I had easy 90% in bugged items back then, when 1.10 patch hit. All i had (still present) was 10 perm bmanas and 1 perm btal. Everything else vanished kinda
The same day we were seeing barb dueling with EBOTD which was brand new runewords (replacing the ITH era)

That day, it hits me hard. Loosing everything to an update/cleaning
Then the second hard hits was 2008 where 350,000 account been closed. How many of you guys were using loader just to xfer your own ? got wiped out for that

Oh by the way guys. I wasn't super clear about how I am trying to record Diablo 2 history. I have a youtube channel. Thank you for your responses to my query.

This was a video I made before I made this post, so this is just for a future video that I wanted to clarify.
I made this particular video before coming here but I am hoping to get more specific feedback before future videos. They are designed to teach people who have a minimal technical understanding about various historical aspects of the game.
If I made any errors, be sure to message me about them.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oEl3faoLXvE

Thank you very much for the link

nothing will beat d2 before the rust storm

Very true

pretty much removing any "nonlegit" item and especially items with "too high" stats , things like 700% enhance dmg armors, 1000+ed weapons, charms with 90 stats, rings having +5 skills, random pieces of gear having +wazooo skills, gear having like +300-500 of a single stat(mostly vita or str/dex)...

BUT. Some items managed to slip through the cracks -- those were so "insignificant" in the scheme of those items so the scanner failed to pick them up; they are still with us today-- bmanas on East, Btals, steelclash gloves and bugbelt on west...

Nobody in their right mind would use Btals when there were dupes of 700%ed armors floating around , same with bmanas when 90 stat charms were in the game and even god knows what people pretty much used open bnet to import gear. Steelclash gloves and bugbelt are also others which "stuck through", I can only deduce the scanner blizzard used was looking for things like massive +ed%, +defence, massive +skills and/or resists and life, and just deleted them hence why the "lowkey" items stuck around since not only did their stats looked correct (like steelclash gloves), they also didnt have a bloated amount of overbudgeted stats on them

Interestingly, if you have the tools(and there are some which do, this is where the " 2 druid/3 nado/3 oak/3 cyclone armor/life/2 sock/resists,400+ed weapons, zbugged claws/zbugged last wishes) you can import any item you want...even something with +999 skills, and it will stick with you, for that one just one game...when you save and exit it will get auto deleted, you basically need to trick the game into believing your item is "legit" and can spawn, something like that druid pelt is realistic, ofc 1/1000000000 odds, but very few people know how to import and of course they keep that knowledge private

I guess they tried to make up for it by giving fortitude and ebotd as "compensation", trying to emulate the damage armors and weapons of old...these runewords could never match the power those items had

This post was edited by Trickshottr on Jul 15 2026 01:36am

arm. fletch is also a non-legit item but again it stayed because its "legit" in the game's eyes, the stats can correctly spawn another one which stayed with us...we had +400 stat amulets and stuff, people basically used open bnet to create their items and port them into bnet with packet manipulation, i dont know how this was done i was too young but ive seen the items but unfortunately never used any i was one of the "proper" players with things like random trang pieces and summon wand..and my pc lagged like a motherf with all those skeletons.
i wish i took screenshots back then big oof i didnt

This post was edited by Trickshottr on Jul 15 2026 01:53am

and carronwind ring for rabies druids