Due to the increased interest in this and requests of a formal rule page, I decided to post the rules of what are known as Diablo 2 Juggernaut Runs. PLEASE DO NOT COMMENT OR SIGN UP HERE!!!! These are just the rules. If you want to sign up, contact me or go to my channel. I will have the current juggernaut run in my notes.
Summary
The Diablo 2 Juggernaut is a tournament that is meant that is challenges the player the most out of all the mini-games. It is to only use what the game drops for you without the help of town vendors to heal, sell, buy, or repair (there are exceptions. See below). The idea is to use what the game gives you at your full advantage to beat the game. This will probably the first time you will socket low level items with chipped gems and using throwing poison. This will take place in hardcore and you are expected to help your teammates. You will have to make a separate juggernaut account. The last man standing gets a prize.
Game Requirements:
- Diablo 2: Lord of Destruction
- USWest
- HardCore
- Ladder
Account Requirements:
- A New Account Specifically for Juggernaut
- The account name: IRON-xxxxx
Character Requirements:
- Each character is designed for one juggernaut run only.
- There cannot be 2 character classes of the same type (unless it's 8 man. Talked about later)
- Each character must be Hardcore
- Each character must be Ladder
Pre-Game Rules:
- Meet in a designated channel (determined by the leader)
- Wait for every player to come.
- Answer any questions.
- Figure out who is the leader.
- Solve any problems.
- If there are 8 people, then have there be 2 sorceresses.
In-Game Rules:
- Party everyone and let everyone loot your corpse.
- Start when everyone is ready
- You cannot buy items from vendors.
- You cannot buy potions or any kind from vendors.
- You cannot repair any items from vendors.
- You cannot go to a healer to heal you.
- The only exception to those rules above is if you must talk to someone for a quest related topic.
- The HellForge hammer can be repaired.
- All quests must be done.
- All Waypoints must be found.
- Cain can identify items for you
- Mercenaries can be bought and revived.
- You may not portal to town unless it is quest related or you find a waypoint.
Bolded are the main rules
System:
1. Act 1 (Normal)
2. Act 2 (Normal)
3. Act 3 (Normal)
4. Act 4 (Normal)
5. Act 5 (Normal)
6. Cows (Normal)
7. Act 1 (Nightmare)
8. Act 2 (Nightmare)
9. Act 3 (Nightmare)
10. Act 4 (Nightmare)
11. Act 5 (Nightmare)
12. Cows (Nightmare)
13. Act 1 (Hell)
14. Act 2 (Hell)
15. Act 3 (Hell)
16. Act 4 (Hell)
17. Act 5 (Hell)
18. Cows (Hell)
19. Ubers (Hell)
20. Duels
In-Game Strategies:
- Class-Specific Items go to that class.
- Class helping Items go to that class.
- Drop any unwanted items in town.
- Collect all the potions that you can, and save them.
- Be a team player
- If you lag and you're in a dangerous environment, you may quit the game and rejoin.
- If your window closes and you're in a dangerous environment, you may quit the game and rejoin.
- Listen to the leader.
- If one person needs to stop, wait for him.
- Hellforge can be done for every person in the team separately. Teammates are required to help that member get it, and they can unparty when that member is getting his forge.
- Don't do anything stupid. <---- I CANNOT STRESS THIS ENOUGH!
Prizes:
Everyone who participates, including the leader, will have to donate 10 fg to the prize pool. This will usually mean that the leader will collect the fg and give it to the winner, or keep it if he is the winner. This will mean that the leader will have to be someone trustworthy to handle 80 fg in an honest fashion. If the leader scams people for their fg, he will be reported to jsp for scamming and he will be instantly banned (see Getting Banned below) from juggernauts.
Disqualifications:
- You intentionally let a teammate die.
- You continuously town to avoid danger.
- A vote is done and you are disqualified for any reason that the team may seem fit. (annoying, venturing off, etc)
- We suspect that you are using map hack or any other hacks or mods.
