DIABLO 2

[Anonymous No.5553325]

JUST...

[Anonymous No.5553327]

>>5553325
... how lucky am I?

[Anonymous No.5553340]

>>5553327
lol literally 50 runs in nice

[Anonymous No.5553352]

"We didn't really have almost any story in mind at all, other than you are following the guy from the first game, who stuck the gem in his head. You just got to track him down and kill him at the end. That was the entirety of the story. Really, it was Blizzard South who was tasked, their film department, it was called Blizzard Film Department back then, I think, they were tasked with making cinematics for the game, and they really in making the cinematics invented the story. We really had very little to do with it. At times, we thought their story was very strange."

https://www.usgamer.net/articles/in-their-own-words-an-oral-history-of-diablo-ii-with-david-brevik-max-schaefer-and-erich-schaefer/

[Anonymous No.5554108]

>>5553325
Shitty opening post for a d2 thread.

[Anonymous No.5554925]

>iktf

[Anonymous No.5554930]

>>5553325
Let this thread die and restart it with a post that doesn't read like something from v

[Anonymous No.5554942]

How many LK runs does it take to farm and cube a Ber runs? Roughly. Need 2.
Still have to beat Nightmare but just thinking ahead

[Anonymous No.5555140]

>>5554942
watch Dbrunski's 10,000 Lower Kurast runs video and see for yourself

[Anonymous No.5555148]

>>5554925
top fucking cringe, it dropped on normal on me

[Anonymous No.5555150]

>>5555140
>>5554942
just fucking cheat, seriously. If a game makes it absurdly difficult to get just for the sake of you playing it over and over, just cheat.

[Anonymous No.5555239]

>>5555140
>>5554942
Got 2 Ohms, 2 Mal, 1 Ist, 1 Um, 1 Pul in about 100 runs.

Have similar map as OP here
>>5553327

It's probably doable but fucking boring. I manage 2-3 runs per minute. My favorite is still farming lvl 85 areas. The Pit, WSK, River of Flame, and Cows which are 82? Anything with big crowds. Cows dropped me all high runes there are.

[Anonymous No.5555253]

>>5553352
Crazy considering the story was actually pretty goddamn compelling for what it was

[Anonymous No.5555254]

>>5554925
I used it on a Warewolf Druid to tearass around killing shit

[Anonymous No.5555337]

new player here.
just finished act 2 in nightmare. duriel is the only boss to give me trouble in both difficulties so far.

[Anonymous No.5555379]

>>5555239
OK thanks
>>5555148
That was normal Baal
>>5555150
I've got 1.14. I always regretted cheating and stopped plating that char like 30 min later.
>>5555337
Fuck that maggot

[Anonymous No.5555385]

>>5555337
Imagine trying to beat that guy on Nightmare as an ranged Amazon or a Sorceress. Fun time for whole family.

[Anonymous No.5555410]

>>5555337
Are you the new guy playing sorc from last d2 thread ?

[Anonymous No.5555461]

Did the guy from the last thread finish the mod that makes the level 83 areas level 85?

[Anonymous No.5555519]

>>5555461
>R I N G

[Anonymous No.5555524]

>>5555461
I'm testing a few changes at the moment, gotta run a few characters through the difficulties to test balance. But it'll be here by in a day or two. Maybe less if I decide to pull an all nighter.

Took me an hour to post this. Fucking got hit with some scripters ban on /pol/ when I changed to a new router. Cheers gookmoot, enjoyed that.

[Anonymous No.5555526]

>>5555519
u giev soj

[Anonymous No.5555562]

>trying to find a good pair of gloves for my melee character
>found 5 fucking frostburns and nothing else

[Anonymous No.5555573]

So, we all agree enigma and the rest of the runeword clown fiesta starting in 1.10 ruined the game right

[Anonymous No.5556086]

>>5555573
Explain

[Anonymous No.5556486]

>>5556086
He's mad skelemancer is the best character now

[Anonymous No.5557069]

>>5555562
slap on something with IAS like Artic, Sanders or something.
I just recently got the unique gloves with the 2% chance to Enchant. Holy fuck it makes such a difference in my attack rating.

[Anonymous No.5557073]

so close.. rip

[Anonymous No.5557697]

AAAHHHHHHHH

[Anonymous No.5557715]

when is new ladder ?

[Anonymous No.5557742]

>>5555410
Yes sir. I finished Act IV Nightmare earlier, going for act V tomorrow.
What is the suggested level to reach before starting Hell?

[Anonymous No.5557779]

>>5557742
There's no real suggested level as such, it just depends on how strong your character is. I was pushing a lvl 58 barb through hell okish, granted he had some really good gear. If you can push through and manage 'ok' then go for it, but if your struggling with damage/frequently dying then farm some xp/gear. You may just need to optimise your skills for damage.
What lvl are you now?

[Anonymous No.5557798]

>>5557779
I'm a level 55 sorc, but still have act 5 to go in nightmare. I don't die often, but I know Hell is a different animal. My gear doesn't seem special in any way, but then again, I'm still a new player. I think the stealth, ancients pledge, and lore runewords are helping me out a lot at this point.

[Anonymous No.5557803]

>>5553325
I guess I really want to return to D2. I played it ages ago in high school and I can barely remember how this game works.
Any tips for a brainlet how to level up a Sorceress? Should I be versatile with the skill trees or should I prioritize one?
The same question for a Druid. Should I stick to only one of his gimmicks - like shapeshifting - or should I be more universal but overall weaker?

[Anonymous No.5557835]

>>5557798
You can also use the /players x command for xp boost and more loot. Press enter then type ' /players 2 ' . You can change it up to /players 8. Monsters will get a health and maybe a damage boost.

[Anonymous No.5557842]

>>5557835
Interesting, I'll experiment with it for sure. Thanks m8.

[Anonymous No.5557856]

>>5557803
>Should I be versatile with the skill trees or should I prioritize one?
Well you understand what the cost is. Most builds prioritize going for max damage.
Are you wanting to play online or or offline singleplayer ?
Plugy is a great mod for singleplayer and will let you play around with different builds.

[Anonymous No.5557916]

>>5557856
Thanks.
I'll probably go single player, unless I find someone to play Bnet with me. Most random people on Bnet would probably kill me with laughter, seeing my character builds.

[Anonymous No.5557925]

>>5557715
Around June 7th probably. The last reset was December 7th

[Anonymous No.5558008]

>>5557803
For melee druids you focus on one shapeshift form and one of it attacking skills (rabies fury, maul etc.) skills + lycanthropy. For casters you put all your points into wind elemental spells.
The rest goes into either oak sage or heart of the wolverine and then maybe the grizzly summon if you've got a bunch spare points for it.
I've seen people go full summoner but I don't know how well that works.
I'm tired from work so I probably explained things really poorly but hopefully that makes sense.

[Anonymous No.5558019]

>>5557742
>>5557798
Kill Baal, but then keep doing some Chaos Sanctuary/Baal runs in NM until you're about 75 or 80. You could mix it up with some NM Andy and Mephisto runs as well to keep things interesting.
Good opportunity to do some magic finding to get some better gear to get through hell (Tal Rasha's, SoJ, Shako, Oculus, Magefist etc) and once you're 80ish and have some sick gear go for a push through hell.
You could watch some MrLlamaSC Sorc Hell speedruns and get an idea of what gear he uses to get through hell on that. He does it at stupidly low levels but you can at least see what he's wearing and how he does it.

If you get sick of doing sorc NM runs to get levels/gear mix it up by maybe slowly giving Hell Act 1 a go or leveling another character like a spellcaster Druid, Summonmancer or Javazon. The druid and javazon wil tear through the game up until you get to Hell. Especially the Javazon, by lv40 you'll be clicking once and watching a whole screen die.

[Anonymous No.5558023]

>>5557069
I'm using arctic right now but they don't really cut it anymore since I'm just about to start hell, especially since I don't use the belt anymore unless I'm doing baal/mephisto runs.
Does my attack speed still go up when I've got a weapon that already has very fast attack?

[Anonymous No.5558027]

>>5555573
I agree. When every character in the game 'needs' a certain item, that item is over powered.

What a shitty design choice, bring me back to 1.09 where dual immunities didn't exist along with no engima.

[Anonymous No.5558030]

>>5558023
on your last question, not entirely sure.
if you're hell then keep doin high MF andy/baal/meph runs I guess to try and get some better gloves. At least if you pair with the belt you get 40% MF and if you have Vidala's Feet/Neck lying around you can get another 50%.
Slap in 4 perfect topaz in a body and 3 into a helm and you should have 250%ish MF just from that.

[Anonymous No.5558031]

>>5558027
This is why I instantly disregard any youtube/twitch """guide""" that requires nearly-impossible-to-obtain runewords. I've called a few streamers out on this shit too, the ones who make a "Cheap Druid/sorc guide!" and it requires a CoH, HotO, Enigma etc.

[Anonymous No.5558039]

First draft of a mod I made is up: https://www.moddb.com/mods/diablo-ii-115/downloads/d2-115

Tried my hand at making uniques, sets and runewords more useful. More areas to farm, bosses are harder, some skills are more useful, stamina is gone, bows and claws are comparable to other weapons in damage output. Few other things. Let me know what else you would want/want to change etc

[Anonymous No.5558042]

>>5558039
more like cringe of a mod

YIKES

[Anonymous No.5558043]

>>5558042

[Anonymous No.5558045]

>>5558031
vex isn’t impossible to get. You’re just a faggot. Also those guides are probably made for people who play online and can trade. I have a hoto right now and have been playing for a week. I think you’re just retarded honestly.

[Anonymous No.5558082]

>>5558039
Can I pick and choose the components I install or do I I have to use everything?

[Anonymous No.5558085]

>>5558045
How

[Anonymous No.5558092]

>>5558082
You could pick what you want, but the stuff that's related to the new barb skill might brake or still work, but look bugged. Most of the files aren't tied to one another.

[Anonymous No.5558102]

>>5558085
From trading. Make a sorc and farm good gear and trade for shit. I don’t even remember if I found the vex just farming keys or if I just traded for it. You can get tons of good shit doing hell meph runs. Get magic find. Even if you’re solo you can set it to 8 player drops and exp. Shit you could probably trade a set of keys for a decent rune for all I know.

[Anonymous No.5558106]

>>5558102
>muh trading

normalfaggots are the worst

[Anonymous No.5558108]

>>5558106
Yea whatever faggot. I’m the one with the hoto and the shako and you’re the fag who’s probably still wearing stealth and lore. Or do is stealth and lore one of those “impossible to get” runewords to?

[Anonymous No.5558120]

>>5558045
>onlinefag

[Anonymous No.5558125]

>>5558120
Ok I’m gonna let people talk about D2 now instead of arguing with a fag who thinks getting .5 hr is impossible.

[Anonymous No.5558127]

>>5558039
looks good anon, might play around with this later.
which versions of diablo is it compatible with?

[Anonymous No.5558128]

Does oak sage ever get tanky enough to survive being sneezed on?
The heath bonus is great and all but it doesn't make much difference when it dies the second I fight anything remotely intimidating.

[Anonymous No.5558132]

>>5558127
Any 1.14 should work and you could probably make it work with 1.13, just with some buggy looking text. Once i get the mod more or less done, I'll make it work for 1.13 completely.

I wish all you plugy fags didn't make modding like this really annoying. Just use gomule, does what plugy does, without overpowered respecs and doesn't eat your save file every now and then.

[Anonymous No.5558151]

>>5558127
Shenanigans like this are why online games are so much fun.

[Anonymous No.5558153]

>>5558030
Managed to find the answer to the attack speed question, found a ribcracker and the difference between it and the other fast weapon I've got is like night and day.
Still no luck with the gloves, looks like I'll have to go hunting for a helmet with sockets, I've got the topaz for it so I might as well.

[Anonymous No.5558164]

>>5558039
>enigma now gives 100% movement speed and nothing else
>vitality was nerfed, making it even more vital to dump points into
>"energy and mana are now more necessary" (increased mana regeneration and need for more vitality guarantees that energy should be ignored even harder)
>whirlwind went from being one of the top barbarian attack skills to the only barbarian attack skill
>buffing fucking blessed hammers
>buffing fucking frozen orb
>buffing fucking hurricane
>nerfing conviction, the most useless paladin aura in the entire game, just because it is too good on everyone except for the paladin
>raven has negative hits
>the new skill gives +an evil force
>a single dire wolf can now solo the entire game
>giving +find item as an oskill, killing off the barbarian's last hope of being relevant for MFing
Some very questionable decisions here, lad.

>>5555461
You can easily make this mod yourself in 10 minutes, 3 minutes if you already know how to mod.

>download winmpq
>downloadAFJ sheet edit
>extract Data from patch_d2.mpq and place it into your Diablo 2 folder
>use AFJ sheet edit to go into Data/Global/Excel and open levels.txt
>find the column MonLevEx3 and change the rows corresponding to the areas you want to increase the level of

[Anonymous No.5558173]

>>5558164
>enigma now gives 100% movement speed and nothing else
Still gives TP

>buffing fucking blessed hammers
huh, thought I'd removed that

>the new skill gives +an evil force
You installed it either wrong or on 1.13

>a single dire wolf can now solo the entire game
So can necro skeletons normally. Now the wolves aren't useful just as meat shields

>raven has negative hits
I've fixed that, doesn't saying anything now. Should be in the next update

>giving +find item as an oskill, killing off the barbarian's last hope of being relevant for MFing
It opens it up to a lot more builds. When was the last time you saw a fucking bowzon or rabies druid MF? it doesn't make the barb any weaker, you're just being a metafag, unironically, in a 20 year old game. Fuck off.

