Despite all of the new (and even not-so-new) games I still have yet to finish, tonight I slipped back into the clutches of an old friend: Diablo II.

A new ladder season started yesterday, so it was a fresh start for everyone, taking some of the sting out of having forgotten to refresh my characters and losing them. I’m trying a javelin-based Amazon this time, since it’s one of the builds I haven’t tried yet, though I’m not actually using javelins yet since I have a pretty spiffy mace and haven’t put too many points into the javelin skills yet.

I ended this first day at the outer cloister of the monastery in Act 1, at level 13. There are already people in the 80s on the leaderboards, but I’m guessing they haven’t exactly gotten a lot of sleep lately…