I really wanna try D1 "The Hell 3" mod. It looks quite good. I wanna try it so much, I'm going to buy a PC because I'm tired of playing me crappy PlayStation 1 D1 on my tablet with a PS5 controller 😂 Also, did you know that on the PlayStation 1 version of Diablo, there's like an hour or two of lore audiobooks not available on the PC version? They're read by the guy that narrated the countess book, you know "she bathed in the rejuvenating blood of a thousand virgins." Yeah that guy. Anyway, thanks for the video. Nostalgia++
Sometimes I think back to how bad I was at D2 as a 12 year old kid and how I couldnt beat Hell difficulty, or even Nightmare on most characters. Then I see this and remember how inaccessible a lot of information we now take for granted was at the time, and it makes a lot more sense
@Bisgetti Brain rot is also shared by those who think all information is bad information. Even back then, it was by word of mouth and in the game chats where people would brainstorm and create builds. Nothing has changed other than the influx of information. Sorting good from bad information is what distinguishes learning from brain rot. The irony of your comment, but lack of realization, is peak.
Even today, games still make this mistake. I really like the game TemTem but it's basically unplayable without the wiki, or you writing down what every status effect does. There's like 20.
@Trailerwalker it actually wasn't. Firstly, there have actually been several discoveries made about the game in the last few years, due to collaboration on online forums. But more importantly, many people back when D2 was released had no internet, even if they had a computer. And if they did, search engines and web guides were still in their infancy and usually relied on a handful of people.
Yeah, gotta use magic damage to get through that, Vengeance, Berserk, those work pretty well, but then those bastard would have a chance to kill you in literally 1 second.
In early versions of classic you had a chance to get an SoJ from Akara for rescuing Cain. Also it had no level requirement or item level so you could even get one in normal.
I remember starting a lvl 1 Necro with 2 sojs, unique +1 Helm and +2 unique wand, that was fun, also pvp against whirlwind barbs using iron maiden + bone spirit and high life, good times
For a short time there was a bug where you could get he ancients to drop items, their loot tables included 100% chance for multiple uniques and set items to drop, per ancient, every game, and each one would also drop half a dozen or so full rejuvenation potions. Here are the steps for the bug. Step 1, open any public game on bnet- and wait 5 minutes. (perms the game circa early 2ks) Step 2, go to the summit, then read the book, then lure the ancietns outside the circle they spawn in, once they are outside, leave the game. Step 3. Rejoin the game, and kill them outside the circle. Step 4, profit. This was patched after a couple days iirc
I was 12 or 13 years old when LoD came out. I remember seeing a bowazon decked out with Vamp gaze, Shaftstop, and Windforce utterly destroying Act 2. I remember being destroyed by Tstorm sorcs in duels with shako, vamp gaze, lidless wall, and wizard spike. No skillers.., no rune words, those cruel swords that paladins use to use. God do I miss the old .7 and .8 versions of old LoD.
Amen and the god roll rare ww lance barbs. What I miss the most in those days is rares actually having the potential to be better than any predefined item. Truly living up to the name rare. That's an aspect that is pretty much nonexistent in looters nowadays.
Great comment! A lot of people think that melee was better in this patch, but it WASN'T. Skills missed so much and there was not much you could do about it.
@@Hmongboi228 Yeah, in very old patches, there wasn't a hit cap on zeal (at least to level 20) so you got an extra hit per level. It was silly, and for some genius reason, I thought using a 2h maul on my zeal pally was a big brain idea :D
Firewall was ridiculously strong back in the day. PvP you could cast it across the exit of town and people couldn’t even leave town. I think it was 30k damage when fully maxed out.
I still have my copy of D2 an D2: LOD in the original CD cases and boxes. The box of D2 has a gold sticker saying "Game of the Year." Super cool. I'll never get rid of it. Great video, Cooley! So nostalgic.
i have multiple orginal coppies of D2 on CD because needed more than one account to use as mules since stash space wasnt enough and i still have the case and CD. I still also have the CD and case for diablo1 and its first expansion pack too.
Good, but cases and boxes doesnt play the game, you have to. Install it on ur PC and play it again, 1.14d nowadays, game is still the best of all time.
I love Diablo so much. Played from the start of 1.08 to 1.11 basically as a child. Never had so much fun. Resurrected is such an incredible remake it was fun version 2
d2 would have needed a major rework on a lot of skills and give melee attacks splash damage to make them viable the game looking at it from todays perspective is just very outdated and unbalanced hence we see the same builds every time and if you don't spend 10+ hrs on off meta builds they just plain suck
Valk Wings with FCR, Shae runes, early bugs… that nostalgia, bro. “I was there Gandalf” Okay, the MF ritual should have been known earlier. How much fun would this have been…
I'm not sure if I even used runewords whenever I played classic Diablo 2. It's not like the game has recipes you can find ingame. You have to look online; otherwise, you could never know they were in the game.
I remember pre expansion everyone played Whirlwind Barbarian with a rare Lance, Martel de Fer, or Bec-De-Corbin and an Ornate Plate (this was before elite items existed) The Martel de Fer was especially good because it was 3x2 instead of 4x2, so a rare could be rerolled in the cube with 6 Perfect Skulls (these were currency before runes). Rerolling with this recipe did not decrease the ilvl of the item as it does now (it was nerfed).
1.09, for me, was peak D2. Cows were amazing, uniques:runewords was in a great spot, and bnet had enough chaos to make interactions a total joy. Spent countless days worth of time on this game. But 1.10 caused so many issues with reworks, synergies, cow nerfs, a lot of my friend group lost interest after. We still play every now and then today, but nowhere near like we did in 1.09.
From all of my D2 memories the one that stands out the most is still just the basic demo that came with PC Gamer or so, Barb in the Blood Moor. That was all. I remember putting that weapon in the offhand and that was it. They had me hook, line and sinker.
They stole it from Mousepad's maphack. Mousepads maphack had a lot of quality of life improvements besides just revealing the map that the devs eventually added a ton of as official updates
Loot filter is for lazy rushers who can't stop for a moment to look whats on the ground. What they should do is have an option to have short names for potions and scrolls that really clutter the screen. Also elitepacka drop way too many potions in general..
