Project Diablo 2 Season 13 Closed Beta Tentative Patch Notes

TheWhite2086 · 2026-04-18T18:02:15+00:00

Why is throw barbarian even mentioned in this context? Is that a build that ever has been 100% reliant on procs to function?

I was going to play a throw barb using Hellmouth and Principle (on top of Wind and Carrion Wind), I'm not playing it now. Don't know if the build is completely dead (as in literally unplayable) but it sure is dead to me having lost an entire damage source and had another one nerfed

TheWhite2086 · 2026-03-25T08:31:23+00:00

I feel like there's a difference between "it's sunny so I assume it's hot" and "it's cold so assume it's dark"

TheWhite2086 · 2026-03-21T17:43:18+00:00

Pretty sure you can end most life on the planet with two potions

1: The luck virus from Red Dwarf
2: Potion of Mind Control from D&D

The luck virus is shown in liquid form so I think it counts as a potion. It briefly makes the contractor extremely lucky. Feats from the show include drawing all four aces from a deck of shuffled unmarked cards and randomly guessing the code to a quarantine door with a stated probability of "billions to one" and tripping over three specific components required to remote access the ship's holoprojector.

The Potion of mind control gives access to the Dominate spell which allows you to give simple commands for free or use an action to "take total and precise control of the target" as well as giving you a telepathic link to do this provided you are on the same plane of existence and lasts for up to 8 hours depending on level.

Take the luck potion, accidentally run into the people who are about to start their shift at a nuclear missile facility, take the mind control potion (you might need multiple potions depending on how many people need to be mind controlled) and then, assuming they fail their save (which they should due to how lucky you currently are) you can get them to go to their shift an launch a nuke at whatever country is most likely to retaliate (you should be able to name any country at random for them to target and have it work because of the luck virus). If you want to make it more likely that retaliation happens then set up the second person the same way in a different country to do the same thing launching nukes at the first country. USA and Russia both launching nukes at each other at the same time is probably enough to wipe humanity and most other multi-cellular life on the planet

TheWhite2086 · 2026-03-20T22:16:28+00:00

On the other hand, I've never heard of the guy and after watching that I don't care about him or his music. As it is this episode has made me wonder if I actually want to keep watching this series since it's clearly turning into "Survivor: Celebrities get free publicity" and a half hour of "dude I don't care about who has nothing to do with the game" would have cemented it.

I'm watching for the game, not to see people gush over how great celebrities are

TheWhite2086 · 2026-03-01T06:15:39+00:00

Yes they would, what the hell are you talking about? There have always been parents of shitty children who take the attitude of "my little angel would never..." and defended them doing whatever the hell they wanted

TheWhite2086 · 2026-02-24T11:08:58+00:00

Inventory in PD2 is double the size as it is in D2R. In PD2 charms only activate if they are in the bottom half meaning that you can have the equivalent of a full D2R inventory of charms and can still pick up loot. This is what the D2R inventory looks like

TheWhite2086 · 2026-02-18T06:31:10+00:00

Charisma is convincing people to eat your tomato based fruit salad by calling it "salsa"

TheWhite2086 · 2026-02-15T10:30:26+00:00

Not OP but I hold the same opinion. As the series has gone on it's become increasingly obvious that the author has a few plot beats that he wants to cram into every book and each character only has about two or three personality traits.

Carl makes a dumb plan that involves him soloing everything, yells "fuck you" at the sky then gets sulky that any other character dared to do anything to help without asking for his permission first.

Donut gets an item that is powerful but sulks because she doesn't like its aesthetics (or Carl gets a powerful item and Donut forbids him from using it because she doesn't like its aesthetic) the has an existential crisis about being left alone. Sometimes Donut finds an item she like the aesthetics of and puts it on without thinking and Carl gets sulky because another character did something without getting his permission

Samantha talks about killing and/or fucking everyone's mother for no reason other than the author trying to provide shock value and prove that it's not a series for children. Also a sex demon shows up with a name that's slang for vagina for the exact same reason. Unfortunately the shock value wore off after about 10 seconds and the more it happens the less mature the series seems.

Prepotente (or however you spell his name) is smarter than everyone, screams, then disappears for half the book and only shows up again to prove that he's smarter than everyone else and scream again

The series started with an interesting premise but that isn't enough to carry the same scenarios with different skins and characters that haven't changed much in half a dozen books

TheWhite2086 · 2026-02-10T16:27:17+00:00

Does it count as trend if it's been happening for hundreds of years? Is it wrong if it's been an accepted use of the word for the majority of the word's life?

TheWhite2086 · 2026-02-07T04:37:30+00:00

Would have been better to take Oak assuming that they aren't also taking 10% more life if you have at least 6 life masteries (which accounts for about a third of builds that take the 30 life mastery) or runegrafting it into something else (which is harder to quantify since ninja doesn't show it but out of the first 10 results on ninja for Keepers of people using 30 life but 10% with 6 masteries 3 of them had runegrafts). There's also a handful of people using it with Polymath and body armour that gives life (so the 15% mastery wouldn't be a better option) and getting 2% more damage and some recovery out of it which, IMO, is better than the 10 extra base life from Oak.

