/vr/ - Retro Games

Who /uvlod/ here?

https://www.moddb.com/mods/uvlod

Playing it now cause I enjoy Diablo 2 only single player playing as barbarian.

>>7173095
Isn't that mod basically just vanilla with mildly changed drop generation and a few different game rules?

>>7173327
Yes, some configurable conveniences like no xp penalty, better drop rates, no ethereal, perfect drops always, better recipes for upgrading and dowgrading runes and gems, ladder runeword items, reopening the cow portal, portals to the boss level of each area, auto gold pickup, restore some removed enemies, cap resistances (no 100%), expanded storage, unlimited stat and skill reset, imbue and name item, and a few other things.

>>7173361
And of course, Uber bosses.

>>7173095
>I enjoy Diablo 2 only single player playing as barbarian.
Sounds like you forgot to post a gigachad.jpg with that post.

>>7173361
I'll have to check it out, sounds like a sort of extended PlugY.

>>7173361
>no ethereal,
thats just stupid does it also get rid of item quality only dropping superior items what with perfect drops and all
>portals to the boss level of each area
cringe like srsly hyper cringe might as well respawn bosses 5 seconds after death
>unlimited imbue
waitwut thats broken as fuck unless you have to pick up the hammer every time

I always suspected the real true fun of Diablo 2 was to come up with wacky party based builds instead of min/maxed solo builds, but because the majority of nerds have no friends and could only join guilds of other min/maxed no friend nerds, this was basically impossible.

>>7174187
That's why you configure it accordingly...

>overleveled merc dies to regular non-unique, non-champion flayers again

>>7175225
Maybe you should equip him with some life leach next time...

>>7175225
>totally geared level 90+ merc with eth fort kraken shell, eth CV infinity + eth Andy's with GG 30+ fire res jewel
>all resistances at maximum
>dies instantly to hydras.

>find atma's wail
>wonder wtf were the devs smoking with these stats
If I was still using Stealth leather armor it would still be better than this thing.

>>7170183
I've almost got the throwing potions working, although you'll probably want to re-think the radius of the Oil Potion. 4.6 yards is insanely big, even by MXL standards this would be excessive, especially when you consider barbarians can run around throwing 6+ per second. The ctc affixes are also in, the only things I have left to do are the advanced skill mechanics, which will take a while to figure out (Telekinesis, Thunderstorm, Molten Boulder, Static Field, etc).

>>7176115
Oh shit, I think I've been underestimating radiuses for some reason. The oil potion radius is probably more reasonable at 3.3 yards, and rancid gas at 4.

>>7175984
It's kind of silly that as a caster, Stealth is better than most things, and it takes so long to ever find an upgrade with the FCR piece.
>vmagi
>Que-Hegan's (less than Stealth)
>Ormus (also less)
>Tal's + other pieces
>Fortitude (lel)
That's it. Not a single normal tier unique has FCR on it. Heavenly Garb probably should, even if it were only 10 or something. Vipermagi is literally the only armor in the game with more FCR on it than Stealth, a runeword you can make in Act I of normal.
The weirdest thing to me is that crafted caster armor can't roll FCR, so it's essentially pointless to ever make it, since Stealth will always be better for you as a caster then crafted because of the FCR. It's such a baffling decision to have no viable end-game potential on caster armor, when it could been one of the coolest choices to chase after. Caster amulets have the potential to be so much better than even a Mara's, it's insane. But it's acceptable because the chance of getting that GG roll is so astronomical that it balances out.
Stealth still has the highest FCR increase in the game save only for vmagi. If you're looking to close a BP gap, especially in SP without ladder runewords enabled to make spirit, you're going to be looking at using Stealth through hell for the 25 FCR if you can't find a vmagi.
Crafted caster armor should have been given the chance to roll Apprentice and Magus for 10 and 20 FCR like circlets, as part of their random affix pool, and additionally have the chance to roll from 5-10 guaranteed FCR like caster amulets do, so you could potentially get up to 30 FCR on a crafted armor, and even with hitting that perfect FCR roll, vmagi would likely still always be better because of the other stats, but you could at least imagine getting some kind of perfect armor roll of 30 FCR + 2 sockets +life/mana +res. No +skills, but the chance for 2 sockets would give it a chance to be perhaps a best in slot with the addition of GG jewels, facets, or runes.

>>7177196
a caster-centric unique Archon Plate might have gone a long way in providing an endgame alternative to vmagi. shame that there are still quite a few item types that never got a unique version. though as >>7175984 noted, simply being unique is no guarantee that an item will be useful.

>>7178194
Is there a clear list on what base items have no set or unique versions? There has to be one around somewhere, but I couldn't find one.

>>7178591
Actually nevermind I found it, diablo.gamepedia.com has a pretty good one.

>>7178591
there are tons, especially among the character-specific items and elites. off the top of my head
>archon plate
>scarab husk
>lacquered plate
>wyrmhide
>loricated mail
>boneweave
>diamond mail
>hellforge plate
>great hauberk
>hydraskull
>giant conch
>wyrmhide boots
>mirrored boots
>troll belt
>colossus girdle
>great poleaxe
>colossus voulge
>colossus sword
>mythical sword
>small crescent
>conquest sword
>hydra edge
>falcata
>highland blade
>hyperion javelin
>hyperion
>ghost spear
then you get into the ones that I always forget about like Styigan pilum and Heater. There's not even a unique regular pilum, or any normal unique javelins of any kind. Or exceptional, barring Titan's.
I know there are many more. not even listing all the class-specific ones. The armors could really change the game and endgame builds up a ton. But there are so many elite weapons I'd love to see added as well. A unique mythical sword or legend sword could be super cool, they could even do more than one with that base where the "mythical sword" is a different legendary sword based on real-life legends. anything cool like that.
>exceptional base is called "the Atlantean"
The elite version could be called Excalibur or some obviously similar name to get the point across. A weapon to rival Grief. Anything to break the stranglehold runewords have on endgame melee weapons.

>>7178978
listing only uniques here, of course. there are set versions to a few of these, most notably Tal's and Nat's have lacquered and lorciated. and also BK has a mythical sword and Trang's has a troll belt. but the majority of the items listed have neither.

>>7178978
It's kind of funny how many of the item bases with missing uniques are either throwing weapons, elite items or class-items. Neither of which could have uniques or didn't exist before LoD.
>"a few more hours of work? nah close enough lmao"
> -Blizzard interns, circa 2001 ad

>>7179180
I wouldn't mind if each character got a whole other set containing one of their unused class-specific item lines
>barb set with fanged-line helm
>sorc set with eagle orb line
>pally set with targe or rondache line
>necro set with preserved head line
>sin set with katar line
>druid set with hawk or falcon helm line
It would be neat if the Amazon had a set option that wasn't bow, either a set with a javelin or some insane monster spear and golden armor so you could look like a valkyrie. They could have also had all the introductory class items you find in act 1 of normal have a unique version for that early chance at something decent, without eclipsing a good non-unique find as well.
For instance, a unique eagle orb could give something like 1+ to a random sorc tree or 1-3 on one of the 3 starting skills, 10-20 fcr, +mana and whatever else, but it still might not be better than finding just a white orb with 3+ charged bolt. Just little things like that. No game-breaking must-finds, just something that if you did find it, it might be pretty helpful for a little bit. Even after you move out of starting skills, the fcr on a weapon could still be enough of an incentive to continue using it, even if that's all it's giving you at that point. I've certainly shopped specifically for 20 fcr wands on single player as a non-necro caster without any care of having +skills on them.
Though the chance of getting a 1+ lightning skills 3+ charged bolt 20 fcr orb from corpsefire or rakanishu could still always be that dream drop for a sorc starting out.
And what is a more quintessential D2 experience than starting up a new character and finding that amazing early act 1 drop for the class that you didn't pick?
>Start a sorc
>find 3+ teeth head
>I should rolled necro, I guess
>Start a necro next time
>find 3+ charged bolt orb

>you can add a socket or reroll or upgrade the ilvl of rare items with a SOJ
I never knew this till today odd that they didn't use them to upgrade unique items to elite or rerolling elite items with a high rune too

recipes for crafting lv 80+ elite weapons/armor with nonshit auto mods would have been cool too blood weapons with 4-9% leech life 50-200 life 40-100 ED same recipe but add in a SOJ and a high rune you could craft insanely godly items but the high cost keeps it at an offset that does not make it OP making it a fair trade

>>7179360
That or just make the full sets that aren't Tal Rashas actually good. Or at the very least usable like the Immortal Kings set.

