Thread 725357458

i'm filtered

just grind

>barb
ya dun goofed

Just play Halls of Torment, zoomie.

>>725357458 (OP)
skip this quest for now and come back later after you get more fire res.

Why would you EVER pick anything other than a Druid? Are you fucking retarded/insane/gay?

solo leveling a barbarian with no gear is horribly painful and slow

>>725357548
>>725357631
>>725357737
game has options

>>725357458 (OP)
>act II sewers
You haven't even hit the real filter yet. Level up.

>>725357458 (OP)
pick a mercenary
while the skeletons instagib your nigga, try to kill some of them
do this until you get better gear

>>725357631
>not using negromancer
y*kes

Holy shit a thread about a game I'm currently playing.
I reached hell with a summonmancer build and shit was fine until anyone touched me, then if I didn't chug a full rejuvenation potion almost immediately my character just fucking died. God forbid I accidentally kill an elemental enchanted elite and I was standing near the death explosion AoE because also, I would just fucking die immediately. Also my mercenary with a might aura feels super fragile, even with maxed out resistances and cannot be frozen.
I switched a whole bunch of magic find gear for actual defensive shit (Except for my magic find breast plate because frankly everything else I've found fucking sucks), and this is what I want to bring to the field now. Am I going to make it?

>>725360295
Seems fine, how have you not found a fucking blue necro shield with +skills though?

>>725357458 (OP)
time to gear grind my guy especially as barb you have to make up for what you lack in gear moreso than other classes.

>>725360295
If you don't have 20/20/20 in Raise Skeleton, Skeleton Mastery, and Summon Resist you done goofed. I personally also max Skeleton Mage but that's just me. You will rely on exactly 2 curses. Amplify Damage, this curse reduces enemy defense to 0.
Decrepify. This curse reduces enemy damage by 50%
You WILL use Corpse Explosion to supplement your damage. You WILL cast Amplify Damage FIRST as CORPSE EXPLOSION = PHYSICAL DAMAGE.
Your Mercenary will be either an Act 1 Mercenary with Inner Sight equipped with Edge (try not to get an cold arrow merc as they will shatter enemies and not leave corpses) OR An Act 2 Mercenary with Might equipped with Fortitude and Obedience.
YOU should be Skill Maxing on gear. You want a wand of +3 Raise Skeleton or Skeleton Mastery, or both and any offhand that gives the same. +2 Skills is also very good.
You will also use the Blood Golem as it restores YOUR life.
YOU WILL ALSO USE REVIVE!!!!
Monsters like Urdar have Crushing Blow. This is useful.

>>725360398
I have a +1 to skills, but being so fragile got me spooked so I switched to something that gave me more balanced resistances. Looking at the skills now though, yeah I am missing out on like 10% damage and life on my skeletons if I switch helmets, that was a bad move.

>>725360687
unironically get a lore helm in any 2 sock helmet.

Diablo 2 was a lot easier than I remember back as a kid

>>725360687
You are completely skill dependent. You should not be getting hit. Sazabi's is fine because it has +1 All Skills.
If that shield is not Spirit you need to replace it with any other off-hand that gives +skill

>>725357458 (OP)
just lure them to the corners

first time I ever played D2 I rolled an Amazon and quit when I got to the cave with all the lightning bugs

>>725360947
It definitely does in Normal. Once you get to Nightmare you should have a golem that you can exploit. You should also have a telestaff by then.

>>725360687
Don't listen to >>725360734 18% light and 19% fire res is better than 30% light res unless you can rearrange your shit. Sazabi's is fine for now.
Get as many +skills as you can and just play like a pussy. Also it's a bit late but you want to buy a staff with teleport charges for your weapon switch so you can stack your minions on top of shit and just generally make your life easier.
>>725360858
>127 str
>spirit

>>725360734
>If you don't have 20/20/20 in Raise Skeleton, Skeleton Mastery, and Summon Resist you done goofed.
Uhhhhhhh. 'bout that.
>>725360858
I know, I'm still wearing ancient's pledge because I've yet to find a four socketed shield. I do have a pretty cool head that's +1 to all but it's ethereal, but yeah fuck it I should be using that.
>>725360947
Duriel was a total BITCH in normal and nightmare so far. Decrepify + clay goyim didn't let him do shit.

newfags here does the remake worth to buy it

>>725361005
You need 156 str to wear a monarch shield which is the least req if you want a spirit shield.
You should just pick up and ID random necro shields instead.

