Thread 3783119 - /vrpg/ [Archived: 419 hours ago]

Anonymous
6/15/2025, 11:50:11 PM No.3783119
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I haven't played Diablo 2 in a long time and I'm itching to play it again, the game is due to a sale soon. Is the Resurrected multiplayer actually active?

>Just play Path of Dia-
Didn't care for it, I'll admit it does a lot of things right but I didn't really like it much. Too many modern HnS design aspects in a game that wasn't designed for it.
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Anonymous
6/16/2025, 12:26:37 AM No.3783129
>>3783119 (OP)
Its pretty active. Not hayday of d2 active but enough youll find games for whatever level range or quest youre looking for. cant speak about pvp
Anonymous
6/16/2025, 2:03:21 AM No.3783177
I almost want to get the remaster, but they, like many modders, couldn't stay in their lane and leave things ago, and began changing things and altering the balance and adding unwanted "features", which rubs me the wrong way. Ends up being "what they thought the game should've been instead".
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Anonymous
6/16/2025, 2:04:22 AM No.3783178
>>3783177
>ago
alone*
Anonymous
6/16/2025, 2:46:21 AM No.3783193
>>3783177
Get it dude. It's so good. I played when I was 14. Over two decades ago. It still brings you back. It's nice. It's also a bit sad and scary because the feelings. :(
Anonymous
6/16/2025, 6:48:18 AM No.3783274
>>3783119 (OP)
i just started playing classic diablo 2. where does one even go to find guides on this game? all i see is guides for resurrected regardless of what i google.
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Anonymous
6/16/2025, 7:21:31 AM No.3783282
>>3783274
>i just started playing classic diablo 2. where does one even go to find guides on this game?
There was an old site dating back to the beta, diabloii.net, it's dead now.
Try GameFAQs
Arreat Summit was always solid for good info
https://classic.battle.net/diablo2exp/
d2 JSP also
>all i see is guides for resurrected regardless of what i google.
I hate this shit.
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Anonymous
6/16/2025, 7:22:06 AM No.3783283
>>3783274
I believe the changes in the remake are pretty minor, mostly a handful of new lategame items and some balance changes for skills. You should be good to use a remake guide when playing through classic

I recommend the PlugY mod for classic as well. Among other things, it lets you respec any time so you can experiment with your build and find what feels fun to play. It can optimally also give you a bigger stash and some other qol features
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Anonymous
6/16/2025, 7:26:00 AM No.3783284
>>3783282
>>3783283
thank you very much, ill try PlugY and fuck around instead of looking for guides
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Anonymous
6/16/2025, 7:32:25 AM No.3783285
>>3783283
>>3783284
PlugY is extremely based. Imo the definitive d2 experience. Play single player and throw on /players 8 if you're feeling saucy.
Anonymous
6/16/2025, 7:37:36 AM No.3783288
>>3783284
This is a good way to go about it. The biggest drawback to Diablo II was not being able to respec. Even the remaster you can only do it once, or once per difficulty, I forgot exactly. They did add more to the stash though. Honestly I don't get what people dislike about the remaster. You also get new content, uber bosses.
Anonymous
6/16/2025, 7:40:02 AM No.3783289
>>3783283
at least one balance change isn't all that minor, desu - poison creeper got buffed out the wazoo and can carry a single player druid through to at least the last act of nightmare with no other help or even any input from the player aside from navigation.
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Anonymous
6/16/2025, 8:13:46 AM No.3783303
>>3783289
Can that same build be used to kill all end-game content though?
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Anonymous
6/16/2025, 8:15:57 AM No.3783304
>>3783303
probably not, but it'll carry you long enough with no effort on your part that you'll have all the skill points for an endgame build just waiting for a respec
Anonymous
6/18/2025, 1:14:50 AM No.3784439
Only ever played FATE (way back in the day) and torchlight 2 (more recently) so I decided to play diablo 2 since I see it mentioned as being the best in the genre so often.
I kinda didn't like it. Why is the inventory so dickishly small? Why can I only bind keys to swap to abilities rather than bind a key to cast them directly? Why do I have to click every tiny pile of gold individually to pick them up, when there's no situation I wouldn't want to pick up gold automatically? Why are there items with literal one in a million drop rates?
I knew an older game wasn't going to have all the QoL features that newer ones do, but the game just felt tedious to play a lot of the time.
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Anonymous
6/18/2025, 1:22:37 AM No.3784442
>that guy in the background saying just play grim dawn
it me
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Anonymous
6/18/2025, 1:27:13 AM No.3784445
>>3784442
Played it years ago, it just felt like it was begging for AOE spam and throwing swarms of trash at me, and the dungeons were just way too fucking big making them a slog and not any fun.

