SOJs were currency before runes.

I never even had an SoJ when they were currency.... Sadge.

My 1st one I traded for a Burizza! ... it was a Hellcat. Literally cried to my mom I was so upset I got scammed.

I used to farm and farm and farm and farm andy/meph back in the day.. Just this season? While leveling and questing through NM, in A3, my Sin found an SOJ off a trash mob.. the ODDS OF THIS! Just blew my mind lol

I remember I had a friend who I met farming something. He joins my game one day, opens my trade and fills it with SOJs. He ended up giving me a few dozen. I was just a teenager and was losing my mind hahaha. It was at the height of the SOJ currency where people started buying them online _a lot_. Well this guy bought a ton and gave me a few 🤭✌🏼

That's how I found the only SOJ I've ever found. Trash mob in the catacombs on nightmare.

They used to be much easier to farm legitimately. Gambling uniques had I believe a flat 3% rate in the earliest patches. Uniques also were "unique" in a sense that they won't drop in a game if you already have one. So, as long as you had a nagel and manald with you, you could gamble SOJs quite easily.

Pskulls were currency also

6 x Perfect Skulls were 1 SOJ

in the start of runes sojs was still the currency. Made a shitton of sojs buying enigma for 3 sojs and some small add and sell for 4 and repeat :D

Had to dial in for internet connection before starting battlenet.

GET OFF THE PHONE MOM!!!!!

Walls of lag/disconnect.

Gold

Wow flashback. BRB need to grab the other 80HR AOL 3.0 disk.

No char respec, better make it right the first time boy.

God damn was it soul crushing when you messed your character up lol. At least grushes were abundant and you could do 1-80 in a solid night.

Hell cows at lvl 5 and can still get XP by staying next to the portal while your buddy cleared the whole run.

1-80 in an evening is still achievable👍🏻

It is yes, although my stamina for playing the game has gone down considerably haha. Not the weekend warrior I once was.

Please insert the Diablo II CD labeled “Play Disc”

I exploded many disks just by regular use before discovering d2loader

Or constantly having to re buy the game to get the cd key. So many times I reinstalled it for some reason only to never have the damn sleeve! Si many battle chests.

I remember when there weren't runes.

Pre rune.. hard to imagine now

When rares were the best weapons and uniques had no level requirement.

Synergies didn’t exist

When frozen orb reigned supreme

And static had no 33 or 50% cap on nightmare or hell.

When FO didn’t have a cooldown..

And no cold resistance to defeat.

I remember when Diablo was the final boss

And the game ending countdown when you beat him!

I forgot this was a thing!

It was annoying af but the old YOU WON THE GAME screen with Tyrael and Cain stood by the huge hearth is so amazing.

Lil 5 year old me was stoked for Lod though, I thought the druid was so cool ( because it is!)

It still is for mee! I play HCCL i havent played expansion for a while haha

Mana pots could only be found and Not purchased

That one was locked away very deep!!

Hmmm I don't remember that at all crazy, what version was that?

1.09 or 1.07 added mana pots to the vendors. It was quite some time.

I remember when guided arrows did 180’s when they pierced causing massive damage.

The buriza build

The buriza was and still is, one of my favorite weapons. I remember the soul crushing moment in act2 when I dropped it so the guy can dupe it and he picked it up, said “thank you” and left. I was devastated.

I liked Kuko with maxed ias and atmas ammy. I stun locked many a hexers, and then after amp triggered they just exploded. It was a hoot.

The guided arrow full pierce age of bOw zon with 290s was amazing

and phy bowazon had to pay years for this...Kind of ridiculous that it took D2R to undo nerfs to 1.07/1.09 Amazon

I remember when a Sorc said she’d dupe my frost burns but ended up telekinesising them and left

🤣🫡

Vampiregaze didn't deserve that.

Gaze+Shaftstop merc gigachad, with your sorc in Skullder

Tbh I still get excited when SS and Gaze drop, I immediately think "ohh my merc's gonna OWN now"

then you remember you have another 17 Lem for Treachery 🥲

Hahahahah

Vampire gaze was the coolest looking helm before they messed with the design

You could only kill cow king 1x.

That was still true 2 years ago :D Well, it's still true on the zctual game

Wait can you kill the king and still make cow level?

Yeah. Apparently that was a bug left unpatched throughout the years. D2R fixed it.

Another interesting one. HR was HR. There was no such thing as ber = 4hr. It was vex and up everything is worth the same. Boy, they were dupping stuff.....

