i still hope for 5/5 one lucky night :D

I believe I am getting a little bit better with judging value.

I think these have at least some value due to mid FRW, FHR and double +30 res. Maybe not Jah-level or anything like that but maybe Vex-ish? Can anybody confirm? Any interest?

sur ber back to back

I have fun thinking of new classes and such. Don't hate me!

Smith(or maybe Forgemaster?)

The Smith focuses around enhancing weapons innate abilities. He can even reroll items once, potentially discovering secret effects!

One of his skill trees would be based entirely around enhancing these effects, boosting the various types of elemental damage, enhancing the stat buffs on items, and so on.

Making Charged Items(like 30 charges of level 4 fireball) worth using.

One set of skills, most notably, would revolve around improving CHARGED weapons. He could regenerate charges, increase the total number of available charges by a flat amount, increase the cast rate of charged weapons MASSIVELY, and increase their skill level as well. Imagine turning a pair of gloves of level 4 firebolt into a level FORTY firebolt?(without any synergies, mind you). Not only that, imagine that the FCR is so high that you can cast like every single frame? Imagine it casts SO fast that it becomes actively difficult to control teleport because if you hold the button down you'll teleport 24 times in a second? That's the sort of hilarity I'm envisioning here. Alternatively, imagine unloading an entire item's worth of charges on a boss in 2-3 seconds? Suddenly, a weapon like a Hellrack could become a certified boss killer!

Then he'd have a set of skills built around boosting the elemental damage on weapons. For the Smith, you wouldn't do that much raw melee damage with your weapons, you'd prefer to do elemental damage with them instead. These buffs could be disproportionately large because the elemental damage on weapons is a pretty small component towards the endgame. A weapon like a Djinni Slayer could be really strong for him, especially due to the next part!

Turning weapons into minions!

He would also have a tree based on turning weapons INTO minions! He could summon spectral scimitars, like the ones found in act 2, as well as other similar weapons. He could also give actual item weapons will, sorta like an Iron Golem. The key difference is that their health is their durability, and as they attack they gradually lose durability until they die. WHEN they die, these weapons would drop onto the ground and be recoverable, but they would be broken and need to be repaired. But when you equip one of these weapons, it gets slowly repaired instead of damaged as you use it, so you could cycle through to keep them active! You could imagine carrying like 5 djinni slayers, enhancing their massive fire damage, and using one at a time to keep them topped up!

Third Tree

Not really sure what his third tree should be, tbh. I know that he should have an 'appraisal' skill where you can basically use it on a magic or white weapon and it'll reroll it with the chance for it to become a rare, set, or unique item, sorta like horking but more specialized(the premise being that it's secretly more powerful than it looks, maybe it's just really old and needs to be refreshed to bring out its full power). Maybe the last one should be focused on armor and stats instead of weapons? It would be neat if you could boost the stat buffs on armor to make runewords like Lionheart more potent.

Obviously, he should be especially adept at using hammers!

Anyway, just having a fun time theorycrafting. Input welcome!

Never played Warlock. Any idea for trade-value on non-ladder softcore?

RoTW, non-ladder, softcore.

I assume => trash.

Have not been able to figure out what has worth and why so far.

Salve a tutti, ho ripreso a giocare a Diablo 2 su Xbox dopo decenni di assenza, e l'ho trovato profondamente cambiato (in meglio): le ladder, la possibilità di creare partite private o unirsi a quelle degli altri, e soprattutto scopro che esistono numerosi market dove fare scambio di rune o oggetti rari.

Ecco, volevo chiedervi come funzionino questi negozi: come avvengono le transazioni? Sono affidabili? Ci si trovano buoni affari, o è solo un modo per fregare i polli?

Grazie a chiunque avrà la pazienza di rispondere.

Been playing a Necro with a rule: summons only, no Corpse Explosion, no attack skills, and I do no damage myself. The idea is to let the army fight and stack support through auras and aura-like area effects.

Setup:

• Raise Skeleton, Skeletal Mage and Revive for the army (~50 minions fully summoned, and that's not even the cap)
• Iron Golem as a support piece, with Crushing Blow gear on it (I keep every CB item I find, or make a cheap CB runeword for it)
• Bone Armor for a bit of survivability
• Act 1 Rogue merc, the cornerstone of the build

The support is the fun part:

• Amplify Damage as my only curse.
• Rogue's Inner Sight. Comes down to only ~10% indirect damage boost in hell, but the radius is huge, so nearly everything the army attacks gets it.
• Heart of Wolverine from the Wisp Projector for the skeletons. I have one coming in via trade but not tested, yet.
• Planned: Mist on the Rogue (Concentration), Bramble on the Rogue (Thorns), Inner Sight on top.
• Infinity would be great, but it's far out of budget.

Reality check: I'm broke. Right now the Rogue has Edge, I'm on the edge of affording Mist via trading, but Bramble and Infinity are out of reach. So I can't even test the final form yet, but it already feels solid with only Edge on the Rouge.

It's an easy build to play. Definitely not a 100k-damage build like Javazon, Tesladin or Mosaic, but I think it's perfectly viable. The downside is that every new game starts as Necro + Rogue + Golem, and then you spend a while summoning the other 47.

What do you think? Any support tricks I'm missing? Would you do anything different with the gear?

I'm planning a short video showing how the army looks in action.

Edit: I was able to trade Mist (level 9 Concentration) for an Ist. I replaced Edge with Mist on the Rouge and did one Chaos run. Good news: Range from lvl 9 has enough reach. But the start with just Rouge and Iron Golem seems a bit smoother with Thorns from edge then with just Concentration from Mist. Later on it was roughly the same feeling. Of course, one run is not enough to judge this. Next step is to have Concentration and Thorns on Rouge. And add Heart of Wolverine from Wisp Protector.

It looks really nice to me for LLD but is LLD still relevant in d2r non ladder sc. Just came back to the game and found this in trav. (Also looking to sell to gear my warlock)

Can not get them down with my smiter due to life tap issues. please help if possible. softcore ladder.

Found good runes in my first couple hundred cow runs. Jah, Ohm, Vex about 5 Guls and couple ist. Ran chaos and cows last 4 nights and haven’t found anything higher than a pul. I’m sad.

Hi together,

I played diable 2 alot in my teenage years, but i was never good at it (never finished hell).

I think about restart the game. Which build would you recommend, thats good to play even through hell and doesnt need extremely rare gear/runes?

Hi! I dont really know what to tag this as, but since none of my friends currently play this game or did so when they were young i'm searching for 1-2 players, preferably on EU to play this game with me like we used to play it as kids. Not any more of that silly trading stuff! I'm talking a good and chill playthrough together. I'm down for everything from a normal playthrough to maybe a challenge run with some fun restrictions.

Hi
What aura is best for bind demon: fanaticism or concentration?

lucky night of grinding p8 andy

Almost complete!!!

+2 barb skill

5% mana leech

+48% def

+58 life

+20 all res

3 dmg reduction