09-21-2006, 04:30 AM
Quote:The twinking is a problem, admittedly, and there's not much that can be done to remedy this. However, it seems a bit hypocritical to complain about a problem while adding to it. I'm sure if you've played D1 legitimately on Battle.net you've certainly encouraged players not to take GPOTW's and other items. Are you not doing nearly the exact same thing? If you chose to accept the items, then you've just done the equivilant of taking dupes. I haven't accepted any items from others except what I thought to be a fair trade (or in my benefit. -.-). My thief is doing 75-95 damage at level 27, to put in a perspective. By the way, the bow you have (Cat's Wind) is considered "complete equipment," as is the helm (Viking's Helm) by some. I'm rather suprised that a player would give either of these up. Your high offense strategy, which you mentioned earlier in your paragraph about level 16, is mandated by your equipment. With fitting equipment for your level, you would have had a much harder time. If I gave a level 17 sorcerer a 36 charge BSOApoc, would he notice much of a difference between Normal and Hell?
Very true. I first received them when I was in the cats. I took them down just a bit to try them out, but then I put them back into the stash for later. The bow was actually Laurana's Eye, unique long war bow. Around level 24 I found another while clearing level 16 with a sorcerer, so it became a mute point. I also found cat's whiskers which adds 35 to damage as opposed to the 50 from vikings helm. I haven't been to hell difficulty yet, so I don't have a bearing about what damage is appropriate though. I have noted, however, unique enemies has enormous amounts of life, even on normal difficulty. As it is now though, my thief has plenty of killing power for nightmare in hell at clvl 24; she has plenty of room to improve.
I guess the big thing for me isn't really just one aspect. I'm just not motivated to level much more, and I haven't even hit thrity yet. I have thought of some ideas that I'll post on the ReX forums.