Nothing left but mules
My hammerdin just died to some dolls, and he was the only other character I had. I had an ice sorceress for a little, but she died too. Anyway, I'm just feeling really disenchanted with the whole thing right now for several different reasons.
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None of my friends play this game anymore, so all that's left for me is solo play. I like playing in parties, but I just absolutely abhor the general Bnet populace. I'd love to get into a team or something, but even here on the forums it's mostly just all talk. Nothing ever gets done, and so I'm stuck playing by myself for most of my games. To me, this severely limits my enjoyment of the game because there are character builds that I would love to try out but won't ever get the chance to because I'm not rich and because they aren't viable for playing solo.
Public games are just the worst. It's impossible to find someone to quest with as most of the time people are just concerned with leeching. That and about 90% of the people who play this game refuse to play by the rules and are decked out with pindlebot, maphack, chickenhack and triggerhack.
Trading is pointless as well for me because as a non-hacker, I don't have access to all the shiny uniques like shako, SS and such. I remember spending hours in trade channels trying to acquire a set CB for my mercenary. It wasn't funny when the first person wanted a Jah for it, nor was it funny when the twentieth person did as well. At some point, I offered a 7% smfc for one, and the guy I was trying to trade with not only turned it down, but he insulted me! No names will be mentioned, but I'll say this much: he's someone from the forums and I have my suspicions that he bots.
Anyway, I really have no idea what to do right now. I really don't want to rebuild either my sorceress or my hammerdin, but rebuilding them is the only way I can start getting better items to fund newer characters which will be enjoyable. It'd be kind of cool to build a S&S WW barb. Too bad the patch completely screwed melee characters.
So I really don't know. Right now I have nothing left but lots of mules. It seems to me right now that any character I make will be a futile effort.
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