Great question! Where damage is a more dynamic field and can come from a variety of "weird" places (i.e. Boots, Shields, etc.), the code was written differently, especially surrounding the Ethereal state. A special code needed to be written to calculate this properly, as ethereal shields (for smite) and boots (for kicking) actually do NOT do any more damage just because they're ethereal. The difference in coding for this seemed to prevent the bug from happening on weapons. Pinning this interesting question!
Supposedly, the double application of the ethereal bonus is due to the fix for a bug where upgraded rare and unique armors lost their ethereal bonus in a previous patch. The fix for the upgrade bug is what caused the Tal + Thul + PTopaz bug. Lucky mercenaries and yourself if you make Prudence in an ebug armor. Weapons didn't have the same bug.
@@marcello4258 Yeah, Skulders has treasure class issues which make it hard to find to begin with. Same with gaze. There were enough people still playing in 1.10 and no bots that reg was still fairly valuable. Eth was just obnoxiously expensive for a good one that it just wasn’t worth it
same but def will when Resurrected comes out such videos makes me realise that they were a lot of things i didnt know even if i had all the gear i wanted back in the days. This game is better then the modern games its pretty awesome and sad to realise this fact.
Like the only thing I knew about years ago that was mentioned here was the Eth Bug. I'd never heard of the Zod bug or the rare class items with forbidden skills on them.
@@illiji915 Zbug CoH is a easy find for USWest pretty much not needed to even dupe since they duped the zbug armors w/o the runeword in them therefor making them legitimate
I remember staying up that night... for nothing, lol, it didn't reset until 4-7am? Whenever it was, it sure as hell wasn't the midnight my boy Justin and I thought.
A little FYI, the durability bug happens with sets and uniques. A failed set item will spawn the magic item with double the durability and a failed unique will spawn the rare with triple the durability.
I love videos like this. It's amazing that there's always interesting new things to learn about a 20 year old game that we've all played so much and thought there couldn't possibly be more to learn about.
Thanks for this. This is why I check all War Scepters. The roll to select the skill has to fail six times to get Holy Shield. Same thing for Weapon Block Claws and Poison Dagger Wands. Assassin Claws can have skills on all above and including Hand Scythe.
@@cwickwitted I’ve picked up every norm/magic/rare scepter since I heard about it over 10 years ago- “money sticks” for gambling, and not a single +holy shield. A couple hours of shopping is child’s play.
@@cwickwitted Woah, Napoleon (yes, I am aware he was actually average height for his day). But that’s some little man aggression ya got there. I was merely suggesting that you didn’t look at nearly enough scepters to reasonably expect to see one. Depending on single player vs bnet, you could maybe look at 50 scepters a minute. Over 6 hours that’s about 20K. Compared to something like a 50/50 coin flip, events with very low probabilities need a number of draws in the billions or trillions, or approaching infinity to display that probability. In other words, you could easily look at 160K scepters and not find one. That last “they” should be a “thou,” to maintain the style of your little schtick. Speaking of a little schtick, if that profile pic is you, I’m not surprised at the amount of little dick energy you have going on.
Poison dagger charges do have a secret use. If you use with Venom it will make the Venom spread over the PD duration but maintain the Venom DPS. It was fun to mess in PvP where people were convinced your pack was full of poison charms. Extremly niche but fun to know.
@Coooley My best memory is when I played Diablo 2 back in 2004 and somebody gave me this "Ungodly" armor in multiplayer. I played through all of D2's single player with it. You are very informative.
Hey I just stumbled across this video because of all my d2 resurrected hype. Just wanted to share, that screenshot of the zbug 171 shako was me! I am end @ jsp and that shako was one of several zbug trophies I owned over the years
Damn, I never realized that about the skills! I have definitely found a number of barb helms with plus combat skills, but didn't realize that was a game bug.
Some of them aren't necessarily that useful and, barb helms especially, are more common. But definitely something to think about next time you see one drop!
Yeah I didn't know it was a bug either! Found a poison dagger wand once and I remember being like "what the hell, how can I even use poison dagger if it's on a wand", it being a bug definitely makes sense there :P
ur knowledge is so amazing, the way u deliver it = perfect. Just super enjoyable to watch even tho I do not play d2 anymore. Ive tried to make an acc on east (to smack u in pvp) but the ping there is way too high for me since im european
Thank you for your kind words! Sorry that the ping is so high from Europe :( I do enjoy gettin' smacked around in PvP. It's the best way to learn new tricks! haha
Last bug you mentioned was my nightmare for about a couple of months since I found a rare Spiderweb sash off Pindle with triple durability! That was supposed to be my Arachnid mesh and I found out about this bug because the same thing happened to Dbrunski in one of his videos ^^ Great video, keep it up
Especially if you’re single player (speed optimization) I’ve always found D and Meph to be the best for Arach. Elites drop it, but bosses will do it more consistently
Always felt the eth Armor bug was a happy accident. Since there’s only a blah 2 soc runeword for player use (Unless you don’t mind breakage), it’s merc only, and even fully geared, they’re squishy. Fun story: found a perf base def eth Sacred Armor, naturally got 1 soc so couldn’t even make prudence. Also had a 44 res eth vortex ruined, which are extremely rare if you don’t realize how many bases are duped by botters.
The reason why some skills are forbidden is quite a nitpicky one - can't hit with your head, therefore no melee skills are allowed on helms (they are allowed on Druid pelts, but that's a separate can of worms). Holy Shield and Smite are of course *shield* skills, so it isn't logical for a scepter to possess them. And similarly, wands and shrunken heads aren't daggers.
shoutout to Jared and Greendude on east hardcore non ladder. Greendude and Jared had bugged small poison charms; i mean the ones that did "400 damage for x seconds" were actually "400 to life". I'm sure I can get a screenshot if I ask the old boys.
