Do you like easy game or struggling?

AardvarksAdvance wrote: 1 day ago

what's with the reference to Sandra B?

Is it because Mosaic Sin looks like SB?

Or is Sandra B a code for the other 7 classes?

S. Sorceress
A. Amazon
N. Necro
D. Druid
R. ... doesn't work for Paladin
A. Assassin

B. Barbarian

?

It's a reference to the movie Speed with Sandra Bullock and Keanu Reeves made in another thread forums/i-am-sandra-bullock-t1850069.html

In the movie (https://www.imdb.com/video/vi126484761/ ... t_ov_ov_vi) they have to drive the bus with a certain speed and if that drops the bus will explode. Analogy with the movie is that if you're an Assassin with charges up you have to be in constant move looking for new targets. If you stop for more than 15 seconds your charges vanishes and you have to start over building them.

I ll never understand why people choose online over offline mode. Or more specific, why they choose to ruin the entire itemisation and game for themselfs by trading. In offline mode you can play for years and years and still have something to play for. Plus the actual gameplay and loot is much more satisfying due to playercountsettings.

godjira1 wrote: 10 hours ago

different parts are fun. early game is painful bc of shitty run/walk speeds, low mana, etc.

I do understand this. It hurts to go back. But...

This is part of why the end game feels amazing. A LOT of the progression of D2 is speed-based. You feel your character's power growing because casting gets faster, because walking gets faster, and eventually you even Teleport. The whole game just speeds up from beginning to end, and that speed is part of what makes the whole thing feel amazing and makes you feel powerful in the process.

Without the slow speed and the stamina in the early game, you don't have the contrast. With that realization, I actually love it.

Bertram The Cursed wrote: 5 hours ago

I ll never understand why people choose online over offline mode. Or more specific, why they choose to ruin the entire itemisation and game for themselfs by trading. In offline mode you can play for years and years and still have something to play for. Plus the actual gameplay and loot is much more satisfying due to playercountsettings.

This.

Bertram The Cursed wrote: 5 hours ago

I ll never understand why people choose online over offline mode.

Offline mode is awesome. But trading is a MASSIVE and very cool element of the game. It brings an entire dimension to the game. It enables you to obtain items that are practically impossible to obtain offline. It's also just fun to play with other people, especially if you know them. Sometimes it sucks to play with other people, but we're talking about pros not cons at the moment. Online mode is fantastic. D2R has such a cool trading element to it, and the itemization is even richer when you can pool from thousands or even millions of players over decades. I love it.

Offline mode is also fantastic. It's so great to control player count, to really gear for P8 and have that be an obtainable game every time, and to require the player themselves to find or craft literally everything they have. I love it.

D2 is just a great game, and it's made even more great by the fact that you can experience the entire thing so differently. This game would be like literally half of what it is without one or the other.

I've played a lot of starter builds in my life, so I've suffered enough, now I just go for the laziest stuff there is. Nova? Why would I bother to cast it, when Dream is right there? Just let me relax.

Altera wrote: 2 hours ago

I've played a lot of starter builds in my life, so I've suffered enough, now I just go for the laziest stuff there is. Nova? Why would I bother to cast it, when Dream is right there? Just let me relax.

On p1 sure.

I just farm the Flayer Dungeon in Hell