Moving from Diablo 2 LOD to resurrected. Needs some help

Hi.

So im an old Diablo player and havent played in years. But with the "newly" resurrection I got interested again and booted up my old D2 LOD 1.14 with a 20 year old single player char. Quickly remembered the hardships of drops and storage...

So i checked resurrection and it seems ti fix a few things like?:
- Storage increase (yay)
- All runewords can now be created???
- Red portals do not disappear like before after killing cow king or finishing quests!
Any others big things?

But I wanted to ask, is there anything that can block my chars to be imported to resurrected? Il admit iv used hero editor 104 2 times. Both to reset quests to be able to reset my build and align skillspoints. Never touched gear or anything else. Wil this be a problem? Also used text to "add players"(/players x) for more challenge and drops if that means anything.

Also, is it now possible for single player chars to play together with friends over the internet on a private game?

Also 2, can you still use the text to "add players" to get more challenge and xp?

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maraxion wrote: 3 weeks ago

All runewords can now be created???

All LoD rune words can be created on non-ladder as well as offline.

There are some new D2R rune words are ladder-only (but they are available offline).

All rune words work offline (including the new D2R ones).

maraxion wrote: 3 weeks ago

Any others big things?

There's been some skill balance changes. See the 2.4 patch notes in particular, there was a long list of balance changes:
https://news.blizzard.com/en-us/diablo2 ... r-now-live

maraxion wrote: 3 weeks ago

Also, is it now possible for single player chars to play together with friends over the internet on a private game?

No. The only way to play multiplayer is by playing online. Offline is single player only. They decided to not implement TCP/IP play for security reasons (that's what they said), and there's no "open b.net".

maraxion wrote: 3 weeks ago

Also 2, can you still use the text to "add players" to get more challenge and xp?

The /players X command still works offline.

maraxion wrote: 3 weeks ago

But I wanted to ask, is there anything that can block my chars to be imported to resurrected?

I have yet to play offline in D2R so I can't help with this one, unfortunately.

maraxion wrote: 3 weeks ago

But I wanted to ask, is there anything that can block my chars to be imported to resurrected?

I have imported several characters, some who were all legit, some who were slightly tweaked by Hero Editor, and even a few completely Hero Editor generated characters for testing purposes. Never had an issue!

Winterkill wrote: 3 weeks ago

maraxion wrote: 3 weeks ago

But I wanted to ask, is there anything that can block my chars to be imported to resurrected?

I have imported several characters, some who were all legit, some who were slightly tweaked by Hero Editor, and even a few completely Hero Editor generated characters for testing purposes. Never had an issue!

From any testing/playing around I've done so far, any char that works in LoD also works in D2:R.

That said, if you edit your char to the point of breaking the save file (i.e. breaking it for LoD), D2:R won't fix that and it'll be broken there as well.

Exceptions may apply but I've not encountered any so far.

play online!
i rarely play multiplayer games but just the trading makes it worth it.
also end of each ladder (2 days) there is a bunch of free stuff as players manage their inventory.
browse the trades with the "free" flag selected-
browsetrades.php?sk=t&sd=d&legacy_resu=1&free=1

ShadowHeart wrote: 3 weeks ago

maraxion wrote: 3 weeks ago

Any others big things?

There's been some skill balance changes. See the 2.4 patch notes in particular, there was a long list of balance changes:
https://news.blizzard.com/en-us/diablo2 ... r-now-live

And also 2.5 with Sunder charms. Ignoring immunes is definitely "big".
https://news.blizzard.com/en-us/diablo2 ... ded#Charms

Trang Oul wrote: 3 weeks ago

And also 2.5 with Sunder charms. Ignoring immunes is definitely "big".
https://news.blizzard.com/en-us/diablo2 ... ded#Charms

Oh yes, for some reason that slipped my mind. And some other stuff.

So, the major changes in D2R so far have been:

• Lots of skill rebalancing, too much to list here
• Casting delays (skill cooldowns) are now per skill rather than shared (mostly affects Sorceress & Elemental Druid)
• Some skills had their casting delay reduced significantly or removed entirely
• Sunder Charms & Terror Zones
• Some LoD rune words can now be made in more bases (Insight in missile weapons, Infinity/Obedience/Pride in spears and Amazon spears)
• New rune words (click on or hover over the names to see details):
  • Plague
  • Pattern
  • Unbending Will
  • Wisdom
  • Obsession
  • Flickering Flame
  • Mist
  • Bulwark
  • Cure
  • Ground
  • Hearth
  • Temper
  • Hustle
  • Mosaic
  • Metamorphosis
• Dclone now spawns on an entire region (Americas/EU/Asia) at once instead of only on a specific server IP
• Everything that was online-only and/or ladder-only in LoD is available on both non-ladder and offline in D2R
• Now possible to upgrade set items via cube (previously only possible with rares and uniques)
• Merc improvements (including new Act 5
  Frenzy Barbarian merc type)
• NHD (next hit delay) changes (this has bigger implications than one might think at first for some builds)
• Hydras & Assassin traps benefit from both -X to enemy resistance as well as +X to elemental skill damage
• Controller support (thanks DasNarf!)

+ some bug fixes and other improvements

Anything else major I missed?

EDIT: Added controller support to the list (thanks @DasNarf!)

ShadowHeart wrote: 3 weeks ago

Anything else major I missed?

Controller Support. Huge improvement for couch-players like me. Most builds work very well without mouse and keyboard. Some don't.

Very important: Controllers don't suffer from new hotkey bugs.

Fantastic help people, thank you!

A couple of quick ones at the end I cannot remember anymore.

1. Merc magic find is that based on the players %+merc gear? So the merc can have higher magic find % then the player?

2. With magic find is it the players gear when the monster dies that matters or before? Lets say you get

Baal down to 5% health and swap in an amulet with +100% magic find, would that work?

maraxion wrote: 2 weeks ago

1. Merc magic find is that based on the players %+merc gear? So the merc can have higher magic find % then the player?

Yes. When Merc kill it use your Magic Find/Gold Find + his/her Magic Find/Gold Find
This can be seen on https://maxroll.gg/d2/d2planner/

maraxion wrote: 2 weeks ago

2. With magic find is it the players gear when the monster dies that matters or before? Lets say you get

Baal down to 5% health and swap in an amulet with +100% magic find, would that work?

the MF at the time of the death that counts (it is a common approach on MF builds to have a swap equipment with more MF and swap just before the kill)