As for the other things, I'll take em under consideration. Thanks for the advice. But please tell me, how would you make energy more required, without doing something dumb like skills gain power from it?

[Anonymous No.5558181]

>>5558173
cringe

[Anonymous No.5558213]

>>5558019
Sounds good, thanks a lot.

[Anonymous No.5558215]

>>5558164
You sure seem like you know what you're talking about, where's your mod?

[Anonymous No.5558283]

>>5558164
So enigma now has the +2 skills
Vit is back to normal
Energy regens normally
Whirlwind ticks once
Hammers, orb, hurricane and conviction are back to normal
Raven hits 25 times, 2 per level. Ended up not liking them being permanent.
Direwolves are limited to 3 and base damage reduced by to 2x normal

Anything else you think should be altered/removed/added? Would appreciate the advice.

[Anonymous No.5558314]

Really wish I was a level 42 paladin right now.

[Anonymous No.5558319]

>>5558314
There's an aussie out there somewhere who just got slightly more angry.

[Anonymous No.5558320]

>>5558314
Where did you get that lol

[Anonymous No.5558325]

>>5558320
common drop from NM meph

[Anonymous No.5558331]

>>5558320
Nightmare mephisto, nearly wasn't gonna pick it up since I use a two hander.
Maybe one day the level 1 paladin I muled it to will get some use out of it.

[Anonymous No.5558342]

>>5558331
>>5558314
lucky bastard. Socket it and throw a perfect diamond in there or a FBR jewel

[Anonymous No.5558481]

I think meph has given me a great piece of gear for every class except my own at this point
All I want is a pair of gloves that have more than 11 defense, is that too much to ask?

[Anonymous No.5558561]

>>5558481
The solution is not to look for anything.

I don't look for anything and all I get are high runes, skiller gcs, and about 30 monarchs, full tal, shako and skullder in last 100 the pit runs.

[Anonymous No.5558878]

>>5558325
Define common

[Anonymous No.5558908]

Is it possible to run his shit on Linux/wine?

[Anonymous No.5558986]

>>5558908
I couldn't get the install agreement to scroll so I could hit accept on Debian Stretch but others have got it to work

[Anonymous No.5559016]

>>5558986
>>5558908
>just imagine putting yourself through this shit constantly

[Anonymous No.5559034]

>>5559016
>m'linux

[Anonymous No.5559131]

>>5559016
No booli the autists.
Is D2 a game for autists or is it too unpredictable for them?

[Anonymous No.5559318]

Nice!

[Anonymous No.5559332]

I've never actually killed normal Duriel with a necromancer until today, and I've been playing since 2004 (yeah late okay). Single player plugy had me running around with /p8 with gear that I founded on my pally since a1, and when I finally got to Duriel, I cast Decrepify a few times and my skellies/golem/merc nuked him. I only lost two skellies. What a glorious day.

[Anonymous No.5559341]

>>5559332
Should mention I went back to p1 for Duriel though

[Anonymous No.5559451]

>>5559318
Congrats
>>5559332
Seriously fuck Duriel. Killed my HC Necro back in the day and countless softcore ones.
What's your build? Just got to Act 1 NM

[Anonymous No.5559507]

>>5558481
>>5558561
This and also dont care about defense so much, you'll mostly get it from your body armor but it's useless in Hell unless you have at least 10k or more defense.

[Anonymous No.5559512]

I want to make a summonmancer but my toaster is such a piece of junk I'm scared that it would slow down to a crawl with a million skeletal on screen.
Pretty sad that I have to worry about shit like this for a game that's 19 years old.

[Anonymous No.5559551]

>>5559512
They fixed it so it doesn't lag on toasters now. I'm enjoying it on my 13yo work toaster

[Anonymous No.5559580]

>just got my sixth frostburn
fuck you game

[Anonymous No.5559589]

>>5559551
>>5559512
I'm no zoomer, but jesus christ guys.

[Anonymous No.5559637]

>>5559512
Summonmancer lag hasnt been a thing since like 2002 dude.
They patched skeletons years and years ago to just have better stats per level and only giving you an extra skeleton every 2-3 levels instead of giving you a weak skeleton every level and having 62 summons on screen.

[Anonymous No.5559646]

>>5559637
>and having 62 summons on screen
kinda miss that desu. Every now and then I'll max both skeltons and revive, just for the novelty.

[Anonymous No.5559712]

>>5559589
You got a problem with toasters?

[Anonymous No.5559743]

>>5559589
Unironcally rocking a core2duo still. Last PC I build the ATI 5770 was the hot shit. And ATI existed.

[Anonymous No.5559770]

>>5559743
My main desktop is an AMD Athlon II X2 with a Radeon x1650 Pro.

[Anonymous No.5559785]

>>5559770
Low income?

[Anonymous No.5559796]

>>5559785
No, just got tired of the upgrade game. When you come to realize a somewhat decent PC will do what you need, you stick with it.

[Anonymous No.5559821]

>>5559451
I'm not following any build in particular. Just kind of factoring in information that I read in these threads and the occasional bit of info from google.

For summon spells I have 9 in skele mastery, 15 in summon skele, 4 in clay golem and 4 in golem mastery. For curses I have 3 in amp, 3 in weaken (going for attract eventually) and 3 in decrepify and its prereqs. For pnb I have 3 teeth and 6 corpse explosion. All of my skills benefit from +2 from Gravenspine Bone Wand, +2 skele mastery from blue offhand, and +1 summon skills from a blue neck. I've got an Ume's Lament in the bank, as well as an Undead Crown.

I can't believe how powerful necro is. I also can't believe that I never realized it sooner. I also can't believe that it took me this long to figure out how busted decrepify is. I went into normal Duriel with 1 merc, 1 clay golem and 6 melee skeles. I zoned in, immediately cast decrepify and my army swarmed him and nuked him. I was in shock. Back in the day I tried that shit without decrepify and my army obviously was gone in a matter of seconds. I just killed the trav council on /p7 and I think I summoned new skeles twice. I sat back and cast decrepify while my goons did all the work.

[Anonymous No.5559824]

>>5559796
You don't have to buy the latest and greatest every other quarter you know. You can upgrade roughly once a console cycle and maybe buy a video card in between if there's some seismic shift if card tech. Your shit is so old it's just wasting watts and pumping waste heat everywhere. A modest Ryzen/Core iwhatever and a current budget card would give you access to everything new and last you the better part of a decade

[Anonymous No.5559849]

>>5559821
My fav build in the game is using skeletons with a might merc with a Pride runeword, which gives the concentration aura. Then have your necro wield a Beast, which gives Fanaticism. Skeles get dumb strong at high levels, especially if you use enigma to TP them onto shit. So strong I don't even put points in corpse explosion. Each skeleton ends up with around 2300 damage per hit.

You also might like this: http://tph.tuwien.ac.at/~gottwald/necro_pet_calculator.html - useful for planning

[Anonymous No.5559851]

>>5559824
I know, but I like using retro hardware.

[Anonymous No.5559868]

>>5559851
Why though? Maintaining a retro build for retro games is cool, but I cannot fathom why you would ever purposefully use an ancient machine as your main computer. I realize that this is vr, but like, damn dude...you're living it 24/7.

[Anonymous No.5559928]

>>5559770
Nice. I should dig out my Win2k box. I bet it's got LOD on it still.
>>5559821
Honestly I'd respec at Akara and put 1 in each of the golems (maybe skip fire, your call), 1 summon resist, and put 5 or 6 total in golem mastery. A couple mages. Then after you max your skele and skele mastery can bump up mages and a golem.

1 in weaken, 5 in amplify is nice for the cast size, 2 in decrepify, 6 in Corpse Explosion. Teeth kinda sucks but I put 1 in the skills cuz they synergize and I use bone wall occasionally.

Get a big skele army, clay slows everything, Amp Amp Amp, decrip bosses, maybe a bone wall to keep you safe. Can basically run around naked like that

[Anonymous No.5559975]

>>5559928
>Honestly I'd respec at Akara
I'm playing plugy dude and seeing what works and what doesn't. But thanks, I will keep this in mind.

[Anonymous No.5559984]

>>5558164
>the most useless paladin aura in the entire game
Conviction Zealots, Avengers or FoHers are actually pretty good party supports or tanks, so it's not that useless. My vote for "useless" would go to something in the Defensive auras section since you simply don't usually need them, but even stuff like Prayer probably has some niche use.

[Anonymous No.5560065]

>no ondals pls

[Anonymous No.5560170]

>>5559868
It was a joke. Give anon some credit. I lol'ed

[Anonymous No.5560279]

>>5559975
Yeah that'll work too. Most spells just need need 1 and then dump extra points into CE for when you run into trouble and need an AoE.
Mages get kinda shitty later on so I usually don't max those but a few are good for when you get dual immunity enemies in Hell.

[Anonymous No.5560396]

>>5560279
it's worth having 1 mage to get a Cold one, put Kelpie Snare on your Merc and high lvl Clay golem and a point in Decrepify so bosses attack/move so slowly they just sit in place.

[Anonymous No.5560556]

>>5560396
I just realized you could cycle your mage to get the one you want. I just put 4 in because the first 4 points you get another mage. I might add more later.
>just get a unique bro
Yeah I'm trying.

When the odds calculator says Baal has 1/256 (or whatever) chance of dropping a Marrowalk does that mean do 300 runs and youll probably get one or does that mean do 300 runs where one of the drops is boots and you'll probably get one?

[Anonymous No.5560671]

>>5560556
in short, the way MF works is first it rolls an item type. then it decides first if it's Unique. if it doesnt roll unique then it rolls to see if it's a set item, then rare, then magic etc.
the llama has a video on youtube explaining the ins and outs of MF.
1/256 is a pretty good chance. End of the day it's just luck. Just like in Ragnarok Online with card drops being a 1/1000 drop. Sometimes you'll kill 2000 or 3000 mobs and get no cards. Other days you'll kill 3 mobs and get 2 cards.

Doing Diablo/Baal runs is always nice cuz either way you're getting good exp (as long as you dont die) and there are lots of good unique monsters along the way that'll drop the odd good item too.

Kelpie's a good unique, but so are any of the +slow polearms. Kelpie's 75% slow, Woe Stave is 50% slow and there's another (Razortine I think?) that's 25%. I switch them out to all my characters when I do boss fights, especially Baal.

[Anonymous No.5560687]

>>5560671
I checked w my current MF and it's actually 1 in 900 :'(
Not having infinite stash does hurt. Maybe after I beat hell Baal on vanilla I'll downgrade and get plugy then hero edit a copy.
I want to beat it at least once properly

[Anonymous No.5560694]

>>5560687
>Not having infinite stash does hurt.
Use gomule.

http://gomule.sourceforge.net

[Anonymous No.5560695]

>>5560694
That works w latest patch? Bnet?

[Anonymous No.5560705]

>>5560695
>latest patch
Yes
>botnet
pic related

[Anonymous No.5560717]

>>5560687
yeah, as much as i'd like to be able to play with friends online once I tried PlugY i cant go back.
being able to change stats on the fly, do skill resets, see stats like my FHR, FCR, IAS, MF etc without having to do headmath and havin the shared stash is just too convenient.

[Anonymous No.5560730]

>>5560717
>see stats like my FHR, FCR, IAS, MF
How?

[Anonymous No.5560735]

>>5560730
click the arrows in your character screen. Jesus anon are you blind?

[Anonymous No.5560765]

>>5560735
Yeah I am, stop discriminating against me and my people.

[Anonymous No.5560814]

>aura enchanted (might)
>cursed
>extra strong
2 shots, ded

[Anonymous No.5560819]

>>5558908
Yes, it essentially runs out of the box. I'm currently running this on wine. If you want to play online, you have to delete a strange mpq file which has many numbers, or else the game freezes when you try use battlenet

[Anonymous No.5560821]

>>5560819
Linux lmao

[Anonymous No.5560845]

>>5560819
When I said delete file, I meant to say remove read-access from it "chmod -r"

[Anonymous No.5560967]

>>5560396
The Slow on items and the clay golem is the same stat and having both is redundant.

[Anonymous No.5561285]

>>5560821
Fuck off nigger

[Anonymous No.5561290]

>>5560821
>not having ubuntu on your pc

zoomer detected

[Anonymous No.5561981]

>>5561290
I'm 39

[Anonymous No.5562080]

>>5561981
So you should have figured this all out by 10.04

[Anonymous No.5562274]

>>5560967
really? following guides online I was pretty sure they stacked. my bad for giving false information if they dont.

[Anonymous No.5562656]

>>5558908
I play it on wine daily
Worked fine out of the box for me

[Anonymous No.5562718]

>>5562080
>10.04
What does the yearly anniversary of the Smolensk catastrophe have to do with Linux? Was the birch running on non-free software?

