Jamoose, I got it done when I was deployed to the Philippines guy by a guy named Lorde Tatu you can search him on Facebook. Yeah bro it took 48 hours to finish lol.
Ragingdump, I'll go check yours out in a minute finally got back to a computer here sorry for the late response. Nah your not hijacking you could have posted it here haha means I'm not the only nerd getting video game tattoos.
The Parasites, lol yeah I don't have anymore space left for a seventh class haha...>.>
M3thG, no man everyone has a different opinion, but I have seen many tattoos in my lifetime if you don't think this one looks good you either don't care for tattoos in general or think every tattoo should look like ones done on TV by an artist who charges 500$+ an hour. Either way don't be sorry 
no hard feelings.
Thank you everyone else! I'm sorry for the late replies i don't have access to a computer all the time here. 
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Well yeah, you need to time your skill button presses in order for them to actually be cast. You can also spam the clicks of a certain skill while the animation of the first is running and then once it's done, the second one (that you are currently spamming) will be cast. You can also hold down one skill button and then press a second skill in-between animations while still holding the first skill down... That also works but is only useful in certain scenarios...
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In D2 you had more choice overall i think. Things like going max block or just Vit. Or going for ES or not as a melee sorc. In D2 you had very unique items that were so rare but weren't anything specific i.e a unique or a set item or whatever, they were just magical or rare items that could roll with amazing stats for specific builds.
An example would be this GH:
And then you could socket it with something like:
Which results in an awesome self-created item that feels 100 times more personal and rewarding than anything in D3 in my opinion.
Building a character properly and meeting certain breakpoints of FHR, IAS, Block%, etc was also a process that involved a lot of planning and thinking. It took quite an effort to properly come up with all of the things required for a really good build.
Add to that things like the charms which were varied and could compliment almost any build that you could come up with. A magic find character could use MF SC's for an example. If you were missing a few FHR points to meet a breakpoint, you could give up one of your life/mana/ar sc's and get one fhr sc... There were a lot of choices involved with creating a well geared character.
Not to mention crafting. In D2, crafting could potentially get you BIS items. crafted amulets are the best example. They are so hard to come by and even harder to roll well, but if they do roll good, you might end up with a sick crafted amulet that no one else has.
Problem with all of that is that D2 thrived on duped items. I think that it's safe to say that if it weren't for dupes in D2, 99% of the people would have never got a well geared character with all of the runewords highly rolled, with things like 40/15 jewels or 20/20/3 sc's... But somehow, the game had a functioning community that worked quite well. Sure, some people were total elitists because their wealth was that of like half of the server combined (again due to dupes and other secrets).
But that's where things like ladder resets and pandemonium events came in to try and minimize the dominance of certain factors over the economy. And those did pretty well. But yeah on NL for an example, the accumulated wealth and bugged / legacy items is probably too much but that's why it's NL and that's why ladder resets exist.
What i really like about D2 is the fact that certain builds were very general-purpose oriented - builds like the hammerdin which could basically do antyhing in the game including pvp, MF, pve, carrying other people, rushing, any kind of farming, etc. And there were very specific builds like the gold find barb ( i love to bring the gf barb as an example whenever possible) - A build that had one specific role and also, one specific area and mobs to farm. The benefit of having such a character was great but building it was not a simple task. Things like that gave you a sense of working in order to make your account better overall i.e to have the ability to farm gold, the ability to rush a friend if needed, the ability to MF farm, etc...
And last but not least, PVP. To me, and i'm sure that to many other people, PVP was the true end game of D2. The amount of theorycrafting and thought put behind certain builds is simply insane. What is even more insane is how rare certain PVP items were. Getting really well rolled claws for a hybrid sin with + to traps, + to LS, + to AR based on char level, + sockets, etc? I can't believe how unique and rare certain items were. Comparing this to D3 is a joke. Not because D3 is bad, it's just a lot more normalized and "appealing to the masses".
TLDR: D2 was amazing in terms of customization that probably would have never seen its full potential actually reached if it weren't for dupes but the dupes ended up creating some sort of an economy that made sense and ultimately lead to a better playing experience overall in my opinion. Diablo 3 is a lot more streamlined and normalized and that is certainly fitting to today's gaming market.
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I don't know how accurate the information here is but this is a list of differences between ladder and non-ladder: http://forums.d2jsp.org/topic.php?t=55109923
basically, it's a bunch of runewords, unique items and cube recipes that exist only in ladder. Usually, players on NL are already very rich and have all the gear they need so they won't be looking for actually making a Grief RW for an example, they can just trade for it. Also, item selling websites are much cheaper for NL than they are for L so that's another way to get everything very easily.
The thing about NL is that it still has very old items like bugged eth tal armor for an example. Items that no longer exist, or exist but in a different version. Those items are typically very expensive and the average Joe will most likely never get his hands on them.