>>7179854
an easy addition to crafting would be changing it so that if the magic item that goes into the recipe is ethereal, the resulting roll remains ethereal. This one tiny change could completely revitalize weapon crafting and make people start chasing after GG eth blood zerker axes and the various other craftable weapon bases. It would also make picking up magic weapons actually worthwhile for another reason than just gold instead of breezing on by all blue text weapons. The only downside to this would be that it might render all non-eth weapon crafting essentially pointless.
>Oh, you got a perfect lifesteal/ED/Fools/40 IAS/2-socket Zerker?
>meh, not even eth though. Charsi.

>>7179360
>some insane monster spear and golden armor so you could look like a valkyrie.
I had an idea for a valkyrie set ages ago thats cool and flavorful lore/history wise but also an annoyingish procfest

full set gives you like 100% war cry on attack 100% terror when struck
the pike/jav is nothing to fancy maybe give it rainbow damage and something silly like after each kill a small chance to cast grim totem and CE half the set gives you lv 20 raven boots have a chance to proc blaze apocalypse and meteor

basically scream nonstop everything is dropping bricks trying to fleeing from you but shits blowing up and on fire all you gotta do is look at daemon and the guy goatse its skeleton out its own ass an edgy as fuck procfest of a set that does the amazon justice

Is there no link to download Diablo 2? Like the Doom threads here have download links.

>>7180521
I think you might be able to download the installer from Blizzard's official site, and just use some random cd keys and it'll work as long as you don't want to play on bnet.

>>7173361
So, Diablo 2 but even easier. Got it.

>>7180615
Huh this actually works. Thanks anon. Now how do I play at a proper resolution? It's hard stuck on like 800x800

>>7181162
High resolution mods are shite. Get glide wrapper to make the game look better.

Retard question,how do i know where to find certain equipment or loot without spoiling myself at a wiki? say i need a lv90 unique,do i just kill lv90 unique monsters or what?

>>7182786
Obviously use a wiki. The newer version design is based around looking up things on Arreat Summit and other sources. Drops aren't nearly common enough to be worth wasting your time on guessing.

>>7182786
Item/monster/area levels and drop treasure classes and stuff is basically arcane science, if you want something specific you'll have to look up some guide or drop chance calculator. Also the higher up items are ridiculously rare, even when magic finding at the best area or boss that can drop the item.

>>7182871
>>7182861
well,fuck

is Warmth really that bad of a sorceress skill early? i have one point on it else i need to constantly chug pots

>>7182931
I often put a point in it, although it doesn't seem to really do all that much.

>>7182873
http://dropcalc.silospen.com/item.php

>>7182931
You need hundreds of percent and a big mana pool for it to be noticeable, and both of those are generally considered a waste to put points in, due to the weak returns, but also because it is so much easier to get from gear like Insight and Bahamut's Rings, Frostburns etc.
Having a single point in Warmth pays of pretty well with +skills gear, but other than that mana on kill and, to an extent, damage to mana is really the way to go early.

>kill hell Ball
>find atma's wail AGAIN
>celebrate by respeccing into FO/lightning/CL
>the build actually works
The lightning damage is kind of awful and orb is clown shit compared to blizzard but it actually can kill enemies. I've been living a lie, I swear the build didn't work at all the last time I tried it.

>>7184327
Frozen Orb can carry any build since it is so cost effective.

>>7180521
google portable/direct play diablo 2 torrent even the old as fuck one from TPB works either one of the torrents on 1337x works perfectly too one even comes with plugy and etc mods/hacks these torrents are smaller then downloading both iso's like a third/forth the size do not need to be installed can be kept on a usbkey to play anywhere and easily work on wine with no bs tinkering desu senpaitachi its the definitive way to download/play D2 in modern age

unless you want to for whatever extremely retarded reason play on the cancerous aids infected bot heaven that is battlenet or enjoy the cringe that is ladder pvp or must I even bring it up allah forgive me YOU ENJOY the jewery autism trading gold hoarding drama and scamming that is d2jsp

>>7184327
orb is broken as shit
the 'damage' is misleading as fuck since when the orb explodes it shoots out a fuckton of those ice spikes so you gotta multiply it by like 15

Do you guys play D2 or LOD vanilla? or PlugY? or Path of Diablo? I played D1 and loved it and was gonna play D2

New player here, which class should I play and why?

>>7185667
Whichever you like the most. You will fuck your first build up, anyway.

>>7185085
>>7185557
It's still minor league compared to even partway synergized blizzard but both have their pros and cons. Blizzard has more damage, more aoe, more range and also more stopping power since it flinches enemies unlike orb which also translates to your merc having a lot more survivability. Orb does more reliable damage since blizzard will randomly miss all the time, and especially if the enemies are size 1 or stationary the random shards seem to have really hard time hitting them for some reason.

Overall blizzard is way more op than orb, but orb doesn't need to play by 1.10 clownworld rules so it's a lot more comfy for playing through the game solo as a dual element build.

reminder if rolling a new sorc always go fire starting at lv 12 blow some time at Akara autistically searching for a 2s +3 firebolt+warmth+inferno staff it will run from 10-14k toss in a tir and ral rune embrace the rapetrain you have just created and be as giddy as school girl racing your way to lv 19 so you can use this massive big dick energy +9 fucking fire bolt warmth inferno staff +3 fire skills clear act 1 in seconds and literally rape Andy over 9000 times in just 5 mins and then proceed to jerk off as you clear act 2-5 in less than an hour and blow your load as you kill baal in just a few hits you could also be a faggot and upgrade to something with +3 fireball and firewall keeping warmth from drognan at the start of act 2)

having such a fucking OP and broken runeword given away for just two shitty babies first rune is just mind boggling insane plus the fact sins druids necros and even pallys can use it what the fuck were they thinking even if it was only +3 fire skills the added defense fire damage and mana after kill maybe changing the +33 cold res to idk 20-25% all rez and some + life shit would still be OP
the fact you can easily use leaf till end game since finding/buying +3 staffs with 2 sockets + wtv else are really common/cheap is once again fucking insane even with fire immunity being common just get some lower res/conviction pussy killing everything with fire is the way god intended alpha as fuck warriors to murderfuck all those against him

please god today by making a OP leaf staff in his name better yet name some rando god get to act 5 give the staff to anya to name it god's leaf battle/war staff and hand over this holy weapon of burning rape to twink a lv 1 sorceress and see how fast you can blitzkrieg your way to hell without using teleport like a pleb
do it anon burn everything in the name of god by reading all this you should have the passion to create the staff & wtv fire sorcs and rape away

Welp, guess it's time to roll a new sorc character

>>7185572
if you're looking to experience D2 as a traditional single player RPG then you should play with PlugY

>>7186617
>Glory be to the Father and to the son and to the holy spirit as it was in the beginning is now and ever shall be world without end.
Burn bright anon burn strong the father will watch over and protect you cleanse in his name DESU VAULT

Holy fucking shit PlugY is getting updated for 1.14

http://plugy.free.fr/en/index.html

Anyone heard anything about it?

>>7187084
Can you even update the game from 1.13 to 1.14 without losing all characters and shit? I'm sure as hell not gonna start from scratch.

>>7186420
Guess I gotta go fucking roll a new sorc for the billionth time, thanks. Deus Vult

>>7187084
Wait, are those notes of the current latest version? Can I open cow portal even after killing the Cow King?

>>7173095
Why don't you use PlugY instead?

>>7186420
I read this as if Beavis was saying it.

>>7187643
>>7186420
>"give the staff to anya"
uheheheheh, yeah heheh, "Staff" heheheh.
BOING

>>7187393
More features.

