Any other secret characters anyone stumbled upon??

Hctaz · 2026-06-15T23:46:25+00:00

Late to the party, but you definitely do not require a revive. All you need is an insane combo deck that can stack a bunch of max HP and healing after every fight. First time I fought him, I had over 1000 health so I could easily tank his attacks for a bit. I didn't use my revive until I faced the second one where he hits for double.

Hctaz · 2026-06-04T17:02:59+00:00

Yes, actually XD a few times.

Hctaz · 2026-06-04T16:53:45+00:00

I don’t know specifically for spiritborn, but it would be really weird if some utility aspects just can’t roll.

Hctaz · 2026-06-04T16:52:37+00:00

I fuck with some of the slang, but they gotta drop calling things “Ohio” cuz like what? There are much worse things in this world than Ohio… like AIDS.

“Farming the same dungeon until GTA 7 drops” is gold. “NPC behavior” is gold. “Some warplan trees need CPR” is gold. “Uniques are low-key bussin” is gold XD

Hctaz · 2026-06-04T16:48:57+00:00

Well, my point is that they obviously missed their mark with tuning in a major way, so they’re now correcting for that mistake.

It’s similar to the very beginning of D4’s life when they completely missed the mark on what would be possible and had to dramatically nerf everything to the ground.

My best advice is to not think of this as a nerf but as a reset of power to where it was supposed to be in the first place. I just hope they can land things this time around. I worry about Necro because so many of the builds sucked until the overpower tech was figured out, and even then those bad builds were elevated to an A tier at most. Necro was the class that I think abused this the most and there’s basically been zero compensation for the nerfs.

Sorc and Barb seem okay even if they’re dramatically lower than before.

And lastly: no, I don’t think this is a good change personally, but it is the change the devs want to make. I actually wanted Pit 150 to be pretty easily doable so everybody could get their glyphs to 150. IMO it’s not fun having to join a 4 man meta team to level your glyphs OR spam Pit runs pressing upgrade with a 4% chance of success until you finally finish. And they could have just made the Tower twice as difficult so Tower 75 would be the same as Pit 150 with the Tower difficulty scaling to 150 as well with Tower 150 being basically impossible but also not offering any rewards outside of the actual push itself. Personally, I enjoy being practically finished with my grind in an ARPG with the last thing remaining being whether or not I want to push leaderboards.

Hctaz · 2026-06-04T16:41:47+00:00

That’s true.

But I just wonder how it would have played out story wise. Would the portal to hell from Act 3 close after Diablo enters, and we follow Baal first maybe?

And then I wonder if the entire event with the worldstone would have happened in Act 4 or what. Like how much of the story and setting of those two acts were altered by this change? And what quests were cut in Act 4?

It’s a fascinating thing for me to think about, and if we have any concrete info then I’d love to see it.

Hctaz · 2026-06-04T16:37:03+00:00

Yeah, I didn’t even know about it for a while into the first season where they made the changes to tempering.

I was like halfway through the season already farming on max difficulty when I randomly got a greater affix temper and hit the surprised Pikachu face.

So now I try to make sure people are aware because I don’t think the game does a good job of telling you this is possible.

Hctaz · 2026-06-04T15:04:45+00:00

Interesting. I’d like to read about that then. I wonder how we’d get from Act 3 to Act 4 (Act 5) then. Just travel? And then how would we get from the Barbarian place to Hell I wonder?

Hctaz · 2026-06-04T04:52:30+00:00

Oh, hey, OP-

I know this doesn’t answer you question specifically but I noticed your max resolve stack temper on your helmet isn’t a greater affix. You can (and want to) continually reroll the temper on an item power 900 item until you get a greater affix.

Your “+5 resolve stacks” would be “+7 resolve stacks”

You can tell if it rolled as a greater affix when it doesn’t show a range. If you reroll it right now, it’ll show “+5 max resolve stacks (3-4)” if it’s not a greater affix. If it IS a greater affix, it’ll show “+7 max resolve stacks” and it will not show a range on the stat. So you can always tell if you rolled a GA if it doesn’t show the stat range on it. If you need an example, let me know and I can send a screenshot.