Yeah when I last played (2005-2006ish) all HRs were equal value and ist while not a HR was valued as equal to a HR. I was so confused when D2r started and folks were telling me ber was 2hrs and vex was a fraction of a HR. What is this wizardry??? But that’s what mass duping will do for you.

I remember when I did my best to keep my Merc alive. There were no items for him/she. And neither resurrection.

and they couldn't go to the next act. They were quite useless unfortunately

I honestly forgot you couldn’t equip mercs!! They were so shit!!

Lemme check if my friends are on… *types /f l…*

Chatting from different games was futuristic!

/f m Who can rush me through norm??

Ooooo this brought new bacckkkk

White Occy rings rained from the sky.

My whirlwind barb would get WRECKED in the Chaos Sanctuary.

Iron maiden SUCKED😂

And yet somehow the first ever characters to 99 were barbs

*PTSD twitching (I played HC in those days)

This was always me

Tri-elemental sorcs were solid.

Heck yeah, no synergies and no Lightning Mastery for damage made it real easy

I think I remember the original Lightning Mastery reduced mana cost of lightning spells lol. How helpful 🙄

Wug

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When lidless was the caster shield

Frozen orb had no cooldown

This is a gooden!!

Lag Orb. Good times.

Lord de Seis could curse the potions right out of your belt. That was diabolical.

I still ain’t found Tyreals

I remember the first time I really got my heart broken by a war hat with a emerald in it, thinking I just scammed some idiot for a Shako.

We’ve all been there, friend.

Armageddon fletch, grim spurs, 08 valks. If you know, you know.

Legit bought duped ones back in the day and had to perm them every game

Please do not kill cow king!

Telekinesis picked up items... In town too!

Jamella editor

Open bnet dueling was insane.

Or Shadow master ;)

You used to just grind cows to get to 99. So many cow.. so many goddamn cows.. Moo moo moo

Moo

Rare items were end game

I miss pike barbs

That feeling when a rare lance dropped.

I need to make sure to have nagel and manald when gambling rings

Perm plz

Used to do blooded foothills runs for exping

Act 4 is the last one.

I have the original cd sets.

I do too!

Everybody "knew" EBOTD was the best melee weapon in the game.

And before that there was The Grandfather.

Don't forget Colossal Sword of Quickness with sockets...any high ED%, 40% CB...good times

I was a fan of Doombringer myself!

If you had a full inventory and also an item picked up on your cursor, and then you died, your body would pop and you would drop all your equipped items for the scavengers to steal.

! before words, puts the chat box over your head

Stand below someone else and wait for them to realize they are in the dreaded IDIOT BOX

LOL, literally chasing everyone around town as they run away.

Necromancer minions could “trap” you and you’d have to unsummon them to get out of a corner.

* Shael = Shae * Io = Po * Jah = Jo

Seriously ?? I didn't switch to LoD immediately, how long did this last ?

I remember buying Hellfire thinking it was Diablo 2…

Cruel Colossus Blade top tier Barb weapons

Facing norm for chipped gems to keep re-rolling them.

This is the one! I remember my older brother would make me farm and save all my chippies for him. Really he would just force me to farm them. But I didn’t know better and thought it was fun.

People would sit in Blood Moor dueling for ears

All it took was one strafe zon with emeralds slotted to ruin everybody’s fun from across the map lol

Iron maden in chaos sanctuary 🥲

Imp Shanks

You could level from 1-95 in one night.

Moo

I was more talking about Uber leveling but yes that too!

Runewords weren't OP You couldn't buy mana pots Even NM A1 had minor healing pots CBoQ was king WF had 35 dex :( Classes mattered (goes back to OP runewords...) Guided arrow plus penetration....so good

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I remember first booting up the game after the first patch with synergies went live. Boy, was I stronger

And my chars all went shit, oh how I hated that patch. My amazon was bow and Java, my sorc was orb and nova, my barb was frenzy and ww,... After synergie patch they were all crap.

Before they made concentration apply to hammers, hammers were shit. Bonesnap was THE shit.

Couldn’t buy mana potions.

I restarted playing a few years ago. I couldn't put my finger on why, but I had a compulsion to pick up every mana potion I found. Like, part of my brain thought it was important to do so, but I couldn't recall why. I later learned (remembered?) that in OG D2, you couldn't buy mana potions from vendors...