>>725361005
Skill Tree looks fine. Lower Resist is kind of a meme but I respect it. Should have gotten Summon Resist. Golem Mastery can help your Clay Golem a lot. Play into Revive more. You also don't need that many points into Corpse Explosion.

>>725361090
if you like d2 its an easy buy, was for me at least.

>>725361158
i have the og so should i buy again

>>725361090
Solid remaster, some questionable changes but they kept every shitty bugged mechanic intact.
Plays the same.

I'm going to do a rabies druid run

>>725361090
No. The answer is always no

which class is hardest for beginner bara or pala

>>725361112
>bro if you don't make spirit in a monarch then you wasted all those low runes
Listen to yourself.

>>725361267
Barb and it's not even close. Paladin is one of the easiest fucking things to get running, two spirits, lore helm, stealth and you are shitting on everything as a hammerdin.
While everyone has to give up a shitton of vitality to use a spirit shield paladins get it for basically free and it also gives you allres, shit is full retard.

>>725361112
I got two 4 socket armors, at worst I can slap a minus requirements rune with some resistances and replace my magic find chestplate.

>>725361267
barb, paladin is a joke, holy fire will trivialize normal difficulty.

>>725361382
What the fuck are you talking about? What does that have to do with anything I said?
Do you not understand how the game works? 156str is the lowest 4os shield you can get and it's a monarch. It's already a lot of wasted stat points.
>>725361417
Minus requirements only work on the item it's on, not global.

>>725361185
i think its worth it since they updated the game since the og version now with things like sunder charms and terror zones, plus balancing i personally think the game is better now than it ever was definitely worth it imo.

>>725360295
>putting points in dex without going for block
Delete and start over. And why the fuck do you have so much str. 60-80 base is be more than enough.100 if you want to push it.
If you're temporarily struggling for stats, then start picking up large charms. At 2.5 stat/slot they're the best you'll get in that department.

>>725360539
>CORPSE EXPLOSION = PHYSICAL DAMAGE.
Akshually it's 50/50 fire/physical. Amp affects the physical part.

>>725361513
You get 3 respecs from Akara. 1 for each difficulty after clearing the Den of Evil.

>>725361090
It's censored, so no. It's not worth paying for.

>>725361513
The dex was there to use the spirit sword I made in nightmare, calm down nigga I still got two respecs I can use when I make a spirit shield and maybe a heart of the oak if I get lucky with runes and find a flail with the sockets.

>>725361768
Fix your gear and you'll genuinely be walking thru hell like nothing.
Consider going back to A1 Normal and shopping a +3 Raise Skeleton Wand. The hardest part is the Necro Trophy because you can't gamble them and no vendor sells them. You have to find them in the wild. That being said you should always tap weapon racks as they can drop every type of weapon for that specific area's treasure class.

Treasure Class is something we won't get into.

>>725361215
>>725361241
>>725361661
What's bad about the remaster? Didn't they just add QOL shit and changed the graphics?

>>725361886
And armor racks. Talking up trophies and completely missed the AND ARMOR RACKS part. Trophies are technically shields.

>>725360295
>>725360687
>>725361005
you should destroy everything with corpse explosion and amp damage
clay golem to tank
skellies also

get a wand that has +x to necro skills or just build a spirit both in weapon and shield
https://diablo2.io/runewords/spirit-t3.html
>you need monarch for your 4slot shield
then get a necro shield that has +x to skills

this one for your helm
https://diablo2.io/runewords/lore-t1188.html

you can make a stealth armor then a smoke
https://diablo2.io/runewords/stealth-t1196.html
https://diablo2.io/runewords/smoke-t1195.html

you should be able to beat the entire game with this

>>725357458 (OP)
wtf just click the enemies.

>>725361893
Like I said gameplay is the same but they added some new stuff you either like or you don't like sunder charms.
It's still D2 and there is no reason to play the original really.

>>725362028
He can't reach them in time. They are shooting him with fire arrows and as he flinches they rattle away.

>>725361768
>The dex was there to use the spirit sword
A crystal sword is the lowest req 4sock you can get, and it doesn't require nearly that much dex. Just pick up any white crystal sword in nightmare and cube socket it.

inb4
>cube socket?
https://htmlpreview.github.io/?https://github.com/Michaelangel007/d2_cheat_sheet/blob/master/index.html

>>725361893
It's purists being absolutely retarded. The only bad thing is that some of the character models are too different from the original. Like the amazonian face and outfit etc. Everything else is the same and better in the remaster.