I really don't like modern HnS games, they just feel so padded.
Anonymous
6/18/2025, 2:34:22 AM No.3784467
I'm interested in the upcoming Median XL update, last couple haven't impressed me, hopefully they can bring the mod back to form.
Anonymous
6/18/2025, 3:25:36 AM No.3784484
>>3783177
Then it's true to Diablo 2. Vanilla D2 is different from when LoD came onto the scene, and vanilla LoD is different from 1.10. The only thing I disagree with is the rune word Mosaic.
Anonymous
6/18/2025, 5:05:40 AM No.3784511
>>3784439
>Why can I only bind keys to swap to abilities rather than bind a key to cast them directly? Why do I have to click every tiny pile of gold individually to pick them up
I believe these are fixed in resurrected, but you gotta remember it's not a case of "not having QOL", but more "They literally didn't consider it a problem at the time".
Anonymous
6/18/2025, 10:21:12 AM No.3784587
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>>3783119 (OP)
Hey OP, it's on sale.
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Anonymous
6/18/2025, 11:44:15 AM No.3784608
>>3784587
>Want to buy it
>don't want to give activision a single cent
Guess I'll just think fondly of it.
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Anonymous
6/19/2025, 11:08:33 PM No.3785756
New ladder season in 2 hours. What are you playing? Ima start bowazon for the first time, never played it but it should be fun
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Anonymous
6/19/2025, 11:29:41 PM No.3785794
>>3785756
Wanna team up? Not sure what I'd play but I'd be down. How often you play?
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Anonymous
6/20/2025, 4:52:35 AM No.3786065
>>3785756
>Ima start bowazon for the first time
I did this and I put three tal runes on a three socket bow I found in act 1. That shit carried me well into nightmare.
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Anonymous
6/20/2025, 4:56:25 AM No.3786066
>>3784608
just pirate it
Anonymous
6/21/2025, 1:30:25 AM No.3787300
>>3785794
I will play pretty slowly so teaming aint the best thing at start. And I was retard, it starts in 30mins
>>3786065
Yeah, was also thinking that, Countess drops them quite often and level requirement isnt a problem since stealth and lore carry pretty hard. Should be fun to give it a go
Anonymous
6/21/2025, 1:34:57 AM No.3787307
>>3784608
Pirate it and play offline. It makes you play offline if you want to use mods anyway.
Anonymous
6/21/2025, 3:21:28 AM No.3787431
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What the fuck have they done to unique droprates? 2 uniques and just killed countess, got first unique from underground passage and this on the way to countess in tower
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Anonymous
6/21/2025, 4:09:50 AM No.3787463
>>3787431
You're just lucky, I once found the pelta lunata under a rock.
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Anonymous
6/21/2025, 4:13:18 AM No.3787465
>>3787463
Yea, thats the other unique i got, and just now i got nagelring from countess
Anonymous
6/22/2025, 1:16:11 AM No.3788319
>>3787463
I mean yeah, im insanely lucky. Just finished normal Diablo and he dropped me Stone of Jordan
Anonymous
6/22/2025, 11:27:59 PM No.3788995
Did Diablo 3 ever have a redemption arc? I know it was really divisive on release.
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Anonymous
6/23/2025, 3:10:50 AM No.3789137
>>3788995
No matter what people try to fool you into believing, D3 always sucked and will always suck since it's designed around damage sponges on lategame.
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Anonymous
6/23/2025, 5:03:29 AM No.3789209
>>3789137
Fuuuuck, D2 had plenty of that bullshit.
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Anonymous
6/23/2025, 5:54:36 AM No.3789233
>>3783177
They don't have a lane you stupid fuck. Stop expecting people to stay in something they have no reason to.
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Anonymous
6/23/2025, 6:15:43 AM No.3789241
>>3789233
>t. can't stay in his lane
Anonymous
6/23/2025, 7:39:34 AM No.3789268
>>3788995
Yes, they made it good. Play it with the expansion.
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Anonymous
6/23/2025, 6:14:46 PM No.3789505
>>3789268
Both of them?
Anonymous
6/23/2025, 6:34:42 PM No.3789514
>>3788995
It's probably the most vapid ARPG out there. It's just collect a set and grind rifts.
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Anonymous
6/24/2025, 12:36:00 PM No.3790179
>>3789209
Thats mostly from the synergy patch.
Anonymous
6/24/2025, 4:44:35 PM No.3790273
>>3789514
I'm playing D4 and it might be even worst than D3. D4 has a good look overall, like when I'm deep in a dungeon and it's dark, and lifeless, imo it looks good. But that's basically where compliments end. I don't even pick up anything less than yellow, and I'm only just finishing act 1. Everything is game-ifeid. Everything is some bull shit system that builds on itself. It's like the entire game is just a set up for grinding in the end game.

I don't know what half the features on my weapons even mean and you can click on anything to know. Leveling skills feel lifeless and boring. Combat is a mix of facerolling or being face rolled. There's no real balance. Everything feels the same. Even enemy variety, its all very samey feeling so far.

