S3 soon / patch notes up

https://news.blizzard.com/en-us/diablo2 ... oming-soon

Hustle now pointless for all but a handful of lvls while moving up. Called it!
No S3 zon after all I guess. Or...no S3 anything but dclones for that matter. Right back to yet another sorc. :/


S1 RWs, set upgrades and sunders all moving to NL as well.

Terror zones moving to offline play.



Trap sins buffed (hard):

Blizzard wrote:

The Assassin's trap skills now benefit from -% to Enemy Resistance.

Cold sorcs nerfed (also hard):

Blizzard wrote:

Cold Mastery is now applied at 1/5 effectiveness after an immunity is broken.

Still no online /p8

All in all...the expected "mweh..".

So I take it you are sad now because Faith>

Windforce yet again. Lvl 1

Burst of Speed means buh-bye to 7 FPA arrowshots.
Glad I can safely skip on s3.

Never played assassin but double Mosaic seems like a solid way to make martial arts path matter with the final changes to it.

''The Assassin's trap skills now benefit from -% to Enemy Resistance.''
That's kinda POGGERS tho

Queegon wrote: 1 year ago

So I take it you are sad now because Faith>

Windforce yet again.

Never was and still won't be.

But yeah, I will miss the added fun of actual solid run speed and whatnot...oh well...was fun for the couple of days it lasted on PTR.

I'm missing "Druid can now cast whatever the hell he wants in wereforms." :/

Though seeing how you can't switch from bear to wolf (and vice versa) without being human in between, it will be mark->BO/BC->other mark, omitting the need for casting changes.

What sneaky bastards.

Schnorki wrote: 1 year ago

Trap sins buffed (hard):

Blizzard wrote:

The Assassin's trap skills now benefit from -% to Enemy Resistance.

So good i found a 3 sox Jewelers

Katar with +3

Lightning Sentry yesterday and kept it

Nice, I planned a Trap/KickSin to finish hell then BladeSin for Trav and DClone

Blizzard wrote:

The Seven Rune Words and handful of

Horadric Cube recipes that were added in Ladder Season One can now be used in non-Ladder Online game modes.

Rune Words: Flickering Flame, Mist, Obsession, Pattern, Plague, Unbending Will, and Wisdom.

So we will able to make Flickering Flame in NL?

amazing. more reasons for me to keep playing ssf yippi ka yay..

Ber here i come..

Useful info from these latest patch notes summarised

Changes to Runewords/final stats for new 2.6 runewords:
Ladder season 3 start times for each region:
Class balance changes:

Blizzard wrote:

Assassin
The Assassin's trap skills now benefit from -% to Enemy Resistance.
Fixed an issue where missiles created from Martial Arts

Charge up skills would not gain the benefit of +% To Elemental Skill Damage modifiers.

Amazon
Fixed an issue where

Strafe was not applying bonus Attack Rating to attacks.
Fixed an issue where

Strafe was still doing 75% weapon damage after a previous balance change.
Fixed issue where the +% Attack Rating on

Power Strike was not being applied.
Fixed the tooltip for Multi Shot to reflect the synergy bonus.

Sorceress

Cold Mastery is now applied at 1/5 effectiveness after an immunity is broken.
Developer’s Note: We wanted to bring

Cold Mastery in line with all other skill-based elemental resistance reducing effects for increased consistency.
Fixed an issue where

Fire Mastery's bonus to fire skill damage didn't apply to the additional fire damage granted by

Enchant on ranged weapons.
Updated the tooltip for

Enchant to better reflect the skill's effects.

Druid
Fixed an underlying issue that caused the Druid's Shockwave skill to do an unintended amount of damage.
Developer’s Note: We wanted to implement targeted changes and buffs for the Druid instead of having a particular Druid build be strong because of a bug.

Clarification on what happens to shared stash after ladder season ends:

Blizzard wrote:

For those new to Ladder Seasons, you might be wondering what happens to your Shared Stash loot once the current season ends.

Once Ladder Season Two ends, all Ladder characters will be transferred to their respective non-ladder group. All items in that character group's shared stash go into a new Withdraw Only set of Shared Stash tabs, denoted by a check marked Past box. Any items from Ladder Season One stored in the Withdraw Only tabs will be lost at this time. You will have all of Ladder Season Three to withdraw any items you would like to keep from Season Two. When Ladder Season Three ends, this withdraw only set of stash tabs will be overridden with any items in the Ladder Season Three Shared Stash. Be sure to get any items out before then or they will be forever lost!