>>7174195
Probably. I got to playing with a new acquaintance awhile back, both of us just picked skills for fun without looking up any guides, had tons of laid-back fun and managed to make it work, sure we struggled but that was part of the fun. Then a third guy joined and he was the online guide minmaxing kind, totally ruined it.

Has someone tested the new reshade lottes shader with NoX, D1 and D2?, a guy at vogons posted some D2 pics using 1.14d

>>7187116
Probably not. But I couldn't get it to run on Win10 so if this works I'm willing to start all over again.

>>7187293
Yes, you could always open Cow portal with PlugY even after killing the Boss.

When leveling a whirlwind Barbarian am I supposed to be clicking on every single thing until level 30? My hand hurts already

>>7189114
Put your double swing on left click and just hold the button down to move around and autotarget enemies.

>>7175984
>>7177196
This and leaf show how broken development for DII was, particularly after 1.10 with synergies.

Maxing out synergies early and very basic rune words lets a spec absolutely tear through normal and nightmare. You can load up on MF and have budget gear and still do Hell runs.

To a lesser extent other casters have the same bonus. Synergies allow you to max out a skill early, with damage that swamps mobs. Most also are AOE and magic hits 100% of the time.

Contrast this with melee. Monster life and armor was increased considerably in later patches to match the caster damage output, but weapon base damage and speed were never adjusted, nor were quality prefixes and suffixes on low and mid level gear. The result is that it is an absolute grind to level melee untwinkled. A handful of exceptional uniques are required to make running nightmare easy, or running countess over and over at least for Honor. Otherwise, rares and blues won't drop worthwhile mods for almost all of nightmare. You miss at least 1/20 hits but often much more. Solutions abound with set and unique items, cheap ones, but you won't have those floating around early in a ladder. It seems obvious they need to rework weapon damage and modifiers so that useful stuff comes up early. Let grandmaster's and cruel spawn around level 30-40 but only on normal and low exceptional gear. This would give you good blues and yellows while not making damage OP.

Right now only spec is viable early on. Only the necromancer competed as being viable on an even worse budget for some il86 areas.

>>7189431
D2 might be even more broken than D1 in melee vs magic. While the sorcerer eventually massively outclassed the rouge and warrior at the end game, it didn't at all during a regular playthrough if you weren't doing books and elixers. You started off with a major challenge in the first few levels before you got effective spells. Even then, damage fluctuated with book drops and what the Witch sells.

Meanwhile, the warrior had an actual role in tanking since the grid system meant everyone didn't just run in every direction most of the time. D2 style caster play gets a sorcerer dead very quick.

>>7189431
Casters are obviously better off but I don't think melee is that bad. Every character (except barbarian) has a good early melee damage skill and you have access to CB, DS and OW even on easily acquirable low level uniques. Real advantage of casting is probably the fact that it's all ranged AoE.

>>7172865
its fucking reddit but also diablo related
if it gets good as Daggerfall Unity Modding, the same shiet can be used for Diablo2
https://www.reddit.com/r/Nox/comments/gzpt9f/announcing_opennox/
https://gitlab.com/paperjack93/opennox
https://trello.com/b/2aiYfVvb/opennox

>>7189431
They kind of fucked shit up because the systems for ANY physical combat including melee, bows and throwing don't actually work in practice in 1.10. Not only is AR badly theorycrafted, but your ability to acquire weapon upgrades lags behind the level of challenge you need to clear.

1. Unless you grind a lot (which is much more effortous for a melee character than aoe casters) you'll be underleveled playing through the game, which means your hit chance will be disproportionately dicked by level difference
2. You need high tier base weapons to do damage, but the stat requirements are absurd when your max hp is very reliant on the amount of vitality you have
3. Affix pools are full of garbage like hopelessly outscaled elemental damage, and you need either good exceptional/elite uniques or a lucky combination of exceptional/elite weapon+good high tier damage affix(es)
3b. Basically every runeword that has sufficient increased weapon damage or off-weapon ED requires runes you won't find playing even 50 of these characters through the entire game, let alone one. The only exception is Insight which is both ladder only and polearms only.
4. Grinding up and farming items that will actually let you comfortably play through NM/Hell "as intended" takes like 100x more time+effort compared to running, telestaffing and cheesing past everything and applying cheap sources of crushing blow torture on mandatory bosses

Anyone playing PD2? I just beat hell and was farming a bit and then wondered whats left to do?!
There's 3 maps, uber bosses and Dclone, right? is there more? can I even solo those without hydra cheese as sorc?

>>7189462
I find with D1 that ya with the warrior drops are fine and all plus with griz and valor its free equipment you just need to tank and play it safe herding shit the rouge is the same but can be harder if you suck at keeping a distance and cant find a good bow

but with the mage god damn its a coin flip either you find a bunch of books ASAP and rape everything or you need to restart because no matter what you can't deal damage hoards are everywhere and you have no money for mana
BUT once you start finding more high level books and get them to a higher lv you just become death incarnated melting away anything that comes in your path even if you decide to play naked for the lulz plus being able to buy books and the fact they are so cheap or she has an OP staff for sale just makes playing a mage baby easy mode plus throw in mana shield which completely negates his main weakness of no life and shit defense it makes you wonder how much crack everyone was smoking at blizzard north

magic is the most important attribute in the game rouges and warriors both need high magic to raise important spells to the highest lv possible or the game becomes such a pain the lower you go(fucking stupid bullet fest succubi that run away always fun trying to slaughter them with a sword'n'board then getting magically ganked by half the monsters in the lv zerg rushing you) the rouge even more so both of them having such a low hardcap is gay even tho it makes perfect sense at least gear can help with + magic stat boosts
GDI what were they fucking thinking by making magic so horribly busted and OP they could have patched shit to make it weaker or change monster stats and throw in more immunities but nah fuck that noise >:'3 its a feature and the true way to play the game as it was intended oh and yes the warrior killing diablo is the canon ending even tho he sucks massive dick unless you get lucky with the RNGesus and finally get good drops

>>7189774
>mana shield which completely negates his main weakness of no life and shit defense
Not entirely correct, the Sorcerer's hit recovery, block speed and defense are so shit he'll get rekt if you let anything get into melee. When I played through all three difficulties are a sorc a few years ago, on NM and Hell even one of the invisible guys would perma stunlock me if it touched me once. Also the projectile hit detection in D1 is absolute bullshit so you have a hard time hitting any enemies with fast erratic movement like the lightning demons.

Magic being super broken in Diablo 1 is actually kind of based, the main problem is that Warrior and Rogue aren't good enough at their own specialities. Warrior doesn't get tanky enough, Rogue doesn't do enough damage, lategame ranged enemies flee or phase away with a too high reaction time, and actually a large part of the spells in the game get left behind already towards the end of Normal so the magic in that area is actually too weak.

>>7189518
Casting does more damage with AOE than melee aside from top weapons and is 100% hit versus very often missing 20% of the time with melee. You can effectively drop all melee damage 5-20% because of misses.

>>7189637
I find the worst drag to be levels 15-30. Melee characters struggle with meaningful damage output even twinkled since there aren't many great low level uniques to use. Sigon's will make you tanky, but damage is still meh.

Steeldriver let's a Barb, zealot, or melee Druid fun and able to progress fine through nightmare. But that's a specific unique you need. Bonesnap kind of works too.

Nothing else really gets you that sort of damage. Bloodletter is good but only to Act III NM or so. Honor requires a lot and then isn't that great because base damage is so shit.

Upper Steeldriver can take you into hell though.

Auradins fair a lot better thanks to synergy based damage. I had a holy freeze zealot using the crappy exceptional ignored target defense dagger and later the scepter with that mod and mostly meh gear. I could actually be useful into hell thanks to freezing things and could solo Act 5 nightmare, but all the damage came from synergies and someone threw me a Gaurdian Angel so I had quality resists.

I also got gifted a Hellslayer and even with an elite unique my damage was shit compared to AOE a necromancer or Sorc puts out with base skills.