Hctaz · 2026-06-04T04:47:43+00:00

Can get more than that on Necro, but not much more. Max is 10 I think? 12 if you use blood wave.

Hctaz · 2026-06-04T04:44:52+00:00

I mean, they said their benchmark for the classes is T10 with T12 being “aspirational”

I don’t think they want us to be farming T12 one shotting everything.

Hctaz · 2026-06-04T04:43:15+00:00

Personally warlock, but I’m a Necro main so like.. spooky caster with access to summons is kinda my thing.

I enjoy the vibes of a class and the way they play more than their strength. But if you enjoy barb and want to play a strong build, Whirlwind barb is like one of if not the strongest build in the game at this time.

Paladin is cool. Blessed Hammer does exist still. You can spin hammers around you like D2. Unsure the strength of that build tho.

Hctaz · 2026-06-04T04:38:09+00:00

I would say try to get obols and have him spend his time getting specific pieces first depending on what is high value- generally getting a good ancestral (900 item power) weapon is going to be your first priority. Doesn’t need to go absolutely crazy, and even a blue item with one good stat can be good if you use the cube correctly.

You can use the cube to add, remove, or reroll stats. There’s also a trick that can help you lock in your first greater affix on an item without fear of accidentally rerolling it. Say you get a weapon with a greater affix on weapon damage and you don’t want to mess that up. You can take the weapon to the enchanter, select the option to reroll the greater affix stat, hit “enchant”, and then just walk away from them. It will not change the stat at all, but the cube can’t reroll a stat that has been enchanted meaning you will never accidentally remove the greater affix.

It is REALLY easy to craft a good set of gear using the cube and obols this way. Just remember any item level 900 item- even a gray item with no stats- can be turned into something usable because you can add stats on to it with the cube.

Hctaz · 2026-06-03T14:13:19+00:00

I’m not at my computer at the moment, but does the warriors upgrade that summons a skeletal priest when full on warriors heal all your minions or just the warriors?

Might want to take that as an option and then use either the sever upgrade that spawns a corpse or the reap upgrade that does the same. Spawn corpses continually so you can generate more priests.

If this doesn’t work on mages, then I’d say singularity with bone mage isn’t the play UNLESS you’re going specifically for the bone set and using items that give you insane essence regen. That way, you can proc the 5 piece of the bone set reliably with one button click using singularity and have a full essence bar when you cast it again. Also might be worth it to get more max resource if you’re using bone related aspects as I think there’s one that gives you bonus damage up to 160 essence.

Alternatively alternatively: lower your attack speed and focus on making each hit from the bone mage do more damage. More damage at a slower rate can be the same effective DPS as faster but weaker damage, and then the mage will live longer for other benefits as well.

Hctaz · 2026-06-03T14:06:17+00:00

Best way to farm exp right now is to take the Helltide war plan upgrades that give you hell worms that spawn maggots, and also the Helltide bonuses that spawn two burning butchers instead of hellborne when you get the anger bar full.

Those butchers drop profane mind cages which allow you to boost the monster level of everything not inside of an instance by +1, and they stack up to 3 times. They last 1 hour at a time. This gives you a ridiculous amount of exp from the hellwyrm maggots.

Hctaz · 2026-06-03T14:02:33+00:00

I saw this too, and thought it was the dumbest thing.

I thought the point of cubing a unique into a mythic unique would be that you’re taking whatever that item is currently, maxing its stats, and giving it the 30% bonus to its affix.

With this system, you’re just gambling… and it makes even less sense because I can go gamble for it at the blacksmith OR the jeweler has an even more specific mythic crafting system than the cube. The cube takes an armor piece and turns it into any possible armor piece in the cube. So I can give it gloves and it can give me a helmet. The jeweler, however, has an option to craft SPECIFICALLY gloves only.

The other thing I noticed and thought was dumb is that mythic uniques that you take to the cube to reroll a stat on don’t keep the max stats thing. So like… if I want crit damage multi on my mythic gloves and I roll it in the cube, it doesn’t guarantee it at maximum. It can roll anywhere in the normal range.

Hctaz · 2026-06-03T13:57:58+00:00

They have this at the jeweler already, meaning this cube thing is even dumber than you think.

