Hear
that humming? Yep, the mailbag has come back to life.
Only a small period of time before the holidays - that's
a good thing. But how about another good thing? Ok,
it may not be as great as having a few days off, but
heck, let's start the darn mailbag...
Next Week's Topic Will Be:
Most every Diablo II Battle.net
player understands the difficulty in finding and joining
a decent game--but there are also those times that we
find the perfect game: minimal lag, amiable players,
accommodating quest, etc. Describe such a game that
you have been in and why it was so great.
Now onto feedback from the last
bag's topic in which we asked you about
trading. An imperative aspect within the Diablo series.
How easy is it? What's your most successful bargain
ever? Diablo fans tell all...
From: Cruzn15
Subject: Trade Significance
I haven't played online for a
while because my new modem found itself into a deep
comma (Yeah, that punctuation sure is deadly!) and runs
a muck whenever I try to play anything that uses Direct
X, but I can still recall what trading was like around
the time of when Diablo II first released. The trading
aspect played a big part in multiplayer and if you were
to compare single player games to multiplayer games,
you will see what a huge difference it is because of
the very aspect of trading and interaction.
I found a lot of people trading when I played online;
trading for gems. Gems, gems, gems. The most popular
word in Battle.net. If you were a trader, you had to
have gems, and lots of them. Most of the games that
I played in, everyone was either looking for gems, rings,
or amulets, nothing else. I had almost never used a
socketed weapon and felt sort of left out in the trading
aspect. Sometimes, I would join in, and trade a chipped
gem that I had found. I also recalling needing a gem
for one purpose or another, and when I found someone
willing to trade, they wouldn't accept gold. I asked
another, didn't accept gold. I was perplexed as to why
they wouldn't trade for a hefty bag of gold. Apparently,
"LOL! I have plenty of gold, gold is worthless to me."
I never saw a point where gold was near worthless in
my game, so I sort of drifted away from trading in any
aspect and later found myself playing offline. I still
jump up whenever I find a gem in one of my single player
games, and realise that gems are near worthless to me,
so I hock it off for gold.
Gems
are quite valuable in the later stages of the game,
once one is capable of socketing with the Horadric Cube.
I tend to be a gem fanatic, myself, so to speak - so
I really can't relate. I do advise you, however, to
at least save up some of them, or at least don't get
ripped off when you trade them, for some of them can
be rather useful.
From: Giam
Subject: Best Trade
Had got to be the Heavenly Garb
I got for my sorc. I traded it for a superior lance
a few weeks after lances were dropping. i found like
4-5 supe lances and wanted to get stuff for my new char.
Later asked my superior trading friend and he said it
was only worth like a SOJ. Well lucky me. Most of the
time I give stuff away, so I guess it was lucky break.
:)
That is a heck of a trade. For a lance? Hmm...
From: David
Subject: Best Trade Ever
I once got the Set Ancient armor
Milbrega’s Robe in return for The Gull Unique dagger
I found as a level 2 character!! That’s my best.
.
That is extremely odd.
From: Lew_D'souza
Subject: Suggestion
Not sure if this has been done, but how about a poll
for which actors would best play DII characters if they
made a DII Movie. My suggestions are:
Pallidin: Lawerence Fishburn or Mario Van Peebles
Barb: Jesse Ventura
Sorc: Tia Carrere or Catherine Zeta-Jones
Necro: Jeff Goldblum or Christopher Walken
Amazon: Kristin Johnson (3rd Rock from the Sun)
Decard Cain: Sean Connery
Yes, it has been done. By PC Gamer magazine - only with
Baldur's Gate. In any case, you should call up Paramount
and inquire about a Casting Director position.
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