What keeps you playing Diablo 2?

louner wrote: 16 hours ago

Warlock is still an OP mess (which also pulls me away from D2R), and I don't see them fixing it any time soon. They tried to pack every good feature from all the other classes:
- it made hammerdin obsolete (bc it has source of magic/physical damage) - you can put 40 points and have almost full dmg potential, while equivalent paladin (foh + hammer) will need to make compromises
- barb with

Berserk looks like a neglected child now compared to that, because it has less damage and defense PENALTIES for using magic damage, while warlock has ranged + area damage ADVANTAGES (barbarian: "A powerful but reckless attack that increases damage and attack rating but decreases defense rating." warlock: who cares just give it insane damage, AOE, range and 100%

Pierce XDDDD)
- Warlock has 100%

Pierce by default, while bowazon needs to stack

Pierce with items
- it has a fire

Nova that pushes enemies away for some reason (really op compared to

Frost Nova, or even regular lightning

Nova bc it doesn't need mana shield to work)
- it has much better summons than druids, can compete with necro easily
- add

Leap Attack/semi-

Teleport on top of all that as a cherry on top
- if that's not enough you also have a miasma tree that pulls enemies away from you and deals tons of magic damage that can be pierced on top (with a sunder charm that gives you LEAST penalties compared to other charms, bc of how little monsters do magic damage)
- genuinely Mary Sue character