Diablo2 Xpac and the 1.09 Controversial Patch

[Gibb]

Well if you are a D2 xpac player and have been in a hole all day then you may have missed the explosion of problems that eminated from the USWEST forum around 2:30 pm or so.

Some bug caused it so when you tried to create a game you would get an error message. Then next time you did something your character was reset to level 1 and you were naked, no items at all. As you can tell, this infuriated tons and tons of people. Level 99 sorceresses, 81 druids, etc etc etc, lost from this bug. It did not happen to me cause i fortunately saw peepz talkin bout it in the channel and decided not to risk it.

But with this large bug aside, lemme make my comments on the new patch.

This patch is liked by some and hated by a ton. The patch did not do anything to balance the characters except make the javazon a bit more powerful.

The new patch supposedly made Magic Find items less useful, making anything over 200% MF (i think) basically useless. This as you can assume pissed the masses off. I however have not really noticed too bad a difference. Main thing i noticed was alot more white items, keys, superior weapons, imbuable weapons, etc. But i have still found tons and tons of uniques. SInce the 1.09 patch came out last night i've found about... i dunno 15 or 16 uniques.

Also if you haven't heard, 1.09 patch has all new mods for uniques, the already existing uniques in the game would not be changed but any new ones you find would have new mods (slight changes over the old versions).

Here are some screenshots of uniques i've found and as you can see alot of these items are very very awesome for their level requirements.

http://216.97.44.162/temp/uploads/skewer.jpg

http://216.97.44.162/temp/uploads/shadowfang.jpg

http://216.97.44.162/temp/uploads/darksighthelm.jpg

<br />This new unique ring (the version after 1.09 patch) still sux. Worst unique ring there is.<br /> http://216.97.44.162/temp/uploads/dwarfstar.jpg

[Gibb]

Forgot to add a few tidbits of information<br />the patch came out Monday and everything was working fine until Tuesday afternoon (i haven't played since monday night)

USWEST is down to try and figure out what the hell happened.

USEAST is working but i have nothing on EAST

Also, a bit more info about patch, things blizzard did that were retarded

They renamed a few of the runes<br />(why they did this i have no f'ing idea)<br />Shae is now Shael and a few otehrs have new names

one of the most insanely retarded things they did was to swap the attributes of two of the rarest runes in the game, Cham and Jo (i think rune #'s 30 and 31)

I've read the horror stories of how somebody put a Jo rune in their godlike sword only to have it be swapped for the mods of another rune

the Jo rune used to freeze target, now it ignores target defense<br />cham used to ITD now it freezes target

Other than the stupid things going on within blizzard and the unbalanced characters, less working Magic find, tons of bugs, and other problems, i still have fun in Diablo2. Maybe i'm just an addict to finding uniques.

[Drakkenfyre]

You should read my post about my hatred for the last patch, Blizzard loves to **** with EVERYTHING in the game in the patches, for ABSOLUTELY NO REASON, if you compare the original version, to the newest version, you will find an almost totally different game, and I am sick of the changes, every patch introduces more bugs, and generally HUGE bugs like you described above, and fixes almost nothing, or does nothing useful at all, reguardless of the time spent on the patch, now with 1.09, they are probably promising 1.10 now, that is their current trend, release a patch, and the same day promise the bugs in this patch will be fixed in the next, 4 months go by while they are working on 1.10, and when they release it, it is buggy as hell, and changes shit again, and makes ****ing useless changes,

-Drakk )))

[Gibb]

perhaps i'm an optimist but i have liked alot of stuff that the 1.08 and 1.09 patches have changed<br />i mean, besides the unbelievably bad bug in 1.09 i like it. It's great to be playin in NM or Hell and be able to open a TP without somebody coming through to steal your kills and items.

But i really wish they would make it so MF worked better, and the other classes did more damage, dont nerf the sorceress any, just up the other classes<br />make hurricane do more damage then nova, etc. Just simple balance changes that nobody in blizzard north is smart enough to figure out.

I would really like to have another char i can play in hell with besides my level 80 sorc. and she struggles like hell cause i have all MF items on her for 320 mf

[Simian]

Damn Gibb, If I ever found a unique ring like that I would be so happy.. yet your complaining.. I never find good stuff.. but anyway <img src="graemlins/psmiley.gif" border="0" alt="[The penguin]" />

[Drakkenfyre]

I remember back before they ****ed with Magic Find, when it actually worked worth a damn, lol,

-Drakk )))

[Harddave]

I kinda like the new patch. The changes on the uniques are pretty nice. I've found quite a bit of stuff just killing Mephisto in NM. Some noted items I've found are the unique ballista (the one with the weird name), Tal Rasha's Swirling Orb thingy, a nice Polearm (236 damage, +3 barb skills), the unique Poingard (+1 necro skills and a ton of other mods), 7% Eye of Etlich, and the unique Dwarf Star ring, which I think is an awesome ring. The magic damage reduced mod is one of the best mods I think. Combine this with the String of Ears, and you're almost immune to magic attacks. As far as magic find goes, I think it's better now. I've found more stuff in the past 2 days than I did over 2 weeks with the old patch. I only have 315% MF.

[Drakkenfyre]

One thing that is actually good, but annoys me, is the frequency of Rares dropping now, I have had Diablo 2 ever since it came out, and have only found a couple Rares, after the v1.07 patch (I think it was), I got like 3 rares in less than 5 minutes, they were literally popping out of everywhere, open a Chest, and TWO Rares popping out, that was weird, lol, it is actually good, but I wish they would put back the Rare dropping rate to where it was before, now it seems like too much, Rares popping up everywhere like crazy, even tho it is good, I still would rather have them change it back to what it was before, lol,

-Drakk )))