[Anonymous No.5562729]

>>5560967
Slow caps at 90% on generic monsters and 50% on bosses. They are only redundant if you exceed these thresholds.

[Anonymous No.5562814]

>>5562729
ah good to know, thanks.

[Anonymous No.5563253]

>Schedule D2 time last week for tonight
>Have to work right through it
Never get old kiddos

[Anonymous No.5563259]

>>5563253
I'll think of you while I'm playing

[Anonymous No.5563271]

>>5563259
May your drops not be triple durability

[Anonymous No.5563280]

Can you faggots reccomend some new games for that acoustic loot treadmill experience? How's Grim Dawn with the latest expansion?

[Anonymous No.5563284]

>>5563253
>have full-time job
>get home at 4
>play vidya until dinner at 6
>play vidya from 6:30 until i sleep at midnight
just git gud at time management. if you have kids then RIP.

[Anonymous No.5563305]

>>5563280
breddy gud. It does go a little to far into path of exiles nuke-the-screen-meta at high levels though. Would recommend it.

[Anonymous No.5563312]

>>5563284
>home at 4
Yeah AM. I don't have kids yet just 2 companies

[Anonymous No.5563313]

>>5563280
whenever I want a loot treadmill that's different from Diablo 2 I just play on a Ragnarok Online private server or FFXi private server until I'm ready to play D2 again.

[Anonymous No.5563318]

>>5563312
>2 companies
I'm jobless due to unavoidable circumstances outside of my control, employ me plz

[Anonymous No.5563329]

man FUCK Duriel

[Anonymous No.5563334]

>>5563312
not my fault you make more work for yourself.
one day you'll learn it's not worth wasting your life to work endlessly like that.
But hey, we're getting off topic.

D2-related: What character should I try next?
>Kick-sin
>Smite Pally
>Bonemancer

[Anonymous No.5563336]

>>5563334
>Kick-sin
No one ever plays that.

[Anonymous No.5563352]

Is b.net still riddled with bots? And do any map hacks work?

[Anonymous No.5563357]

What paladin build would you guys recommend? Never played one before,.

[Anonymous No.5563381]

>>5563334
Bonemancer looks safe

[Anonymous No.5563398]

>>5563357
Zeal pally. Zeal with holy fire/freeze/shock.

[Anonymous No.5563585]

>>5563336
I do. It's a solid character, particularly if hybridized with a dip into the Traps category to max out Death Sentry. You can run around with any +skill claws like a typical caster; your primary way to go is to keep gambling and purchasing boots. If you find something like War Travelers you're set, but otherwise any decent Elite rare boots will let you stack up a ton of Crushing Blow and good damage.

Good for a change of pace, and less reliant on good drops than your typical MA sin.

[Anonymous No.5563594]

>>5563357
>If you want to rush Normal (remember that you have respecs)
Holy Fire paladin speedruns that difficulty handily. You can also wait a bit and get even more potent Holy Freeze or Holy Shock. Holy Shocker can easily speedrun Nightmare with a proverbial cracked weapon, all you need is to stack IAS.
>budget option
Holy Shock Zealot will be a reasonably fast clearer, there are good runewords available for the playstyle (Crescent Moon), and until Hell all you care about is attack speed. In Hell you will want a multi-elemental weapon like Baranar's Star, or a good source of Crushing Blow (which you can easily apply with your Smite 1 point wonder), to kill immunes. As a bonus, your maxed out Resist Lightning will be great against Gloams.
>a bit more commital
Fanaticism Zealot. Physical DPSers suffer from reliance on weapon scaling, but if you know how to craft (elite weapons, particularly Nagas, from Blood recipe, for example), or just have enough patience to shop for a Cruel (+300% ED) weapon, you should be set.
>something different
Hammerdin is a cookie-cutter caster who only has problems in areas with tight corridors like Maggot's Lair. Very strong even with fully twinked out items and can be easily dressed on a budget, although you won't be as insane as the guy who reaches the right FCR breakpoints and Teleports everywhere.

[Anonymous No.5563675]

>>5562274
Well most guides are written by what are essentially 30 year old zoomers, so you have to take them with a grain of salt.

>>5562729
Again, they don't stack, they overwrite each other. The lowest of them will only serve to lower the effectiveness of the other.

[Anonymous No.5563680]

>>5563675
>>5562729
>neither of you post proof or source of consensus
>keep arguing

Fucking retards. What a pointless conversation that could have been avoided with a simple link or two. I have no way to judge who is correct here.

[Anonymous No.5563794]

>>5563357
Hammerdin is retard proof and you'll get most of the way through hell with even shit gear.
just stack resistances, hammer, concentration and go to town.
You can rush thru normal just stacking points into holy fire and reset after.

[Anonymous No.5564575]

>>5563794
Is it fun? Never played Paly because it seemed like the casual character.

[Anonymous No.5564624]

>>5564575
pally is fun, yeah. I loved doing a zeal paladin in hardcore to hell, really fucking fun when you want something different. Hammerdin is turn-your-brain-off-bro boring.

[Anonymous No.5564727]

>>5564624
Everyone says Necro is boring but I like that. Never done a bonemancer though, supposed to be more boring than summon

[Anonymous No.5564740]

>>5564727
I'm a necro guy, don't even use corpse exp, but hammerdin puts me to sleep.

[Anonymous No.5564745]

>>5564727
Bonemancer is on the same level as most sorc builds in terms of engagement.

[Anonymous No.5564928]

>>5564727
It requires you to actually do stuff in most difficulties other than just at the beginning of hell/bosses. I normally watch aneemay while I grind with my summonmancer. I still think it's a fun build, but a bonemancer requires you to pay attention and aim your spells around. It's just as >>5564745 said, except you might want to put a bunch of points in the walls so that those nigger Islamist skellies in the mephisto dungeon don't blow you up if one shot doesn't get them (this happened to me only once but you can imagine how retarded I felt).

[Anonymous No.5564942]

>>5564928
>nigger Islamist skellies

[Anonymous No.5564956]

>>5553325
When my friends tried to get me to play Diablo II, they had me rush through the story without reading any of the dialogue so that I could do a bunch of Bhaal runs so that I could do PvP, which I would always lose anyway, and it was boring as hell.

Are the Diablo games worth playing as a purely single-player experience? I usually gravitate towards non-combat centric RPGs like Planescape and Fallout, but I enjoyed Starcraft's storyline.

[Anonymous No.5564975]

>>5564956
>Are the Diablo games worth playing as a purely single-player experience?
Definitely. It's how most seem to play it these days.

[Anonymous No.5565380]

>>5564956
>I usually gravitate towards non-combat centric RPGs like Planescape and Fallout, but I enjoyed Starcraft's storyline.
If that's your jam I'm not sure how much you'll enjoy Diablo to be honest. Story is not one of the game's strong points.

[Anonymous No.5565415]

>>5564956
Your friends are gay.

[Anonymous No.5565458]

I bought this game in 2004 and i stopped playing upon entering the 2nd Act. I bought it again and I was enjoying it until FUCKING DURIEL. I'm using a barbarian I'm just going to restart the fucking game since I used up my fucking respec and wasted all my gems crafting rejuvenation potions that went to waste

[Anonymous No.5565506]

It'd be so nice if I could roll a +skills charm.

[Anonymous No.5565587]

>>5565458
>crafting rejuvs
LMAO just cube 3 smalls.
Duriel is def a pleb filter. Fucker has killed so many of my guys (and girls) over the years. B4 I knew what I was doing.
>respecing b4 act 4
Watch some of Llamas beginner videos fren

[Anonymous No.5565616]

>>5565587
Yup I did it all in a one last ditch effort to see if I could beat him and wasted all my money. I'm just going to restart and hopefully learn from my 1st runs mistake, craft and socket better weapons and spend my points more wisely. I really like this game and I won't let that fuck duriel win

[Anonymous No.5565618]

>>5563680
>the way i see it it's you guys' fault i can't type "diablo 2 wiki slows target" into google
Have you tried not being a zoomer?

https://www.theamazonbasin.com/wiki/index.php/Slows_Target
You're welcome, by the way.

[Anonymous No.5565620]

>>5565616
You can still beat him, just get your cold resistance to 35% and chug thawing potions for 85% cold resistance. Around 60% of Duriel's damage is cold, so with that you'll be taking only half damage from his hits.

[Anonymous No.5565628]

>>5565620
I had used thawing potions too but I could only get like 3 hits in before I had to retreat. I would drink lots of potions too but my health would not fill up fast enough. I literally used the town portal like 10 times

[Anonymous No.5565635]

>>5565628
Press enter and type /players 8, then grind levels in the tombs and slap his shit on /players 1.

[Anonymous No.5565641]

>>5565635
Thanks will do

[Anonymous No.5565648]

>>5565458
Play single player plugy so you get infinite respec, infinite stash and shared stash among all chars (among other good stuff).

[Anonymous No.5565652]

>>5565628
Was your base resistance at 35%? Because thawing potions do significantly less if you not at 35% cold resistance. Also, use Malice to set boss defenses to 0, it is one of the most powerful runewords in the game for a barbarian.

[Anonymous No.5565772]

>>5565652
Nope it wasn't, I'll try to get some gear with cold resistance before I go against duriel again

[Anonymous No.5565797]

>>5565616
>Watch some of Llamas beginner videos fren
this from >>5565587 and the advice from >>5565648 are what i'd recommend to a fellow new player. i just started a week or two ago and my sorceress made it through normal and nightmare pretty easily. i started act 1 of hell earlier, and it's slow going. now i'm doing nm meph runs on players 8 to try and get some better gear before i keep going through hell.

[Anonymous No.5565863]

>>5565797
I made a energy shield/blizzard sorceress. It was tough to get through hell with those cold immunes. I still don't really know how I managed.

Made a ring I'm happy with.

[Anonymous No.5566023]

>>5565797
>new guy sorc bro? >>5557742
I've been wondering how you were going. What lvl are you at now, what notable gear do you have, and are you still going lightning sorc?

[Anonymous No.5566150]

>>5565863
Honestly that ring is pretty eh, I guess it really depends on your current fcr/res. I usually save up about 15 Pamethysts and craft a whole batch of high ilvl rings/ammys. Obviously use it if that's the best you have. Keep picking up rare (yellow) rings, ammys, gloves, belts and boots.

While we're on the subject, I wanna see everyone's best gear. Post your best magic, rare or crafted items
This anons >>5558314 pally shild is pretty boss, and I nearly had a sick diadem >>5557073
Pic is my current best items.
>one of my best belts was made with a fucking light belt........

[Anonymous No.5566291]

>>5566150
Up the belt? Extra 50 ish defense.

[Anonymous No.5566330]

>>5566291
I don't think you can up crafted items. I did try using the recipes for normal(basic) unique and rare armors, neither worked. Is there another way? The defense isn't the problem, it's mostly because it can only hold 8 health/mana pots instead of 16.

[Anonymous No.5566343]

>>5566330
huh now that you mention it, I've never actually tried it before. Guess it doesn't work.

[Anonymous No.5566360]

>>5555150
>>5555379
If you guys want the high runes without feeling like you cheated, what I would do is make a rule for yourself that you can trade in [X] piece of equipment for the rune. Once you find [X], you use a stash editor to delete it and replace it with the rune you decided on. This way it's still super unlikely for you to get the rune, but you can still get it without feeling like you didnt earn it.

E.G.:
>Want Zod rune, which is normally unobtainable solo
>Make a rule: Zod rune should be no rarer than [X]. Let's say [X] in this case is Tyrael's Might.
>Play game farming for Tyrael's Might
>Find Tyrael's Might
>Use save editor to delete Tyrael's Might and give yourself a Zod rune.

Get it? You're cheating to get the rune, but this way you've "earned it" by spending the time farming something rare. Depending on the rarity of the rune you can tailor your "trade" so it feels fair to you. With Zod in particular, you might be like, "ok well I think if I see two Tyrael's Mights then I will have earned one Zod" so maybe your rule is that you need to sacrifice two T'sM for every Zod.

I've done rules like this for other things too. Suppose you want to avoid getting really unlucky, you can use statistics to calculate the number of runs it would take to be 99.9% certain that you will have gotten your item already, and then if you don't have the item by that many runs you cheat it to yourself.

[Anonymous No.5566452]

After all those meph/ball runs and I'm still getting my ass kicked by act 1 hell, Should I just keep going or go back to the grind?
My gear is:
>ribcracker
>skin of the vipermagi
>stealskull helm
>sander's gloves
>string of ears
>ravenfrost
>waterwalk boots

[Anonymous No.5566495]

>>5566360
Well I like this in spirit. I'm playing 1.14 so can't hero edit. I'm going to finish hell first then downgrade and recreate my gear in editor. Might give your idea a shot. It is always gay to get an amazing drop for another character (+1 skills ammy 4 sorc just dropped)

I bought my best item.+40 to MF ammy is nice and shield is OK. Just beat act 1 NM, Andy wasn't too hard.

[Anonymous No.5566578]

>>5566452
I've never played fury druid so I can't really comment on the build. Can you run through to hell andy?
From the pic your damage output looks a bit low. Don't know how much difference upping ribcracker would make. I just had a look at 'cheap' runeword weapons and lawbringer looks like it might be ok. It's a trade off for sure with the 50%cb from ribcracker, but the 20% chance for decrep looks alright. Would be interesting to see damage comparison of those two.
Laying of hands is the gloves i'd be aiming for - 20ias, +350% damage to demons, +50% fire res.
Make sure you get a Merc as well.

