Qwerky things you do when playing. . .

[WrongdayJ]

You know. . . everytime I run Baal, I go gather all the gold before I start in on him. I don't know why I do this. . .but I just always have.

Then I started thinking about the other stuff I do that's kinda qwerky. Like I never want to kill the countess in her little room. I always try to get her to come out into one of the side chambers before killing her. I don't know why I do this either. . .but I always have and still do to this day.

So like, what do you all do that's kinda qwerky when you play?

[superdave]

i always stomp the three critters that pop out of evil urns.

[PhatTrumpet]

I always clear Tristram going around counter-clockwise, saving Cain last, whether I'm there for the quest or solely for exp (which isn't often).

I always start in the upper-left direction when doing the Arcane Sanctuary, proceeding counter-clockwise, unless there's a particularly annoying configuration for whatever character I'm using (like stairs on a Summon Necro).

I always clear the Chaos Sanctuary clockwise, leaving Infector of Souls last.


I think that's it... I guess those aren't really quirky as much as they're just my system of doing things... does that count as quirky?

[Bjorgin]

I can't stand leaving gold on the ground. I HAVE to pick it up

[WrongdayJ]

... does that count as quirky?


Hehehehe. . .Yup. Qwerky. But it's funny. . .I do the same things!:grin:

I thought I was the only one that cleared Chaos like that.

Hmm.


Wierd.

I think I'll expand the scope of this to include things you do outside the game. . .like wearing a lucky hat while MFing (which I do, too :blush:)

[Dacar92]

I do the same, Phat, except for Arcane. Quirky yes, but if so many do the same, it's not so weird, I guess.

I drink while playing (on Friday's only). Is that quirky?

[WrongdayJ]

. . .I drink while playing (on Friday's only). Is that quirky?. . .

Uh, no.

Matter of Fact, drinking on Friday while playing is required, not quirky.:laughing:

[YogiRat]

Then I started thinking about the other stuff I do that's kinda qwerky. Like I never want to kill the countess in her little room. I always try to get her to come out into one of the side chambers before killing her. I don't know why I do this either. . .but I always have and still do to this day.

Well if you are a bowzon, shooting at the countess and her minions through the doorway from the side room isn't qwerky. That's good game play. Though I always approach her from the right, habit I guess.

I always try to kill the summoner on the bottom right in Andy's chamber first. He bugs me.:shocked:

[Nimbostratus]

I can't stand leaving gold on the ground. I HAVE to pick it up

I have the same problem. If I have a low level char that's too full to pick up more gold, I'll just gamble away a lot of what I have in order to pick up more.

[longblackhairguy]

haha, I always leave de seis for last, especially if my char is there for the 1st time. I also make sure i clear out every last monster in the main area before i hit his seal.

I almost never go to cain for identify even if i walk right past him like on the way to charsi going straight out my tp, even tho i do the quest for that reason anyway.

I always go to the bottom right of tristram then towards cain's gibbet, out again and around clockwise. i then go from the bottom left to the center, get cain, and then out the same way and continue around clockwise. weird..

with noob chars, i cant leave a potion behind in act 1 or 2, unless my inv is full and i have the largest ones that are lying around.

when skipping through the frozen tundra and areat plateau (in my opinion the 2 worst areas in A5 for char) i always go anticlockwise around the edge of the map.

when running from Bremm sparfists hydra and LE bolts, i always go anticlockwise around the pillars at the bottom right chamber of durance 3

lol, this is fun :P i think it should be sticky'd or something

[KOMARAC]

hehe yeah i too think it should be stickied for a while ... i always reveal maps by walking on the edge and then reveal the center and everything else. when i'm full on carying gold, i always go and gamble all gold on char, stash should be always full for me, cause you'll never know ... it seems that we all have the "must pick up gold" bug in our heads =) ! i always wish to kill baal beetwen the pillars i don't know why ... ! must be habit ... can't think of anything else right now ... :) oh yeah, when i do boss runs, i always go first with baal, then diablo, then meph, then duriel, then andariel ... then save and exit game then again ...

[GotFriana]

I cant leave gold behind but even more than that i just cant-leave-any-chest-unopened, if I dont have a key I tp and buy some just to open that chest. I cast tps even standing right by the wp (but that s just the bad habit, not that I do it on purpose).
When playing bowzon if I run out of arrows I try to continue until I find more (I dont go back to buy arrows)
I like to clean the area out of town in act1 hell, I do it almost every game to visit the houses and the chests there, I ve found really nice charms and amulets in those chests.

