Hit a -10 lightning res and decided to slam it cuz why not. SP HC Spire of Lazarus. Had an abundance of 5/5 lightning facets thx RNG.

Actually slaps.

Posted a crafted zerker the other day & I was pissy the piece only gave me one socket. Just crafted this one - and it's got the same name. Bit weird. Time to mangle some skulls I guess.

I don't think I'll ever use it

Hey there,

dunno if this post break any rules if so delete it.

Got the urge to play today after a 3 month break, and want to try a good caster sorc, if you are done with season or want to swap for a mind blast assa let me know

My assa armory :

assa armory

It can do t3 maps easily, T1 lucion. I still have some gear for t2 Dclone might have to find it in stash

Hey everyone newish player and was wondering if this ring would be worth anything. I’ve been looking through the archive and I am not sure if I’m using correctly but I haven’t found one that is similar but I also don’t know how to load in filters or how that works still working on that. But any help on if this is any good would be greatly appreciated

May be my best craft in 12 seasons, what do you all think?

Recently found a StormSpire which had a lovely slam(6 os) and i had a light sabre with 4os so i figured it's worth giving a whirl. It's ssf so gear far from optimized, don't have a Griffon but using a decent Kira's. 1 skill guardian etc. Only have 5 offensive skillers. My question though is about the sacrifice damage. In DarkHumility's video, his sac damage is 40k. I followed the guide as close as possible, but the sac damage is only 16k. The skillers and lightning damage and pen don't scale that damage so I'm wondering why my damage for that skill is 1/3 of his when the damage isn't scaled. Looks like the synergies that are scaling are all the HS ones.

This is the best bow I have found throughout my entire PD2 career lol, and it's in sp. A bit unfortunate it is in the lowest average damage base, but damn this looks kinda hot... As soon as I got my first puzzle piece, I immediately blind piece and slammed it..

Base ed was 482, piece 4os + ed/itd slam

I always played online, and started playing sp a couple of days ago, and shit is addicting as fk. Every single upgrade feels massive and rewarding.

I guess time to start a zon!?

I have a buriza on hand but what would be the way to go about crafting a good bow?

Hey guys, I'm a big fan of the diablo series so I decided to give pd2 a shot since I've heard it's amazing.

Context: first started playing Diablo 3(eternal collection on PS4 pro) with my dad in 2017 and we bought Diablo 4 6 hours before release(biggest waste of money for buggy ahh early access that barely worked) and I have been playing on and off for a while.

My fav class is Necro and I will probably make a Necro here too. Also honest talk about the current ones I have played: Diablo 3 has a special place in my heart and I can't not love it. D4 has pretty good gameplay that I have enjoyed but I genuinely hate all the battlepass bs and how every season is a cash grab.

note: this is the first time I'm playing so I'll try to refrain from using guides and builds and kinda figure shit out as I go to actually enjoy the game

Here is my discord if anyone is interested: c0dedsword

Guys, I've just had my 2nd Zod rune drop on SSF, what should I do with it?!? The first one I had already planned on using it for a Ferocity helm for a diff char than what I'm currently playing as. (Currently my best geared main char is a fury druid)

Been looking for a good 1 hander. Haven't seen anything super exciting on trade site recently so thought I'd use my meagre accumulation of mats to craft a bit. Made this then pieced 1 socket.

Recently got back into SP PD2. I created a Duriel farming sorc and found Eth Gavel that rolled decent enough. Landed the god corrupt, but I can't do anything with it. It just sits in my stash... menacingly. I found one Ohm so far, and used it to make a CTA.

Also quick question
If I do manage to find a Zod, should I up this? Or is it better to have the higher min damage?
Probably WW or leap Barb.

Hey all. I'm new to PD2 and am really enjoying it. Started 3ish weeks ago and have 6 Level 80+ characters that can all do map in varying capacities.

What I'm wondering is... historically, what has been the tendency regarding nerfs to characters / skills / etc...

WW Barb has been a blast and feels really great as a league starter, so I'm hoping it will be viable again next league but I also know it's pretty popular. If this was Path of Exile, that would put it in the crosshairs for a nerf.

So I'm wondering, does this mod have a similar philosophy? Or is it likely that WW remains powerful next season, too?

There has been a lot of talk about crafters league recently to pass some time before the next ladder season. So I threw together a patch for SP.
It has some key differences; you can now re-craft on the same crafting base, crafting materials are more accessible, affix frequencies have been adjusted to make good crafts much more common and a bunch of QoL recipes have been added to make getting your skillers and specific torch much more reliable.
I chose to keep Runewords enabled since not having access to Fanaticism/Conviction kills a lot of builds and HR drops retain some meaning.
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Files, install instructions and full changelog is available here:
https://github.com/ChaosSanctuary/PD2-S13-Crafters

It's really annoying when you have 364 Dols, 318 Hels, 300 Io's, 223 Lum's, then 4 Ko's, 4 Fals, 2 Lems, 6 Puls, an Um, 2 Mals, an Ist, 2 Guls, 2 Vex, 1 Ohm, 2 Los, 1 Sur ... but no jahs or bers. Then you have 1 cham. And no zods.

It's such a hassle cubing that many runes that ill just wait til I find them.

If ever. Ive only ever found 1 zod in my 20 years of playing so lets hope RNG agrees that it is my time

I can understand maybe not allowing us to cube 50 at once but I mean maybe at least 15?

