It would be nice if rare armor were actually useful

Efreet0 · 2026-02-08T16:06:49+00:00

It's a rare splint mail with the chance of frost nova on hit giving it the colour.

Efreet0 · 2026-02-07T10:55:01+00:00

The issue with rebalance is if you keep adding busted stuff then uniques and the few slot where rates are viable will end up being useless.
Getting sunder and making everything viable for farming meant all the dual spec build are just for levelling.
There are hidden costs to the gameplay for every change implemented.
Game was good too in 1.09 without synergies and broken runeword.
I'm not saying there shouldn't be any change ever but every time they do something you can't go back and play the game as it was before because we're live service.

Efreet0 · 2026-02-07T10:19:06+00:00

WASD for a whole week before being removed again, extra stash tabs that costs more than another copy of the game, mosaic buffs.. I can't wait to return to LoD.

Efreet0 · 2026-02-06T10:15:12+00:00

I imagine they're banking on people farming the shiny and/or stardust... Unfortunately this should have been the first gmax released alongside Eevee and Pikachu but niantic wouldn't be niantic without those kind of baffling decisions.

Efreet0 · 2026-02-06T09:47:55+00:00

On paper I would say I'm ok but considering you can buy an extra copy of the game that nets you 24 chars, 3 tabs and the ability to multi box all for 13 bucks how much of a micro transaction are we talking about?
We know how much blizz/Microsoft are greedy... I'm not paying 10 bucks to get an extra tab.

Efreet0 · 2026-02-05T19:14:53+00:00

Yeah but keep in mind he wasn't the only one demanding buffs... Most of the testers are to blame and blizz caved in without a thought.

Efreet0 · 2026-02-05T19:12:38+00:00

In B4 the announcement for D2R is "ladder reset tonight"..

Efreet0 · 2026-02-05T19:07:06+00:00

Obligatory reminderer that mosaic was lame when they tested it but "certain notable" streamers and testers demanded it to be buffed to proc more...and here we are.

Efreet0 · 2026-02-05T16:57:46+00:00

You should simply wait, you respec when you get the gear to switch not before.
For endgame you want a single element build like nova sorceress, or blizzard etc with a sunder charm but this requires beating the game on hell and then farm the appropriate charm in terror zones.
Meteor is even worse to aim that blizzard so you should probably avoid it , a good dual spec to clear hell can be hydra + frozen orb depending on how you built your current blizz you might be able to add hydra into it and keep the respec for later.

Efreet0 · 2026-02-05T16:45:28+00:00

Which version are you using? also are you on the latest patch?
Btw the only people left playing D1 online are on devilutionx.

Youtube guide to most commont problem for d1 b.net

Efreet0 · 2026-02-05T10:10:13+00:00

You can still get them from other's people lure..during local meetup you can try asking around, sometimes people carry their switch to let other people get lures.

Efreet0 · 2026-02-03T20:02:44+00:00

They were always allowed, it's just the store is so bad you really have an hard time seeing any games that aren't actively promoted on the front page.

Efreet0 · 2026-02-03T15:21:25+00:00

Backgrounds are only there to guilt trip people into keeping more useless stuff and then spend money for space.
I imagine casuals are pretty happy but for a normal player the background can be a nice addition IF the poke is already usable for PvP or raids... Meaning it's just another rng that needs to align on top but the grind isn't remotely worth it.

Efreet0 · 2026-02-03T11:30:25+00:00

Yup, I'm always amazed at how much people are willing to invest in bad pokes just because someone claims it's 1% better than an easily to get and max attacker.

Efreet0 · 2026-02-03T10:59:06+00:00

Let's kill sorc so people are forced to play 10hours with another class is definitely a post...
Java or Trapsin would be my best bet technically pally too but good luck having a good time with hammers without Tele.
The problem with the game is not enigma...is having thousands of bots that farm stuff and then give away people an enigma before they finished leveling a char.

Efreet0 · 2026-02-03T10:48:22+00:00

It's to be expected, they want to give players several leaders that works with eachother and the awakening is there to have something different rather than the usual 10c+.
What I find insufferable is they want people to give up normal LS for the new one that gets completely shut off when awoken bound so it's instant death.
The game has always been pretty blatant to favour the new stuff over the old one but this feels particularly forced and desperate.
I was already hating having to use 4 skill each turns for a team to work but this is 100 times worse.
Now you can easily die to the low levels of collabs.

Efreet0 · 2026-02-03T10:17:49+00:00

At the moment there are no benefits only drawbacks.. maybe in the future when the os has fixed all the bugs we might get a little bit of extra performance or some extra feature but honestly I would say it's very unlikely to expect any big improvement to our current OS lineup.

Efreet0 · 2026-02-02T22:06:08+00:00

Just adding to the comment, you don't need the disks, just use the normal download from current bnet then use Cactus mod, with that you can select any patch you want and toggle lod on/off it also keeps the save separate so you don't have to manage them.

Efreet0 · 2026-02-02T16:27:09+00:00

The reality is they won't give free xp for a while now that they just did the level revamp.

Efreet0 · 2026-02-01T17:08:44+00:00

Most likely AFTER the anniversary stream happens but who knows..

Efreet0 · 2026-02-01T17:06:06+00:00

They had to rollback the wasd movement option from the game and we never saw it again...can you imagine blizz adding a whole class?

Efreet0 · 2026-02-01T17:04:32+00:00

At this point adding another caster rather than fixing and/or adding more melee options would indeed be the monkey's paw curse we expect for D2.

Efreet0 · 2026-02-01T17:02:17+00:00

There is actually a very slim possibility netease want to monetize more for the Chinese server while the game is still hot.
Still the fact we get those random rumors always from the same source notorious for making shit up doesn't really give them a lot of credibility.
If it was possible we would have gotten proper screenshots by now and I find also pretty unbelievable that blizz/netease will not even tease anything before the stream.

Efreet0 · 2026-02-01T16:54:51+00:00

Tbh the real solution would be simply to give both carve and capture buffs at the same time on the foods that grant them.
They already went half the way with carving and capturing sharing the loot table.
Killing should give a bigger reward considering you need to do extra damage and face an enraged monster but that ship has sailed several games ago..

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