This is back then when non-unique items used to be end-game level powerful. And it was AWESOME.

Diablo 1 and 2 always get nostalgia when I listen to the awesome music

Gotta love the old days, when the sound of picking up a certain item made it highly valuable.

D1 was a very special game. Glad I experienced it

I know where "Henjo's ring/plate" comes from! Back around 2000 there was a Diablo 1 fan page known as "Henjos Diablo page" or something similar. This was a great site for all types of Diablo 1 content: Item information, quest information, NPC information and so on. It was also a small repository of various Diablo 1 mods and item packages which were free to download and use in the game. All the items you have shown in this video, and many more, could be downloaded in various item packages from that page. The owner/webmaster also made his own item package. This packages contained a few items named "Henjo's ". I think you showed all of them. He stated on his website that he only made them for fun. Thanks for reminding me of that site and those times :)

Great memories! I remember using my sorc with Dreamflange's gear and the Arch-Angels Staff of Apocalypse with 255 charges. That was nice!

This was my first online game. I had starcraft, but I had bad connection as a kid so I couldn't fully download the patch(later smartened up and got a download resumer). This game blew my mind as a kid. Lucky dupes existed because I sucked at this game. I always needed kings sword of haste, godly plate of the whale and zodiac stuff. Still remember the names of the most duped things. I also remember using apocalypse staff.

on sorc, standard headgear was thinking cap with durability boosted by a shrine, and you weren't a mage if you didnt had naj's light plate

I was kid back in those days but I remember them fondly, I used to dupe items for people all the time and The Godly Plate of the Whales was one of them. I loved it and miss it so much. I wish I had the money for a computer again. I miss playing with friends online.

I don't know how I ended up here but I'm one of those few dudes who played 100% legit all the way and had at least one of every class at max level (50) with near perfect bis items (all self found, no trades) in all slots back then on battlenet. These items and stats are forever stuck in my brain ;) I still have the saves somewhere on external storage, been forever since I last played. Royal Circlet for Warrior and Rogue imo and Thinking Cap (Durability boosted from Hidden Shrines ofc) for Sorc ;) Thanks for this lil trip down memory lane :)

The needler was an awesome weapon for stunlocking as a rogue. I used it together with firewalls.

The OP Civerb's Cludgel. Did more damage to demons than any weapons in the game as the +200% bonus damage applies to your char window damage and not base weapon damage. Makes Hell Hell easy on a warrior.

Rogue is Massive Bow of Swiftness

Damn, I actually remember all this stuff, that is crazy. I didnt even play d1 that much, but the hack scene was crazy.

I remember creating new characters online from time to time, and naming the game, “I need Godly Armor of the Whales” or whatever items I was missing. Such good times…

man this game brings back the good ol days just watching him play it

Thanks for this...i also still remember all the items on my war. For helm I used Lightforge ;)

This is pure nostalgia !

I remember collecting so many +magic items that with them, my Warrior could equip and use the Arch Angel's Staff of Apocalypse. It was awesome.

Yes. Yes, I remember now. The potion-drinking simulator.

love this game :) miss sitting up til 4am and lvlin my sorc.. good ol days

I remember having thinking caps in every slot, including rings, armor, etc. This gave you one of the stronger levels of fireball

I still have a character save file that has the monsters bat bat scroll. I really never knew what it did until I watched this video! haha

For such an old game, I still have fond memories playing it back in the day

My level 36 warrior had the grandfather two-handed sword that can be held in a single hand, the storm shield and a ton of points fully invested in strength. I felt almost unbeatable.

The apocalypse staff wasnt hacked because the one you had was with 10 charges, the hacked one had 255 charges wich means you can use it often

King's Sword of Haste... I will never forget that item and it was legit. Apocalypse and Nova items were hacked with max charges that item could have. Couldn't go above 255 because of code values :D Good old times...

I remember throwing Chain Lightning as Sorcerer in multiplayer and my friends always being mad that they got hit.

I felt so cool when someone duped these for me and my Char became super powerful. I could dupe at age 10, took a lot of practice though. D1 was a special game.

