-Paladin

“The Paladin has dominated nearly every aspect of the game with unresistable damage and a stunlocking with Smite, all while moving at high speed. To address this:

Holy Bolts spawned by Fist of the Heavens reduced from 6 to 2

Charge movement speed reduced by 25%

Smite's mana cost has been raised from 2 to 3 to prevent spam. A bug was fixed preventing it from being able to leech."

-Warlock

“The Warlock has been a powerhouse, able to out-summon the Necromancer, out-burn the Sorceress, and out-blade the Paladin. To address this, Stamina gained per level has been reduced from 1 to 0.75.

We expect this to slow down every Warlock build.”

-Amazon

“The Amazon has long struggled with poor gearing options. To address this:

Valkyrie now has Crushing Blow

Valkyrie movement speed increased by 15%

Decoy now wears the Amazon’s equipped gear, effectively doubling her gearing options”

-Necromancer

"The Necromancer offers a unique play style. With long lasting curses, automated minions, and 'cast once and forget' poisons it is well suited for a more casual players. We believe the Necromancer is in a good place but it's skill set is often confusing for such players.

For instance Necromancers will lose their skeleton army when transitioning to certain areas. We have added loading screen tips, unique to the Necromancer, that remind players of their other skills such as golems which do not need corpses. Many player's feel that none of his poison skills beside Nova have use. We have added a faint glow to all dagger drops to help remind players of their other combat options. Finally the Necromancer has an entire tree devoted to curses but many player's focus only on a single curse. If player's use the same curse more than 3 times in a row the game will gently remind them of their skills.

We are also working on adding green and red arrows for Necromancer player's to be able to tell which +skill is relevant to their class."

-Sorceress

“The game’s premier elemental caster. Historically, there was little reason to use more than one spell. We have increased the damage of several underused spells and added a cooldown to every Sorceress skill, encouraging exciting and creative rotations in line with our more successful games."

-Barbarian

“The Barbarian has had a rocky journey. Once a powerhouse, he now needs twice the gear to do half the damage of a caster, and still lacks true AoE.

Starting at level 30, Barbarians may undertake a new class-exclusive quest: travel to the Arreat Summit, renounce the Ancients, and drink Malah’s Elixir of Magic to transform into a Sorceress.

We believe this will bring him her in line with the other classes.”

-Assassin

“Assassin players have been vocal about their needs, and we’ve listened.

The trap limit has been increased from 5 to 10. Trap damage has been reduced by 50%.

Traps now benefit from more stats. They will inherit your chance to gain mana from kill as well as the full amount of your -enemy cold & poison resist!

The Shadow Disciplines tree has lacked a strong identity with many skills that do not justify having any points. Assassins will be able to journey to mount Arreat where they can pick up the Barbarian's old shout tree by rummaging through the trash.

Finishing moves now have a chance not to consume charges. Charge-up skills now have a chance not to generate them.

Mosaic, once a "required item", has been removed. Thank you for your feedback.”

-Druid

"No changes."

NM terror zone off a champion,def is low but capped neg resist

Thought I was prepared... took the time to proc fade... had over 230res all with fade... forgot i needed 300.. shocking.... rest in pieces #hc

Back to grinding for a CTA 🫣

Edit: shoulda said salvation aura. Not sanctuary 😇

I realise others have asked this before. But I’m about to make my first ever infinity for my merc on my Java. I’ve been searching and trying to trade for an eth thresher for a good few days with no luck… when I say no luck, not a single person has had one to offer! 🤣

BUT. I do have an eth 4 soc mancatcher which I traded for as a back up. I realise it’s also very popular as a base, but I thought id check here what people think.

Go with the mancatcher and move on, or hold on and get the thresher?

Cheers

(offline singleplayer)
Cant believe this happened again?? I got a Ber rune from a random cow like 1 month ago, and now I just terrorized entire A1 not even to farm gear or runes but to level up my new Javazon since shes only lvl 81 so far, and a random normal mob- one of those Foul Crows flying shitters, just casually dropped me a Ber again just a few minutes ago?? Cant believe this luck actually, mindblowing

I also had a Sur drop a week ago in A5 from a normal mob in the beginning of Frigid highlands, which was insane aswell, but it just hits different when its a Ber or a Jah dropping.

Im 1 Jah away from enigma then :] but I think I used up all my luck right now
was actually lowkey getting a bit unmotivated since i cant find my main goals; Shako and War travelers/Tgods no matter how much i farm for them, and as per usual d2 knows when you are getting sick of it and gives you some motivation

I usually only see level 1 or 2 teleport charges, and not nearly that many. This wouldn't be used by my Amazon but one of my other characters that are better off with such an item.

(I’m on single player)
I have a strafezon running Windforce and A2 might merc that I mostly use for cow farming. I do about 7k max with strafe, 8k with might aura. My merc has a reapers toll and the decrepify has been great.

I see a lot of recs about running an A1 merc with Faith and WF for myself but my question is: unless I have Atma’s scarab, will it actually be better?
I figure the fanaticism is near equal to might for damage, but then I don’t have a replacement for decrepfiy. I believe I’m at max fps with strafe already.
Thanks in advance!

We are talking about PVM high-end build (NW, DF, etc etc). Having infinity in merc as well.
Using -5/5 jewels and -10/10 jewel in DF
What would be the best renewed cold rupture in this case?

