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Apr 24 2026 04:22pm
I actually never understood that terminology. Rust... storm? Humm.. can someone explain?




What is xpac items....??? I cannot say i played classic, only during the beginning. I wasn't as experienced then, heh.


Thats What We Called The Lod Items That They Hacked Into Classic
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Thats What We Called The Lod Items That They Hacked Into Classic
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Oh riiight :D heh
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Apr 24 2026 10:06pm
Well its quite simple, RUST is a form of cancer. And battle.net had a view on those items as being carcinogen for the balance/legit gameplay equitability. So they called it RUST storm. The tornado that get rids of the cancer
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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

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Well its quite simple, RUST is a form of cancer. And battle.net had a view on those items as being carcinogen for the balance/legit gameplay equitability. So they called it RUST storm. The tornado that get rids of the cancer


Ugh... lol, goes to show, people cannot make acronyms for the life of them ^^ But thanks for explaining,.

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:
[URL]https://www.rpgstash.com/blog/bugged-and-hacked-d2-items?srsltid=AfmBOoq3Lmf7Hdywvo2gdmpgIA3ciyMoMVxnBq2fw5qU-XrBCaGN_xis[/URL]


This is the kind of stories that take me back ^^ but i never used or did make dupes though. I never understood the point. Why not just play the game as it is? Be happy with the game as it is? That's my stance and values on it anyway. And it should be to everyone else too.
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Ugh... lol, goes to show, people cannot make acronyms for the life of them ^^ But thanks for explaining,.



This is the kind of stories that take me back ^^ but i never used or did make dupes though. I never understood the point. Why not just play the game as it is? Be happy with the game as it is? That's my stance and values on it anyway. And it should be to everyone else too.


Well, at the time bugged items became very standard in public duels which is pretty much all me and my friend would do when we played. Players would attempt to make games like "legit duels" where they were trying to attract players that didn't use bugged items. However, that was a relatively pointless effort as bugged items became so common that they were just another item in the game rather than something very few people had.
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Apr 26 2026 01:29pm
Wow, this sounds like a wild time. I'll need to learn more but I have to dedicate some time this coming week.
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Apr 27 2026 01:21am
I prefer the diversity we have in gear/builds to what we use to have in 1.09 with bug stuff. Been through every patches
The only thing i am really missing out, is the 1.10 marrowalk glitch that gave PNB necromancer much more power than we have now, they nerfed this badly. PNB was the goat (its still good) but nowhere close to 1.10 patch time.
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Apr 27 2026 07:48am
I miss those occy rings fosho
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Well, at the time bugged items became very standard in public duels which is pretty much all me and my friend would do when we played. Players would attempt to make games like "legit duels" where they were trying to attract players that didn't use bugged items. However, that was a relatively pointless effort as bugged items became so common that they were just another item in the game rather than something very few people had.


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