The best D2 Era was the pre 09 rust storm patch when the ITH's and bugged items were everywhere. I honestly loved running dual ITH CB's With 6 sockets 5 4015s 1 eth rune on a frenzy barb. Bugged Arcane Valor with 4 sockets with Havoc Jewels, and the white ring and the occy ring. Yes it was busted, but it was so much fun. Honorable mention to the Bugged Tals and 7015 charms on a es Sorc with nearly 4k life and 7k mana and max DR
ITH runewords -- imagine a grief with 6 open sockets Example of an "ITH grief 240ias" -- Now imagine an ITH grief with all the sockets having 6x 40/15ias jewels Agreed. Best time I had playing D2- the OCCY rings was peak (rings with the Occulus orb stats)
@@test-rj2vl that’s the best way I can describe it, Coooley has old ass videos that cover exact details on how it was performed but as a player at the time that’s what I’d say it looked like, as if you cleared the slots but kept the rune word. As you can imagine dual wielding on a barb led to some fun results.
I was one of the players who played both pre-LoD and patch 1.07 since I didn’t connect to battlenet. I remember the game being so wildly frustrating before LoD and then HUGE quality upgrades with runes, characters and all that. What REALLY blows my mind, however, is that we are STILL playing the exact same game today, with a new coat of paint. Blizzard still has not figured out how to replicate, and iterate on this premise. Just goes to show you how great this game truly was/is and with the new D2 reimagined mod, it’s even better than ever.
I played Diablo 2 in the stress test before it was even fully released, when the only class you could play was Barbarian and the only gems were chipped rubies. (I think, I can't fully remember on that last one)
its insane how much 1.10 actually changed the game. ruined pre patch chars with no reset to stats deleted tons of bugged items from the server while also creating the zod bug at the same time changed tons of items added tons of runewords that changed currency from 290s and sojs to runes and the most important corrected the spelling of berserker axe
Lost so many players from that patch. No more cows, bowzons, ts, orb, ww, all got nerfed. I still played but it def took an adjustment .... Before 1.10 will always be peak Diablo 2
When you were asking “what was the most OP sorceress skill?” I kept saying, “Charged bolt, charged bolt, charged bolt” Dude; Charged Bolt was stupid powerful.
@@Duocek Dude Static Field on classic is insane. It's not capped in Nightmare and Hell like it is in Expansion. You can bring Diablo down to like 1/5 life in just a few seconds. Monstrous.
@@ArchangelsBookClub Static damage also used to be affected by conviction because it is lightning based, meaning that sorcs used to be able to kill entire screens of enemies in 4-5 casts regardless of how many players were in game.
Found your channel a couple hours ago and I already finished your diablo 2 video playlist and am craving more. TH-cam finally recommended me something worthwhile. 👌
It’s crazy because I remember all of this. Before LoD, 1.07, 1.08. When they introduced runewords. Then I didn’t play until 1.13c or something and came back to confusion.
Hands down 1.09 was my favorite era in d2 before all the overpowered runewords were added to the game. The runewords changed the game completely and forever. Especially Enigma killed the exploration part of the game totally.
Probably 1.09 was my favorite, all the cruels XX of quickness or the quarks weapons. White/occy rings, Ith weapons, Btals. Shaft/Gaze/WF zons were an iconic look. If you had an Eaglehorn, you were broke.
Need more nostalgia content if you have the time. It's always great! I want to see pictures or videos of colored ornate plates before they went vibrant. V1.08 or before. On a barb ofc.
Late v1.08 through entirety of v1.09 was legitimately the fucking GOAT era of all time for any Diablo game and I will die on that hill. EVERYBODY can get this smoke if they disagree.
Right? I distinctly remember a badass rare sword for my barb that had at least cruel on it, if not fool as well. All I remember for certain is that it was called Death Mar Balrog Blade.
@@Coooley i was always of the idea that instead of the poopy bone break charm, melee/phys characters get 1 unique charm that works like gheed and torch that gives you 20-40 max damage 200-400 AR but reduces your defense by a %.
I loved the version where Guided Arrow would pierce through the enemy and then come back to him and then pierce again and again and again... :) Killing bosses was so easy. I remember having my Amazon equip Kuko Shakaku and destroy everything! Guided arrows would literally swarm Baal. I cannot remember which patch it was, but it was amazing :)
D2 classic player here who retired for good about 2 months ago, Bowazons don't even exist anymore in D2 classsic once multishot was nerfed. It's a shame, it really is. D2 was dead regardless but long gone are the gothic and rune bow Bowazons in D2 classic.. 😞😓 You find a high damage gothic/rune with no increased attack speed? Sell it or drop it..
I remember 1 or 2 days before offical LoD Launch 2 people of my guild already owned a LoD copy each and were able to log into the battlenet chatromms. I think they even were able to create an Assa and Druid but their avatars were not shown the correct skin for druid or assa. But if you moved over their avatar it said druid /assa :p
I swear I remember my friend made some runeword that doesn't exist with Shae Ral Tal Tal in a Poleaxe or something, and I was always wondering how he knew how to make that runeword, and he said confidently that, "It's like music. I just played the notes."
I used to go to my best friends house regularly, lugging my giant desktop pc. We would play tf out of Diablo 2. The D2LOD then D2 Ancestral Recall. And I mean for hours. Get to his around 3:30, first day we get forced to bed around midnight, get back on at 1am play until around lunch, go do some touching of grass like riding quad bikes, making bows and shooting them list goes on, then more d2 until it's time for me to go home around 6pm Sunday. Then Dark Alliance came out on gamecube, played that completely, then Dark Alliance 2 came out same deal. We did try other d2 overhauls. Another game we played a lot of was Battlefield 2, was a beast at flying he was a God on the gunner seat of either attack helo or transport, and final one ill list was Warcraft 3, mostly custom games, main one was the 40k TD, gem TD was another miss those days and those TD games
My favourite time as a PvP player was during the first ladder season of 1.10 but I played non ladder so we didnt have most of the really broken runewords. No grief no spirit no infinity no insight. Ebotd or insane rares were top melee weapons EDC was good too. I played a lot of 08 09 and 10 versions of D2. I had a cube full of insane rare rings and accidentally transmuted all of them into one. I had a few of the insane duped I assume 1.07 crafted skill amulets as perms in 1.10. I remember an assassin running cows died and got with inven stacked thus popped dropping all their gear on ground and I got one from that.
