D2R Patch 2.4 PTR Goes Live on 1/25 (Patch Notes Included)

Well, at least SoJs would regain normal pricing either way. All for that.

Though yeah, with no other changes it'd be a bit silly..or an interesting social experiment. See how many folks would still vendor SoJs, knowing that even if they don't, they wouldn't miss out.

seanbizon wrote: 2 years ago

So, beside few listed niche locations, i still can't find any info of increasing monsters power. Chars are gonna be stronger, mercs too, if the monsters won't be adjusted, it seems ike the game will be too easy, and it's already too easy for OP Paladin and Sorc...im confused. Was there any info about it during live Q&A sessions etc?

I am glad somebody else have this opinion

There are actually many great changes.

I can see the developers are inspired by several d2 mods.

I look forward to try v2.4.

Is there a rough estimate on how close the actual patch is, then? (i.e. how long does it usually stay on PTR)?

does anyone knows when we'll be able to play ptr? I meant time not date ofc

not now...I wondered about that too..probably 20:00 pst or something like that..
which means in like 12 hours.. lol

PTR is patching!

Just got a Twitter notification it is Live! Can't hop on until later today, but I'd love to see some initial thoughts here.

Daeblana wrote: 2 years ago

Just got a Twitter notification it is Live! Can't hop on until later today, but I'd love to see some initial thoughts here.

Don't get too excited..seems it is not designed for proper endgame testing. Chars are down to 85 which isn't too bad I guess but the item selection is just..mweh. There's not even a second SoJ across all of them it seems. Let alone a decent base for anything..or any

Eth base for that matter..or even an elite base at all for the most part.

But hey, at least you get a

Rattlecage and a

Peasant Crown! Wouldn't wanna miss those!

Not a single torch or anni btw. Though you do get one full set of keys..so..gl on the roll for that one torch

Schnorki wrote: 2 years ago

Daeblana wrote: 2 years ago

Just got a Twitter notification it is Live! Can't hop on until later today, but I'd love to see some initial thoughts here.

Don't get too excited..seems it is not designed for proper endgame testing. Chars are down to 85 which isn't too bad I guess but the item selection is just..mweh. There's not even a second SoJ across all of them it seems. Let alone a decent base for anything..or any

Eth base for that matter..or even an elite base at all for the most part.

But hey, at least you get a

Rattlecage and a

Peasant Crown! Wouldn't wanna miss those!

Not a single torch or anni btw. Though you do get one full set of keys..so..gl on the roll for that one torch

Just use that

Rattlecage to

Tal's Armor Trade scam some people, what's the problem?

Hah! Man, they went all out to make gear suck. Just noticed, the

Crown of Ages you get...has 0 sockets! Didn't know that was even possible to create just like that..

And

Anya quest completed across all difficulties but 0 of the normal 30 res. So..more artificial gimping there.

The memes write themselves don't they... I can't wait to see the funnies Reddit comes up with. A zero socket CoA, lol, what are we even doing here? Here, balance test this item that isn't possible to be this bad in the actual game.

It's live guys, there a number of test characters - some of them mules named 'Low level set items' and 'High level uniques' etc.

One is a Barbarian pre-made wearing full.... Cathan's Traps 0_0
Happy testing everyone

If anyone finds any exceptional ethereal unique armors, please let me know! I need a few of those for testing purposes. Doesn't matter what item specifically, any ethereal unique helmet, armor or shield of exceptional quality will do. Normal as well actually if noone finds any exceps..just no elite stuff.

Don’t worry guys,

Skeleton mages are still terrible.

More seriously, I was very underwhelmed by the performance of

Fire Golem. Granted without spending too much time on it I was only able to get it up to lvl 27. But with the change to 2 lvls of

Holy Fire per 1 lvl of

Fire Golem, I should have a lvl 54

Holy Fire aura. I’m not sure if that change was implemented or not. With the changes to the

Holy Fire skill itself I thought that a high lvl

Fire Golem would be quite powerful…. It’s not.


The whole thing is kinda funky. I tried fire Druid, but with a random mish mash of gear it is difficult to tell how strong it would really be in practice. Fire Druid did seem powerful though.

Rolled a 319% ED Infinity, 35 FCR Spirit, 6/5/3 CTA on first try. God bless the PTR

My PTR CTA was 2/1/1. I also tried to roll HOTO in a 5 socket

Flail…

Boogan wrote: 2 years ago

Don’t worry guys,

Skeleton mages are still terrible.

More seriously, I was very underwhelmed by the performance of

Fire Golem. Granted without spending too much time on it I was only able to get it up to lvl 27. But with the change to 2 lvls of

Holy Fire per 1 lvl of

Fire Golem, I should have a lvl 54

Holy Fire aura. I’m not sure if that change was implemented or not. With the changes to the

Holy Fire skill itself I thought that a high lvl

Fire Golem would be quite powerful…. It’s not.


The whole thing is kinda funky. I tried fire Druid, but with a random mish mash of gear it is difficult to tell how strong it would really be in practice. Fire Druid did seem powerful though.

The thing is...a

Fire Golem may get a high-as-hell aura now but they don't have any synergies for that

Holy Fire. So...it still sucks. A lvl 54 aura by itself really doesn't do that much. Kind of like running double Dream on something that isn't a paladin or a sorc. It just doesn't do all that much.

If I recall, the tooltip said the pulse damage was something around 150. Even unsynergized doesn’t that seem low at skill lvl 54?

Edit: I just looked it up and the pulse damage for the skill is just very low in general.

Aye, pulse dmg blows. With synergies and

Conviction its not bad but without that..ugh

On a separate note...is anyone else finding bosses ridiculously resistant to magic and immune to -res apparently?! My sorc can't even take down nightmare meph in under like 2 minutes as neither cold nor light (same spec/dmg on live takes a few seconds..). Haven't tried fire cuz I ran out of tokens

Edit: Not just bosses actually. Mobs live significantly longer than they should as well.