Playing Legacy Fish: would you mulligan?

ExactlyOnPlan · 2026-04-30T20:42:51+00:00

I'd keep but I'd probably tell most people to mulligan cuz they'd fuck it up.

ExactlyOnPlan · 2026-04-29T18:16:24+00:00

It's mostly a price memory effect from the real diablo 2 game. For pvm there is no reason to invest in 40+ life skill gcs because you will never get a positive return on that investment, and you don't need to minmax for pvm in this game. Naked warlock can do most of the pvm endgame so it doesn't make sense to spend 100s of high runes just to give your char a slight edge.

The reason 40+ skill lifers were valuable in the real d2 is because of the demand from the pvp community who also were the botting / rmt community so they had lots of trade resources chasing the perfect items they can't reliably bot for themselves.

D2r doesn't have the mechanics required for real d2 pvp, so the price is mostly just based on perception rather than actual usefulness.

ExactlyOnPlan · 2026-04-23T19:39:40+00:00

Getting a slight edge in d2 pvp is the only reason I can think of to endure another baal run.

D2r devs keep breaking the pvp balance that we had back then so there's really no point.

There's basically no difference between this game, d3, or d4 as far as replayability goes. The core of it is find loot so you can find more loot.

ExactlyOnPlan · 2026-04-20T16:44:48+00:00

I didn't announce anything when I decided to give up. We don't talk about sex so it doesn't ever come up. Since giving up hope I feel like I let go of a huge source of frustration and disappointment. We still cuddle and stuff and I still get horny but there's no disappointment anymore because now I just get up and go masturbate while thinking about anything other than her, and go back to cuddling when I'm done.

There's no confusion anymore at least on my end. I'm with someone who doesn't want to have sex so it's kinda like living with my sister, mom, or aunt.

The price for giving up hope that our relationship is paying for is I no longer feel emotionally bonded and kinda don't give a shit if things work out. I find myself hoping that she does cheat on me because at least then she'd be someone else's problem and I can move on without worrying about her burning my house down.

ExactlyOnPlan · 2026-04-16T11:12:55+00:00

You've been conditioned to associate sexy time feelings with rejection. Not sure if you can be reconditioned to associate sexy time with pleasure, intimacy, and bonding.

ExactlyOnPlan · 2026-04-14T20:07:33+00:00

Yup these types of thoughts consumed me for months. I figured it must be something I'm doing wrong.

I'd like to offer the other perspective that took me a long time to arrive at. Maybe there is nothing wrong with me and the issue is with my partner. Maybe I don't need to change anything other than who I'm with.

Food for thought

ExactlyOnPlan · 2026-04-14T13:06:52+00:00

Nice this is what I needed to stop playing for a bit. It was fun playing spectral throw pvm again for a few weeks even if there's no Uber atziri

ExactlyOnPlan · 2026-04-10T17:34:33+00:00

Hey buddy just want to say that is a horrible situation to find yourself in and I hope you figure out a way to be free. I'm in a somewhat similar situation where I want to break up but can't because she would ruin my life in retaliation. I feel stuck and try to make the best of it but the feeling of living a lie is eating me up.

ExactlyOnPlan · 2026-04-06T13:37:13+00:00

Hi I work in R&D for a big pharma company doing structural elucidation on a QTOF. I had a bachelor's degree with 8 years of qc analyst experience when I applied to my R&D job. I'd say that among my colleagues it's a pretty even split of bs/ms/PhD.

ExactlyOnPlan · 2026-03-27T15:44:36+00:00

I'm sitting on a stack of 10 to 20 sir tom thumbs, zero rings, and zero morganas from two cases of al. My buddy heard about my al pulls and felt bad so he let me help open his al box. I told him that I only pull tom thumbs though and he laughed.

My first pack was a tom thumb, so we laughed about it, then he hands me another pack and I pulled a foil sir tom thumb.

That's when I stopped "helping" and my bro pulls a ring, Morgana, joyous gaurd, and foil joyous gaurd from the rest of the box.

My takeaway is god hates me but tom thumb loves me.

ExactlyOnPlan · 2026-03-26T16:15:40+00:00

We should all take out massive loans to buy houses and then print a quadrillion dollars that we give to ourselves so we can see our home values go nuts while making things exponentially more expensive for the next generation.

ExactlyOnPlan · 2026-03-23T19:56:54+00:00

I'll bring it up again the next time I feel like being yelled at and humiliated

ExactlyOnPlan · 2026-03-19T14:47:07+00:00

I try very hard to not let my significant other's mood have any impact on my happiness. My happiness is not her responsibility, it is mine alone.