Druids are a bit better because ribcracker is an excellent weapon with insane speed for a wolf.

>>7189941
Yeah, but a sorcerer could reduce their HP to 1 by letting those neon green zombies hit them over and over. Each hit takes a permanent hp. If a hot exceeds your HP, you don't stun, even with mana shield up.

The warrior not being tanky enough is a real problem, or it being hard to hit shit. Even with great gear and maxed vitality, venturing into hell difficulty with a warrior without being close to the level cap is brutal. Death knights will take of 1/3rd of your HP with each hit.

Around level 45 you can finally reliably hit things without a kings weapon and you can start one shitting guys with Civerbs though. You kind of need a gold amulet of precision or to be level 50 to have supper good to hit though.

They reminds me, warriors actually do out damage sorcerers even with the fireball double damage bug. Civerbs Cudgel applies the 300% damage to demons after all mods, so you can do I think 700-900 damage a hit, enough to kill hell/hell enemies in one shot almost every time. The problem is that hitting things is a fucking pain. Maxed out though you can go for chain mail that can spawn resists, which let's you substitute obsidian jewelry for stuff that gets you more mana. That will let you teleport from enemy to enemy and destroy shit. But that also requires an exact gear combo and grinding to the level cap.

>>7190295
>grinding until level cap
I don't want to know how long that takes, I did some Hell grinding on Hell with my sorc looking for nice items and didn't reach 50.

>>7190275
>Casting does more damage with AOE than melee aside from top weapons and is 100% hit versus very often missing 20% of the time with melee. You can effectively drop all melee damage 5-20% because of misses.
And yet when I started playing the game again from the scratch after deleting everything I went with untwinked barbarian because I didn't wanna roll yet another sorc. I didn't kill everything on screen with one cast but I didn't have any problem at all. With Players 1, obviously.
>Druids are a bit better because ribcracker is an excellent weapon with insane speed for a wolf.
Same with barb. Ribcracker is godlike, I used it all the way until I got my hands on grief.
There are weapons for any level that allows you to proceed through game easily.

>>7190574
>There are weapons for any level that allows you to proceed through game easily.
Getting them at those levels playing solo self found is a different matter entirely.

does anyone know how to reenable cinematics on project diablo 2? I could just watch them on youtube, but that kind of cheapens the experience.

>>7187084
Based x 10000

>>7192054
>http://plugy.free.fr/en/index.html

Haven't heard anyone mention it. Must've been PD2 overshadowing it. Think there was a guy on Reddit couple of years back updateing plugy for 1.14 but he mentioned he wasn't the original guy.

This however is on official site so who knows.

>fighting normal Diablo as a melee character
If I start this attack animation, would I die?

>>7193704
Just get that fire and lightning res up, bro.

Is there a way to increase walking speed in Diablo 1? I want to replay it sometime.

>>7189670
roll a new class ;)

Recently started playing Median XL (as a neutraldin) and been having some fun though only early on. The problem is I never beat the vanilla game the entire way through (only sitting in Nightmare difficulty) and I feel now like I'll miss the QoL changes too much if I try to go back. But the classes & other changes in Median are changed so much they feel kinda like separate games. Probably shouldn't have started Median XL until I beat hell in vanilla.

>>7194301
I can't seem to enjoy anything else but sorc or barb. Every other class doesnt seem to have any powerbehind their attack. I tried to build a 2handed assassin or paladin, but that didnt work out.

>>7194361
Nah, vanilla holds up well. I barely even touched vanilla until after I beat 2008, MXL, BFE, ES and a few dozen other mods.

>>7194428
What mods do you recommend? I recently started playing PD2 and loved playing it again, higher resolution and loot filter makes the game really easy to enjoy again.

>>7194428
Thats true I guess, I did start the nightmare character just like.. 2 years ago. Played d2 ages ago but never even beat normal. I'll pop between them I guess. Wish I could get my friends to play, I know they like the game but hard to pin together times to play together.

>>7194439
Median 2008, Median XL and Median Ultimative are the obvious, normal choices, although I'm sure you already know about them. Eastern Sun is also very well received and has plenty of things to do, although it is a huge mess. Of the hundreds of other mods I've played, the only ones that seemed decently balanced and with reasonable progression were Walhalla, Blackened and various 1.09 mods. Your next best options are to check out random 1.13+ mods; I can't recommend any of them since I barely play them, although I have heard good things about Resurgence. However, if you should be a retard like me that has terrible taste, then I could recommend at least a hundred mods that I had fun playing through.

I looked at guides a bit to get an idea for my vessel-focused neutraldin in Median XL, but since Demiurge no longer boosts strength and doesn't boost dex, I assume shields are completely useless for that build? Building up dex to get block rate seems like it will be useless.

>>7194568
Path of Diablo is pretty good at least when ladder reset happens...The map system this most recent ladder was pretty good

>>7194872
>neutraldin
oof play a less cringe build or better yet a less cringe class pallies are teh ultra geys in MXL years ago tho they had a very autistic and cool oskill build using a bow called a tantrumdin but yes if its your first time playing MXL pick a class that isn't shit srsly they need to fucking completely overhaul that trash

the whole light dark thing should have been fucking reworked years ago without a doubt the worst class in the completely history of the mod period no questions asked

>>7195224
>PoE inspired mods
>ladder resets
Path of Diablo is pretty cringe

>>7195254
I love the idea of a class that's basically a "walking wasteland" in terms of how they deal damage and so far this class is basically ezmode with how survivable it is. I just have no idea how to do itemization since I'm also not super experienced with diablo 2 either.

>>7173361
>restore some removed enemies
Like what? That sounds really cool.

>>7187084
what a legend

>>7196174
The only removed enemy that comes to mind is Flamespike, who used to be right near the WP in the Inner Cloister. Can't think of any other total removals, but there were a couple of things that have been removed from enemies like Iron Maiden on Oblivion Knights and Thieving from the champion attribute pool. Don't know if this mod returns either of those, but if it's all about building your own experience, it would be neat if it did.
So, sure, you might be able to do ultra-fast runs right to the bosses for good gear, and always get perfect rolls on all drops, but are you a bad enough dude to play a whirlwind barb or zealot through HC Hell Chaos Sanctuary with Iron Maiden turned on?

>>7196549
There are some enemy types that are in the game files but don't spawn anywhere according to one of the wikis, for example this article.

https://diablo2.diablowiki.net/Frozen_Horror

>>7196669
ah, I see now that there are a couple non-spawning variants of monsters that are still in. In my head I was imagining some completely unused monster type with different models or something. Neat to put them back in nonetheless, though.
Do they add back the scrapped uniques as well, like Constricting Ring and Merman's Sprocket?

>>7196796
No idea. I also have no idea if the non-spawning enemy variants are the thing that mod means with "restoring removed enemies" either lol, it was just the first thing I thought of when I saw the conversation.

>>7176189
Finally got back to working on it and these are the last skill issues (probably):
>Molten Boulder can't be made to explode bigger only when it hits big enemies since there is no way to prevent a missile from always exploding when it runs out of range
>the ideas for Thunderstorm (both the faster storming on cast and the chance to cast per target) would need to be on a separate skill, since you can only have one periodic behavior per skill

>>7194568
We have Median XL Sigma now, it's pretty fucking rad.

>>7197289
>Molten Boulder
I was actually thinking if the explosion changes would be a mistake afterall, lets just leave all the explosion buffs out and reduce the cooldown further to 1.2 seconds instead.
>Thunderstorm
Which parts don't work, more precisely? I have some alternate implementation ideas in mind.

An another random thing that came to mind was that the lower tier poison/fire potions that have different functions now should be added to the higher up drop lists. I might be wrong about that, but I think the lower tier attack pots stop dropping at some point so it's all oil and rancid pots after that in vanilla.