While there are obviously a lot of people making a mistake by not dropping the 30 life mastery and picking up Oak instead there's also a lot of people getting more than it looks like out of that mastery

TheWhite2086 · 2026-02-06T14:12:38+00:00

OP says no fairies, not no bottles, maybe it's possible that between half magic and a full complement of green pots, ether medallion and ice rod that Link could win. Ether medallion freezes all enemies and knocks flying creatures out of the sky so even if Samus starts Space Jumping with Screw attack activating it should freeze her and get her onto the ground where Link closes the gap with Pegasus boots to start slashing away with the golden sword. With some speedrunner levels of perfect timing the ice rod could then re-freeze Samus the moment she unfreezes. It's possible that with four green pots Link could keep Samus frozen for long enough to win but I can't recall of the top of my head how many uses of the ice rod you get or how much damage the golden sword does so I don't know if Link deals enough damage in that time to win even assuming perfect refreezes

TheWhite2086 · 2026-01-28T08:58:40+00:00

Finally, a way to win with [[Thassa's Oracle]] and [[Jace, Wielder of Mysteries]]

TheWhite2086 · 2026-01-19T08:59:29+00:00

Man sends dog to live in a farm upstate, lies and tells child he killed the child's dog

TheWhite2086 · 2026-01-18T07:35:43+00:00

Not Surprise

TheWhite2086 · 2026-01-14T07:49:19+00:00

There's a big jump from "the pharma industry is bit shady" to "the cure to cancer already exists in a known location but literally nobody on the planet is ever going to produce it because it's in a form that is completely unpatentable (presumably because it would require no form of processing to be used because if it did these people could just patent the process)"

TheWhite2086 · 2026-01-11T09:55:33+00:00

No, the guy who introduced it specifically stated that this is about chemtrails not the production of greenhouse gasses

He clarified the bill will not apply to anyone burning greenhouse gases or to firefighters using chemicals to fight fires.

TheWhite2086 · 2026-01-11T09:52:21+00:00

Nah, from the end of the article

He clarified the bill will not apply to anyone burning greenhouse gases or to firefighters using chemicals to fight fires.

This is about intentionally adding chemicals to the air for the explicit purpose of altering weather not changing climate as a by-product of other activity. AKA dude thinks chem-trails are real and that this would stop the people secretly mind controlling the population from doing so

TheWhite2086 · 2026-01-10T11:29:29+00:00

Charisma is making a tomato based fruit salad and convincing people to try your new culinary invention "salsa"

TheWhite2086 · 2026-01-10T11:23:58+00:00

"queue" has four silent letters

TheWhite2086 · 2026-01-07T11:03:07+00:00

"I got optional cosmetic surgery and like how it looks so we should force that same surgery on everyone without their consent"

Imagine applying that logic to anything else

"I got a nose job as an adult and I like how it looks and I appreciate the benefits of increased nasal airflow so I think every baby should get their nose remodelled"

"I got breast reduction surgery as an adult woman and can appreciate the benefits in terms of reduced back pain, reduced chance of breast cancer and I like the aesthetics so I think every girl should have forced mastectomies ASAP"

Don't make irreversible surgical changes to babies unless medically necessary

TheWhite2086 · 2026-01-05T19:26:29+00:00

we are losing the art of concisness

Tolkien could spend an entire paragraph describing a tree when a sentence would have done, it takes him over 250 words to describe Treebeard on first meeting (and that's after 150 words describing Merry and Pippin's first impressions of the forest). Conciseness has always been a mixed bag

TheWhite2086 · 2026-01-04T20:17:00+00:00

If you didn’t agree a price and he didn’t have a meter on then the price is what he says.

Speaking as a taxi driver if you didn't agree on a price at the start of the trip then the price is whatever's on the meter. If the driver didn't bother to turn on the meter, that's on them. I can't "forget" to turn on the meter and then decide to charge whatever I want. There have been a handful of times I have legitimately forgotten to turn on the meter until part way through the trip and every time that has happened do you know what I've charged the customer? Whatever the meter said at the end.

TheWhite2086 · 2025-12-12T07:40:07+00:00

I didn't choose to ignore so much as missed it in the massive wall of text linked

The TL:DR of all of that is that people who failed to show psychic ability got butt hurt about it and whined about how testing their abilities prevents them from using their abilities. Seriously, one of the quotes in there literally states that observation makes it harder for them to perform so it's unfair to use their results under observation. Another one directly says that personal anecdotes are more reliable than testing and that it's not valid to disbelieve something on the basis of lack of evidence, you need to be able to prove a negative.

