I only just noticed that they finally revealed what the 23 new runewords on the 1.10 Diablo II ladder are, and it’s about time. It was a bit unrealistic for them to have expected us to discover them for ourselves when you consider that there’s around a *billion* different possible combinations when you consider six-socket items, and that many of the runes are very rare. When something like a Zod rune only has a one-in-137-million chance of dropping, you’re not going to waste it on trying some random combination that’s very, very unlikely to turn out to be one of the undiscovered runewords…
I think it’s really unfortunate that these runewords apply only to the ladder, but I suppose I can look beyond that and agree that it’s long overdue.
Things like these runewords and unique drops and the World Event that are exclusive to the ladder are supposed to be the incentive for people to play on the ladder and behave themselves, instead of cheating like bastards on the open servers. :-)
It was just extremely unrealistic to have expected us to discover these new ones for ourselves, given the scope of the problem. There actually was a project underway to try numerous combinations and catalog them in a database so people wouldn’t repeat attempts unnecessarily, and even they were nowhere close to any of the actual combinations yet.
I agree. Mind you, despite my love for the game I still have so many equipment and inventory related complaints about Diablo II… Runeword items are just one. :-)
Cool… is there a list of the single player runewords somewhere? Of course, I’m still searching for a frigging 6 socketed bow for my Amazon, got all the runes for *something*, just need the damn bow!
In other news, Merry Christmas! =)