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Apr 20 2019 09:48pm
Soooo I decided to make a 1.09 barb from what I remember. Back when D2 was the best game in the world before 1.10 rune'd everything (pun intended)

I'm running arreats, stormshield, grandfather, tgods, gores, highlords, raven frost arkaines valor, and two +3wc spears.

I'm currently using lava gout and manald ring, but I feel these have better options.

What were some 1.09 items? How did ww barbs get mana leach back then, I completely forget haha.

Thanks.
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Apr 20 2019 10:16pm
1.09's meta was dominated by dupes/hacks/glitches. At first people were just happy to get a grandfather even if it didn't hit the ias breakpoints, but soon adopted fury balrog blades and rerolled cruel colossus blade of quickness out of chipped gems, and then came ith swords made out of silence with the runes replaced with jewels.
if you're trying to pvp in 1.09, the ideal setup is based on FRW and/or teleport charges, trying to max out your mobility to chase down bowazons. If you're pvm, there's no reason to use a shield
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Apr 21 2019 03:37pm
I am making a 1.09 Barbarian as well logank. I've been playing 1.07 but I really want to try. I shopped a Colossus Blade, Colossus Sword and Mythical Sword in A5 hell. I am bringing them on my new Barb to 1.09 and using them as bases for the 3 chipped cube recipe. If you can roll a Cruel CB or CS, it would be worth it for the three sockets. Throw 2x Shael if it rolls a plain cruel and 1x Eth since Eth runes work different from how they do in current patches from what I've heard.

For mana leech, try finding a rare ring with stats similar to this:

+AR
+M Leech
+Str or Dex
+Resist

If you can get life leech as well, it wouldn't hurt.
In the mean time, a Manald Heal might work until you find a rare ring.

Keep your eye out for cool small charms as well since 5% frw can roll on them instead of 3% frw.
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Apr 21 2019 04:56pm
I'm playing on battle net, just choosing to only use 1.09 gear :P

Yea I'll probably look for a rare ring, thanks
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Apr 21 2019 05:47pm
Quote (logank @ Apr 21 2019 06:56pm)
I'm playing on battle net, just choosing to only use 1.09 gear :P

Yea I'll probably look for a rare ring, thanks


I misunderstood you. I thought you meant you wanted to go back and feel 1.09 nostalgia on single player. I need the member berries of an eth rune in a weapon causing everything I hit to have -25% defense IIRC.
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Apr 21 2019 06:53pm
Oh man Cruel Col. Blade of Quickness/Swiftness with Shael Ohm and Eth combos. I don’t remember why but ‘Fury’ in a Tyrant Club was my Zealot weapon of choice.
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Apr 22 2019 08:38am
I always used fury fanged knife on my ww druid :)
1.09 was literally the best diablo 2 before hex charms, white rings/gloves, iths and quarks.
Hell even with all that crap 1.09 was better then the current patches :(

1.10 brought some good though :)
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Apr 22 2019 01:57pm
Quote (logank @ Apr 20 2019 07:48pm)
Soooo I decided to make a 1.09 barb from what I remember. Back when D2 was the best game in the world before 1.10 rune'd everything (pun intended)

I'm running arreats, stormshield, grandfather, tgods, gores, highlords, raven frost arkaines valor, and two +3wc spears.

I'm currently using lava gout and manald ring, but I feel these have better options.

What were some 1.09 items? How did ww barbs get mana leach back then, I completely forget haha.

Thanks.


The specific build depends on what you're using the barb for. But the big differences from the current patch are that now you must strive for: 1) 75% DR which is the cap in 09 (good items are 15% from string, 25% from 08 Gaze, 35% from 08/09 storm); 2) as much LL as possible (can have 11% on crafted rings); 3) some FRW to let you catch bowazons and casters; 4) an eth rune in your primary weapon which lets you ignore AR/def. nn stack res except for cold.

BvC emphasizes frw and vita. Usually builds around a 2h weapon (e.g. cruel war pike) and lots of 5 frw sc's. For BvA you have the option of double throw on switch w/ 2x Cruel javelins (preferably w/ "of quickness" suffix).

... I just reread the thread and realized you aren't playing on a priv realm. Posting anyway to give you some context.

This post was edited by Recharge on Apr 22 2019 02:00pm
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Apr 23 2019 12:12am
so no runeword before 1.10?

:rolleyes:
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Apr 23 2019 10:35am
yea no runewords, less op stuff in general.

Hitting the highest break points for fcr, fhr, ias, etc was generally not possible or not worth the extreme investment needed. 1.09 was such a great time to play.

I still love d2, but 1.10 messed the game up bad, it's nothing like what it was. 1.09 definitely fell apart towards the end though, hex charms, iths, white rings/gloves, quarks and the dupes, but that was fun too :P
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