As a necro player the poison dagger skill being forbidden is really neet but ultimately not mandatory for poison and bone builds as a forbidden skill roll on a item so I personally wouldn't pay a premium for it I can see why a min maxer would.
No, the ebug armors are a result of a "fix" to upgrading rare/unique ethereal armor. In 1.10 they would lose their eth defense bonus, so the "fix" was to add eth bonus to any eth armor type item coming out of the cube. Anyway, as a Single Player enthusiast, I often switch which game version I run. Version 1.00 allows repeated cow king kills, and uniques didn't have a lvl req back then. They only gain that once converted to expansion. However, if you want to do rushes in classic, SoJs with no level req is bonkers. As are the bugged mana per kill rings from 1.07, not to mention the crafts.
@Coooley, I can tell you're a longtime pure and true fan of the diablo franchise. You should try Grim Dawn's Reign of Terror Diablo 2 Full Game Remake Mod. It's Incredible.... literally like re-living the game in modern day (well as close to it as we're ever going to get.)
Huh. Never knew this. I always assumed that the only bugged items were the paladin class specific shields that dropped in hell. They had super high stats but appeared on the low level paladin shields.
The auto mods have level restrictions to spawn, but don’t cause the level restriction on the shield. For ex: the highest res all is something like level 45 monster level that dropped the shield to spawn. But a non magic targe will be level... 3?... to use no matter what.
It's nice to another person that has as much time invested into this old piece of shit as me. I to this day talk this game up, especially the PvP. No game has mimicked the pvp in this game to date. My people. I mean, realistically its a small group that fervently loves the PvP on this game. It's almost guaranteed we've brushed past eachother and played together. I recognized some char names you were dueling from years ago in a recent pvp video you posted.
I absolutely LOVE your videos and how you explain this stuff. I probably played 2,000+ hours of D2 back in the day, up through 1.11, and did not know some of this stuff. Here's to 2,000 more hours in D2 Resurrected :)
Was doing chaos runs and D dropped an arachs. Sweet! The very next run a random mob dropped a rare spiderweb sash with triple durability.. it was pretty amusing
The ebug could have been easily removed, but luckily the devs saw it as a game enhancing mechanic. Unintended for sure, but a great bug for players to aim for.
When i saw the video title, i thought all the possible topics you could cover. And you did! For me, there was nothing new, still, i appreciate the info you made common knowledge for the most awesome game ever made. Kudos!
The durability bug on classic D2 was pretty common since all exceptional items had no unique associated with them. Add to this unique items were exclusionary to a game they already existed in, and you could force a lot of items like this.
5:40 blizzards engines can be a bit funky. I remember being a young kid in highschool, and i wrote a bit of code similar to this. Instead of it trying 6 times and just exiting the loop, Warcraft 3 would just crash immediately, everytime regardless of if it worked first time or not. LUL There's a way to code it so you don't have to check a random index of the entire set, which I was forced to learn after the crash issue. Funny that whoever wrote that script didn't know to do that (=
I remember when I played years ago, hacked/bugged harlequins crest (Shako) existed. They were hacked in such a way, that they had 2 or 3 sockets. The 3 socket one didn't even look like a Shako but rather that crown-looking helm. Yes, this was on *closed* bnet. I remember because I traded literally everything I had of value for one. And I had a ton of gear. I lived and breathed Diablo 2 as an (at the time) unemployed, living in my parents basement type supernerd. The norm was putting IST runes in it to increase MF. I haven't been able to find any info about it at all, which really annoys me, because noone believes me! :(
@@adamcarr4989 Just like these bugged items are "impossible". If someone told me about the items in this video, without showing them to me, I'd say THAT was impossible as well. It had something to do with merging items. It was like a mix of Crown of Ages and Harle. The stats were all messed up. But it had most of the Harle stats.
Great video. Made me mad tho. I’ve rolled ten thousand of sceptres looking for 2/3/3 on my plugy and never cared about anything else. Maybe I rolled a godly item and handed it to charsi.
I keep learning about this awesome 20yo game till this day thanks to you Cooley, your channel is unique same as this rare ítems, keep the great content!
The only bugged item I ever remember "finding" was an Eth bugged Shaftstop but it bugged in the wrong direction...I upped it to Boneweave but the armor value stayed the same as Mesh armor D:
Extra durability weapons are really nice in D2 Classic for whirlwind barb. Especially after 1.10 when they increased the amount of hits WW does. A rare lance with 75 durability vs the default 25. Though I'm not sure why it spawns 75, back in the pre-LoD it used to spawn 255 or something. How it worked back then is that you would carry a Unique pike with you in the game and when ever the game tried to roll a unique pike it would fail and reroll to possible Rare Lance with 5x durability. Back then uniques could only exist once in the game, which is why it was very easy to gamble SoJ's also. Keep Nagel and Manald and every unique you gamble would be SoJ (just remember to mule them away). Gambling could roll uniques with 3-5% chance..
This probably isn't a bug but it seems like it to me. A few years ago i got an amulet with +3 to traps and i believe 25 charges of lvl 2 teleport. I haven't seen another amulet like that since. Maybe i was just really lucky that day.
