Diablo II lolFollow

I've bought probably three or four diablo II battlechests in my day(seriously, I quit the game and either lose or give away my cd's and things opr move and something gets lost)

anyways I have:

diablo 2 install cd's but no cd key

diablo 2 LOD CD key but can't find the disc

so I'm wondering, if I use a ghetto cd key for the regyular D2 - then torrent LOD and use my original CD key from the game - if I could still play on battle.net

alternatively, I could probably ninja loot an old cd key from a buddy of mine, but idk.

any thoughts? I really want to play in single player - but I'd like to be able to patch up to 1.10 or whatever before I do, because I really liked what it did to the game

I can't figure out how to install LOD from the iso

here's what happened:

I installed regular diablo 2 from the game discs.

then started the LOD installer, everything is going quite well.

Next it says "insert play disc" (of regular d2 - I insert it)
it eventually asks for the LOD cd again. However, I have no physical LOD cd. mounting and re-mounting the iso don't do anything. Hitting the ok button doesn't do anything either. It's as if the installer cannot recognize anything ot present within the physical drive(as apposed to the virtual one)

Can I get some halp?

The 1.10 patch gave synergy bonuses to skills...like

if a necromancer put points into the "teeth" spell, it would give a % damage bonus to both bone spear and I think wraith. essentially adding points into some skills would serve to power up other attacks.

This was especially useful for people who wanted to try out unconventional builds which wouldn't have been able to do much damage previously(like a pure mage druid)
Unfortunately it also gave rise to a tricky paladin build that involved running around doing 3k damage per second using that holy fire aura(requires massive amounts of + skill items and max synergies - don't get me wrong; very few players would have the resources to make this) It just kind of made me mad. I had an ethereal BoTD sword and could do over 10k-14k damage whirlwind(even more on other attacks) on my barbarian, but those paladins would always kill me.

my weapon was:



that IS a legit item. It was, I think, exclusively available for ladder characters and required a 6 socketed ethereal collosus blade + some relatively rare runes - but the damage and power is unparalleled(15/7 leech! and pretty much instant access to poison nova)[just looked it up, was addeed as a regular runeword for patch 1.10)

My armor:



^ THIS WAS exclusive to characters who played the ladder. It was an odd armor in that it not only gave MASSIVE defense, but 300% ENHANCED DAMAGE. and loads of attributes and resistance.

how old are you? I was under the impression you were at least a year older than I (19)

then again, I suppose Diablo II has been out since what? 2000?

went out and bought some new copies...oddly it won't let me connect to USeast so I chose to try USwest(I'm in West Virginia, which is on the east coast in case anyone doesn't know that lol)

It's lagging a bit more than I'd like(barely at all, but sometimes it'll catch a 1 second delay) and I had to update some drivers and tinker around with Vista a bit to get it to run properly.

One of my favorite things in diablo 2 was the crafting system which is largely ignored by the player base.(crafted items show up as bright orange) - I've made some pretty badass items from crafting, like high % dual leech rings and a zerker axe which ended up more powerful than a lot of high end unique items. Sadly gathering crafting materials can be tedious and sometimes the things you make end up as utter crap.

If anyone reads this and wants to play, PM me.

I was hesitant to get it myself, I'm down to the last couple semesters before I graduate and have a lot of papers and things to write. My reason to stop playing FFXI was largely due to this.

i played this weekend some. got a barbarian to level 8. and an assassin to level 7. go me?!

I basically remade my MF necro (Fishymancer?). I'm also playing around with barbarian and amazon.

Vejek - 26 necro
Vargyle - 16 barb
Colere - 15 amazon

I'm still trying to figure out what I want to do with the amazon and barb. I never really played around with those. I'm thinking WW barb for PvM for sure. Idk about the zon. I wanna be able to take her through cows and for rushing characters on my 2nd account.

Do you have any advice on builds? I won't be making any PvP characters until I get more gear (which could be a while). As a side note, I got my gf back into playing it also. I'd be duoing with her necro mostly.

I might hop on an make a character tonight.
You running Vanilla D2 Himmel?
If so what patch number? (Haven't played in quite a while)