Update 9/9: New PTR expected next week along with ladder 2 start date

Bisu wrote: 2 years ago

I am most curious about what feature qualifies as "pretty big".

Maybe the game name search function will actually start working? That'd be kinda big in the sense that..you know..something actually happens. But nah..wishful thinking..

Big change = Amazon now has 2mm longer hair.

Schnorki wrote: 2 years ago

Bisu wrote: 2 years ago

I am most curious about what feature qualifies as "pretty big".

Maybe the game name search function will actually start working? That'd be kinda big in the sense that..you know..something actually happens. But nah..wishful thinking..

Big change = Amazon now has 2mm longer hair.

Just as long as they don't add whiskers!

Schnorki wrote: 2 years ago

Big change = Amazon now has 2mm longer hair.

Hey, turning her from Willem Dafoe to Antiope Robin Wright was already a miracle in itself. Princess Buttercup Robin Wright? 2mm longer hair? Activision Blizzard will say that costs extra.

Act 6

i wish summons could stay after a session

Just in from PezRadar:
https://us.forums.blizzard.com/en/d2r/e ... 140654/164

Blizzard wrote:

Hi all

Happy to see some good excitement for the PTR. I do want to level set some expectations with 2.5 and the PTR. The team has been pretty heads down on the new feature so expectations for 2.5 when it comes to balance/number changes should be very minimal. 2.4 was the big hoorah of changes for D2R and was the main focus but 2.5’s main focus was very much this new feature and a good amount of bug fixes.

As for PTR, you should expect more info to hit tomorrow so see you then.

Very minimal balance/number changes, hmm. Excited to see what the new feature is!

Real money auction house? Microtransactions? Battle pass? Lootboxes?

Game still lacks so many modern features, time to test them here before D4 launches.

they could even take some features from d3 and put them in d2r

My wish is stackable gems and runes.

Could be an update to the chat interface.

Chatrooms..or something of that sort.

It's up. The new feature is content: Terror Zones.

https://news.blizzard.com/en-us/diablo2 ... s-now-live

so we got no qol updates...

Terror zones sounds promising. This seems like kind of a big deal as well:

Blizzard wrote:

Fixed an issue where Iron Golems summoned through a

Charge of the skill (Ex: granted by

Metalgrid) would disappear when performing an inventory update.
Fixed an issue where Iron Golems created by a charged skill would not save between games.

Just put on

Metalgrid, summon an

Iron Golem from an Insight, replace

Metalgrid, and you have a mana battery that stays between games. Or am I missing something?

Engelmark wrote: 2 years ago

Fixed an issue where Iron Golems created by a charged skill would not save between games.[/blizz]
Just put on

Metalgrid, summon an

Iron Golem from an Insight, replace

Metalgrid, and you have a mana battery that stays between games. Or am I missing something?

Yes i thought of it exactly after i read it. Basically IG for everyone. I think this breaks the balance... Don't do this to my necro, i can't take it...

So many possibilities. A summoning druid could get a

Concentration or

Fanaticism golem...

Indeed, I read it the same way.

Metalgrid is rare, sure, but now will completely be crazy ! Having the IG stay for the whole game even if you don't wear

Metalgrid any more, why not, but the ability to keep it with you from game to game should be necro only.

Terror Zones though seem fun AND make the high levelling way more interesting than now.

As for QoL, well... it's a disappointment.

Edit : good point made by someone else than me : The IGs in questions will not have

Golem Mastery so will be still very weak, so no point putting a HR stuff in it. So Insight, Malice or IK Mauls ?

Necrarch wrote: 2 years ago

Indeed, I read it the same way.

Metalgrid is rare, sure, but now will completely be crazy ! Having the IG stay for the whole game even if you don't wear

Metalgrid any more, why not, but the ability to keep it with you from game to game should be necro only.

Edit : good point made by someone else than me : The IGs in questions will not have

Golem Mastery so will be still very weak, so no point putting a HR stuff in it. So Insight, Malice or IK Mauls ?

Oh, yeah, that's a good point.

Apparently you have to keep wearing the

Metalgrid as well.

Engelmark wrote: 2 years ago

Apparently you have to keep wearing the

Metalgrid as well.

Would you have to keep wearing

Metalgrid during the game to keep the IG, or just put it back before existing in order to keep the summon active between games?

NinjaPants wrote: 2 years ago

Engelmark wrote: 2 years ago

Apparently you have to keep wearing the

Metalgrid as well.

Would you have to keep wearing

Metalgrid during the game to keep the IG, or just put it back before existing in order to keep the summon active between games?

The golem dies the moment you remove the amulet, just saw someone test it live.

Well, with cta golem will have around ~1800 hp which is really low for hell and it can die easily and since you actually have to wear a

Metalgrid then it's useless. I'm not mad anymore

But i'm mad as hell cause of blizzard's lack of work on QoL updates... It's literally nothing and there is so much they could do with it... Guess we can spam to them so they could hear us (lol) and make something with stash slots, gem and rune stacks, cube ui, stat panel rework (so it would actually work properly), summons and merc AI (especially act3 merc which is totally brainless), permanent summons (until they die ex. for revives which need a rework too because 3 minutes is weird and have no purpose to be this limited... at least +15 seconds per lvl would be enough) and so so so many other things that i haven't mention... At this point, we can agree that blizzard don't give a damn about community's wishes
I mean bug fixes and all of this is good yeah but i didn't suffer from any of this and i wish the game would be more comfortable to play (I HATE TO RESUMMON MY MINIONS EVERY SINGLE SESSION IT MAKES ME SICK)