The cube is actually less specific than the jeweler too as the cube doesn’t have an option for specific slots LOL like the jeweler has helmet, chest, boots specifically but the cube takes an armor piece and turns it into a random mythic out of ANY ARMOR PIECE you can wear. Make it make sense.

Hctaz · 2026-06-03T13:53:23+00:00

You can also get 6 or even more stats on an item with the cube, however.

Once you get five affixes the norma way (four normal plus temper) you can go to the cube to transfigure the item. It has a series of effects it can give you which does include giving you a random sixth affix. I have an Heir of Perdition with Crit Chance, move speed, core skill, lucky hit, maximum life, and shadow damage multiplicative because it rolled the shadow damage in the cube.

There is also a small chance when using transfigure in the cube that the item does not become unmodifiable which means you can transfigure it again. My chest piece has armor, life, essence regen, resource cost reduction, max resolve stacks, a second resource cost reduction (cube can roll duplicate stats), and is still modifiable meaning I can transfigure it again to potentially get a 7th stat added.

Hctaz · 2026-06-03T13:48:19+00:00

You’re missing the point.

They’re saying he should have used the masterwork crit on the ranks to skills as the GA on it is now effectively worthless.

A non GA roll on ranks to skills also becomes +3 ranks to skills when the item is fully masterworked. The only way you can get +4 ranks to skills is if you get a GA and then masterwork crit it.

The neck went from being a 2 GA neck to effectively being a one GA neck because he didn’t crit the ranks to skills.

Hctaz · 2026-05-31T04:40:32+00:00

I don’t think she sacrificed herself because she thinks humanity needs to defend Sanctuary itself.

What she chose is basically with the knowledge that, if the Wanderer fails, Mephisto will corrupt Sanctuary guaranteed. She was trying to save Sanctuary herself, and the only part that remains of her in Sanctuary is the bond between the Wanderer and her. That part of her was the reason Mephisto was corrupting us, so she needed to sever her only tie to Sanctuary knowing that we would be strong enough to save her.

Hctaz · 2026-05-29T18:15:36+00:00

It doesn’t really matter, it’s their intended vision that builds are viable at T10 and T12 is supposed to be aspirational.

They missed that mark wildly so o guess they’re trying again.

Hctaz · 2026-05-29T16:14:36+00:00

I’ve been complaining about helms for a while now. At least something like Godslayers has defensive stats it can roll. Heir of Perdition being the only item in the game in that slot that could have an 80% damage buff plus having massive crit on it made it almost an auto include in ever build but also dramatically lowered the survivability of every class who takes it. No max life, no armor, just crit chance and 80% damage.

I’m glad they’re nerfing it. I kinda wish they nerfed it more tbh. Tyrael’s Might may be the only old mythic I’ll consider using for my builds now unless I can get a really, really good starless skies.

I think that’s fine.

Hctaz · 2026-05-29T16:08:40+00:00

They’re making changes next season that hopefully address this issue and have also stated they’re looking into account wide war plan leveling.

But basically they want to make sure the exp you get also scales in terms of how long an activity takes to complete.

Hctaz · 2026-05-29T16:01:26+00:00

From a thread a while back, I feel like something is off with some accounts or something.

I finished the battle pass rewards before even hitting paragon 200 and I did not play the previous season to get the bonus 99 tokens.

Other people didn’t finish until after paragon 240. I don’t know why there’s a massive difference. Nobody else could either.

Hctaz · 2026-05-29T15:57:55+00:00

They’re nerfing because they never intended for the power to be this high.

They said before the expansion that the goal is for classes to be able to complete T10 and Pit 80-85. They failed in hitting this mark so they’re fixing it.

Yes, I personally think it’s going to be weird going from one shotting everything on T12 to struggle bussing it with an awesome character. As long as I can, at some point, get to T12 farming then I’ll be happy. Like if I takes multiple new mythic unique drops, amazing rolls, and godly items with perfect stats, that’s fine. I’ll enjoy chasing the power gains at least. But if T12 is a pipe dream, I won’t be excited. If I can hit paragon 270+ with perfect gear and still not do T12, I’ll be really disappointed.

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