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Okay, I guess I'll try installing the patch. 
I bought the game in October 2003 and, believe it or not, it's version 1.03 (!). Created a bowazon, discovered the "bow bug" so I downloaded and installed v. 1.05. Now, after doing some research, I've discovered that v. 1.05 causes the Access Violation c0000005 bug that crashes the game so it seems I've traded one bug for another (does Blizzard not test their programs?).
In v. 1.07 they took out the ability to gamble unique and set items (okay, I pretty much have most of the uniques I want) but in v. 1.10 they increased the odds of gambling exceptional items. Well, that sounds fine and dandy, but according to my research you can only gamble exceptionals in the Expansion so this doesn't help me for my classic game (want the Expansion, not enough hard drive space).
Plus tougher monsters, reduced effectiveness of experience runs . . . don't really want all that. I asked the Blizzard rep if it was true that you had to be level 70 to enter Hell difficulty and he confirmed that it was. I guess my point is that for D2 classic gamers with this v. 1.10 patch you get all the "bad" stuff (harder monsters) but none of the "improved" stuff (being able to gamble exceptionals).
Ah, well. I guess I'll try the patch. Please excuse my rambling. I originally bought my computer so that I could work from home . . . then I discovered computer games starting with Dink, and I've been hopelessly addicted ever since.
I bought the game in October 2003 and, believe it or not, it's version 1.03 (!). Created a bowazon, discovered the "bow bug" so I downloaded and installed v. 1.05. Now, after doing some research, I've discovered that v. 1.05 causes the Access Violation c0000005 bug that crashes the game so it seems I've traded one bug for another (does Blizzard not test their programs?).
In v. 1.07 they took out the ability to gamble unique and set items (okay, I pretty much have most of the uniques I want) but in v. 1.10 they increased the odds of gambling exceptional items. Well, that sounds fine and dandy, but according to my research you can only gamble exceptionals in the Expansion so this doesn't help me for my classic game (want the Expansion, not enough hard drive space).
Plus tougher monsters, reduced effectiveness of experience runs . . . don't really want all that. I asked the Blizzard rep if it was true that you had to be level 70 to enter Hell difficulty and he confirmed that it was. I guess my point is that for D2 classic gamers with this v. 1.10 patch you get all the "bad" stuff (harder monsters) but none of the "improved" stuff (being able to gamble exceptionals).
Ah, well. I guess I'll try the patch. Please excuse my rambling. I originally bought my computer so that I could work from home . . . then I discovered computer games starting with Dink, and I've been hopelessly addicted ever since.