I personally played a lot of NL throughout the years because i had an amazing account with like 8 fully geared characters with sick gear and decked out with charms. I even had 1 self found 40 life pb sk (so proud of that, still...lol). But if i didn't have that account, i'd probably play more ladder. I used to refresh that account every once in a while so it won't get deleted but i kinda forgot at some point so i lost everything.
Ladder is a lot more fun to start fresh either with friends or strangers from random communities. There are some communities that are still active like d2jsp or Slash-Diablo but they usually tend to be a lot more active around ladder resets. Slash-Diablo has its own server i.e it does not run on b.net live and it supports certain mods including the resolution mod afaik. There were some issues with the latest version a while ago but i don't know if they fixed that yet or not.
The spam is still rampant and annoying. the best way to avoid spam is to create games with a password. Even if you start a random game and some random guy joins to play with you, offer him to join you in a new game with a password so you can avoid the constant spam bombardment. If you played it a year ago then not much have changed since then.
Today, i think that the most fun ways to play D2 are when you limit yourself in a certain way. Kind of like all of those iron-man challenges that people used to run. Like, playing a game where you try to finish Hell without using runewords or using only rares or whatever. Trying to go for weird builds like a sword-weilding amazon or a singer barb. If you don't mind single player, then it's far superior to b.net imo because of the smoothness of the gameplay, never suffering from bad latency or "realm down" crap if you create and leave too many games, too fast.
A really fun (but expensive) build to run is the GF barb. Gold find barbs are so hard to gear for but are so damn awesome and rewarding... Something like this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LGko9SFzTww - but for some reason this dude is not using leap to knockback the mobs. Anyway, D2 is full of weird and awesome stuff.
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Blizzcon panel: https://youtu.be/PDX4PKlRoJg?t=39m30s
Wiki: http://www.diablowiki.net/Talisman
Image examples:
the Devil's hand is some sort of an event that was supposed to be in ROS but was also scrapped at some point.
video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ULE7Xc7m4oE
Wiki: http://www.diablowiki.net/The_devil's_hand
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Anyone has any idea what is depicted in that wallpaper? Looks like some sort of diablo-like beast with some shaman figure riding it. The area looks like Kurast jungle / temples or possibly even the sokovos islands... Could this be a hint for a new expansion?
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Basically it's a game aimed at casual players and all attempts to make it hardcore eventually lead to frustration due to the mindless grind you speak of. The game has almost nothing to offer in terms of high end gameplay, it's just the first week of season or so that actually has merit to it in my opinion.
Some people just need to learn how let go...
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Anybody else wants to arrogantly repeat the "It's against the TOS/EULA" argument again? I don't think we've had enough of that around here.
Go dig up threads about THUD usage from a year and even two years ago and find the same arguments all over. People understand that it's against the terms of use but that's not the point.
Did you know that according to the terms of use, Blizzard are legally the owner of your account and everything you have on b.net? Technically, they can confiscate your account without providing you a single word of explanation even if you bought shit with real money. Are you ok with that? Probably not but you have nothing to do about it.
Blizzard's TOS says that you can't use 3rd party programs. Ok then, why not ban people who do break that term? Wouldn't the act of not banning those people for so long, legitimize them if not in the eyes of the general public (d3 community in general...) but at least in the eyes of those people themselves and probably many other community members as evident by the widespread usage of THUD?
do me a favor and go take a look at the b.net EULA http://us.blizzard.com/en-us/company/legal/eula.html - Especially the Blizzard's ownership, Pre-Loaded Software, Consent To Monitor and Indemnity sections- All of these basically say that Blizzrd have cut your ballsack off and are keeping it in a jar and if anything happens, you are at fault.
And now to the most ridiculous part, the "so ironic it's sad" part of the deal imo - The Equitable remedies section. I will quote it here:
This is one of the most stupid things i've ever seen and it shows you that even Blizzard do not take their TOS/EULA as seriously as many of you think people should. People are breaking the TOS by using 3rd party software right? Blizzard is being irreparably damaged by this according to them? Not only are they damaged because the TOS is broken by thew user but also because it is not enforced by the company itself, again, according to them... THIS IS FUCKING BULLSHIT!
TLDR: TOS/EULA is just a bunch of legal bullshit that shouldn't be regarded as the word of god or anything stupid like that. Mentioning it in every second post as if it's the ultimate truth is a ridiculous, arrogant act that not only does not bring anything new to the discussion, but actually makes it tedious and repetitive. At least the people that "support" the use of THUD try explain their standpoint and often do so with subjective eloquence and not only repeat a single blank statement like parrots.
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Do you think that Blizzard has a 100% clean and accurate record on banning only people who are at fault? Do you have any idea how many people got banned for nothing over the years and not only in D3?
"Blizzard won't ban for nothing" yeah because they have been banning left and right for the past few years and have always been right. Oh wait, they hardly banned anyone for a freaking decade and now they roll out a wave after another without saying any fucking thing and people are getting banned for things like AHK and hardware macro that were 100% tolerated since d3 release?