Of course and the dumb mosaic runeword. It has a lot of qol improvements

>>725357458 (OP)
Yeah Barbarian fucking blows. Diablo-clones have an 80% chance of being intolerable dogshit if you go with their melee class, just take the estrogen and be an archer or mage or whatever.

bro does diablo 4 good

>>725361893
They trannified most of the females and censored dialogue. If you think that's okay, then you are the reason games are full of niggers and trannies now.

There's also the sunder charm, which was only introduced because bads were too retarded to come up with builds that had more than one damage type.

>>725362374
It's pretty much the same as Diablo 3, you play it for a week or two every season start and then drop it.

>>725361893
don't mind the dude seething at the remaster, he's in every thread seething about it

>>725362374
It’s the best in the series.

Barb is the worst class in d2 by alot and completely useless unless you have good gear. Only roll a barb once you've farmed all the nessesary gear or you're going to have a really bad time.

yoo which build and gear is good for nerco

>>725362813
I mean if he can double swing his way into nightmare, grab two spirit swords and then respect to singer barb it's manageable.
>>725362862
I'd personally play a bone necro but summoner is more straightforward.

I also need a tip on beating Hell with Sorc, solo with Plugy
Shit is tough on its own, but I've managed to cheese everything up to Baal throne room and is currently hard stuck at magic immune summons.
I guess that's where my merc should kick in, but he gets hist shit kicked instead. Even with unlimited shared stash and many hours of grinding I can't come up with a better set for him.
https://maxroll.gg/d2/d2planner/qcdfa0az
Please ignore the char name she's from 2010

>>725357631
Why Druid, he is like the most mid class.
S - Assassin, Sorceress
A - Paladin
B - Druid, Necro, Amazon
C - Barbarian

>>725363176
Token furry character. You can be a wolf OR a bear, how cool is that?

>requires account even for offline
>biggest stash
>longer range teleport
Any other notable changes in remaster?

>>725363209
yiff in hell

>>725362951
Just Blizzard the mummies down so they can't revive and then slowly kill the skellies.
Since you are running both cold and fire you won't be really doing any damage but it shouldn't stop you.
Also just pull the last wave out of the throne room and teleport past them, don't even bother.

damn everyone in here really hate barbarian class i thought you guy are hardcore

>>725362404
>They trannified most of the females
>falling for 4chan shitposts
Amazon looks fine, they fixed her years ago.
>>725362951
>hard stuck at magic immune summons
The fuck you mean?
Fire isn't magic, Cold isn't magic, Lightning isn't magic.
>>725363228
Actually pleasant to look at.
60 fps instead of stutter mess that is 25.

>>725363228
Pathfinding Deadzones. Certain areas that your character cannot reach are not even attempted and your character will dead stop. It's really noticeable in the Durance of Hate. LoD would attempt pathfinding, even if you ran into an endless circle. D2R doesn't even make the attempt. It just decides "you cannot walk there so I will simply stop."

>>725362951
>chanceguards
>peasant crown
>random rare orb instead of spirit or a wiz spike
Consider fixing your own gear first. Then get your freeze merc a shaftstop, vamp gaze/crown of thieves and whatever high damage/leech weapon you can get your hands on. A 4 socket armor with 4 sol runes also works, but not as good.

Pull them one by one and spam telekineses to stunlock while your merc kills them.

>>725363176
Bullshit. Awful ranking list.

>>725363308
People conflating "Magic Damage" with "Elemental Damage" is pretty understandable, especially when it is never really explained outside of Unique Enemy tags.
For example Bone Spear is Magical Damage. Not fire, cold, lightning, poison, OR physical.

>>725363347
derp disregard bottom line, it's for 5th wave

>>725363361
>Assassin
Traps is braindead easy leveling, in endgame Mosaic unlocks the most broken build in the game.
>Sorceress
Teleport. Blizzard. Classic speedrun and magic find character.
>Paladin
Hammers kill everything but are annoying, FotH is good for AoE grinding, easiest uber farmer. Safe with shield but can be slow.
>Druid
Decent overall but no outstanding builds.
>Necro
Summons are cool but slow, bones and poison aren't that strong.
>Amazon
Lightning Fury is the only outstanding build, but you are mostly locked to running cows.
>Barbarian
Too gear dependant, only gets strong when you gear him up with other character.

