Except I spent Wednesday rushing 6 groups through to act 5 hell, watched half of them hit 60 before I did my last rush.

Sanctuary will give you xp, even before 20, in hell apparently. I didn't believe it either, but that's even what one of the leveling service guys explained, one of the games I ran ended up being a character he was running.... gave me an insight for running them.

I'm about to open a second account and dual box another character specifically so I don't have to beg and borrow for rushes on newer characters, I'll be testing it out before long.

That's crazy how much I've played the game and never knew that loop hole.

SF2004 said:

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Will give forge for rush...

Takes forge anyway and leaves.

Will rush for forge...

Takes forge and leaves not completing rush.

The good ol' days.

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I think the most scumbag/toxic thing I've ever done in gaming was to use that trade screen hack that went undetected on closed battle.net briefly where you would host trade games, put items in your trade window, get disconnected, reconnect to your game and when you traded with the person again those same items appeared in your side of the trade window but weren't actually there. A couple of buddies of mine and I stayed up til like 4 AM in middle school ripping people off one Saturday night and got in game RICH. So much juvenile mayhem went on in that game.

I remember how the game server would send a complete list of items to the D2 client when you opened up that gambling screen. Somebody figured out that you could just run a packet sniffer and figure out what you could get.

I picked up a ton of SoJs cheap in the short period of time before it was fixed.

SF2004 said:

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Will give forge for rush...

Takes forge anyway and leaves.

Will rush for forge...

Takes forge and leaves not completing rush.

The good ol' days.

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Has a dude go bonkers ranting at me this morning about being a scammer who was going to DEMAND payment blah blah blah. By the time he was done wailing, I had the little group through act 2 and was looking for the Durance lvl3.

THEN got mad cause I hadn't waited for him...

Just saw its gonna support 8 players.

THE MAYHEM OF 8 NECROS

I legitimately may need to upgrade my graphics card. Never thought I'd say that for D2.....

If they don't nerf enigma, I'll have a skelemancer as soon as I get one!

Eliminatus said:

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Just saw its gonna support 8 players.

THE MAYHEM OF 8 NECROS

I legitimately may need to upgrade my graphics card. Never thought I'd say that for D2.....

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That will be a cpu / netcode problem. Not a gpu one in all likelihood.

Rumors swirling that an Alpha has been approved for South Korea for the 9th through the 13th. Apparently you have to register stuff like that over there. So fingers crossed we have one on the way for the same dates or at least close behind.

Would make since if this was Starcraft.

Cromagnum said:

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Would make since if this was Starcraft.

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Haha, pretty sure Starcraft is their official sport there. But there was a massive Diablo 2 presence in Korea too so I'm sure it's a large target audience.

Rumors true, technical alpha starting 4/8

https://news.blizzard.com/en-us/diablo2/23658118/diablo-ii-resurrected-technical-alpha-experience-the-legend

Will be streamers first then the general tech alpha.

So I did learn something for sure....skip nightmare baal runs. Waste of time.

Go straight to chaos sanctuary in hell.... went 40-70 in about 30 mins last night. Watched a level 20 do the same thing...had no idea.

That is correct. Streamers will have access around noon central time tomorrow and then waves of invites will start going out around 9 AM central starting Friday. Fingers crossed!

Ag_of_08 said:

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Will be streamers first then the general tech alpha.

So I did learn something for sure....skip nightmare baal runs. Waste of time.

Go straight to chaos sanctuary in hell.... went 40-70 in about 30 mins last night. Watched a level 20 do the same thing...had no idea.

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Man for years I did norm trist/ sanc then ancients and norm Baal till like 40 then nm till 65-70. Can't believe I never knew about hell sanc

Completely blew my mind. If you can get a grush, I would take a level 1 all the way to act 4 hell and skip all of it.... I'm serious when I say the bots had 10s and 20s following them.

Apparently this is how the leveling services do it, it's nuts to watch. I did a grush for a guy wednesday night, drug a 40 and a whole slew of level 1-10s through to hell act5 thinking I was just being nice to weirdos. Turns out he was power leveling several accounts multiboxing. Asked me to wait in the last game, showed back up with a nigma as a thank you. It just went from a mule to my zookeeper this morning!

I will gladly take the grush if I can get it now, but I think in the future I will aim to get to lol 40 before I leave normal, and see if I can get a rush through NM and act iv...... insanely faster. At 40, I was getting 2-3 levels per chaos clear at minimum. Think I got 4 at one point when we got up to.8.players.

Btw, add tomb runs after 15, makes the 15- 20 grind easy, then cows will take you to 25.

Oh yeah forgot about tomb runs

https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2021/04/diablo-ii-resurrected-gameplay-premiere-tune-in-thursday-to-watch-us-play-live/



TLDW: Nothing works.

silverleaf said:

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https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2021/04/diablo-ii-resurrected-gameplay-premiere-tune-in-thursday-to-watch-us-play-live/



TLDW: Nothing works.

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Duh. Tech Alpha.

Nothing works? I was watching several streamers play today...no one I saw had any problems.

tamuangry said:

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Nothing works? I was watching several streamers play today...no one I saw had any problems.

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Other than the delay, certainly wasn't anything noticeable. Game looks damn good.

Got my invite to the technical alpha today. Gonna install tonight. I know what I'm doing this weekend.

Lucky SOB. Been checking my email nonstop today and nothing. My expectations of getting in were low so it's all good. Watching streamers isn't my thing whatsoever but I watched Mrllama for about 30 minutes last night and it looks awesome.

I have an invite to the alpha but I only have a mac and they dont support that right now.

Got in about an hour so far but will be playing a lot more tonight. So far, zero bugs encountered and the game plays and looks great. No lag or slow down even with a lot of **** going on and everything set to maximum on graphics. I really can't see months of polishing being required.

Shroud has been streaming it for a little while and it looks really good.

I might have to partition my Mac so I can bootcamp and run it.

Sharing stash for characters. No more muling.

Only issue is the duping, we'll see how they fix it.

I probably won't ever be able to afford any items if they do fix it

I wouldn't worry too much lol, the bots won't be "fixed" for more than a month. They're so bad in wow classic right now they've thrown their hands up, I dont give them long.

I dont mind some of the bots, but damn it gets frustrating. I ran two hell rushes last night, I actually was having to kill one chode I was rushing, he was running pick-it... I was like da hell. Called him out on it, told me I could get ****ed.

Mephisto is a ***** when I teleport aggro him on top of you....

LOL. Some folks exploited the dupe bug enough to make Enigmas in the alpha. He even made a ****load of Zod runes. At least broken things like this will get addressed.

Around the 8 minute mark.