[WrongdayJ]

. . .When playing bowzon if I run out of arrows I try to continue until I find more (I dont go back to buy arrows). . .

:grin: I do the same thing!!! LOL!

I'll run around like 4 screens worth of space to find arrows/bolts on the ground before I go back into town and buy them. . .even though they're only like 30 gold for 350/250 of them.

[Dasanic]

Some Act III wierdness, I will never exit game in Act III will got through red portal or TP to town and then to Act IV. Also if Merc dies in Act III will either go o Act I or IV to replace. To lazy to walk through to rehire.

[crawlingdeadman]

i run sanc clockwise.

with a bowa i pick up every arrow quiver off the ground to make sure i have max at all times. i like to have a full inventory so that when i pick them up they drop on the ground and you only take enough to fill up your quiver (so i dont have to pick up and drop them agian, which i do anyway).

i cary a flawless on every character that MIGHT run into a gem shrine...ie all of them.

when i rush someone with a sorc i make them put a tp up at the arcane wp so that if i get the wrong arm i say "not it", tp, then telek through their portal back to the center of arcane (as opposed to teleing around the whole thing. this avoids the in and out of tps too fast thing). if i rush with a hammerdin i just open tp and vigor run across town to the wp.

on all my pvm zons i keep tps in my belt so that i dont have to go through the cast animation which is slow as hell on a zon w/o any fcr. this lets me put up a tp mid strafe.

there are more i'm sure.

[nickedoff]

Whenever I make a new character, even if I know they're going to get glitch rushed, I play through act one and snag all the chipped gems I can. I feel more comfortable playing a character with at least a chipped ruby Light Armor on than I do with a completely naked character.

[FrankWest]

*peeks his head in*

There's another thread about this

http://forums.diabloii.net/showthread.php?t=560177

right there. It got knocked down to the second page on the community threads. Just thought you guys might like to read more of these, and maybe we can get that thread some love too? :grin: We've got cookies.

[Nimbostratus]

Just remembered another of my habits.

I keep excessive spares for potions and arrows/bolts. I have a full belt/quiver, but also keep an extra row of potions or another quiver in my inventory at all times. I sometimes even have two rows/quivers in my inventory. Yes. I have spare spares.

[Leohappy]

i always seem to pick up (and stash) every full rejuv i find, even if i have no use for it "it might come in handy later"

i'm also picking up way too many flawless gems "shinies! i like shinies! Ooooohhh"

[Bjorgin]

I have a terrible habit of not picking up full juvs, and i intentionally do not pick them up because i dont like having them.

[Dacar92]

I pick all full rejuvs, too. I keep one row in my belt, and always have 20 or so in the stash--way to many but I still do it..for some reason.

I pick up all items worth 35K in hell and sell them. I also pick up just about all gold that falls.

[Lyrs]

eh...this is suppose to be zon related so...

I always carry a wand with charges on switch.

[Eilo Rytyj]

I always start Arcane runs from the upper-right path, and always go clockwise. Dunno why, just a habit.

My MF runs always go backwards in order of Waypoint/Quest order. So, in a full run I'll do, in order, Baal, Pindle, Eldritch, Shenk, Chaos, Meph, Trav, Arcane, Andy, Pit, Countess, rinse and repeat.

My MF Meteorb uses the F1-F8 hotkeys still, while all my other characters make use of QWERASDFZXCV keys. She's the only character I do that with, it's what I'm most comfortable with.

I smoosh all the big bugs after killing Duriel. mmm, tasty...

[WrongdayJ]

This is great stuff!

I am laughing as I read this thread because almost every entry is something that I have either done or at least thought about doing at some time or another.

I think I found another querky behavior of mine that qualifies. During normal play. . .or even when MFing through an area in a hurry. . .if something starts aggressively running after me, it dies. Without question. I can't stand having an enemy track me down. Especially a puny one. I will stop the MF run and chase that sucker down relentlessly until it's dead.

. . .and I smoosh those worms in Duriels room, too. . .:jig:

[KOMARAC]

I have a terrible habit of not picking up full juvs, and i intentionally do not pick them up because i dont like having them.

why not?:shocked:

[KOMARAC]

eh...this is suppose to be zon related so...

I always carry a wand with charges on switch.

which charges do you like the most? my favorite are decrepify charges!:flip:

[GotFriana]

even when MFing through an area in a hurry. . .if something starts aggressively running after me, it dies. Without question. I can't stand having an enemy track me down. Especially a puny one. I will stop the MF run and chase that sucker down relentlessly until it's dead.