I was there and remember when it patched from 1.07 to 1.08 at then right away to 1.09. Old unique were still trading in SOJs and vamp gaze (which I was finding a lot) went from like 24 sojs to less than 1. People don't remember but it was actually awful to play. The servers were often down, lots of queues and the game was full of dupers and hackers.
That first play through experience I had of this game coming off the back of diablo 1 was so incredible. I mean if you ever wanted to see the most ridiculously spec'd necromancer you e ever seen in your life, mine was it. With points in ever skill and nothing specialized. However It was fun crashing games with my 60+ minions 🤣. I don't wish for them to turn back the clocks but I do wish they would listen to the fans of D2 and implement some of the legitimately great ideas that would bring people home. Great vid man. Thanks
I played a lot of D2 1.09 Fury Within. You had new tipes of gems, they highest rune was Sky Rune +1 all skills, Secret Diablo the Elder and...omg the frozen giants who could kill you off the map when they were stomping the ground. I also played the Rising Sun mode, but Fury Within was sooo damn good.
back in the days we have private channels with friends we find in chat and we would talk about blue prints for the best builds. Majority of the builds dump all points into lvl 30 skills like WW or frozen orb etc. The cow in hell mode was where everyone was leaching EXP and getting to lvl 99
Agreed, but that isn't necessarily because there wasn't an "ideal" sort of place to arrive with your build, or anything generally considered BiS. Rather, it's because there were so many potential avenues where you could arrive at BiS, no one really cared about guides. Hell, I remember trading off a 3os Cruel Balrog Blade of Switfness and refusing offers of Grandfather + SoJ's, lol. To put that into context, Grandfather was the best unique sword in the game, and the sword I was trading off was blue rarity. So nearly any item rareness could be BiS.
Truly, the most fun I’ve had playing D2 was D2R Ladder season 1. The nostalgia of my favorite childhood game with some refreshing changes like TZs, the ability to be a FOH paladin, The community was huge, and most importantly, I had real life friends and family to play with. Compared to the 1000s of hours I played back in the LOD days, I truly believe that was peak D2
I love how you continue to create new and engaging content for Diablo 2, a game that is over 20 years old and most of us think we know everything about.
My d2 pvp sorc in 1.08 was max charged bolt and tstorm. One shotted most with tstorm while teleporting around but could also teleport right in front of a guy and shoot a lvl 40 charged bolt in the face
its wild how close to perfect diablo 2 is. i swear to god, with just a few tweaks like the powerful crafting in this video. remove level difference from attack rating and instead make each lvl give you like +2 to base mele damage. and swap a high lvl rune modifier with teleport to open up new armor possibilities. nerf spirit so other shields become viable. fix some synergies. the possibilities become crazy...
This was great... now go back to vanilla CD version :D. More generally, would love a "history of D2" series... talk about old currencies and what happened to them... This was originally how I found your channel a few years ago, talking about the old bugged items.
D1. I used to dream of Hellfire. Took me years to find it, eventually got it off ebay. My dad was paranoid about online shopping. We also didn't have much internet and I didn't know about patches as a kid. So I played unpatched D1&2 for ages.
This should have ben left in. How hard is it to swing 2 knifes or if you have training to swing 2 2-handed weapons IRL. Aside from big axe's and big hammers.
Thank you for all the deep dives into theorycrafting. I enjoy the fairly simple math behind D2. I know I can do better builds, but I do have a softspot: a full Natalya assassin with an ias/ed jewel in the Mark and a Chaos claw in the "offhand", Steelrend, Highlord, Verdungo, Raven & BK, maxdmg/life GCs/SCs. After the CTA buffs I can easily whirlwind myself through DClone to trade Perf. Anni's for Torches. For MF I use a fairly cheap Naj sorc and an ItemFind barb helps me with runes from areas fully-packed with low-life monsters. Damn, how can a game be so much fun after almost a quarter of a century?
This might be a little off point from a version of the game, but during the days of edited items and characters, the Super Boss Mod was an awesome experience. I'll never forget stepping out of town and being immediately surrounded by monsters that would have destroyed anyone with no edited gear.
The original version was tough as F and in the same time we had almost no knowledge regarding everything. My first character was a physical spearzon, I managed to bring her to Hell on single. I was 16 and we were not able to play the game online. (without arreat summit it was even thougher) This version bringed so much fun and challenge to me! In my opinion: 1st "original" 2nd and Actual D2R and Lod last version simultanously (20k+ hours minimum in D2 world)
Used to love static before the nerf, level 1 used to hit most of the screen and was just ridiculous. I hated that boss that was near the inner sanctum way point who would kill you while you were loading up. And very fast sorceress was just so much fun. I remember my first proper sorceress fondly and still have to use the same name. When you hit the mid 20s the power jump was noticeable. The fun of Teleport, static, run, orb, telekinesis up the loot, teleport etc etc
In 09 I mostly played legit pvp, but I had a bugged indestructible zon. Wf and Titans / stormshield on switch. Crafted zon ammy with teleport, bugged valor, bugged gaze etc… the best was legit zvz or paladin melee duels tho. Sooooo much fun omg
Coronets, tiaras and circlets were insane in 1.07 and a bit up. They were abundant and many times spawn with skills and other goodies. Not that they are bad now but are more rare to get out of monsters before they were very common. Anyway i like completely something different when once upon time you can spam as much hydras or orbs as you like (meteor or any skill does have delay now doesn’t had before) it was beauty. Of course hydras has at level 20 something like 50 dmg per fire bolt but have them full screen was something magical.