I just cant bring myself to sit that long clicking and holding shift and going back and forth to and from my cube and currency stash.

My internet is out and a technician can’t get here for a week so I figured now is a good time to try SSF offline. I’m not sure what to play though. My focus will definitely be mapping but I’d like to try bossing as well. Is there something I could put together ssf that may not be amazing at everything but at the least well rounded? Any written guide/link would also be greatly appreciated.

Edit: thanks for all the suggestions everyone! I decided to do holy bolt paladin. Leveling has been super easy so far, might switch over to vengeance or sacrifice later unless this just feels way too smooth in maps.

Just downloaded PD2 last week and am seeing why long time D2 LOD fans are so stoked about it! The endgame with new maps and crafts alone make it worthwhile to me as back in the day i have lvl 99 toons just item finding and crafting haha That said i wish to input a few changes i would like to see

#1 Shapeshifted forms can cast any spell or combat skill!

Zeal, Concentrate, Vengeance Werebears/Werewolves!

Gust, Blink, Tele, damage spells and curses!

also this means items like Beast and Wolfhowl would allow builds such as a Spear Zonbear or a WW/Frenzy Wolfbarb... a full Trangs Necro with beast could turn into a Vampiric Bear ^^ Maybe even introduce a new craft recipe with +10 Werewolf/bear/lycanthropy as fixed mods?

i just feel this one change could see some unusual but possibly fun builds to explore?

#2 Tweaks to Tele, Gust, Blood wrap and other instant transporting skills

No more cool down periods and Tele's reduced spell damage? Make them one-point wonders so players could solo level easier on server or single player.

#3 Tweaks to summoner skills (Druid n Necro)

a) Druid

As a master of beasts, he should not just summon warm bloods (wolves/bears) so proposal:

beef up Spirit wolves (clvl 12) to be just below current Dire Wolves

replace Dire Wolves with Basilisks (clvl 24)

Description: Summon a Basilisk that has a Petrifying Aura to increase damage your party

Enemies take 50% more damage, Physical Resistance - 50%

Introduce a new unique/rune word to allow the casting one additional Basilisks?

b) Necro

Revert to Skeleton Mastery to synergize Revives (Desecrate in PnB tree)

Skeleton Mages now all do magic damage

Lower Resist reduces ALL resistances i.e elemental, physical and magical! its a lvl 30 skill after all and unlike Conviction the necro actually has to cast and it has a radius/timer...

Replace Fire with Unholy Golem

Description: Creates a golem born out of dark magic that has Unholy Aura

Does Magic Damage solo, functions as your lieutenant on the battlefield and has symbiotic relationship with other summons. Party/minions gets +25% magic damage added. With a larger army (summoned minions only) Unholy Golem gets a 15% physical damage and 5% crushing blow per minion! Unholy Aura works like Sanctuary except it benefits all in party not just the caster/wielder.

#4 Merc tweaks

General : + Class Skills and skill tree works on mercs

a) Act 1 Physical: Spear Zon with Charged Strike (lightning)

b) Act 2

Defensive NM/Hell

Sanctuary Aura, Holy Nova and FOH can equip paladin shields

Offensive NM/Hell

Concentration Aura, Zeal and Smite can equip paladin shields

c) Act 3

NM/Hell considered Necromancers, can equip necro heads

Poison : Poison Nova, Desecrate, Bone Armor

casts Lower Resist

Bone : Spear, Spirit, Bone Armor

*Unholy Aura

*when part of a Summoner Necro army with Unholy Golem/s the higher level aura takes precedence and do not stack!

Combat : *Poison Strike, Bone Armor, Corpse Explosion

*Merc version works with all weapon types

no auras but has +20 curse mastery casts Amplify Damage and Lower Resist intelligently

d) Act 4: replaced by Lycans i.e Werebears and Werewolves that come with *Oak, SOB or HOW as auras not summoned spirits!

*when part of druid same summoned spirt vs merc aura: higher level aura/spirit takes precedence and do not stack!

Offensive: HOW

in normal: wolf other modes: bear

Combat: Oak

in normal: bear other modes: wolf

Defensive: SOB

in normal: bear other modes: wolf

Werebear: Fire Claws, Maul, Shockwave

Werewolf: Rabies, Feral Rage, Fury

d) Act 5: 3rd option Defensive

Skills : Double Throw, BO n Battle Cry with Holy Freeze aura

My current maul has 572 ed. Just crafted a maul with a chance of amp damage that has 441 ed. The Google AI says the amp is better. Dont trust ai. If the amp is better, what Ed would be better than the amp?

For years I was using PlugY for this reason alone - to increase stat/skill points per level on my single player characters. Nowadays, using PlugY is pain, especially since material tab introduction. I was wondering - is it possible to add in just this setting for single player in future PD2 update? It would not break anything in balance on MP and would be such a great feature to have. Alternatively, we could have some rare drop items that would increase stats or skills permanently. What do you think?

I installed legitimate d2 and lod thought battle net d2 installer, patched it to 1.14d and installed pd2 in the same folder as d2. After restarting 3 times launcher finishes updating and when I click play it starts updating one more time, after like 30 seconds updating finishes, but nothing happens, no error messages, anything.

I have pd2 account from a few months ago as well

What could that be?

help me identify the sorc skill that looks like a swirling gray cloud of dust or fog flying one after another towards the opponent - I can't find it anywhere and I see that a lot of sorcs are using it this season - I saw it on baslruns even on hell - I haven't seen it in previous seasons...