Diablo2 v1.08 Released

can i know how to play my patch 1.08 character in patch1.07 diablo2?
since i install that stupid 1.08 patch..i cant use my characters on the 1.07 patch already?
can anyone help me or adcie me wat to do?

All I have to say is that this patch is the biggest piece of shit. It has basically killed off my Level 44 Barbarian. Took my kick ass sword, both of my rings, my amulet, boots, shield, and a armor that had nearly 600 defense. On top of that, it stole everything I had on my belt and in my inventory. What the hell were they thinking?

This patch == suck

I'm glad I found a dual leech ring the night before to at least suppliment the horrible leech penalty. Dual leech rings now will never be generated again, bliz called them "too powerful"

My barb is going to need some serious re-working if he's going to survive in Hell at this point.

Wow, this patch SUCKS

Go to http://www.forumplanet.com/planetdiablo/topic.asp?fid=2130&tid=237619&p=4 and read the second post.
There are some really good thoughts on
http://market.diabloii.net/cgi-bin/forum/dcboard.cgi?az=list&forum=DCForumID1&archive=
as well.... hope that helps

this patch has got to be a mistake=/ immune to physical damage+stoneskin =hrs and hrs of whirl wind fun=\ :P

my sword was upgraded to 253 damage and I still can't kill shit except another player...D

Steve use all your power and get blizzard on the horn and tell them to CHANGE THIS POS PATCH

Changes that really stand out:

"Sets and uniques can no longer be gambled for" !! Ack. I knew this was how it would be in the x-pack, but I thought I'd have a few move weeks to stock up on good stuff. Anybody got a Sigon's? :/

"Players can no longer steal Life/Mana from certain monster types." uh-oh. Anybody know which monsters they are talking about? If this affects a big percentage of monsters, this will have a very negative effect on some character types. (WW barbs and bowazons especially.)

"Crushing blow is at 1/2 effectiveness on bows. " Wow. Won't this will increase average bowazon damage by ALOT?? I'm pretty sure crushing-blow didnt work with bows at all in 1.06.

"Changed Charsi's imbue quest to always give a plus to individual skills on items that can have them. " Niiiice.

"Added a new 'Repair All' button for equipped items at the armorers in each Act" Sweet.

I like the changes done to skills. Blizzard basically took weak skills nobody really uses, and makes them more effective. Maybe this will lead to a greater variation of characters now.

Some good news! I ran across this post: http://forums.lurkerlounge.com/dcforum/DCForumID6/1589.html
The 50% physical res is apparently a "screw up" in some way, as well as "TC"'s (No idea what those are... maybe casting timers? ).

Got some mixed feelings about the patch.

some stuff is really nice (shift clicking on potions in the vendors fills your belt now. Very handy). The challenge is pretty nice, but I'm sure it destroys a lot of character builds. I have a lvl 81 lance barb, but the focus is on berserk (20 pts), and only 10 in whirlwind. I actually didn't have too much trouble killing stuff in the first part of hell (plains of despair or whatever), but I decided to go see if the bosses were giving up better drops.

Man, mephisto was a PAIN to kill. I couldn't even kill some of the council members, because they would heal themselves back to full life. This was in single player as well. A lot of these hell mode changes seem to neglect single player, as its a hell of a lot harder now. The very harsh leech penalty and 50% physical resist on monsters in Hell difficulty is VERY noticable. You'll have to change your tactics as soon as you start playing basically. At least with a barb. Probably going to test my necro and sorc later tonight.

I doubt people will read this but my Lightning Sorc rules. Chain lighting = zap. (now I'm waiting for them to nerf sorcs)

Holy shit! My Meteor damage sky-rocket and is now 3+ times stronger them before (10 lvl meteor, 8 lvl fire mastery).

And the timer isn't very long

meteor, glacial, static static, run, repeat

Well, so much for my character.

classic diablo2 should be left alone...all the serious players now have all the immunity /
timer crap without all the perks of the expac..forcing people to buy the shit now or quit with useless charechters=/

there are like 3000 people playing now..and the whole pvp community is pissed...no matter what char build you have you can't kill shit now period... THIS IS OBVIOUSLY SOME BULLSHIT!

i know everyone's bitching, but i remember when this game first came out they said that hell was going to be practically impossible going alone. i guess they're finally living up to it. not to mention if you look at some of the shit in the expansion, most of the stuff we have now is gonna be pretty worthless. i dunno..i kinda got sick of playing in teams, because it was such a hassle fighting over the one good thing dropped.

The problem with this game is that there is not enough servers to handle the amount of people playing. Oh, and the fact that you need like 512megs of ram to play it doesn't help either.

This is a double patch, 1.07 and 8?

Big changes. Looks like they are working up to the expansion. Sets and uniques can't be gambled for and they messed around with resistances big time.

Any mirrors? Dont feel like waiting for an hour to grab this.

hahaha, suck it down barbs and palys, now you know why the necros were pissed early on

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good grief, these changes are huge... totally hoses the barbs and paladins. i wonder how much they 'enhanced the damage' of items to counter all this stuff. talk about nasty.

most characters wont be usable. they changed everything. monsters sometimes have physical or elemental immunity now. and all the skills were changed.

hrm.. if that cutting leech powers in half in hell stuff is true for non-expansion they just nerfed my lvl 76 paladin big time. doh.

Gotta be the first one...

Is this the patch that makes Diablo II fun?

I just read over the changelist after patching... It looks like most of the changelist for the expansion. Not all of the items make sense though... such as the -100 resists in hell. I would imagine that would be exp only... but I guess I shall go test.

Not first post but close!

arrrrgggghhhhhh!!!