I remember the days when 3perfect skulls could buy you an SOJ. I miss the classic necro build it was silks armor and wormskull it gave a nice black evil and bluish shine to the necro and every necro had that setup. Good ol days. D2 rune works in LOD took a lot of the fun out of grinding uniques as rune words like greifs, fortitude breath of the dying, enigma just destroyed uniques. I renenber always using a full sigon set during early lvling. Also I remember that selling SOJs to the merchant over a several times would spawn uber diablo randomly and public alert was sent and you would try to figure out which server it is and start or join a game to face the diablo.
I love your knowledge of the game. D2 was my life when I was younger and I love hearing about the history and mechanics of the game that I never knew of.
I started around 2002 and both 1.09 and the huge 1.10 update were fun, but getting some of that 1.07 flavor into d2r would be cool even if it's just for an event and the items are temporary and expire at midnight, I'd still search for them
D2R never captured what LOD was to me and although I'll jump on D2R once and awhile, I lose interest so much quicker. These two games just don't feel the same.
I played diablo 2 for more than 23 years. But i never played online, nor got char lvl higher then 50. What we used to d is just, play Lan multiplayer with friend and enjoyed the game as it was. We had no idea about rune words or any that crazy thing. We used items that had highest stats like armor, or damage. We had no idea that there was another game tier we haven't even heard of it.
This brought back so many memories man. Thanks for this it was amazing. LOD was my start to true PC gaming, 20+ years later and I'm still a gaming nerd.
Coooley discovered time travel! Absolutely respect the effort put in here to turn back the clock and remind us of what was. This was a great watch mate.
My two best memories.. It was the age of Life leech, when it still meant something while dueling! Possibly the best time I had.. Was the "Bugged Items" days. 6os Windforce, bugged Vamp Gaze, bugged Ark Valor, bugged Tals, 451 Psn sc's, bugged War Travelers, bugged, SS, bugged SOE, Oculus SOJ and bugged Ith Colossus Blade. Sadly, I think those are just memories now :/ (Unless you edit your own, which is not the same.)
I remember the valley of haradrim was great for early farming. sure you only have to enter the specific temple to do the quest.... but you can also clean the whole valley and get some nice loot in the process
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next do all the dupe methods you can find XD
I'd love to see if you can make a mock.
I really wanna try D1 "The Hell 3" mod. It looks quite good. I wanna try it so much, I'm going to buy a PC because I'm tired of playing me crappy PlayStation 1 D1 on my tablet with a PS5 controller 😂
Also, did you know that on the PlayStation 1 version of Diablo, there's like an hour or two of lore audiobooks not available on the PC version?
They're read by the guy that narrated the countess book, you know "she bathed in the rejuvenating blood of a thousand virgins." Yeah that guy. Anyway, thanks for the video. Nostalgia++
@@debacofzomb9889didn't know about the audio book part, is it from the hellfire expansion? From what I recall the ps1 version was with hellfire?
This idiot still making videos 🤦
Blizzard North was truly the greatest of all time.
Most definitely.
Diablo II is a serious that can never to be beated
Then they made hellgare London……and it flopped hard
@nunyabeezwax6758 there is borderland series
As was Peter North
Sometimes I think back to how bad I was at D2 as a 12 year old kid and how I couldnt beat Hell difficulty, or even Nightmare on most characters. Then I see this and remember how inaccessible a lot of information we now take for granted was at the time, and it makes a lot more sense
@Bisgetti Brain rot is also shared by those who think all information is bad information. Even back then, it was by word of mouth and in the game chats where people would brainstorm and create builds. Nothing has changed other than the influx of information. Sorting good from bad information is what distinguishes learning from brain rot. The irony of your comment, but lack of realization, is peak.
at 12 years old , as long as my toon looked badass i didnt care for stats lool , holy shit did i suck
Even today, games still make this mistake.
I really like the game TemTem but it's basically unplayable without the wiki, or you writing down what every status effect does.
There's like 20.
All the information you could ever need was just as accessible back then as it is now. What do you mean? Lol
@Trailerwalker it actually wasn't.
Firstly, there have actually been several discoveries made about the game in the last few years, due to collaboration on online forums.
But more importantly, many people back when D2 was released had no internet, even if they had a computer. And if they did, search engines and web guides were still in their infancy and usually relied on a handful of people.
I sure dont miss iron maiden in chaos sanctuary though.
Yeah, gotta use magic damage to get through that, Vengeance, Berserk, those work pretty well, but then those bastard would have a chance to kill you in literally 1 second.
it gives you ptsd.still have issues when i see it cast.
@@GhostWriter-wt8pb you needed the 24%+ Life Leech so your WW barb would not die in there.... It was ridiculous
I generally just leap attacked all the mages and the. WW the rest.. LA didn't reflect since it was a ranged attack
It was literally hell lol
In early versions of classic you had a chance to get an SoJ from Akara for rescuing Cain. Also it had no level requirement or item level so you could even get one in normal.
I remember starting a lvl 1 Necro with 2 sojs, unique +1 Helm and +2 unique wand, that was fun, also pvp against whirlwind barbs using iron maiden + bone spirit and high life, good times
you can still get SoJ in normal mode, no? im pretty sure i dropped soj from normal before
Pskulls were worth so much back then too. Been playing since 1.02 classic.
@@BG1435q yea sojs start dropping from normal diablo.
you can still get a SoJ in normal. i got one with a level 29 barb in normal a few ladders ago in the frozen river.
For a short time there was a bug where you could get he ancients to drop items, their loot tables included 100% chance for multiple uniques and set items to drop, per ancient, every game, and each one would also drop half a dozen or so full rejuvenation potions. Here are the steps for the bug.
Step 1, open any public game on bnet- and wait 5 minutes. (perms the game circa early 2ks)
Step 2, go to the summit, then read the book, then lure the ancietns outside the circle they spawn in, once they are outside, leave the game.
Step 3. Rejoin the game, and kill them outside the circle.
Step 4, profit.
This was patched after a couple days iirc
Cool tidbit. I've never heard that one before.
