In this new leader session, which class and build will you be playing?

I'm still undecided between Javazon or Sorceress

Frozen Orb and

Meteor. After playing for so long, it's hard to innovate, lol.

I haven't played ladder in 20 years, but I'm thinking Either Javazon or some kind of Assassin bc those are the only classes I haven't really played much at all.

IMO

Frozen Orb +

Fireball is more fun to play.

Frozen Orb and

Meteor share the same cooldown.
But you can throw in

Fireball when your

Frozen Orb is on cooldown.
It makes a much more active playstyle.
With enough FCR you can cast

Frozen Orb

Fireball

Fireball

Frozen Orb

Fireball

Fireball

Frozen Orb...

I have

Frozen Orb on the left mouse button and with

Fireball on the right it works very well and (most importantly) it is fun to play and requires at least a little skill^^

I honestly don't know. I'd like to partner up with people as I'd like to have good team composition but I'm on Xbox/switch. I'd also like to do HC but I'm open to SC as well given this would be my first ladder.

I am planning to do an extra-hard run with a selffound Fendzon. My playing partner will do a summoner Druid. So we have to arrange our mercs around a pure physical party. Act 1 Rogue or Act 3 Iron Wolf come to mind, until we can build a Lawbringer and/or get hands on a Reapers. As always, we won't rush or play in open games. The goal is to kill

Baal on hell with selffound stuff only.

Bizington wrote: 5 hours ago

I haven't played ladder in 20 years, but I'm thinking Either Javazon or some kind of Assassin bc those are the only classes I haven't really played much at all.

Amazonian

Spear warrior, I created one recently, it's a lot of fun. I suggest you make a hybrid of poison and electric; I've been thinking about making a martial arts assassin.

Thanatos DwC wrote: 5 hours ago

I honestly don't know. I'd like to partner up with people as I'd like to have good team composition but I'm on Xbox/switch. I'd also like to do HC but I'm open to SC as well given this would be my first ladder.

There must definitely be groups on Xbox, it's a shame the game isn't cross-player.

DasNarf wrote: 4 hours ago

I am planning to do an extra-hard run with a selffound Fendzon. My playing partner will do a summoner Druid. So we have to arrange our mercs around a pure physical party. Act 1 Rogue or Act 3 Iron Wolf come to mind, until we can build a Lawbringer and/or get hands on a Reapers. As always, we won't rush or play in open games. The goal is to kill

Baal on hell with selffound stuff only.

The Druid summoning spell is very good; it can kill everything without difficulty. It's a good strategy to create internal game rules. I used to do this a lot with Pokémon, for example, reaching the end using only Flying-type Pokémon.

WedgeAntilles wrote: 5 hours ago

IMO

Frozen Orb +

Fireball is more fun to play.

Frozen Orb and

Meteor share the same cooldown.
But you can throw in

Fireball when your

Frozen Orb is on cooldown.
It makes a much more active playstyle.
With enough FCR you can cast

Frozen Orb

Fireball

Fireball

Frozen Orb

Fireball

Fireball

Frozen Orb...

I have

Frozen Orb on the left mouse button and with

Fireball on the right it works very well and (most importantly) it is fun to play and requires at least a little skill^^

I could feel the excitement in your comment; this build must be really fun. I think I'll go with it.

edfcsx wrote: 4 hours ago

Bizington wrote: 5 hours ago

I haven't played ladder in 20 years, but I'm thinking Either Javazon or some kind of Assassin bc those are the only classes I haven't really played much at all.

Amazonian

Spear warrior, I created one recently, it's a lot of fun. I suggest you make a hybrid of poison and electric; I've been thinking about making a martial arts assassin.

I was looking at the tree and was thinking like the lightning

Javelin piercing thing sounded cool. I've seen it in action. Only thing is the build has like ZERO MF. Thanks for the input! If you have a maxroll build I'd be happy to check it out!

Bizington wrote: 4 hours ago

edfcsx wrote: 4 hours ago

Bizington wrote: 5 hours ago

I haven't played ladder in 20 years, but I'm thinking Either Javazon or some kind of Assassin bc those are the only classes I haven't really played much at all.

Amazonian

Spear warrior, I created one recently, it's a lot of fun. I suggest you make a hybrid of poison and electric; I've been thinking about making a martial arts assassin.

I was looking at the tree and was thinking like the lightning

Javelin piercing thing sounded cool. I've seen it in action. Only thing is the build has like ZERO MF. Thanks for the input! If you have a maxroll build I'd be happy to check it out!

