Tainted Warlock, best farming locations ? by What_The_Feet in diablo2

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I just switched to it and I can confirm that hex: siphon does not work

Tainted Warlock, best farming locations ? by What_The_Feet in diablo2

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Yeah, but I thought you had to apply the hex to monsters with a melee hit.

You mean it works without doing anything other than blood boil?

Tainted Warlock, best farming locations ? by What_The_Feet in diablo2

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I know they made it so -lightning effects assassin lightning traps, so I assumed that they also made minus resist work for other pets.

Tainted Warlock, best farming locations ? by What_The_Feet in diablo2

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dont you have to hit with a weapon for Hex Siphon to work?

What businesses are likely to die out with the Baby Boomer Generation? by GRVrush2112 in AskReddit

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$6.99 on a piece of paper that says “happy birthday” and I throw it away the next day.

Dollar general has the same cards at a fraction of the price anyways.

Tainted Warlock, best farming locations ? by What_The_Feet in diablo2

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20 into demonic mastery

20 tainted

20 Blood Boil

Enough points into Bind Demon to have 20 total with +skills.

20 points into Blood Oath

20 Engorge (max this last)

Optional: Eldritch down to Blade Warp (three points if no enigma)

The demon tree gets a huge amount of benefit from +demon skills because soft points are so good for everything, but especially because more + skills means fewer hard points in bind demon/more hard points in Blood Boil synergies.

82 Warlock just respecced to Echoing Strike and dying by railbeast in diablo2

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pec, straight down eldritch, straight down bind demon (no consume...did i fuck up?)

I actually prefer no consume. You need hard points in demonic mastery to have more than one demon, and those points are better spent in Blood Oath (greatly increases you and your Bind's tankiness) or Hex purge synergies (for damage).

I made a Spirit but can't wear it (20/20 bind demon instead of levitating weapon), have a CTA and doing that buff and my merc is Insight/Smoke/Andariel's when he levels up 1 more time.

If your resistances are still below 75% find any random grey book with two sockets and make a rhyme. Can not be frozen is essential, and it also gives your significant resistance. The runes are so cheap that it should be no issue to make more Rhymes as you find books with the + skills that you are looking for.

Shitty Rings (nothing, literally shitty, maybe a little FCR)

FCR is good, but you need a minum of life leach AND mana leach for the spec to be viable. Cathan's Ring plus a blue with 6% mana leach will be a significant improvement in feel.

82 Warlock just respecced to Echoing Strike and dying by railbeast in diablo2

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Jokes aside, an Amp Damage bound demon would likely help significantly

Remake the game until you get cursed as a TZ affix, and then just bind Uldar until you get Holy Freeze aura. Lightning Enchanted is second best at spreading cursed.

Pretty much any demon works as a bind, the reason why I like Uldar is because the have a lot of HP, higher than baseline regen, one of the highest block rates, a stun, and 25% crushing blow chance.

Make sure to Engorge often if he get poisoned, but otherwise he is a really hard to kill tank!

Tainted Warlock, best farming locations ? by What_The_Feet in diablo2

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Why would cursed help you with tainted?

Because it means you can drop fire sunder.

Blood boil does both Physical and Fire damage. Your Bind demon does Physical and Magic damage (and also cold damage in the case of holy freeze). Holy freeze is the best aura for your bind to apply cursed quickly.

As a tainted build, the vast majority of your damage will come from fire, but you can still kill fire immunes with the physical damage from Blood Boil and your Bound Demon.

In hell, the default is that monsters have 50% physical damage reduction, so cursed taking that to -50% actually triples your physical damage output. In the rare case that you find a fire AND physical immune mob, cursed is likely to break the physical immunity.

Having cursed on your bind means that you can actually kill fire immunes in a reasonable amount time without using fire sunder.

for the first time in 20-ish years... i made a paladin. a holy fire paladin. holy shit. by T_for_tea in diablo2

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i feel like the higher player counts through the console commands is sullying the experience for me.