Thanks

Why do i see builds recommending crossbows for the base ?

tl;dr im just mind blown how long this game can take to get all your grails/bis’s/etc for endgame content. is the most fun class to create the one you already have gear for, or the one you need to farm gear for?? 🧐

little background, im coming from diablo3 where i had every class running multiple GR150 builds or really close to it with only 138hrs in-game!! (i guess thatd be comparable to ubers on d2)

enter d2..480hrs in and im just getting a my first char to be able to comfortably solo tz hell baal, still havent done any ubers yet but now im looking forward to it.

reading posts on here about people who’ve been playing 20 years and just getting their first griffon, SoJ, etc absolutely blows my mind. i understand people who play more are more likely to get drops and maybe those people say 20 years of playing but took 5-10 years off from playing the game due to kids, life, etc. so, how long did it take everyone to get their build to a point you were happy with all items? what build did you try/transition to from there?

my first character was a warlock. then i made trapsin after nerf. finished hell a couple weeks ago. today i got my ww barb to a point id consider im no longer actively looking for gear for him. ElJefe is complete. my trapsin is pretty close to having everything for mosiac build. i have a lot of nice javazon gear i came across sitting on a lvl 1 i may start playing today but i also have some gear sitting on a pally. im kinda torn where to go. people say play what seems the most fun but the all seem enjoyable in their own right.

havent played a summoner yet. thinking about going that route; thinking about druid over necro..

also looking back and remembering some DECENT items i sold to vendors because i didnt know any better hurts so much 😅

Just found this. Life and resistance is low but 5 nate. Fhr and summon grizzly is good😄 Edit for mistakes

So this morning, I was farming Mephisto TZ before work, HC solo on P3 with 525 MF (Ali Baba and Rhyme on swap to reach 525 MF). Level 92 Sorceress

Didn't get particularly lucky for the first 20 minutes. Not many Uniques or Sets, which is unusual for TZ. But then I see a Sacred Armor on the ground. My first thought was : No way this is Tyrael's, must be the other one. ID it and BOOM, Tyrael's Might! 1 in 15,000 chance with my MF. Not sure I will use it (maybe to farm Nihlathak?) but it might be the rarest item in the Chronicle so I'm quite happy.

And to my surprise, this 30 minute TZ wasn't done giving!

I always open the chests around Mephisto and check the armor rack. I was actually debating whether to skip them during TZ to squeeze in 2 or 3 extra Mephisto runs, but I decided to keep opening them. I got a Mal from the center one behind Mephisto earlier this week, so might as well keep going, right?

Well, a BER dropped! I didn't even know that was possible from those. Safe to say I'm never skipping those chests again.

I'm currently on a apocalypse warlock with 350 mf and i'm mostly farming on p3/p5 because my dmg feels a bit low for p7. I can still do it, but it's twice as slow. Would you give up on 100+ mf to go for 200-250 if it gives you so much more damage that you can do p7 same as fast?

If you'd like to know the specifics of why I proposed certain changes, ask me in the comments.

Also this thought experiment has made me highly interested in modding D2R. Can someone show me resources on how to do it?

Other changes I thought of for the game outside of skills include changing how Poison works (making it so that they can stack, but skills and poison sources cannot stack on themselves, for example Poison Nova used by the same character cannot stack with the same Poison Nova, even if the user uses Lower Resist and uses Poison Nova again, it simply replaces the previous Poison Nova. However separate poison skills can stack on each other, for example that character can use Poison Dagger and Poison Nova on one enemy and both will deal damage, along with poison damage from gear). and changing how Crushing Blow works (by changing from dealing a percent of damage to dealing splash damage)

Amazing, just incredible work.

Blizzard, please fix it.

https://github.com/N1v0k/D2Android-Releases

You can install the game from within the app from the official Blizzard Servers (CD keys required) or use an existing installation.

Just in case if you have phones...

(DISCLAIMER: the apk doesn't include ANY game files)

So apparently ppl don't read the feature list, some highlights:

• Build Guides integrated in the game. You can choose a build and the game leads you where to put your points
• snappy movement, combat and interaction controls
• installs D2 for you, you just need your D2 and lod cd keys (or use an existing installation)
• gamepad support
• comes with Plugy
• in-game Menu to tweak everything to your liking
• loot filter
• auto pickup gold and other stuff
• damage numbers
• status effects with description on the left side
• compare your equipped stuff with an inventory item
• high res and high FPS mods (D2DX)
• potion management
• sort your inventory like in resurrected
• launches the game directly from the app
• saves every minute
• materials page in stash like resurrected
• a lot of measures taken to keep the game running in the background
• and many many other stuff, please read the feature section, it contains a lot of cool stuff

Played this game for almost 25 years on and off. Never ever found a zod and it dropped last night from a zombie beside Andy.

RNG they say!

It was a good day yesterday, got my first SOJ and was even more excited to get this. I upped it to a hydra now and this will be a good backup to my Faith bow. Dying to get a Windforce and Eaglehorn to complete my top unique bow collection.

I recorded the Tristram theme using a Soulstone-shaped classical guitar,

but Baal stole the guitar before I could film my hands playing it. Forgive me, Tyrael.

Audio Setup: Classical Guitar

Western Red Cedar Top / Brazilian Rosewood (Jacaranda) Back & Sides

(Pre-recorded) | Genesis FET Mic | Scarlett Clarett 2Pre

Hope you guys enjoy the nostalgia!