Diablo II items I will never consider legit (Mostly new + runewords)

[Laharl]

This is a great chance for me to... vent a little on a lot of these overpowered, and just plain stupid runewords that Blizzard has added - conveniently organized, and in alphabetical order, starting with the runewords!

Runewords:

Breath of the Dying - Now here's a really stupid runeword. +30 all stats, 50% poison nova when you kill an enemy and incredibly stupid IAS. Is it even possible to die pvm if you have one of these?!

Call To Arms - Another overpowered piece of... trash. It's one of the runewords that is so overpowered that it is completely unimaginable to go without it (especially pvp), and by definition anything that is like that is... well overpowered.

Chains of Honor - +2 all skills, +65% all resists

Enigma - Teleport, with the +2 all skills. The mf doesn't help much in the balance department, either. This is another one of those items that if you don't have... you'll "suck". Especially if you're a summoner.

Exile - Insane defense, and a defiance aura - not even remotely balanced. Then add in the self-repair which allows it to repair itself...

Heart of the Oak - 30-40% resists, +3 all skills, +40% cast rate. Self explanitory.

Ladder only:

Spirit - +2 all skills, +% cast rate, and available in both shield and sword form. Oh, did I mention that the highest rune in it is an amn?


Things like that are the reason why I quit Blizzards' patches for d2, and suggest people do likewise. Blizzard has demonstrated, by creating rune words like these, that they have little, if any, regard for balance or even sanity. They pump out rune words which both make actual unique items complete garbage, and that nobody can make a "decent" pvp charactor without. That, by both my definition of balance, and the one it's based off of (Dungeons and Dragons') is destructive of the game.

For the record I do not hate the basic... premise (sp) of Diablo, but rather what Blizzard has done with items since patch 1.09. They just pump out stronger and stronger rune words, making uniques (And sets) worst and worst.

Thanks for your time.

[COTA-GoD]

your just bitching cause you cant get any good items. Ever hear of Iths? Whites? Bugged Jewels? Other bugged gear? bugged charms? would you rather people have the hacks of 1.09, or these items?

[Trojan]

Originally Posted by COTA-GoD

your just bitching cause you cant get any good items. Ever hear of Iths? Whites? Bugged Jewels? Other bugged gear? bugged charms? would you rather people have the hacks of 1.09, or these items?

Quoted for truth .

[Darkmatter]

Spirit isn't duped. You could make it yourself easily.

Now the rest, are probably duped. If you consider how much stronger the monsters are now, the runewords do help in defeating them, but aren't necessary. I approach that with a character that has some uniques/sets and then a runeword or two,m so the game isn't stupidly easy but nor super duper hard either. It's at middle level that's fun and challenging for me.

[Guest]

^ummm...monsters=easy with runewords.

[jd-inflames]

I'd rather have the bugs of .09 They were fun

[Laharl]

Originally Posted by COTA-GoD

your just bitching cause you cant get any good items. Ever hear of Iths? Whites? Bugged Jewels? Other bugged gear? bugged charms? would you rather people have the hacks of 1.09, or these items?

Quoted for ignorance.

You see my friend, I do not WANT those items. It may be hard for you to understand but I gave a rat's ass about balance. You may not, but I do. I heard of them, but again. I don't like them either.

On a side note: People don't need hacked gear anymore, the 'legit' stuff is overpowered enough.

[chocofilez]

I see what you mean. they should tone it down a bit or just make everything harder.

[Darkmatter]

Originally Posted by Sword Tip

^ummm...monsters=easy with runewords.

Which basically simplifies my post.

Harder monsters = better items needed. The problem is Blizzard Overkilled it. The balance of power has shifted to mostly Amazons now, and Paladins using Blessed Hammer. Everything else can't be super multi-tasking like those classes can (In most cases, from what I can see) If they made monsters incredibly hard, then the people who aren't rich would suffer greatly. So I blame it on Blizzard. :sleepy

[Mist]

Originally Posted by jd-inflames

I'd rather have the bugs of .09 They were fun

hahahahahahahahahahahahaha

I agree

hahahahaha occy rings <3

[Laharl]

I've really decided screw blizzard, screw d2. There is no rationalizing what they have done to it. Necros using enigma, teleporting right over you with 40 odd some skeletons... Druids (Tornado) doing the same thing with their hurricane.