. . .and I smoosh those worms in Duriels room, too. . .:jig:

One reason why my MF runs are never so much "run" and take me a long time :P Dolls in Durance... die, die, die, even with my sorcs I stop teleing and kill them. And then of course there s a chest there that I have to pop, and I see another on the other corner... in short my MF runs take long...

I ve noticed yesterday other habits of mine, I only use gems, exp and monster shrines, I walk by the others without touching them and I always drink from wells even when I m at full hit points and not cursed, if I see one I touch it.

[Bjorgin]

why not?:shocked:

bad habit :lipsrsealed:

[viable]

i always kill Grand Vizier of Chaos first, Infector of Souls second, Lord De Seis last, always!

i never leave a reju or full reju n the ground, never!

i always start fight with charge when fighting meph/diablo/baal

i always leap on summoner before he cast his spell

i always carry full tomes and keys, always!

i always look my inventory, stash, merc inventory and LCS when i load a game. always i do this!

[Summerfun]

I have the same habit with the rejuvs, i allso pick up the small ones and then use the cube to make a bigger one.

I think i have 3 chars completly full of full rejuvs. I just cant drop them, i have to save them!!! Its allmost becomming a curse, some times i will leave a great baal run just to go mule my pots.

[viable]

I have the same habit with the rejuvs, i allso pick up the small ones and then use the cube to make a bigger one.

I think i have 3 chars completly full of full rejuvs. I just cant drop them, i have to save them!!! Its allmost becomming a curse, some times i will leave a great baal run just to go mule my pots.

my chars' belts full of them, at least 8 full rejus in their stash, 700+ in atma stash. and sometimes i die because i don't want to use them even in hardcore :grin:

[Summerfun]

and sometimes i die because i don't want to use them even in hardcore

I do the exact same thing. Its so stupid

[superdave]

Its allmost becomming a curse, some times i will leave a great baal run just to go mule my pots.


those pots belong to the teleporter you nub...leave them where they drop.

[clowninmypants]

superdave, anna_goanna is amazing. just read the thread. Inspiring.

Anywho, my thing is always setting up my inventory the same way. Books of scrolls of identify and town portals on the far right, follow by charms, with about half the inventory empty on the left side for item collecting space.

[Summerfun]

FYI i allways do the teleporting myself, so the pots are MINE!
Normaly i tele with a sorc and then leech with 1 or 2 other chars.

[mephiztophelez]

i am a bower bird for gems and all chars usually have a flawless on them in case of gem-shrine.

i always gamble in act 4

i rekon gold dropped in pvp is fair game.

[Bjorgin]

i rekon gold dropped in pvp is fair game.

of course it is, i cant believe people cry about gold "stealing" they shouldnt have died in the first place.

[longblackhairguy]

Every time i do act 1, esp on normal for some reason, i tell myself I'm not gonna waste my time with doing the countes quest, but i always do it anyway!

I also have a habit of using potions and identify scrolls in town. too lazy to go to cain :P

and with my sorc i always cast my buffer spells at least twice before going back into action.

If I die from a nasty boss (last one for me was an extra fast, mana burn, conviction afflicted in ancients way.. ouch) or before I've found the nearst
waypoint, i'll rather S&E and lose the exp, especially if i skip the tundra or plateau (my most hated areas of A5) waypoints and die in subsequent caves.

[RazCotton]

I always put my ulc and anni to the very top left in my inventory with anni on the bottem right below the ulc and set my gc's at the top according to picture, and sc's at the bottem according to picture.

:)

[longblackhairguy]

lol, i always have cube on the bottom left with ID tome and a LC above it. i have my TP tome and other LCs on the right, and GCs and SCs to the left of those. i try always leave an 8x2 slot for pickups. in my stash, i always sort my runes along the top, gems along the lower left, and gear on the lower left lol

[mjkittredge]

I like to cast Decoy a bunch of times, sort of like a parlor trick to amuse myself and others. Why? It makes pretty sparkles, like a firework.:shocked: :starry:

[mjkittredge]

I always kill the Grand Vizier of Chaos first, Lord Deceis second, then the Infector of Souls last. In my mind, it's from easiest to hardest in order.

[WrongdayJ]

I always 'gossip' with the townsfolk. Sometimes they will say things that are slightly off color. . .Once Gheed said he 'named a boil on his butt after me. . .because both me and the boil both bother him everytime he sits down.'

