Yes. The gaming industry made a very good job of stealing genre names to boost their game sales. Like Red Alert which is supposedly a "strategy" game, or Diablo II which is supposedly a "RPG"... While in fact it's some heavy lies.

well... ive been playin D2 since... well... mebbe 2 years? but anyways, imma give my 2 cents on D2...

about wat he said about items, not necessarily... you dont need the best items in the world to be able to fight well... the main thing is, KEEP UNIQUES AND RARES because they usually tend to be good (well better then magic and regular items, thats for sure)... another important parts about characters are the SKILL DISTRIBUTION and STAT DISTRIBUTION... but if it comes down to PVP then, ITEMS MAKE THE CHARACTER along with the BUILD (stats, skills)

if you know what you are doing, leveling up does not take that long... this is how i found the best way to level up...

1. Get rushed through norm
2. Get to lvl 5-7 killing in Blood Moor and Cold Plains
3. Do Tristam Runs in Act 1 until about lvl 10-12
4. Do Sewer Runs in Act 2 until lvl 15
5. Tomb Runs in Act 2 until lvl 20
6. Do Cow Runs until lvl 24
7. Do Ancients in Act 5 to get to lvl 25
8. Do Normal Baal Runs until maybe lvl 45-50 (MAKE SURE NOT TO KILL BAAL!!!)
9. Get rushed in Nightmare, then do Baal Runs in Nightmare until about lvl 65-70
10. Once in Hell difficulty... LOL, GOOD LUCK! and take it as you wish

Overall, D2 is a great game... I myself take a liking to Bone Necromancers... since im more of the dueling type...

well theres my 2 cents

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ClaN vB - Vagrant Bretheren
Ladder - Non Ladder
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My Roster - IvBI-Vegabond
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Sesshoumaru - lvl 68 marrow bonemancer - ladder
Naraku - lvl 61 cager bonemancer - ladder
Kikyo - lvl 68 orb/ts sorc - ladder
Norrec - lvl 45 ww barb - ladder
Ayane - lvl 51 lite trapper asn - ladder
Kasumi - lvl 79 lite sorc - ladder
Haruko - lvl 80 marrow bonemancer - nonladder


Top Dueler
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Haruko

um'ed Shako
Breast Plate Enigma
Heart of the Oak
Marrowwalks
Trang Gloves
Mara's
2x SOJ
Arach Mesh
um'ed Homunculus
6 bo CTA
Lidless
10x pnb gcs

5.4-5.7k bone spear dmg (this is about right...)
5.5-5.6k spirit dmg (this is about right...)

But... This take into account playing on Battlenet... And that's the boring part for me, not levelling.

Actually, playing on battle-net is much more interesting than in Singleplayer or open battle-net... Well, at least I found much fun playing there. Perhaps it depends on people...

U are right

I was never really a fan of Diablo. It just wasn't very fun for me, hacking and slashing the same thing over and over again just got monotonous. I tried playing on Battle.net once and everyone there had weird names like "xo02548socboobs32450xx" and tried to kill me. It was really weird.

i did play this addictive devil of a game on europe at one point named as "Gr8FuQ" but ive given it up since (played for 3 yrs though). too many newbies wanted to know how to hack. and 1.10 didn't destroy the hacking community at all, i never got detected using maphack or d2hackit. i didn't try duping at all but i was at one point an open player (i did use edited chars btw)
i could still go on it and do ok but i really don't wanna get back into it

ya... people still hack on D2. almost every1 has maphack, some people dupe items, some use auto aim, pickit seems popular, and hmm... i think those r the major hacks on D2. im still playing the game, cuz i still think that its STILL one of the best games out there right now...

1. many character classes (though most of them are cookie cutters)
2. many items to get/collect/etc
3. dueling can be fun (given that you have good items)

but mostly, i play cuz my friends r still playing too... its always fun to go play a game with all ur friends, the co-op type of thing. i dunno, its still fun to me, after playing it for a few years :ok:

Oh! and i found out something that was even more annoying that getting from lvl 1-20, it was getting a mercenary's lvl up from 1-20, bcuz its such a PAIN IN THE behind! haha, try it! LOL