The "no stupid questions" thread

Bertram The Cursed wrote: 18 hours ago

I dont understand the hole DClone thing. Why its made so hard for offline players, while online you basically get them for free? Never found an SoJ and i would like to use one too.

Dclone was originally invented as a way to combat the mass flood of duped SoJs on D2:LoD - the Annihilus was basically the endgame reward for getting rid of duped SoJs. Also, it was designed as a community effort, that's why it takes so many to sell and why dclone spawns in all online games (on the same server IP in D2:LoD, on all servers region-wide in D2R).

In D2R, the SoJs for walks have been mostly been sourced via botting (D2R has had a huge botting problem since ladder season 2 at least).

Btw, offline you only need one SoJ. Yes, they're hard to find, but at least you don't have to find 125... Also, back in D2:LoD, you couldn't even do that - annis were impossible to get offline, same with torches.

Bertram The Cursed wrote: 18 hours ago

I dont understand the hole DClone thing. Why its made so hard for offline players, while online you basically get them for free?

You can get Anni for free if you are online at the right time. If the spawn occurs at night, or when you're at work, or even online, but just not ready to kill the DC, you're out of luck.
I wish we had more control over spawning our DClones on BN, like in SP.

ShadowHeart wrote: 14 hours ago

Bertram The Cursed wrote: 18 hours ago

I dont understand the hole DClone thing. Why its made so hard for offline players, while online you basically get them for free? Never found an SoJ and i would like to use one too.

Dclone was originally invented as a way to combat the mass flood of duped SoJs on D2:LoD - the Annihilus was basically the endgame reward for getting rid of duped SoJs. Also, it was designed as a community effort, that's why it takes so many to sell and why dclone spawns in all online games (on the same server IP in D2:LoD, on all servers region-wide in D2R).

In D2R, the SoJs for walks have been mostly been sourced via botting (D2R has had a huge botting problem since ladder season 2 at least).

Btw, offline you only need one SoJ. Yes, they're hard to find, but at least you don't have to find 125... Also, back in D2:LoD, you couldn't even do that - annis were impossible to get offline, same with torches.

Thanks for the context. Dont know if i would use my first SOJ for DClone, so i need two. Now it makes more sense to me at least, knowing that the hole thing is more related to the online game in the first place.

But man i ve killed hell Andy a thousand times and dont want to do it on nightmare again.

Trang Oul wrote: 14 hours ago

Bertram The Cursed wrote: 18 hours ago

I dont understand the hole DClone thing. Why its made so hard for offline players, while online you basically get them for free?

I wish we had more control over spawning our DClones on BN, like in SP.

At least for those who really sacrificed an soj. All others should not get it for free in my opinion.

Bertram The Cursed wrote: 11 hours ago

ShadowHeart wrote: 14 hours ago

Bertram The Cursed wrote: 18 hours ago

I dont understand the hole DClone thing. Why its made so hard for offline players, while online you basically get them for free? Never found an SoJ and i would like to use one too.

Dclone was originally invented as a way to combat the mass flood of duped SoJs on D2:LoD - the Annihilus was basically the endgame reward for getting rid of duped SoJs. Also, it was designed as a community effort, that's why it takes so many to sell and why dclone spawns in all online games (on the same server IP in D2:LoD, on all servers region-wide in D2R).

In D2R, the SoJs for walks have been mostly been sourced via botting (D2R has had a huge botting problem since ladder season 2 at least).

Btw, offline you only need one SoJ. Yes, they're hard to find, but at least you don't have to find 125... Also, back in D2:LoD, you couldn't even do that - annis were impossible to get offline, same with torches.

Thanks for the context. Dont know if i would use my first SOJ for DClone, so i need two. Now it makes more sense to me at least, knowing that the hole thing is more related to the online game in the first place.

But man i ve killed hell Andy a thousand times and dont want to do it on nightmare again.

Trang Oul wrote: 14 hours ago

Bertram The Cursed wrote: 18 hours ago

I dont understand the hole DClone thing. Why its made so hard for offline players, while online you basically get them for free?

I wish we had more control over spawning our DClones on BN, like in SP.

At least for those who really sacrificed an soj. All others should not get it for free in my opinion.

I will definitely Sacrifice my first SoJ to get an Anni. Not only is Anni better, it also only needs an inventory space instead of a ring slot and it grants extra XP.

vued wrote: 11 hours ago

Bertram The Cursed wrote: 11 hours ago

ShadowHeart wrote: 14 hours ago

Dclone was originally invented as a way to combat the mass flood of duped SoJs on D2:LoD - the Annihilus was basically the endgame reward for getting rid of duped SoJs. Also, it was designed as a community effort, that's why it takes so many to sell and why dclone spawns in all online games (on the same server IP in D2:LoD, on all servers region-wide in D2R).

In D2R, the SoJs for walks have been mostly been sourced via botting (D2R has had a huge botting problem since ladder season 2 at least).

Btw, offline you only need one SoJ. Yes, they're hard to find, but at least you don't have to find 125... Also, back in D2:LoD, you couldn't even do that - annis were impossible to get offline, same with torches.

Thanks for the context. Dont know if i would use my first SOJ for DClone, so i need two. Now it makes more sense to me at least, knowing that the hole thing is more related to the online game in the first place.

But man i ve killed hell Andy a thousand times and dont want to do it on nightmare again.

Trang Oul wrote: 14 hours ago

I wish we had more control over spawning our DClones on BN, like in SP.

At least for those who really sacrificed an soj. All others should not get it for free in my opinion.

I will definitely Sacrifice my first SoJ to get an Anni. Not only is Anni better, it also only needs an inventory space instead of a ring slot and it grants extra XP.

Yea, in the end i would have to do it.

mhlg wrote: 22 hours ago

Everyone seems to be taking this thread too seriously. Where are all the stupid questions? For instance , I just encountered Stone Skin skeletal archers and Stone Skin ghosts, and since neither of them have skins, exactly how does that work?

I think that what maybe a serious question for some is a joke for others. And them the OP makes this for those who are a bit embarassed about doing some questions.
As myself, never know if the things i aks about are stupid (noob questions or already ansewred in other posts) or a valid one.

so if i buy the steam edition and install will it over ride the bnet version? can you have both steam and bnet on the same machine?

Whats the thing about the necromancer set (turn into a Ghoul when its complete)? There is a way to turn it off?
Same thing for the assassins set...

Diego Henrique wrote: 5 hours ago

There is a way to turn it off?

Sure, remove one of the pieces to turn it off...

No, there's no way to turn off those effects while keeping the full sets equipped.

mojoed1 wrote: 7 hours ago

so if i buy the steam edition and install will it over ride the bnet version? can you have both steam and bnet on the same machine?

I don't have the Steam version myself, but I've heard multiple people say that they have one copy of the game running via Steam simultaneously as one or more copies of the game running via the Bnet App.