No,
unfortunately FiberCon™ won't do the Mailbag
any good
in this case. The irregularity is due to a lack of emails.
So, time for my little spiel: The Mailbag welcomes any
emails regarding feedback on the site, the Diablo series
in general, or mashed Lima beans. Shyness is no excuse.
You have ideas; we want to know about 'em!
Next Week's Topic Will Be:
Describe the weirdest or funniest
experience that you've had while playing Diablo II,
or just lounging in a chat. Maybe a bug? Tell us!
Now onto feedback from the last
bag's topic in which we asked you: What
do you think of the recent ladder reset? How about the
1.04 patch in general?
Here's
what you guys said:
From: SkateRat
Subject: 1.04 Patch and Ladder Reset
Well the Patch is nice to a point
( mean all the b and c upgrades to it kind sucked).
I like the Idea of resetting the ladder and the password
change is great too. But 20min after the Reset there
was a lev 70 char on the ladder already? I mean come
on how can this guy be lv 70 in 20 min there is now
possible way to do that on USEAST. they resetted the
ladder at like 3am easter time and like 3:30 a lev 70?
Another thing that I hate, I had a nice Necro on Hardcore,
he was lev 38, was kicking but and on Act4 NM. i was
in a party and took the WP back to town to heal up (not
one minion around me) well I guess the Other guy in
my party was getting his butt kicked and took the same
WP back, well the game was a little laggy but not to
bad. I got all the stuff I needed and took the WP back.
UUUUUUUG DEAD before the screen even loaded the map
back up. DAMN LAG!!! WHY ME WHY ME? The Patch is good
but they gota fix the lag, I'm have DSL and my lag is
worse than some people with 56k. well I'll stop bitching
now and get back to work. hehehe
Yes,
lag does reek. Unfortunately it's a problem that has
no quick remedy. Sometimes it's your own loopback that
causes the lag (i.e. you're farther away than the guy
with the 56K modem to that particular server).
From: Dollbuster
Subject: Mailbag: Ladder reset
I personally think that the recent
ladder reset was a good idea, but I hate to think that
my current lvl 55 amazon will never get ranked. But
my "pride" about making a character that is lvl 55 soon
dropped after I found lvl 80 people in the new ladders
A FEW DAYS after the ladder change. I mean, come on,
you have too much free time in your hands if you spend
24 hours in a day to develop your character and get
it to lvl 80 in less than a week or so.. hold on, I'll
take that one back, I have once spent about 8 hours
in a row building up my online characters.. =)
Yes, I've fallen victim to the prolonged character development.
It can become very addicting. And then there's those
people who just *have to* be on top--and what better
way to do it than with a ladder reset where everyone
gets a clean slate? That explains your high levelers.
From: Jake
Subject: About the Reset and Patch
I'm very split on my feelings
about the reset.
On one hand, my favorite character, a Paladin, got hacked
and all his crap was stolen.
On the other hand, life happens like that and isn't
the fun of the game getting stuff that you want?
I know people will exploit the reset by giving their
good items to their mules and then resetting the character,
in turn, duplicating the item. I can't say much about
this because I play Diablo for fun. The only time other
players affect me is when... other players affect me.
If they steal my stuff, pk me when I'm questing, or
just, in general, act like an anus in a game. If they
want to cheat and ruin the game for themselves, do it,
I hope they are glad that they turned their $40+ game
into a non-challenging piece of coded crap.
The new patch hasn't affected me one bit. I am an avid
fan of updates because usually the company knows the
current bugs and they fix them. It really doesn't matter
to me if Corpse Explosion is weakened or weapons are
available. I don't use lances anyway:)
That's my little nugget of joy.
.
Nuggets are good.
From: Zan
Subject: Patch
1.04
As is typical with any patch that comes out there are
a handful of good things and a handful of annoying things.
For starters, why does it have to be a closely guarded
secret when Blizzard is installing a major patch on
the servers? An amazing thing happens if you inform
people you're fixing problems. . .they tend to not get
as pissed off that the servers are down. (Although my
opinion is that the people who are that concerned that
they can't play with their level 85 barbarian at 4 in
the morning probably need lives, or day jobs. . . it's
a great game, but a game nonetheless.)
Anyway, the patch. . .
Was it entirely necessary to screw with the ToHit percentages
and the armor class modifiers?? I had a happy level
36 Amazon who had a decently high armor class with a
15% chance of things beating her to a bloody pulp to
a 58% chance in the span of 10 minutes! What the hell?
And the whole thing where every time they fixed something
they broke three other things was just plain funny.
But the first version of the patch nearly killed my
computer and I had to reload the game twice before I
decided that their patch still had issues. Then going
through three different versions of the patch to find
the one that worked was equally tedious.
Among the things I do like is the fact that damage modifying
skills for bows now work properly. More damage is always
a good thing. :) And the speedier loading of Duriel
might actually result me not dying instantly upon entering
Tal' Rasha's Chamber.
Anytime a bug gets fixed it's a good thing, but sometimes
I wish they wouldn't tweak with the important things,
like the effects of certain skills after you've already
been playing and distributing points to them; or the
ToHit percentages I whined about earlier. Fix the bugs
and make things the way they were intended, but don't
change too much this far into the game.
Thanks for letting me rant and by the way, I love your
web site. :)
Agreed. Possibly a hint as to the major fixes would
be a nice addition before releasing a patch. That way,
players can halt investing in certain skills if they
so desire. However, Blizzard tends to stick to their
shroud of mystery.
From:
Michael
Subject: I
would like to have the Swat gear!
I visited your site today and saw the picture of that
Swat gear Kevlar vest and so. I looked the whole Site
where to get it from but I couldn?t find anything about
it So i wanted to ask where ican get it from.
Hate to break it to you, but the S.W.A.T. gear was an
edited image. It does not exist and will probably never
exist, unless Sierra buys out Blizzard.
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