Good vid. Underrated Diablo channel. For someone like me who never truly played D1 (even though some of my friends back then played it) it's interesting to see all the parallels to D2 which just completely captivated me with its vastly improved, well...EVERYTHING :) You might jut blow up, though, once D2R (and D4) comes out - provided you're gonna cover it, of course. For now I'm just way, WAY more excited about D2R. I assume you feel the same ;)

Used to have Gnarled Root rings and amulets for the damages bonus. Barely, but I remember lol

both staff apocalypse/nova were buyable at Adria after reaching hell floor in hell difficulty

That Awesome Warrior will end Up in my TCG in some way! The Flavour is so great!

I had one run where Dreamflange dropped off the 2nd or 3rd scavenger on the first dungeon level. It was pretty ridiculous. Waaaaay too much fun even though it nullified most of the challenge during the run. Things like that happening were part of what made the game special though.

I liked that the Sorcerer used unique items. A legit Sorc would use Thinking Cap as the helm. You would have to use shrines to get it's durability above 1.

Loved duping those kinda items with the potions one D1. I wish D1 still ran on modern day computers!

When GOG re-released Diablo I started a wizard and found "The Thinking Cap" on like level 2 of the labyrinth just laying on the floor in a back room. I immediately put it in the old inventory until I found a 'hidden' shrine, took my chances and immediately had the best wizard helm in the game.

Really asome video! I always thought someone got the Godly plate of the whale off Wirt but it was then mass duped (USeast) but is it hacked ? Wow !

There definitely were legitimate staves of both Apocalypse and Nova. However, I believe they were limited to about 12 charges unless they had the plentiful or bountiful prefix, which could double or triple the maximum number of charges. I remember finding a bountiful staff of apocalypse that had around 40 charges, which was awesome. I did acquire an archangel's staff of apocalypse with 255 charges, which was obviously hacked.

Same here, every year I play a Diablo 1 class from zero to hell/hell ! Such an amazing game. Check out the new devilutionX, finally Diablo 1 in widescreen

You should replace one of your "obsidian * of the Zodiac" on your warrior with a Dragon's * of the Zodiac, you don't need more than 75 resist, and more mana would allow you to telekill more, and use more Chain Lightning in big packs.

the damage isn't 9000, its OVER 9000!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I remember gnarled root (a hacked ring that game 300% damage lol) I remember wearing 2 of those bad boys and just straight 1 shotting EVERYTHING

D1 wow brought back memories!!

afair the duping bug was fixed in 1.09, all the items can be genereted by the game (except for godly/whale on full plate), even aa/nova or apo but not with 255 charges:), godly helm on great helm (15AC) gives 45AC, RC gives 43. Storm is easily findable unique, awesome(holy)/tiger is better for warrior. The notorious item you could show was Lightforge (helm) or Gnarled/Messer on ring, or Dreamflange ring

I used to ALWAYS get King's Sword Of Haste

I remember polish channel was pretty much the only community which of majority played the game without hacked items like godly full plate, apoc 255 staves, not to mention stuff like lightforge helmet or even worse stuff like god mode.

I remeber playing on some hacked server and in the town was littered with gold and the best weapons/armor. I picked them up and was OP at lvl 1. Fun times :p

you can find those magical items in diablo 3 when you play the annual quest that takes you back to the dungeon from diablo 1

2×Obsidian Ring of the Zodiac (20 to All, 40 Resist All) as well as the Amulet of the same stats Dreamflange, Thinking Cap (with a few Hidden Shrines for extra durability), Naj's Light Plate, and ... well screw it - i'd go for Stormshield as well and You got the PERFECT sorcerer base for a lvl. 1 character 😁😁

Amazing video! Diabolical, even...

The rogue also uses Eaglehorn bow

The bat item you are referring to was one of the countermeasures to the 32 million life and mana hack. The better way was a hacked spell that worked on multipliers that would actually take someone with 32 million life to -50 million so quickly it would cause them to crash. If I remember correctly, the Naj's plate was not a legit item in diablo 1.09. The godly items of whale were all hacked, there was hacked spells, and even hacked spell books to bring back spells that were removed. Sadly most of the truly great hacks (both items and loaded codes) are gone. But I do know a few may still survive in a handful of hard drives. From being able to teleport to any specified location on any level with a typed command, to loading items. Even the crash packet filters that were created were something amazing. At one point even legit players started downloading them and running them while playing online. Their only purpose was to prevent someone from entering your game and crashing you with a single code for you to load. Obviously they had a kill switch so to speak in them, so if the person who created it wanted to crash you, they could.