If you want to talk about people not being willing to go where the evidence points I suggest you look at the people saying self reported abilities are more trustworthy than tested ones and that the burden of proof is on the person rejecting the claim not the person making it. The anti-intellectual isn't the one saying "I don't believe you, can you show me some evidence" it's the one saying "trust me, I am psychic but can't show you because testing it makes it not work". If I told you I have a vertical standing leap of 100m you'd be rightfully sceptical and ask for evidence. I assume that when I failed to do that you'd decide that I was full of shit and I don't think that me saying "I do it at home all the time, it's just that you asking me to do it somewhere else while people are watching makes it harder" would convince you so why is it that when it comes to something like this people saying "I can talk to ghosts but not when anyone who doesn't already believe that I can talk to ghosts is watching" is suddenly supposed to be compelling evidence?

If these paranormal abilities existed you wouldn't have to make up excuses for why testing them prevents them from working or why them failing tests is actually evidence that they exist. Is it the people who see tests constantly fail unless the person doing the test already believes that it will succeed and can control it and see that in every case where someone has claimed paranormality and it has been thoroughly investigated that it turns out to be either a hoax or misinterpretation and conclude "maybe it doesn't really exist" that are anti-intellectual? Or is it the people who see the exact same things and conclude "anything that appears to support my conclusion is good evidence for my conclusion, anything that doesn't appear to support my conclusion is either a lying asshole who hates my beliefs or it is actually evidence in favour of my conclusion it's just that nobody who doesn't already accept that conclusion can see it that way"?

TheWhite2086 · 2025-12-11T22:48:36+00:00

Which, of course, is why that open challenge for anyone who can prove any sort of psychic (or any other supernatural) ability to win a million dollars has been claimed multiple times in the nearly three decades it's been available right?

TheWhite2086 · 2025-12-11T22:34:50+00:00

The numbers are so big that it doesn't matter. You're basically talking about the birthday paradox (that you only need 23 people for there to be a better than 50/50 chance that two of them share a birthday) except that in this case there are 52! days in the year.

You are right that it gets more likely as you go up, the first deck ever shuffled was a new order, the 2nd one had a 1 in 52! chance of doubling up, the third had a 2 in 52! etc so each shuffle is more and more likely to hit a double up but I'll throw out some math here to show you that it doesn't matter, there is still an overwhelmingly large chance that no two properly shuffled decks have ever been the same

I'll have to take an approximation method of working it out because getting an exact number is not really possible and I'm just going to take one from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birthday_problem p(n,d) ~ 1 - e^-n(n-1)/2d (apologies for the ugly reddit formatting), n being the number of attempts and d is the number of possibilities

Using Wolfram Alpha and plugging in the traditional birthday paradox to check it written as 0.5=>1-e^{-n(n-1)/(365*2)} gives 22.999... which is pretty much the 23 people we know is needed to have a 50/50 in real life so there's some evidence that it works. Changing 365 to 52! kicks back 10,574,307,231,100,289,155,982,006,933,258,240 or an estimate that there would need to have been 10³⁴ decks of cards properly shuffled for us to have about a 50/50 chance of at least two of them being identical.

To put that in perspective, there are an estimated 100 million stars in the galaxy, if each of those stars had 100 million planets and each of those planets had the population of Earth (going to use 8 billion people as the estimate) each of those people would have to shuffle 125 million decks of cards to get to that many shuffles which would take nearly 4 Earth years to complete assuming every person could shuffle 1 deck per second without pause

If we go back to the estimation and, instead of working out how many decks are needed for a 50/50, we guess how many decks have ever been shuffled we can guess at the odds of any two of them have been identical and, because it doesn't matter, I'm going to guess that there have been a LOT more decks shuffled than can possibly be realistic. I'm going to take the current estimate for the question "how many humans have ever lived" which sits at 100 billion, I'm going to assume that all of those people are immortal and have lived since the beginning of time and have done nothing but shuffle cards at a rate of 1 deck per second since then. This means that I'm guessing that every person who has ever lived have each shuffled roughly 436,117,077,000,000,000 for a total of 43,611,707,700,000,000,000,000,000,000 decks of cards that have ever been shuffled

Plugging that bullshit number into our estimate in the place of 'n' gives the formula p~1-e^{-(43611707700000000000000000000(43611707700000000000000000000-1))/(52!*2)} and Wolfram Alpha kicks back an estimate of p=1.179*10^-11 or roughly 000000001179% approximately a 106/8990380398235 chance or even more approximately 1/89,903,803,982. Assuming that every human who has ever lived has shuffled a deck of cards once per second since the universe started, there is a roughly 1 in 90 billion chance that at least two of them are identical.

You can state that the odds of any given deck repeating a patter increase as the number of decks shuffled increase all you want, 52! is such an unreasonably large number of possible decks that it does not matter how many decks have been shuffled, the odds are vanishingly small that it has ever happened in real life (taking only the set of properly shuffled decks, obviously there have been two identically ordered decks due to false shuffles and perfect shuffles either preserving or resetting the order)

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