How much lifesteal do you get from feral rage ?

[Anonymous No.5566675]

>>5564575
it's a good class. Hammerdin is the most retard-proof and doesnt really need gear apart from maxxed resists.
Zealadin, Smite Pally and Auradin are other fun builds but need varying amounts of gear. Smite is good cuz it ALWAYS hits so it's good vs bosses and the Ubers.

[Anonymous No.5566679]

>>5565458
remember you can chug a bunch of thawing potions to boost your cold resist before you go in. barbarian and any melee class are harder to play though overall.

[Anonymous No.5566687]

resists are low. maybe switch to a 1handed weapon so you can use RalOrtTal (Ancient's Pledge) runeword or Rhyme runeword in a shield. avoid ranged attackers like the Rogue/Skeleton Archers. Just run right past them.
before just running balls deep into rooms, summon your oak sage or bear in the room ahead of you to scout whats there. if it's bad then pull back and try to find a way around.
either way, if you can get through to The Pit and Mausoleum you'll be able to start magic finding in those zones for the real GG end-game gear.

[Anonymous No.5566691]

>>5566495
keep an eye out for a 2 socket wand with good +skills (might be able to re-roll a store inventory) and keep an eye out for a good 2 socket Necro shield (gargoyle head, etc).
make Bone runeword in the wand and Rhyme in the shield.

[Anonymous No.5566693]

>>5564727
I remember my lvl 93 Boner from back then, it kinda was boring. IIRC the poison nova/dagger build was way more fun and I think poison got a huge buff with 1.14.
Also I always loved how the necro looked with a dagger equipped, that's also a great thing about the MF summoner when you run around with the Gull dagger.

[Anonymous No.5566980]

>>5566452
You really need to work on those resists, and definitely upgrade that ribcracker if you can. Exceptional staves are kind of shitty, but elite ones are polearm-tier and would quintuple your damage.

[Anonymous No.5567105]

When playing summon necro, do you ever get worried that a good drop has dropped just slightly off screen? I'm in a5 normal now with 1 merc, 1 golem, 10 melee, 4 mages and it's chaos. Can't imagine playing higher difficulties and losing an item because minion killed something off screen lol.

[Anonymous No.5567121]

>>5567105
I've stumbled across many high tier runes when back tracking or grabbing a potion or something. Found a Windforce that way, too.

[Anonymous No.5567239]

>>5566693
Poison is shit in Hell but it does look cool.
Do vendors get socketed items?
Are sockets affected by your MF?

[Anonymous No.5567254]

>>5567239
>Poison is shit in Hell
you can make a perfectly fine cow clearing poison necro
>Do vendors get socketed items?
yes
>Are sockets affected by your MF?
no

[Anonymous No.5567478]

>>5553352
Turned out real cool though

[Anonymous No.5567492]

>tfw get griffon's finally
>lost motivation to play, already felt it right before griffs
kill me

[Anonymous No.5567510]

>>5567492
it happened to me after finishing hell. whats the point really to grind for gear, fuck this dumbass hoarding shitshow

[Anonymous No.5567516]

>>5567510
well, that's why you play online and feel the need to grind for more currency to feel more rich compared to other players

[Anonymous No.5567535]

>>5567516
>to feel more rich compared to other players

that has to me the most retarded reason ever to keep playing a game. It sums up why i'm not into any kind of mmo. Maybe it's not for me.

[Anonymous No.5567557]

>>5567535
>that has to me the most retarded reason
it's just another metric of accomplishment, anon

[Anonymous No.5567873]

Well got a decent weapon for my merc.
Are there any good sets in the game? They all seem so garbage

[Anonymous No.5567985]

>>5567239
poison nova is fantastic for The Pit, Cows and some other spots

[Anonymous No.5568008]

>>5567873
parts of some low level sets are good to get easy stats like MF or Attack rating (arctic, angels, vidalas, hsaurus, sigon's). i use hwanin's set on my merc until mid-late NM. also some sets like Tal Rasha's, Immortal King and Aldurs are still fantastic end-game gear.

[Anonymous No.5568532]

>>5568008
I guess Trangs is a decent Necro set

[Anonymous No.5569473]

>>5558019
>75 or 80 to start hell
jesus christ, this is overkill, that's so much grinding for no reason. just get some decent res and skill gear and move on to hell, it's not that bad, especially as a sorc

[Anonymous No.5569494]

>>5568532
forgot about that, trangs gloves are awesome

>>5569473
not all of us are speedrun world record holding streamers that can clear hell in 4 hours at lv28.

[Anonymous No.5569495]

>>5566452
better resists for sure, you're going to get murdered with those. I'd recommend making sure your amulet, other ring (ravenfrost is too good to remove) and gloves are switched out for things that offer a little more survivability. You may need to invest in a few resist charms too, if you find them, just because ribcracker means you can't use a shield. you could probably find a pair of boots at least as useful as waterwalks but i wouldn't go out of your way to do so. As far as the helm, stealskull is decent but you'll really be wanting vampgaze or something if you're lucky enough to find it. rockstopper is actually really great in my experience too.

[Anonymous No.5569501]

>>5569494
come on man, there's a big middle ground there. I'm not super serious about diablo 2 and if that's the way you play that's fine. i'm just saying that's a lot more time running baal than necessary. I'd say 60-65 is plenty.

[Anonymous No.5569510]

>>5569501
>stop grinding so you can get to the 'end game' and start grinding
We can only pray to God for a cure for your dumb ass meta-faggotry.

[Anonymous No.5569578]

>>5569473
>so much grinding
75 is like 5 p8 baal-runs, that can hardly be called so much grinding.

[Anonymous No.5569624]

>>5569578
Seems like that would take a while depending on your gear level

[Anonymous No.5569650]

Which items to craft with crafting recipes?

[Anonymous No.5569654]

How many points into clay golem and how many into golem mastery for summon necro? Mages fall off in NM/Hell because of immuneities right?

[Anonymous No.5569665]

>>5569650
That's not a proper English question, you troglodyte. I see this exact grammar fucking everywhere and it drives me insane. Fuck you and fuck everyone else that writes it like that. Infuriating and I'm the kinda person who never cares about this shit. Stop.

"Which items should I craft with the crafting recipes." Your answer is 'depends on what build and class are you playing'.

[Anonymous No.5569671]

>>5569654
If you have enough +skills gear, then just 1 in both, but earlier on you might wanna put some more into them both to keep him alive in boss fights, but most people just spam-summon the golem anyway.

[Anonymous No.5569678]

>>5569654
and yeah mages become mostly useless in hell, I've never understood why people use them. Sure you can get a slight use out of the cold ones for obvious reasons and the poison for stopping healing, but it's not worth the effort and healing is rarely ever an issue and you can just use decrep, merc and clay golem to slow things.

[Anonymous No.5569982]

Finally, about 500k and what feels like an eternity later I gambled a Goldwrap at lvl 30. Not even a bad one, had pretty good luck with MF rolls on my gear so far.

[Anonymous No.5569993]

>>5569982
Gratz. Was that really necessary though? You'll be dropping them every day once you start farming hell.

It's a decent belt. Quite useful on a bowzon because they struggle with MF and the attack speed is needed too.

[Anonymous No.5570019]

>>5569993
I don't get why my post just got deleted but yeah, thanks. I just really wanted to have it because the belt was the only piece of gear that didn't have any +%MF on it.

[Anonymous No.5570020]

>>5566150
I got a thing for eh.

[Anonymous No.5570038]

>>5570019
ahaha alrighty. Nice.

[Anonymous No.5570146]

>>5569665
Stay the fuck butt mad.

Which items to craft with crafting recipes?
>>5569650

[Anonymous No.5570157]

>>5570146
amulets are the big desired, need to be level 93 to get the good stuff, level 91 to gamble appropriate level magic ammies to get the good stuff

rings depending on who you are
gloves depending
boots depending

[Anonymous No.5570163]

>>5569654
1 hard point in both, and then continue with gm if you want. Build finished in late 70s and every point afterwards is wherever. I put in revives mostly.

>>5569473
75 to 80 is not grind. Grind starts at 90+.

[Anonymous No.5570164]

>>5570157
Javazon I was thoughting blood gloves...

[Anonymous No.5570171]

>>5570164
>I was thoughting
>thoughting

[Anonymous No.5570441]

>>5569654
I put 1 in each golem, 1 summon resist, and 3 in mastery and w my +2 wand keeps my clay alive for everything but bosses in NM.
>>5570020
Neat. This was my best ring so far that's not a MF ring. Helps w blasting corpse explosion w regen

[Anonymous No.5570637]

A2 NM now and not do not seem to be getting insight aura for mana regeneration anymore. What's wrong?

[Anonymous No.5570649]

>>5570637
Wtf it looks like the aura stops when I equip a 4 socket gothic plate that I was using on a different char...

[Anonymous No.5570654]

>>5570649
Not limited to the plate. Aura stops when I give him any armor.

[Anonymous No.5570702]

>>5570157
do you HAVE to gamble them?
wouldnt high iLvl amulets like ilvl88 be just as good?

[Anonymous No.5570889]

wish I got maps like this on a difficulty where it made a difference and not on my lvl12 pally. still ran through the tower like five or six times already.

[Anonymous No.5571021]

>>5570649
>cheating
Well there's your problem

[Anonymous No.5571039]

>>5571021
Plugy is not cheating!!

[Anonymous No.5571326]

>>5571039
Anon I..

[Anonymous No.5571345]

>>5571021
>caring about cheating in a single player game
>in the year of our lord 1305249694+252471593
>
>

[Anonymous No.5571351]

>>5566452
I don't know what you have by way of dual wield options, but that is usually preferable on a frenzy barb. Also, try and make chains of honor or enigma. I know they're expensive, but either will go a long way to your survivability

[Anonymous No.5571363]

>>5571345
Every time I cheat in D2 I lose interest within 1 boss run

[Anonymous No.5571370]

>>5571363
It'd be nice if that's all it took for me to loose interest in this motherfucking game.

[Anonymous No.5571625]

>>5570649
Depends on the version you have. I think pre1.13 or 1.12 you must reequip the polearm to reactivate the aura.

I know when the merc died, the aura disappeared.

[Anonymous No.5571648]

>>5566452
>>5571351
I'm fucking retarded, nevermind. Definitely up that ribcracker in the cube. I still think a decent armor runeword would help you out though.

[Anonymous No.5571672]

>Diablo II is an action role-playing hack-and-slash computer video game developed by Blizzard North and published by Blizzard Entertainment in 2000
>in 2000
>2000
>>>/v/

[Anonymous No.5571682]

>>5571672
something something rules say diablo 2's allowed because it was intended for release sooner but was delayed something something

[Anonymous No.5571702]

>>5571672
Go back to the gym and STEM.

[Anonymous No.5572180]

>>5571370
Kek

[Anonymous ~ No.5572346]

>>5554925
would make a pretty good metal golem on normal if metal golem weren't temporary.
>>5553325
>+skills

it's good for javazon except the size is too large.

>>5558481
you could respec into a summoner/caster druid.

[Anonymous No.5572379]

>drops
>spd2
omegalul

[Anonymous No.5572492]

It's a shame Chargeadins are only good in PVP

[Anonymous No.5573112]

Hell is a little easier as a holy shock/zeal pally now that I have Crescent Moon, but my God maggot lair is a slog and half.

[Anonymous No.5573119]

>>5573112
I have to ramp down to /p1 and DE a bunch of my skeles and just let my merc go wild

[Anonymous No.5573132]

Is there any way to make Summoner revives last like skeletons? I already cranked the duration up but they still disappear often when left behind or something.

[Anonymous No.5573137]

Finished Diablo 1 hundreds of times with friends, never played Diablo 2. What character should I use as my first build? I know you can basiclly do anything and still easily beat Normal, just wanted to know a fun one for starters.

[Anonymous No.5573165]

>>5573132
summoned mobs/pets always despawn if you run too fast.
only way would be to use Enigma to teleport, keep them all near you.
Revives disappearing when running and the short 3min duration is the main reason I just dont use Revive.

>>5573137
Smite Paladin, Fissure Druid, Skeleton Necromancer and Chain Lightning Sorceress are all pretty retard proof. Those'll get you through to end of nightmare very easily and lots of fun.

[Anonymous No.5573180]

>>5573132
You can change the code to make 3m time limit longer and use teleport like the other guy said
>>5573137
Just remember Sorc is a glass cannon.

[Anonymous No.5573262]

>>5573180
My Energy Shield Sorc can take some punishment.....but yeah.

[Anonymous No.5573343]

>>5573165
>summoned mobs/pets always despawn if you run too fast
Most of the time they teleport close to you when they're stuck or left behind too far.

>Revives disappearing when running and the short 3min duration is the main reason I just dont use Revive.
Yeah, it's a hassle. Fiddling with the duration is no problem but they still drop like flies.
I've read a post about clearing the GG97 and GH97 cells in skills.txt for never disappearing revives but no idea what those cells are supposed to be.