I was 12 or 13 years old when LoD came out. I remember seeing a bowazon decked out with Vamp gaze, Shaftstop, and Windforce utterly destroying Act 2. I remember being destroyed by Tstorm sorcs in duels with shako, vamp gaze, lidless wall, and wizard spike. No skillers.., no rune words, those cruel swords that paladins use to use. God do I miss the old .7 and .8 versions of old LoD.
Amen and the god roll rare ww lance barbs. What I miss the most in those days is rares actually having the potential to be better than any predefined item. Truly living up to the name rare. That's an aspect that is pretty much nonexistent in looters nowadays.
.08 vamp gaze was awesome
I got flashback of my paladin casting 20 hit zeal and missing every hit
Great comment! A lot of people think that melee was better in this patch, but it WASN'T. Skills missed so much and there was not much you could do about it.
@@Coooley but we had piercing guided arrows lol
Zeal "lock?"
@@Hmongboi228 Yeah, in very old patches, there wasn't a hit cap on zeal (at least to level 20) so you got an extra hit per level. It was silly, and for some genius reason, I thought using a 2h maul on my zeal pally was a big brain idea :D
@@CoooleyBut we also had -%defense bugged which worked like a jah rune even on bosses 😁
Firewall was ridiculously strong back in the day. PvP you could cast it across the exit of town and people couldn’t even leave town. I think it was 30k damage when fully maxed out.
...but they could do absolutely nothing against fire immunes :)
I still have my copy of D2 an D2: LOD in the original CD cases and boxes. The box of D2 has a gold sticker saying "Game of the Year." Super cool. I'll never get rid of it.
Great video, Cooley! So nostalgic.
I have the same one lol
Same here.
i have multiple orginal coppies of D2 on CD because needed more than one account to use as mules since stash space wasnt enough and i still have the case and CD. I still also have the CD and case for diablo1 and its first expansion pack too.
Good, but cases and boxes doesnt play the game, you have to. Install it on ur PC and play it again, 1.14d nowadays, game is still the best of all time.
I love Diablo so much. Played from the start of 1.08 to 1.11 basically as a child. Never had so much fun. Resurrected is such an incredible remake it was fun version 2
d2 would have needed a major rework on a lot of skills and give melee attacks splash damage to make them viable
the game looking at it from todays perspective is just very outdated and unbalanced hence we see the same builds every time and if you don't spend 10+ hrs on off meta builds they just plain suck
@@93Beefcake there's never been more viable builds. Up until 1.10 you could have an orb/nova sorc, titan zon, gf ww barb or wf zon.
@@93Beefcake just no to splash. its not a remake . play d4 instead.. theres enough splash bullshit.
Valk Wings with FCR, Shae runes, early bugs… that nostalgia, bro.
“I was there Gandalf”
Okay, the MF ritual should have been known earlier. How much fun would this have been…
Surprising they were able to keep it secret for so long lol
I'm not sure if I even used runewords whenever I played classic Diablo 2. It's not like the game has recipes you can find ingame. You have to look online; otherwise, you could never know they were in the game.
I liked version 1.00 1.03 where "Greater Mummy" (Unraveller etc..) could speak. Good immersion right there.
I remember pre expansion everyone played Whirlwind Barbarian with a rare Lance, Martel de Fer, or Bec-De-Corbin and an Ornate Plate (this was before elite items existed)
The Martel de Fer was especially good because it was 3x2 instead of 4x2, so a rare could be rerolled in the cube with 6 Perfect Skulls (these were currency before runes). Rerolling with this recipe did not decrease the ilvl of the item as it does now (it was nerfed).
or you would see bonesnap and steeldriver used a lot too
Yup, wish we still had these ww hit checks in d2r
Also remember mace class implicit was 150% increased to undead, not the current 50%
i used bloodletters till 08 and got duel grandfathers.
there were also magic cruel col sword we crafted with chipped gems
1.09, for me, was peak D2. Cows were amazing, uniques:runewords was in a great spot, and bnet had enough chaos to make interactions a total joy. Spent countless days worth of time on this game. But 1.10 caused so many issues with reworks, synergies, cow nerfs, a lot of my friend group lost interest after.
We still play every now and then today, but nowhere near like we did in 1.09.
From all of my D2 memories the one that stands out the most is still just the basic demo that came with PC Gamer or so, Barb in the Blood Moor. That was all. I remember putting that weapon in the offhand and that was it. They had me hook, line and sinker.
Azurewrath Crystal Sword was my first ever unique in D2. Even remember where I got it. Arcane Sanctuary. I'll likely never forget that.
One of my favorite relic items, great to dual wield early on.
Making runes in orange text was a very subtle yet great change they did too. And any day now they'll add a full loot filter..
It could be any moment..
They stole it from Mousepad's maphack. Mousepads maphack had a lot of quality of life improvements besides just revealing the map that the devs eventually added a ton of as official updates
Aaaany time now, don't worry next season
Loot filter is for lazy rushers who can't stop for a moment to look whats on the ground.
What they should do is have an option to have short names for potions and scrolls that really clutter the screen.
Also elitepacka drop way too many potions in general..
@@akse loot filter is MMO tier stuff that stole the charm from ARPGs.
The best D2 Era was the pre 09 rust storm patch when the ITH's and bugged items were everywhere. I honestly loved running dual ITH CB's With 6 sockets 5 4015s 1 eth rune on a frenzy barb. Bugged Arcane Valor with 4 sockets with Havoc Jewels, and the white ring and the occy ring. Yes it was busted, but it was so much fun. Honorable mention to the Bugged Tals and 7015 charms on a es Sorc with nearly 4k life and 7k mana and max DR
What was special about ith? I only joined at 1.11 patch.
@@test-rj2vlkeeps the rune word but also let’s you put whatever you want into sockets.
@@nikkof5384 How did it work? Did it clear the rune word? Like tp + hel?
ITH runewords -- imagine a grief with 6 open sockets
Example of an "ITH grief 240ias" --
Now imagine an ITH grief with all the sockets having 6x 40/15ias jewels
Agreed. Best time I had playing D2- the OCCY rings was peak (rings with the Occulus orb stats)
@@test-rj2vl that’s the best way I can describe it, Coooley has old ass videos that cover exact details on how it was performed but as a player at the time that’s what I’d say it looked like, as if you cleared the slots but kept the rune word. As you can imagine dual wielding on a barb led to some fun results.