>>7197534
>Once every 8 frames every target in the area has a 15 + slvl/3 % chance to be hit by an extra bolt
This doesn't work when paired with the normal behavior since
>"every 8 frames" is a second periodic value, which is impossible since a skill can only have one periodic value (so it would have to interfere with Thunderstorm's normal bolt release schedule)
>Thunderstorm can only shoot out one kind of missile, to do this behavior it would need to be able to release two different missiles

>check frequency increased to 3 frames during first 1.5 seconds after applying/reapplying
This requires an attached aura (which can only be done via equipment, like a charm or piece of armor) to constantly check/update a stat value to see if the player has re-cast the skill recently. So it can work, it'd just be awkward.

>>7197871
>This doesn't work when paired with the normal behavior
I guess the normal behavior could be dropped and the proc chance tweaked up a bit.

>the increased frequency at the start
Would spawning some kind of an invisible pet with a short lifetime and a limit of 1 that causes the extra pulses work? It would have to be correctly able to benefit from the player's +% lightning damage like Hydra though.

Or alternatively is it possible for the initial buff to be short and then apply the less powerful buff when it expires?

>>7198132
>Would spawning some kind of an invisible pet
That is a very good idea. Now that you've brought that up, I've realized that all of the behaviors can probably work via invisible pets, using a system that expands even further upon the Raven multi-summoning (which itself is obnoxiously complex). It'll be the most convoluted Diablo 2 skill ever made, but it'll be hilarious if it works.

>>7197534
>An another random thing that came to mind was that the lower tier poison/fire potions that have different functions now should be added to the higher up drop lists
Yeah, you are correct. I have now added them to the nightmare/hell misc drops.

Also, I haven't changed poison cloud radius yet (Poison Explosion, poison potions) since there is no radius, each cloud is an actual missile that moves around in a single direction (it is a nova essentially). It would be better if you could describe the increased cloud radius in relative terms, like instead of "Cloud Radius: X yards" you could say "+Y% cloud radius/range".

>>7198326
I think it'll be fine if the original behavior is replaced with the new one, it's going to be clearner and (maybe) less complicated. The proc chance can be increased to 22 + slvl/3 %. I take it you figured out some method to do the individual target rolls, that was one of the things you mentioned being difficult to do early on.

>Poison cloud areas
I see, I'm not 100% sure about the poison potions though, since I can't find the radius numbers on any of the wikis.

Poison Explosion: Radius increased by +150% (don't know about it increasing with slvl, probably just leave that part out)
Choking and Rancid Gas: Radius increased by +50%

>>7196796
>>7196843
It's referring to all of the removed/never added superuniques.
>Flamespike (Inner Cloister)
>Taintbreeder (Outer Steppes)
>The Tormenter (Outer Steppes)
>Darkwing (Plains of Despair)
>Riftwraith (City of the Damned)
>Hell's Belle (Halls of Vaught)
>Blaze Ripper (Frozen Tundra)
>Magma Torquer (Ancient's Way)
>Vinvear Molech (Glacial Trail or Arreat Summit)
>Axe Dweller (World Stone Keep Level 2 or 3)
The only unused new enemy types are the quill bears, cursed bones, The Butcher and wild dogs, although UVLOD doesn't seem to add them.

>farming nm mephisto on my shitty ww barb with no good gear
>find aldur's rhythm
>but I'm not specced for maces
>find lycander's pike
>but I'm not an amazon and also not specced for spears
>also it's eth on top of that too
Are you having a laugh m8

>>7194220
hellfire expansion makes your character walk in town real fast, other than that i dunno

>>7200107
Aldur's rhythm seems like it might a decent weapon for a WW barb. Since WW only benefits from IAS when it's on your weapon and not other gear, loading it up with 3 shaels on top of its base attack speed increase should give you 90 IAS I think. put a Strength in your other hand for fast crushing blow whirlwinds. bonus points if you can also stack even more with some goblin toes and blood gloves. maybe you already are.

>>7200271
Yeah I have blood gloves and a strength, I'll try how the aldur's does when I actually manage to reach level 42 lol.

>>7199697
>Axe Dweller (World Stone Keep Level 2 or 3)
holy crap this was gonna be a superunique Death Lord, wasn't it?
>Teleporting hell Baal runs becomes even more dangerous
Those fuckers can already slaughter an endgame character as it is. Imagine a super who you know is always lurking somewhere on the level with his pack of aura-enchanted extra fast extra strong comrades.

Old and forgotten Patriarch veteran here, wanting to replay after all these years and desperately needing help to set me up for proper demon fucking decimation.

I installed DII - LoD - 1.13d - basemod - PlugY, in that order.
The options I enabled in the basemod.ini should absolutely not clash with the options of the PlugY.ini.
The basemod.ini is set up to load PlugY.dll.
Basemod game runs fine but without PlugY - PlugY game runs fine but without basemod.

Google hasn't helped much, so I ask you good brothers. How to get our beloved DII running with that basemod and PlugY?
Because this barbarian is by now full of beer and doesn't know how to get out of the fucking gates, he needs some guidance. Perhaps from Tyrael himself.
Make it a halfway understandable step-to-step explanation and plenty good loot shall be dropped on your way to glory!

Glory over those shitfuck demons! Glory over Diablo! Glory over Baal!

>>7189548
Do I have to install Unity to play this shit?

>>7200967
Try it the other way around, load Basemod via PlugY by going into plugy.ini and setting Dlltoload=basemod.dll

>>7195854
Did you ever play it?
I've been playing PD2 the past few weeks and PD2 just feels like a PoD knockoff honestly
I knew beforehand though there were gonna be a lot of ideas they used for PD2 that they got from PoD...One great thing with PoD though was the trade site they made, damn is that shit smooth

Speaking of PD2 I'm just about burnt out...All I do is bounce between rare T1/T2 maps and hoping for a T3 to drop but they're rare as hell - think I've only ran around 5 of those so far

Are there any scans of the Diablo 3 manual, or Quick Start Guide? Been looking for it with no success.

The Book of Adria Bestiary would be nice, too, have yet to find a scan.

>>7172865
I'm really excited for the battle chest to finally arrive in the mail, I've heard so much about Diablo II, I can't wait to play it!

>>7202486
>scans of the Diablo 3 manual, or Quick Start Guide
chances are they simply dont exist, because game is too braindead easy.. wat they would even write in those?
>green + is gud
>red - is bad
Booklet from standard edition was just lore (had physical copy). So maybe in collectors edition.. As for art books, there was first one (something with Tyrael or Horadrim in the name) before release when hype was live, not sure for the last one(s).

>>7203145
>you will never launch d2 for the first time

>>7203151
Apparently this here is from the "Quick Start Guide" that comes with the Collector's Edition, took me a bit of tracking down to figure out. I just think it looks like a neat book.

The Book of Adria seems to be the bestiary, I just don't know if it got scanned either.

>>7203154
>tfw can't seem able to launch Diablo 2 anymore due to 3D card fuckery or something
Man I was like, halfway on the game some 10 years back when I had a computer crash.

>>7203436
>tfw can't seem able to launch Diablo 2 anymore due to 3D card fuckery or something
You need to either use glide wrapper or patch to 1.14d

>>7194220
The Hell 2 has your run when not in combat. Basically it is fast and slows when an AI gets active.

The game itself isn't really quicker though because it's harder so you have to save more and will die more often.

>>7203453
I tried downloading that and it didn't help, maybe it wasn't this patch. Thanks!
It's weird because back then, somehow it ran alright.

I think i am retarded,i dont know where to go after rescuing deckard from tristam in act 1,maybe i missed a cave or something?

>>7203685
The road continues from the underground passage exit in black forest, you might be the first person in the world to get lost in act 1 lmao.

>>7203841
I have been in that fucking cave twice and found no other exit,i think i am genuinely stupid and will check again later

>>7203685
if you already rescued him, you must have gotten to the Dark Wood at some point. Go back and continue on the road until you find the black marsh.

>>7203856
the dark wood isn't a sandbox, it exits into the next area.

>>7203856
Just follow the road in dark wood and it will lead into the next area.

>>7201820
Ah, that just might've worked, at least the mouse cursor seems to be uncapped now when starting PlugY.
Thank you, good brother! Last time I installed this game was on a PC running WinXP.