I have a SUPERIOR necro demon head.. With +2 bone armor +2 bone spear +1 bone wall and prison +2 to bone spirit With Rune Words +2 to necro skills/ skill.. It's very rare when you got it on Solo farming drops the SUPERIOR HEAD.. ❤️
Back in patch 1.09, I distinctly remember a unique Aegis (!!!?) dropping from cows. This was during the height of one of the public dupe exploits that made the servers incredibly laggy - actually playing was incredibly painful as you kept desynching, but we were 12 years old and completely obsessed with Diablo. Anyway, the reason a unique Aegis is weird is it should not have dropped in that patch at all. There was no unique Aegis in 1.09. In 1.08, it was a Stormshield, and in 1.10+, it was a Medusa's Gaze. But 1.09 was a patch that did not have a unique Aegis at all! A schoolmate of mine picked it up before I managed to get to it, and I tried to convince him to identify it to see what it was, but he decided to sell it as an "unid 08 Stormshield" (which it almost certainly wasn't). I assume it was another unique that the servers spawned with the wrong item base, due to a bit flipping somewhere in memory. Computers aren't 100% reliable, and Blizzard likely did not spend extra money to get enterprise-class hardware with ECC memory. Anyway, so I makes me wonder if some of the commonly-duped bugged items that had the properties of a unique or set, but with the wrong base (such as the Occulus ring, for example) might have been a legitimately found drop, when playing on server with ever-so-slightly unstable hardware.
FYI, from a streamer to a streamer/channel operator... create a visual 'deflection', your chest at a slight angle, to limit anxiety/viewer-exhaustion when 'squaring up' shoulder line to shoulder line, directly facing one another. Do a 15-second long rendition of the same recording, with each type of positioning. It's not that we don't want you to feel as if you're about to lean in and slowly make-out with us (lol, all joking aside, it's the same anxiety your brain sources it from)... it's simply just how it is. Give it a shot, you may be surprised how much easier it is to watch and, even more important, absorb your content. Otherwise, the first time I've interacted with your channel aside from a sub (oh shit, I'm JUST now doing so? yikes..) I THOUGHT I had done a while back. Great content, keep it up!!!
Thank you for this feedback! I did recently order a new green screen. Previously, I had just painted my back wall green (LOL!). But in order to get a better angle (and not have to paint the floor green too), we had to step it up. What do you stream?? Thanks again, Chad!
Bro, this is just weird. Like, I would be MORE than insulted hearing this. Just let the man do him and you do you. No need to bring unnecessary, petty comments in trying to act like a hotshot. Just look stupid by claiming this made up scientific fact 😑🤔😑🤔
@@adamcarr4989 Act like a hotshot? lol.. What are you talking about? Its perfectly sound and legitimate advice. I never claimed to make better content, complimented the hell out of what he does... wtf are you talking about, guy? lol. This is the shit that's wrong with the world, everyone is so ready to be offended and attack... I suggested the man turn like... 5-8 degrees... lol... *insert grandma 'wut' meme*
And you don't think telling someone to move 5-8 degrees is a weird prospect? GG, GD? and I'm the one trying to act like a hotshot? "This is what's wrong with the world hurr durrr" you're such an idiot and you can't even see it, classic!
I remember having finding holy shield scepters but yeah, had far more whirlwind helms over the years. Always knew to look for them, but not how it actually worked with the code and the engine. On E-bug, I see that has an happy little accident since it gave value to some bases, same for zod bug in conjunction for non-self-repair, non-indestructible items. Now, could you explain how taking the Horadric Staff past act 2 bug worked? did it accidentally a few times. And once I went back to town using the portal Deckard Cain creates and it became permanent, never heard of anyone doing that and my friends thought I was bullshitting them, tried many times but could never recreate it. Maybe very specific 1 frame 1 pixel click or something. Probably more bugs Im forgetting, but there's a video idea, could also include old skill bugs in it like bone wall farming. Good luck getting footage for most of them though, Im not sure I even have the screens from my older drives anymore.
Remember when .10 came out i took the zod out of my very first arcaines valor I found off Hell pindle with ITH sword barb. it was a +2 barb +2 druid eth valor. Kept the indestructible mod. GG video.
hi Coooley, i like your videos! You told me some useful infos even to a vetaran player like me who playing Diablo 2 since october 2003, good job! Now, can i have a question please?; is it possible to find a +3 to 'Conviction' AND +3 to 'Fist of the Heavens' AND +3 to 'Holy Shield' War Scepter or Divine Scepter or Caduceus, 0 or 5 socketed ( for cta ), preferably with 15 % ed 3 ar? Best i saw ingame so far was 1-3-3 non-superior war scepter cta663 inside, but that was years ago. So, my concrete question is that nowadays still possible to find such things? Thank you in advance ! Subbed ofc !
Thanks man! Glad you're liking the videos. I'm actually not sure if this is possible. I know that the skills that spawn on these scepters tend to be in the same "tier". It'd be rare to see HS mixed in with lvl 30 skills (if it's even possible). Hope this helps! Thanks for the sub
I recently shopped a +3 HS scepter for LLD. Took some time for get one level 30 or under. Doing it in act 2 NM with the town exit right next to Drognan I would see some sort of +HS scepter about every 20 mins.
Every 20 min? I’m calling BS. Unless you are a speed reader and/or using a program, that’s maybe 1000 scepters that you looked at for a 1 in a million roll.
@@chrisp2272 3 or 4 shops a min running 20 feet with vigor. Maybe it was longer than that on average but definitely saw a few in the couple hours it took to find one the right level. This was in path of Diablo but I dont think that mod would have affected npc shops.
@@autoaero3201 Are you using a loot filter? I’ve shopped various items before, and the difficult parts are finding the line of text you’re looking for because they don’t line up. So you aren’t just reading up and down, left and right. You’re browsing. After a few minutes, maintaining a shopping pace causes you to forget to blink. Clicking on the NPC isn’t an exact science either. The actual rarity seems to be 1 in 80K, even if you saw 100 a minute, that’s 800 minutes to see 80K, so you got extremely lucky if you saw multiples in a couple hours. Now I have to dust off the D2 and investigate...