My favorite version of D2 was 1.09 because the Guided ArrrowZon was freaking broken and OP as hell. I played a lot of Bnet back then.
I was one of the players who played both pre-LoD and patch 1.07 since I didn’t connect to battlenet. I remember the game being so wildly frustrating before LoD and then HUGE quality upgrades with runes, characters and all that. What REALLY blows my mind, however, is that we are STILL playing the exact same game today, with a new coat of paint. Blizzard still has not figured out how to replicate, and iterate on this premise. Just goes to show you how great this game truly was/is and with the new D2 reimagined mod, it’s even better than ever.
I played Diablo 2 in the stress test before it was even fully released, when the only class you could play was Barbarian and the only gems were chipped rubies. (I think, I can't fully remember on that last one)
its insane how much 1.10 actually changed the game. ruined pre patch chars with no reset to stats deleted tons of bugged items from the server while also creating the zod bug at the same time changed tons of items added tons of runewords that changed currency from 290s and sojs to runes and the most important corrected the spelling of berserker axe
Lost so many players from that patch. No more cows, bowzons, ts, orb, ww, all got nerfed. I still played but it def took an adjustment .... Before 1.10 will always be peak Diablo 2
Charged Boltress was my favorite starter lightning build
When you were asking “what was the most OP sorceress skill?” I kept saying, “Charged bolt, charged bolt, charged bolt”
Dude; Charged Bolt was stupid powerful.
Static field, wtf % dmg to bosses at lvl 1
@@Duocek Dude Static Field on classic is insane. It's not capped in Nightmare and Hell like it is in Expansion. You can bring Diablo down to like 1/5 life in just a few seconds. Monstrous.
@@ArchangelsBookClub Static damage also used to be affected by conviction because it is lightning based, meaning that sorcs used to be able to kill entire screens of enemies in 4-5 casts regardless of how many players were in game.
1.08 and 1.09 were by far the best and funnest for pvp. Hell cows to get to 99 easily, bugged / duped items. It was sooo much fun
You circling Shako giving you 40% life unleashed a flood of memories lol you are a gifted content creator Cooley!
0:43 where is the full video of this dual wield sorceress glitch ? link pls
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I remember when meteor could be spammed. And did not have a long cool down. Shit was fire.
Yes and every baal run people were spamming in the chat "pls no meteor or game will ceash" haha
I remember people spamming Frozen Orb and causing the game running at 1 FPS
Found your channel a couple hours ago and I already finished your diablo 2 video playlist and am craving more. TH-cam finally recommended me something worthwhile. 👌
I have never seen those runewords before, great content!!
It’s crazy because I remember all of this. Before LoD, 1.07, 1.08. When they introduced runewords. Then I didn’t play until 1.13c or something and came back to confusion.
Hands down 1.09 was my favorite era in d2 before all the overpowered runewords were added to the game. The runewords changed the game completely and forever. Especially Enigma killed the exploration part of the game totally.
Probably 1.09 was my favorite, all the cruels XX of quickness or the quarks weapons. White/occy rings, Ith weapons, Btals.
Shaft/Gaze/WF zons were an iconic look. If you had an Eaglehorn, you were broke.
I have 1.07 on CD. Gawd, the good ol days! fav version/mod - 1.09 - ZyEl mod
I LOVED the monster and item tints in 1.07. They were more gradient and realistic imo instead of the aggressive colours you got in later versions.
Need more nostalgia content if you have the time. It's always great! I want to see pictures or videos of colored ornate plates before they went vibrant. V1.08 or before. On a barb ofc.
playing d2 since i was 8. still feeling ike the old days (L
Late v1.08 through entirety of v1.09 was legitimately the fucking GOAT era of all time for any Diablo game and I will die on that hill. EVERYBODY can get this smoke if they disagree.
Just before synergies were added, it was the purest form of the game
I recall the bug with Marrow Walks applying level 33 bone prison to skill tree - made for an extremely OP bone nec
1.08 barbarian with fury Balrog blade destroyed.
Right? I distinctly remember a badass rare sword for my barb that had at least cruel on it, if not fool as well. All I remember for certain is that it was called Death Mar Balrog Blade.
Playing D2 patch 1.09 with my two neighbours was my golden era
Melee might actually be playable without grief with a stash of 40max damage charms.
I agree. But the charms max bowazons far too powerful. While some people rally behind that, those players don't PvP
on 1.7 melee and bow are your best choice. zeal pal was monster
@@Coooley i was always of the idea that instead of the poopy bone break charm, melee/phys characters get 1 unique charm that works like gheed and torch that gives you 20-40 max damage 200-400 AR but reduces your defense by a %.
@@8888disturbed1.7? We aren't even at patch 1.7 now. What the hell are you smoking lol
@@DDadams0 dude are u idiot or what? current patch is 2.8 or somethin. 1.7 is the original LoD do u even play on this patch?
Never had i had to pause so much in a video to read all the stats
I loved the version where Guided Arrow would pierce through the enemy and then come back to him and then pierce again and again and again... :) Killing bosses was so easy. I remember having my Amazon equip Kuko Shakaku and destroy everything! Guided arrows would literally swarm Baal. I cannot remember which patch it was, but it was amazing :)
D2 classic player here who retired for good about 2 months ago, Bowazons don't even exist anymore in D2 classsic once multishot was nerfed. It's a shame, it really is. D2 was dead regardless but long gone are the gothic and rune bow Bowazons in D2 classic.. 😞😓 You find a high damage gothic/rune with no increased attack speed? Sell it or drop it..
1:40 yo what's the track playing here?
