And as if superchests were everything:


It's poppable along way to the two campfires. And here is my superchest:


I've done a lot of these campfire chests. Diablo is now trolling me on charms:



Tossed.

All I want is amn rune to roll the pb. But there is time for crafting:


Meh, it's almost good. And then I find a medium superior armor:


Won't lose so much stamina using diamond mail.

Good rune far from superchests:


How could I find this before another amn rune?


Cruel game. And this is not as good as IK maul:

This looks a lot like the last crafted belt:


Found something good and the bear goes beserk clearing the area:


I've never found one on single player with shapeshifter:

It's good. 200-300 ed range.

So, I finally found an sol rune and I have el and dol and Lo rune ( by very hard grinding and upping)
This is a very sad story. I couldn't have worked harder on this bear. But something is very wrong. I made this:



Now, I've worked hard on this WT to bring stuff to you guys. And this is what I made with my Lo. Has no res. Has no life per level. What is going on?

Reload game

Maybe it's time for a "seldom told tale." Something weird has happened to either my d2 game or the text file for ladder words. I really don't know. I don't know if it's a glitch or a hack. If it was just a glitch, I'd simply import a fort from another character using the tcp-ip game and two computers. Create a switch character. Use that character to create a tcp-ip game. Bring in an old character. Drop off his 'fort'. Bring in Boldheart. Drop off his compromised 'fort' and pick up the old working 'fort'. Report the exchange on the WT as a reconciliation of the glitch. Problem solved. But I don't know that it isn't a hack and won't happen again and again. I know just enough about computers to do a WT with some screen shots and some videos and that is about it. But shit happens.

I've played d2 off and on for a long time. I remember the old open battle.net games. People would give my barb incredible items far better than any item I could find. It got boring fast. Then I played in the closed battle.net prior to ladders. It's there that I met this oldtimer in softcore mode. He told me he was a Vietnam Vet and loved diablo 2. His idea of playing was to enter a game with nothing on at all. He had a pretty high level character--barb class. He said he shed all his items at the end of every game. And then he just picked things up as he went. Frankly, I could only do that in softcore mode and maybe p1 But it made me think, that is the ultimate minimalist approach to D2. No mules required. You get excited everytime you find something: plain, blue, yellow, green or gold colored. But it was also prior to expansion and runewords where you need to keep found items to build things like enigma. Might be an intriguing WT for a super gamer in hardcore. Beat hell with only the things you find. No reruns. No farming meph. No LKs. It would be crazy hard if not impossible. I think some have even tried it. Maybe a sorc could do it. Or an hdin.

No, I think I'm just happy not using plugY. There is a reasonable minimalism in not having a large storage facility. These days , it's funner for me to not be a d2 hoarder and just do the game with the stuff 'on the back' of a d2 character (regular stash and inventory.) For me, using plugY is like pushing a grocery cart around full of junk. Infinite junk. But that is just me. I've done enough muling for a lifetime and I'm tired of it. If people want to use plugY, that's cool by me. Lot of good players use it. But I'd hope that folks would let me do my walkthrough unimpeded. It's really all about having fun.

D2 gods wanted to make it harder for you! gotta live without the resists or life/level for the extra challenge!

That's unfortunate with your messed up Fortitude. Might be a bug with your .txt file.

I hope this doesn't make you give up on your walk. I've read through the whole thing and was even inspired to create my own fireclaw druid!

WTF! this has been an awesome wt to follow too. rip fort