We don’t end Royal Moo’s around here.
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My 2 cents. I think only the person who kills king should be unable to make again. The rest of players should not get penalty.
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Have they shown the new Remastered cows yet?
Yes. It. Does. 202020
While better than nothing, that person who blacklisted themself can still use an alt to make a portal. So what’s the point of have cow king death prevent you from making it again?
The fact there is a workaround makes it just a weird nuance that does not need to return for this remaster.
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yea i’m not against it either. does anyone have a real issue against it besides being a purist?
I think I’ve argued with 2 posters (against) above, out of 100s above. But their rationale makes no sense. Once you throw in the fact that you can make the cow level with an alt, and renter game in main, they clam up or starting yelling slippery slope.
I feel like this is one of those things like bnet gating runewords, just make everyone’s life easy and be done with it, right?
They announced ladder only runewords will be in single player. But yea, just fix the idiocy and be done with it.
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Ill fight and argue with anyone who thinks the game should stay the same and lock us out and force us to do the work around. its idiotic. I can dump on you if you have dumb ideas and want to keep the game archaic and outdated. its an argument. anything goes. why dont you come up with a good reason for not changing it? because you cant! every reason mentioned has been a minor form of insanity. Change is good. Sure you expressed your opinion peacefully, but you are still dead wrong.
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Did you mean to reply to me? I wrote the OP. I’m all for cows!
The item/s cow king drops have value because you cannot kill him over and over. Taking away the “weird nuance” will devalue these items. It’s not a great reason but it is a reason.
What items? The cow king set… as if that matters much. You can already open cows on another char as a solution, so they just need to get rid of the penalty and be done with it.
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It needs to go. It was annoying in Diablo 2 and will be annoying in Diablo 2 Resurrection. If for some unfathomable reason it does create a problem, VV can always revert the change.
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Does anyone actually use the cow king set? I remember it being pretty crappy compared to runewords or other sets.
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No one does. I guess some people could meme with it, but it’s not good. The boots have decent MF, the helm has good damage to mana, and the chest has a chain lightning chance on hit. Decent mf on full set bonus, as well as a static field chance on hit.
The thing is, you’d have to kill the king multiple times to have a chance at getting the full set. So it’s like they intended the king to be farmed for collectors, but then they made it so you cannot make the level if you kill the king. So contradictory.
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Oh man, I forgot about this. when I was a kid (I was kind of a dick back then) I created a smiter called kingslayer and would constantly join cow games to kill the king for everyone. I was not well liked on that char.
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Most folks would make an alt character just for cow runs and just open the portal before changing chars.
As annoying as that is, it was necessary to avoid exactly you apparently 
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This is the exact same thing as shared stash… it’s not something that makes the game harder, you just switch to your mule who creates the cow level and switch back to character. That is not difficult, but it is unneccessary and annoying. Remind you also that in the original version of Diablo 2 you could open the cow level infinite times even after killing the king, then they realized ppl boosted xp fast in the cow level and put a limitation to battle it, then people worked around the limitation by opening infinite cow levels with mules, so blizzard nerfed xp gain in the cow level. This eliminating the need for the cow level limit, but without them removing it… so frankly the most pure way would be to revert it back to original D2 where there was no limit to making cow level portals, but with the xp nerf from later versions.
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I approve this change.
Signed,
The Great BoBaFeTT
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