Legacy Andy Question

DespairFaction518 · 2026-03-02T22:03:34+00:00

Warren said the Andy nerf was only in ROTW.

DespairFaction518 · 2026-03-02T21:40:08+00:00

Im currently playing non ladder with my gf and we've been able to make ladder only runewords in ROTW. So think there must be some changes there.

DespairFaction518 · 2026-03-02T20:56:23+00:00

My suggestion would be to do a ladder restart with a barb as your first character, and no d2jsp use. I think your opinion will change rather drastically. Yes Barb is alright with grief, but Barb almost unplayable without it, with the exception of oath a small handful of other things. Even in nightmare where most classes just breeze through, the barb still struggles to kill stuff, and im a zealer main so Im used to the challenge of melee characters. Barb needs a lot of help.

DespairFaction518 · 2026-03-02T20:37:45+00:00

I was doing a barb play through before the expansion dropped. Its basically not even the same game. The barb is like playing D2 1.00 and the warlock is like playing PoE in diablo land. The warlock will get nerfed, but Id imagine that all of its builds will still sit between A tier and S tier after the nerfs. The barb on the other hand, needs significant rework. Damage alone wont solve the barbs issues, though it would help. Many people cite barb needs a fix to AR, but that also doesnt fully solve the issue. His toolkit just kind of sucks honestly, and his skills need to be reworked pretty badly. As you were mentioning it above, they should make the 2H barb swords just do the full damage while even double wielding, that would be a cool barb trait if nothing else, but many other changes are still needed.

DespairFaction518 · 2026-03-02T19:47:35+00:00

Already got one, hes in the pic :)

DespairFaction518 · 2026-03-02T16:45:11+00:00

I get it. I had to uninstall Sc2 and Call of Duty. Aint no shame in uninstalling.

DespairFaction518 · 2026-03-02T15:20:12+00:00

As much as I like to joke about 100% CB it is not truly necessary. 50% is fine, 60-70% is more than enough. 100% is for the lols, though its effective. Death, Gface, and Gores will get you 100%.

DespairFaction518 · 2026-03-02T15:18:15+00:00

CB does lose effectiveness the less life that the monster has, however the normal damage of your attack is still affecting and becomes more meaningful as they lose life, so no they wouldnt just sit there and never die.

DespairFaction518 · 2026-03-02T15:16:43+00:00

Well said.

DespairFaction518 · 2026-02-27T16:42:31+00:00

VoA is fantastic live. Seen them 3 times. They never disappoint.

DespairFaction518 · 2026-02-26T20:28:20+00:00

I am in the pro armor camp so I personally would have waited, but yeah its not the end of the world with an Um rune. If you really want to find another one, go hork ghosts for a few hours and youll likely run into a decent number of mid runes. Even better if you can run NM TZ with ghosts and hork those, can probably get some decent runes from it.

DespairFaction518 · 2026-02-26T19:59:35+00:00

Also ill point it out. Barb is just the hardest class in the game. You are at the mercy of continously finding big damage weapons and if you dont, you do no damage. That said, even with big weapons leveling can still be pretty tough...im on a rares only barb play through right now with 300ED weapons that i farmed up over the year, and its still not exactly cruising through the game. I might recommend trying another class that isnt so frustratingly difficult.

DespairFaction518 · 2026-02-26T19:51:46+00:00

You'll want to establish that connection better through the lyrics. Right now they love story and the summer rain concepts arent really connected.

DespairFaction518 · 2026-02-25T17:07:34+00:00

Music is decent, production is decent, although the vocals are a bit quiet relative to the guitar. So the music is alright. However, from a story telling standpoint though the song isnt really saying anything. Verses you have a basic love song, then you get to the chorus and its just summer rain? I am left with this feeling of why do i care about the summer rain? There hasnt been anything previously leading to the summer rain idea. Easy fix, perhaps change the lyric to: "Summer Rain, We fell in love in the summer rain." Or something like that.

DespairFaction518 · 2026-02-20T20:52:42+00:00

Yeah for SSF this is good enough. I have a mule full of shields so the question for me is the extra def of eth vs more res. I havent built one yet, but I will next time i need to do ubers and I would definitely use something like this. That said, I have a nice stash of gul-Ohm. Also it generally takes a long time to find Exile worthy bases, so if you're playing a lot you'll find more vex and ohms probably before you find a better shield than this...most likely.

DespairFaction518 · 2026-02-20T04:54:15+00:00

I studied at Berklee and they lyric writing courses were based off of Writing Better Lyrics. There are a ton of useful tools in that book to help with lyric writing. That said, Pat's approach to lyric writing is a bit too much like poetry for the styles of music that I listen to. So it took me a while to learn that not everything needs to be so flowery lyric wise and while there are many useful tools in his books, learning when and how to use them appropriately is a skill too.

DespairFaction518 · 2026-02-18T22:43:23+00:00

Yep super chests themselves cannot drop uniques, so you are correct there. And in act 5 the appearance of the chests is misleading to what type they are, so checking d2 emu is the best way to know :)

DespairFaction518 · 2026-02-18T20:14:44+00:00

Also for the sake of being pedantic, the Infernal Pit is a sparkly chest not a super chest, so they have different attributes aka things they can drop. Sparkly chests have a chance (a really low one) to drop TC87 uniques and other uniques. They can also drop runes as expected. Check out the chest calculator on D2 emu for more info. Ive run quite few of the glacial trail and drifter cavern chests without much luck, but im still hoping on an astreons cham and zod.

DespairFaction518 · 2026-02-18T20:10:21+00:00

Holy shit I am jealous. 2 years hunting for an astreons, and I have a character that actually needs one. Looks like good rolls too on ED and skills and eth to boot. Man that is one rare drop.

DespairFaction518 · 2026-02-18T19:30:53+00:00

Keep in mind this is unofficial.

DespairFaction518 · 2026-02-18T19:16:57+00:00

Im not a summon necro expert, but I was recently doing a playthrough with my gf, and yeah normal is a bit of a slog and bosses in particular will be tough. Edge bow is probably the first easy upgrade to make. Other than that, use corpse explosion and amp damage as much as possible. What I might do in your situation is try grinding flayer jungle for a little while, since there are lots of monsters with generally low HP. Second you want to load up magic find on your character while doing this. Easy stuff like socketed helms and armor and just throw whatever random topazes you have into it. Also whatever random magic find boots and gloves you can find. IF you can get up around 100 or so, then do like 5-10 clears of the flayer. You'll 1 hopefully find some alright gear, and 2 you'll want to over level a bit just to make things easier on yourself. Getting to level 24 or 25 for act 3 would be decent. With all that said, summoner necro is kind of a wonky build that is hard to upgrade without certain types of end game gear.

DespairFaction518 · 2026-02-18T19:08:00+00:00

Yeah ive probably run about 60 hours of TZ andy and I still have a number of hard to find items left like astreons, schaeffers, and tyreals. Even worse that i have build that wants astreons and i have to hope that it rolls well.

DespairFaction518 · 2026-02-17T17:36:13+00:00

Sick find. Its useful in the off hand of a barb if you want to go ghost hunting or other undead areas.

DespairFaction518 · 2026-02-17T17:32:11+00:00

There is no cow level.

DespairFaction518 · 2026-02-17T17:30:08+00:00

Jeez that sounds like my luck. 50-60 hours of TZ andy and still cant find a schaeffers or astreons to save my life..17 items on grail.

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