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all trash
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Jan 23 2022 05:47pm
And finally #4. The main Jewel of my collection, Europe Realm's only Windforce 1.08

I still well remember the day I have bough it. It was the long time before jsp, middle of 1.09 with those, you know, insane trading chats, where everyone was manually spamming those @@@@@@@@ offer bla-bla bla, need bla-bla-bla @@@@@@@@ :D
One day I was just sitting there and selling bugged Horadric Staff boots. Those were quite useless, but still fun. And one guy pm'ed me and invited to the game. He was offering full inventory of random stuff for my boots. Among them was a named Windforce 8% and Cranium Basher. I was thinking quite hard what to choose, as Cranium Basher was still rare in the era before the bots and it was not named. Lol.

Here I needed to say, that I have bought my first, another one, Windforce like a week ago or so. It was crappy socketed with Ko rune (without any possibility to clear this, for sure), but still - it was a Windforce... Any Windforce was rare and expensive those days in the middle of 1.09 patch. And also, unfortunately, almost all of Windforces on trade was duped.

So my thoughts were like, well, Cranium Basher is good, and the Windforce must be duped for sure. And it's named, damn it... But, at least it's was with 40/15 jewel, which is not Ko rune, obviously.
So, in that moment I have made, most likely, the main choice in my Diablo 2 gaming life.

Few minutes later, I have switched the Ko'd Windforce for the new one... and realized I have no strength. The bows were different. OMG I have shouted, my 'Ko' socketed Windforce is a legacy one! I have joined the channel and said "Guys, guys!! have the Windforce 1.08!" - "Lol", said the guys, "What stats are there?" "It's 10 str 5 dext!" "Lol, you are a silly noob, it's a regular 1.09 lol", they said. "Well, that way the second one is 1.08...", I have said. And than I have spent some time, showing the revealed treasure ingame to the *old-pro* guys who have never saw anything like this before...

Well, after all, this bow have finally kicked a lot of asses in the strong hands of my best friend CSM-Rain, who use to be one of the most skilled amazones on Europe, but this is a completely another story. ^_^

For those 20 years I have heard a lot of stories, that there are guys who have other Windforces 1.08 on Europe, but to be honest - I even have never hearted about anyone who have saw another bow on Europe.

Disclaimer: I need to say here, that on America realms Windforce 1.08 was once uploaded by hackers without ID and then mass-duped, so guys were having tons of it and it use to be trash. So this story is mostly for the guys from Europe. :)

Here you go, guys, the best one unique bow exist on Europe Realm, a bow bought so many years ago by the guy, who did not understand at that moment what he was buying at all.
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Jan 23 2022 06:48pm
GFG Mate. GFG. This is truly a piece of art. My dad had a lot of 1.08 items on his account when he quit back in the days. I will forever regret leaving them there.

Good times my man, gg.
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now those are some trophys!!
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10/10 to the topic. was funny =) gg
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Post 1.08 HLW with bnet stamp :o
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Quote (RAZORIZEDBALGAG @ 24 Jan 2022 01:46)
I love them/10


Thanks! :)

Quote (Prospectz @ 24 Jan 2022 03:48)
GFG Mate. GFG. This is truly a piece of art. My dad had a lot of 1.08 items on his account when he quit back in the days. I will forever regret leaving them there.

Good times my man, gg.


Yeah, almost all got expired on all accounts, that was a pain with this old "Character not found" after even 1 day of expired.

Quote (SirCottonman @ 24 Jan 2022 08:23)
now those are some trophys!!


Thank you :)

Quote (Mansky @ 24 Jan 2022 11:24)
10/10 to the topic. was funny =) gg


Was trying to entertain you a little, thank you :)

Quote (massmarines @ 24 Jan 2022 12:33)
Post 1.08 HLW with bnet stamp :o


Please, read more carefully. Unfortunately, I have sold Highlord's for cash via meeting in real life. I was like 18 eyars old, a little bit stupid for sure, what can I say :)
Few years later I've been told by the guy that Highlord was lost on a blocked account during banwave. Well, this guy scammed me in the beginning of 1.10, saying 3-20-20 charms were mass-duped again, and lost in price... so he buy out a pack from me for cheap. He just "forgot" to mention, they were now becoming unperm after dupe in 1.10. So well deserved, what can I say. :)
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Jan 24 2022 05:36am
I only played US:WEST, but I appreciate this so much. The history of every single aspect of d2 will eternally be absolutely fascinating to me. I actually forgot about all the @@@@@@@ trades in chat and had a good chuckle when you mentioned it. Also remember when my college-aged cousin introduced me to the game, and quickly finding out just how fkin good he was at it. He showed me ALL of those super hyped 1.08 items and owned almost all of the same ones himself. WF, Valor, Aegis Storm shield (Totally forgot it used to be an aegis back in the day until you posted that one... again, ty) It blew my 10 y/o mind how he could make a new character and have it over level 65 under 3 days..... Then he showed me his FO sorc (first time seeing 10 cold gc's in one inventory all matching...) and just how quickly he could kill cows with me standing at the portal and have me just get absurd amounts of levels.

God damnit I love this game.
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Jan 24 2022 06:22am
10/10
For both the item and for the story (#4)
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