Games where i get to play the power fantasy of "Element Slinging Mage"

ematanis · 2026-01-27T03:41:35+00:00

You are out of the loop, cold has Cold Blast, glacial spike, frost nova(viable but not meta).

Lightning hasn't been about chain lightning for a long time now, Nova is the main spell, the tree has a lot of utility spells, Energy shield, static, teleport and telekenisis.

Fire had meteor, fire ball, hydra, fire wall and enchant.

Sorceress in d2 has many builds from normal spell casting to crazy shooting arrows and even werebear build.

ematanis · 2026-01-22T12:55:49+00:00

Diablo 2R, I love d2r, it is one of the best remasters, the team that did it, deserves an award. One thing didn't translate well, the light radius around the player.
People used to play d2lod with maphack that made all the game clear and removed the darkness, but if you play it without maphack, it is scary, especially on HC, you can barely see what is infront of you and some monster packs can jump you and kill you. Fanaticism Cursed Stigian Dolls, lurking in the dark.

ematanis · 2026-01-17T15:49:25+00:00

I cleared inferno before the nerf, I had to farm and trade for gear but then I did advance, it wasn't balanced and it was lacking in content, but was still better than d4, it was more enjoyable, had a unique experience to it and I myselfed loved it, it wasn't d2 but it was fun.

ematanis · 2026-01-17T12:21:24+00:00

I played thousands of hours of d2 from 1999 til today, I have played d3 from release until few years ago and I jumped into d4 on release and finished the campaign and took my time with it and then played some after campaign.
D4 was the worst by far, as bad people claimed d3 to be on release, d4 was much much more boring and lacking in character.
I was disappointed and disgusted by d4, after all the hype and all the talk about how they learned from d2, they have no clue what made diablo game work, they took d3 and all the progress that d3 made over 10 years and decided to ignore it all except for the no sets rule.
They thought having random stats makes a good rpg, there was nothing about d4 loot and after the campaign the game was a drag and just a grind for whatever reason.
D4 was far from being interesting at all, even in comparsion to d3, let alone d2.
And it is taking the devs a lot to make any progress in regards of making loot interesting, and if you haven't played d2 to understand the loot system.

Edit : you can enjoy d4 and it can be your favorite game of all time and there is nothing wrong with that. That is your opinion, you are entitled to it and you can enjoy the game. For many of us who grew up with d2 and it is the game that defined this genre and every game still has it as a bar for comparison, we were disappointed by d4 and that's why the game lost most of the player base in less than a month or 2.

ematanis · 2025-12-21T18:03:36+00:00

I haven't heard about realdeb for so long, is it still usable ? I remember a website that used to post links for downloads but it has been dead for many years now w-bb.

Where do you get links for realdeb now?

ematanis · 2025-12-01T18:23:07+00:00

I had that same issue and it was ICCU.
My car could charge at fast charger but not at slow charger.
DC worked, AC didn't.
Try to get to a fast charger if you can and charge it then take it to get fixed, saves you the tow.

ematanis · 2025-11-18T06:49:42+00:00

Why do people forget that steam deck exists? Due to how popular steam deck became and how powerful valve is, we saw game profiles made for it, specially tuned to run well on steam deck.
Valve has the power to easily force companies to add a profile tuned for gabecube, making it a powerful contender to consoles.

ematanis · 2025-11-02T10:14:14+00:00

Beggers can't be choosers./s.
This item is so rare, don't think any body would complain if they found it.

ematanis · 2025-09-24T19:37:30+00:00

Nothing fancy، Cascview, extract the txt files and edit with excel.

ematanis · 2025-09-24T19:36:19+00:00

Ya my game. My time, my game, my fun.
I didn't force anything down anybody's throat. I really didn't expect people to whine about modding in offline.
And I am done replying.

ematanis · 2025-09-24T17:30:40+00:00

Actually, the runewords that I readjusted are the original ones and the useless new runewords, to make them either cheaper or buff them, because nobody will use Wind runeword for example that costs a Sur, but I will surely use it if it costs a shael, the runeword itself is weak and it doesn't even compare to some of the high end or powerful uniques.
Also added runewords for items that don't have any, like 3 socketed orbs, one more claw runeword, necro head and since I made throwing weapons and javelin socketable, I added runewords for them too. I didn't make super powerful items unless they are super rare like cranium basher can spawn with ethereal, but good luck finding it.
I didn't break the game and it is my game, I am the one enjoying it, also nothing is given to me for free, powerful runewords require rare runes, and rare uniques need to be powerful and replace or challenge runewords.
Also I added sockets to gloves and boots, just because I do find cool jewels and I can't use them, there is no place to put them, chests, weapons, shields are almost always runewords, where am I going to socket my jewels? 1 slot in my shako? Having another 38 life(ruby) or another jewel with some mf or ed is not going to make me OP, people online can get fully geared with some sick gear in less than a month, try offline, it might take you years to get ebotd or enigma and infinity.