@@chrisp2272 no filters. definitely got pretty quick at reading. Holy shock would be the only skill that would trip me up. Plus he mostly sold grand scepters so there could be quite a few on the page at a time. Maybe skills rolls are slightly different from npcs on magic items. Even if I saw 100 scepters a minute thats probably easily 200 skill rolls though on average. If scepter rolls with 3 skills then the 3rd skill has 2 less options it could be. They just aren't as rare from a shop. On the flip side I've maybe seen 1 drop from a monster? And I've never found a +ww helm
@@autoaero3201 The 1 in 80K doesn’t mean you’ll find it in 40K scepters if they all have two skills, it means that you can get 1 skill or 3 on a scepter, and it takes 80K scepters to get HS once.
the item that rolls unique with out a corresponding unique item so it falls as a rare with increased durability is not a bug blizzard actually put that in there when they brought out lord of destruction as all the new items did not have a unique associated with it.
I have been wondering and researching / discussing the holy shield scepter thing for a while now trying to get to the bottom of it. I'm a bit confused still. You say the mods are not supposed to spawn on class-specific items. But a scepter is not class-specific; but what you're saying is, the game tried to roll mods 6 times on the scepter before giving it holy shield, what are the mods that it tried to roll 6 times? Holy shield 6 times in a row I guess? haha
man i was waiting for you to say about those bugged poison damage small charms ...my bread amd butter...ran lower kurast for months trying to see how high i could get them found some in the 2800s over like i think 24 sec i believe ..my javazon murdered in pvp with full inv.. just took forever to find them//good times/hate to think my life may end sep.29th....again.lol
to me zod rune should work that way when you just use it and remove it and items stay immortal, that would make zod runes highest rune in the game valuable as it fairly supposed to
You know it's funny people talk about engines all the time, Unreal, Quake etc. Have we ever been told what engine Diablo 2 used? Was it something completely built from scratch by Blizzard North?
Man I REALLY love your videos! I played D2 back in 1.09& up and I remember getting lots of duped items and bugged items and I absolutely loved the game! I played a couple of ladders and I was very wealthy in the game. I ran a bot with a friend and we were among the 1% in the game. I never knew how these things worked and I really want to thank you for posting these!
holy shield scepters can drop and be shopped quite often in old versions. i play 1.00 single player exclusively now, and they are not at all hard to find. not sure when that change was made.
And why ebug doesnt work for weapons then ?
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Great question! Where damage is a more dynamic field and can come from a variety of "weird" places (i.e. Boots, Shields, etc.), the code was written differently, especially surrounding the Ethereal state. A special code needed to be written to calculate this properly, as ethereal shields (for smite) and boots (for kicking) actually do NOT do any more damage just because they're ethereal. The difference in coding for this seemed to prevent the bug from happening on weapons. Pinning this interesting question!
Supposedly, the double application of the ethereal bonus is due to the fix for a bug where upgraded rare and unique armors lost their ethereal bonus in a previous patch.
The fix for the upgrade bug is what caused the Tal + Thul + PTopaz bug. Lucky mercenaries and yourself if you make Prudence in an ebug armor.
Weapons didn't have the same bug.
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Pretty sure I upped an eth shaftstop before the bug fix and just scratched my head for a minute after
@@marcello4258
Yeah, Skulders has treasure class issues which make it hard to find to begin with. Same with gaze.
There were enough people still playing in 1.10 and no bots that reg was still fairly valuable. Eth was just obnoxiously expensive for a good one that it just wasn’t worth it
I don't play D2 anymore but I love these interesting facts about it. I always wondered how people did these certain things.
it kinda died when blizz kicked brevik and gang to the curb. they cant treat talented ppl like that, many ppl lost interest because of that.
Try Median XL + GlideFX Wrapper. Those mods reignited my D2 passion. :)
same but def will when Resurrected comes out such videos makes me realise that they were a lot of things i didnt know even if i had all the gear i wanted back in the days. This game is better then the modern games its pretty awesome and sad to realise this fact.
Like the only thing I knew about years ago that was mentioned here was the Eth Bug. I'd never heard of the Zod bug or the rare class items with forbidden skills on them.
@@illiji915 Zbug CoH is a easy find for USWest pretty much not needed to even dupe since they duped the zbug armors w/o the runeword in them therefor making them legitimate
"The new stuff .. added in 1.10"
Boy, do I know that feeling. Where has the time gone
I remember staying up that night... for nothing, lol, it didn't reset until 4-7am? Whenever it was, it sure as hell wasn't the midnight my boy Justin and I thought.
It's good to see you made the effort for a full explanation and gave great details on these functions.
A little FYI, the durability bug happens with sets and uniques. A failed set item will spawn the magic item with double the durability and a failed unique will spawn the rare with triple the durability.
Failed set rolls blue (magic) not yellow (rare)
I love videos like this. It's amazing that there's always interesting new things to learn about a 20 year old game that we've all played so much and thought there couldn't possibly be more to learn about.
Thanks for this. This is why I check all War Scepters.
The roll to select the skill has to fail six times to get Holy Shield. Same thing for Weapon Block Claws and Poison Dagger Wands.
Assassin Claws can have skills on all above and including Hand Scythe.
I once spent 5-6'ish hours shopping for a Holy Shield scepter... even a single +1... guess how well that 1:80,000+ ratio went?
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I’ve picked up every norm/magic/rare scepter since I heard about it over 10 years ago- “money sticks” for gambling, and not a single +holy shield.
A couple hours of shopping is child’s play.
I love imbuing ethereal claws. They tend to get a lot of skills. It’s like holding a prism. You just stare and say oooooooooooo
chris P wtf? Speak to me wise-one... thou aren’t bridge-trolling thy areth they?
