06-20-2003, 05:43 AM
>Which of course really, well, sucks for us HC classic players. This raises my ire a wee bit in that the answer concerning changes for classic was also non-existant. I can see it now, cool synergies, harder monsters and the same crappy 1.09 rares to fight monsters with.
Unfortunately, the pessimist in me agrees with you. When LoD came out, bliz mentioned that they wanted to bring over some functions in LoD to D2C. In order to give the D2C players a few conveniences without having to buy LoD.
I admit some of this is quite true. The 3 chipped gem + any sword recipe is handy. Not overly powerful, but quite useful. Ditto with the players X command. Unfortunately things like Rares in D2C also got the dumb down like LoD. Of course Classic players don't really have much alternatives like Elite or crafted items. Well at least there's socketed Exceptionals. Thank god for small miracles. ;)
As it stands now in 1.09 however, imo LoD isn't D2 with improvements. To me it's more like D2C has been turned into LoD "lite". I'm hoping 1.1 will change this.
Unfortunately, the pessimist in me agrees with you. When LoD came out, bliz mentioned that they wanted to bring over some functions in LoD to D2C. In order to give the D2C players a few conveniences without having to buy LoD.
I admit some of this is quite true. The 3 chipped gem + any sword recipe is handy. Not overly powerful, but quite useful. Ditto with the players X command. Unfortunately things like Rares in D2C also got the dumb down like LoD. Of course Classic players don't really have much alternatives like Elite or crafted items. Well at least there's socketed Exceptionals. Thank god for small miracles. ;)
As it stands now in 1.09 however, imo LoD isn't D2 with improvements. To me it's more like D2C has been turned into LoD "lite". I'm hoping 1.1 will change this.