>>5573180
>You can change the code to make 3m time limit longer and use teleport like the other guy said
Yeah I already cranked the duration up, an Enigma is still far away.

[Anonymous No.5573476]

>>5573262
Meme build tho

[Anonymous No.5574205]

>>5573180
>You can change the code to make 3m time limit longer and use teleport like the other guy said

How?

[Anonymous No.5574223]

>>5574205
You gotta extract skills.txt and change the duration for the skill. The drop mod I installed already had all the files and folders extracted so no idea how to go about that.

[Anonymous No.5574404]

>>5574223
Does it save Revives from disappearing if you go too far?

I find Revives utterly useless without teleport. Revive 15 and lose 14 because you run too fast around obstacles.

[Anonymous No.5574425]

>>5574404
I'm gonna give it a try in about 15, will let you know.

[Anonymous No.5574437]

>>5574404
I've talked about it earlier: >>5573343
I was thinking about just increasing the max level cap for skeletons, make the skill go up to 30 instead of 20. But that might be overpowered.

[Anonymous No.5574501]

>>5574437
Nerf either amp or CE to make up for it, I'd go with CE. I don't think it would be too overpowered, as you can get the skelies to 45-50 with decent gear and they're still relatively shit overall. An extra 10 would make them more useable as main DPS.

You could also just buff the summon-passive.

>>5574425
>>5574404
>>5574437
Tried removing/changing the mentioned cells in skills.txt, at least I think I did, because

>GG97 and GH97

just makes them last forever, they still vanish if you go too far away.

There might be a way to make it work, but it's far beyond my experience desu. Maybe you could give them the 'teleports to player' thing the skellies have, because if you can actually get far enough away from the skelies, they vanish too like revives, it's just much harder to do. I'll fiddle with this a little more, but don't expect anything.

[Anonymous No.5574508]

>>5574404
Just wait for them? Otherwise just farm Chaos sanctuary until you have the runes for Enigma.

[Anonymous No.5574525]

>>5574508
How long does that take on vanilla. Need 2 Ber for Enigma and Beast for merc

[Anonymous No.5574545]

>>5574525
You also need a Jah for Enigma.
You can get Sur/Ber from Act3 hell but it takes a good amount of LK runs to get them. Since you only need one Jah it might be better to farm Chaos but it'll take a while anyway.

[Anonymous No.5574565]

>>5574501
>Nerf either amp or CE to make up for it, I'd go with CE. I don't think it would be too overpowered, as you can get the skelies to 45-50 with decent gear and they're still relatively shit overall. An extra 10 would make them more useable as main DPS.
>You could also just buff the summon-passive.
I don't know yet, I'll have to think about it.

>I'll fiddle with this a little more, but don't expect anything.
I was thinking about replacing the "summode" value for Revive with the Summon Skeleton one.

[Anonymous No.5574580]

>>5574565
>summode: The animation mode that the summoned creature will play when you summon it. Lets say you want to summon a Zombie, and it should look as if the Zombie crawls out of the soil, then you'd set this to S1 (the special animation of the Zombie). Usually you'd use NU (neutral) mode here, because most units won't have animations suitable for this.

Why would that work? I tried it just for the hell of it, it doesn't work.

[Anonymous No.5574583]

>>5574580
I wasn't looking at any descriptions, just kinda sounded right.

[Anonymous No.5574597]

The problem with revives is that other summons actually have a passive skill that triggers their warp to you, it's called "teleport 2". Maybe there is a way to force revive to give the monsters this skill?

[Anonymous No.5575382]

If I'm just playing SP/LAN should I use 1.14 or 1.13 w/ PlugY?

[Anonymous No.5575406]

>>5575382
Depends if you're gonna keep playing once you reach the end of the game and if you want infinite respecs.

[Anonymous No.5575412]

>>5575406
Probably not, but I do make multiple characters.

[Anonymous No.5575417]

>>5575412
I guess you can use it to transfer items over between them, but if it's easier to use 1.14, then just use gomule to do that. Up to you.

[Anonymous No.5575548]

>>5575417
Is there anything that enables bnet runewords/events in SP for 1.14?

[Anonymous No.5575798]

>>5575548
apologies for the slow reply.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7B2nzJwIDPI

[Anonymous No.5575821]

What should I imbue in NM. Summonmancer going for mostly MF gear. Boots don't have plus to MF currently so go with that and hope?

[Anonymous No.5575831]

>>5575821
There really isn't much worth imbuing for you at the moment, sure you could get lucky, but I'm pretty sure you could just shop-reset or gamble for MF boots relatively quickly. Necro-offhand or weapon, maybe? Could get something good.

[Anonymous No.5575975]

>>5575831
Is there a good imbue strategy? Should I save my NM one until I get something from Hell?

[Anonymous No.5575982]

>>5575975
IIRC only your clvl matters.

[Anonymous No.5575990]

>>5575975
You probably should, but most people don't even bother with the quest, desu. It's just an extra rare item drop, but hey, you could be that lucky guy and get the perfect item. Either do it with an item you need an upgrade for at the time, or items that don't drop frequently like necro offhands, druid helms etc. One thing a lot of people imbue are coronets, diadems, that sort of thing as they can roll with really useful stats.

I think it's based off your character level.

[Anonymous No.5575994]

>>5575821
I normally run Sigon's boots and belt on my summonmancers till I get better gear in Hell, since you get that sweet 50%MF off your boots that way.

[Anonymous No.5576115]

>>5575798
appreciate it!

[Anonymous No.5576262]

>>5573476
eh? I'm a sorceress....more mana than woman....I zip around and freeze shit. No better way to play.

[Anonymous No.5576512]

>>5575821
i save my imbues for later, collect a few dozen high level circlets and use all my imbues on those to try and get some good +2 skillers

[Anonymous No.5576514]

>>5575994
i do the same, or i run arctic hands/belt and vidalas boots/amulet for a quick easy 90% MF and some ok resists.

[Anonymous No.5576581]

How the fuck do people MF for hours in this game? I finally got shaftstop to drop in NM andy after awhile, but in generally I cannot stomach more than doing 5-6 runs at a time before I either get frustrated, bored or just disappointed as fuck that what I want isn't dropping. Is the trick to just MF without the hope of anything in particular dropping, or am I missing something?

[Anonymous No.5576586]

>>5576581
By the way, when I say 'what I want', I meant good gear in general. The only specific item I want is soj, but who doesn't? I wasn't looking for shaftstop in particular but I was definitely looking for solid armor for the merc. But either way I just cannot do MF runs for long periods of time, no matter how quick I manage to do it.

[Anonymous No.5576618]

And another thing, what would be considered an optimal time to do Diablo/Baal runs? I never bothered to time it, but I ran NM diablo a few times but I found it wasn't worth it considering how long it took me to clear chaos and then kill him, only to get shit drops.

[Anonymous No.5576776]

Who here Holy Grail?

And do you use only one character or multiple? I play PlugY, made one of each class so I collect with all of them into shared stash.

It's fun!

[Anonymous No.5576938]

>>5576581
>>5576586
How the fuck do people MF for hours in this game?
I play in window mode and usually watch youtube. Sometimes watch llamas or dbroskis streams when I play for a few hours. Also mix it up by doing multiple areas in one game - andy, LK, meph, diablo, baal. The last two more for lvling because they will be slower.
>Is the trick to just MF without the hope of anything in particular dropping
Yeah I think so. You say your after an soj and while nm andy does have best odds, I think you are better off pushing to hell andy for better potential drops with not that much difference in chance for soj. Stack as much mf as you can without shitting up your damage/survivability . I'd be aiming for at least 300mf .
The other trick is to make it as easy as possible for yourself. Re-roll your maps untill you get an easy durance at least. I hope your using plugy because sharing the items between characters is so helpful. And I hope your mf'ing with a sorc because I can't imagine doing a gorillion runs without teleport.

[Anonymous No.5576963]

>>5576586
>>5576581
Maybe this type of gameplay just isn't for you. Some people can't handle repetition very well. Start a new character on battlenet for trading, you'll probably enjoy that more. also this >>5576938 doing other things at the same time really helps.

>>5576776
Almost completed it (got 5 items left. Tyreals, Mang Songs, two pieces of griswold set and something else I can't recall), and did 98% of it on a bowzon. Stopped for a while cause life got in the way.

Remember to backup, Plugy will sometimes rarely corrupt your characters and or stash.

[Anonymous No.5576973]

>>5576618
if they're taking a while then you'll probably need the exp from them anyway.

>>5576938
>>Is the trick to just MF without the hope of anything in particular dropping
pretty much this. but also mixing up some MF runs with other shit like exp or playing other classes.
I dont have the autism to just do 10,000 Lower Kurast runs in the span of a couple of hours. I'll do maybe 20 or 30 of them, then a dozen Meph runs, a few Chaos or Baal runs then do something else.

[Anonymous No.5576974]

>>5576776
I'm doing holy grail. Using different classes for farming different areas and trying to build up one of each class. Sorc is what i mainly mf with. So far have a 93 blizzsorc, 88 javazon, 86 pally, 77 frenzybarb, 66 necro, 49 druid and 19 assasin. Love playing the javazon though, the sound of 1million skellies in poping in tals tombs is so satisfying.
Progress on the grail is slowing, or maybe i'm just getting too distracted with playing the other characters. Currently the easy half of 75% complete.
>no shako
>no arac's
>no war travs
Why you do this.

[Anonymous No.5577028]

>>5570020
That ring is heaps better than the other one. Could have had more res but its better than none. Fcr is the main one though and mf is a bonus. A sorc at 63fcr or above can go almost uninterrupted while teleporting. The only two breakpoints worth going for are 63% or 105%, make sure you get at least 63. Above 63 will have no affect until you reach 105 so go for as close as possible to either.

I haven't got anything good for a while but i haven't been playing much this week either. Only two half notable items are these.

[Anonymous No.5577029]

I never noticed that you could only make insight out of polearms and not spears.
Thank god it doesn't require any rare runes or I'd be pissed.

[Anonymous No.5577032]

>>5577029
hah, yeah I've done that before. More than once.

[Anonymous No.5577098]

Where's the best places to farm runes and gems?
Been awhile since I played my game and going over my gear I realized if I gem/runed some stuff i'd be able to push alot further.

[Anonymous No.5577105]

>>5576963
>>5576974
Oh yes, definitely backup.

Multiple chars are good for farming Hellforge (got 2 Guls, 2 Ists) and for not dying of boredom.

[Anonymous No.5577106]

>>5577098
gems is easy. unironically you end up having more trouble farming chipped gems than perfect/flawless later on.
runes, countess runs for low-mid runes. high runes you need to do LK runs or just run high lvl areas with lots of mobs and hope they drop.
ghosts have a slightly higher drop chance to drop runes because their drop table is different than normal mobs but it's not worth goin out of your way to farm those for runes.
Like an anon earlier in the thread says, you can get up to a Sur/Ber from Hell LK runs. I just make a point of kicking every jar/pot/basket in areas like Ancient Tunnels and Mausoleum hoping I get lucky too.

[Anonymous No.5577205]

I'mma kill Duriel, not sure with which class yet or which build.
Not Fireball sorc, holy fire paladin, or bone necro at least.

[Anonymous No.5577207]

>>5577205
Poison zon

[Anonymous No.5577215]

>>5576581
I do it while I watch bad anime so I don't get bored of either.

[Anonymous No.5577265]

>>5576776
Just started using hardcore characters. Act 2 normal now on a skele-mancer. Gonna basically go with whomever I feel running with but if that class dies they gotta wait till everyone else makes it to hell difficulty or dead before being used again.

Disabled PlugYs character and map resets.

[Anonymous No.5577329]

>>5577207
thanks, will do that

[Anonymous No.5577340]

>>5577106
I have no idea what lk runs means.. I assume it's an area/zone in the game. What is it and where can I find it so I can go farm runes. been running countess atm since that's the only place I remember dropping runes consistantly for me

[Anonymous No.5577347]

>>5577340
Lower Kurast in act 3.

[Anonymous No.5577428]

>>5577106
Are gem drops character lvl dependent? Can I just farm normal countess runs w my lvl 65 for chipped gems? Or look for gem shrines?

[Anonymous No.5577498]

>>5577428
Just /p8 in act 1 Normal and clean any dungeon a bunch of times. I recommend you make a new character for it so your map doesn't get reset unless you don't mind that.

[Anonymous No.5577523]

>>5577498
Don't have plugy and don't care about map change.

[Anonymous No.5577583]

>>5576963
ASSIEBRO GOT HIS ZAKURUM

HELLA BASED

[Anonymous No.5577591]

>>5577583
was like #6 or 8ish. Somewhere around there. So far beyond it's rarity it's fucking stupid.

[Anonymous No.5577595]

>>5577591
I still don't have an infinity base. This game is hella gay. What did it drop from?

[Anonymous No.5577601]

>>5577523
>Don't have plugy

How do you even manage?

[Anonymous No.5577602]

>>5577595
Baals friends, I think.

[Anonymous No.5577604]

>>5577601
Brain damage.

[Anonymous No.5577606]

>>5577595
hit post too early >>5577602

>I still don't have an infinity base
Jesus are you waiting for something really specific?

[Anonymous No.5577607]

>>5577595
My hoz dropped from Pindleskin while I wasn't even looking for it.