Other misc bits to point out:

• Recipe: Elite Version of Set Weapon and
  Recipe: Elite Version of Set Armor (and their exceptional versions) will be available in NL online play.
• The 2.4 runewords (from season 1) such as Flickering Flame, Obsession etc. will be available in NL online play. Does this mean craftable/creatable in NL online play too, or just usable?
• Sunders like
  Bone Break will be available in all non-classic game mods (so NL, hardcore etc.)
• Terror zones will be available in all offline game modes too.
• Some new terrror zones added (Underground Passage,
  Black Marsh, The Hole,
  Barracks,
  Ancient Tunnels,
  Great Marsh, Frigid Highands, Abbadon,
  Drifter Cavern,
  Pit of Acheron) and one
  Terror zone removed (Kurast Sewers)

I'll skip S3 then, was going to go HC for the charms and TZs but no need now!

Edit: so I guess Griffon's is now even more valuable?

Blizzard wrote:

Amazon
Fixed an issue where

Strafe was not applying bonus Attack Rating to attacks.
Fixed an issue where

Strafe was still doing 75% weapon damage after a previous balance change.

Both of these are effectively significant buffs to

Strafe.

For my bowazon, the attack rating fix is nearly a 50% buff increasing

Strafe's actual AR from the normal attack AR of 20.2K to

Strafe's listed 29.7K, although the normal AR is already very high that the difference isn't going to be that noticeable.

Strafe damage gets an actual 33% buff, which is massive since what some people thought was the 33% buff in 2.4 was actually just the synergy buff.

Blizzard wrote:

Kurast Sewers

Good. While it isn't the absolute worst TZ, it's the one that I hated seeing appear the most.

Blizzard wrote:

Bloody Foothills/

Frigid Highlands/Abbadon

More areas need to be combined like this.

Blizzard wrote:

Fixed an issue where the Shared Stash could exceed the memory limit, which caused items in the player's inventory or Stash to be deleted.

I can't tell if this addresses the 8KB limit in the character's stash though.

Blizzard wrote:

Fixed an issue where the tooltip on the Lobby's season dropdown would show an inaccurate date.

Don't care, still keeping it in my signature.

Great, now I just have to wait till S5 for Mosaic to become available on NL...

Ravoc wrote: 1 year ago

Great, now I just have to wait till S5 for Mosaic to become available on NL...

I think Hustle not being on NL is a lot more of a drag for everyone who don't want to do ladder. Everyone knows that Stealth is required by all classes when leveling, it's just too good not to use. Now Hustle will be what everyone switches to at lvl 39.

I had planned to start ladder from day one this season.

Oh, well. I still have a ton of stuff to do on non-ladder.

Also, a quick question as I don't know the recipes and when they were added very well: does this mean all unique and set piece upgrading can now be done non-ladder and offline?

i can see some uses for these RWs:

Hustle [weapon] on an act5

Frenzy merc wearing sazabi's set...

Hustle [armor] for a javazon

Temper on a trav merc

Bulwark + Hustle [armor] on a act 2 merc

Janet the Java wrote: 1 year ago

I'll skip S3 then, was going to go HC for the charms and TZs but no need now!

phantomotap wrote: 1 year ago

I had planned to start ladder from day one this season.

Oh, well. I still have a ton of stuff to do on non-ladder.

I don't follow. What change tanked y'alls ladder plans?

Ugh on the CM change. I guess they really want me to play a lightning sorc. Meet the new meta, same as the old meta.

As a non ladder player I really like that they are going to make the previous s1 and s2 ladder only stuff available for non ladder players

hm hm, no need to play s3 then.
will be chill in nl.

pyropy wrote: 1 year ago

Janet the Java wrote: 1 year ago

I'll skip S3 then, was going to go HC for the charms and TZs but no need now!

phantomotap wrote: 1 year ago

I had planned to start ladder from day one this season.

Oh, well. I still have a ton of stuff to do on non-ladder.

I don't follow. What change tanked y'alls ladder plans?

I've just got into HC. Was doing ladder for charms and TZs but now they are coming to NL then I'm happy to continue with this char rather than starting again (since I've barely started on HC anyway).