04-19-2003, 12:14 AM
LL discoveries have definitely been the origin of many Realm-wide trends.
I remember hanging out with a group of Lurkers early LOD and being shown how one could do the cow level more than once per difficulty. It took a few months for that dangerous information to be widely known and progress to the current state where a 1/3rd or more hell games have 'cow' in the title and there are official cow channels on the channel list.
What really gets my nostalgia going is the period when the enhanced damage modifiers weren't working on bows, and +min/max modifiers were all that an amazon needed to care about (along with speed and base item of course). I was playing paladins a lot then, and I really enjoyed the fact that an Amazon and a Paladin with concentration was a team significanty stronger than the sum of its parts. Amazons are so strong now that having a Paladin aura is icing on the cake, but not improvement enough to evoke cries of "YAY!!! A PALADIN!!!" :D
Those games with just my conc (or might/smite in one case) paladin and a group of 5-7 zons playing through all of act4 in private games... That was in a small way kind of like living out one of my adolescent fantasies. :P (I have a screenie saved somewhere of my paladin surrounded by 21 zons/decoys/valks onscreen)
I remember hanging out with a group of Lurkers early LOD and being shown how one could do the cow level more than once per difficulty. It took a few months for that dangerous information to be widely known and progress to the current state where a 1/3rd or more hell games have 'cow' in the title and there are official cow channels on the channel list.
What really gets my nostalgia going is the period when the enhanced damage modifiers weren't working on bows, and +min/max modifiers were all that an amazon needed to care about (along with speed and base item of course). I was playing paladins a lot then, and I really enjoyed the fact that an Amazon and a Paladin with concentration was a team significanty stronger than the sum of its parts. Amazons are so strong now that having a Paladin aura is icing on the cake, but not improvement enough to evoke cries of "YAY!!! A PALADIN!!!" :D
Those games with just my conc (or might/smite in one case) paladin and a group of 5-7 zons playing through all of act4 in private games... That was in a small way kind of like living out one of my adolescent fantasies. :P (I have a screenie saved somewhere of my paladin surrounded by 21 zons/decoys/valks onscreen)