8+ Man Juggernaut Rules:
This is a version of Juggernaut that has more than 8 people playing. While the in-game rules are the same, there are some more stuff thrown in.
- All juggernaut runners will meet up in the same channel.
- Leaders will be established, and they will all make seperate games for juggernaut runs.
- Players will go to that run and they will juggernaut normally.
- In between acts or a brake if all the leaders agree on it, there can be trading. The channel can be used to offering items and games to do the trade.
- As more and more people die, players from different teams will combine and continue juggernauting and re-do quests that others might of not gotten to yet.
Getting Banned:
I rarely ban people from juggernaut runs, but here are a couple things you can do to get banned from my juggernauts:
- If you host people in game and attack them.
- Constantly bitching and ruining the experience for everyone.
- Purposely lagging the game so it would drop.
- Anything that I feel is bad enough to get banned from my juggernauts.
Here's what being banned means:
- You will never be able to be part of any Juggernaut Runs that are held by me or through me.
- You will be instantly disqualified from the Juggernaut Run you are in.
- You will NOT be refunded of the fg you sent for the prize.
- You will NOT be able to appear in the Juggernaut Hall of Fame.
Does getting banned here stop you from doing Juggernauts ever again? No, but under me it does. You can still hold your own juggernauts (if people will want to join you of course), you just won't be able to be part of my juggernaut runs or people who run them through me.
Juggernaut Hall of Fame:
As of right now, the Hall of Fame is under construction. But when I complete it, I will link it here.
Here's what the Juggernaut Hall of Fame will have:
- List of all the Juggernaut Run Winners (Act 3 Normal and above is where it starts to count)
- The best juggernaut chars (TAKE PICS of chars that you thought were GFG).
- Any other thing that I feel is worth mentioning.
Becoming a Leader:
If you run Juggernaut Runs through me, you are representing me and the Run itself. Don't make me look bad. If you want to become a leader through me, just ask me. I will usually say yes. Just don't embarrass me for trusting you. You can only run appear on the Juggernaut Hall of Fame if you are a leader through me. This is only done so I know that people aren't running any crazy rules.
Juggernaut FAQ's:
Q: Will I need anything before playing this?
A: Besides the ability to make an account on Battle.net, you don't need anything before playing this.
Q: Will I need a lot of time for this?
A: Yes. You will need around 3-4 hours minimum unless we all drop dead at the Raven, which probably won't happen. So we will find a time which will work for everyone, usually being nighttime.
Q: I don't have Diablo 2: LoD! WTF?!?!?
A: If you still have your CD-Key, Blizzard let's you download their games off of www.battle.net Go on that site and put in your CD-key and down load the game. If you don't then that's too bad. No juggernaut for you!
Q: I came late on the day of the juggernaut. What do I do?
A: This rule page made one thing very clear, you will need time for this. If you signed up knowing you will be late or not have enough time, then you will be kicked off that run and the next person in line will take your spot. There will usually be a lot of interest in each run and with that comes a waiting list. People will happily be able to take your place.
Q: So it's the middle of the run, and I have to go. What happens?
A: It really depends. If everyone has to leave, we will stop and schedule a time to continue. However if you are the only one to leave, we will continue without me. HOWEVER, what we have done in the past before is that you can give your Juggernaut account and password to the next person in line so he can take over your char (respeccing if they want) so we can continue.
Q: What happens if we don't finish the juggernaut run in one day?
A: An arrangement of time will be set that will fit all the surviving members to continue that run. We hope to finish all the runs we do, and not forget about them.
Q: What if we kill Hell Baal?
A: We will key run and do ubers.
Q: What if we kill the ubers?
A: It won't happen. If we do, I'll send you a picture of my girlfriend's tits. Then we'll duel.
Q: The Leader has to leave and he all of the prize fg. WTF??
A: The group can PM him the winner. Simple.
Updates to Rules: