wait this is jogging my memory of having some wild charms in the inventory tooo

Whats was the process behind perming an item ?

Also I always wondered how someone may know if an item was duped or not ?
I mean if you dropped the item yourself you would know, but other than this scenario, how would anyone know ?

Rip wizzy gloves
Rip wizzy armor
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well, in the case of glitched items, they cant drop, so if you had one, it was a dupe. but ya, without seeing item id numbers or wtv it was, you wouldnt be able to tell the difference between a duped or a legit high rune for example. you were often told to make your runeword asap, ideally in the same game, since finishing the runeword basically permed
the high rune inside the runeword you just made.

to perm, we used to open trade screen, accept an empty trade and save/exit immediately. im not sure how/why that temporarily permed the item, but if you didnt do this or something similar, sry been a while, your glitched item would/could poof.
iirc, my btals wasnt permed and i needed to do this before leaving every game.

This post was edited by C4NTWO on Mar 5 2026 12:09pm

damn so basically you always needed to have a friend online when you left a game xD this seems rough.
so I wonder how did Jessica perm hers ?

my bug mana all go puffy

back then you needed friends just to transfer items since we had no shared stash. perming an empty game for a solo item transfer was sketchy business... haha

Prior to 1.10 there was one infamous period where an easy exploit was found so we had mass duping in games. For example, enter a cow game you would probably find someone dropping Windforces all over the ground. One guy duped 100s of Constricting Rings. What I remember most was this era items were easily obtained. Some trading existed, but the mass duping pretty much made items worthless. I remember even before this incident started there would be players who would give freely items like Windforce, SOJs, Schaefers.

But I remember most the Constricting Ring.

What you are thinking of is Open battle net ,which is no longer a thing on D2:R. Open b.net allowed you to play single player characters online, but is separate from closed battle net (closed b.net being the normal multiplayer everyone plays like ladder and non ladder).

People would use hero editor or jamellas to create hacked items with crazy stats, and some people went as far to learn hex and mess with those values to get things that the editor's didn't let you put it in or wouldn't save. Hero editor had the hex editor included. Anyone could add the aura effects like shiny gold, but hex values allowed you to do crazier things and add special skills like summoning diablo clones.

Open b.net was kind of like the wild west, but there were usually people running drop hack games where like killing a lvl 1 fallen in normal would drop a bunch of set/unique items, hacker duels, "legit duels" where you are supposed to have legit gear (but most ppl didn't), and then some games had a mod that would instantly level you to 99 and you could edit your stats. That is probably what you are thinking of, but you didn't need to go into den of evil to do that unless it was a specific mod that required that.

I think technically, you could still go on open bnet on the diablo 2 classic/lod client which requires a cdkey, but doubt anyone uses it anymore.

People would also play open bnet if they got account banned, but I'm not sure if you could with a cdkey ban.

Open bnet was p2p and required port forwarding to host, which is why it had the red loading bar when you load into a game, whereas closed bnet does not. The lan/tcip is basically the same thing but direct connections instead of logging into open bnet.

Here's a random video of open bnet I found, blast to the past: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xEwAUKf0bAs

This post was edited by PeNguiN27 on Mar 5 2026 02:21pm