This bad boy right here will take you to hell and half way thru. Guaranteed.

>>725363743
lol oops, I meant this bad boy right here.

>>725357458 (OP)
>barbarian
yeah dude d2 hates any melee class

>>725360987
Hell is the one that filters me. Some Hell sections are straight impossible for some builds without being blinged out in runewords.

>>725360295
ok dude a quick tip for ALL DIABLO BUILDS, just put stat points to wear the items your need and then just dump everything into vit, i am not kidding this is the build for every single character

>>725363705
>Doubles down
Didn't read. Might report for spamming idk, maybe if I'm feelin' cute.

>>725363887
Skipping shit is always an option.

>>725363887
Want to know what was written in Lam Esen's Tome? "You Don't Have To Kill Every Pack."

>>725363743
>que-hegan
Incredibly underrated. Upgraded with shael was BiS for tank nova.

>>725364006
It is a great midpoint between Stealth and Enigma.

>reach the maggot lair
>im playing bonemancer

>>725364128
POV: Germans want THIS banned by the Pope

>>725363894
AKSHULLY es sorcs stack energy, bowas stack dex and barbs (can) stack str

>>725364085
>Enigma
Anon, what class has nova? Hint: It's the one that doesn't need enigma.
If you're actually focusing on armor, it beats the shit out of vipermagi. Both in terms of defense and hitting the 37% fhr breakpoint with a single slot.

>>725363928
How do you skip shit in Maggot Lair without teleport?

>>725364239
You can just buy a staff with teleport charges. Earliest you can buy it is normal act3, and the easiest way to do it is to be under level 24 because that's the level requirement for it so you only have to look at the red/unusable staves.

>>725364237
I meant in general. Engima is also really good on almost any class since it sports +2 all skills.

>>725364239
Teleport Staff. Drognan sells them.

>>725363915
If you can't even elaborate then why would your opinion matter?

>>725364178
>es sorcs stack energy,
Factually untrue. Every ES tank sorc I made back in the day had base energy. Between harle, sojs, frostburn, wizardspike and BO, you get more than enough mana to sustain even without telekinesis synergy.

>>725364369
Post the same thing again. See what happens.

>>725364375
>cucking your damage with a wizarsdpike
yike

>>725364375
>calling it harle
>unironically using wizzy
What the fuck am I reading? Then again I wouldn't run ES in the first place.

>>725363176
I find assa super fun but definitely not S tier.

>>725364563
>cucking your damage by being dead or being so fragile you have to nibble away at the edges of a screenful of mobs
yikes

>>725364616
Your loss. With 35+ ES, 45% phys reduce and max block you effectively run something like 90% total damage reduction. Which can be further augmented with silly high armor and the occasional frost nova usage.
Granted, you have to invest in it before it pays off, but back when cows was the goto leveling place you could gather the entire level in one spot and my sorc would be able to afk in the middle forever. Not that it was needed, because static field and nova would kill every pack in 3 secs or less, regardless of size.

>>725364443
Ok retardino

>>725365057
Go ahead, say something racist.

>>725364994
>back when cows was the goto leveling place
>classic
Carry on.

>>725365115
lmao, what's your problem?

>>725365115
NIGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG

>>725365147
>i have never actually played d2, i'm just arguing for the attention
Cows were also perfectly fine during several patches of LoD. Especially when you cleared it solo in baalruns before the noobs were done with 5th wave.

>>725365147
Classic energy shield was great, before they ruined it with synergies... Man, telekinesis was great, why did they ruin the game?

>>725365115
something racist, nigger

>>725365316
>doing something else solo until you can get Baal xp
Absolutely groundbreaking tech right there.
I forgot more about the game than you will ever know, settle down.

>>725365441
>lvl 35+ skills
>% phys reduce
>max block
>in classic
It's okay anon, you outed yourself as an attentionwhore. Better luck next time.

>>725364994
>silly high armor
nigger the only cases where armor makes sense is barbs and palas, going from 1k armor to 5k armor is something like a 2% less chance of a hell fallen hitting you

>>725365115
>least obvious staff impersonating jeet

>>725365557
Well, better than outing yourself not knowing anything about the game.
I only played HC and I'd never run ES. Killing things fast and good positioning is far safer than wasting a single point in dex.

