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In Lament Of Glitch Ubers
2011-03-26 12:13 PM PDT
Well it’s time for another ladder reset and run. Second six month reset in a row after a two year lull between 1.12 and 1.13. No new patch since then just resets, throwing all our hard work and unfinished characters onto non-ladder yet again. The only people who can finish characters in a 6 month reset are those who bot, buy jsp or off a d2 site. Makes me wonder why Blizzard doesn’t practice what they preach. Those of us trying to build characters in most of the classes during ladder season fail miserably unless a botter donates gear to them.
Looming reset got me nostalgic for the stable environment of 1.12. Perhaps 2 years was too long (it was), but on the other hand 6 months is too short. All people can do is glitch rush, hell chaos then try to gear their characters. Reset does nothing to discourage botters and spammers who are ready the minute ladder begins again.
No one runs parties anymore other than when reset first hits. The only social aspect of D2 at the moment is running chaos and baal runs to level. And then the runners are bots and only the leachers have a chance to socialize a little. Tristram and tomb runs are mostly a thing of the past, other than when I run them with my enchantress who allows level ones to gleefully inflict 4k damage.
Torching Uber Tristram takes less than 5 minutes, even solo. Lilith is the meanest boss in the game and she’s not much of a challenge if you’re geared properly. Same with Uber Mephisto.
Thinking back a couple of years ago, our whole clan rank system at the time was built on Glitch Ubers. Rank would be awarded to Uber spinners. We had different members hosting Glitch Ubers 7 days a week, many times multiple Gubers in one night and we would mad Guber on the weekends.
The draw of Glitch Ubers was NOT the fact that you could make and level a character to 90 in about 3 hours (after Grush), but the skill required to set up for Glitch Ubers, luring Mephisto, killing Baal and Diablo and then trapping Mephisto in the proper house and place. You needed a skilled bonewall necromancer to hit a one spike wall every time, as well as 2 master hammerdins who could spin Mephisto’s mage minions into the ground hour after hour without getting poisoned and dying, creating the pandemonium which resulted in the death of all leachers, the bonewaller and a huge mess to clean up in Uber Tristram.
The very best part of Glitch Ubers, other than it actually took a little skill and care to keep it going for hours without the game heating up and crashing, was the social aspect. Our members used to chill for hours, leachers by the rock talking over their heads so as to not drop the game, discussing builds and gear, talking about music, and what was going on in their lives.
This was the part of Glitch Ubers our members enjoyed the most. It was the only place in D2 where we could spend hours not just afking but interacting with 7 other members. Many lasting friendships were formed from this event. Our first clan Glitch Ubers lasted 8 hours, many we would keep going all day / night, changing up bw’ers and spinners as people came and went, changing out leachers and bringing in new ones. This is what I miss most about the fact that Blizzard nuked the experience from Uber Mephisto’s minions in the 1.13 patch. Once Glitch Ubers was no more the whole premise of our clan social system became null and void.
I have played D2 for a long time (early 1.09) and have enjoyed helping hundreds of people in-game to build characters, supplying them with gear, Glitch Rushing them as needed, helping them make runewords, educating them on items and item stats, upping items, and training people how to beat the Key Portal and Uber Tristram bosses. But it’s not the same since Glitch Ubers was removed. Most people you describe it to have no idea what you’re talking about.
I consider D2 the best game ever (evidenced by how many people still play a game over 10 years old), and I will continue to run ladder each reset, but to me Glitch Ubers was the premier event ever in D2 and I feel it was a mistake for Blizzard to remove the best social medium in the game and replace it with nothing.
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Looming reset got me nostalgic for the stable environment of 1.12. Perhaps 2 years was too long (it was), but on the other hand 6 months is too short. All people can do is glitch rush, hell chaos then try to gear their characters. Reset does nothing to discourage botters and spammers who are ready the minute ladder begins again.
No one runs parties anymore other than when reset first hits. The only social aspect of D2 at the moment is running chaos and baal runs to level. And then the runners are bots and only the leachers have a chance to socialize a little. Tristram and tomb runs are mostly a thing of the past, other than when I run them with my enchantress who allows level ones to gleefully inflict 4k damage.
Torching Uber Tristram takes less than 5 minutes, even solo. Lilith is the meanest boss in the game and she’s not much of a challenge if you’re geared properly. Same with Uber Mephisto.
Thinking back a couple of years ago, our whole clan rank system at the time was built on Glitch Ubers. Rank would be awarded to Uber spinners. We had different members hosting Glitch Ubers 7 days a week, many times multiple Gubers in one night and we would mad Guber on the weekends.
The draw of Glitch Ubers was NOT the fact that you could make and level a character to 90 in about 3 hours (after Grush), but the skill required to set up for Glitch Ubers, luring Mephisto, killing Baal and Diablo and then trapping Mephisto in the proper house and place. You needed a skilled bonewall necromancer to hit a one spike wall every time, as well as 2 master hammerdins who could spin Mephisto’s mage minions into the ground hour after hour without getting poisoned and dying, creating the pandemonium which resulted in the death of all leachers, the bonewaller and a huge mess to clean up in Uber Tristram.
The very best part of Glitch Ubers, other than it actually took a little skill and care to keep it going for hours without the game heating up and crashing, was the social aspect. Our members used to chill for hours, leachers by the rock talking over their heads so as to not drop the game, discussing builds and gear, talking about music, and what was going on in their lives.
This was the part of Glitch Ubers our members enjoyed the most. It was the only place in D2 where we could spend hours not just afking but interacting with 7 other members. Many lasting friendships were formed from this event. Our first clan Glitch Ubers lasted 8 hours, many we would keep going all day / night, changing up bw’ers and spinners as people came and went, changing out leachers and bringing in new ones. This is what I miss most about the fact that Blizzard nuked the experience from Uber Mephisto’s minions in the 1.13 patch. Once Glitch Ubers was no more the whole premise of our clan social system became null and void.
I have played D2 for a long time (early 1.09) and have enjoyed helping hundreds of people in-game to build characters, supplying them with gear, Glitch Rushing them as needed, helping them make runewords, educating them on items and item stats, upping items, and training people how to beat the Key Portal and Uber Tristram bosses. But it’s not the same since Glitch Ubers was removed. Most people you describe it to have no idea what you’re talking about.
I consider D2 the best game ever (evidenced by how many people still play a game over 10 years old), and I will continue to run ladder each reset, but to me Glitch Ubers was the premier event ever in D2 and I feel it was a mistake for Blizzard to remove the best social medium in the game and replace it with nothing.
DuB (dub542)
2011-03-26 2:23 PM PDT
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wdfSparki (suckyou37)
2012-02-10 11:50 PM PST
"I consider D2 the best game ever (evidenced by how many people still play a game over 10 years old), and I will continue to run ladder each reset, but to me Glitch Ubers was the premier event ever in D2 and I feel it was a mistake for Blizzard to remove the best social medium in the game and replace it with nothing."
Yeas, d2 best game ever !
Yeas, d2 best game ever !
