Hello everyone!

I have been lurking this forum for a while but never shared any of my WTs so far. Thus, I decided to start here with a very special one, maybe as a first step of my time-travelling project.
Some information about me: I am 33 years old, working in the rail freight business and of course I have very little free time. Diablo 2 is a special game for me as one of the first games on my first PC was Diablo (the other one was Heroes of M&M 2). So I started to play D2 immediately when it came out, then joined battle.net in the middle of the 1.09 era, started a national community webstite in 2005 and managed it until 2010. Nowadays I mostly play SP with different patches. My playstyle is "slow and steady", always trying to make out the best of the situation, utilizing the given patch features. My WTs so far (topics can be found in the Hungarian subforum): 1.07 sorceress, 1.10a necromancer and 1.00 barbarian.

TL;DR: hi!

As it is written in the article I am going to play in the original environment: Diablo 2 1.00. I chose necromancer to play with because in this version necs were the most powerful charachters besides WW-barbs, but I already have a lvl 83 barb, so this time I am going with a necro. My build shall be Iron Maiden + Blood Golem combined with CE and Revive.

Some rules:

- playing HC
- players settings always between 4 and 8, with the exception of Cow King and Gem Shrine farming.
- I am using lvl1 mule chars in TCP/IP game in order to simulate "Players x". These chars are from my barb WT, so already rushed and finished Hell, therefore I will not get any extra rewards for them.
- since I will actually do multiplayer I will not have the SP ability to push ESC and freeze the situation.

Some goals:

- beat Hell Diablo
- reach at least lvl86 (for gambling amulets)
- farm some epic pre-patch stuff

I think this is enough, I will explain other things during the WT. I hope you will enjoy it!

Starting with P4.

Fun Fact
The benefits of Px before Expansion were as follows:
HP: every extra player increases the monster's hit points by 100% of their base hit points (so their hit points are their base hit points multiplied by the number of players in the game)
Experience: every extra player increases the experience by 2/3 of the monster's base experience.
Drops: the chance for a regular monster to drop something at players 1 is 20%, and increases by 20% for every additional player until reaching 90% (with 5 players in the game, which is the maximum).



Quiclky managed to clear Den and acquire the first WP.



This will be my main weapon for a while.

Fun Fact
Before Expansion the maximum number of sockets were 3. Only shields, hats and weapons could generate with sockets, body armors could not. At NPCs you were allowed to shop items with max sockets regardless of the act and difficulty.

-joey- the old school d2 encyclopedia maye the force by with you!

Found a perfect Blood Moor map with 3 shrines right in fromt of the Camp. Now I am going to farm gems for a while.

Please note that I am not posting real-time (spoiler: currently in Nightmare).







This post was edited by -joey- on Sep 11 2016 01:39am

good luck man!

Thank you guys. I hope it will be entertaining!

Results after ~6 mornings (farming while having my coffee):



And the reason for this:
Fun Fact
In 1.00 gems had no lvl requirements. I do not know exactly in witch patch Blizz changed it. You will also notice that the gem bonuses were much lower, some of them were ridicolously low.

So I wanted to make a good range weapon and also some mana source, since CE consumes lots of mana. If I had known that the Emerald is such a waste I would have definitely used another gem instead.





Diamonds were sold in order to gain some easy money. 9 times from 10 the shrines dropped diamonds by the way.

This post was edited by -joey- on Sep 11 2016 02:00am

Went out to Cold Plains once and found this:



Look at the price of this shit





Why?

This looks like it is going to be an awesome WT.

I hope to see a lot of screenshots and a lot more Fun Facts!

So I started to play. P5 for the max drop chance and because I actually can kill pretty much fast with my bow.



My first set item is just what I needed!





Wearing the complete set would be nice, because of the skill bonus. But I will not see any Grim Wands untill Act4 and there is no partial set bonus before Expansion.

This post was edited by -joey- on Sep 11 2016 02:08am