[Anonymous No.5577617]

>>5577601
I only play 1 character

[Anonymous No.5577618]

>>5577606
Just a thresher. They fucking never drop eth. Only once and bitch rolled 1 socket.

>>5577607
Didn't ask.

[Anonymous No.5577626]

>>5577618
Ya might have better luck looking for a specific weapon rack that drops them, then farm it. mr llama has a vid on it if you don't know what I'm talking about. Good luck

[Anonymous No.5577640]

>>5577626
I've been considering it actually. That's how I got a stormshield, and the rack was even in the meph room. Got a shit ton of monarchs and a couple stormshields right as I got to hell and started farming meth.

[Anonymous No.5577658]

>>5577626
>>5577640
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P4bbXc_oCMY

Yoo look at this shit. No way this is true, but this guy makes it seem believable.

[Anonymous No.5577667]

>>5577658
It's true, m8, not only did I just reference someone elses video on it, but people were talking about the racks last thread.

Easy enough to farm if you know what you're doing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UNY5fKm21qw

[Anonymous No.5577673]

>>5577667
Yeah I'm watching this right now. Didn't see last thread because I quit Diablo for months after not getting jack shit from pindle after a thousand runs.

[Anonymous No.5577685]

Andariels footstep are comfy

got some nice clusters of entrances/waypoints during this act1

[Anonymous No.5577706]

>>5577685
>footfag
That aint what's nice about her

[Anonymous No.5577747]

>>5577706
I'm not a footfag, her tits and ass don't make a sound when she walks around.
Her footsteps does.

[Anonymous No.5577751]

>best thing I found online back then was a crappy Arachnid Mesh and Herald
>now playing SP with drop mod
>Normal difficulty Baal minions
>drops my eighth unique ring
>it's a SoJ

[Anonymous No.5577769]

>>5577618
I had 3 eth threshers drop this week, cubed one for 4 sockets. Thanks for question.

[Anonymous No.5577770]

>>5577751
>with drop mod
That renders the entirety of your post invalid.

[Anonymous No.5577783]

>>5577770
Call the police.

[Anonymous No.5577794]

>>5577783
>gets amazing with drop mod
>HOW COULD THIS BE?!?!?
>it just doesn't make sense
>look everyone, this unbelievably common event occurred when I near forced it to be so
>just incredible

[Anonymous No.5577806]

>>5577347
Ah aight thanks. I wasnt sure what it was. I have access to that in normal so i'll go farm that a few times to see what drops. This will be nice beside countess who as I said has been decent and always was if I remember right.

[Anonymous No.5577816]

>>5577806
You are farming the 3 chests (could do the 2(?) Armor racks while your there) that are directly around the 2 fireplaces. Can reroll map to get then close to the way point

[Anonymous No.5577825]

>>5577794
So what? Ignore it if it gets your cunt too hot, damn drama queen.

[Anonymous No.5577834]

>>5577825
>So what?
So what's the point of bringing it up?

[Anonymous No.5577839]

>>5577769
kys

[Anonymous No.5578002]

I can't find a thresher rack.

[Anonymous No.5578013]

>>5578002
I'd expect it to take a long time and plenty of map resets.

[Anonymous No.5578026]

>>5578013
>tfw got a Lo and a Vex within 10 minutes of looking for chests

[Anonymous No.5578035]

Not sure if I should imbue a pilum or a javelin
The 40 quantity of the pilum feels really meh and I guess the damage doesn't matter for the poison javelin anyway.
Wasted points in strength and dexterity so I could use it without really thinking that through.


Will stop playing after I kill Duriel btw.

[Anonymous No.5578039]

>>5578035
If you've already got the stats, then imbue the better one.

[Anonymous No.5578076]

>>5578039
Not sure if it is the better one though, sure a bit more damage, but only 40 quantity vs 60 quantity.

not used to akara respec, does that include stat points?

[Anonymous No.5578091]

>>5578076
yup

[Anonymous No.5578246]

>>5577205
and I'm done

never done a javazon as far as I can remember
Poison javelin was annoying to use, less annoying once you get some pierce I guess.
Plague javelin was a bit smoother with its targeting, but got only had it for the last 2 levels and it needed a bit more damage until I could use it properly.
poison javelin for duriel fight was very smooth, just tag him and run, could stay out of the holy freeze range half of the time.

[Anonymous No.5578252]

>>5578246
Tried to socket a spear for my merc, but he could barely stay alive, which is usually the case.
I think I got my spear guy to survive and tank duriel for me once during a duriel game when I got 2 flawed skulls.

[Anonymous No.5578272]

>>5578252
>>5578246
Nice job. Plague javelin is really quite nice to use once you get some levels and pierce into it but it falls off hard as all poison does in hell. It's why I buffed it in my mod desu

[Anonymous No.5578294]

>>5578246
>Poison javelin was annoying to use
Poison works pretty good if you throw it ahead of yourself then run into it and have the monsters chase you into the clouds. Or aim next to the monsters and have them chase you through it like you're throwing 'trip wires' for lack of better words.

[Anonymous No.5578315]

>>5578294
Yeah I was doing a lot of that, basically setting up a poison wall and running through it.
The merc got in the way of that at times, but up in the open areas it was no real issue.
Maggot lair was slow though, while I wanted to kite them back he wanted to go forward and protect them from the poison cloud. In retrospect maybe I would've just been better off without a merc.

I think the biggest problem I had was with mummies, I could usually get a nice poison cloud up that shredded the skeletons and zombies, but they'd be ressing them so I couldn't get a clear shot of the mummy unless I ran into danger up to it.

[Anonymous No.5578454]

>>5576938
That's pretty much what I'm thinking, I just wanted something better for my merc. Which turned out to be pointless because he dies fast as fuck anyway. Right now I'm at 215% MF and I try to do at least /players 5. I got pic related to drop on hell andy doing so.
>>5576963
Nah, I love this game a lot. I just get bored and/or frustrated when I MF and get shit, or worse I die in the stupidest way.

[Anonymous No.5578523]

Does D2 work on W*ndows 10? Can only get it to work on 1 of my Win7 boxes

[Anonymous No.5578660]

>>5578523
Works for me, which patch are you trying to run?

[Anonymous No.5578673]

>>5578660
Latest. It works on my legit win 7 but not the cracked one

[Anonymous No.5578698]

Where can one find a 4 socket phase blade?

[Anonymous No.5578704]

>>5578698
Cow level

[Anonymous No.5578714]

>>5578704
Hell cows?

[Anonymous No.5578716]

I picked up wirts leg on accident and then dropped it on accident in normal. If I go back to Tristram will it be there again or is it gone forever in normal?

[Anonymous No.5578721]

>>5578714
They drop higher rate of socketed items

[Anonymous No.5578726]

>>5578716
It should be there

[Anonymous No.5578851]

>>5577028
I've got a pretty strong Energy shield, so res doesn't mean a whole lot to me....Poison hurts though.

[Anonymous No.5578971]

>>5578002
remember, the direction you approach a rack, whether there are mobs around it or not and whether you run to it or tele to it changes what it drops.
also what variety of items a rack drops depends on it's map seed. your best bet is to reset your maps and go to Lower Kurast. There's a good few racks scattered through that zone and you can farm the super chests while you're there as well.

[Anonymous No.5578979]

>>5578035
i'd save the imbue for something else like boots or a circlet/diadem personally.
you can get amazing javelins from Malah. she can spawn magic javelins with up to +6 skills and up to +40% Increased attack speed.
Just reroll her a bunch of times an see if you can get a +2skill +40% IAS one or something.

[Anonymous No.5578982]

>>5578246
nice one anon, the poison javelins are OK in normal but once you get lv30+ make the switch to lightning javelins. it's so hilariously strong that it makes every other character build look gimp. like, "click once and the entire screen and the next few screens dies" levels of OP

[Anonymous No.5578986]

>>5578523
yes, but you might need PlugY or D2SElauncher or something to help it work.

[Anonymous No.5579364]

>>5578982
The point was to not be a metafuckboy

[Anonymous No.5579484]

>>5578523
I'm>>5578454
Not sure if you can tell but I'm running my pirated version, with plugy, on windows 10, but my brought version works perfectly as well. What's the problem you're having?

[Anonymous No.5579629]

>>5578986
You need neither of those. A legit 1.14 install works fine on my w10 machine, and plugy 1.13 also works fine.

[Anonymous No.5579659]

>>5579629
>Works fine for me :^)
yeah well not everyone's PC is the same. diablo 2 vanilla worked fine for me in 7 and 8 but after I upgraded to 10 it wouldnt work. Had to use D2SE to get it to launch.

[Anonymous No.5580281]

>>5579484
I don't have WinX but looking at building first PC in 13 years and apparently all the new gaymens require it as a sys req for an OS.

[Anonymous No.5580419]

>>5579659
How did you fuck it up so badly that your computer can't run d2?

[Anonymous No.5580441]

>>5578971
Thanks. That's kind of what I've been doing. Resetting LK maps and doing 5-10 tests on each rack that's not too far, so there's a less chance of mobs being near. I'm not sure about the direction, and I also got lost at the weapons.txt section of lama's video, so I just started doing this.

[Anonymous No.5580575]

where to download a copy? just realized isozone is kill

[Anonymous No.5580589]

So when farming Hell Kurast for HRs, do I just run around kicking baskets and opening chests? I've got a rhyme and alibaba on switch, but I had to drop a good chunk of my mf gear to survive Hell on my holy shock pally.

[Anonymous No.5580605]

>>5580575
Correct English is
>where can I download a copy
Fuck off with this "how to" shit.

Also, buy the fucking game.

If you really want to be an absolute stain on society worthy of a bullet, it's in here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1fXnpobbx_Il5fAvTwe1RVDoaEcP9TWm0YJRRHnNY7QA/edit

It's also trivially easy to find a thousand links with a simple google search, you luddite.

Your overall best option would be to fucking kill yourself, though.

[Anonymous No.5580621]

>>5580589
Jesus christ, dude, did you even look it up before being a retard?

In Lower Kurast there are 2-3 firepits that will spawn, with buildings on their left and top. The buildings have chests which have a high drop chance. Two chests in the left, on at the top.

MF doesn't change rune drops, focus movement speed.

[Anonymous No.5580640]

>>5580605
brb killing myself

hey thanks man i genuinely appreciate it, you made my day since i don't have to deal with shady sites and finding a decent copy. have a good one anon i wish you the best

[Anonymous No.5580658]

>>5580640
There's a thread up on /t/, which is where that link came from >>>/t/876564

usually find what you're looking for in there, or by asking in the thread.

[Anonymous No.5580669]

>>5580658
forgot we had such a board lol, i'll def seed for a while. man it's been years since i played d2 so i'm pretty excited, i wonder if solo sorc is even viable. I remember staying up late nights with my buddies before one died and another got married and is raising his kids

shit that was a while ago

[Anonymous No.5580680]

>>5580669
Solo anything is viable, to a degree, it just takes time to get there. Sorc is pretty easy desu, can do the entire game with zero gear.

Hope you enjoy the game, mate.

[Anonymous No.5580686]

>>5580621
>Jesus christ, dude, did you even look it up before being a retard?
Of course I did not. I made this post while waiting for an appointment.

[Anonymous No.5580726]

>>5580621
Wait it can spawn 3 super chest fire pits?? Well shit brb reseeding map.
Is there a reason the LK super chests even exist? Is it a bug why they dump so much good loot? Why not just make them sparkly chests? Even if those are worse, I think.

[Anonymous No.5580728]

>>5580680
>Sorc is pretty easy desu, can do the entire game with zero gear.
even meteorb or should i go with a blizz build instead? just reading up on builds, i just want to beat the game a couple times for nostalgia, don't think i'll have time for the full item grind. so i'm basically asking if these builds work with the shittiest of shit gear because of limited magic find

[Anonymous No.5580736]

>>5580726
sorry meant 1-2

good read - https://www.diabloii.net/forums/threads/lower-kurast-lk-faq.720492/

>>5580728
Sure they would work. If you're only gonna do a few run throughs, just use whatever you want. Don't obsess like the rest of the meta-fags in here.

[Anonymous No.5580745]

>>5580726
No, it actually can't spawn 3.

>>5580728
http://plugy.free.fr/en/index.html

You need this too to make D2 work.

[Anonymous No.5580754]

>>5580745
>plugy
No you don't, stop it.

>>5580728
don't listen to the idiot, plugy isn't necessary for you. I wouldn't even really recommend it unless you want to sink a lot of time.

[Anonymous No.5580824]

Is the golden chest in hell pits level 2 a joke? I've only gotten blues from it so far.

[Anonymous No.5580834]

>>5580754
Leave the thread, retard.

[Anonymous No.5580839]

>>5580834
>m-muh p-plugy
>muh respecs
I love plugy, but it's not necessary for what he wants to do right now. Stop being a dumb cunt.

[Anonymous No.5580865]

>>5580839
If you play SP without plugy, you have severe brain damage.

[Anonymous No.5581091]

>>5580865
Why

[Anonymous No.5581101]

>>5581091
Because he can't comprehend that someone would want to play the game how it was designed. Limited resets and a small stash force you to make meaningful choices and think things through, at least on singleplayer.