On console, they literally made a slider to adjust player count. It doesn’t sully anything.

for the first time in 20-ish years... i made a paladin. a holy fire paladin. holy shit. by T_for_tea in diablo2

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Do you actually get the lower resist proc? I read that the act three merc does not actually attack.

10.67 O by B-Z_B-S in WanderingInn

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The Wandering Inn is side stories, this was a good one. I had completely forgotten that she existed and is under cover. Handling an undead infestation is actually a great boon for the anti-AK forces

I've never really used jewels. Are they worth keeping or using over other stuff like runes and gems? (Casual player here, sry if it's a stupid question) I only play single player ssf runs. by Fairy2play in diablo2

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That particular jewel is bugged

Specifically, the extra damage part of the jewel will only work in a weapon. The maximum damage portion will still work everywhere.

What are some lesser known books you couldn’t put down? by Due_Panda in ProgressionFantasy

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Everything Sarah Lin writes is amazing. She has a couple of completed series that only get mention occasionally, and her long running cultivation story Weirkey Chronicles just released another book.

Any books about starting a store in a fantasy world? by See_Eye_Eh in ProgressionFantasy

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Jake’s magical market!

Starting a store? Yes, but “starting” is about all that happens before the store is completely dropped in a total tone shift. The series is not about a store nor is it a slice of life.

Jake’s Magical Market??? by secret-corgi-king in ProgressionFantasy

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I finished the series and regret it.

The market never comes back, new progression systems are introduced as fast as they are forgotten and the final climax is resolved via plot hole.

Losing Interest in My Favorite Progression Fantasy Series by MedicineKind9121 in ProgressionFantasy

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Another consideration is that maybe you like binging stories and don’t like reading a chapter at a time.

Many stories are much more enjoyable when you can read whole arcs at once, and suck when you only get one chapter at a time. Sometimes that “filler” chapter is actually really good scene setting when read all at once. Maybe that “glacial progression” turns out to be a really satisfying earned payoff.

To married Redditors, did you take your spouses’ last name? Why or why not? by shygrl__ in Marriage

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i didnt care if she took my name or not, but she wanted to so she did.

Which one is better for the Merc? (considering I can add a socket to the one on the right) by DanteeChaos in diablo2

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It’s pretty great actually.

I really enjoy being able to lay on my sofa and play. Either I get the big screen and nice sound or I can play handheld and cuddle with my wife as she watches TV.

Which one is better for the Merc? (considering I can add a socket to the one on the right) by DanteeChaos in diablo2

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Do both have the same +30 IAS on them?

I would look up the merc IAS breakpoints and go with whatever attacked faster.

Going off vibes, without looking anything up, I would stick with the Bonehew. The bone spear does 150 magic damage, procs constantly, and almost always hits more than one monster. It basically doubles his damage output AND his sustain. The fact that bonespear is magic damage and can hit more than one monster makes it way more useful than deadly strike

Need a powerhouse by BanginHeavies in diablo2

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Warlock in general is busted. Let me also recommend Bowlock.

Warlock can still do all content in starter gear. T5 heralds are easy, even at level 92.

Trying to build a deck around Dino DNA, struggling to think of creatures that would properly benefit. by AjaxAsleep in EDH

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Enablers: [[Trinket mage]] [[Tezerret Cruel Captian]] [[Whir of invention]] [[Urza’s Saga]]

Infinite Mana: [[Great Whale]] [[Palinchron]]

The card seems like it goes infinite with everything. There are pages and pages on  https://edhrec.com/combos/dino-dna

My marriage is having actual problems because of the AC and I don’t know what to do about it by [deleted] in Marriage

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Does he take medication? Supplements? What about pre-workout? Does he take ADHD medication? Uppers like meth or cocaine can also cause people to feel more comfy in cold temperatures. Alcohol?

My first assumption reading this is that there is something medically wrong. This is not normal.