no, i dont want to make fun of you or anything, just curious.
why do u write all these guides? how much time/day do u spend on this crap? etc

It isn't crap. He does what I didn't make due to lack of time I also study d2 mechanics However I never had time to write down all my findings. Thanks Faelwen for your help ^^

I heard it was because when eth uniques were upgraded in cube they lost their etherealness (in terms of def) so they patched it by adding the 50%. The result of fixing it meant normal eth items had the etherealness property applied twice.

because the +50% was added to the base item's property, it was lost on ethereal items when they were upgraded; the game would look up and roll the upgraded version for the defense listed in its tables, but wouldn't add the 50% like if it had spawned ethereal. So blizzard implemented that 'fix' for the upgrade recipe, but accidentally made it apply to the other recipes, so that simply rolling an item for sockets added its +50% defense again.

Alright, fair.

I write guides for my own pleasure, not because I have anything to prove (there are a lot more knowledgeable players than me out there), but because I have a fondness for details and somehow want to share it with people with the patience to read and understand aspects of the game. Some of you do not bloody care, either because you consider the information trivial or plainly a waste of time. Which is perfectly acceptable. But we might as well ask those of you who partake in spam or PvP related topics (sometimes hard to distinguish the two), posting a bunch of irrelevant crap or repeatedly ridiculing someone in the most childish manner imaginable, just because he was 'clueless' in your eyes. If that is not basically a waste of time, then what would you call it ? Amusement, probably, and in certain cases, the fun is undeniable, but there is quite a difference between crossing the limits or throwing humorous remarks. The latter never hurt anyone (except those with a 'naturally' low emotional threshold, taking every written word on an 'internetz' forum seriously). After all, most threads are utterly dull routine questions which everybody with 5-10 minutes on their hands could answer, if they were only half as lazy, bothered searching the well-known resources, and read some basics. This is not exactly rocket science.

When I do not have the stamina or the time, I will stop writing guides or updating existing ones.

Until then, enjoy, or else suit yourself !


TL;DR

i remove a few keys on my keyboar for c eaning an cou nt type TL;DR but i cou copy paste it

vouch

i did read all this, was meny interesting unlike your guides tbh

Nice guide sir

Good Job

TL;DR, must be some nooben irl secretly asslicking for TT.






Edit*
Isn't this the 2nd version? what was wrong with the first one? or maybe I'm remembering things wrong.

This post was edited by Spurgu on May 2 2009 11:58am