The story is shitty, it's all hack religious talk. There's no actual religious messages or anything just a bunch of people saying "The father. The mother. blah blah blah." It's dumb. It's a dumb game made by dumb people and I'm burned out after act 1.

D3 had some shitty writing, but the overall game play was alright. I never gave a fuck about late game, I sold a weapon for 65 dollars and quit. But at least I made it to the end of the game. D4 is so fucking boring. Combat feels so bad and clunky. Like a mobile phone game or something. D2 was so enjoyable killing pack after pack. Also in d4 I never get excited for a weapon because every weapon is labeled something epic. So it all feels exactly the same. There's no getting excited because it's all the same thing. "Liliths Dagger of Envy!" And it'll be like 5 attack points. Even the fucking tumors you hit, that don't hit back, will be named something like "Tumor of Hate" What is hateful about this tumor? lmfao, it's fucking dumb.
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Anonymous
6/25/2025, 12:23:27 AM No.3790560
>>3790273
>Even the fucking tumors you hit, that don't hit back, will be named something like "Tumor of Hate" What is hateful about this tumor? lmfao, it's fucking dumb.

Yeah there's so much edgelord faggotry in Diablo in general. The names of everything try to be cool or badass sounding but everything does it and it just feels contrived and dull. It's a shame because D2 was fucking phenomenal back in the day. I actually enjoyed D3 a lot too, but I won't be touching 4.
Anonymous
6/25/2025, 5:29:35 PM No.3790975
>>3787463
And now I got Griffon's Eye. Too bad I don't plan on playing anything lightning based
Anonymous
6/25/2025, 6:59:54 PM No.3791008
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Anonymous
6/29/2025, 8:34:51 PM No.3793338
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>>3783119 (OP)
>can never play pally because its a nigger
>barb is too boring
>necro is too gamey

i liked the proper crusader they put in d3, probably the only good thing they did in that entire game

but the question is what would i play if i got resurrected?
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Anonymous
6/29/2025, 11:20:55 PM No.3793424
>>3793338
Poorly.
Anonymous
6/30/2025, 5:51:16 AM No.3793642
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>>3784442
Grim Dawn plays well enough, but the writing is utterly atrocious. They had a great opportunity with the Aetherials and completely sidetracked it with generic blood cult abominations instead.
Case in point: they had to make an entire Aetherial themed DLC because they forgot those guys were supposed to be the villains. Also, the chef being a secret super soldier spy who never does anything and needs to be constantly saved by you was amateur writing.
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Anonymous
7/1/2025, 11:29:59 PM No.3794620
I heard something about a mod that makes diablo1 really good, but I forgot the name of it.
Anonymous
7/2/2025, 12:10:26 AM No.3794629
>>3793642
>Also, the chef being a secret super soldier spy
He isn't just a former spy. He's a one of the godly constellations. How is this amateur writing when it's such a cool way to glaze the player character?
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Anonymous
7/2/2025, 12:12:39 AM No.3794630
>>3793642
I disagree.
>https://forums.crateentertainment.com/t/grim-dawn-lore-notes-pdf-and-ebook-epub-new-update-1-1-9-0/50203
Anonymous
7/2/2025, 2:50:03 AM No.3794684
Totally brand new to ARPG's and picked up Grim Dawn today after playing a copy of Diablo 3 on PS4 for a few hours and searching for a decent PC ARPG.

Was probably one of the best first-hour of a game experience i've had, did a lot of things right. But damn I can never really shake off the feeling that i'm "wasting my time" playing a single player game, wish it had a global chat to just shoot the shit with whoevers playing, am I just retarded?
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Anonymous
7/2/2025, 3:39:38 AM No.3794699
>>3794684
yup.
the point of games is to waste time and enjoy your own company.
plenty of time to socialize in hell.
Anonymous
7/2/2025, 5:03:03 AM No.3794724
>>3793338
Ressurected made some skill changes. Leap Attack now does AoE damage upon impact and Double Throw Mastery got a huge boost with a passive piercing attack chance and regenerate your weapons stock upon a critical hit.
Anonymous
7/2/2025, 5:05:43 AM No.3794727
>>3794629
Ah yes, the pinnacle of writing, "bro u so cool even demigods can't compete cuz reasons"
Fuck outta here
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Anonymous
7/2/2025, 5:07:13 AM No.3794729
>>3793338
>can never play pally because its a nigger
Imagine being so brain-broken you let something like that stand in your way
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Anonymous
7/2/2025, 5:47:52 AM No.3794745
>>3794729
Paladin should be an aryan blonde ubermensch and that's final.
Anonymous
7/2/2025, 10:45:23 AM No.3794836
>>3794727
No shit they can't compete. The PC mogs Mogdrogen, Ravager and Korvaak as well. It's still cool that your bro is one of the constellations from the skill tree, but you seem to dislike power fantasies for some reason even when they are the soul of ARPGs.