There is no rationalization for what they have done to d2. They are satan's little helpers. They should go cause themselves bodily harm.

-just planting seeds-

[Darkmatter]

Calm down. It's just a game you know. Look at Diablo 1, it's a whole lot worse. I like to play hard, as in not use any runewords that are massively used and expensive, save spirit. As it's not expensive, and it's rather helpful but not ''OMFG MULTIPLE AUROAZ GODLY!1'' type of helpful. I also do stuff that is considered ''noob'' in 1.10, such as making an Orb Sorceress, old school style. Te game is still fun to me, and I'm grateful for that.

[Zerglite]

Originally Posted by Darkmatter

Calm down. It's just a game you know. Look at Diablo 1, it's a whole lot worse. I like to play hard, as in not use any runewords that are massively used and expensive, save spirit. As it's not expensive, and it's rather helpful but not ''OMFG MULTIPLE AUROAZ GODLY!1'' type of helpful. I also do stuff that is considered ''noob'' in 1.10, such as making an Orb Sorceress, old school style. Te game is still fun to me, and I'm grateful for that.

i shall begin playing with you tuesday

also... i cant be bothered to even care about runewords, most uniques do the job for me, hell.. i even went through to a3 NM in single player with an assassin using store gear... ( martial arts assassin - not trapper )

[chocofilez]

Yeah but in dueling everythin is so overpowered. hence why i love LLD

[SouLess]

This game hasn't been balanced since 1.04 I hope you know that.

[Bret]

Originally Posted by COTA-GoD

your just bitching cause you cant get any good items.

Quoted for truth.

[neilsdiablo]

You know, things are still balanced a bit, the only runeword on my account is spirit, and i can own a dragon - auradin, zealer, and about anyone else with runewords unless they are uber godly, u just need to balance your gear to do enough damage, and i still do pvm good. Runewords, i agree are too powerful and expensive, but seeing as i wasn't in 1.09, id say they are still needed for melee, casting, and other things because they monsters are still pretty hard. So you shouldn't say what said about runewords without good reasoning to back it up. :ufo

[DDRaddict]

Originally Posted by Big-Fat-Homo

Breath of the Dying - Now here's a really stupid runeword. +30 all stats, 50% poison nova when you kill an enemy and incredibly stupid IAS. Is it even possible to die pvm if you have one of these?!

It's called iron maiden.

[Dragnskull]

bnet created these items to balance the tables.

before xpan came out, we had ss swords, Vcasque helms, Raven emblems. all duped MILLIONS of times. there was no point in trying to get any better, to this day there still isnt a sword stronger than ss in classic nl.

they created xpan's runewords (botd, spirit, shit like that) in order to defeat tthe hacked items sucha s ITHS and whites. and with ladder reset, it basically gives everyone who feels cheated a chance to start fresh, to have the tables completely even as everyone else.

[Trojan]

Originally Posted by Big-Fat-Homo

I've really decided screw blizzard, screw d2. There is no rationalizing what they have done to it. Necros using enigma, teleporting right over you with 40 odd some skeletons... Druids (Tornado) doing the same thing with their hurricane.

There is no rationalization for what they have done to d2. They are satan's little helpers. They should go cause themselves bodily harm.

-just planting seeds-

It's called strategy/planning/and simple dodging. Hurricane's effects don't immediatly hit you as soon as he teleports on you so that gives you time to move away and that's really hard to do without tele. The whole necro thing, there's a max on all summons and I have only seen about one or two summon PvP necros. Again, I don't think that you don't like them it's just you're too poor to afford them in-game or off an item seller so stop calling people who use these items noobs when you can't get them. BTW, how is using items that Battle.net put in the game hacking or cheating or for this case, illegitimate?