ok

There were pre-1.10 runewords, the only useful one I remember though was ‘Fury’

fury and honor were popular, that's about it.
Silence was used rarely.

I wasn't being literaly when I said "no runewords" Guess I should know better than to exaggerate on the internet.

My point was just it was nice to not have almost every character capable of teleporting and having ridiculous stats.

D2 used to be sooooo fun.

Annoyed me to just give all chars tele through enigma also.


In terms of my barbs pvp items, we didn't bother with mana leech. For gloves we used some pretty nice blood crafts for the crushing blow.
arkaines is also pretty crud. Shaft was the go-to option simply due to needing the damage reduction. Think we had multiple options on the amulet, although highlords was generally for choice.

in terms of pvm, you would delete the barb and make a sorc