Thematic characters/builds (unicolor)

Black Suit is done with Normal... Surprisingly it's fun to play --

Blade Fury is definitely way to go and

Blade Sentinel still feels awkward and finicky. I also often utterly forget about

Blade Shield, oh well... However, once I got to

Blade Fury I really started enjoying it but we'll see how far can this build go (and if I can finish the entire game). Some game mechanics that I realized how they work while playing -- any +elemental dmg is added to your total damage (and probably ones on weapon(s) also count at 75%?) so BF is something in between a "spell" and a "normal" attack but even tho it has a fixed 'cast rate' it's not that slow as I thought it will be. Also, another very important thing is that leeches work with it so stacking a bit of mana leech can help massively and having life leech is also quite good. Crushing Blow and Deadly Strike also work normally with it as if you were striking directly (I'm pretty sure because I saw CB activate often which is why I used

Crushflange for bosses and Ancients).

I apologize for the choppiness in this short vid (I uploaded it just so you can more clearly see the whole ending equipment) -- again any suggestions are more than appreciated! I think I fixed the choppiness for some next vid (we'll see when I finish with a next build) but the lack of quality is noticeable (played with OBS settings a lot before and now again but I can't seem to set it to be clear and to avoid sluggishness), fortunately for me, on my end, game runs perfectly smooth, so there's that...


Btw, She looks like this:

Finished Normal with Yellow and Red ones as well... Here are vids with gear and how they look on the selection screen menu currently (there's a lot of work left)! Also that was some unlucky death on

Baal because I was so careless with my life.

Red:

Yellow:

P.S. Need to remind myself to post the Brown Suit plan as well, that's gonna be the nastiest one for sure! I don't expect him to pass Nightmare tbch but maybe I can do some weird sh*t with gear since most of stuff is brown/tan-ish by default

Here it is... The Brown Suit, shittiest of them all (probably)!


Brown Suit - Stomper Barb (

Leap Attack,

Battle Command)

Planned gear:

Head:

Cow King's Horns or

Arreat's Face (brown?) or 3os

Slayer Guard "Metamorphosis"? (for Bear build but I don't have it) or Rare

Slayer Guard with +2 Barb/+3 Weapon/+3

Leap Attack;
Body:

Cow King's Hide or

Wire Fleece "Fortitude" or

Wire Fleece "Chains of Honor"?;
Weapon: I don't even know,

Steel Pillar or

Tomb Reaver or

Bloodtree Stump or

Messerschmidt's Reaver or Rare

Wirt's Leg;
Shield: None and in case of

Wirt's Leg some other 1-hand weapon with useful mods or +Barb skills;
Gloves: Crafted

Blood Gloves (which are not red btw) with life and mana/leech and/or res;
Belt:

Verdungo's Hearty Cord (should be dark brown and not black like on image) or

Gloom's Trap or Rare

Belt/

Plated Belt with useful mods but in specific range so it doesn't change color;
Boots:

Cow King's Hooves or

Silkweave or

Waterwalk or

Sandstorm Trek or Rare

Heavy Boots with mana/FHR and/or FRW;
Jewelry:

Highlord's Wrath or

Angelic Wings or Rare with +Barb, res or leech, 2x

Angelic Halo or

Bul-Kathos' Wedding Band or

Raven Frost or Rare with res, life and/or mana and/or leech;

Merc: I have absolutely 0 clue. Weeeeell, it's definitely not gonna be an Act 2 one (because of auras) but that's about it.


I think I'll only use

Battle Command on him and not

Battle Orders, just because BO has that blue effect, which is going to make him even harder to play with. I could potentially use him to level up and if I get to high-er levels switch to Bear Barb with normal attack by using Beast but only for SS not as an actual weapon (that's more safer but a lot weaker than the

Leap Attack I guess)... But oh well, I didn't start with this entire adventure so I can finish all 3 difficulties with every single build but instead to see how far could they go with the weirdest builds + equipment combos! I'm gonna do a thorough comparison for myself on maxroll but as far as I've seen for Bosses it might be better to have +IAS gear and then just use Normal Attack (CB here is a crucial part), but use the

Leap Attack for everything else. We'll see... After some maxroll testing outs, switching and swapping gear around it seems he might even finish the entire game which would be completely bonkers to me!

His current state is Act 2,

Arcane Sanctuary and he looks like this:

If he had a net he would make a pretty convincing version of a retiarius gladiator.

davme_mcreg wrote: 4 months ago

If he had a net he would make a pretty convincing version of a retiarius gladiator.

Oh yeah! He does look pretty cool atm

After some long reconsideration back and forth and the fact that I remembered I have a bunch of small poison charms (not the GG ones but still) lying around on one particular character that I will probably never continue playing/experimenting on I have finally decided to swap the Green and White Suits so I'll post their gear plans (at least the changed ones) and catalogue the progress as I move onward. I got to love this little project of mine so I'll definitely try out the

Plague Javelin in some new series (definitely want to try some other combos with those 7 colors). Still need to find

Lenymo so I can finally begin with that color god damn darn it, it just doesn't want to drop (me and my dad are both farming Normal Cow King and it just doesn't want to drop for some reason)!
Also, I already played with a few different builds incorporating the

Guided Arrow so I think that build as a White Suit can actually go all the way through + on top of that M'avina's Battle Hymn is breathtaking to look at.

One side note : for Black suit, you probably have forgotten the very best

Belt in the game for casters :

Arachnid Mesh

Keep going, the gallery is definitely cool !