[Dacar92]

Speaking of casting decoy, sometimes I forget I have decoy active on one of the mouse buttons and think that I already switched it back to strafe or something else. If it is a busy screen (lots of critters and/or friends I am playing with) I'll cast decoy over and over again until I realize that I'm not strafing. I do the same thing with TP's now and then. What can I say? I am old and forgetful.

[Summerfun]

But smite puts the stun swirly on, and then you only need 1 damage in order to put them in hit recovery.... or am I wrong about that?!

Sooo funny!

[crawlingdeadman]

where did that come from?

[FrankWest]

where did that come from?

I was just wondering the same thing. I think he's gone feral! Losing track of threads, and such. :wink2:

On topic: Until recently I had a habit of refreshing all my mules whenever they get below 7 days until expiration. I'd do it like clockwork, just in case something happens and I have to step away from D2 for seven or eight days for some reason.

So of course I got a temp ban a couple days ago just from switching characters - no entering games or anything - and instead of sulking, I did a big mule giveaway (community threads) as soon as the temp ban expired. Giving away all excess equipment, that'll show 'em not to temp ban me! ...Somehow...

[WrongdayJ]

Sooo funny!


Hey- that counts as a querky thing!!

Some people drink when playing (myself included). . .some people enjoy the harder stuff. . .like Crack. :laughing:

Hey- It's ALL good. . .:grin:

[DudSpud]

i always carry full tomes and keys, always!I always have full keys on all my toons - I took my first 'Sin into her upper 60's before I realized my mistake...

And I NEVER carry a tome - Upper Right belt slot is where I stick the TP, and, being a pack rat means that when I have an inventory full of un-IDed stuff, I tp back to town to find out what I got. I guess I like the surprise.

DudSpud

[jinzo]

i always have a cube and tome's in inventory so i can ide stuff with out going to town and can store stuff in cube.

[Von Lazuli]

On characters where I haven't rescued Cain I buy and use scrolls of ID, "because it is cheaper."

I tend to keep chipped gems on all my PvM characters, even when I am way past anywhere where they drop, so I will never manage to cube them up.

I like places where I can put my character behind another sprite and so I stand there for a while and simply type "!hiding!" whenever another character walks past.

Laz

[DudSpud]

I tend to keep chipped gems on all my PvM characters, even when I am way past anywhere where they drop, so I will never manage to cube them up.Oh boy, I am guilty of this, too. My SC stash of chippies is in the thousands. While I could use these to role weapons for early characters and their mercs, I also have better twink weapons than I could possible role for them, so, there the sit, gather electronic dust.

Same goes for my stash of flaweds, and you can't use them in any recipe other than making normals or Savage poles.

No, wait, the real reason I am holding onto all these chips and flaweds is to cube runes. Yeah, that's the reason. Once my El stash reaches the hundreds of thousands, Zod, here I come.

DudSpud

[GotFriana]

I believe Cain is bad luck, I never give him anything I have high expectations in to identify i. e. amulets, circlets, jewels, charms, rares. Even standing by him I use a scroll on those then let him ID all the Charsi material.

[alfric]

I always kill the Grand Vizier of Chaos first, Lord Deceis second, then the Infector of Souls last. In my mind, it's from easiest to hardest in order.

lol I always kill lord de sies last probably because before patch he was just so dangerous.

[King Savage]

Some of these things are too funny!
1. I always drink unless I have to help it. That way I can accuse my bud of using my account and dieing while I was sleeping when I check my exp bar the next day.

2. I have a habit of running over to a friend that died and hitting the "Die!" key until I hear it...occasionally resulting in my own death. Still a habit I carry even at level 95 :-P

3. If my Valk walks back toward me when I cast her I will recast her as the first one wasn't agressive enough or something.

[obiwansbane]

3. If my Valk walks back toward me when I cast her I will recast her as the first one wasn't agressive enough or something.

omg haha that was great...

i guess my biggest in game quirk would be to completely ignore surrounding monsters and go straight for boss...

even if my character is weak and fragile... instead of clearing slowly i throw up a tp and charge in

[Oddballzor]

I dont kill Griswold anymore - i just enjoyed him too much in d1, leave the poor man alone you Tristrun bastards =]. I also like to hide, but behind the opened tp, than msg something like 'Highway To Hell' or 'River of Lame' if its in Act4 ofc.

[JoJo]

I hit the tab key alot while I'm playing to show/hide the minimap. I don't know why.