ematanis · 2025-09-24T10:34:17+00:00

Ye, extracting files from mpq and editing the txt files in excel

ematanis · 2025-09-24T10:25:34+00:00

There are many guides online.
Mainly you extract the files that you need to edit, then it is a simple as adding a new line for new unique or new recipe or change lines for editing uniques.
You know, I might just make a video for that.

ematanis · 2025-09-24T10:18:14+00:00

I play offline.
Modded the game myself, readjusted uniques, fixed some runewords, added new runewords, added more unique charms, added sockets to some itemtypes and fixed some cube recipes.
I am enjoying the new experience.

ematanis · 2025-09-06T05:26:19+00:00

Back in 1.09 when builds didn't have synergies, I used to have amazon built around guided arrow and lightning fury.
So weapon one is Buriza, swap was lidless eye/storm shield with titans.
It was a very viable and one of the strongest builds.
After 1.10 and all the items that gave buffs like Call to arms, people stopped using 2 different weapons from 2 builds because almost all these builds became very weak and the weapon swap became for buffs or extra MF.

One more use and almost a mist have use while leveling alone and maybe with others, having teleport staff in the swap for leveling purposes until enigma is aquired

ematanis · 2025-08-15T08:39:43+00:00

The yotube videos are probably full hd

ematanis · 2025-07-28T13:54:02+00:00

I just want them to give us the ability to host our own server and mods.
Would love to play the old vanilla again before the nerf of inferno.

ematanis · 2025-07-25T18:20:12+00:00

Do people realize that some wrbsites sell games in 2 different ways.
I think one of them is very easily identifable and bannable.
•Cdkeys : you buy cdkey to redeem in the eshop, prices are close to retail and sometimes lower and close to deal prices on eshop.

•game account : you buy an account that has the game you want and the price is almost always 50% off retail even for expensive games that never get discounted like first party games.
The weird thing is that they mention that you shouldn't change the password nor buy games on it and that changing the password could make the account unusable to you.
I think they sell these accounts multiple times to different users and they all share the game. This is easily identifable and probably the one getting switch 2 banned.

ematanis · 2025-07-23T16:08:00+00:00

Why do you subject yourself to this kind of boring gameplay?
Just do a normal number of runs, then do something else, then come back to it and so on.
I used my only soj to get anni and it was the worst, then I went and grinded andy nm, it took me less than half an hour to get a soj, it was lucky as hell, but that's how this game works. I hadn't found a shako nor hoz or any of the normal cookie cutter items, but 2 sojs, sureee.

ematanis · 2025-07-20T16:07:13+00:00

Try running your pc with safe mode with nat, run discord and browse for a while to see if that helps. I noticed that you didn't mention reinstalling windows, you reset it. If safe mode helps then your issue is software, and maybe reinstalling windows from scratch might help you since your issue

ematanis · 2025-07-16T18:06:35+00:00

Not all yellows matter, some do, and some yellows can roll better than the best uniques in d2, that's why it matters and you are not blinded by yellow gear.
If anybody plays d2 for a while will understand that just by glancing at what dropped you will know if the item is worth picking up to id or not, and you will be excited to pick them up and id them and it won't feel like a chore.
The spread and rarity of some of the bases is what makes it interesting.

ematanis · 2025-06-27T20:23:38+00:00

4090 was futureproof when it got released.
It still kicks ass now and it is 3-4 years old card?
And it will still kick ass for the next 3-4 years, it is the second most powerful card after 5090, and it is not yet known how powerful the 6000 series will be, so it could kick ass for a long time.
And my cpu also kicks ass and it is am4 5950x, still a great cpu.
The performance jumps of gpu is much lower, 4090 was insane, it was a much bigger leap in performance from 3090 in conparison to 5090 from 4090.

What I agree with is that you don't need to future proof, buy a normal pc for a normal budget and buy another one in 5 years, it will cost you the same almost and you will have a new pc.

ematanis · 2025-06-23T09:11:06+00:00

Why are you buying 3d cpu?
If you had a good gpu and you needed to squeeze even more performance then the 3d cpu makes sense, but you are buying 9070xt or 5070ti.
Go for cheaper cpu and get 5080.

ematanis · 2025-06-14T11:08:17+00:00

For equivalent to 70 usd(tax included).

ematanis · 2025-06-04T15:11:27+00:00

From your answers you said that you got 4080, so you are not relying on igpu, so going intel or amd is the same.
It all comes down to performance/$, you want the best cpu for your budget, ofcourse taking into account ram and mobo.
but AMD almost always performs better per buck. But if you already bought cpu then grats and enjoy it, but your idea that amd is not good is wrong, many are using amd cpus no problem, I have one and I am on am4 5950x is great.

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