06-04-2003, 06:56 PM
You know, you're right. Finding that juicy rare is a ton of fun. But you know what? I doesn't happen. I mean, it seems to me your chances of picking up a usable rare for a lvl 50+ char are less than finding the unique version of whatever it is you picked up.
Caution: Rare rant approaching...
It is, in my mind, the single most frustrating thing about LOD. Rares were what MADE D2 for me. I loved finding them. Nothing was more delightful than picking up and dusting off a nice shiny bunch of yellow letters. Why? Because there was a fricking chance that it was better than the uniques! That you may find something WORTH using the naming quest on. How I miss those days! I don't want to see a hundred other pallys running around with Headstriker or the Atlantean...I want to see everybody decked out in what should be the season's hottest color: yellow! Then equipment choices become real ones: do you use the such-and-such with four great mods, or the so-and-so with six decent mods? Do you use the rare with the leech or the rare with the extra resists? Even if you have a rare collosus blade with perfect stats except that it's lacking, say, 10% IAS that it could have, it's STILL exciting to pick up another yellow one. What's the point of picking up another gold-lettered whatever-and-whatever if you already have one. Oh whee, it may have slightly higher ED than my OTHER one-of-a-kind-unique (a big Ha! to that, by the way). It's infuriating. When the best weapons come from shop owners, why pick up a yellow weapon at all? Sure, there's a one in a jabizzilion chance it might have almost as much damage as an easily-purchased cruel, but call me callous, I don't care! I want items that I find, that nobody has but me, that I WANT to personalize, and that DONT appear with attacker takes damage of 2, increased light radius +1, and -- my personal favorite -- the all-exciting +5 to stamina!
Thusly ended thine rant. Nyet!
Caution: Rare rant approaching...
It is, in my mind, the single most frustrating thing about LOD. Rares were what MADE D2 for me. I loved finding them. Nothing was more delightful than picking up and dusting off a nice shiny bunch of yellow letters. Why? Because there was a fricking chance that it was better than the uniques! That you may find something WORTH using the naming quest on. How I miss those days! I don't want to see a hundred other pallys running around with Headstriker or the Atlantean...I want to see everybody decked out in what should be the season's hottest color: yellow! Then equipment choices become real ones: do you use the such-and-such with four great mods, or the so-and-so with six decent mods? Do you use the rare with the leech or the rare with the extra resists? Even if you have a rare collosus blade with perfect stats except that it's lacking, say, 10% IAS that it could have, it's STILL exciting to pick up another yellow one. What's the point of picking up another gold-lettered whatever-and-whatever if you already have one. Oh whee, it may have slightly higher ED than my OTHER one-of-a-kind-unique (a big Ha! to that, by the way). It's infuriating. When the best weapons come from shop owners, why pick up a yellow weapon at all? Sure, there's a one in a jabizzilion chance it might have almost as much damage as an easily-purchased cruel, but call me callous, I don't care! I want items that I find, that nobody has but me, that I WANT to personalize, and that DONT appear with attacker takes damage of 2, increased light radius +1, and -- my personal favorite -- the all-exciting +5 to stamina!
Thusly ended thine rant. Nyet!
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