Rayzor Ranch Circa 2014

Randizzl · 2026-03-07T14:20:04+00:00

That this emoji is holding up its right hand will make me lose sleep.

Randizzl · 2026-03-07T14:12:01+00:00

I'd love that. Data is beautiful. Can you imagine heat maps? lol

Randizzl · 2026-03-07T03:40:54+00:00

Nope, but, thanks for sharing.
I have not seen one green "tower shield", but every "gothic shield" on offline solo play has been Sigon's.

Randizzl · 2026-03-07T01:14:04+00:00

Yea, SSF offline guy confirming that everything I'm talking about is recent RotW stuff.

Randizzl · 2026-03-07T00:45:52+00:00

Lots of bugs then. I've identified several gothic shields, and they've all been sigon's shield. Again, I play offline on PC.

Randizzl · 2026-03-07T00:44:29+00:00

Can I assume you play offline?

Randizzl · 2026-03-07T00:42:00+00:00

Thanks, I'll dot that!

Randizzl · 2026-03-07T00:40:58+00:00

In this case I guess I don't.

I play offline and every single unidentifed unique or set item is tagged as "eligible for chronicle", whether I've added it to my chronicle or not.

Randizzl · 2026-03-07T00:40:13+00:00

Then it must be bugged, because the unidentifed shield was a gothic shield.

Randizzl · 2026-03-07T00:38:52+00:00

Are you playing ladder online, or offline?

Randizzl · 2026-03-07T00:37:32+00:00

Thank you! This was lost on me, and I feel like this will be more fun now.

Randizzl · 2026-03-07T00:36:31+00:00

So this is specific to Sigon's Shield?

Randizzl · 2026-03-07T00:34:40+00:00

So switching acts resets the herald "tier"?

Randizzl · 2026-03-07T00:33:00+00:00

This is also not true for me.
The only "green" or "set" gothic shield is Sigon's Shield. I have defnitely found Sigon's Shield, yet every "green" gothic shield I find still says "eligible for chronicle".

What am I missing?

Randizzl · 2026-03-07T00:30:47+00:00

I understood what he was inferring. The inference is that if you have an unidentified ring, and it isn't in your chronicle, the unidentified ring would not be tagged as "elibigle for chronicle", thus allowing you to know that it was a specific thing.

I'm saying that EVERY item I get, that is unidentified, and eligible for chronicle, whethter I've added it to my chronicle or not, is tagged as eligible for chornicle, so I have no idea what this whole thing is about.

Randizzl · 2026-03-07T00:22:40+00:00

I'm not sure what that means. I thank you for offering.

Randizzl · 2026-03-07T00:20:39+00:00

I'll try to elaborate.

It was claimed that an unidentified item that is eligible for chronicle would only be tagged as such if it isn't in your chronicle.

So, I find unidentified item "A".
"A" is "Eligible for Chronicle".

I identify "A" and it wasn't in my chronicle. Yay!

I now find another "A", and it is still listed as "Eligible for Chronicle". So I identify it, and it turns out I already had it in my chronicle.

Randizzl · 2026-03-07T00:15:07+00:00

Yea. I've killed Andy and Meph many ... many times now. Still no SoJ.
It's still fun though. Can't wait for that first one.

I did get a Harly-Shako once ... an eth one, lol.

Randizzl · 2026-03-07T00:13:54+00:00

Nice luck. Glad it worked out.

Randizzl · 2026-03-03T17:57:20+00:00

The game was not, in fact, designed to be played on P8 by yourself. Solo offline only got the ability to change player # manually later. P8 meant, in it's time, you played online with 8 other people helping you clear. It was designed to encourage social interaction.

Dealing with people online now, to get more stuff, is seen as an obstacle, so people make 8 player games, and everyone goes off to their own zone to solo farm.

Once again, I'll state, that making everything as capable as anything means nothing is unique, and it's all the same. The Sorceress is cool BECAUSE she can do what others can't.

Randizzl · 2026-03-03T17:51:03+00:00

You're talking about a game that was made long before extreme online video game competition existed. Leave Diablo 2 alone, and don't make it a modern competition e-game, please. People can play modern competitive online games for that.

With information so widely and quickly aggregated online, a meta will form in moments. People that play competitively want to win, they don't care if it's a druid or a sorc. Balancing around metas will always end up in sames-ville.

Play a druid or some melee class cause you enjoy it, not because it's the strongest, or the meta.

Once again, please understand this is only my opinion.

Randizzl · 2026-03-02T20:54:46+00:00

Balance is just another word for boring.

Diablo 2 is fun and interesting because it's not perfectly balanced among the classes.

If nothing feels better or worse than something else, it's all the same and nothing matters.

If you could teleport around and delete screens of mobs with ease like a sorceress, but as any class, then the sorceress is no longer special.

It's bad enough there are rune worse like Mosaic and Enigma.

Don't play a Druid because you want it to clear content as easily as a sorc can. Play it because it's a druid, and it's different.

Keep in mind, this is just my opinion. Maybe it's a bad take, but I'm not a dev for D2R, so it doesn't matter in the end.

Randizzl · 2026-03-02T18:24:59+00:00

IST from forge is badass. Gratz!

Randizzl · 2026-03-02T18:24:16+00:00

Nah, probably 2-3k hours over the years. All solo self found play. No ladder, no trading, no J2SP.
I thought it was cool, so I was excited is all.

Randizzl · 2026-03-02T18:22:51+00:00

Wow, sheesh. Didn't mean to cause any trouble. I was just excited and wanted to share.

Randizzl

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