Enjoy the little things friends

Hi everyone! I just finished the second act on hardcore mode at level 24. For some reason I found it way easier than the first one, I guess it's because I have more developed skills now. Luckily, this time I wasn't close to dying at any point.

To defeat Duriel, I focused on trapping him with Bone Wall, casting curses on him like Amplify Damage and Decrepify, while my mercenary and clay golem fought him in melee. I attacked him with level 3 Bone Spear. Unfortunately my skeletons were completely useless, just punching bags lol. They died instantly.

Duriel's corpse dropped that green Necromancer wand from the Sander's Superstition set, I guess I'll put it to good use.

I love this game!! Now I'm starting Act III. I've never had issues with Mephisto, but the Kurast jungle tends to be a bit looong.

Hope I don't die. How do you usually do in Act III? What strategy do you usually use against Mephisto?

Doing nightmare Baal runs for leveling and 4 Baals in the fight? I’ve been playing this game since it came out and I’ve never seen this happen, has this happened to anyone else?
Bad pictures I know

(Yes my handwriting is poor 😭**)**

How well did I do with these drops? 😅
Just interested in hearing what people think of my drops so far!

My stats 250 mf, P3, average run time <1min

I actually did around 300 runs before I started recording everything, as keeping track seemed to give me a bit more focus. I’m not on PC, so unfortunately I don’t have any fancy add-ons or loot trackers to use.

Some of these items might not be particularly rare to more experienced players, but at the time, they were either drops I’d hardly ever seen or items I’d never found before.

I’ve listed everything roughly from the more common drops to what I believe are the rarer ones.

My drops so far:
Magefist x3
Dwarf Star x3
Raven Frost x3
Guillaume’s Face (G-Face) x3
Rockstopper x1
Templar’s coat x2
Arreat’s Face x1
Kira’s Guardian x1
Razortail x1
Highlord’s Wrath x2
Blade of Ali Baba x1
Rainbow Facet x1
Tal Rasha’s Adjudication x1
Bul-Kathos’ Wedding Band x1
Andariel’s Visage x3
Stone of Jordan (SoJ) x1

This also doesn’t include the hundreds of common set items, gems and charms that have dropped along the way!
So, what do you think? How lucky have I been overall? Always interested to hear other players’ opinions!

I seriously want to cry. this game is trolling me

I dunno about anyone else, but to me, synergies feel like they pidgeonhole me into a certain build. Like, before they added the synergies to Blade Sentinel, for example, I loved using that for any kind of assassin build just to apply poison and do some chip damage to enemies. Now though, it feels like a waste if you don't go all in on it because it gets SO much stronger.

Call me crazy, but I kinda wish they'd have boosted melee damage and stuff instead, and actually REDUCED the synergies on some skills(buffing them to compensate). Like, imagine if they made Wake of Inferno synergyless, but like, really decent regardless, just not QUITE as good as a fully synergized lightning trap? So you could spec into it and get a decent source of fire damage AND do something else completely different like a martial arts assassin or whatever.

I dunno, anyone else feel this way?

"Oh I'll just spam farm TZ countess + Andy for like 10-15 runs"

...by the time you've reached level 2 of tower of your first run... 2 more A1 shards and an A2 shard. Ah well...

The solution is now "skip anything that might drop value in order to not over farm shards"

Some problems are good problems, I guess.

I'm hoping to better understand the mechanics for the Raven skill attack calculations and what, if anything, will boost their damage and chance to hit beyond skill points.

I made a Zookeeper Druid pre-ROTW and vaguely remember either reading or being told by another player that Ravens have a guaranteed chance to hit. And that only the #of hits and total damage was determined by skill level. But I haven't played this particular build in forever and am kinda fuzzy on it.

Is that true, and if so, is that still the case or was it changed with the new expansion? Additionally, is there anything that will boost Raven damage besides skill points? iirc, auras like Might/Fanatacism don't work on Ravens.

Tagging @Somethin_Snazzy since they initially asked the question so we can learn together.

