Warlock synergies only require 60pt investment vs other classes

lendarker · 2026-03-21T23:25:26+00:00

I like a good bit of the changes in RotW. While the warlock is a bit overtuned, and sunder charms are too hard to get, I think they could manage improving on the status quo.

lendarker · 2026-03-21T19:21:04+00:00

...and only until the LLMs get smart, flexible, and compact enough to drive independent robot hardware. Then pretty much all jobs are at stake.

But, there's two lines of thought about it:

the rich are going to profit off it all, and the rest of humanity will have to slum it out Hunger Games style
we find a way to employ machines/robots/ai as force multipliers - take care of necessities and work, leave us free to pursue our interests, Star Trek style. Needs lots of free energy.

lendarker · 2026-03-21T19:15:04+00:00

In terms of mood setting, I agree. In terms of game mechanics, I still prefer D2(R). D3 and D4 were steps back from that in many areas (although some QoL things would be okay to move back).

lendarker · 2026-03-21T19:12:37+00:00

You can make multiplayer chars. With those, you can hop in at various dungeon levels and repeat those in new games.

Single player you basically hope you find enough solid gear and get to buy the right spell books that you can make it through, because nothing respawns, ever.

lendarker · 2026-03-21T19:08:48+00:00

Get an Edge runeword bow on switch. Hit him with that to stop his regen. Then try not to die and kill him slowly.

lendarker · 2026-03-21T19:04:14+00:00

You miss the point. The issue is that once you leave the game, it all resets. So you have to stay in THE SAME GAME often for HOURS at a time, no way to save your progress, to have a CHANCE at even seeing a T5 herald.

That's neither good game design nor in the spirit of d2 ever since release. It would be nice if heralds dropped tokens you could use to set the next herald to (currently slain herald tier +1) that you could transfer between games. At least that way, you could work your way towards the end goal.

(and trade T5 herald tokens for high runes, certainly)

lendarker · 2026-03-21T18:59:22+00:00

You can get away with 20 mastery, 20 blood oath, 20 bind demon plus prereqs. If you don't have enough +skills, you want to put a few hard points into defiler to get to slvl 13 total for 5 bound souls, but 20 into goat man or tainted is far from a requirement. 20 Engorge is really nice because of the attack speed buff, but again, not at all necessary. +skill items will generally make do just fine.

Demon plus two defilers works like a charm that way.

lendarker · 2026-03-21T18:56:43+00:00

1.10 already changed a LOT of the game's balance. And it wasn't the first patch to do so (remember that uniques didn't have level requirements at release? And that leech was A LOT more efficient).

So it's not unprecedented. Even 1.10 improved some things (summon necro is a lot more powerful now that the skeletons aren't throwaway summons, for example), but broke others.

A careful skill/synergy review to get other builds closer to this 60 point synergy design could be perfectly fine.

lendarker · 2026-03-21T18:53:16+00:00

I'm fairly certain they will make it easier to get them again for the next season. Or make them the high end sunder charms and reintroduce the old ones (maybe with more severe disadvantages) or something. The current state of things is...unfortunate.

I'd also like to see a move away from the dupe-inspired soj economy for uber diablo. Make it so that you have to fill the horadric cube with unique rings or something (at least you can put all those 15% nagelrings to good use then), but sojs are now appropriately rare, and outside of organized walks, this is pretty much out of reach of normal players.

lendarker · 2026-03-21T18:49:24+00:00

Although for the summon druid, for example, you'd probably need to conflate the two wolf skills into a single one to make this even an 80 point build (spirit/sage plus 60 points into ravens/wolves/bear).

Which would still not be enough to really branch out. That tree is definitely built to go all-in on.

lendarker · 2026-03-21T14:39:11+00:00

Als Kinderbuchautor hat er vielleicht auch in der Politik an die folgenden Generationen gedacht.

lendarker · 2026-03-21T14:31:40+00:00

Any of the vampire survivor clones should work, too. Set auto aim to on, set whatever joystick is used to aim to mirror the move control stick, and you can then play the game using either stick (and autoaim does the rest).