Plugy removes that in favor of infinite character resets and stash space. You don't need it unless you plan to keep playing for ages. The guys a nutter.

[Anonymous No.5581228]

>>5580728
blizz build is fantastic until you run into ice immunes in hell (most of act 1, act 4 and act 5)
go blizz until end of NM and respect to meteorb.

[Anonymous No.5581232]

>>5580419
well with Windows 10 we're talking about an operating system that routinely reverts it's registry to default and uninstalls any of your own drivers (replacing your working ones with shit that doesnt work) and an OS that has trouble connecting to phones/tablets and other MTP devices by USB.
Had I known I would've stayed on 7 but oh well, this is the price I pay now.

>>5580726
the main reason LK ones are popular is because there's a high number of super chests in a small zone with a well-placed waypoint.
there are super chests in other zones too but not worth the time because of how spread out the zones are and the fact there's usually only 1 or 2.

[Anonymous No.5581236]

>>5581101
Stash could be larger but it shouldn't be infinite. Should be as big as the largest chest drop possible + a few spaces. It is the biggest physical chest in the game after all.
Plus 1 respec per difficulty is more than enough. I'm just going to skip the NM reset and save it.

[Anonymous No.5581239]

>>5581236
Yeah I've found that if you plan the character out a bit, you can usually get away with only one respec to clear normal-hell. Maybe two if you get lucky/unlucky early on.

[Anonymous No.5581364]

is playing higher res degerate

[Anonymous No.5581380]

>>5580728
Just FYI, no you cannot solo the game with meterorb with shit gear. I have no idea why people or that guy keeps saying that. By this point I'm pretty sure he's trolling. You definitely need mid to high gear in hell.

[Anonymous No.5581389]

>>5581380
You absolutely can. We're not talking about farming the fucking ancient tunnels or doing muh efficiency baal runs. If you think you can't clear hell with a near naked meteorb, you're off your fucking rocker, mate.

[Anonymous No.5581396]

>>5581389
Show me ONE video where someone clears hell baal with shit gear. Because either you are trolling or your definition of "shit gear" is out of whack.

[Anonymous No.5581398]

>>5581396
Literally any hell speedrun ever.

[Anonymous No.5581404]

>>5581396
>>5581380
You're just shit at the game desu famalam

[Anonymous No.5581406]

>>5581398
Go ahead and show me, I have literally all night. And you are fucking joking if you think you can revive in hell with deep red resists. One zap from a lightning bolt and you die instantly, let alone trying to kill any boss.

[Anonymous No.5581412]

>>5581404
Hur dur not an argument bud

[Anonymous No.5581416]

>>5581236
>Plus 1 respec per difficulty is more than enough
No it's not lol. It is enough for experienced players, but as a newb who has no idea what they are doing, they are forced to just restart the character if they get stuck. The initial design of no resets is fucking cancer, and 3 resets with the potential for more from farming is almost as cancerous.

[Anonymous No.5581417]

>>5581406
Hell in barely 4 hours with a sorc: https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=14755&v=qvQZ-GfkgKo

For someone who is just an average player, like the guy we are talking about, you could add on another 10 hours worth of farming and you'd end up with much better gear.

four

hours

You really must be shit at the game like he >>5581404 said

[Anonymous No.5581426]

>>5581396
There were ironman runs where they'd beat all difficulties completely naked.

[Anonymous No.5581428]

>>5581412
Faggot. You are severely overestimating how hard it is to kill up hell baal, any brainlet with teleport can pull it off with a smidgen of dedication.

[Anonymous No.5581435]

>>5581416
We lived with it back in the day, we even enjoyed it. Instant-gratification Zoomers like you deserve the bullet.

[Anonymous No.5581439]

do zoomers even know about this game lmao, this is essential doomercore

[Anonymous No.5581443]

>>5581417
How about showing me one where the guy isn't quite obviously cheating? Thanks
>>5581426
Anyone can do a necro naked, that's not impressive
>>5581428
Right, I'm a "brainlet" for thinking you need to have good gear on a meterorb for hell. You just start playing this game, kid?

[Anonymous No.5581447]

5581443
Not even gonna justify that bait with a proper (you).

[Anonymous No.5581450]

>>5581443
>Anyone can do a necro naked, that's not impressive
Several classes, not just the necro.

[Anonymous No.5581453]

>>5581443
>someone is better than me therefore they must be cheating

[Anonymous No.5581458]

>>5581447
>being this buttblasted
>>5581450
How about no classes, and stop talking out of your asshole
>>5581453
>someone is obviously cheating and retards are impressed by it, like yourself
Fixed for you

[Anonymous No.5581462]

Why do autists have to ruin even things this old?

[Anonymous No.5581472]

>>5581462
it's just their nature

[Anonymous No.5581475]

>>5581458
We all know you're wrong, you know it to. The only thing you're doing is being an asshole about it. Just accept it and move on.

[Anonymous No.5581476]

>>5581462
I know, guy makes a video of him clearly cheating and people fall for it and think it's legit. Amazing

[Anonymous No.5581483]

>>5581476
There's dozens of videos of multiple different people doing similar times.

[Anonymous No.5581487]

>>5581458
Top kek, go sit on a dick you damn fool.

[Anonymous No.5581496]

>>5581483
Without cheating? I don't think so

[Anonymous No.5581502]

>>5581496
Why do you not think so? Are you just assuming? You could challenge the most far left politician possible in 'denying reality' competition. You'd probably win.

[Anonymous No.5581503]

>>5581443
>How about showing me one where the guy isn't quite obviously cheating?
weak bait terrible bait jesus christ just watch any diablo 2 HC speedrun ignoring barbs every class is 4ish-7ish hours

no mods no map seeding no hero editor

[Anonymous No.5581507]

>>5581502
Watch the video, it's pretty obvious the guy is cheating
>>5581503
If it's anything like that video that was posted, I'm not buying it

[Anonymous No.5581513]

give it to me straight doc, imagine a first time solo vanilla playthrough of the game on a sorc. would it work?

[Anonymous No.5581514]

>>5581507
>speedrunners are not ultra autistic getting someone banned for cheating so they can claim a better rank/WR

oke faggot

[Anonymous No.5581543]

>>5581435
>calls someone he disagrees with a zoomer
I'm 31 you stupid nigger and I've been playing the game since 2000. The game should have had unlimited resets and a MUCH larger stash since day 1.

[Anonymous No.5581549]

>>5581543
No, I called someone who displays the traits of a zoomer, a zoomer. Retardation has no age boundaries.

[Anonymous No.5581557]

>>5581549
Oh so you aren't using the actual definition, you're just shitposting.

[Anonymous No.5581560]

>>5581557
How can you not know of the boomer/zoomer/etcetc meme? Keep up with the times, gramps.

[Anonymous No.5581561]

>guy in thread spreges out making claims about shit
>obviously baiting people
>people taking the bait and giving him (You)s
fuck /vr/ you need to be better than this

[Anonymous No.5581569]

>>5581543
>The game should have had unlimited resets
its crazy remembering that 1.13 came out in 2010

[Anonymous No.5581576]

>>5581416
I mean if you do no research ahead of time and just guess. I just looked up 3 hell builds for Necro and got started in normal. With some adjustment I made while playing due to my shit gear when I started having trouble. Then just respec'd to my end game build at or just after Diablo.
Well see how NM goes but I don't expect to respec again

[Anonymous No.5581579]

>>5559131
D2 is absolutely for autists. Be like me and play the exact same class, and often the exact same build every time you play, do the exact same areas over and over again, and get rewarded for it.

One time I honestly tried to do a different sorc build to usual and this dropped in act 3. Desire sensor in full effect.

[Anonymous No.5581597]

>>5581579
Well I'm not an autist but you're right.
I always play summonmancer

[Anonymous No.5581786]

>>5581597
>>5559131
Also thanks, this got me actually playing my save again after a year or so break.

Kinda MAD at how goddamn fragile my desert merc is though. I don't even need him to do damage, but he just melts in a light breeze. I guess I should find him some decent armor. He's fallen behind a bit in level as well.

[Anonymous No.5581792]

>>5581786
What level are you?

[Anonymous No.5581808]

>>5581792
46. I looked up the area levels and decided I should probably go back to A1/2 to train him, as I'm way under-leveled for Harrogath.

[Anonymous No.5581817]

>>5581808
Yeah for sure, that's why he's dying. Hell just rebuying him with the extra levels to catch up to you would make some difference.

[Anonymous No.5581823]

Anyone ever actually find a windforce? If so how long did it take?

[Anonymous No.5581836]

>>5581823
Dropped it twice. Once about 10 years back, then quite quickly into my grail (about two months of farming or so). Which was nice considering it's my favorite item in the game.

But don't expect to get it as easily as I did, it's really quite rare. Even with high MF and player count, you're still looking at 10,000 baal kills or 20,000 pindle on average.

[Anonymous No.5581925]

>>5581786
Yeah mines got over 800 def and over 50 res for each and doing pretty decent on /p5 act 2 so far. Died a few time a

[Anonymous No.5581993]

>>5553352
Turned out leagues better than D3, so that's something.

[Anonymous No.5582015]

What are some mods that can give you the items that you want onto your char?

[Anonymous No.5582020]

>>5582015
Hero editor or Drop mod.

[Anonymous No.5582039]

>>5582020
I have hero editor, but I'm not seeing how to do it. Say I want to give myself enigma, am I suppose to download that from somewhere and then drag and drop it?

[Anonymous No.5582045]

>>5582039
You can do that, yes, or make the item yourself.

[Anonymous No.5582064]

>>5582045
Do you happen to know where I could get these downloads for free? I'd rather not bother making the items myself

[Anonymous No.5582074]

>>5582064
you need to download an item pack

[Anonymous No.5582078]

>>5582064
google: "diablo 2 item download'
>http://www.angelfire.com/mo2/DiabloII/

jesus christ dude. Took me less than 5 seconds.

[Anonymous No.5582678]

Only if it had 2 necro, damn.

[Anonymous No.5583160]

>>5582678
Yeah I got a 2 to summoning but want a 2 to all

[Anonymous No.5583325]

>>5581101
*tips fedora*

[Anonymous No.5583453]

>gloams with manaburn
reeeeeeeeeee

I almost wanna install a high-res mod just so I don't have to suffer quite so much

[Anonymous No.5583581]

Literally impossible to find a thresher rack.

[Anonymous No.5583584]

>>5583581
nah you're just impatient

[Anonymous No.5583598]

>>5581823
I just came across one the other day, didn't realize it was that special. Still can't find my Tal's ammy yet...been looking for about a year.

[Anonymous No.5583623]

>>5583581
Thresher rack?

[Anonymous No.5583641]

Anywhere to delete all the items I have in plugy without uninstalling the game?

[Anonymous No.5583647]

>>5581462
>complains about autists in a D2 thread
You sure you're playing the right game? Maybe you should switch over to fortnite

[Anonymous No.5583652]

>>5583641
Delete all the characters. Or throw them out and leave the game.

[Anonymous No.5583657]

>>5583584
I've been resetting maps for hours. I really don't get it.

>>5583623
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UNY5fKm21qw&t=678s

[Anonymous No.5583885]

>>5583657
Why not a cryptic axe

[Anonymous No.5583898]

>>5583885
Because thresher is the best for infinity, and I also don't have a CA.

[Anonymous No.5583942]

>>5583657
Neat, that's super useful. Thanks.

[Anonymous No.5583952]

>>5583898
Oh OK. I'm trying for a Beast for my merc

[Anonymous No.5584049]

>>5583952
Playing a gayass necro?

[Anonymous No.5584060]

>>5584049
>gayass necro
The paladin is the one who runs as if he's got a scepter up his ass.

[Anonymous No.5584094]

>>5584049
Every time. Got a Paly, Bowazon, and Sorc to normal Baal but meh. I like Necro

[Anonymous No.5584175]

I caved in. I'd have liked an exceptional insight at this point, but I'm sure I can find another set of runes before I find something better.

[Anonymous No.5584196]

>>5584175
Can you up runeword items in the cube?

[Anonymous No.5584209]

>>5584196
Sadly no. That's just for uniques and rares.

[Anonymous No.5584294]

I died on my pally and now my zeal buffed fanaticism damage is doing 1411 to 2419 hours down from 1411 to 6000 something. What the fuck?

[Anonymous No.5584313]

>>5584294
I was doing

[Anonymous No.5584323]

>>5584313
Now I'm doing ;_;

[Anonymous No.5584337]

>>5584294
If you reset your skills with an aura on, the stat sheet won't update til you save and quit.

[Anonymous No.5584372]

>>5583641
there's 2 files in the save folder "sharedstash" something, just move/delete that.
I reset my plugy and saves every Ladder reset and back them up onto my hard drive, just for fun.

[Anonymous No.5584376]

>>5582678
>>5583160
i just went with a 2 to all skills 2socket wand and made the runeword in it.
but i've been full-timing Edge runeword a lot on my necro lately.

[Anonymous No.5584415]

Damn, my first high rune drop that I wasn't actually farming anything for. What do I even use an Ohm for as a Sorc?

[Anonymous No.5584506]

>>5584415
Doom or Faith for a merc?