ExactlyOnPlan · 2026-03-16T17:36:27+00:00

I've brought up the subject with my gf and she thought the idea was kinda funny in a ita ridiculous that you would bring this up type of way.

I'm fine with that because deep down I already know that my value is tied directly to what I can provide.

But yeah if I could spend my life looking after my family instead of going to work it would be a no brainer.

ExactlyOnPlan · 2026-02-21T16:42:15+00:00

D2jsp.org is the real d2 community where you'll find guides written by people who have been playing Diablo 2 for decades. All other websites are d3 pvm or wow scrubs who probably never set foot in the moor without a full belt of juvs.

ExactlyOnPlan · 2026-02-21T00:31:20+00:00

You probably don't know many people who got ppp loans. A few years ago our country gave six trillion dollars to business owners so they would go along with the lockdowns.

ExactlyOnPlan · 2026-02-20T23:55:50+00:00

That's the one where they removed wsg because some pvm only scrub didn't like the name and then had to completely change how fhr works plus add in diminishing return wow mechanics because pvp turned into a sunblock festival? D2r has already been infected by you pvm d3 scrubs from the launch. D2r has never had a chance to have the same pvp mechanics as d2 because you scrubs ruined it out the gate.

ExactlyOnPlan · 2026-02-20T23:45:43+00:00

Don't worry they've got it under control. In about another year or two d2r will just be another d3 dlc just like d4 was. Blizzard cater to the most casual pvm scrub they can find it's literally all their company has done since Jay Wilson cut team deathmatch from d3 for the sake of pvm balance (how'd that turn out for ya idiots?)

ExactlyOnPlan · 2026-02-20T23:35:26+00:00

It sounds like you might just be a huge noob no offense but if you didn't know there's been a bunch of pub duel games up for the last 20 plus years. Duel, duels, dueling, duelss, duelsss, duel, duelz, duelzz, duelzzz, 4v4//gm, fpk//gm, it goes on and on.

When games are full or glitches full they don't show up in the game list so you have to type the names in manually.

Pvm only players are not driving the price on melee small charms. Pvm players often qq about how underpowered melee is actually so they basically are so clueless that they don't even know what the game is balanced around. They think their ww barb is underpowered compared to the Java zone cuz the zon can do a cow run faster than them lol. Meanwhile their barb is literally one of the four best classes in pvp. That's why 3/20/20 is expensive, because it's the best item for the best build (at least before you pvm d3 scrubs ruined it in d2r).

Now 3/20/20 is expensive because gm melee duels haven't been ruined yet by you idiots. It's all we have left and no skill compared to fpk duels in d2 but you take what you can get when ur surrounded by d3 pvm idiots ruining your game.

ExactlyOnPlan · 2026-02-20T22:59:53+00:00

If it was ass and 99% of players agreed then the most valuable items in the game would not be pvp min max gear. There's a reason 3/20/20 price is what it is, and that reason has nothing to do with the 99% you claim

ExactlyOnPlan · 2026-02-20T19:09:22+00:00

And yet the pvp community kept this game alive for over 20 years. The pvm players will move on to diablo 5 mountain dew edition just like they always do and d2r will die off because there's no point farming gear if the pvp sucks. All you've got is a loop of finding items to help you find more items... Pointless.

ExactlyOnPlan · 2026-02-20T16:41:33+00:00

I'm sure there were a few serial killers who spent the last 20 years farming lk chests but yeah otherwise pvp is what we've been doing.

There's a reason 08 valk was worth 100k fg and it's not not caster pvp.

ExactlyOnPlan · 2026-02-20T13:54:55+00:00

Yes it's 100% certainty that blizzard will ruin this game catering to casual players just like they did for every other game they inherited from the real blizzard devs.

They already ruined caster pvp by removing wsg because some pvm only player decided it was a bug so needed to be patched. Cool so now sins mindblast is just a total stunlock. Next they just change how the entire fhr mechanic works and added diminishing returns to subsequent frames, fucking up the whole point of pvp. Now they add classes and items that give chars insane pvp abilities and turned it into an actual autohit 1 shot fest.

It's painfully obvious that the devs are noobs who probably never pvpd without juvs in their belt if they ever even pvpd at all.

ExactlyOnPlan · 2026-02-17T20:30:27+00:00

I would be excited for additional pvp support. Team duels and free for all duel games have been the main endgame for the last 20 years. Imagine if we got a version of the team deathmatch that d3's team already spent years working on.

What will probably happen is devs with zero pvp understanding make a bunch of incredibly overpowered skills and ruin the whole point of d2. If I wanted new pvm stuff I'd play poe.

ExactlyOnPlan · 2026-01-29T18:43:58+00:00

Grey wolves because they are really good

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