Most other characters are in a good spot relative to the game's difficulty. I suppose something like Druid, melee Barbarian could be buffed to be in line with most other classes, but I want D2 to be a grounded game. If you want crazy action and OP builds you can play something like Path of Exile. Diablo 2 is supposed to be old school, a bit hardcore, a bit of a struggle at least until you unlock your end game potential.varangium wrote: 1 day agoThe solution to both of your takes is to buff other characters and add a super hard....
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I'm not giving you the satisfaction of directly answering your questionretepnap wrote: 1 day agoHehehe ... so you finally got onboard with the CoH also <3
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Funny you mention Gladiator's Bane......varangium wrote: 1 day agoI'll start..
BiS merc gear for end game farming is not Andarial's/Fortitude or Andarial's/Treachery or Andaria's/COH. It is Cure / Gladiator's Bane.
Cure
1) In D2R, your merc's main job is to be a walking aura farm, not to kill things. Gives you a very useful aura for all characters, not just ES Nova sorc. However, based on my experience it also IMPROVES THE MERC'S SURVIVABILITY vs. Andarial's or leach helms. The benefit of leach is more than offset by not having cursed Amplify Damage DOUBLING the merc's damage taken pretty much non stop, as well as the reduced poison duration. And of course it very much improves your own survivability as well.
When you fly around with TP killing boss packs every couple seconds and the Amplify Damage curse lasts for ~1 minute, without Cleansing you are cursed nearly all the time. Cleansing I believe reduces curse duration much more than the stated 39% reduction due to how the game applies it. I haven't timed it, but in practice it seems to reduce it to 7-10 seconds.
Note - the formula for Amplify Damage duration from monsters in hell is 5 + (3*slvl), where slvl = mlvl/5 + 1. So for a level 90 monster it is 5+(3*(90/5+1)) or 62 seconds.
Gladiator's Bane
2) Perhaps the more controversial take. Gladiator's Bane lacks all the things you typically look for in a merc armor - Life Leach, Resistances, Percent Damage Reduction, IAS, Increased Damage. But in my experience, it is "best by test". Maybe it's the 30% faster hit recovery, or maybe it's the cannot be frozen, or maybe it is the 50% poison duration reduction, or maybe it is the 20 integer magic damage reduction, or maybe it is the 20 integer physical damage reduction, or maybe it's the insanely high defense - but I find when my merc wears this, he stays healthy better than with the other options. If you want to max out resistance, you can do so with an Um rune or jewel in a socket, but I haven't found that to be necessary for most uses. Relatedly, integer physical and magic reduction are extremely underrated, they effectively provide an average pct damage reduction of around 20-25% in hell against your typical enemy.
Combined, these options have zero leach, but when your character is high level and kills things fast, the merch barely has time to leach. And if you watch it, Merc regen is somehow amazingly fast even without Prayer, the leach is simply not necessary.
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Honestly, my recent experiences agree with much of this. Absolute power corrupts absolutely, so to speak. Warlock has nothing slowing it down at all which is a weird thing to think about in this game. Being completely and utterly out of balance means there's so much less to the game. You can go anywhere, kill anything, outperform anyone. I have a recent example, even - in a p8-ish game with TZ trav, I took my under-geared WW horker to kill the council. I got like two of them down when a 'lock teleported over and one-tapped all the council members like it was a normal P1 game. Just voop-voop-voop and everything was dead. Makes it all the sweeter that a Lo dropped from one and I snagged it because he was too busy being a douche. >:| That's my Fortitude, ya proper cnt.Nahana wrote: 1 day agoMy hot take is that D2 is a lesser game with Warlock in it. It's awfully balanced, it's allowed to have superuniques as pets unlike Necromancer and have them scale with players in the lobby which is ridiculous, and being able to wear 2-handed weapons plus offhand is inherently broken as well... I'm pretty sure that every awful, arrogant, toxic person I have met in games was a warlock. But that might well be on account of small-minded, abusive people leaning towards any build that is OP so they can force their will upon everybody else. Just to be sure, I don't want to call all warlock players these names, but the other way around, if that makes sense.
