WTH?? Death Zerks = BM???

[RetroStar]

Calling a skill/item BM is just a wussy way of avoiding. Blizzard made specific items for specific purposes. Don't like it, don't duel them as someone said already.

 

[tavman]

i dont think skills or items are b/m just because you destroy them doesnt make you bm, i got owned by an iron maiden/bone wall lvl 30 necro on my smiter and i just laughed
way i see it the only things that are bm is potting, nking, town guarding and town hugging

 

[HappyAssassin]

What eveyone else said. The thing is, Diablo 2 really isnt designed as a SUPER compedative PvP game the way it is played. No one balancing a predomiantly PvP game would have created a system in which certain characters could be completely negated. So, if you are gonna play Diablo 2 PvP, you have to deal with the fact that certain attacks just plain destroy your favorite character. Other skills or items take away your advantage. The real BM is being a jerk to people by using these aspects of the game, even if they ask you to stop.

As for the Death thing, melee duelers have a very limiting set of rules. Sometimes people who play a different facet of the game seem strange or absurd to the main stream, because we don't get why they have such rules. And as a result they dont fit in. There are people on Asia who would consider most US and Europe players idiots for generally not Juving, bugging or using hacked items. Different online culture = a lot of misunderstanding, and because this is the internet, that = a lot of insults, degradation and anger.

 

[Stoutwood]

I've all but quit Zeal dueling because of the whining. It gets so old, and it's worse now with all of these new weapons than it ever was before.

 

[TheBassman]

I just got back into zeal dueling with my Manner Zealot. I don't use CTAs, Enchant, Poison Damage over 300, CTC% (other then torch =P), etc.... But when I face an Exile/Grief Zealot I just hack at him like anyother zealot would, Complaining about someones gear selection is a bad reason not to duel, If a BvC uses Doom I throw on a bit of extra IAS% Gear, Big deal. I only play manner with my zealot because that's the way I've played zealots my entire time on D2. Sure the gear has changed drastically but I'm quite happy with the .08 - .09 Zeal gear, and when I rock those zealots using their Grief/Fort/Exile they ask me how... and I just chuckle and say you have no DR% and they just go, "Dang Good Duel"

Hats off to all the other manner zealots for sticking it out against the new gear. =D

~LesC