>>7203685
to underground passage then to dark woods and onwards. underground passage can spawn as either cave with entrance on wall at map border or randomly as hole inside map, like den of evil, the pit etc. I remember thinking it only spawned on walls and also getting lost where to go.

>>7203943
I hope he's not looking for an exit on the underground level 2.

>>7203972
I am. . .its not there? i swear i mapped the entire first floor

>>7203986
lel the underground passage level 2 is just a treasure room with some some champion packs to kill. the exit out is on level 1.

>>7203986
also, given that you've already rescued Cain, you must have found the dark wood at some point., so the exit should already be marked on your map.

>>7204013
Yeah i found it,apparently i am blind as fuck and didnt saw it was already mapped,was way out of the screen on the minimap

>>7204023
If you need to look around for something, don't forget you can scroll the minimap with arrow keys

>decided to continue playing Back to Hellfire, the Diablo in Diablo 2 mod
>the enemy exp balancing is completely insane, the best source of experience from 25 to at least 40 is some random bone gnasher pack in act 2
>act 3 and act 4 give shit experience and everything does a billion damage, random ranged enemies hit 80 damage per shot despite this being Normal difficulty (in comparison, vanilla Hell horror archers do about half as much damage)
>enemy levels are completely inflated, they are dropping items of ilvl 45 in act 3
>the act 4 prime act boss moves at open bnet speeds, hits for 150 damage, casts Blizzards that deal 200 damage per hit and has a retarded amount of life, only way I can figure out how to beat it is to cheese it with stacked lightning walls
I don't even want to think about how god awful it will be to play this mod in Hell difficulty.

>>7203470
>resist acid
>resist knockback
>No sir I do not like this, no not one bit.

This is pretty heretical not gonna lie. Also having a second weapon slot is pretty cringe. Switching weapons in OG diablo should be a punishment/risk only used absolutely when needed. At least they did not go completely full retard with inventory space like a lot of mods do. Its big but not fuck huge packrat that must have a tool for every scenario at all times huge. bonus points for keeping gold as a slotted item tho and hopefully in piles of 5k. Call me a faggot but I'd like to see more mods somehow incorporate carry weight and baggage/slot size

>>7200107
>play barb some more
>farm meph some more
>find second fucking aldur's rhythm
I just want to play sword barb reeee

>>7205342
what is your most-hoped-for drop in regards to swords? Headstriker? Atlantean? Swordguard?

>>7205378
Literally anything that does good damage.

>>7205390
Find a 1x4 magic 2-hand Elite Sword and re-roll it with rubies until you get Cruel.

>mephisto's next epic drops
>rare dimensional blade that had 20 ed, 50 ar and 1 cold damage
>lycanders aim

>>7205439
>rare dimensional blade
dang, so close. if that had been Ginther's Rift you might have done okay with it. an eth Ginther's would be sick and very uppable.

>>7205443
>dang, so close
Yeah no kidding, i'm getting trolled hard with these drops.

Yesterday I beat Baal on normal in Median XL for the first time. At what point should I actually start farming for equipment or something? I'm not well versed in D2 in general so itemization is not something I'm good at, conceptually. Played a bit of nightmare and shit is still dying fast but I know that wont hold for long. Looked at a guide but it lumps "normal to hell" all in the same early game part so I don't know what I'm doing within that.

>>7205485
>At what point should I actually start farming for equipment or something?
90ish ie mid nightmare sets are common before end game hell basically depending on your class you shouldn't be using any tiered shit anymore crafted and high lv runewords and sets are better once you get to hell is when the game legit starts end game autism and all that plus searching for SU's

I hope you know all about class quests for you lv 90 skill and other shit you need to do before lv 70

>>7203986
No it's a trick. Exit to Dark Wood is on level 1, always marked with red door icon. e.g. on pic related

best necro build for cows?

>>7207012
Poison nova, probably. There's shitloads of enemies so that and the corpse explosions are efficient.

Freshly installed this game again, new account.
0-3 summon necro
4-7 meteorb sorc
8-9 anon's choice

>>7205606
>I hope you know all about class quests for you lv 90 skill and other shit you need to do before lv 70
Jokes on you, I don't know *shit*. I'm playing median XL basically blind, just occasionally looking stuff up in their guides... which aren't super useful to people who don't already know a lot about Diablo 2. I've never done 'endgame' content in the vanilla game either.

>>7207115
Poison nova is kinda awkward against tightly grouped packs of monsters. >>7207012
Why do you want to run cows with necro? There are better characters for that.

I don't read nigger posts made by median XL analplugY hellfire whatever mod users

>>7207313
frenzy barb

>>7205060
It makes sense in the context of the mod. Undead now have resistance to swords while animals have a resistance to maces so you need a load out for each.

To be honest, I don't really like that part. You forget to switch your weapons and then fights become a grindy slog. I played rouge or axe wielding barbarian to avoid it.

It does add to the complexity though because you have to decide which load out gets your better shield. If all the undead on a level are litches hurling fireballs, your mace gets the shield with + fire resist, while you throw the one with + to blocking on your swords load out because you're fighting demons for melee.

The classes are a lot more specialized, which I don't like either. The rouge-lite modes where you can't save or can only save and go to town once every four levels are cool though. Multiplayer is nice in that the difficulty makes you play in a party and actually use strategy, but is also not balanced enough. You end up having to replay floors because it gets too hard.

Single player you can play through fine though. Just save and expect to die.

Are there any mods that give the game a more standard hotkey system? I only play solo

>>7207907
Can you be more specific? What kind of system do you want?

>>7207526
i've had alot of poison and bone skillers drop lately and i wanted to make a necro, never played one before but i have heard that they are very good cow runners, apparently i was mistaken

>>7207526
It doesn't have to pierce the huge crowds, that's what the corpse explosion is for.

>>7207012
Just CE, there are so many cows it's easy to chain one pack into another.

>>7208007
Not him, but I'm assuming he means the usual "press hotkey to use skill" rather than "press function key to switch to skill, then press RMB to actually use it".

>>7208237
Maybe you could try some lvl85 areas, instead? Poison necro is best with many weaker monsters spread through whole screen. I like running pits and WK.
>>7208287
I'm not saying that running cows with necro is bad. I just think that PN is not very good with cows because it lacks pierce and CE is also not absolutely optimal because of the annoying delay between monster dying and corpse appearing on the ground. You can also easily kill Cow King by accident. Other characters can probably run cows more efficiently.

>>7208476
>You can also easily kill Cow King by accident.
most of use here use plugy so that's not a problem

>>7208383
vanilla D2 already lets you assign skills to whatever key you want. the function keys are just the default settings.
But you're talking about pressing F2, for instance, or whatever key you assign, to just immediately cast something like Holy Shield, instead of putting it in the active spell slot? I could see some utility in that I suppose. perhaps useful for applying buffs or a spell like Hurricane. Though repeatedly tapping Q or W to cast spam spells like Nova feels to me like it would be vastly inferior to simply clicking the mouse.
also not sure how this system would in any way change targeted spells like blizzard or meteor.

>>7208568
In games like PoE, you still have LMB/RMB hotkeys, but then more for 'less used' skills. So you'd still have move on LMB, main skill on RMB, but buffs/stuns/corpse explosion type stuff on hotkeys, targetting wherever the mouse is pointed at the time. I think it does make it much more usable, but its obvious Diablo 2 isn't really designed for using 6 skills at the same time so I'm not sure how needed such a feature would be.

>>7208587
I confess I've never actually played any other ARPG games PoE, Grim Dawn, Torchlight, or even Diablo III, so I'm not too aware of how the systems D2 used may have been expanded upon or implemented by newer games in the genre.
I do have Torchlight on Steam but never played it.

>>7208874
>I do have Torchlight on Steam but never played it.
Don't bother. I've played every game you've listed, and the torchlight series is meh at best. It functions and thats about the best that could be said. PoE and GD have their charms but each have issues and PoE deviates a lot in how it's structured overall so I tend to hop between PoE and D2 when I get the itch for this type of game. Sadly this subgenre is basically just Diablo, PoE, and Grim Dawn. Unless Last Epoch ends up being good but thats still in early access.