I'm speaking of things like enabling PVP and griefing and spawn camping the entire group, soloing bosses and stealing all the loot before anyone could reach them, splitting from XP groups killing all the elites and champions or attempting to spawn the Herald in order to solo him. It's also inherently annoying and offputting to have a warlock in the group simply dominating everything with his DPS, with no fault to the player. The mere understanding that Warlock players do not share the same experience with regular old well-balanced, struggling classes is jarring. You simply have a god class and most lobbies have at least upwards of 4-6 Warlocks. Even if Blizzard manage to balance Warlock well, I might never get over my resentment towards that class.
The entire warlock summon is just silly.
Necromancer cant even temp Revive uniques for a couple minutes, and warlocks get to have one as a permanent minion complete with auras?
Necromancer cant even temp Revive uniques for a couple minutes, and warlocks get to have one as a permanent minion complete with auras?
Sure but a Necro can have 20+ revived monsters with just one skill point (depending on +skills). Imagine 20 permanent super uniques summons. Yeah, about that…Lemzodistber wrote: 17 hours agoThe entire warlock summon is just silly.
Necromancer cant even temp Revive uniques for a couple minutes, and warlocks get to have one as a permanent minion complete with auras?
Necro summons could perhaps use some buffs (but more so the Druid’s IMO), but Revive would need a complete rework if it was to be permanent and be able to Revive elite mobs. And I don’t think Blizzard would want the two skills be functionally identical anyway.
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The necro summons are balanced....
Except Skeleon Magi anyway - but other than that, I agree.
I think I misinterpreted your original post's meaning, sorry!
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I feel necro is a teeny bit weak. & very sharp in that skeletons really shine against bosses but are sooo weak against groups. Corpse Explosion yes, but it feels clunky and one-dimensional to me...
I would love to have fewer skellies in return for more damage, and maybe having Corpse Explosion require hard points to scale. And definitely some more love to mages!!! I think a synergy with Summon Resist, like more projectile damage or chance for them to Pierce or something - i think a version of pure summon necro that relies on damage from mages sitting safely behind their wall of super tanky skeletons could be really cool. Or maybe synergizing w Fire Golem would make more sense? Just to not have to rely on ce in every single build really would be lovely
And give Blood Golem Vigor aura idk but it's useless and necro desperately needs some mobility even just for levelling
I would love to have fewer skellies in return for more damage, and maybe having Corpse Explosion require hard points to scale. And definitely some more love to mages!!! I think a synergy with Summon Resist, like more projectile damage or chance for them to Pierce or something - i think a version of pure summon necro that relies on damage from mages sitting safely behind their wall of super tanky skeletons could be really cool. Or maybe synergizing w Fire Golem would make more sense? Just to not have to rely on ce in every single build really would be lovely
And give Blood Golem Vigor aura idk but it's useless and necro desperately needs some mobility even just for levelling
ROTW softcore ladder key exchange ♥ terror / hate / destruction
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My controversial take is that I wish they never add another act to the game.
Seeing what they did with the warlock, they would just mess it up.
The developers currently employed at blizz are both morally as well as creatively bankrupt and share no vision with the original team's intent for the game.
The fact that we had to wait so many years for some new content, and we got warlock in this current state, is just proof that they dont even care.
The Secret Cow Level was the real world all along, and we are the cash cows. MOO MOO MOO
Seeing what they did with the warlock, they would just mess it up.
The developers currently employed at blizz are both morally as well as creatively bankrupt and share no vision with the original team's intent for the game.
The fact that we had to wait so many years for some new content, and we got warlock in this current state, is just proof that they dont even care.
The Secret Cow Level was the real world all along, and we are the cash cows. MOO MOO MOO
There is always choice to choose play LoD.
Like if they want to add another act, they can make it like
LoD + A6
rotw + A6
The people dislike rotw can still choose LoD A6.
But yeah, their ability to make new things is really bad, it could make it worse and chances are very high.
And it is likely we are going to have
LoD
RotW
LoD + A6
RotW + A6
And single player
Ladder/non ladder x 2
SC / HC x 2
16 different world. Currently , it is only 8 world.
Like if they want to add another act, they can make it like
LoD + A6
rotw + A6
The people dislike rotw can still choose LoD A6.