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Woah, Napoleon (yes, I am aware he was actually average height for his day). But that’s some little man aggression ya got there. I was merely suggesting that you didn’t look at nearly enough scepters to reasonably expect to see one.
Depending on single player vs bnet, you could maybe look at 50 scepters a minute. Over 6 hours that’s about 20K. Compared to something like a 50/50 coin flip, events with very low probabilities need a number of draws in the billions or trillions, or approaching infinity to display that probability. In other words, you could easily look at 160K scepters and not find one.
That last “they” should be a “thou,” to maintain the style of your little schtick. Speaking of a little schtick, if that profile pic is you, I’m not surprised at the amount of little dick energy you have going on.
Poison dagger charges do have a secret use. If you use with Venom it will make the Venom spread over the PD duration but maintain the Venom DPS. It was fun to mess in PvP where people were convinced your pack was full of poison charms. Extremly niche but fun to know.
@Coooley My best memory is when I played Diablo 2 back in 2004 and somebody gave me this "Ungodly" armor in multiplayer. I played through all of D2's single player with it. You are very informative.
Not gonna lie, +poison dagger on a wand would be quite funny. Like how am I supposed to use this
Yup. Had one of those. Completely useless (although, I was stoked for a while, until I realized... Yeah)!
could a duel wielding barb use it?
Hey I just stumbled across this video because of all my d2 resurrected hype. Just wanted to share, that screenshot of the zbug 171 shako was me! I am end @ jsp and that shako was one of several zbug trophies I owned over the years
Damn, I never realized that about the skills! I have definitely found a number of barb helms with plus combat skills, but didn't realize that was a game bug.
Some of them aren't necessarily that useful and, barb helms especially, are more common. But definitely something to think about next time you see one drop!
@@Coooley most commonly, I've found them with leap attack or concentrate - which was nice when I played a conc barb.
Yeah I didn't know it was a bug either! Found a poison dagger wand once and I remember being like "what the hell, how can I even use poison dagger if it's on a wand", it being a bug definitely makes sense there :P
ur knowledge is so amazing, the way u deliver it = perfect. Just super enjoyable to watch even tho I do not play d2 anymore. Ive tried to make an acc on east (to smack u in pvp) but the ping there is way too high for me since im european
Thank you for your kind words! Sorry that the ping is so high from Europe :( I do enjoy gettin' smacked around in PvP. It's the best way to learn new tricks! haha
@@Coooley knowing you are now a bounty contract i'll too hope to see you in resurrected 👑
me writing all this down for Resurected :D
Cooley this is amazing. You are explaining all the shit I have been wondering about for many many years.. thank you
Last bug you mentioned was my nightmare for about a couple of months since I found a rare Spiderweb sash off Pindle with triple durability! That was supposed to be my Arachnid mesh and I found out about this bug because the same thing happened to Dbrunski in one of his videos ^^
Great video, keep it up
Especially if you’re single player (speed optimization) I’ve always found D and Meph to be the best for Arach. Elites drop it, but bosses will do it more consistently
Always felt the eth Armor bug was a happy accident. Since there’s only a blah 2 soc runeword for player use (Unless you don’t mind breakage), it’s merc only, and even fully geared, they’re squishy.
Fun story: found a perf base def eth Sacred Armor, naturally got 1 soc so couldn’t even make prudence.
Also had a 44 res eth vortex ruined, which are extremely rare if you don’t realize how many bases are duped by botters.
The reason why some skills are forbidden is quite a nitpicky one - can't hit with your head, therefore no melee skills are allowed on helms (they are allowed on Druid pelts, but that's a separate can of worms). Holy Shield and Smite are of course *shield* skills, so it isn't logical for a scepter to possess them. And similarly, wands and shrunken heads aren't daggers.
shoutout to Jared and Greendude on east hardcore non ladder. Greendude and Jared had bugged small poison charms; i mean the ones that did "400 damage for x seconds" were actually "400 to life". I'm sure I can get a screenshot if I ask the old boys.
does all this work on PD2?
As a necro player the poison dagger skill being forbidden is really neet but ultimately not mandatory for poison and bone builds as a forbidden skill roll on a item so I personally wouldn't pay a premium for it I can see why a min maxer would.
Yeah I don't think they're useful at all... The poison dagger wands. But certainly a collector's item!
such a cool dive into some of the niches of the game. Good explanation of the forbidden skills
No, the ebug armors are a result of a "fix" to upgrading rare/unique ethereal armor. In 1.10 they would lose their eth defense bonus, so the "fix" was to add eth bonus to any eth armor type item coming out of the cube.
Anyway, as a Single Player enthusiast, I often switch which game version I run. Version 1.00 allows repeated cow king kills, and uniques didn't have a lvl req back then. They only gain that once converted to expansion. However, if you want to do rushes in classic, SoJs with no level req is bonkers. As are the bugged mana per kill rings from 1.07, not to mention the crafts.
@Coooley, I can tell you're a longtime pure and true fan of the diablo franchise. You should try Grim Dawn's Reign of Terror Diablo 2 Full Game Remake Mod. It's Incredible.... literally like re-living the game in modern day (well as close to it as we're ever going to get.)
Huh. Never knew this. I always assumed that the only bugged items were the paladin class specific shields that dropped in hell. They had super high stats but appeared on the low level paladin shields.
The auto mods have level restrictions to spawn, but don’t cause the level restriction on the shield.
For ex: the highest res all is something like level 45 monster level that dropped the shield to spawn. But a non magic targe will be level... 3?... to use no matter what.