>chromatic amulet of fortune
wew

>>7190275
I made a Fury druid for the first time this week. Very underrated and fun class. Where should I farm for a ribcracker though?

>>7209816
you never farm for specific item. you run lvl 85 areas and bosses and then it drops while you were picking up other trash.

that way you kill two stygian dolls with one corpse explosion

>>7208874
>may have been expanded upon
PoE was a better D2 until they patched it to death and never fixed the core problems
that boat has sailed a long time ago

>>7210623
PoE was never good. The itemization was always a meme, the skill tree was always a meme, the skills were always boring and the gameplay+combat was always wierdly floaty and didn't feel good.

You think any .08 Arkaine's Valors are still around on bnet? I guess the elite rune words made it obsolete, but these were the shit at one point.

>>7210762
That's plus 1,198 life on a barbarian.

>>7210762
I have a memory of people showing off their Arkaine's Valor in the trade screen and it giving + to individual character skills that could roll 1-2 independently of each other. Anyone else remember this? Was this ever a real iteration of the item or am I thinking of some kind of prevalent hacked item like Oculus Rings and the like?

>>7210921
If I recall correctly the .09 and further ones had that but didn't have the insane .08 plus to vitality. .08 valor and camp gaze were the super elite best armor and helm for any build until 1.10.

I like that POD made these uniques good again by adding the ability to reroll and add sockets. A 6 socket Grandfather can actually be better than BOTD now.

Rares got a boost in a late patch too. I remember getting a rare elite great mail of Diablo in Hell back in 2016. Had 40% IAS, 7% dual leech, +2 to Barb skills, grandmasters and cruel for big damage, I forget how much, but close to BOTD, and a strength mod. Fucking beastly.

>>7210762
I've seen those and the pre-nerf Shakos still around.

SSF WW barb purgatory blog
>find boneslayer blade from meph
>sell it because swords only autism
>find bing wang
>cool
>find butcher's pupil
>atleast it's still dual wielding, cave in and put a value point in axe mastery
>actually stomp through rest of nightmare dual wielding wang and pupil
Oh boy, can't wait for the shitshow in Hell

>>7212591
butcher's pupil is one of the best finds you can hope for in that end-of-norm-through-nightmare stretch.
what was your ED roll?

>>7212648
155%, even in victory I'm clowned.

>>7198432
Alright, it's a complete abomination but it almost works. The webm is showing the normally invisible minion with 100% ctc rate, although it obviously casts less often than that. The main issues are it refuses to cast when enemies are too close to it (so to a player that doesn't know there is an invisible skeleton, it seems as if it randomly stops triggering), the aiming mechanism is slightly inaccurate and it has all the issues of a normal pet like getting stuck on obstacles. It is the bastard child of:
>Blade Sentinel (produces an untargetable minion with a timer)
>Lightning Fury (for the initial targeting)
>Catapults (for specific targeting, so that the per-target-check roughly hits only one enemy per targeting attempt)
>Firewall (to disable hit sounds)
>Poison Creeper (one of the few minion AIs with a controllable leash range)
>Fist of the Heavens (so that the thunderbolts follow targets)
>Meteor (for the cltside graphics as the thunderbolts descend)
I still need to add in the vanillaish Thunderstorm behavior and the Thunderstorm overlay so you can know when it is active, but that's simple to do now that I can make skills cast other skills. Overall, I'm happy with how it turned out since it was a complete dumpsterfire to work with at first, but it is still so janky that I'm not even sure you'd want it, and a lot of that jankiness is required, as otherwise I have to rely on things like nextdelay (garbage since sorceress skills also use nextdelay) or massive multihitting of nearest targets and little or no hitting of distant targets.

Merry Christmas all. I finally beat ancients in hell on my smiter, nice way to start this holy day.

>>7214167
>the skeleton moves
>"He's fast!"
Jokes aside, that looks like it ends up working pretty good in practice after all that wizardry needed to make it. One thing I thought might become a problem was if there was lag between the minion being created and being active like with usual summons, but if it summons like Blade Sentinel that shouldn't be an issue right. We can see if the strike chance is too OP or needs any tweaking when you've put the whole thing together.

I just started act 2 nightmare and I'm sitting on 76 attribute points. I should probably be using them. But the whole "enough str and dex to equip" throws me off because I have no idea what I'll be equipping. So I just stockpile stats. It's Median XL and with Demiurge & Sacred Armour active plus what I have equipped I'm sitting at double overcapped resists, 10k armour, 350 regen a second, and like 500 vit & energy, so haven't really had to put stats in stuff to keep surviving. I feel like this is going to bite me soon.

does anyone actually play tcherno? i've basically been waiting for the long promised wipe to play again and have a bunch of extra gear to give away

You know what's the only good part about Act 3?

That you can atleast skip it in multiplayer lol

What do I do with them? I'm kind of curious about iron golem, but I know it'll be shit/I'm too poor to afford a good one.

>>7216036
forgot funny picture

>>7216039
Dim Vision.

>>7216060
I did 1 point in revive and will max dim vision. Hopefully I'll stop getting owned by burning souls once i get used to using it

IT'S HAPPENING!

PlugY site updated, 1.14 on the way.

>>7216776
It's about time.

>>7214606
inb4 mxl has a bunch of shit to learn game only starts at hell
you HAVE to turn SU's into potions in the cube which give one stat point with a max of 500 because end game shit can easily have lets say 500 str hell a few are over 1k with a req of 100 the good shit being 120+

dude nothing wrong with looking at the item page on the site..... the game does have like over 100 runewords including some very special ones and a few skrt ones

oh also I hope you know that when running your def is 0 and insane dex is needed for blocking unike base D2 also for some end game bosses you're going to need like over 200 rez plus the wtv hell tacks on again 50? which for some classes is a real bitch to get

>>7217425
req lv 100***

>>7217425
>you HAVE to turn SU's into potions in the cube which give one stat point with a max of 500 because end game shit can easily have lets say 500 str hell a few are over 1k with a req of 100 the good shit being 120+
Yeah I just got access to the Learning recipe (hit act 3 nightmare last night) so looked up crafting stuff last night a bit. IIRC from reading the build guides I probably won't be targetting high str items anyway since nothing I have scales off str, and I'm really only using shields for Bear Stance, or the Collector shield. Everything will be in energy/vit (and mostly vit once Demiurge is high level enough to hit soft cap for stat bonus to vessels). But collector & a paladin mace unique are like 400-500 dex, so I'll have to pump that eventually.

>dude nothing wrong with looking at the item page on the site..... the game does have like over 100 runewords including some very special ones and a few skrt ones
I have no problem with looking stuff up, its just that I'm new and the guides on the MXL site are just lists of recipes and items, not like... concepts. Reading a player made build guide that says "str and dex: enough to equip items" doesnt really help when you have no idea what items you are going to equip other than the 5 or so listed in the guide, which are generally hell or beyond.

>oh also I hope you know that when running your def is 0 and insane dex is needed for blocking unike base D2 also for some end game bosses you're going to need like over 200 rez plus the wtv hell tacks on again 50? which for some classes is a real bitch to get
Yeah luckily I knew about the running thing so haven't been doing that.

Doing an Ironman run (no town trips) with a warrior in d1. So far I'm on level 8 and the drops have been kind. Shield of Brilliance saves the day. I fear the caves though.

Anyone familiar with this error?

>Diablo 2 Access Violation c0000005

I get it whenever I try to launch the game. I've uninstalled, reinstalled (Windows 10) multiple times.

Things i've tried,

>Adding it to the Data Execution Prevention (DEP) exception list
>running in administrator mode
>running in windowed mode
>running with XP compatibility pack 3
>uninstalling and reinstalling
>installing an older version (1.12)

My goal is to get plugy working and do some virtual lan with friends but I can't even start the base game.