I remember 1 or 2 days before offical LoD Launch 2 people of my guild already owned a LoD copy each and were able to log into the battlenet chatromms. I think they even were able to create an Assa and Druid but their avatars were not shown the correct skin for druid or assa. But if you moved over their avatar it said druid /assa :p
I would absolutely love to see more content about earlier patches
I swear I remember my friend made some runeword that doesn't exist with Shae Ral Tal Tal in a Poleaxe or something, and I was always wondering how he knew how to make that runeword, and he said confidently that, "It's like music. I just played the notes."
like ye played classic song's courses ? That would be cool.
the crafted items look insanely fun. would be a sick alternative to runewords and uniques if they were adjusted a little
I used to go to my best friends house regularly, lugging my giant desktop pc. We would play tf out of Diablo 2. The D2LOD then D2 Ancestral Recall. And I mean for hours. Get to his around 3:30, first day we get forced to bed around midnight, get back on at 1am play until around lunch, go do some touching of grass like riding quad bikes, making bows and shooting them list goes on, then more d2 until it's time for me to go home around 6pm Sunday.
Then Dark Alliance came out on gamecube, played that completely, then Dark Alliance 2 came out same deal. We did try other d2 overhauls. Another game we played a lot of was Battlefield 2, was a beast at flying he was a God on the gunner seat of either attack helo or transport, and final one ill list was Warcraft 3, mostly custom games, main one was the 40k TD, gem TD was another miss those days and those TD games
My favourite time as a PvP player was during the first ladder season of 1.10 but I played non ladder so we didnt have most of the really broken runewords. No grief no spirit no infinity no insight. Ebotd or insane rares were top melee weapons EDC was good too. I played a lot of 08 09 and 10 versions of D2. I had a cube full of insane rare rings and accidentally transmuted all of them into one. I had a few of the insane duped I assume 1.07 crafted skill amulets as perms in 1.10. I remember an assassin running cows died and got with inven stacked thus popped dropping all their gear on ground and I got one from that.
I miss my wizardspike gloves 😂
I was there and remember when it patched from 1.07 to 1.08 at then right away to 1.09. Old unique were still trading in SOJs and vamp gaze (which I was finding a lot) went from like 24 sojs to less than 1. People don't remember but it was actually awful to play. The servers were often down, lots of queues and the game was full of dupers and hackers.
Dont forget how great it was to use maphack for meph runs back in those days
That first play through experience I had of this game coming off the back of diablo 1 was so incredible. I mean if you ever wanted to see the most ridiculously spec'd necromancer you e ever seen in your life, mine was it. With points in ever skill and nothing specialized. However It was fun crashing games with my 60+ minions 🤣.
I don't wish for them to turn back the clocks but I do wish they would listen to the fans of D2 and implement some of the legitimately great ideas that would bring people home.
Great vid man. Thanks
Excited for new pd2 season where I can actually craft those 3 socket armors, helmets and 6 socket weapons
I played a lot of D2 1.09 Fury Within. You had new tipes of gems, they highest rune was Sky Rune +1 all skills, Secret Diablo the Elder and...omg the frozen giants who could kill you off the map when they were stomping the ground. I also played the Rising Sun mode, but Fury Within was sooo damn good.
I miss playing the game in times where no one was reading guides and tips how to hit meta asap…
back in the days we have private channels with friends we find in chat and we would talk about blue prints for the best builds. Majority of the builds dump all points into lvl 30 skills like WW or frozen orb etc. The cow in hell mode was where everyone was leaching EXP and getting to lvl 99
Agreed, but that isn't necessarily because there wasn't an "ideal" sort of place to arrive with your build, or anything generally considered BiS. Rather, it's because there were so many potential avenues where you could arrive at BiS, no one really cared about guides. Hell, I remember trading off a 3os Cruel Balrog Blade of Switfness and refusing offers of Grandfather + SoJ's, lol. To put that into context, Grandfather was the best unique sword in the game, and the sword I was trading off was blue rarity. So nearly any item rareness could be BiS.
actually we did that back then too, you just weren't invited to the irc channels lol
love that nostalgic music you add in there. i remember those days of D2... that excitement when expansion came out was unreal
Truly, the most fun I’ve had playing D2 was D2R Ladder season 1. The nostalgia of my favorite childhood game with some refreshing changes like TZs, the ability to be a FOH paladin, The community was huge, and most importantly, I had real life friends and family to play with. Compared to the 1000s of hours I played back in the LOD days, I truly believe that was peak D2
I like these videos way more than the PvP stuff. I hope you keep making them!
I remember finding an soj in a1 norm , was so awesome
I love how you continue to create new and engaging content for Diablo 2, a game that is over 20 years old and most of us think we know everything about.
Thanks for the Video prompted me to refresh my expired toons on East & West : )
wow i remember expired character lol
My d2 pvp sorc in 1.08 was max charged bolt and tstorm. One shotted most with tstorm while teleporting around but could also teleport right in front of a guy and shoot a lvl 40 charged bolt in the face
its wild how close to perfect diablo 2 is. i swear to god, with just a few tweaks like the powerful crafting in this video. remove level difference from attack rating and instead make each lvl give you like +2 to base mele damage. and swap a high lvl rune modifier with teleport to open up new armor possibilities. nerf spirit so other shields become viable. fix some synergies. the possibilities become crazy...
I miss guided arrow piercing, and I miss patch 1.09, before synergies… I do not miss multishot lightning enchanted!
I mainly play Resurrection, but sometimes in the early stages of Classic Ladder, I get together with members and have some fun :)
This was great... now go back to vanilla CD version :D. More generally, would love a "history of D2" series... talk about old currencies and what happened to them... This was originally how I found your channel a few years ago, talking about the old bugged items.
Not a bad idea. There's certainly a LOT of history especially when you bring currencies into it. Video would be an hour long but entertaining lol
@@Coooley Do it. :)
I remember when arcanes valor rolled skills for each class. Item info was almost a page long
When did that happen, that wasn't a 1.07 thing. It simply gave +2 skills and insane life.
D1. I used to dream of Hellfire. Took me years to find it, eventually got it off ebay. My dad was paranoid about online shopping. We also didn't have much internet and I didn't know about patches as a kid. So I played unpatched D1&2 for ages.
