And finally #4. The main Jewel of my collection,
Europe Realm's only Windforce 1.08I 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 @@@@@@@@
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.