Ok, lets face it, this place and almost every forum there are is beeing flooded with questions, theorys, "facts" and flames about the Standard of Hereos. A little thing, that was introduced to Diablo II with the 1.11 patch. This is the official thread about this little thing, were we will try to reveal the mystery behind this charm/gem/thing.
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) - If you dont have anything usefull to add to the discussion, dont post.
- If your intentions with posting is just to tell someone else that their theory is wrong, bring proof, do not come with false accusations.
First of all, lets go through what this thing is, what it looks like and how you get it.
The thing is dropped along with the Hellfire torch when you kill the uber-bosses as explained in
this thread and it looks
like this.Now, i will go through all the theorys that i have heard about the charm, here we go!
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- That it is just a souvenir.
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Lots of people are arguing that the Standard of Heroes is just a souvenir, something you can show your friends to prove that you have been able to kill the Uber-Bosses. This is almost verified to be the official use of the thing by a Blizzard moderator in a thread on the Battle.net forums (someone please link me to this thread). But in the same thread, he gave a clue that it "isnt the only thing that the Standard of Hereos" does.
<span style='font-size:11pt;line-height:100%'>- That you can use the Standard of Hereos with a cube receipe
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Some people are spreading a rumor(?) that it is possible to cube the thing, this is a possibilty, but these recipeis are verified NOT working;
- To cube it with 3,6,9 or 12 Standard of Hereos.
- To cube it with Wirt's Leg.
- To cube it with Scroll or Tome of town portal.
- To cube it together with either body parts or the keys.
- To cube it together with the Hellfire torch.
Some people say that you can have it in the cube when making a runeword, that way making an "Hero" runeword. This seems like a rumor, but hasnt been verified false.
<span style='font-size:11pt;line-height:100%'>- That you get any bonuses when having the Standard of Hereos in inventory.
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It has been verified that you dont get any bonuses to any stats that can be looked up at this stage, it may be true that it adds to Magic Find or Gold find. But this doesnt seem especially truly.
<span style='font-size:11pt;line-height:100%'>- That it can be used to open new areas.
</span>One member on the Battle.net forums, clan_iraq, said in
this thread that you can via "a special way" use 40 Standard of Hereos to open a new area where you can fight the Evil-Tyrael wich dropps an super elite small charm. This has been verified fake, since the screenshots is quite badly photoshopped. But that does not stop the rumors of going around.
<span style='font-size:11pt;line-height:100%'>- That it has something to do with the mysetious Gem.
</span>There are several versions of this theory, but nothing has been confirmed.
<span style='font-size:11pt;line-height:100%'>- That it can be socketed in items.
</span>This has been verified false, this cant be done.
<span style='font-size:11pt;line-height:100%'>- That it can be sold to an NPC (ie Malah, Jamella, Cain etc.)
</span>This has been verified false, this cant be done.
<span style='font-size:11pt;line-height:100%'>- That it can be personalised.
</span>This has also been verified false, this can not be done.
Thats all theorys i can think of at the moment, but i will update this thread all the time as long as i get new information or can find new theorys about the thing. From now on, all discussions, thougts, theorys or questions about the Standard of Hereos shall be done in this thread.
Written by Glimjaur(
), thanks to everyone on these forums, the Battle.net forums, #d2jsp and #d2jsp-euro that helped me gather this information.