Necrarch wrote: 4 months ago

One side note : for Black suit, you probably have forgotten the very best

Belt in the game for casters :

Arachnid Mesh

Keep going, the gallery is definitely cool !

Yeeeahhh, not really. By the time I get to lvl 80 I'm probably gonna finish the game or at least get properly stuck somewhere along the way. But ye, if I get there I'll switch it up, maybe... Wouldn't benefit from Arach too much since Blades have fixed frames so neither IAS nor FCR affect them... +1 skill tho, maybe -- need 2 see how good on res I'll end up, otherwise I'll just take one that provides exactly that (for example the

Immortal King's Detail). But thanks nevertheless!

Finally started those two (because my dad was MVP and he founded me

Lenymo yeeey!!) and I already see there will be problems with the Green Necro one.

Poison Dagger +

Poison Nova will be interesting but pretty tough from this perspective without many +skills and +pdmg boosts (I do have some pdmg small charms tho), but we'll see. On the other hand, White

Guided Arrow Bowazon is exactly as I remember it -- very, very good (also that simple gemmed

Long Bow with

Diamond looks quite neat but I'll make a Zephyr in

Reflex Bow once I hit lvl 20)! They are both in Act 2

Arcane Sanctuary atm but we'll see when (and if) main problems will arise... All in all, I think I'll add

Bone Helm with 2os filled with

Perfect Emerald (for color) and probably

Ral/

Ort for a bit more res until I hit 41 and equip that sweet Vamp Gaze.

P.S. Would you use those gloves that I have in stash for Green Suit or not? They do look olive-ish (and not yellow which they are) but since green gloves don't exist, I don't know what to do. Should I just leave that slot empty instead?

White Suit: Green Suit:

She's done with Normal too... Yes, FO is such an easy mode once you hit it, it's not even funny (but it actually is)!
I used

Heavenly Garb just because it looks better and I don't need res or FCR yet, but I'll most definitely switch to

Skin of the Vipermagi when I continue with Nightmare... For now, since she is waaaay OP, I would like to farm

Baal runs for at least 6-7 more levels (and probably finish with some other class) before continuing forwards.

Very nice work, I like your endeavor.
That blue sorc looks amazing. If you find her a blue

Crown (

Milabrega's Diadem) instead of that

Skull Cap it will be super fancy.

Florian_G wrote: 4 months ago

Very nice work, I like your endeavor.
That blue sorc looks amazing. If you find her a blue

Crown (

Milabrega's Diadem) instead of that

Skull Cap it will be super fancy.

Yeeeah, that is first in line to transfer until I hit req level for

Nightwing's Veil. I do like

Crown or even a

Cap for her (which I had very very early but it had absolutely nothing except for

Frost Nova proc) but didn't find/gamble any useful. This

Skull Cap at least gives +mana/level and lRes... Played a bit on Nightmare, got to level 43 so I can wear

Sazabi's Mental Sheath (which would be a perfect bridge for that level gap since it gives double res and +1 all skills) however it looks bad, like really bad -- it's not even blue like in inventory. Womp womp made me sad so I put the

Skull Cap back hehe

Would you guys agree that this looks dope as hell on her?

P.S.

Cap is really bleached as blue (darker and lighter, tried both), unlucky, forgot about that...

A true peak of

Poison Dagger gaming... xd


Sorry for muted sound, I was testing something and forgot to turn it back before recording.

Aaaaand we are continuing our journey after some time of playing with my dad and having some other activities...

Just finished Nightmare with the Blue Suit, yup Cold Sorc (Orb/Blizzard) is sooo OP, she could literally run naked and be fine!

I'll edit this comment one of those days when I find time to upload

Baal kill on YT; for now here's just those 2 SSs: Edit: Here is the vid, I finally got to upload it (for some reason, some days YT just doesn't want to upload anything)!

I would LOVE to make my build color themed or something like that. There are cool looks to have but unfortunately as there are no decorative slots or anything; its not very good to play with such usually.
I like how in terraria you have decorative slots and the main slots so you can have good gear underneath the cosmetic bad gear in use instead of the bad gear which just looks nice.

In Diablo 3 they had a transmog something, where you could style and dye your gear. So finding low level thrash uniques actually unlocked their style. Or you could paint your entire gear with transparent dye and look like your are naked (or 1st lev).

That being said, i like D2 as it is. I grinded D3 like hell back in the days. Just to show how different these two games are, in d3 i grinded barb only, while in D2 i cannot even get myself to make a barb and send him to

Blood Moor.

ipatrishkov wrote: 3 months ago

In Diablo 3 they had a transmog something, where you could style and dye your gear. So finding low level thrash uniques actually unlocked their style. Or you could paint your entire gear with transparent dye and look like your are naked (or 1st lev).

I really liked the idea of being able to dye your items in D3, and would love to see that in D2R too so that you can create your own color scheme, rune word items do look very plain (color-wise). But transmog where you actually make an item look like something it's not? Never was a fan. I think items should look appropriately, a heavy armor should be a heavy armor, a light

Leather Armor should look like it. Just my preference, I guess. It's not a hill that I'd choose to die on, I'd grumpily accept it if they added it But coloring, I'm all for that

I already said this, but would love to have the following recipe added :

Standard of Heroes + item + one pgem (with Pskull being color Black) => Item dyed in the pgem color (so 8 possible, sorry for brown )

Necrarch wrote: 3 months ago

I already said this, but would love to have the following recipe added :

Standard of Heroes + item + one pgem (with Pskull being color Black) => Item dyed in the pgem color (so 8 possible, sorry for brown )

Yeah that would be very cool!
@Teebling Urgent request when you get to the position of Blizzard CEO!