Hmmm i'd have to find a system with the game installed or re-install it... I suppose i can do that and pull up my characters...

edit: Ahh, GF's computer had it so...

I don't know how well equipped your char is but level 65 is mostly not high enough to survive in hell unless one has twinked gear. I was around the same level the first time I entered hell mode and having to run from those little hedgehog turds is humiliating. Dying is a hassle as the EXP penalty in hell is quite severe, and obviously the risk for hardcore mode is way too high. Keep in mind even those little hedgehogs are more than a 100 times stronger than in normal mode. I went right back to doing a couple Mephisto runs to farm gear for myself and my act 2 merc until I was around level 70+ before trying hell again. Couldn't make any advanced rune words since that simply isn't feasible in singleplayer, you'd have to farm forever. Even in hell mode, farming runes is tedious and making high level runewords isn't realistic. I played through most of hell with a simple dusk shroud fitted with Smoke (NEF+LUM).

If the hedgehogs outside the rogue camp are giving you a hard time, the dark archers on the lower level of The Pit are going to murder you outright. The Pit has some decent drops but I never got super lucky with drops down there, even with decent magic finding. I usually just farm for raw material down there, without using magic find. If you want Tal Rasha set pieces, don't bother with Pit runs. I got Tal Rasha's mask while doing Rakanishu runs for lolz. You can find him in the Stony Field close to where the 5 menhir stand. He's a low level boss but it's fun to do Raka-runs. RAKANISHUUU! An on hell, he sometimes drops something mildly useful. If I recall correctly, it wasn't him who dropped the Tal Rasha mask but a random drop in the area. I've found other Tal Rasha pieces in the most random places in hell, surprisingly not even high level areas.

We are two, the links or Zy-El doesn't exist in my end xd

Nah, one month is very short, I have not log into Bnet for...... 3 years.

Damn, I played 1.10. I've found a ton of great items (by grinding), but not all of the rarest, runes included.

No rtcvb32, NO >:(
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So true :\

Like retraining myself how to type tongue... from tounge...

The point I was trying to make is that I don't want to be constantly logging in for keeping my characters. D3 was very loathed but at least the characters you make don't expire. I could be months without playing and my D3 characters still remain. And the advertising bots... I don't know how they are today, but last time I played online I encountered them even in Hell Baalruns. So they're everywhere and are most annoying.

The latest patch is 1.13d and PlugY is only compatible with 1.13c, so you'll have to downgrade.

Anyway, I'm sticking with 1.12a because of the D2MultiRes mod.

Damn, after 1.09, the looting system is very weird and punishing, or "unrewarding". In 1.09, by the time i finished nightmare, i bathed in endless uniques and sets and pretty much, i could nab BEFORE hell, approximately HALF of the end-game character sets. Mostly from Travincal and Mephi, or Dia, runs... Now i am at a loss. I am farming for xp (67 right now), wearing random garbage coupled with 3 good runewords but on normal items/gear and i find NOTHING useful, for my level, for the areas i am in, etc. Even the cow level of nightmare gives mostly socketed weapons and previously, NORMAL-found set items.

I read somewhere andariel nightmare is good for rings and you can even find SoJ there, but best ring i managed to nab out of her, was Cathan's, completely useless and irrelevant for my level and the area/difficulty i am farming...

What the hell happened to the game all these years i was off?!? Can anyone give me directions for some good nightmare farming, please? This is getting nerve-wracking, because i don't have viable gear for hell... In the old days, by now, i had half of Trang Oul's avatar completed already and now i wear irrelevant yellows/rares...

Blizzard probably felt they had to refine the drops because with their WoW and D3 model, you should get total crap for items unless you are fighting the final ultimate evil, or pay in the auction house... Or their attempts to balance the system.

The whole thing about the limited stash size was you would end up dropping a lot and having to choose what you wanted to keep and what you couldn't, and people started making mule characters to hold interesting stashes accessible via multiplayer. Course PlugY removes that issue...

Honestly i never went past v1.09d, partially due to mods i wanted to play, but also odd features were being added that didn't really help much.

All set pieces (and legendaries iirc) drop only from those monsters who have same Lv, as items' ILvl. You can extract data tables from MPQ and look from there.

Thanks. How to i check the MPQ files, though...?

Ever since the Starcraft editor included code to access the MPQ files, we've been able to extract and put files back into MPQ files. I'm sure if we look for the modding tools for Diablo2 we can find the tools necessary. Probably start here: http://d2mods.info/filecenter/dload.php?action=category&cat_id=13

Thank you, thank you!!!

Or if you're lazy check The Arreat Summit website. :P

(ah but maybe it's slightly outdated by now. Still a nice site, however)