PKing in softcore resulted exp loss, all dueling was done in normal. Barbs were good at soloing, rest were good at doing 2-3 people party runs to CS or whatever. 8 people party exp was no no for good exping, you needed to make some real kills for that and not just look at those palas and sorcs zerging all down in seconds. Leveling was harder as I already said, leeching was near impossible since you would get ****ty exp for being in party with anyone 10 levelels higher than you. Yeah one of the best stuff was that you could actually survive IM ww, quite easily too unless you made something stupid and ww again. barbs needed to have the right build/eq to make it efficiently. Sorcs, amas, palas and necs were really good at clearing cs. And yeah no synergies, they weren't really needed.īarbs were mostly loners back then, clearing river and cs alone and one of the most powerful classes. Yeah no long battle orders, most barbs had only 9 points in battle orders since after that came the first diminishing returns. Overall the game was maybe slightly easier than 1.10 but there still was some nasty stuff + no long battle orders. The lightning bolts stacked 3 or 5 times dealing ofc 3or5 times more damage. There was some nasty monsters that really could kill you, multiple shot lightning enchanted bosses were one of the most dangerous. You got best damage modifiers already at level 29 imbues, so it was great way to get good weapon for your leveling up process. Imbues were great way to get insane weapons, my first ever lance imbue was 330 with cold damage. Almost everything was exceptional -> no ****ty 200% ED Krisses or something. In hell level there wasn't much normal items or low quality items dropping at all. It was a lot easier for new player to get some decent items. I got a Great Helm from Normal River of Flame skull pile once with 59 hp 34 light 24 fire 15 cold res -40% req, level 22 requirement. Good chances of gamling uniques and great rares, there drops a lot more good quality rares because affix and suffix levels for most are lower. or it is really really difficult not worth the trouble. No immunes, okey they are fine in LOD where you get loads of + skills but classic sorc builds aren't really up for anything dual tree. Game style was a lot different than with delays, more aggressive.
Imagine spamming screen full of frozen orbs. this was one of the coolest things they ripped of when LOD came. Click to expand.I can give little something: