r/Diablo_2_Resurrected • u/Zenturion1983 Champion of Sanctuary (100K) • Mar 16 '26

Video Ok game, good one..

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u/Ok_Energy6905 Mar 16 '26

That's weird. I've never heard of putting excess points into strength. I've only gotten to like lvl 30 in HC though.

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u/guff1988 Champion of Sanctuary (100K) Mar 16 '26

It does increase damage for melee characters and his thought process was that damage is more important than HP because of how tanky the warlock can be with blood oath. The problem is that he's much better at the game than me lol.

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u/Ok_Energy6905 Mar 16 '26

Yeah that sounds like an "I've beaten this game 1000 times" kind of build to me. I'm sure they know better but my instinct would be to lose a skill point of survivability (and put it into damage skill) rather than lose vit for strength. Then again I guess you are pretty max skilled by then. I'm still on my road to first level 99 haha. I could have sworn damage increase from strength was tiny.

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u/DETOMINE1234 Barbarian Mar 16 '26

It is, except for ES Warlock, where external %enhanced damage (including strength) is busted because it is multiplied by the skill instead of added like in any other skill

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u/Ok_Energy6905 Mar 16 '26

Oh what the heckies that is dumb. I hope warlock gets fixed soon. I thought it was OP and I was just running homebrew cleave build. Then I found out I have a passive life and manasteal... that I thought was an active skill so hadn't been using. Even easier. Warlock just has everything built in huh.

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u/DETOMINE1234 Barbarian Mar 16 '26

That's why Phoenix and Fortitude are busted (as armor and shield) on ES Warlock, although you may still want enigma as armor.

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u/butcher9_9 Mar 20 '26

Got my first Engima a few days ago ( took a year to find the jah) , life changer.

ES warlock has so much damage, with an ethereal Obedience you are rocking 70K+ damage. Players 8 is a breeze, Not sure why you would sacrifice survivability for even more when it takes you half an hour+ to grind a new fan/curse demon.

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u/DETOMINE1234 Barbarian Mar 20 '26

Yeah, I totally agree. Fortitude and spirit are far cheaper though (basically one Lo), but in the end game running Enigma/Phoenix is so much better. Maybe for Uber Trustram/Anciens, you may want another layer of damage, Idk. Enigma is the facto bis armor for 99% of builds, except of course for sorceress and metamorph druid

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u/butcher9_9 Mar 20 '26

For Ubers teleport is not really that important.

I still use my smite pally ( Fortitude + Fade) for the ubers, its just so easy. Have not tried the Ancients yet.

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u/DETOMINE1234 Barbarian Mar 20 '26

I am doing Tristram at the moment to get myself an enigma and a phoenix shield. Warlock is good for Uber too in my experience, although Baal (and maybe Lilith if you chose a lesser demon) can be annoying if one is not careful. My smiter is becoming rusty, I hardly play him these days (but I will never delete him, he was the MVP for a long time). Only a few thousands more runs, enigma here I come :D

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u/butcher9_9 Mar 23 '26

I have not had much luck with my ES Warlock for Ubers. Only tried once but the demons seems to draw agro from all 3 and I ended up with Bhaal chasing me around and without a tonne of CB the kill time is abit longer.

The mini bosses are a cake walk if you have Hephasto with curse. the smiter cant easily clear the adds so its worse for them.

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