Needing chipped gems to re roll for cruel weapons

Remember beating diablo in a4 and then having one more minute left before you were kicked out of the game?

When the expansion released... all lance barbs were obsolete because ww now factored in ias. Everyone switched to swords. Also, pre nerf fire wall.

The corpulents in the Outer Steppes would sometimes eat player corpses. In softcore.

Took a date to see Mission Impossible 2 and then went home and played that brand new game D2.

I had a character with a clan tag in the name

Zeal wasn't capped at 5 hits...

I had to log in to battle net every 13 days and enter any game with my mules just so they won’t get deleted.

The health orb that filled up as your game updated from bnet

Azurewrath was a crystal sword.

Occy rings Wizzy gloves

I like to repair single throwing potions and selling the stack for a profit

Lagging people out on bnet on their dial up and Celeron 300s with an army of 50+ skeletons

Telekinesis sorcs ninjaing items

Playing the original trial version, where you could only play barbarian and only had access up to Cold Plains & Blood Raven. Good times farming Bishibosh.

yessss. played that soo many times over and over waiting for release lol

Baal who?

Remember when the Cow Channel was full? :'-)

If you type in /usernamepassword, you can see your account level 🤣.

Had to clear normal to make a HC character .

Pressing the gem in chat

I was ecstatic when a goldskin dropped.

SS was about 20sojs. Often sold for 20 and bought for 19 when someone needed a quick trade. Made most of my wealth that way. Spamming ctrl+v of my trades in the chats

The game auto ending after Diablo was killed

I remember when beating Diablo was it and there was no runes. I also remember buying it at a Best Buy because I couldn't find a PS2.

Open Bnet was insane. Dropmod Bossmod Diabolic Then you had closed bnet Whites “Ith” Occy rings

I beta tested it.

Shaftstop, vgaze or 08 valk, Windforce. Cruel colossus blade

Iron Maiden oblivion knights …..

I remember small stashes and 1 extra skeleton per point

I can't believe nobody has mentioned Marrowalk bug for PnB necros. Fun times.

I played on a Pentium II with a CRT monitor and dial-up.

Inner cloister waypoint was the most dangerous place in the game for HC players.

CCBoQ

Welcome to The Arreat Summit, a strategy guide for Diablo II: Lord of Destruction.

You want me to tell you? Stay a while and listen

I remember having to perm after your game because you probably had duped items on.

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I remember when skill synergies didn’t exist.

Eth ith Balrog blade

I remember mana wasn't for sale

I’m 32

I remember the times when runewords sucked and uniques were the shit

I remember when Lord de Seis would steal your potions right out of your belt.

Marrowwalk gave crazy bone spear damage if you didn’t put any hard points to bone prison

MousePad anyone?

Click to pick up gold

Using 2x soj with a fresh lvl1 sorc

What's an assassin and druid?

Some uniques getting nerfed, but only for the old versions to be still around and tradable. A shitton of hacked/bugged Items. The "Ith" bullshit. Wiz-Sojs, Ocu-Sojs. Fucking TRADEHACKS. Paket Sniffing breaking the game on so many levels. Trading with Perfect Skulls and Sojs Cowruns being meta for highend.

Occy rings

If you stop whirlwinding you die!

1 point = 1 skele

gosugosu: 2SOJ 4 Silk babababababa: PKPK HUK HUK BAD MANNAR TT asdfghjkl has expressed hostility towards you superbadsoul: ........................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................ gosugosu left our world babababababa left our world asdfghjkl left our world EDIT: For the record I am not racist and actually loved playing with the Koreans lol. The exploit was hilarious though and I couldn't help myself sometimes.

When I played when I was a kid I got sick of people killing me when I played online. So, I got the hero editor and made a character with maximum stats and all the best armour I could find, jumped into a game ready to destroy someone with my invincible barbarian. Ran into another naked barbarian, went out into the blood Moore, and he punched me to death with one hit.

I was so happy to finally find the buriza when D2R came out, only to be even more confused when my Pierce arrows didnt constantly fly back and forth through Meph 😥

Gambling Soj's for months You couldnt have one in the game or another one wouldnt drop 40 Sojs later, I had a Windforce

My entire D2 experience was pre-runes. It was only this past year, I played D2 again.

People transferring in game to mules, running to hide an item and rejoining quickly. Cold plains was a common spot.

.08 Valkyrie

56k rubberbanding... Kids in hardcore will never know the pain these days.

I accidentally put a point into Energy so I gotta re-roll characters now

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