Man, great video. However, I’m sure I’ve found a better sword. It’s king’s sword of blood. It’s has similar extra damage and hit as those in your inventory, but each hit steals 5% of life. Together with the storm shield it makes you invincible against any kind of infantry. Diablo himself can’t inflict any damage to my character fighting face to face even in Hell mode. BTW, I’m an archer character fan and carry the shield and sword specially for Diablo, all other monsters are killed by arrows and so is the dark lord time to time. Yesterday found the Armor of Gloom - first time ever, although have done the game maybe a hundred times

came across hacked rings in diablo once called butchers clever rings. they gave a buff called abnormal weapon damage

I have never, I repeat never, found the unique Grandfather sword and I've been playing this game for over 20 years.

I remember a scroll that you put in place of the helmet and it pretty much made you indestructible. I am unsure what it's name is, but it likely wasn't a item that was meant to be in the game. Some guy gave it to me on a multiplayer game. Also I seem to remember there was a ring that slowly damaged you. I was playing on my father's account and put on a ring that hadn't been identified. I had to leave so I put his character somewhere safe and afked, when I got back his guy was dead. It was decades ago so my memory might be a bit fuzzy.

Good times! Btw. sorc should use Thinking cap

6:00 i remember i had an hacked apocalypse staff as is had (i believe?) 255 charges not only the common 10

I used to have so much fun with my sorcerer. Doing pvp against another sorc was the best. You'd throw up mana shields and whoever had the best gear and stats would probably kill you with one fireball or two.

I remember having bugged thinking cap rings and amulet

My buddy and I had a pair of mage's that were crazy powerful. We used to collect ears from cheaters.

The staff of apocalypse was my first waifu.

I only ever beat the game twice. Waaaaay back in the day... like... the year it was released. I don't remember a damn thing about the items, except that the one's Wirt sold were always too expensive for me.

I have a question and I have never come across this ever on PC. But has anyone ever played the PS One version of Diablo and come across the "Deadly Long Sword?" This was in 1999 and was at the time, playing couch co-op with a friend one night and I managed to get it killing off King Leoric. What I remember about his sword was how overpowered and how the durability was 45, the and the damage was +50 with a cost of -20HP. This has only happened once for as long as I have played the PS One version as, a warrior class. Has ANYONE out there ever come across this really unique weapon I've described?

you can still dupe in hellfire, but you have to leave it in you, i would usually sell it right away to make money btw, i dupe items with 1 gold, not a potion

I remember the Demonspike Coat being a helmet.

Thinking cap for sorceress give +2 to all spell

I remember finding a low dmg fire bow and beat the whole game with it. Goes to show you didn't need much lol

Stormshild is not for warriors since they have innate faster block. Its the best shield for Rogue and Wizzard

255 staff of apoc was hacked. Oh how powerful you felt once you acquired one tho

That was awesome!

You should do a video with all the best purely legit items

I like to play The Sorc in a special way. I haven't seen Anybody play him in this way so Here Is my way on playing him. You will need: -Constricting ring (gives 75% to all ressist but decreases your HP slowly) -Dreamflange (Crazy Good on a sorcerer) -Book of mana shield -any Shield that gives to Magic -any Helmet that gives to Magic -any Second ring that gives to Magic -any Amulet that gives to Magic -any armor That gives to Magic Try for the items to Give you atleast +20 to Magic or higher (18 works fine too) Magic increases your Mana and since you use mana shield that means you will switch your HP for your Mana which means that the Constricting ring isn't that Bad. The Constricting ring Is Good because it gives max ressistences so you don't have to worry about that. And there Is no Point for you to work your Butt of to try and find some amulets or some items that Give you like 16 to all attributes since the only thing the sorcerer needs Is magic. With this build you have insane Amounts of mana that the Constricting ring Doesn't really have a downside and at the same time you have max ressistences,I play on the Hellfire version so I Can just Fully max out All spells (except Mana shield). You become a monster at the late game