It's nice to another person that has as much time invested into this old piece of shit as me. I to this day talk this game up, especially the PvP. No game has mimicked the pvp in this game to date. My people. I mean, realistically its a small group that fervently loves the PvP on this game. It's almost guaranteed we've brushed past eachother and played together. I recognized some char names you were dueling from years ago in a recent pvp video you posted.
I absolutely LOVE your videos and how you explain this stuff. I probably played 2,000+ hours of D2 back in the day, up through 1.11, and did not know some of this stuff.
Here's to 2,000 more hours in D2 Resurrected :)
Was doing chaos runs and D dropped an arachs. Sweet! The very next run a random mob dropped a rare spiderweb sash with triple durability.. it was pretty amusing
The ebug could have been easily removed, but luckily the devs saw it as a game enhancing mechanic. Unintended for sure, but a great bug for players to aim for.
When i saw the video title, i thought all the possible topics you could cover. And you did! For me, there was nothing new, still, i appreciate the info you made common knowledge for the most awesome game ever made. Kudos!
Great video man! Awesome content and presentation, looking forward to many more videos.
The durability bug on classic D2 was pretty common since all exceptional items had no unique associated with them. Add to this unique items were exclusionary to a game they already existed in, and you could force a lot of items like this.
These kind of videos makes me wonder how many very very very rare items i missed/sold or threw away :)
5:40 blizzards engines can be a bit funky. I remember being a young kid in highschool, and i wrote a bit of code similar to this. Instead of it trying 6 times and just exiting the loop, Warcraft 3 would just crash immediately, everytime regardless of if it worked first time or not. LUL
There's a way to code it so you don't have to check a random index of the entire set, which I was forced to learn after the crash issue. Funny that whoever wrote that script didn't know to do that (=
Congrats on 2k subs dude!
Thanks, man!
12.7k Subs now!!😇
This just popped up outta nowhere..so you know offa GP im watching it all ❤❤😂😂
I'm loving these videos. They fixed the EBug eth armors with d2r, right?
Double and triple Durability spiderweb sash from trav, I cry everytime.
I remember when I played years ago, hacked/bugged harlequins crest (Shako) existed. They were hacked in such a way, that they had 2 or 3 sockets. The 3 socket one didn't even look like a Shako but rather that crown-looking helm. Yes, this was on *closed* bnet. I remember because I traded literally everything I had of value for one. And I had a ton of gear. I lived and breathed Diablo 2 as an (at the time) unemployed, living in my parents basement type supernerd. The norm was putting IST runes in it to increase MF.
I haven't been able to find any info about it at all, which really annoys me, because noone believes me! :(
That's because that's impossible
@@adamcarr4989 Just like these bugged items are "impossible". If someone told me about the items in this video, without showing them to me, I'd say THAT was impossible as well.
It had something to do with merging items. It was like a mix of Crown of Ages and Harle. The stats were all messed up. But it had most of the Harle stats.
Funny, I had made a post on a few of these the other day.
Another fun idea for a video: far casting
I didn't know that about the ZOD rune bug! What a fantastic bug!
Great video. Made me mad tho. I’ve rolled ten thousand of sceptres looking for 2/3/3 on my plugy and never cared about anything else. Maybe I rolled a godly item and handed it to charsi.
5:32 deleting skill from list of possible rolls seems like obvious solution imo.
wow didn't know that about Holy Shield. great video!! love your content!!
I keep learning about this awesome 20yo game till this day thanks to you Cooley, your channel is unique same as this rare ítems, keep the great content!
Thanks, Rodrigo. This really means a lot! I appreciate you
Hey man I love your video. I didn't know about the combat skills with the barb and the holy shield bug. Great work!
I was lucky enough to have a handful of 1.09 ethereal bugged items back in the day. gbane, vgaze, bartucs, even a very random headstriker.
just making a correction, game engines wont stop you from making infinite loops, they just added a protection for it that was bugged
The only bugged item I ever remember "finding" was an Eth bugged Shaftstop but it bugged in the wrong direction...I upped it to Boneweave but the armor value stayed the same as Mesh armor D:
Extra durability weapons are really nice in D2 Classic for whirlwind barb. Especially after 1.10 when they increased the amount of hits WW does.
A rare lance with 75 durability vs the default 25.
Though I'm not sure why it spawns 75, back in the pre-LoD it used to spawn 255 or something.
How it worked back then is that you would carry a Unique pike with you in the game and when ever the game tried to roll a unique pike it would fail and reroll to possible Rare Lance with 5x durability.
Back then uniques could only exist once in the game, which is why it was very easy to gamble SoJ's also. Keep Nagel and Manald and every unique you gamble would be SoJ (just remember to mule them away). Gambling could roll uniques with 3-5% chance..
your PVP stuff is cool, but those kind of videos you make are THE BEST !!! I love being surprised by D2 obscure stuff
Thanks, man. That means a lot! Crazy how much has been learned (and forgotten) about this ancient game over the years
I still play d2 to this day although its median xl now
awesome videos! been watching a few of yours
Dude this is awesome! Where have you beeddn
This probably isn't a bug but it seems like it to me. A few years ago i got an amulet with +3 to traps and i believe 25 charges of lvl 2 teleport. I haven't seen another amulet like that since. Maybe i was just really lucky that day.
These can still spawn. No bug. Just rare
Dude,these videos are so welcome and refreshing. thank you! subscribed.
Welcome aboard!
Nice vid. Can you do bugged monsters that aren't supposed to exist next? 😁
I have a SUPERIOR necro demon head.. With
+2 bone armor
+2 bone spear
+1 bone wall and prison
+2 to bone spirit
With
Rune Words +2 to necro skills/ skill..