>>725365364
synergies and high level runes/runewords were the biggest mistakes
I'm also surprised they didn't do more with crafting items

>>725365695
Synergies would be fun if they added new properties to skills instead of just pumping up damage. Like your Skeleton Mages could cast some curses on their own if you gave them specific synergy, or allowing curse stacking if you invested points into curses. Paladin holy bolts actually damaging beasts if you spent extra points into some side skill. Summoning Hydras of different elements if you spend points into specific cold/lightning skills. But back in the day the design of skills was way more straightforward than it is nowadays.
High level runewords could be balanced by buffing some of the rare highend uniques. Give Tyrael's Might or other endgame armor +3 to all skills, make Mirrored Boots unique with Teleport to be an alternative to Enigma (but 163 strength), and such. Nerf Spirit shield to +1 all skills and actually introduce an unique shield worth a crap.

>outs himself as a poser, thinking LoD-only stuff was in classic
>keeps doubling down regardless
I'm not dignifying your attempt to salvage the (You)farm with a (You). Your concession has already been archived.
You didn't play the game, let alone HC. I did though. With my tank sorc, because the build was literally designed to be fucking unkillable and still have good clear speed. The only one I couldn't keep up with in cows was a multishot ama with 1.08 dupes, hacked gear and a fanapala bot in tow. Toodles.

>>725365593
That's why you itemize properly, use a defiance merc and max shiver armor so you end up around 18k armor.

>>725365115
This pretend-retarrditor nigger jeet is actually seething, embarrassing to even look at lolmao

>>725366303
>stormshield isn't worth using
You could've started with that so I would know not to bother with the rest.

>>725366649
Not a caster shield, the point is to have something that can compete with Spirit where the highest rune is Amn. And Stormshield is like the only elite shield that anyone ever bothers using, the rest is dogshit. Most builds don't bother with it anyway.

Synergies helped the game, but not by much.
Runewords fuck early game by making most items completely fucking useless outside of a few unique items. Lore and Stealth can almost carry you to Hell by themselves.

>>725367026
The purpose of a shield is to keep you safe, otherwise it's just a glorified stat stick akin to a necro head. I'd argue making spirit available in shields was a thematical mistake on that ground. That aside, I agree the caster centric shield selection is paltry.
Whitstans guard is good on a budget though, with it's minimal reqs both to wear and hit max block.

>>725367509
Necro Trophy would be cool on other classes.
Imagine if Sorceresses had an off-hand ORB.

>>725367509
>The purpose of a shield is to keep you safe
55% FHR
22 vitality
35% poison/cold/lightning resist
small magic absorb for what it's worth
2 all skills buffing any defensive skills you are using
Even on that front Spirit is obscene, that's the stupid part.
Something like Lidless Wall is an actual caster only item that has very little defensive stuff on it, but still can't compare to Spirit when it comes to being a stat stick, with the only benefit being very low strength requirement.

>>725367509
Fighting is about creativity. Use your shield for offense and sword for defense!

>>725368076
>average smitadin mindset
>you're holding it wrong
>NO YOU ARE

i just finished grim dawn campaign ama

>>725368696
How many dicks are you sucking right now?

shields actually make you weaker defensively in a lot of situations. the block animation is slow and you can get stunlocked and ganked by groups of enemies, espeically ranged ones. the exception to this rule is paladins because when holy shield is up they have a special very fast block animation. ironically shields should be used only if they have good offensive stats most of the time.

enigma is also good for some sorc builds as it provides an incredible amount of strength and lets them avoid using a point on tele. run speed is fun too.

>>725366498
18k still isnt shit lol

>>725368845
FRW is goated and people who say otherwise are dependent on teleport.

>>725363347
None of the items you listed are available for me. Apart from spirit for main hand; I actually missed it is not shields only. But even then, it is barely an upgrade over what I have. Mind recommending something less rare?

>>725363308
>Fire isn't magic, Cold isn't magic, Lightning isn't magic.
OK maybe I am retarded, I tried it only once and remember their health bars not going down. Maybe I was doing way little damage then.