I couldn't find the build on Maxroll; I took it from a video, but it's in Portuguese. However, through the planner, you can understand it. You attack the monsters with

Plague Javelin and

Lightning Fury. I set up the planner exactly as it is on my Amazon.
https://maxroll.gg/d2/d2planner/mkb230l3

Start with Poison and put as many points as possible into

Plague Javelin first, then increase your points to Thunder Fury, followed by the Poison synergy, and finally the Lightning synergy.

edfcsx wrote: 4 hours ago

Bizington wrote: 4 hours ago

edfcsx wrote: 4 hours ago

Amazonian

Spear warrior, I created one recently, it's a lot of fun. I suggest you make a hybrid of poison and electric; I've been thinking about making a martial arts assassin.

I was looking at the tree and was thinking like the lightning

Javelin piercing thing sounded cool. I've seen it in action. Only thing is the build has like ZERO MF. Thanks for the input! If you have a maxroll build I'd be happy to check it out!

I couldn't find the build on Maxroll; I took it from a video, but it's in Portuguese. However, through the planner, you can understand it. You attack the monsters with

Plague Javelin and

Lightning Fury. I set up the planner exactly as it is on my Amazon.
https://maxroll.gg/d2/d2planner/mkb230l3

Start with Poison and put as many points as possible into

Plague Javelin first, then increase your points to Thunder Fury, followed by the Poison synergy, and finally the Lightning synergy.

Nice build, I may try that. Thank you!

Javazons rock, definitely build one if you're on the fence. Lack of magic find is somewhat offset by super fast clearing that nets you tons and tons of kills imo. Can also confirm that hybrid lightning/poison is good enough to clear Hell although I respec'd once I got a sunder charm. Try to get Treachery for the interaction between

Plague Javelin and Venom - mixing up periodically throwing poison javelins into your

Charged Strike attacks really helps make up for the single target damage output you lose from less synergy points to it. Also use

Decoy - very underrated skill imo, meat shield that goes exactly where you want it and stays there, can very easily misdirect gloam lightning and other scary ranged attacks.

Myself I'm planning on doing Wind druid and bladesin

Seems like I'm always building/raising a new character as I play hardcore. Hardcore characters will die...

I've thought about raising a summoning druid this ladder season. Yet, I'm still in love with my KickSin. I want the D-Summoner as my KickSin is super overpowered. So... It will one of those two that I build. Amazons are fun too... But for me right now? Nah.

edfcsx wrote: 4 hours ago

Frozen Orb and

Meteor share the same cooldown.

Actually, skills in D2R no longer share cooldown. Cooldowns are now always isolated per skill. They changed this in patch 2.4 (almost 4 years ago).

Here are the patch notes:
https://news.blizzard.com/en-us/article ... r-now-live

Specifically:

Blizzard wrote:

Blizzard

• Casting Delay will no longer share its cooldown with other skills that have Casting Delays

Frozen Orb

• Casting Delay will no longer share its cooldown with other skills that have Casting Delays

...

Meteor

• Casting Delay will no longer share its cooldown with other skills that have Casting Delays

Haven't settled on what I want to do on ladder reset. Here are some ideas I've been mulling over of unique or off-meta builds I want to try out eventually (doesn't have to be for ladder reset tho):

* 'Death Knight' themed Necro summoner who wears heavy armour and fights on the front line with his skellie troops with a Big Fucking Sword. Partially synergised Oath (meaning the

Bone Spirit proc is partially synergised; with just one synergy maxed it does just a little bit under 1k magic damage) in a

Balrog Blade is what I'm aiming for endgame here. He'll be using the charges for

Iron Golem and

Heart of Wolverine so it has to be a non-

Eth base. No

Corpse Explosion. Wears Black themed armour so something like

Steel Carapace would be ideal or maybe a really good rare

Shadow Plate.

* Never played a

Werebear druid before. Thinking of a

Maul and Fireclaws hybrid and stacking on high defence and become a grizzly tank.

* Remake of my Hunter Druid (summoner spec but he has a bow and fights with the pack that way) tho I am thinking of making him more an 'Aragorn' themed ranger. Really under developed at this stage.

* Remake of my Naj's Set Sorc who died to a server disconnect in a previous season. She was a lightning/fire hybrid then but I'll probably rebuild her having

Energy Shield at least partially specced into. Not sure what else I would change.

* A fire enchantress 'Amasorc' revolving around the use of Harmony bow and summoning a

Valkyrie and maybe using those

Revive charges.

* A 'Demon Hunter' themed ranged trapsin with maxed Venom and one of the trap sentries maxed, using Buriza Do kyanon

Crossbow.

* A 'Hellfire Monk' themed kicksin who uses a

Ribcracker.

So yeah I got no shortage of ideas.