Very few people know the bug with dual wielding... but you can also put 2 TWO HANDED in the same way with W and LMB :D
This should have ben left in. How hard is it to swing 2 knifes or if you have training to swing 2 2-handed weapons IRL. Aside from big axe's and big hammers.
@Coooley how do I post to trophy room??? I have to show you something >.>
0:43 where is the full video for this glitch ?
How do you get the ritual to work i still can't get them to do it they always attack me...
Thank you for all the deep dives into theorycrafting. I enjoy the fairly simple math behind D2. I know I can do better builds, but I do have a softspot: a full Natalya assassin with an ias/ed jewel in the Mark and a Chaos claw in the "offhand", Steelrend, Highlord, Verdungo, Raven & BK, maxdmg/life GCs/SCs. After the CTA buffs I can easily whirlwind myself through DClone to trade Perf. Anni's for Torches. For MF I use a fairly cheap Naj sorc and an ItemFind barb helps me with runes from areas fully-packed with low-life monsters. Damn, how can a game be so much fun after almost a quarter of a century?
This might be a little off point from a version of the game, but during the days of edited items and characters, the Super Boss Mod was an awesome experience. I'll never forget stepping out of town and being immediately surrounded by monsters that would have destroyed anyone with no edited gear.
The original version was tough as F and in the same time we had almost no knowledge regarding everything. My first character was a physical spearzon, I managed to bring her to Hell on single. I was 16 and we were not able to play the game online. (without arreat summit it was even thougher) This version bringed so much fun and challenge to me!
In my opinion: 1st "original" 2nd and Actual D2R and Lod last version simultanously (20k+ hours minimum in D2 world)
I'm pretty sure 1.07 had a bug that would make despawning Bone Wall drop items if you cast enough of them in an area.
That was Pre Expansion
@@Coooley right right right. God that was so long ago. All the bugs run together
@@Coooley I remember doing this with friends online 😅
Used to love static before the nerf, level 1 used to hit most of the screen and was just ridiculous.
I hated that boss that was near the inner sanctum way point who would kill you while you were loading up.
And very fast sorceress was just so much fun. I remember my first proper sorceress fondly and still have to use the same name. When you hit the mid 20s the power jump was noticeable. The fun of Teleport, static, run, orb, telekinesis up the loot, teleport etc etc
In 09 I mostly played legit pvp, but I had a bugged indestructible zon. Wf and Titans / stormshield on switch. Crafted zon ammy with teleport, bugged valor, bugged gaze etc… the best was legit zvz or paladin melee duels tho. Sooooo much fun omg
Coronets, tiaras and circlets were insane in 1.07 and a bit up. They were abundant and many times spawn with skills and other goodies. Not that they are bad now but are more rare to get out of monsters before they were very common. Anyway i like completely something different when once upon time you can spam as much hydras or orbs as you like (meteor or any skill does have delay now doesn’t had before) it was beauty. Of course hydras has at level 20 something like 50 dmg per fire bolt but have them full screen was something magical.
What do I do with the Standard of Heroes?
1.07-1.09 was my favourite era by far
What’s that song at 3:56 ? It’s bugging me
Evil Deeds - Eminem
I remember the days when 3perfect skulls could buy you an SOJ. I miss the classic necro build it was silks armor and wormskull it gave a nice black evil and bluish shine to the necro and every necro had that setup. Good ol days. D2 rune works in LOD took a lot of the fun out of grinding uniques as rune words like greifs, fortitude breath of the dying, enigma just destroyed uniques. I renenber always using a full sigon set during early lvling. Also I remember that selling SOJs to the merchant over a several times would spawn uber diablo randomly and public alert was sent and you would try to figure out which server it is and start or join a game to face the diablo.
i had the base game as a kid never updated, i had a level 45 barb in hell act 3 but could never beat the game. i was like 7 years old
I love your knowledge of the game. D2 was my life when I was younger and I love hearing about the history and mechanics of the game that I never knew of.
I started around 2002 and both 1.09 and the huge 1.10 update were fun, but getting some of that 1.07 flavor into d2r would be cool even if it's just for an event and the items are temporary and expire at midnight, I'd still search for them
What’s the name of the song that plays in 4:45?
Instant crush by corbyn kites
@@tyvonn.johnson Thank you
Great video Cooley. I forgot about the ritual!
D2R never captured what LOD was to me and although I'll jump on D2R once and awhile, I lose interest so much quicker. These two games just don't feel the same.
I played diablo 2 for more than 23 years. But i never played online, nor got char lvl higher then 50. What we used to d is just, play Lan multiplayer with friend and enjoyed the game as it was. We had no idea about rune words or any that crazy thing. We used items that had highest stats like armor, or damage. We had no idea that there was another game tier we haven't even heard of it.
I nvr do quest, just walking randomly and bashing demon. Lmao
Love your videos. I finally hit lvl 99 on sp for the first time, feels gooood mayne
Not being able to respec and having your character auto deleted after 3 months of being inactive on bnet. Classic.
This brought back so many memories man. Thanks for this it was amazing. LOD was my start to true PC gaming, 20+ years later and I'm still a gaming nerd.
Coooley discovered time travel! Absolutely respect the effort put in here to turn back the clock and remind us of what was. This was a great watch mate.
My two best memories.. It was the age of Life leech, when it still meant something while dueling! Possibly the best time I had.. Was the "Bugged Items" days. 6os Windforce, bugged Vamp Gaze, bugged Ark Valor, bugged Tals, 451 Psn sc's, bugged War Travelers, bugged, SS, bugged SOE, Oculus SOJ and bugged Ith Colossus Blade. Sadly, I think those are just memories now :/ (Unless you edit your own, which is not the same.)
09 Zealot duels hit different
@@Coooley I couldn't agree more! A little later it was perma nk, by the FC Zon. (Getting killed off-screen was crazy.) The wild west days!
I remember the valley of haradrim was great for early farming. sure you only have to enter the specific temple to do the quest.... but you can also clean the whole valley and get some nice loot in the process
is there still duped charms and runes you have to temp perm each game with?
Iron maiden + blood golem was the shit in cow lvl