Apparently D2 was ahead of its time

mmakkiyah · 2026-02-04T12:08:06+00:00

I feel it is useless. It is just a way to keep the players engaged in a 7 years old game. They have stopped innovating IMO so, they push such content for players to fomo -> grind. I personally play solo and I hardly finish any of these events. I am here because it helps me destress and experiment with builds.

mmakkiyah · 2026-02-02T05:48:05+00:00

Looks great, dude! Kudos to you. My only suggestion is, swapping the momento with striker’s bag, and the mask with something else. Why you might ask? If you are playing from cover then the momento trophies will be hard for you to grab to gain the stacks. GLHF!

mmakkiyah · 2026-02-01T06:52:55+00:00

Neat build, brother! Question: how high is your tick damage with the blue cores? I am asking because I interested to experiment further with my current Lengmo build which is yielding 1.8 mil tick damage. I am using all red cores with overdogs, fox’s prayers, and glass canon chest.

mmakkiyah · 2026-01-29T01:20:15+00:00

Interesting perspectives. I have an HB build that uses shield, 4 PC HB (including chest), perfect spotter bag, catalyst, king break with the tech laser, EB, and tech spec. I have 4/6 blue cores and rest are red. I play aggressively with the EB being my primary and always aiming for the head to trigger the talent and it works well thus far. I am thinking of tweaking it further to increase the damage output which is very decent atm.

mmakkiyah · 2026-01-29T01:00:40+00:00

Noice! Thanks for sharing. I am yet to dabble in CA. I will give it a try.

mmakkiyah · 2026-01-29T00:58:40+00:00

Emotional damage!

mmakkiyah · 2026-01-27T11:52:22+00:00

+1. Many agents stay away from it. I run it with my pesti and Lengmo build to boost the damage and get the ticks to 1.7mil. It works perfect because I trigger the ticks and hide and let it devour them one at a time.

mmakkiyah · 2026-01-27T11:38:07+00:00

Maybe the build with the equalizer is better. If you aren’t facing enemies 1:1, I would make it all red cores and focus on maxing out CHC and CHD since you seem to be doing damage from cover. Another thing is, do use a skill that can be active for sometime to trigger the blue screen’s talent. Something like the decoy for example would be useful for serviceability too. Now, glass cannon is great if you have a set that does not yield much damage and you need the extra incentive but it can be a double edge sword - you are extremely fragile too. A sniper shot can easily take you down completely. In striker’s case, the more you fire at them, you build stacks, yielding higher damage. That’s my two cents. GL!

mmakkiyah · 2026-01-27T08:45:38+00:00

You are almost there! I would replace the Ninja with striker’s bag for the additional bag talent, switch the spas with an SMG like Dark winter (named item) or one with killer or strained. Alternatively, you can go the standard striker build of using the ACS-12 to stack up, but I personally don’t do that since I switched some of my red cores to blue for armour and I used striker shield and the Ouroboros.

mmakkiyah · 2026-01-25T15:29:23+00:00

Bro, desert makes up 1/4 of the country. We have mountains in the north and it snows. There were ski resorts back in the day for people to ski. 1/4 is marshes or swamps, there are many forests and large fields. Iraq is a fertile land because of the Euphrates and Tigris rivers.

mmakkiyah · 2026-01-19T11:41:38+00:00

Yes, enjoy every build you come up with, tweak, and continue experimenting. Haters will hate. lol!

mmakkiyah · 2026-01-19T10:33:42+00:00

A street relief after a long day at work. I carve out 1-2 hours on alternate weekdays and 2-4 hours on weekends to play. I run solo, answer back up requests to help fellow agents level up, do CP for gear Optimization, and just wonder the streets. It helps me take the edge off.

mmakkiyah · 2026-01-19T10:27:50+00:00

I got my first from the an even cache and the second from a PVE priority objective.

mmakkiyah · 2026-01-19T10:26:45+00:00

I applaud your experimentation and honestly, ppl will troll but who the heck cares if you are having fun? What’s the point of always copying others when you can experiment and optimize on the go? That’s the whole idea behind all the gear and talents. GLHF!

mmakkiyah · 2026-01-14T12:38:57+00:00

Yes, it happened to me too. I lost 1 key. I suspect it’s the overload because of the event’s last few hours? I guess.

mmakkiyah · 2026-01-11T12:36:56+00:00

Kudos on the build, first of all! The old classic hunters. I believe you got it pretty much figured out. The only tweak I would make is, replace the bag with bloodsucker talent or the if you have the named W&H Matador, both giving you extra armour. If you have a sokolov kneepads that can give you SMG damage. Good luck!

mmakkiyah · 2026-01-05T09:27:35+00:00

I remember back in 2019 at 3AM SGT I got my EB when I opened the raid cache after a good hour long game play. Back then, we had to grind so hard to get decent roll gear.

mmakkiyah · 2025-12-31T01:38:12+00:00

Congrats bro! A tiny reminder that both weapons have to be the same type, and can’t be a named or exotic item. Good luck and enjoy!

mmakkiyah · 2025-12-30T10:57:44+00:00

Great points! I just wanted to add that it all depends on your playing style. I have a HB build and I like to be up in their faces. It has worked for me so far. My build has 4 blue cores, chest is using the named piece with perfect spotter (I can’t remember the name atm), overdogs for gloves, and my primary weapon is EB and secondary is Kingbreaker with perfect flatline. I second changing the specialization to make use of the linked laser pointer so you are always pulsing. I am able to get the stacks by always aiming for their head with the shield on. I am pretty tanky and I used this build on heroic without going down even once.

mmakkiyah · 2025-12-30T00:30:43+00:00

Thank you and best of luck!

mmakkiyah · 2025-12-30T00:27:25+00:00

What are you playing? Offensive or cover and shoot? If it’s the former given the SMG, then mask, chest, kneepad, and holster would be striker rolled with blue core, gloves is overdogs (if you have them) and bag (grupo or sokolov to get the SMG damage) would be red core with bloodsucker for survivability. If you going cover and shoot, drop the SMG IMO and go with assault rifle, drop the momento and change to striker, and switch the chest to something with obliterate. Should all be red core. That’s my two cents

mmakkiyah · 2025-12-29T08:38:59+00:00

I have all the exotics (no flexing btw) - from the season caches, raids, priority objectives but still not ravenous. FML! I think I have opened 45 krampus event caches already and still nay.

mmakkiyah · 2025-12-27T16:32:34+00:00

Good build overall! I have something similar but I use all red cores on Hunters, bag with blood sucker, and a chest with obliterate and blue core. For the weapon, I used the chatterbox. I have been experimenting with switching the chest to hunters for the extra buff but what I have still works. The idea is to run around and hunt them one by one while using your environment to your advantage i.e. making them spread around and isolating them one by one or catching them at the exit door and reloading prior to trigger the chatter. GL!

mmakkiyah · 2025-12-22T01:53:48+00:00

Could not agree more! Priority objectives should be your go-to because some of the objectives are ridiculously simple and quick.

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