>>725363283
>Since you are running both cold and fire you won't be really doing any damage
Is it possible to run single element builds in solo? Or any other tips for increasing my damage, clearing mob packs is such a slog

>>725369040
>Is it possible to run single element builds in solo
It is, but you need a solid merc. The easiest gear I can think of is a reaper's toll, treachery armor and whatever helm with leech. I can't actually remember if you need to slap ias into either the weapon or the helm to reach the jab breakpoint with this setup but it's pretty solid.
It's usually what I ran on my blizz sorcs and I could clear everything in the game.

>>725369040
>None of the items
They can all drop from nightmare meph. If you're in hell act 5, then they are available to you. Find a good map seed and plow him until your merc is geared. The Unique Yari is a decent merc weapon with some amn runes, but more damage is more good.
As for your own gear, consider switching gloves to frostburn or magefist (if you need the cast, check the github link). Harle is a hell drop

>retarded
Magic is an element in d2, just like fire, cold, lightning, poison and physical. It's bone spells, blessed hammer, berserk and I think FoH/holy bolt is (partially) Magic.

>single element
Yes, but also no. You need a strong merc or a sunder charm. Frozen Orb/Meteor and merc was a viable solo specc when I played.

>>725369000
my current favorite build is a foh pally which runs enigma and vigor aura 90% of the time so he runs fast as fuck. it's fun as heck

>>725369701
Why would you ever run when you have teleport?

>>725369784
Sometimes it's fun to teleport, sometimes it's fun to run so fast the mobs don't even have time to react to you. Fast as fuck, boy.

>>725369040
The only magic immunes before Baal are Unraveleres (2nd wave), they also have 66% fire/cold/lightning resist so pretty beefy. Can heal each other too I think. Their skeleton ads are cold immune and I don't remember if you can break their immunity, either way a wand with Lower Resist on swap is something you could invest into. Curse Unravelers, Blizzard them, let the merc kill the skeletons. Give him Hearth helm (runeword) for cannot be frozen for those.

>>725369784
i use teleport to cover large distances then stutter step spamming fohs through groups of enemies

>>725360947
>>725360987

you only have to use your merc + curses + ce, nothing else is needed

>>725363176
>Paladin
>Not S tier
>Necro
>Not S tier
Nigger?

>>725369701
>>725369834
You don't even need to bother with Vigor when you can just use Charge as a pally between packs (if no Enigma). Redemption aura is the goat for that build, as long as there are corpses around you can spam FoH and run around with Charge, and you will still have topped mana. I never even bother with lightning damage of FoH and Conviction because it's totally negligible amount of damage, better invest spare points into higher Redemption if you feel like it, Fanaticism so you can run Ubers without respeccing.

>>725368696
how do i not fall asleep while playing it

>>725363308
>Actually pleasant to look at.

>>725363308
> stuttery mess
the wrapper to fix the stutter on modern machines is a single dll you can literally find on blizzard's forums that's explicitly whitelisted for online play

>>725370137
foh only really has one meaningful synergy so you have a shitload of points to do whatever weird hybrid build you want. my excuse for using vigor is that my build is a hammerdin hybrid for the non demon/undeads so i have to put 20 points in it anyway, might as well go fast. you can also make your weapon swap a straight up smiter build to farm baal. i did that before i made a cta.
>>725370812
i don't like the updated character models either but generally they are 20 pixels tall on the screen and you can't see their weird faces. the enviornmental art is good enough that i have forgotten which version of the graphics i'm playing on a few times.

There is gonna be a new season of Project Diablo 2 soon.

>>725369697
>If you're in hell act 5, then they are available to you
As in "won't drop for the life of me". Never seen a single SoJ drop, and it is supposed to be vendored en masses on a daily basis? But hey, I've got a Ber recently from trash in the room next to countess.
>sunder charm
sir this is Wendy's (LoD)

>>725369846
>Unraveleres (2nd wave)
Yep these are the ones. Thanks, will give them another try then

>>725357853
>Options you say?

>>725362813
>Barb is the worst class in d2 by alot and completely useless unless you have good gear
You can easily clear hell and farm whatever you want with a Singer Barb. Don't even need good gear to do it, just basic bull shit like spirit that you can easily get while leveing and clearing the game.
It's not the fastest at clearing but it's super safe and can basically do anything.

>>725371228
It's just a matter of persistence. As for soj, farm nm andariel instead. And you only need to vendor one to spawn uberdiable in singleplayer.

>Wendy's
You're using plugy. I'm not sure if that, or some other mod, enables sunder charms. But it's a moot point, since you're not even remotely close to where they can drop.

