Ladder Season 8 will begin August 23rd/24th

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

Looks like there's some actual bug fixes this time around.

Blizzard wrote:

LADDER SEASON 8

Our previous Ladder Seasons for Diablo® II: Resurrected™ have showed just how adept adventurers were at saving Sanctuary, racing to be the first to cement their names on the Leaderboard, while striking fear into the tormented hearts of their demonic adversaries in the process.

Ladder Season 8 will usher in a new opportunity for brave adventurers to race to Level 99 and amass powerful loot along the way. We cannot wait to see which determined souls carve their name into the Leaderboard this time.

Ladder Season 8 Launch Timing:

North America	August 23, 5 p.m. PDT
Europe	August 24, 2 a.m. CEST
Asia	August 24, 9 a.m. KST

In your local time zone: 2024-08-24T00:00:00   This timestamp has been automatically converted to your local date/time for convenience. The format is DD/MMM/YYYY, HH:MM am/pm. This is based off your browser time.

I'll take a sprinkle of bug fixes over nothing. Hope they do more of them with following patches but not expecting anything hehe. Player reporting update is interesting, guessing probably just an automated system to mute someone after enough reports or something. Highly doubtful they'd put any humans on that when they don't even do that for their WoW cash cow.

I'm happy with the bug fixes. This shows that at least a few people at Blizzard are still working on D2R.

I don't know if anyone else noticed, but if those dates are correct, they have changed up the weekday for the reset - it's a Friday in North America and Saturday in EU. In the past it's been Thursday-Friday.

Well hopefully I can go back to using

Poison Creeper...

I really do miss that vine.

BoringTitle wrote: 1 month ago

Well hopefully I can go back to using

Poison Creeper...

I really do miss that vine.

Just watched that YouTube vid (ref: Zarfen the Loot Goblin) using

Poison Creeper to finish A1-A5 on normal lol. Was dope.

Blizzard wrote:

This Patch goes live on August 20. It introduces a variety of bug fixes to various systems and updates to player reporting.

General
Player reporting has been updated.
Gameplay
Fixed an issue where Assassin's

Blade Fury skill would stop channeling when the monster initially targeted died.
Fixed an issue where Assassin's

Dragon Tail would inconsistently consume charges.
Fixed an issue where

Dragon Tail could cause de-sync and rubber banding issues in both online and offline play.
Fixed an issue where the Act III Mercenary would target Ravens with

Enchant.
Fixed an issue where joining a new game as a

Terror zone rotation began could cause a failure to join the game.
Fixed an issue where a Skill could become unbound while weapon swapping.
Fixed an issue where missiles could desync if a skill was aimed at a target that was standing on top of an item.
User Interface and User Experience
Fixed an issue where the tooltip in the character screen for Amazon's

Lightning Bolt displayed inaccurate data.
Fixed an issue where the character list would re-sort whenever the game was relaunched.
Developer’s Note: This issue has been fixed for PC only. We anticipate a fix for consoles coming soon and will keep you updated.

Fixed an issue where the tooltip for

Slow Missiles didn't display accurate information for what effects the next level of the Skill would do.
Fixed an issue where the wasn't an arrow between the Lightning and

Chain Lightning Skills in the Skill Tree when using controller.

Faith restored.

That should shut up the nay-sayers & stem any negative talk for awhile.

Seems like ladder only RW remain ladder only.

Time to make more Cure 's

ghostpos wrote: 1 month ago

BoringTitle wrote: 1 month ago

Well hopefully I can go back to using

Poison Creeper...

I really do miss that vine.

Just watched that YouTube vid (ref: Zarfen the Loot Goblin) using

Poison Creeper to finish A1-A5 on normal lol. Was dope.

Can't say I've watched that. For me I use a maxed

Poison Creeper for years on

Rabies Druid with only a couple points Into

Rabies itself as I don't want the duration to go up all too much as damage÷time is an issue.

Combined with Bramble, Plague/Grief, and trangs gloves it can be very nice indeed.

But having 20 points in a skill that simply crashes the session feels wrong.

Skaijuice wrote: 1 month ago

Blizzard wrote:

This Patch goes live on August 20. It introduces a variety of bug fixes to various systems and updates to player reporting.

General
Player reporting has been updated.
Gameplay
Fixed an issue where Assassin's

Blade Fury skill would stop channeling when the monster initially targeted died.
Fixed an issue where Assassin's

Dragon Tail would inconsistently consume charges.
Fixed an issue where

Dragon Tail could cause de-sync and rubber banding issues in both online and offline play.
Fixed an issue where the Act III Mercenary would target Ravens with

Enchant.
Fixed an issue where joining a new game as a

Terror zone rotation began could cause a failure to join the game.
Fixed an issue where a Skill could become unbound while weapon swapping.
Fixed an issue where missiles could desync if a skill was aimed at a target that was standing on top of an item.
User Interface and User Experience
Fixed an issue where the tooltip in the character screen for Amazon's

Lightning Bolt displayed inaccurate data.
Fixed an issue where the character list would re-sort whenever the game was relaunched.
Developer’s Note: This issue has been fixed for PC only. We anticipate a fix for consoles coming soon and will keep you updated.

Fixed an issue where the tooltip for

Slow Missiles didn't display accurate information for what effects the next level of the Skill would do.
Fixed an issue where the wasn't an arrow between the Lightning and

Chain Lightning Skills in the Skill Tree when using controller.

Faith restored.

That should shut up the nay-sayers & stem any negative talk for awhile.

Seems like ladder only RW remain ladder only.

Time to make more Cure 's

If

Poison Creeper crashing sessions is not fixed I guarantee there will be at least one person complaining... (psn version anyway, I've no clue if this has already been fixed on pc).

^ the dam vine is being exploited by some griefers (and reported on the official forums) a couple weeks back.

apologies for the spam.

I wonder how effective / ineffective the player reporting ting is.

So the balancing/QoL "leak" was BS as expected.

Though I will say, even 1 actual bug fix to anything would've been more than I was expecting to ever see again.
Alas, still nothing on the day 1 chat bugs.. :/

ShadowHeart wrote: 1 month ago

I don't know if anyone else noticed, but if those dates are correct, they have changed up the weekday for the reset - it's a Friday in North America and Saturday in EU. In the past it's been Thursday-Friday.

Suppose they're perhaps looking for a general shift in days then and the d4-shift wasn't a 1-off oddity after all.

Schnorki wrote: 1 month ago

Suppose they're perhaps looking for a general shift in days then and the d4-shift wasn't a 1-off oddity after all.

Yeah, looks like it! Though I'm still a little wary that it was a mistake and that they will 'correct' it to Thursday-Friday

Skaijuice wrote: 1 month ago

^ the dam vine is being exploited by some griefers (and reported on the official forums) a couple weeks back.

That is incredibly depressing/unsurprising...

Here's hoping though.

yaa time to try a druid !

for some reason i don't play NL anymore...

i'll be playing HCL and using gold as currency on d2io trades

Deciding if I should do my first hardcore run on ladder this cycle but concerned the player base won’t be very large

So will probably do SCL and hope to get my first 99

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Could anyone enlighten me what is wrong with

Poison Creeper?

It crashes the game on some PCs, and on some consoles too.