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I'm in a similar boat. I tried the cold turkey thing, deleting games etc. Cloud makes it harder now see e.g. WoW. Once I thought I solved my game addiction w

I'm in a similar boat. I tried the cold turkey thing, deleting games etc. Cloud makes it harder now see e.g. WoW. Once I thought I solved my game addiction with the clever idea of leaving my Diablo 2 CD at work, thinking it would stop me from playing all night. That night I spent until midnight searching for NoCD cracks (successfully) and then played anyway until it was time to get up. Nowadays I just figure if there weren't video games, I would be drinking or doing hard drugs with much worse effects on my health. I'm also able to moderate better, going through dry spells when I find something else to do for a while, and now and then playing nights (not too late) for a month or two at a time.

xianwen 7y ago
I love Diablo 2. However, I was never patient enough to pass Hell level of difficulty myself. I think I was running mods after I discovered them. Do you play offline? Or do you play on-line? Are there many players online still?
- gjs278 7y ago
  there are people in battle.bet ladder. you can’t use mods there. you could play open but it’s all hackers. if you want to beat hell mode you have to go as a firewall / frozen orb mage or a necromancer that uses skeletons and corpse explode. you’ll need an act 2 merc as well. good luck lol. if you can get one friend to tank you can do it much easier.
  - DonHopkins 7y ago
    Do you know you're dead? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19213696 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19213696 >gjs278 on Feb 21, 2019 | parent | favorite | on: A List of Hacker News's Undocumented Features and ... >go into your profile and mark the ability to see [dead] comments. a lot of them are useful. None of yours are. That's why you're dead.
- skocznymroczny 7y ago
  Hell was easier to beat in the original game, but later was patched to be much more unforgiving. If you want to beat it solo, and without access to items from other players, you need a really good build and be lucky when it comes to items. Some characters are less dependent on items, for example a necromancer can solo hell naked using skeletons, sorceress is also less dependent on items because most of the damage comes from spells. The worst characters are melee characters because you need very good weapons (crushing blow does wonders on Hell) and very good armor/shield to survive (high resistances are a must because all monsters deal extra elemental damage).
  - mnky9800n 7y ago
    HAMMER PALADIN! ahaha.
    - skocznymroczny 7y ago
      Hammerdin isn't that good in singleplayer. Main strength of Hammerdin is that it skips most monster immunities and paired with Enigma runeword (gives teleport spell to non-sorceress classes) you can quickly skip to the boss and kill him with few hammers (very bottable too). But Enigma runeword is almost impossible to get in singleplayer, and while Hammerdin is great for killing bosses and all, it's not good for general gameplay because it struggles in tight corridors.
      - mnky9800n 7y ago
        people play diablo2 sp?

xianwen 7y ago

I love Diablo 2. However, I was never patient enough to pass Hell level of difficulty myself. I think I was running mods after I discovered them. Do you play offline? Or do you play on-line? Are there many players online still?

gjs278 7y ago
there are people in battle.bet ladder. you can’t use mods there. you could play open but it’s all hackers. if you want to beat hell mode you have to go as a firewall / frozen orb mage or a necromancer that uses skeletons and corpse explode. you’ll need an act 2 merc as well. good luck lol. if you can get one friend to tank you can do it much easier.
- DonHopkins 7y ago
  Do you know you're dead? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19213696 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19213696 >gjs278 on Feb 21, 2019 | parent | favorite | on: A List of Hacker News's Undocumented Features and ... >go into your profile and mark the ability to see [dead] comments. a lot of them are useful. None of yours are. That's why you're dead.
skocznymroczny 7y ago
Hell was easier to beat in the original game, but later was patched to be much more unforgiving. If you want to beat it solo, and without access to items from other players, you need a really good build and be lucky when it comes to items. Some characters are less dependent on items, for example a necromancer can solo hell naked using skeletons, sorceress is also less dependent on items because most of the damage comes from spells. The worst characters are melee characters because you need very good weapons (crushing blow does wonders on Hell) and very good armor/shield to survive (high resistances are a must because all monsters deal extra elemental damage).
- mnky9800n 7y ago
  HAMMER PALADIN! ahaha.
  - skocznymroczny 7y ago
    Hammerdin isn't that good in singleplayer. Main strength of Hammerdin is that it skips most monster immunities and paired with Enigma runeword (gives teleport spell to non-sorceress classes) you can quickly skip to the boss and kill him with few hammers (very bottable too). But Enigma runeword is almost impossible to get in singleplayer, and while Hammerdin is great for killing bosses and all, it's not good for general gameplay because it struggles in tight corridors.
    - mnky9800n 7y ago
      people play diablo2 sp?