Have I just been blind?

[Grayloch]

That's the Stained Glass City. It's been around since the early days of D2, but spawns fairly rarely. 1.10 now labels them as "An Evil Force", whereas before they got no label at all. They do no damage...

I seem to recall, way back in some earlier patch of D2C (1.04, I believe), that a melee character of mine once smashed some of the stained glass windows and was injured (by falling shards of glass?) when they broke. I remember being surprised by it since I had broken the windows with other characters and they weren't affected. Upon reflection, I realized that my other characters were all ranged characters who weren't standing near the windows when they broke.

After patch 1.05 came along, I never saw the stained-glass city again until sometime after the expansion. Even then, I think I've only come across it maybe 2 or 3 times in the past couple of years of playing.

-G.