[Anonymous No.5584526]

>>5584415
Call to Arms on weapon switch obviously.

[Anonymous No.5584528]

>>5584506
the -cold resistance only applies to the user of the weapon, so all Doom would do is be a shittier, more expensive Obedience.
Faith is a good choice though.

[Anonymous No.5584535]

>>5584526
Oh damn, that's pretty affordable too, just a Mal and an Ist and I can make it.

[Anonymous No.5584586]

>>5584337
Ah that makes sense.

[Anonymous No.5584635]

Is IAS only available on weapons?

[Anonymous No.5584648]

>>5584635
I've also seen it on gloves and IIRC armor.

[Anonymous No.5584667]

>>5584635
Gloves, belts, chest armor, amulets, weapons.

[Anonymous No.5584710]

>>5584535
>>5584526
Feel like the game really wants me to make this. I'll have it before Act 3 Hell at this rate.

[Anonymous No.5584860]

What are the builds that can for sure solo hell on /p8? I created a bowazon and gave myself all the good shit, and she's ripping through hell /p8. It's pretty fun. Only thing that annoys me is how quickly she dies. What would be good MF gear for a bowazon?

[Anonymous No.5584864]

>>5584860
Also I have hero editor so I can give myself whatever gear I need

[Anonymous No.5585067]

>>5584860
Summonmancer w Enigma and Beast on act 2 offensive merc.

[Anonymous No.5585096]

>>5584175
Insight runes drop dime a dozen in LK. Always do it as soon as you have the runes in whatever white item, and then up when eth drops. Remember weap can't be ebugged.

[Anonymous No.5585157]

gonna borrow this thread to ask about Diablo 1

I haven't played it before, is it alright as is, unmodded?
reading it on a lot of people say to install Belzebub (HD mod)
but I can't tell if it changes the game too drastically

[Anonymous No.5585179]

Man, this game can be a clunky mess sometimes. Just started a barb and I think I'll drop him right away.

[Anonymous No.5585234]

>>5585179
Is barb gear dependant? I'd imagine so, not having ever really played one.
What's the most gear dependant class? I guess you can break it down further to specific builds having varying degrees of gearcentricsim.
If you want to get autistic about it.

[Anonymous No.5585262]

>>5585234
It depends on the build. Frenzy barb is gear dependent in terms of needing reliable life steal and IAS, but it doesn't necessarily require full "endgame" gear to clear hell

[Anonymous No.5585271]

>>5584860
>What would be good MF gear for a bowazon?
Doesn't exist. Bowzons are possibly the worst MF build in the entire game.

>>5585157
Yes. Of course try it without mods first. Don't be absurd. Belzebub does more than just HD, it also makes the game harder.

>>5585179
Kys zoomer, this game is not for you if you can't fucking handle the barb

>>5585234
Yes, quite gear dependent and yes probably the barb, though most everything in the game gets markedly better with gear. Kinda a dumb question.

[Anonymous No.5585287]

>>5585234
I'm playing barb right now, but on plugy so the gear has mostly come from my mf sorc. Currently lvl 79 full frenzy barb and just beat hell trav p1. Just trying to get through the game at the moment. Life steal (26%) and fast attack (40%ias) mainly from frenzy is the key to this barb. He can tank most mobs so far head on. Oh and merc has eth reapers toll so the decrep is so good when it procs.
My current gear is - arreats face, eye of etlich, skin of flayed one, lightsaber, grief pb, laying of hands, string of ears, ik boots, 4mana 5life steal ring, light/cold res ring, 1 combat gc, 2 masteries gc, 2 war cries gc.

[Anonymous No.5585304]

Is magic find a meme? I mean you start with 100% mf and only build up small percent.

[Anonymous No.5585465]

>>5585157
Vanilla diablo has great atmosphere and shit, but gameplay is fucking tedious at times.
HD mod makes some much needed improvements that make the game a bit more playable.
Shame it also rebalances some things but whatever a purist will tell you you're missing out on is outweighed by a half dozen major flaws the game has that are fixed
The most annoying parts of the game like getting permastunned by enemies or having to chase ranged enemies at snails pace halfway across the map as a warrior are beyond fixing but at least its more bearable
Also dont worry about missing out on hellfire, its meh, and the mod restores some quests so you get more content anyways

[Anonymous No.5585519]

>>5585179
Just drop the barb and play a sorc. Get plugy. Farm shit up, then make all other classes and builds with the gear you have.

[Anonymous No.5585552]

>>5585287
And apparently can beat p1 dclone without breaking a sweat. Fucker spawned on the way to hellforge.
Unrelated, this just dropped. Third one ever and second in 10 days >>5557697

[Anonymous No.5585574]

>>5585552
>tfw still haven't dropped a Ber on my holy grail playthrough
;_;

[Anonymous No.5585608]

>>5585574
The first one dropped months ago in tal rasha's tombs while running hell on my amazon. Almost missed it too. It didn't display form too much shit on screen and only by chance hit a dead end and then seen it. After that I went and downloaded the lootfilter/maphack. Puts a white box on the map for any dropped runes and for whatever you want really. Not missing another rune because of that shit again.

I made infinity about 2 weeks ago and I don't even use it with my blizz sorc. I prefer the mana regen from insight and mainly run AT, ect. It is fucking sweet on the amazon though.

[Anonymous No.5585614]

>>5585608
That's how I almost missed my Jah. Now I have runes filtered in big gay purple. Just imagine how sweetass items you've missed over the years.

[Anonymous No.5585721]

>rack drops a thresher once
>can't replicate it ever again even with the same route

[Anonymous No.5585825]

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

[Anonymous No.5585839]

>>5585825
If it makes you feel better (or worse), I had 6 eth threshers fail before I got a 4soc. 1 1soc, 1 3soc and 4 5soc.

[Anonymous No.5585841]

>>5585839
It doesn't. Are you farming a rack?

[Anonymous No.5585853]

>>5585841
Yes. I have a LK map with the rack right next to the wp that drops them. Have sooo many normal threshers that I'll roll for a necro insight golem.

[Anonymous No.5585859]

>>5585853
How often do you get an eth one? It's supposed to be 1/20 I guess on average, but RNG is a huge faggot. Do you lock your maps with plugy when you get good ones so you don't accidentally reroll them?

[Anonymous No.5585885]

>>5585859
Well..... For the 7 eth I got 75 normal ones, some with sockets. And to sort of correct my other post >>5585839 I dropped the 4soc eth from the rack. I didn't roll it.
>Do you lock your maps
I wasn't aware you could do this.
>RNG is a huge faggot
Yes it is. I rolled about 12 failed phase blades the other day. Was after 5soc and got everything else.

[Anonymous No.5585919]

>>5585885
That's around 1 eth per 10. I've gotten only one eth in the past hour and I take 10 seconds to do a run tops. Fuck.

[Anonymous No.5585927]

>second one rolls 2os

Make it stop!

[Anonymous No.5585937]

>>5585721
mightve been if there were monsters nearby or agrod to you when you approached it.
also sometimes the angle you approach is really finnicky.

[Anonymous No.5585952]

>>5585919
I don't think I picked all of them up and there was a boss group spawning around there fucking it up as well. You will get one, just don't fuck up and reroll your map.

[Anonymous No.5586013]

>5os

[Anonymous No.5586059]

>2os

[Anonymous No.5586063]

>>5586059
>two times in a row

[Anonymous No.5586075]

>another 5os

[Anonymous No.5586090]

>constant spamming about his fucking threshers has pushed the thread into bump limit

[Anonymous No.5586097]

>>5586090
Perhaps you could say this is The Reaper's Toll.

[Anonymous No.5586109]

>>5586090
>posting about the game is spamming

Make a new thread, retard.

[Anonymous No.5586210]

>>5586109
W a better OP

[Anonymous No.5586214]

>>5585271
>Kys zoomer, this game is not for you if you can't fucking handle the barb
Fuck off, I played more barbs than you have hair on your pussy. Can't one complain about something, do I have to pretend everything is absolute perfection in this game?

[Anonymous No.5586248]

>>5586090
would have died on monday anyway

[Anonymous No.5586263]

>>5562814
Nice!

[Anonymous No.5586296]

>>5585885
>I wasn't aware you could do this.

Actually I don't think you can lock them, but I think if you accidentally enter the wrong difficulty and reset your maps you can close the game from the task manager and you can start from your previous save. Can't confirm it right now though, because I don't want to fuck up my maps in case it doesn't work. Also, in your save folder your characters have their own map files, maybe those can be backed up, but I'm not sure.

If anyone is willing to test this shit make sure to make a full backup so you don't corrupt your files.

[Anonymous No.5586332]

Took me more than 20 fucking eth threshers to roll a single 4os. Got so tilted I stopped counting. This will be my first ever self made legit Infinity.

inb4 it rolls like shit.

[Anonymous No.5586362]

>>5586332
lets goooooo

[Anonymous No.5586375]

Is there any reason I should use 1.13c over 1.13d or vice versa? All I really care about is adding plugy/stash tabs.

[Anonymous No.5586387]

>>5586375
Just take a quick look at the patch notes and decide which sounds better to you. I just slapped on 1.13d, all is well.
https://diablo.fandom.com/wiki/Patch_1.13c_(Diablo_II)
https://diablo.fandom.com/wiki/Patch_1.13d_(Diablo_II)

[Anonymous No.5586394]

>>5586362
gratz m8e, looks good

[Anonymous No.5586395]

>>5586375
There really isn't a significant difference, but if you ever plan on upgrading or downgrading versions make sure to back up your save files.

[Anonymous No.5586568]

>>5585271
>Bowzons are possibly the worst MF build in the entire game
What is that? I'm gonna guess because she's gear dependent?

[Anonymous No.5586584]

>>5586568
She can't get damage and MF at the same time...and coupled bows/bow skills being quite underpowered overall, too, she's a shitshow even with the best stuff. Near every build and class are better for MFing. I did the whole fucking grail with a bowzon, want a pro-tip? Don't do that.

[Anonymous No.5586589]

>>5586584
I guess I'll see, I'm still on Act 2 and I feel like I've gotten the handle on how to play a bowazon effectively. It's like I said I have hero editor, so I can give myself whatever I want. But when I think about it, it does make more sense to just use something else to MF.

[Anonymous No.5586592]

>>5586584
Also did you do a whole playthrough in hell with one, and did you have windforce? If so at what point did it start getting really hard for you?

[Anonymous No.5586602]

>>5586592
Yes she was my first character when I started the grail, found Windforce after a few months of grinding hell. Dropped in worldstone keep off a random boss. I played her entirely with physical skills i.e. Strafe, Magic arrow and Guided arrow.

The bowzon goes through stages of difficulty fluctuations. Act 2 normal is where it starts to get shit, keeps getting shit til act5, where you can actually grind some levels easily enough. Then you farm a harmony, which can take you through nightmare. Then you hit a wall in the form of hell. Sure you can slowly push through the first few acts, but you're gonna get fucked hard soon enough even if you do.

For hell you're really gonna want something with more raw damage OR be a cold bowzon. Both of which can be farmed from nightmare baal/meph in the form of xp for cold and item drops for physical.

Fire is awful for most of hell and physical is really shit until you get a high damage bow e.g. upped goldstrike arch or witchwildstring. Cold is the only area you can get decent damage without a strong weapon bow wise.

[Anonymous No.5586679]

>>5586602
So you'd recommend freezing arrow over guided arrow? I'm using guided and strafe but I'm not a huge fan of guided, personally. I'm dealing around 4k or so damage with strafe. My merc has faith as well, so I'm pretty comfy at the moment. Without mods though it'd take me forever to get all that gear. I'm still debating whether I want to keep the bowazon when I beat the game or not. It's pretty fun but I still want to build a char that can beat hell, with gear that I farmed and earned.

[Anonymous No.5586706]

>>5586679
No. I would recommend whichever you prefer to use...and if you're just gonna hero edit in all the stuff, then there's no real point to anything in my entire previous post. Drop the hero editor and actually play the game. Learn how the character, skills and items actually work, instead of just using them. The point of the game isn't to have all the best GG meta faggot gear, it's the enjoyment you get from playing towards that gear, slowly building your character, getting an awesome drop. Even on multiplayer you still have to farm up stuff to trade for the things you want, most of the time.

There's so much more to diablo 2 than just smashing through hell as fast as possible.

Have you ever heard of "journey, not the destination"?

[Anonymous No.5586721]

>>5586706
I know, I've been playing the game for awhile now. But I've never had a godly char before and I've never beaten hell, so I wanted to see what it was like. Now I see why godly gear is valued so much, it makes a huge difference when you play through the game. Truthfully, I'm not that good at D2 either. But I'll get there eventually.

[Anonymous No.5586729]

>>5586721
Just time dedication, man, that's all you need to clear hell.

[Anonymous No.5586735]

>>5586721
>I'm not that good at D2 either.

What do you mean? This game takes no skill at all. You just have to know a lot of stuff.

[Anonymous No.5586757]

>>5586679
I miss pre-nerf freezing arrow, they were super cool

[Anonymous No.5586765]

>>5586721
If you wanna deflower yourself, play a blizz sorc. Can "solo" all the way to hell baal. You need an act 2 or act 5 merc for a handful of enemies, but you can just skip most things that would give you trouble.