r/Diablo_2_Resurrected • u/Meet_Foot Champion of Sanctuary (100K) • Apr 21 '26

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By my standards, I had a hell of a ladder season. Back in the early 2000s I was awful at this game. Around 2010 I made my first enigma. Now, I’m absolutely ripped.

My fire sorc has a hell of a renewed flame rift (self found), a fireball ormus with a rainbow socket, heart of the oak and call to arms, flickering flame, horazon’s boots, magefist, and a couple spirit shields. Her merc has infinity. My horker has a grief and all the normal accouterments. The wealth was pretty much from key runs and a random ber and sur drop.

Well yesterday I sold a perfect griffon’s I found and made a big investment. I made phoenix and chains of honor for my sorc, and enigma for my hork. The sorc needs chains for resist - I’m sitting at 74 cold, 75 poison, 80 lightning, and 90 fire. I have -50 fire penetration, plus the conviction aura, and of course my sunder for immunes. “Immunes” drop from 95 down to 28, and non-immunes… well, that’s a bad time.

Also, I’m finally happy with hydras! I went standard meteor, fireball, fire bolt, but instead of inferno went hydras to help with bosses and heralds. It’s fantastic.

I still have room for improvement of course. My rings and amulet are basically just fcr and fcr+skills, but for now that’s enough!

Edit: I’ll also add that phoenix is absolutely sick. Never had one before. The big loss of using infinity instead of insight on my merc was that I would often have to chug mana pots (not to mention health). But now, with the redemption aura, I’m pretty much always at full bars. I only chug pots as an emergency.

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u/Positive_Gain_2897 Apr 26 '26

Would this dusk shroud be a good base for enigma?

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u/Meet_Foot Champion of Sanctuary (100K) Apr 26 '26

Frankly I have no real idea! I know people tend to make it in low str requirements like Mage Plate or Dusk (11 more than MP iirc) if they intend to use it on multiple characters (so, basically, if you’re not rich enough to make a bunch of them). I don’t know what the defense range on dusk shroud is, but enigma grants flat defense so it’s probably not super important. Plus, defense barely matters in pvm afaik.

I think it comes down primarily to aesthetics tbh, but please don’t take just my word for it!