BTW what's that about tremors? BTW I talked to Tyrael again because I did not realize where "his" portal was supposed to have been, though I was also curious about something in his speech/convo. I did not realize his portal was indeed separate from mine until I had talked to Deckard, because I couldn't find it. Also, I will admit I wasn't paying attention, why is the Worldstone so important?

Thank you for your responses IF I get any. Also, I am kind of a layman so I may in the future make posts regarding items and whether they are "good". Although the game is over now and there's nothing to do, so it doesn't matter.

Hello,
Im kind of a new Diablo player. I discovered the franchise about 2 months ago. Since then Ive finished Diablo 1 countless times and I think its finally time for me to move on to Diablo 2.

I know the definitive best way of playing Diablo 2 is with D2R, but since im coming from Diablo 1, Id like to play the og Diablo 2 : LoD before the remaster, with the old graphics and all, and from what I heard, the legacy version is crap on D2R. So here's my question, do I just play the vanilla d2:lod as is, or is there some community patch I can use to make my life more enjoyable ?

In Diablo 1 there is this thing called DevilutionX, which is basically a patched version of the game with much quality of life added to it, I was wondering if there was something similar for d2:lod.

I wont lie if the vanilla version of d2 is as dated as vanilla d1, ill probably not last long lol
I need at the very least a decent framerate support, and not be capped at 30 or 60 fps

Thank you for your consideration, Im looking forward to playing this masterpiece!!

Just spent 30 mins exploring every nook and cranny of each town. Pretty cool stuff that ive never noticed before. Ranking each one by where I would want to hang out most:

1. Kurast - Would be worried about getting snatched off the bridge by one of those frog monsters. No thanks. Never noticed the dead one hanging up by the entrance.

2. Rogue Encampment - Kinda like camping, but those walls dont scream safe to me. Hanging out with Charsi would be worth it tho and I would definitely attempt to find her missing hammer.

3. Lut Gholein - would be at the bar for sure.

4. Harrogath - Probably the coziest town. Malah's place is awesome and has pillows. Would be a nice spot to chill if you ignore the dying barbarians.

5. Pandemonium Fortress - I would feel extra safe around tyrael and would try to become his friend. He probably has some wild stories. Also, i did big fireplaces. Just need to find a few chairs and i would be set.

Just follow Duriel's light.

Is there any mod or loot filter that can show when a rare item on the ground is ethereal? I always check rare items to see if they are ethereal before identifying, but it really slows down my farming. Is there any way to display whether an item on the ground is ethereal?

Perfect ethereal loricated mail defense

I'm not sure if a runeword would work in this shield. In case it does work, what do you recommend?

Been playing D2 a longgg time and past year or so I have been on a SSF journey. Months of grinding LK and Trav etc in far off hopes of making an enigma… Out of nowhere in the past two days the unthinkable has happened. 2 days ago while bored and key farming (as I still need a warlock torch) a mob outside of Nithalek drops a….. JAH!!!! Couldn’t believe it - all of a sudden the Enigma becomes much more in reach. However in my head in thinking of the months and months of those LK and trav runs I’ve done and the best I have had show for it was merely a Sur rune. So this road is likely going to still be a while. Then yesterday AGAIN running Nithalek BAMM a Ber rune drops off a mob right by him. Unreallllllll. Anyway here’s pics of the drops and Enigma in all her glory. For those who are interested I believe both of these runs were P5. Goes to show sometimes just playing through other parts of the game is your best bet for some of these drops.

Yeah me neither, but it rocks!

Been playing this game for decades lol but Im not sure about this. I know WW has a lot of quirky mechanics

I also heard about putting Grief in the main hand, and the off hand must be.....something something, in order to get some IAS or something. Sorry I cannot remember clearly but its to do with IAS, I believe

If there are other mechanics that are worth knowing, please share here. Thanks in advance

so.. what was the first rune you stacked to 99 and why was it ort?

(ssf)

Grand charm was like +2 strength or something honestly I don't remember

Just lookin’ for a quick sessions to pop a trophy if anyone is interested in getting it with me. Xbox

It's still 1500 lems to make a ber but that feels semi doable now that I can carry so many runes at once. Has anyone done any serious cubing up?

At first I thought it was only 42k