It's very rare when you got it on Solo farming drops the SUPERIOR HEAD.. ❤️
Crazy, didn't know about the scepter 😄
Back in patch 1.09, I distinctly remember a unique Aegis (!!!?) dropping from cows. This was during the height of one of the public dupe exploits that made the servers incredibly laggy - actually playing was incredibly painful as you kept desynching, but we were 12 years old and completely obsessed with Diablo. Anyway, the reason a unique Aegis is weird is it should not have dropped in that patch at all. There was no unique Aegis in 1.09. In 1.08, it was a Stormshield, and in 1.10+, it was a Medusa's Gaze. But 1.09 was a patch that did not have a unique Aegis at all! A schoolmate of mine picked it up before I managed to get to it, and I tried to convince him to identify it to see what it was, but he decided to sell it as an "unid 08 Stormshield" (which it almost certainly wasn't). I assume it was another unique that the servers spawned with the wrong item base, due to a bit flipping somewhere in memory. Computers aren't 100% reliable, and Blizzard likely did not spend extra money to get enterprise-class hardware with ECC memory. Anyway, so I makes me wonder if some of the commonly-duped bugged items that had the properties of a unique or set, but with the wrong base (such as the Occulus ring, for example) might have been a legitimately found drop, when playing on server with ever-so-slightly unstable hardware.
Didn't see you already have a video about these. Comes to think of it, it actually did drop from Mephisto rather than cows.
this makes me want to play d2 again
no dont do it../remember its worst than crack....or the same (crack kills)
You got the sub purely based on how well your presentation was awesome video great job being so informative
Subscribing to you bro, I find it hard to learn new stuff about this game and this video contained nothing but that. Great stuff!
FYI, from a streamer to a streamer/channel operator... create a visual 'deflection', your chest at a slight angle, to limit anxiety/viewer-exhaustion when 'squaring up' shoulder line to shoulder line, directly facing one another.
Do a 15-second long rendition of the same recording, with each type of positioning. It's not that we don't want you to feel as if you're about to lean in and slowly make-out with us (lol, all joking aside, it's the same anxiety your brain sources it from)... it's simply just how it is. Give it a shot, you may be surprised how much easier it is to watch and, even more important, absorb your content.
Otherwise, the first time I've interacted with your channel aside from a sub (oh shit, I'm JUST now doing so? yikes..) I THOUGHT I had done a while back. Great content, keep it up!!!
Thank you for this feedback! I did recently order a new green screen. Previously, I had just painted my back wall green (LOL!). But in order to get a better angle (and not have to paint the floor green too), we had to step it up. What do you stream?? Thanks again, Chad!
Bro, this is just weird. Like, I would be MORE than insulted hearing this. Just let the man do him and you do you. No need to bring unnecessary, petty comments in trying to act like a hotshot. Just look stupid by claiming this made up scientific fact 😑🤔😑🤔
@@adamcarr4989 Act like a hotshot? lol.. What are you talking about? Its perfectly sound and legitimate advice. I never claimed to make better content, complimented the hell out of what he does... wtf are you talking about, guy? lol.
This is the shit that's wrong with the world, everyone is so ready to be offended and attack... I suggested the man turn like... 5-8 degrees... lol... *insert grandma 'wut' meme*
@@adamcarr4989 GG, GD.
And you don't think telling someone to move 5-8 degrees is a weird prospect? GG, GD? and I'm the one trying to act like a hotshot? "This is what's wrong with the world hurr durrr" you're such an idiot and you can't even see it, classic!
Fuck me I found loads of bugged items and sold them. Need to learn more about bugged items.
I kinda wish the ability to make any ethereal item indestructible was still around. I just imagine indus eth grief
Back in 2007-2008 I've traded a barb helm 3 ww, 1 natural resistance, 70+ hp with 2 socs and 30 lvl req.
I remember having finding holy shield scepters but yeah, had far more whirlwind helms over the years.
Always knew to look for them, but not how it actually worked with the code and the engine.
On E-bug, I see that has an happy little accident since it gave value to some bases, same for zod bug in conjunction for non-self-repair, non-indestructible items.
Now, could you explain how taking the Horadric Staff past act 2 bug worked? did it accidentally a few times.
And once I went back to town using the portal Deckard Cain creates and it became permanent, never heard of anyone doing that and my friends thought I was bullshitting them, tried many times but could never recreate it. Maybe very specific 1 frame 1 pixel click or something. Probably more bugs Im forgetting, but there's a video idea, could also include old skill bugs in it like bone wall farming. Good luck getting footage for most of them though, Im not sure I even have the screens from my older drives anymore.
Remember when .10 came out i took the zod out of my very first arcaines valor I found off Hell pindle with ITH sword barb. it was a +2 barb +2 druid eth valor. Kept the indestructible mod. GG video.
hi Coooley, i like your videos! You told me some useful infos even to a vetaran player like me who playing Diablo 2 since october 2003, good job! Now, can i have a question please?; is it possible to find a +3 to 'Conviction' AND +3 to 'Fist of the Heavens' AND +3 to 'Holy Shield' War Scepter or Divine Scepter or Caduceus, 0 or 5 socketed ( for cta ), preferably with 15 % ed 3 ar? Best i saw ingame so far was 1-3-3 non-superior war scepter cta663 inside, but that was years ago. So, my concrete question is that nowadays still possible to find such things? Thank you in advance ! Subbed ofc !
Thanks man! Glad you're liking the videos. I'm actually not sure if this is possible. I know that the skills that spawn on these scepters tend to be in the same "tier". It'd be rare to see HS mixed in with lvl 30 skills (if it's even possible). Hope this helps! Thanks for the sub
For anyone wondering, this has been fixed for Resurrected.
