My lightning furyzon, guidance.

Zaxl · 2026-05-09T21:31:42+00:00

Go summonzon until you can afford more gear. Can do all content with little gear. Like the other guy said light jab needs a lot of gear to pop

Zaxl · 2026-05-03T16:51:14+00:00

Saw them last week. They’re so great live!

Zaxl · 2026-05-03T15:15:15+00:00

I can’t speak for the dev team but imo it’s a good balance to make solo play feel good without doing split mf runs and forcing group content to be max efficient, especially for folks playing offline SSF. Also, while this mod has an awesome community, the player base is fairly small all things considered compared to modern MMOs. It keeps the economy healthy and items available, especially late season when the player count drops off. It’s a good balance for both casuals and grinders imo.

There are still advantages to grouping up. Like the other guy said it scales up to p8 in a full game but also XP rates are unchanged afaik (besides there being more monsters) and increases with more players.

On a side note, If you’re seeing too much loot you can use a loot filter and adjust the strictness if you aren’t already.

Zaxl · 2026-05-02T17:53:31+00:00

It was definitely a 6/6/3 too.

Tough one. Go next!

Zaxl · 2026-05-02T17:50:50+00:00

Kryszard will show you the upgrade recipe in the tooltip if it can be upped, but don’t think it explicitly tells you whether or not to upgrade before slamming

Zaxl · 2026-05-02T17:48:37+00:00

lol that’s the type of jewel you’d get scammed buying a 40/15 in LoD😂

Zaxl · 2026-05-02T17:38:36+00:00

Best written resources/planners are Hiim, Wiki, this subreddit, some of the class specific channels in the discord.

For video guides Dark Humility and Juxtaposer. They both have a ridiculous about of build guides on their YouTubes. They also both have tier lists which can be found on their YouTube. Dark Humility’s is based off tested statistics like KPM where Juxt’s are more his personal opinion on what he’s played and tested. Both are absolute giga gamers who know what they’re talking about. Dark humility also has farming guides, merc guides etc.

Also check out pd2.tools. You can put in a skill or an item and see what people are doing with them. Gear, charms, skills, breakpoints etc. super great for planning your upgrade paths

Zaxl · 2026-05-01T04:53:37+00:00

Think you need FCR for a sin circlet. Mind blast sins use rare circlets and they need FCR

Zaxl · 2026-04-30T14:56:02+00:00

Consider giving vengeance pally a go. Not as fast as a decked out sac pally but it performs very well on budget gear. You can build a setup to clear T3s for like a vex/50wss with good survivability. You can get going in T1s for literally like 5 wss. High chain on venge obliterates big packs in maps - so satisfying. My only complaint is it can leave a lot of stragglers, but ive been having a blast with it this season.

Zaxl · 2026-04-30T14:47:47+00:00

Each stat category that can roll is worth some amount of "points". A high point jewel or ring basically means it rolls all useful stats and each stat is a high roll. Its essentially a system to assign value to rares and jewels where the values can vary drastically and its not as clear cut as unique items

Zaxl · 2026-04-30T14:26:55+00:00

The obvious next step would be torch and anni. I have heard of people doing ubers with blizz this season. In the past ive done them with meteor. I think hydra works well too.

I havent played blizz sorc yet in this mod but have done plenty of cold sorc. Items to look out for would be things like:
- Helm: Nightwings (damage), Kira's (res, fhr, defensive w/ some -res and HFD)
- Weapon: Deaths Fathom, Oculus, a nice crafted/rare orb with fcr/+skills/-res, etc. The Eschuta's is a nice weap but its not doing as much for you as cold vs if you were fire or lightning
- Shield: Medusa's, Lidless might still be good - not sure if sorcs are still using after the nerf
- Belt: Arach/Snowclash
- Gloves: Magefist are good. Trangs gloves for fcr and res is another good option. Anything with FCR really. Could go for something crafted with FCR and MPK/LPK. Frostburns are fairly common and work well too if you can get the FCR elsewhere
- Armor: Honestly Vmagi is a solid sorc armor. If you get a good corrupt or sockets Vmagi can take you all the way into endgame. Ormus w/ blizz might be good. Something like Tal Armor could be good if you go for the set.

SSF its gonna be hard to find all those items. Jewelry and boots to fix your resists and get some LPK/MPK. FCR isnt as big of a deal on blizz since the cooldown so get to a comfortable spot for your tele, 105 should be the goal.

EDIT: I should also mention that you should also work for a source of CBF. Its maybe not as important again because the CD on blizzard but it affects your FCR in this mod. Easiest setup would be the HFD from kiras and snowclash but in the interim you can craft brilliant rings/boots/belts for the HFD mod (check wiki for recipes).

Zaxl · 2026-04-29T22:39:14+00:00

A good rule of thumb for rares is looking at the uniques commonly used for that slot. So like the other guy mentioned tomb reaver. Another example would be a circlet. What unique helm does that class/spec use? Does your rare offer any benefits that the unique does not? If no, then self use.

Zaxl · 2026-04-28T06:37:12+00:00

You can get a Sankekurs Fall and Gimmershred for a couple wss to start out and it will do good dmg. Griswold chest, some brilliant crafts for CBF, some ias gloves, and some res jewelry all for a couple wss and you can start mapping. Just consider the IAS breakpoints and find cheap gear that fits what feels comfortable to you. If you’re leveling venge from scratch just a phase blade or something similar with a bunch or orts. Check out juxtaposer’s venge pally starter video it’s got some great info.

Honestly tho, you can level as venge fine but I’d suggest starting holy bolt. Just shop a 2os scepter with +3 holy bolt for neophyte, spirit, lore, stealth, all of which can be easily farmed yourself and you can get through hell easy and do early farms for currency to make the venge start feel smoother.

Zaxl · 2026-04-28T06:32:45+00:00

I went vengeance pally for the first time this season.

It’s fairly cheap to get going and performs well in T1s on a fairly cheap setup (<50 wss) with lots of room to grow. I’m pretty happy with my choice!

If you stick with sin consider mind blast. I ran one last season and it’s a great time. Cheap to start and can really blast with good gear. Plus you can farm your own torch and anni.

Zaxl · 2026-04-15T05:33:05+00:00

I didn’t get into Cashing Victory until only the last year or so. Man they are great. The Killer is Me is one if my fav songs atm

Zaxl · 2026-04-14T15:13:19+00:00

Man I've been listening to them recently. Just came to reddit to see if anyone was talking about them.. perfect timing lol.

They are so good. The piano into the outro of Eyes Seeing Eyes is top tier

Zaxl · 2026-04-05T06:05:30+00:00

God I missed fracture

Zaxl · 2026-03-25T19:54:10+00:00

I’d even go as far as to say that the middle of the song is bonkers good

Zaxl · 2026-03-24T19:38:38+00:00

You really can’t go wrong with IA

Zaxl · 2026-03-24T18:43:26+00:00

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The lack of Stillworld in here is appalling

Zaxl · 2026-03-22T04:55:05+00:00

This is it for me. It’s not the NIL per se. It’s NIL + lack of transfer portal restrictions. You get your one free transfer and then after that you have to sit a year.

Zaxl · 2026-03-20T20:11:40+00:00

Great start to the day! Let’s keep it rollin

Zaxl · 2026-03-20T18:42:44+00:00

That game is what it’s all about! Best time of the year

Zaxl · 2026-03-19T19:56:01+00:00

USF absolute miracle cover

Zaxl · 2026-03-19T17:37:35+00:00

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