>>7217715
ive tried this a few times, generally I die in the catacombs. Getting really lucky with drops, monsters, and shrines seems like the only way its possible

>>7217475
ah wait you're playing a boy loving sodomite as a radical centeris in meele oh boy get ready for RNG hell literally everything you're going to wear minus jewelry is crafted have fun trying to roll max +skills with shit stats or you find some ultra rare SUUU's with a lv 120+retarded stats req
you know respecing into unholy melee gives you a huge amount of options for weapons and gear you're srsly able to pick and swap like a dozen SU+'s

you're basically playing one of the hard mode classes for your first playthrew once again should have rolled a unga bunga 2H axe barb zapping everything with lightening or the other unga bunga barbs that are not throw/summoner

>>7217969
Man, reading this post was fucking painful. But I'm playing the build because I enjoy how it plays. No interest in barb, so not gonna play a barb.

>>7217870
I think it's the same error I get on Win7. Can't help you, sorry.

>>7217884
I've only had goat shrines, and they all worked out really well. I just found a Silver amulet and a Deadly sword of swiftness....things are gonna die.

>>7217870
Try running it on Vista Service Pack 2 compatibility, for some reason that works for me but not XP.

Man dim vision was frustrating at first because it seems like the enemies will just continue shooting projectiles from range or continue advancing towards me, and some enemies are just immune to it (but not other curses like amp or decrep). But now that I'm a bit more used to it it's pretty tight keeping ranged fuckers pacified. We'll see how I hold up doing izzy in hell

>>7218061
>>7218153
Fuck, no luck.

im going for the nuclear option now of installing a VM

>>7218201
I always thought dim vision was a really boring finish to the skeleton+CE build but necro has like no other skills that'll do much with the last 10-20 skillpoints. Poison dagger for the AR to apply CB might be a nice meme but I've never tried that in practice.

>>7172865
anyone have a TreasureClassEx.txt file edited to make rune drops more common? from what I read it seems complex to do

>>7219491
>download AFJ Sheet Editor
>download Fixed 1.13c Txt Files (all you need from it is treasureclassex.txt)
>put treasureclassex.txt into your Diablo 2 directory in data/global/excel
>run via -direct -txt
>open the txt with AFJ sheet editor, find the rows Runes 1 to Runes 17 (r33 is Zod, r01 is El)
>change the values, probably by an order of magnitude
It's easy to do yourself.

>>7216776
Updated with feature list!

Now Ubers will spawn minions unlike previous versions.

cool

>>7172865
Okay, I never got around to playing this properly, only played Diablo 1. I'm currently playing Amazon going for plague Javelin but i'm not enjoying it - only lvl 14, And Spear Amazon seems downright suicidal. Should I respec as an Archer or what?

>>7220898
Amazon's poison skills don't scale well into later levels and the class is kind of weak early on in general. Building for lightning is the best for amazon probably. When you get to level 18 start putting points into Charged Strike, and when you reach level 34/35 or so respec fully into Lightning Fury and Charged Strike.

>>7220931
And by respeccing fully into lightning skills I meant putting one point into passives and just leveling LF and CS and not the other synergies for them. After those you need to figure out how to deal with lightning immune enemies later on, the most casual way is hybridizing into Freezing Arrow(+Cold Arrow for the synergy bonus), you can also go Strafe if you've found a bow with really good damage like Buriza or better, or max Valkyrie and put the rest of your points into Lightning Strike.

>>7220931
>>7220943
Thanks anon, good advice. I've already encountered enemies immune to Lightning so I expected that. In the long term, is bow or javelin superior? Or does it not really matter?

>>7220949
LF and CS are some of the most powerful skills in the game, but in theory physical bow damage is good with godly gear because it just kills almost everything without fear of immunities. But the gear required for bows to be that strong is not very realistically obtainable.

>>7220894
Cain near WP in Act V hype.

>>7221412
I have memories of playing the unmodded game and him being right near the stash at some point. Am I just crazy or did some dick at Blizzard move him next to Qualkek in a patch for some reason?

>>7221469
you are misremebering

>>7221469
Cain's original position in A5 is next to Qual-khek. It's the later patches that moved him to be by the stash/WP. But that change was never implemented in Single Player, only on bnet.

>>7221596
Well that explains it, I played online most of the time.
>But that change was never implemented in Single Player
Just fucking WHY

>>7221613
must have gotten bundled in with the update that enables ladder runewords
:^)

>>7195254
You're a literal fool, the Unholy caster paladin is a rape train.

>>7205485
>>7205606
All of this depends on which version you are playing. Sigma, or Ultimative?

>>7221753
Seeing as how the version has a sigma symbol next to it, I would assume sigma. I just downloaded whatever the newest one was on their website.

Alright fuck this WW barb I give up, the game is just as unplayable as a weapon damage character as I remember. You have to grind and get lucky so much it's just unviable in practice.
>your character is shit and underleveled and needs more stats for stat requirements because you need to skip so much enemies, so need to level up
>leveling up takes forever because your character is shit and slow
>to level up faster you need better weapons
>the only weapons that do enough damage are elites with astronomical stat requirements
>to meet the stat requirements you need to level up, whoops
>making some minimally viable shit runeword will still need right type of elite weapon with right amount of sockets and also it can't be any of the altered qualities so socket recipes work on it
>even finding some minimally viable shit magic or rare weapon is practically a non-existant chance because it's like 10% chance to be elite, 10% chance to even be the right kind of weapon, probably like 0.5% chance to roll a high enchanted damage modifier
>hell countess can drop some runes for minimally viable runewords but the "better" chance is probably still like 0.1% or something lol and also farming her is slow as fuck because your character sucks dick
>reeeeeeeeeeeee

>>7222382
WW sucks major balls even with good equip. Reroll to berserk.

>hench AI completely broke
>even waypoint & TP doesn't make him move at all
>literally right before getting to Mephisto
Fucking barb is scared. Guess I'm redoing that floor. Also starting to get wrecked from time to time in here so I may need to work on my survivability. But armour really only affects how often you get hit, doesn't it? Physical resist seems to be hard to actually improve.

>>7223349
>happened again in the same area after saving & quitting
Okay what the fuck? The Seat of Hatred is breaking my act 5 hench.

>>7222437
But using berserk doesn't solve "need big dick weapon"

>act 4 nightmare (Median XL)
>fight Izual
>get caught by his icicle rain and chain stunned to the point where I can't even move or teleport away
>he still dies
Vessel neutraldin is the most hilariously stupid build. I love it.

We're going to need a new thread in the near future, preferably before this one falls off the board.

>>7222382
you're overstating the difficulty in finding a decent weapon by just a tad. yes, it can be a slog, I know it. But you don't have to always be farming act bosses if it's too hard. Get a decent bit of MF and farm NM Eldritch and Shenk, or even Hell Bishibosh will do if you get him in a good spot right next to the Cold Plains WP. You can find plenty of decent weapons like Bonesnap and pretty much any exceptional unique polearm which should set you right.
Your battle orders should also be at a high enough level where you and you merc can take NM Andy and Meph apart with ease to farm for most of these. a Strength runeword in literally any usable weapon base on your merc will be enough to wreck them. shop for a teleport staff and roll your maps until you get a quick route to one or both of them. You might even get lucky and find something godly like an eth Hone Sundan that you can shove 3 shael runes into. The CB from your blood gloves should be enough to be taking bosses down in concert with your merc. This of course on top of Battle Cry taking the enemies' defense apart so the CBs can land all over the place.
You are using Battle Cry on your enemies after shopping for two +warcries weapons, right?
WW barbs ARE shit and miserable at times to play through on SP, but they definitely are playable.

>>7222382
also I hope you're picking up every single rare weapon that drops, as you could get something with massive mods even on a norm item base that you could then upgrade. a rare two-handed weapon that rolls good ED and a socket or two can really be a godsend.

>>7223791
is the thread not bumping or something?

>filch ribcracker, goreriders, and an um that i traded for jalal's from bot baal runs
Holy fuck lads it's coming together, I can almost feel the uber kills with this new werewolf druid. Now, what do I do about never getting a ber for chains of honor

Always start sorc or necro to farm items for other classes.

>>7224158
Treachery is always a good option, if not already using it. or Fortitude if you find a Lo before Ber.

>>7224291
PlugY is cheating