The negativity is understandable. People tend to get more resistant to change the older they get. 
There might be an appealing option available though⌠Ladder reset coming up for the original game in 2 days:
If Blizzard would only make it possible to play the OG with the new graphics⌠As long as you own both games.
AFAIK someone at the Phrozen Keep is working on a 3D graphics wrapper that would do exactly that so they can have expanded modding capabilities and modded multiplayer with the new graphics. They obviously wouldnât provide any assets so youâd need to purchase both games.
Seems their progress is fairly slow since itâs like one or two people working on it, I wouldnât expect to see that until years down the road which might work out for the better anyways.
Thatâs great to hear⌠Iâd rather someone at Blizzard do it though.
Blizzard: âHey guys working on this mod⌠Want a job? Weâll even provide a team to help. It pays good.â
Expanded modding? Perfect opportunity for Blizzard to show faith to a game we all have a soft spot for⌠No matter how many times it doesnât give us that HQ Shako.
As long as there is a drive to do it, the thought stays aliveâŚ
I was too quick with judgement. Sorry was blinded by rage.
Well i was expecting something good for first day of event. Not cow level, one of the worse terror zones.
Cow level whole day is basicly worse than switching zones.
DONâT LISTEN TO HIM, BLIZZARD.
Yeah donât listen to someone saying the truth xD
Sewers next pls
Np man. GL HF, and hopefully tomorrows âFestive buffâ is more interesting.
what is this buff? i feel nothing change
Heh thatâd be cool, unfortunately theyâve made their stance quite clear: original D2 will be the only place for hardcoded/multiplayer mods while D2R will be limited to single player softcoded mods (officially anyways).
I donât think theyâll ever reverse this decision unfortunately, they could reinstate TCP/IP at the flick of their wrist but theyâre not going to. I mean, maaaybe they could after D4 releases and D2R eventually goes into maintenance mode but I doubt it. 
Iâm just sad they gutted TCP in the first place. I get that it was most likely a decision made by the suits after the whole Tech Alpha debacle and the devs likely had no choice but still, it hurts.
Non terrorized cows already can drop up to zod and yeah they can drop few more uniques when terrorized but cows are terrible for elite hunting and white mobs drop uniques or sets very rarely compared to elites. Cow king is only interesting thing there wjen terrorized. Xp is not that good also.
Normal and nm cowsdo not have increased loot at all. So yeah,not very good zone.
just had an arachnid mesh drop in cows and im like yeah happy days and then it rolled ethereal 
Shows how informed you are on the game, when cows is one of the most popular zone 
At least now you have more time to troll the forums 
If you donât play something like a Cold Sorc the Sunder doesnât help much before you actually find gear to lower the resistance further.
Cold Sorc, can just slap on easy to find gear (Spirit, Smoke, Lore are good examples) make sure they have decent FCR and high resistances, then skip most content with teleport, beat Hell, do the TZâs that have few cold immunes once the Sunder drops steamroll the game in early NM gear.
Other than that, almost every build and definitely every class can beat Hell SSF some just need more creative play than others, be patient and look at those 1-point wonders most forget as well as easy changes to damage most classes can make with gear tweaking.
You seem to have chosen a Freezing-Multi/Strafe build, not the easiest to beat Hell SSF Iâll say that, tbh possibly one of the hardest times I had, if you can skip dual immunes thatâs often your best option, otherwise you will have to prepare for those battles.
I found Harmony to be a helpfull, Insight on switch to get the juice back fast and crafted knockback gloves.
Act 3 Fire Merc (how awkward it may sound) can also help a little if you have a decent Valk and knockback/multi, however maybe nowadays a Frenzy Merc with 2 high elemental damage weapons or good amp/decrep chance weapons if you have them, (basically if you got a good drop for it or can make a Lawbringer) might be a good alternative if you can get it tanky enough.
However you chose one of the harder builds to solo (and probably self-found or low trade), so struggling should be the norm imo, if even the weaker SSF builds wouldnât struggle on Hell than D2 would no longer be D2, we might aswell call it D2r3 and let everyone bypass the Storymode with a press of a button so they can go wherever they want.
If they did that Iâd say goodbye to D2r and go D2LoD, eventhough I would miss some of the QoL changes and even some of the skill changes, overal however I think these Devâs did tons more harms than good, mostly because it simply feels they have no idea what D2 is (or atleast most of them).
But I donât think they want that, even if they had everything lying around to do it without spending any time on it.
Hey! I resemeble that remark, except for the beard and living in my mumâs basement!
Ya, I was hoping they would at least give us back old xp tables for cows when I saw thisâŚbut I forgot who was holding the event.
i dont get it ,what do they change ?
ok every day a full day TZ âŚi made a cow⌠not increased drop or exp⌠for what is still nonsense ?? And what buffs ???
sorry but thats crap nothing else⌠no more exp no more dropsâŚpeople get banned when travincal or pindle daysâŚ
Made another Cow. Nearly zero Xp, no extra drops⌠thats a bad joke right ??
So you thought that it would change RANDOM?
You wanted all the goods in 2 runs?
no but more exp in cow ,still zero.
And maybe some more rare yellow drops like mephi or pindle runs.
I never said i want all in 2 runs.
Stop talking like that nonsenseâŚnever said thatâŚ
The Community here is so toxicâŚeven worse than i remember from the pastâŚ
i think the toxic community comes from blizzard making a lot of bad decisions recently and they just continue to do so time and time again.
itâs like theyâve put a bad taste in our mouth and you never get to take it out, and we want to love diablo 2, we really do, itâs lots of peoples favorite game ever, the nostalgia is real, and theyâre taking it all away.
well spoken.
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