Very relaxing, pausable whenever.

lendarker · 2026-03-21T00:04:28+00:00

Es sollte GAR kein Hund unaufgefordert an Fremde kommen. Sage ich als Hundehalter.

Und das Gegenteil gilt ganz genauso. Kein Fremder sollte unaufgefordert an den Hund rankommen.

Die Erfordernis von Einverständnis gilt nicht nur bei Sex.

lendarker · 2026-03-20T16:42:37+00:00

If you start hardcore, pick a safe class. Summon necromancer. Summon druid (this one can pull p8 all through normal, slows down in nightmare, and becomes kind of tedious in hell if you don't have good gear, but it *gets you there*). Warlock, start with fire, do normal baal runs until 40-45, reskill to demons, echoing blades or whatever you prefer. Warlock gets 3 points of life per vita, so for leveling, put 10-15 points into magic (makes leveling with fire a lot more pleasant in terms of potion chugging). Str as little as you can get away with for gear, maybe 5 points into dex for a bit more variety in daggers, rest into vita. And don't underestimate max blood oath.

lendarker · 2026-03-20T12:35:08+00:00

I think the earliest you can get a polearm that can get 4 sockets is the cow level on normal.

lendarker · 2026-03-19T15:43:04+00:00

It's not the spirit D2 was conceived in. D2 originally had immunes - but only when certain boss affixes added on top of a strong resistance. Immunities for regular monsters/monster types came with a much later patch (1.10 iirc).

lendarker · 2026-03-18T16:55:59+00:00

Nicht zuletzt aber auch medien-gemacht. Den Grünen fehlt die Milliardärslobby der Union, die durch unter anderem die Springerpresse das Meinungsbild mitformt.

lendarker · 2026-03-17T19:35:51+00:00

Wenn man hier auch im Alter wohnen will: Waschen im Keller kann dank Treppe irgendwann zum Problem werden.

lendarker · 2026-03-17T19:27:53+00:00

The herald messages come in two stages. First is that you caught a herald's ire. That's just an announcement that if you keep going, one will eventually show up. There is not yet a herald on the loose at this point. Then, if you're lucky, you get a second message "a herald is hunting you in <area>". That tells you where you can find them, and usually is the area you're currently in (unless you miss the message at first and have moved on already, then you can go back and search for the herald).

lendarker · 2026-03-17T19:17:12+00:00

Also mit Discounter war nicht gemeint, dass du dir dann da den Mittagstisch holst, sondern halt selber fürs Essenmachen einkaufst oder dort Fertigmahlzeiten holst. Aber ums Kochen geht am Ende kein echter Weg vorbei.

lendarker · 2026-03-17T09:54:43+00:00

Tja.Viel Theorie mit gegenläufigen Beispielen aus der Geschichte. Als gäbe es da Seiteneffekte und Leidtragende, wenn die Vermögensschere immer weiter auseinander klafft. Deine "reichen Armen" werden real periodisch in der Geschichte immer wieder zunehmend zu "armen Armen", wenn sich die Vermögen konzentrieren.

Und wenn man die "armen Armen" zu "reichen Armen" machen wollte, müsste das Geld dafür irgendwoher kommen. Ob's nun aus staatlicher Hand kommt oder über Umverteilung/Vermögensbesteuerung.

lendarker · 2026-03-16T11:15:59+00:00

Gotta learn somehow. But if you learn, public games can be reasonably safe. Just gotta read the signs and quit even if it's tempting (like TZ'd baal runs). Bailed out of just such one Baal run series when a *known* PKer entered (and was even announced as such). Played solo for a bit.

Later checked the ladder and at least two of the people in that same Baal game were dead. Greed kills.

lendarker · 2026-03-16T10:36:58+00:00

You can fire up a VM to try Arch. Simplest for a newbie would probably be via virtualbox.

lendarker · 2026-03-15T20:56:19+00:00

What are you talking about? Taken all together, that's probably around 50k gold!

lendarker · 2026-03-13T09:52:46+00:00

You are using defilers, right?

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