The contricting ring was on EU as well.

Open battle net cheat with a shaper in 1.09?

There is a simple rule concerning old op, "bugged" stuff in D2 aka I have a short history lesson for people like * who apparently never went down the D2 rabbit hole of hacked/fused/illegal items:

• search for old item shops in internet archive, and look for the items that were contemporay back then (2001/2002/2003). Mostly Pre 1.10 stuff is listed there, so you can see what was ACTUALLY in the game. I talk about items that were literally hacked (!) into the game and existed in closed b-net at that time.
  
• Most of the real OP stuff (Bug silence etc.) got purged in D2 ruststorm back then, when we are talking about illegal and or fused items, I think only bug belt and bug tal survived, rest got wiped.
  
• 1.08 Stuff survived but got duped into oblivion
  
• zod-bug was real, but got fixed, so it was only possible for a short time to zodbug eth items. These items were not ruststormed
  
• Fun fact: socketed HR-Runes never lead to the base item being deleted by the server. Only unsocketed HR dupes were poofed, or if the base item was duped.
  
• Most of the d2-classic stuff that has wonky stats (like +2 pala, +2 ama skills on one amulet), got not deleted but duped. There was apparently a phase were these items, though duped, got their own ID so the auto-delete doesn't delete them. This happened after ruststorm, when all the items were assigned IDs to combat duping.
  
• There was the period of "shopped" rares (=listed in D2 item shops) in the mid 2010ths, which spawned insane rolls on rare items (like almost perfectly rolled eth Fools BAs). Rumored to be either inserted via open-bnet, botted by bot farms (maybe also via reroll abusing via Chars quest) or being inserted by a Blizzard employee who wanted to troll D2jsp.
  
• Apparently there exists (still is?) a exploit method (via server desynch?) to swap the runes while socketing a rune word creating the "bugged" runewords changing the runes and RW-name without changing the effect aka "Hybrids".

And to add a final message: many of (if not the majority) of the nice items you posted originate from here and were never dropped by the game itself:



Interesting post explaining the background of the method that was used to add illegal/fused items to the closed bnet (it was patched a long time ago):
https://www.reddit.com/r/Diablo/comments/jkabn/til_the_history_of_diablo_and_duping_in_diablo_2/

This post was edited by Valmar667 on Nov 19 2024 10:30am

Thanks. If you have any cool pics please share!

My Wf > Ur Wf, Heh!


This post was edited by D2Traveller on Nov 19 2024 01:16pm

The items were duped before being assigned the item ID.
Then the ID was assigned.

As far as I know, most (all?) dupes available later only crated unperm items.

Although HRs for example were duped by removing from socket - and cubing. So unlimited new item creation.





In my opinion it was *probably* waypoint dupe used to dupe the skulls and then use it for rerolls. Automate it with 500 bots and sooner or later they will roll something useful.
That's how the best classic items were created (= vanilla items) around 2012.
Although Im not sure if eth-self rep could have been cubed? (why not?)
This could be somehow verified by checking the ilvls of those items; although ilvl depends on the item level and the char level. But bots could self level to 90 easily.

Also possible that those thousands of bots run by shops could find something.

There were clientless bots that you could run 500-1000 instances on one server. The problem was getting enough IP numbers.

This post was edited by dropship on Nov 19 2024 01:27pm