>>725371542
>It's not the fastest at clearing
Precisely what makes barb worse than other classes.

>>725371687
Yeah but its more fun then rolling my millionth blizz sorc or hammerdin.

>>725371228
>Never seen a single SoJ drop, and it is supposed to be vendored en masses on a daily basis?
when they added that event there were a trillion sojs floating around in everyone's inventory so it made sense at the time.
>>725371687
they're pretty good at farming trav

>>725372048
Sure, but you aren't farming trav with barb on your second day of the season, you have to get geared up first. And even if we consider solo play, it will just take way, way longer to get anywhere with the barb. Remember you can clear the game with fucking Poison Dagger if you want to, but the ranking will tell you how much of a headache it is to play every character or build.

>>725370812
>Holy shit, the characters look strange when seen from the front in this 100% isometric top-down hack and slash game where my eyes are focused on enemies all the time!
>And they are shown in a menu I will spend 30 seconds looking at and will never see it again!
such a retarded nitpick

>>725370812
>Going to cut myself off from what I always wanted because of the menu screen
Hilarious

Fuck it I'm farming the countess to get an um rune so I can make bone. Yeah it'll probably take me a while but I want stronger skeletons now.

>>725371069
>>725372842
>>725373468
literally coping and seething

How do you struggle at players /1 or default softcore non-ladder?

Almost all builds are viable with that gamemode

>>725373821
Better do some Normal Tomb runs to get the chippies necessary for upping runes that far.

>>725357458 (OP)
Why?

>>725376217
easy to say when you know everything about the game, retardo man

>>725371069
They're still worse, so why would you pay for that? They also toned down the gore and removed any female dead bodies from Andariel's pool.

Who thought that the immunity shit is a good idea?
>Just play one of very few builds for which it's not an issue
>Just open boxes in lower kurast for 100 hours (this is not an exaggeration) until you will be able to make a mercenary stick that shreds immunities
I've completed the game on hell only once, with a sorc that had 2 different elements and I still had to skip whole locations.
When poe devs were copying the whole diablo 2 formula, they were right to completely drop this shit, resulting game lost nothing without it.

>>725380968
Because it's 0.1% of things you pay attention to when you actually play the game and farm shit for days, D2R just plays better in the long run because it's up to date, original D2 is ass to run on newer systems without mods and shit.

>>725380992
Diablo 2 only got that like 3-4 years afterward

>>725381310
Original d2 runs just fine. I never had any issues on any modern systems. It doesn't play "better" because it plays exactly the same.

>>725380992
The idea was to make hell harder and promote grouping (if you can't kill something, someone else will). Making different builds farm different areas instead of everyone flocking to the same best one is also an interesting outcome.

Thoughts on 1.09?

>>725381670
So I understand I can play original D2 in widescreen 60fps out of the box without mods?

What are some good ARPGs if I like Diablo 1 and 2? I don't care about the loot treadmill too much but going through dungeons is fun.

>>725382227
The game still plays the same whether it's at 800x600 or 4k

>>725380992
>Just open boxes in lower kurast for 100 hours (this is not an exaggeration)

Diablo 2 probably has some of the most abusive and immoral game design I've ever seen. Does not surprise me that Blizzard was full of sexpests and rapists.

>>725357458 (OP)
have you learned your lesson about trying to play melee in an arpg

>>725357458 (OP)
>not playing the original
Yep, you are filtered.

>>725382434
Barbarian was really fucking good in older patches

>>725361090
Is Resurrected pirateable yet?

>>725382434
Champion's of Norrath must have done the math wrong because I played a female dark elf who used two handed weapons.

>>725382381
So can I play widescreen 60fps or not? Quick cast skillbinds in D2R are also a better way to control your character. Charge skill alone also feels different between the two. And so on.

>>725382595
Yes.

>>725357458 (OP)
Decided to install it since the last time i played was maybe 20 years ago.
Realised necro is kinda ass and seems like can't do anything until level up a lot and pretty much everyone online says that you use corpse explosion forever. It's so over...Maybe i'll try amazon or sorc.

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>>725382775
It has been said many times in this very thread.
Find a +3 Skeleton Wand
Find a +Necro Skill Trophy
Stealth
Lore
Go to Hell
Start farming good stuff. Find a 2os Wand and make some Whites. Dol and Io are probably kings of the Low Runes.