i once played d2. i started playing in high school. i believe the year was 2001, or around there. my first item of notable and memorable value was a blackoak unique shield, which my korean classmate and friend gave me. i believe he was the same guy who introduced me to d2.

i killed many, many monsters. found much loot, but most of which was the same type. the same guy talked about d2jsp, i believe, from time to time. i thought it was not worth checking out. but i still found the killing to be fun if not a worthwhile passage of time.

eventually the game updated, as the much hyped patch came out. the game system was heavily edited and i found it to be unfavorable. so i stopped playing d2. but it would be a long while until i didn't stop thinking about it.

i got into UC Riverside, and continued playing games, but not d2. i became better than before at certain things. most notably, i became a notorious streak killer playing counter-strike source. but never quite mastered the game. but i never stopped thinking about what i did playing d2.

eventually some things happened... i bounced around the grid a little bit, and ended up back at the university. i pondered about what had transpired in my life, and what was going on around me. eventually, i came to the conclusion that i should become a killer again... a d2 player.

so i bought a copy and installed the game.

i believe the first character i made in ladder, my first ladder, was a sorc to try out the MF. then i made a necromancer, and decided upon making him a summoner. he was incredibly powerful. i liked the fact that you could have an army with you. however, they kinda spooked me. after the the first necromancer, i decided he would be my last. so i put down the game for awhile.

then i did a little more dancing, a little more messing around, and fast forward some time later, i ended up back home in northern california and i had the thirst for d2 again. this time, i told myself, i would do things right. and more over, i would become a registered d2jsp user. i built incredibly an incredible powerful mf sorc, for mf purposes anyway. i thought to myself at the time, this is gonna go all the way. i'm going to find the missing treasure that i had been looking for all my life. in the end, after making a good number of characters, i finally found an item in the form of a rare exceptional javelin. i identified it, and upgraded it. and then i sold it for a good amount of fg.

shortly thereafter, i found that life had more meaning than just senseless killing. then i became aware that it was not the only way to attain items. therefore i stopped playing d2. but it was fun while it lasted.

This post was edited by dacnive on Apr 9 2019 09:02pm