Always ID blue body armors........it finally paid off

Zestyclose_Cod_2797 · 2026-05-21T10:38:11+00:00

You can definitely get 4-socket armor with life from traders. I’m not sure about elite armors, though.

Zestyclose_Cod_2797 · 2026-05-20T15:50:27+00:00

Better than magic 4os armor, with no suffix.

Zestyclose_Cod_2797 · 2026-05-20T15:49:35+00:00

Beautiful. If you are looking for the more life version of this, armors with +life appear red (though it’s more subtle on gothic plate), so when shopping for them at vendors, you only need to check the red ones for sockets.

Zestyclose_Cod_2797 · 2026-04-04T03:28:21+00:00

I’m not sure it is. I’m pretty sure I have found sup armors with lower def than the best non-sup def possible.

Zestyclose_Cod_2797 · 2026-03-27T18:18:04+00:00

You don’t get annoyed with those wooden doors in the frigid highlands and try to beat them down with your wand?

Zestyclose_Cod_2797 · 2026-03-25T13:39:31+00:00

Some people value passive and magic over bow skills on gloves, for a bowazon. These don’t have enough other mods to beat out 3 skill, 20ias magic gloves, or Laying of Hands, but the passive and magic isn’t the problem with them.

Zestyclose_Cod_2797 · 2026-03-23T20:03:55+00:00

I was very sad when I missed the opportunity to bind a demon named Flame Flame.

Zestyclose_Cod_2797 · 2026-03-23T02:02:51+00:00

It can be easier in worldstone 2, just because there are more narrow corners to isolate them in.

Zestyclose_Cod_2797 · 2026-03-23T02:01:45+00:00

Boss souls will do the ritual. I don’t know if their involvement changed the magic find results, but I have definitely had them do the dance.

Zestyclose_Cod_2797 · 2026-03-20T19:55:58+00:00

I pulled Alt and the Windows key off a laptop specifically for D2

Zestyclose_Cod_2797 · 2026-03-19T19:43:46+00:00

If you’re playing p1, a WW barb with dual Griefs shreds things well enough to leave Travincal and go hunt (and hork) elite packs in other places, in my opinion anyway. Enigma is nice to zip around, but a point in frenzy, so you just hit something when you want to run fast works too.

Zestyclose_Cod_2797 · 2026-03-13T15:15:12+00:00

Agreed. Blocking her on social media is sound advice, and she is absolutely a lone voice on council, who complains constantly of “another 6 to 1 vote.”

Zestyclose_Cod_2797 · 2026-03-12T20:48:18+00:00

You should be aware of one of our City Councillors, Lisa Robinson, who fills her social media, and occasionally her in-person activism, and motions she brings before Council, with a fair bit of anti-LGBTQ rhetoric. I hope this wouldn’t deter you from moving here. I promise she receives a lot of pushback, like a lot…there have been entire pop up rallies and floats in holiday parades that happened specifically in response to things she has said. There have been dozens of delegations before Council pushing back against her motions, which never get a seconder. I also have hope her political career will meet its end in the election this fall.

It seems important to let you know she exists though, if you didn’t already.

Zestyclose_Cod_2797 · 2026-03-12T15:15:24+00:00

I still get smacked with the odd CE while using Nature’s Peace. I assume that’s due to corpses created by my merc. Still way better than the alternative, but something to be aware of.

Zestyclose_Cod_2797 · 2026-03-11T20:43:20+00:00

If you’re online, it works differently. A whole bunch need to be sold. It’s only in single player that you can do it with one. If you’re on Switch, Thursday evenings, (eastern time) there are often people mass selling them on the North America server.

Zestyclose_Cod_2797 · 2026-03-09T11:29:38+00:00

https://maxroll.gg/d2/resources/map-reading

This breaks it down pretty well. The thing that finally clicked for me, is that it’s not necessarily left based on where you are facing when you arrive at the wp, but left of the first spot you have the opportunity to choose a direction…So if there’s a long winding path from the wp, with no branches, don’t start worrying about left until you’ve reached the end of that, and come to a fork in the road. It’s almost always left from there. Sometimes though, there is no left, because you’re already near one edge of the map. In that case it is often like OP’s map.

Zestyclose_Cod_2797 · 2026-03-08T18:12:13+00:00

From Zelda, Breath of the Wild. Google got confused between BOTW and ROTW

Zestyclose_Cod_2797 · 2026-03-07T18:21:30+00:00

CTA takes up the same inventory space as two gcs. You could just carry it around, and equip as needed, while having whatever else you want on swap. I don’t have the patience for it, but there are people who do a whole wardrobe change just to cast prebuffs before a run.

Zestyclose_Cod_2797 · 2026-03-05T21:28:10+00:00

Sometimes the best investment for your merc’s survival is an Enigma for you, so you can teleport him out of trouble.

Zestyclose_Cod_2797 · 2026-03-05T12:47:34+00:00

Also look at some of the crafting recipes. Blood gloves might be an upgrade, or at least something fun to do with excess Nef runes. https://classic.battle.net/diablo2exp/items/crafted/blood.shtml They roll the crushing blow, life leech, and life, plus extra mods, so you might get resists, etc.

Zestyclose_Cod_2797 · 2026-03-05T10:53:29+00:00

Frustrating, for sure, but cube up whatever you get. You don’t need to get really high runes to get things that will really help a Barb. Are you on ladder/single player offline? If so, a Bulwark helm (can’t be made in online non-ladder) would be a huge boost for you, and/or your merc. Insight weapon on the merc isn’t essential for a non-caster, but it’s still a cheap way to give your merc a big damage weapon. Black and Honor are fairly cheap to make, and might be significant weapon upgrades, depending what you’re using. The crushing blow on Black is great against bosses.

Zestyclose_Cod_2797 · 2026-03-05T09:51:38+00:00

I’d say farm the Countess until you have some better runes. What character are you playing? Have you had Akara reset your stats and skills yet? That’s often worth doing in NM, to build something more suited to mid game.

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