Im still looking for that holy shield scepter on single player, must have looted over 500 scepters by now xD I can confirm its really rare haha
Same. Picking up every scepter and not seen 1
dude! awesome vids, I am actually impressed
I'm quite sure I've found Whirlwind on barbarians helmets.
Yes happens quite often. I find one helmet with whirlwind every few months.
But never got a holy shield scepter and I do check 99% of all scepter
I recently shopped a +3 HS scepter for LLD. Took some time for get one level 30 or under. Doing it in act 2 NM with the town exit right next to Drognan I would see some sort of +HS scepter about every 20 mins.
Every 20 min? I’m calling BS. Unless you are a speed reader and/or using a program, that’s maybe 1000 scepters that you looked at for a 1 in a million roll.
@@chrisp2272 3 or 4 shops a min running 20 feet with vigor. Maybe it was longer than that on average but definitely saw a few in the couple hours it took to find one the right level. This was in path of Diablo but I dont think that mod would have affected npc shops.
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Are you using a loot filter? I’ve shopped various items before, and the difficult parts are finding the line of text you’re looking for because they don’t line up. So you aren’t just reading up and down, left and right. You’re browsing. After a few minutes, maintaining a shopping pace causes you to forget to blink. Clicking on the NPC isn’t an exact science either.
The actual rarity seems to be 1 in 80K, even if you saw 100 a minute, that’s 800 minutes to see 80K, so you got extremely lucky if you saw multiples in a couple hours.
Now I have to dust off the D2 and investigate...
@@chrisp2272 no filters. definitely got pretty quick at reading. Holy shock would be the only skill that would trip me up. Plus he mostly sold grand scepters so there could be quite a few on the page at a time. Maybe skills rolls are slightly different from npcs on magic items. Even if I saw 100 scepters a minute thats probably easily 200 skill rolls though on average. If scepter rolls with 3 skills then the 3rd skill has 2 less options it could be. They just aren't as rare from a shop. On the flip side I've maybe seen 1 drop from a monster? And I've never found a +ww helm
@@autoaero3201
The 1 in 80K doesn’t mean you’ll find it in 40K scepters if they all have two skills, it means that you can get 1 skill or 3 on a scepter, and it takes 80K scepters to get HS once.
the item that rolls unique with out a corresponding unique item so it falls as a rare with increased durability is not a bug blizzard actually put that in there when they brought out lord of destruction as all the new items did not have a unique associated with it.
7:46 or if this uniq already dropped in this game. Every uniq can spawn only once in each game.
Love these videos, thanks for making them!
Hybrid runewords was awesome.
Woah, i just found a +2holy shock +3holy shield one hand scepter, does that count??
Sure does. Roll a CTA!
Coooley well if it is a war scepter then maybe 😀 the other 2 cannot get 5 open sockets!
Its only the 3socket variant =/
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@@Patchworkpalsandanimanimal2020 4os for cta? hmmmmmmmhhmmhhhmmhmhmhmhmmhhmhmhmmhmhmhmmhmhmhmmhhm
I have been wondering and researching / discussing the holy shield scepter thing for a while now trying to get to the bottom of it.
I'm a bit confused still.
You say the mods are not supposed to spawn on class-specific items. But a scepter is not class-specific;
but what you're saying is, the game tried to roll mods 6 times on the scepter before giving it holy shield, what are the mods that it tried to roll 6 times?
Holy shield 6 times in a row I guess? haha
It would have to roll a "Forbidden Skill" 6 times in a row. So either HS or Smite would have to be rolled every single time :)
Dude a barb helm with +1 to combat skills +1 to spear mastery just dropped on battlenet for me is that good :D
i found a crazy charm that increased random attributes that had nothing to do with the charm's listed attributes.
I did find a non-magic staff with 3 sockets a +3 to light master. Not bugged but it seemed rare.
Great content man. Keep up
man i was waiting for you to say about those bugged poison damage small charms ...my bread amd butter...ran lower kurast for months trying to see how high i could get them found some in the 2800s over like i think 24 sec i believe ..my javazon murdered in pvp with full inv.. just took forever to find them//good times/hate to think my life may end sep.29th....again.lol
I had a leap attack 3 os barb helm plus 3 iron skin 3 shout
4:00 "Legitimately possible" as he shows an OP Arkaine's valor.
to me zod rune should work that way when you just use it and remove it and items stay immortal, that would make zod runes highest rune in the game valuable as it fairly supposed to
You know it's funny people talk about engines all the time, Unreal, Quake etc. Have we ever been told what engine Diablo 2 used? Was it something completely built from scratch by Blizzard North?
Great content man, would never believe I would learn something new from this game i’ve been playing since forever haha! Subbed!(Y)
Man I REALLY love your videos! I played D2 back in 1.09& up and I remember getting lots of duped items and bugged items and I absolutely loved the game! I played a couple of ladders and I was very wealthy in the game. I ran a bot with a friend and we were among the 1% in the game. I never knew how these things worked and I really want to thank you for posting these!
nothing more legendary then the Dirk Diggler
I am proud of having found a white barb helm with 2ww and 2 bo for my lld barbarian. Thanks for the video I didn’t know that :)
holy shield scepters can drop and be shopped quite often in old versions. i play 1.00 single player exclusively now, and they are not at all hard to find. not sure when that change was made.
Nice so when I’m stacking magic find I can find some
lol remember braking the game with ridiculous mod. The mod was so much fun.
Any chance of a ghost assassin build guide?
Now I know what the eff ebug means haha
I never played a paladin. What good would it be to have holy shield on scepter ? or is it that is a usable plus skill point ?
I'm still playing D2 LoD! Would you recommend playing Diablo 2 Original? I remember there were better rares...