The "no stupid questions" thread

Haven't seen a thread like this yet so I figured it's time to start one. Share your questions, no matter how silly they may seem.

I'll start: I've been playing LoD since launch and I still have no idea whether the Defense stat provides any damage reduction or not, and at this point I'm afraid to ask.

no it's just chance to hit. there are separate stats for damage reduction like on

Stormshield,

String of Ears, or

Skin of the Vipermagi

defense also drops to 0 when you are running, so walking or using

Whirlwind are the only ways to keep defense when moving as far as i know

FWIW, Defense in D2 works like Armor Class in D&D - was it inspired by it?.

i have one - when does the

Chaos Sanctuary and the worldstone keep become worth to do on

Terror zones over just doing them regularly? I was told once that they aren't any better than normal unless they are tz 95+ - is that true?

Aria wrote: 1 week ago

I'll start: I've been playing LoD since launch and I still have no idea whether the Defense stat provides any damage reduction or not, and at this point I'm afraid to ask.

Defense lowers the probability of you getting hit
Damage Reduction lowers how much damage you take after getting hit.

Spectie wrote: 1 week ago

i have one - when does the

Chaos Sanctuary and the worldstone keep become worth to do on

Terror zones over just doing them regularly? I was told once that they aren't any better than normal unless they are tz 95+ - is that true?

It does make a difference for (A) poppables, (B), normal mobs (not unique, champion or minion), (C) sunder charms, (D) higher ilvl by itself means you can find charms with the highest level affixes, and (E) all TZs grant a hidden flat +25% bonus to XP.

About A & B - even poppables and normal mobs can drop any item in the game assuming sufficiently high level TZ, they also get TC upgrades. The odds may not be great, but still.

ShadowHeart wrote: 1 week ago

(E) all TZs grant a hidden flat +25% bonus to XP.

Today I learned something new

New Question:

Meditation aura gets healing synergy from

Prayer aura.

Cleansing aura gets healing synergy from

Prayer aura.
if a merc with

Prayer aura holds Insight and Cure, will he provide 3x the healing?

ipatrishkov wrote: 1 week ago

if a merc with

Prayer aura holds Insight and Cure, will he provide 3x the healing?

Yes. And this is in fact a combination that has been quite popular with the advent of the Cure rune word.

Is there even a sliver of a chance for 2.7 or are we done at this point?

ipatrishkov wrote: 1 week ago

New Question:

Meditation aura gets healing synergy from

Prayer aura.

Cleansing aura gets healing synergy from

Prayer aura.
if a merc with

Prayer aura holds Insight and Cure, will he provide 3x the healing?

I use this with my FoHSmiter and it's awesome.

K so not necessarily a dumb question but an off topic question, sorry if not allowed, but what kind of alcohol goes good with hot apple cider? Any suggestions lol

BigD wrote: 1 week ago

K so not necessarily a dumb question but an off topic question, sorry if not allowed, but what kind of alcohol goes good with hot apple cider? Any suggestions lol

A number of years ago, where I live, there was a huge trend to mix in moonshine. Without that, Everclear or the highest proof liquor you could find.

Now here's a stupid question!

Why aren't there any children in Diablo 2? Where did they all go?

BigD wrote: 1 week ago

K so not necessarily a dumb question but an off topic question, sorry if not allowed, but what kind of alcohol goes good with hot apple cider? Any suggestions lol

Not speaking from experience but if I was going to try it out myself I'd probably start with brandy or spiced rum

If you can find/afford Calvados that might be fun to try. Also might be tempted to try Grand Marnier or something

mhlg wrote: 1 week ago

Now here's a stupid question!

Why aren't there any children in Diablo 2? Where did they all go?

They found little knives and became undead

I'm assuming there's something stopping you from using more Book of Skills/Potion of Lifes/Scroll of Resistances than the one per difficulty you get from completing their respective quests but what is it? Just occured to me that I couldn't actually think of a reason you couldn't use more of them if you got extra copies somehow

Antheris wrote: 1 week ago

I'm assuming there's something stopping you from using more Book of Skills/Potion of Lifes/Scroll of Resistances than the one per difficulty you get from completing their respective quests but what is it? Just occured to me that I couldn't actually think of a reason you couldn't use more of them if you got extra copies somehow

Because everyone is greedy and won't give me all of their books of skill.

But in reality, I would actually like to test this. It probably just shows up red like

Wirt's Leg in the wrong difficulty.

Anybody want to speed run me to a

Book of Skill? I'll drop it for you.