[Bohana]

I smoke weed when playing, I always clean Chaos Sanctuary clockwise, I pick up all golds in pvp but never touch other players gold in Baal runs.
Before I stop playing I always make sure my tp tome is full, my belt is full, all my gear repaired, my merc is alive.

[TheOctane]

1) i rotate how i clear the CS, starting usually with clockwise then reverse.

2) i TAB and ALT constantly and my mouse has a utility button that is set to show items on the floor so i have 2 fingers at the ready incase of drops

3) i use ****ty armor on new chars (even if i have twink armor for them) just to make them look cool cause i know they arent gonna die from it (armor wont make or break me in the begining)

4) I refuse to use daggers unless im a necro class

5) i feel inefficient when i use full rejuvs so i use mostly regular rejuvs and 1 slot gets fulls

[thebulldogboy]

i will switch my enigma for a gothic plate because it looks cool when im in norm.

i always clear chaos counter clockwise

i skip cain quest and pai cain extra cuzz it makes my feel rich

i refuse to do ANYTHING on the second waze of baal runs

my inventory top right i tome of tps under it is ID tome then torch anni the gcs then scs and an antidote

i dont repair gear untill the warning pops up on the screen

i wont use juvies unless....well i dont know why but i dont use juvies even when theryre all i got

when doing countess runs i have to kill every enemy around her b4 i kill her


am i querky or wat?:soapbox: :cloud9:

[WrongdayJ]

. . .when doing countess runs i have to kill every enemy around her b4 i kill her


am i querky or wat?:soapbox: :cloud9: . . .

Yup. . .that definately counts as qwerky!

(P.S. I do that, too! :grin: )

[kykle]

i never tp in the ancients plateau after i kill them - i always go into WSK1 before i tp

[nickedoff]

i will switch my enigma for a gothic plate because it looks cool when im in norm.
Why don't you just get a gothic plate enigma?

[Gears]

I have to pick up like every gem and rejuv potions I find, I make full juvies and just sell them and the gems. Is that qwerky? I also put potions in my belt and load my inventory with pots but never use the pots in my belt. I make sure my belt and inventory is full but I never use the pots in my belt. Is that qwerky?

[Jek]

In softcore I never use rejuvs 'cause, "it's overkill"...

[spOOkzz]

I have this (bad) habit of dropping a few of my GC's on the ground so that I can pick up and ID items I find during MF run in CS or WSK.

I have been known to lose a few GC's doing that... :sad2:

I always have to complete every single quest in normal, nightmare and hell levels with a new char, and get every single WP in all levels.

I always have a TP in the bottom row, right hand side slot with a full belt of big rejuves when playing.

Crazy habits...:embarassed:


S.

[Queen Mebd]

3. If my Valk walks back toward me when I cast her I will recast her as the first one wasn't agressive enough or something.

Heh, I've noticed I do something not unlike this. Whenever my 'sin's shadow goes and dragon flights some monster I teleport at my feet to get the shadow back in place, I guess I like having a minionstack up when possible.

I've also recast Valkyries many times in a row to get a color I like at that given moment (which I think is pretty mood dependent). I've also found this often irks people in baal runs.

[AnimageCGF]

I collect Flawless gems just to sell them. I've noticed I'll pass up Unique rings dropped in games and fly towards the flawless.

Same thing with Full Juvs. I'll have 16 in my belt, and never use one, but i'll pick up every one i see for no reason. If i lose 1 hp, i pop one from my invent, and "save" the ones in my belt.

No clue why I do these, but they're my quirks.

[Nimbostratus]

Same thing with Full Juvs. I'll have 16 in my belt, and never use one, but i'll pick up every one i see for no reason. If i lose 1 hp, i pop one from my invent, and "save" the ones in my belt.


I do the same thing, except with any potion I have. The belt usually has 2 rows of healing, 1 row of mana, and 1 row rejuvenation. Then my inventory has 2/1/1 or 4/2/2 healing/mana/rejuvenation.

Also, if I have different qualities of potions (e.g. greater and super), I'll try to have my belt potions have all the same quality, even if it isn't the best I have.


As you can tell, I tend to keep excessive spares. On my bowazon, I have her main stack of arrows, the arrows on her switch bow, and always keep at least one quiver (sometimes 2) in her inventory.

[WrongdayJ]

. . .I tend to keep excessive spares. On my bowazon, I have her main stack of arrows, the arrows on her switch bow, and always keep at least one quiver (sometimes 2) in her inventory. . .

HAHAHAH!!!

I do this, too! Don't know why either. . .arrows are like 100 gold.


Definately QwErKy!!