I don't know why I see everywhere that the best items were hacked... King's bastard sword of haste (speed was the same atk speed but less expensive to repair), godly plate of the whale and arch angel staff of appocalypse/nova were all available on the ps1 version and I have them on my old memory cards. You just needed a char enough high level to shop them.

i used to hex edit like 20 stats/skills onto a ring, everything that would go on it and still work so one punch cast a ton of magic attacks, and 2 rings that didn't work in epic ways. broken rings for loot grabbers. one if you put it on and hit a mob your game will freeze and require a restart. and another one that you hack into your account, then you cant move it except to drop it, once you drop it anyone who picks it up would full pc crash, and if you try to reload your player without hacking the ring off it keeps crashing :P because certain skills cant be used together.

Wow! What is your outro music??? Soooooo nice

Hi, Just watched your video and noticed you said you can not dup in helfire but you can it's just the items not gold hope this helps

These items like Godly Plate of The Whale.. Do they exist or did they exist in previous versions of the game? Were they fixed in patch 1.09? Did they only exist on the battle net or were they on the single as well? And what about lightforge?

Not going to lie, I don't remember any other items except these since people were always giving them out in every game

KSOH? The Strange Sword of Haste was better. I spent days re-rolling Wirt until I got one. Hit rate would give more DPS over time and was better for dueling. Also I hate a Godly Crown of the Mammoth from Wirt. Everyone claimed it was hacked, but I knew for a fact I bought it from wirt. My level 43 Warrior was the shit.

Rogue's used Merciless bow of thunder or Windforce. Also, Arch Angel's Staff of Apoc is a real item you could shop fairly easily. However, the one most people remember was hacked to have 255 charges. Godly plate of whale I'm honestly not sure about. I do recall being told that it wasn't actually possible to find a plate with the prefix godly but I can't find anything to confirm. All of my years playing D1 though, I never found a plate armor with the "godly" prefix. Highest I ever found was "awesome". Any of the other "hacked" items you mentioned would work when you imported them but if another player picked them up or you left and joined another game, they would change to garbage.

you can dupe on hellfire just items only, not gold.

Was thinking cap rings and amulet in diablo 1 or 2? cant remember. i do remember having them tho.

in which mode did you find the zodiac rings?

Thank you for the MASSIVE hit of nostalgia. Diablo 1 ages better every day in comparison to what they put out today. I wish Diablo 4 was anything as incredible as this

how do you get the henjo items ?

I dropped one but the ac was 71, +181% armor, 74 Hit points

I remember the bat scroll helm.. thats what I was looking for when I searched this video

The Stormshield and the Royal Circlet are 2 of a very small handful of unique items in Diablo 1 that are worth a damn. Most of your "end game" gear is gonna be basic magic items with both a prefix and a suffix. Oh yeah, I forgot about the Dreamflange...very important for the Sorcerer. I'm not sure why some people prefer the Thinking Cap over the Royal Circlet. I don't feel like the Thinking Cap is worth a damn. Its AC is awful and you have to go shrine hunting in order to raise its overall durability because it starts at at like 1 or 2 max dur.

Is this being played through GOG or were you able to get it work in Windows 10?

No demonspike coat or grandfather?

no love for the rogue. Many people were fans of the needler but i ended up finding a Mithril bow of swiftness. . 1-14 damage and fast attack

This was really cool to watch other than the fact that you could have done all of that in 1/10th of the time... Not trying to be an ass tho this was a nice video!

I used Godly plate of the whale, and kings axe of haste. Great video.

the joke is i was going for dps. i remember when my fireballs was hitting over 700 but my mana was at 26 XD. darn shrine.

very cozy video

I was lucky enough to play d1 pretty much at release and enjoy Bnet in its infancy. No homage to Demons Spike Coat in this vid though?

I remember item hacking back in the day and naming things the most childish stuff ever. Good times.

i forgot all about some of these! how do i get a trainer for tchernbog/hellfire?