Wtf Was Rust Storm Actually? - Topic

LegacyD2

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#21

Apr 27 2026 01:13pm

Quote (Taurean @ Apr 27 2026 01:33pm)

It's sad, isn't it. The value of the hours put in disintegrates. That's the sad thing about it.

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

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Apr 28 2026 04:05pm

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

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#23

Apr 28 2026 04:08pm

Quote (Worg @ Apr 25 2026 11:45am)

I recall back in 1.09 the mention of a rust storm became increasingly more frequent as time went on. I used bugged items back then and the amount of people talking about it eventually convinced me to sell those off and acquire only "legit"/non-bugged items. I believe that the rust storm really just targeted the bugged items as things like duped 3/20/20's still remained. Post 1.10 and beyond is when unperm dupes became a thing with item ID's being added, but if you had something like the duped 3/20/20's from 1.09 they were perm. This may be useless info, but I remember when the rust storm occurred I logged onto my friend's account who had a character wearing bugged items and the items did show on the character in the selection screen but were not there upon joining a game.

Here's a website with some history of bugged items:
https://www.rpgstash.com/blog/bugged-and-hacked-d2-items?srsltid=AfmBOoq3Lmf7Hdywvo2gdmpgIA3ciyMoMVxnBq2fw5qU-XrBCaGN_xis

Thank you very much for the link

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#24

Apr 29 2026 09:01pm

nothing will beat d2 before the rust storm

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