They also cleaned up the game majorly as far as bugged items. I had a totally bugged out Amazon with 160-60 bugged valor, bugged zephyr, the whole works. Bowazons and barbs were still good in 1.10 just needed really good gear.
any idea what patch removed all my inventories, drastically changed in game color and mechanics? me and all my friends quit. definitely got robbed, i never duped myself but we were in an inner circle for sure
Yeah 1.09 was the best version of D2 by far and away. They really screwed things up with all the changes. I am probably a bit biased I mean I met the one true love of my youth through D2 so I have all sorts of memories attached to this period in D2 history but even so (and trying to put that aside) the game was just better.
Once they took life leech away in melee duels. I lost interest in pvp. I had a couple of godly pvp hammerdins & smiters. The old melee duels lasted for ever and no one did crazy damage. After that I just built lvl18 pker for hardcore. I still like diablo but now that it's just glass cannon pvp i just play pvm hardcore.
Now I'am starting to Play Diablo 2 again for not playing for maybe 7 years or more... so thanks for your video... it help a lot....
The first Diablo 2 (in 2000, before LOD) was also very fun, remember :
* the best combo was sorc + barb (ie BO + Static field).
* (even if static field was overpowered because their was no 30% or 50% hard limit in NM and Hell).
* Pal + Ama was also fun
Indeed the 1.09 Lod 1 year later didn't change too many thing and fun slightly increase , but It made me forgot my lvl 85 sorc, and rebuild new ones because her 20 skill points in static fields become useless.
In your opinion what is your favorite patch
You should have mentioned before actual patches took place a few items that where new and now they are not in the game like the “king jewel” +1 to all skills with other contributions. Or the 290 poison sc and the 3/20/20 sc. When cow runs are what made experiencing happen. Shortly after these items came out they declared patches.
keep up the awesome and fantastic videos, i enjoy watching them, and congratulation on the 10.000 subs 😀
1.09 is when I started playing the game. 1.09 was also right before I quit the game. ...Or maybe it was a patch before then that I started playing, but the point is I started around that time, and after I took a break and came back, I tried to play the game again and it just wasn't fun anymore.
I really miss my teleporting ice orb sorc, nothing before or since has ever compared to how fun that was. Maybe one day Blizzard will pull their collective heads out of their asses and stop nerfing the fun out of their games. Forcing unnecessary meta changes and capitulating to crybabies doesn't make your game better. Until they realize this, I'm done buying their games.
1.09 yeah all the hacked items ith etc. you should mention that
Occy rings. Hex small charms. White rings and gloves... the good ol days XD
or when everyone quit cause they lost everything lmfao
i lost lots because POOF lol
lol a bit of an old video to be commenting on but since the topic is discussing something from nearly 2 decades ago i believe it to still be relevant. i was looking for an explanation ever since i was like 12 years old when 1.10 came out because i could never get over that hurdle of switching to the updated builds and what not. now at the age of 26 i'm considering playing again
What is best VS. What was actually fun.
Even when when I played with friends or acquaintances, we always played for fun. Having the Barbarian to make items or potions only (minimum in combat), Just Curse Necros and Aura Paladins.... Teams with niche utility in actual gameplay.
Sure our mains were optimized, but even if they were our mains, we would more often play with new characters to just fool around.
R.I.P. Piercing Guided T.T
Enigma was the worst thing that ever happened to the game.
Buriza with guided arrows was dope
patches 1.11-1.14 were not discussed. =S
anyone remember lvling their lvl 1 chars in uber trist with hammers killing skeletons as they spawned in? xd
suffered101 yeah buddy, levels coming in so fast you couldn't even spend the points for the first 60 levels. Good times.
i use to like it very much ... if you just want new hero it was so easy ;] ... just 1 hour in and you go 86lvl.... ofc its impossible now ;( thats why i wont start to play again...
I remember doing that all the time
Can't find what would be so fun about it. Idea of the game is to level up and build your character. IF you do it solo self found in hardcore .. even better.
Before Expansion (LoD) leeching was not working at all. Even if you were 60 and your friend 80 .. the lvl 80 would get almost all the exp. So you had to be inside 10 levels.. preferably inside 5 levels with party members.
u want access ? costs 20 fg :-))
Nice vid. I played 09 had a 99 zon with wf and buri on switch. Had a 10 vita sorc that was 89 and she wouldn’t get hit (occy and storm shield. High dex).
The night 10 came out, a buddy and I loaded a cows and went in. Struggled like crazy. It was insane. I stopped playing that night. The changes were so overwhelming that it turned many of us off for ever.
Nice vide
I remember bloody runs. I had a necro, I'd sneak in and solo the cow level because nobody knew how good it was. I think I peaked out at number 43 on the ladder before people caught on to this source of exp. :)
Also hammerdins were always a thing, once the bug that became a feature was discovered. They suffered when foothills was the place to level, but they existed as the power house paladin spec even before LOD was released.
1.10 killed it for me having my 2 best chars suddenly being useless in hell was a pretty annoying thing after building them up for years
Like a lot of the comments below 1.09 was a great patch - unfortunately with one major flaw - that doesn't seem to be mentioned much if at all. The Necromancer was largely a curse bitch in it. If you love the Necro - 1.09 does it no justice. 1.10+ rectified that.
fuck, im proud to be a true D2 fan and veteran.. started with the hexes, white rings, and white gloves.. then it was the time where death cleaver zealers were the shit.. then runewords came and changed the game forever.. had my 90 smiter with eth HOZ, beafy ass barb, 92 windy druid.. good times
You think they are gonna remaster this? I really hope so!!
@Dam Sen yea and kept the buggs in for the lame "nochange" crowd, its kinda bs, i was hoping for more.. Blizztards never seem to amaze me
In 1.09 people didn't do bloody foothills run, literally all they did was cow runs. Also I think it's wrong to put occy, lidless and stormshield as valuables of this patch; occy was 3 sojs, lidless hardly one and stormshield 1-3. To give an idea of comparison windforce was 40 sojs.
Благодарен версии 1.13 и ПГ серверу : ) Теперь уже вырос и столько времени нету на игру, но часто хочется вернуться в эти hbr1... hbr2... hbr3