But yeah, their ability to make new things is really bad, it could make it worse and chances are very high.
And it is likely we are going to have
LoD
RotW
LoD + A6
RotW + A6
And single player
Ladder/non ladder x 2
SC / HC x 2
16 different world. Currently , it is only 8 world.
Please be aware, all my trade is in non ladder d2r. Not warlock.
Agree warlock is crazy & i do get ur perspective (even if i don't agree) but why be against new content? If they released act 6 and it was terrible you could always just not play it. Like u can play non-rotw right now. Wouldn't u rather be open to take the chance on it?Piss Vortex wrote: 12 hours agoMy controversial take is that I wish they never add another act to the game.
Seeing what they did with the warlock, they would just mess it up.
The developers currently employed at blizz are both morally as well as creatively bankrupt and share no vision with the original team's intent for the game.
The fact that we had to wait so many years for some new content, and we got warlock in this current state, is just proof that they dont even care.
The Secret Cow Level was the real world all along, and we are the cash cows. MOO MOO MOO
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Further segmentation of the player base into various subgroups of content is never a good idea for the long health of a game. We have plenty of examples of why this is a good idea on paper, and a really bad idea in practice.kerph wrote: 12 hours agoAgree warlock is crazy & i do get ur perspective (even if i don't agree) but why be against new content? If they released act 6 and it was terrible you could always just not play it. Like u can play non-rotw right now. Wouldn't u rather be open to take the chance on it?Piss Vortex wrote: 12 hours agoMy controversial take is that I wish they never add another act to the game.
Seeing what they did with the warlock, they would just mess it up.
The developers currently employed at blizz are both morally as well as creatively bankrupt and share no vision with the original team's intent for the game.
The fact that we had to wait so many years for some new content, and we got warlock in this current state, is just proof that they dont even care.
The Secret Cow Level was the real world all along, and we are the cash cows. MOO MOO MOO
That is a real problem.Piss Vortex wrote: 12 hours agoFurther segmentation of the player base into various subgroups of content is never a good idea for the long health of a game. We have plenty of examples of why this is a good idea on paper, and a really bad idea in practice.kerph wrote: 12 hours agoAgree warlock is crazy & i do get ur perspective (even if i don't agree) but why be against new content? If they released act 6 and it was terrible you could always just not play it. Like u can play non-rotw right now. Wouldn't u rather be open to take the chance on it?Piss Vortex wrote: 12 hours agoMy controversial take is that I wish they never add another act to the game.
Seeing what they did with the warlock, they would just mess it up.
The developers currently employed at blizz are both morally as well as creatively bankrupt and share no vision with the original team's intent for the game.
The fact that we had to wait so many years for some new content, and we got warlock in this current state, is just proof that they dont even care.
The Secret Cow Level was the real world all along, and we are the cash cows. MOO MOO MOO
But D2 is more like single player game...it only increase trade difficulty.
If we count legacy. We are in 16 world...add a6, makes it 32. Kind of crazy , even if we play 1 world for 1 min, it is half hour.
That will make a lot of empty world.
But I still feel it is good to have thing like this way. Because I really dont like they make bad content and saying it is next diablo 2 and force everyone to play it that ruin original fun.
Please be aware, all my trade is in non ladder d2r. Not warlock.
They should allow trading between realms - for items that exist in both realms.
But... but... - it will mess up the purity of the LOD or the hard core experience if players can use the ES WL or softcore to more easily get items that then somehow make their way into the "pure" realms.
Got news for you - there is no purity already. Most of your items and runes were farmed by bots.
But... but... - it will mess up the purity of the LOD or the hard core experience if players can use the ES WL or softcore to more easily get items that then somehow make their way into the "pure" realms.
Got news for you - there is no purity already. Most of your items and runes were farmed by bots.
That's basically the same as deleting laddervarangium wrote: 2 hours agoThey should allow trading between realms - for items that exist in both realms.
But... but... - it will mess up the purity of the LOD or the hard core experience if players can use the ES WL or softcore to more easily get items that then somehow make their way into the "pure" realms.
Got news for you - there is no purity already. Most of your items and runes were farmed by bots.
sorry to clarify, ladder should be separate still.
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