Mule Characters
A mule character is simply a character who's sole purpose in life is to hold on to other characters' stuff. Ever found a cool magic item or weapon in Diablo II LOD that isn't quite good enough to replace what you usually use, but it is just too good to sell or throw away? Give it to your mule character(s).
When you create your mule, be sure to keep in mind that you have to play it for a minimum amount of time or you risk losing the character and everything it holds in a week and a half. Generally I get to level 12 before I've met the requisite time to keep the character.
Even after you have created your character and played the minimum amount of time, don't forget that you have to log in and refresh your character every 90 days. If a character hasn't been played in 90 days, Blizzard figures that you don't use that character and will delete it. If you log in and more than 90 days has passed, you will still see your character ... but it will be EXPIRED and you will not be able to access it.
You are going to laugh when you read this ... for the longest time we would create mule characters in different Realms. We mainly play on the East or the West Realms and make it a habit of playing too many characters. So naturally we would create our mule characters on the Europe or Asia Realms. The problem was that a character on the East Realm cannot interact with a character in the Asia Realm, so therefore these made for lousy mule characters. It never occurred to us that we could create entire new accounts. Well, now we know.
Just create a new account on the Realm you like to play and build up a few mule characters to store your extras. But now that you have your mule characters in place on your special mule account, how do you get the goods from your active character to your mule character?
There are several ways to accomplish this. We have met with very mixed results by trying to drop the items, sign out, sign in with the new account and attempting to join the same game and recover the items. Sometimes the game is there and sometimes the game is not (password protect your games if attempting this so someone can't sign in and snatch it away from you). If you can't join the game, then the items are lost forever. We don't use this technique. By the way, if you know what we were doing wrong, please leave a comment or send an email.
The better ways to transfer items from your active character in Diablo II to your mule character is to (a) have a friend hold on to it for you and give it to your mule, or (b) buy two games so you have two key codes and can interact with yourself on two different computers. If you don't have any friends that you can trust, and you don't have two computers and two copies of Diablo II LOD ... I don't know what to tell you.
Please do share any other additional techniques you know of in the comment section. Thanks!
Added 4/29/06 - I found this on one of the unofficial diablo forums and would like to provide this quote:
"Well I haven't tried this yet since I got back into it, but it used to be that you could create a game and sit around in it long enough for it to stick. I think it was 5 minutes but I'd usually run around for like 10 to be safe.
Even then I'd log out of the game and try to get back in again. If I could do that then I'd drop my stuff and leave the game. Grab another character and get back into that game and pick up the stuff.
Make sure you don't set any character level restrictions and most likely you'll want to make this a normal game. Also set a password for the game just in case. It's not fool proof. Sometimes bnet is a jerk and says the game is full and stuff when it's not. I'd say it works at least 90% of the time though."
someone else added:
"When using [the above] method, make sure you don't leave the game and go to character select screen too fast, or you will get a Realm down and you will be locked out for about 15 minutes. And then you can kiss your hard earned items good bye. But otherwise, it will work pretty well."
When you create your mule, be sure to keep in mind that you have to play it for a minimum amount of time or you risk losing the character and everything it holds in a week and a half. Generally I get to level 12 before I've met the requisite time to keep the character.
Even after you have created your character and played the minimum amount of time, don't forget that you have to log in and refresh your character every 90 days. If a character hasn't been played in 90 days, Blizzard figures that you don't use that character and will delete it. If you log in and more than 90 days has passed, you will still see your character ... but it will be EXPIRED and you will not be able to access it.
You are going to laugh when you read this ... for the longest time we would create mule characters in different Realms. We mainly play on the East or the West Realms and make it a habit of playing too many characters. So naturally we would create our mule characters on the Europe or Asia Realms. The problem was that a character on the East Realm cannot interact with a character in the Asia Realm, so therefore these made for lousy mule characters. It never occurred to us that we could create entire new accounts. Well, now we know.
Just create a new account on the Realm you like to play and build up a few mule characters to store your extras. But now that you have your mule characters in place on your special mule account, how do you get the goods from your active character to your mule character?
There are several ways to accomplish this. We have met with very mixed results by trying to drop the items, sign out, sign in with the new account and attempting to join the same game and recover the items. Sometimes the game is there and sometimes the game is not (password protect your games if attempting this so someone can't sign in and snatch it away from you). If you can't join the game, then the items are lost forever. We don't use this technique. By the way, if you know what we were doing wrong, please leave a comment or send an email.
The better ways to transfer items from your active character in Diablo II to your mule character is to (a) have a friend hold on to it for you and give it to your mule, or (b) buy two games so you have two key codes and can interact with yourself on two different computers. If you don't have any friends that you can trust, and you don't have two computers and two copies of Diablo II LOD ... I don't know what to tell you.
Please do share any other additional techniques you know of in the comment section. Thanks!
Added 4/29/06 - I found this on one of the unofficial diablo forums and would like to provide this quote:
"Well I haven't tried this yet since I got back into it, but it used to be that you could create a game and sit around in it long enough for it to stick. I think it was 5 minutes but I'd usually run around for like 10 to be safe.
Even then I'd log out of the game and try to get back in again. If I could do that then I'd drop my stuff and leave the game. Grab another character and get back into that game and pick up the stuff.
Make sure you don't set any character level restrictions and most likely you'll want to make this a normal game. Also set a password for the game just in case. It's not fool proof. Sometimes bnet is a jerk and says the game is full and stuff when it's not. I'd say it works at least 90% of the time though."
someone else added:
"When using [the above] method, make sure you don't leave the game and go to character select screen too fast, or you will get a Realm down and you will be locked out for about 15 minutes. And then you can kiss your hard earned items good bye. But otherwise, it will work pretty well."
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