I recall you telling me you wish I could pk too but it was because of others that you were not game.

Did I do you wrong or did you just follow the flow of toxic players because that is what was best for you?

i recall the days fondly, wasn't referencing the quantity of games so much as the quality that op addresses

Mm. You said public duels hasn't changed since season 1. Maybe you just have not changed your dueling surrounded since season 1 and don't understand the concept of quality and quantity when it comes to Diablo 2 pk.

When you have 8 public games you can simply leave and join another one. When you have 1-2 public games and a single person loading 8 characters in those games total you have problems. When you support toxic and unfair duelers doing this but then believe nothing has changed since season 1 I can simply just shake my head.





Dueling is fun. Unfortunately like you noticed public duel games can be extremely toxic. Why this can be and how often it happens is for a variety of reasons.

Back in the day it was good for the shop owners to clear public duel games, cause chaos, and more because it would in fact increase competitiveness and sales. This same principal can be applied to the use of seasoned and professional players around today but since the population of the game is minimal the balance of public games has been absolutely crushed. This toxicity of players you are seeing is more likely a group of people who are not necessarily interested in just the game and or have surrounded themselves with people that if enabling them would in return reward in a personal gain.


Anyway the subject you mention and the idea you want to have general fun public public ok can be talked about all day. Hope you find the gaming zone for yourself.
Gl n hf!

This post was edited by Sempervirens on Jan 13 2021 08:05am

that's it, loading my bm hdin with all the buffs, see ya in ladder duelz bub!

Your grandmother feeds you sh1t boy since that’s the only
thing you can talk boy,stop hiding under granny’s dress and come to USEAST ladder and get slapped and pissed on by the kings of D2.

Spanking you in public games is something I've been doing for a while regardless of you knowing or not.

Imo West used to be #1 Realm. West was for the big fish. I grew up on west pks ty. I returned and everyone was riding on east. My general take on useast realm is different than my take on the current us west, Europe, or Asia realm.



Each server and its public pk games have a different general aura about them. Since the games population isn't like walking down town on a busy weekend anymore playing repetitive days and times typically gets you bumping into the same general public again and again. This is another reason why you may find toxic players around over and over.

For me it is strange when I join a public pk game a year later and the same person with the same character name is in the same general public duel game name doing the same thing they had been doing before. Being toxic af and supporting of players who do just the same. Then to know these people are apart of larger Guilds and more? Well you get the idea.. One mouth feeds another. It is very unfortunate.

The saddest part is if you are a noob and you walk out to pk, and don't do it according to the general pubic rules others say, then you just as well as being the most BM player in the game and will be treated like so. It is really dumb.

The way I found to get around public games and navigate around the toxicity the simplest is to not speak. If I wanted to buddy up and ride out the aura of the game I could do that too. Then as others may have said making friends, joining groups, getting involved in tournaments and more will put you into games that are of higher standard of gaming thus returning a better general pvp experience for you both privately and publicly.

This post was edited by Sempervirens on Jan 13 2021 09:02am

Literally who?

mfers out here writing dissertations on the state of public duels

lmfao