I think it happened in 2017? maybe 2016, def wasnt the first of that size but it was the most brutal as far as killing the player base. That was the number off the top of my memory, shyt wording mind you because blatantly so many were bots

D2R didn’t help but the game itself is 21 years old , some people had their fun and moved on lol , it sucks but it can’t last forever , enjoy it while you can


Also pvp wise the east/Europe/west servers have been fucked ever since they fucked up tri ww/wsg

This post was edited by xEternity on Apr 5 2022 04:29pm

gonna blow smoke up my arse here, I was literally telling everyone in europe that d2 will be remastered and it will fracture what remains of the player base in 2017/18 when i had my last stint on d2

not kidding, I made literal speech's about it. As you may be able to imagine from my few recent posts. Generally not an internet kinda guy

Ah yes, the golden era of diablo, great times I must say. Early bnet was so primitive but damn was it fun

PvP not fixed, whirlwind not fixed. Nope I’m not buying.

D2 really died the day 1.10 hit and everyone started making enigma. The real player base dropped by 80% but Blizzard didn't care because the purchase of D2 CD keys grew by 400%. Once in a while their income would decline so they put on a banwave which made people buy more key sets.

Enigma and all the over powered skills ruined real PvP.

Enigma might break pvm to an extent but it fixed pvp... if people knew what they were doing in 1.09, pvp wouldn't have been such a relatively balanced barrel of fun

Enigma FIXED PvP? In duel games all you see is people teleporting and spamming skills until someone gets 1 shotted. That's what you call fixed? In 1.09 things were much more balanced(except for amazons) where Sorcs would be able to teleport around and spam spells, but the damage was low enough that if they made a mistake, they would get hit and die. That and they didn't have infinite mana.

I used to love hanging out in duel games and watch people duel. Ever since 1.10 hit, I couldn't do it anymore. It's just teleporting back and forth and around until someone hits.

In 1.09, you could have 75 dr, 75 block, stacked resists and nerfed sorb compared to 1.10+ , on the only character which could teleport ... 105fcr... the best fhr breakpoint at 86 as we all know. it was a sorc vs sorc (+joderdin) meta in reality. I could run around on my 2 handed grandfather barb with stacked frw and own the blood moor merely because everyone, including me sucked.

I too had a bone to pick with 1.10, and just put up with the new meta until I really dug into how it all works. That was a long time ago.

This post was edited by dysgenics on Apr 8 2022 11:05am