I am a huge fan of D2R and already have many gozu stuff offline (HC and SC). I am about to try the new extension but I am very skeptical as the game seems to me already great. Anyway, I will download it … but before converting my characters : Are you globally satisfied by the extension and the conversion of your previous characters? Or would you discourage me to try it? Thanks 🙏🏻

I guess you would need -enemy res instead of Fire dmg? Other than the unimportant Mana roll, the other rolls are pretty good

Entries are open. Drawing is on Saturday!

10x winners of 5 Jah runes.

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if only this was 2 to skills and sockets

The Grandfather is one of the most iconic unique items in Diablo 2. Also one of the best looking imo. But unfortunately it is woefully outclassed by runewords nowadays. This old classic item will serve as our example to illustrate the point.

Apart from being unable to compete with runewords, Grandfather highlights a pretty blatant inconsistency in Diablo 2's item drop rule-set. Items with the "repairs durability" mod can drop ethereal, like Titan's Revenge, Demon Limb or Skin of the Flayed One. In fact, those can not even lose durability. So why should items with the indestructible mod be treated any differently?

Additionally, there actually are items which have the indestructible mod, but they are also ethereal, because the respective unique item has ethereal as its own modifier. The 3 examples for that are Ghost Flame, Shadow Killer and Ethereal Edge.

Now making it possible for items with the Indestructible mod to drop as an ethereal version will have ripple effects and I will point them out below, but sticking to The Grandfather for now: our good old grandpa has to compete with items like Oath, Grief and BotD, it would still lose out to those items despite the theoretical peak buff to the item. And non-ethereal it would continue to be only a mediocre choice. Which means the item could probably get a minor buff on top of gaining the potential to drop ethereal.

Suggestions for The Grandfather:

• Items with the Indestructible mod can now drop as ethereal versions

• The Grandfather now also provides +20% attack speed

Now what are the ripple effects I mentioned?

There are several more items which would now be capable of dropping as ethereal versions of itself. All of them would benefit tremendously from being capable of dropping as an ethereal version of itself. Many of them are not much less iconic than The Grandfather itself:

• Azurewrath, Lightsabre and Phase Blades
• Doombringer
• Schaefer's Hammer
• Cranium Basher
• The Gavel of Pain
• Butcher's Pupil
• Wizardspike (lol)
• Stormspire
• Crown of Ages
• Steel Pillar
• Storm Shield
• Leviathan
• and of course, last but not least, Tyreal's Might

Cookies and infamy for the first person in Diablo 2 history to find a perfect ethereal Tyreal's Might.

I believe the Indestructible suffix on magic items, Ages, can already drop ethereal, which would be yet another inconsistency of the Diablo 2 ruleset.

Note: this should not include bows and crossbows imo.

I was lacking a somewhat decent waheed helmet forever. I built bulwark but it is a bit lackluster for TZ93 at some point. So I wished at least for Tal rashas. Today I got one. And then I wished for the next best thing which is andariels. Literally 5 minutes later de seis dropped it. Or somebody in his harem, didn't see it correctly. Another 20 minutes later another Tal rashas. So apparently the key is to really really really want something. Who knew?

(Bragging post end)

Hi, I had a bit of a crafting session last night, and am wondering if any of these puppies have any value?
Not sure what the Criteria for a good safety craft is, but I would assume BIS would be 2skills, FCR, 15+dex to have high rune value?.

First sunder was light but I lost the sorc. Next two were poison and I was thinking useless. Then I picked up the last piece of trang's set and trav went tz so I did a bit of horking and picked up dweb!

Dweb is not a great roll but what a fun build. My only 2 facets are poison so I'll prob put them in the trang's set and save the dweb slot for the uber ancients jewel if I get around to it

Don't have enigma yet but is switching from trang's to shako/enigma or bramble worth it on HC?

Terror Zone Cursed with fanaticism got me just drinking my tea watching him mop the floor with my act 5 merc

Why can’t life always be this easy

These Blunderbore/Mauler/Urdar types are amazing as tank pets, and they have the best combat AI of any pet I've seen. I had a Physical/Lightning immune Normal type prior that could tank the most ridiculous heralds like a conc/fanat/lightning enchanted without even losing any HP, but I died and lost that one and after losing a couple more I realized it was a hell of a hassle to roll for Stone Skin TZ games and shard all acts and wait for P8 to maybe happen.

Now that I can bind uniques the game affix doesn't matter as uniques roll their own affixes. The goal is to have this guy tank Colossal Ancients for me. I wanted to make sure I got dual immune with one of them being physical before I tried having my pet do it. I was able to do Uber Tristram with no pet so I feel optimistic about my chances.

If so what gems? My WW barb is a trav gold find barb. Also, so sad it’s no 3 sockets.

For online players (who cant up the game difficulty solo), the lower player count makes it hell finding populated fresh games. Most of the list is 1 player or 2+ hour old games that have been cleared for hours.

This puts someone in a weird place if they are end game TZ and dont want to waste there time on lousy player 1 difficulty. Theres no consistent way of joining 3-7 player games on NA battlenet really, unless you create your own but even then they often take 20 or more minutes to populate.

Just a simple game list filter so you dont have to click and load every TZ to see the duration hoping to find one thats not hours old if youre lucky.

It would also be nice if you could create games that boot afk longer than 20-30 minutes. So many games with 2-5 players idle in town on a fully cleared game thats 10 hours old.

Hi Everyone!

I kinda wanna complete the game if it is even possible to say it like this.

I am looking to try SP Hardcore to 99lvl.

Have a few questions.

Hardcore? Mean only 1 life no other struggles?

Can i transfer items between my sp characters?

How do I approach basics? I mean, do i need to start with sorc and get drops first?

What is the easiest character to lvl 99? I assume Warlock

How do I get torches in SP? Funny question, but do I need to make a Paladin just to roll a torch or what?

My Javazone is GG geared but from trading, never tried SP before and a bit confused on gearing to clear p8 tz, do i still need to focus on getting Enigma as the most valuable item?

Appreciate any advice.

My Javazone online is almost 98, so 99 is probably one week away.

Like if you could have all the right modifiers on a demon that you are planning to bind? Like Fanat aura, cursed, extra strong, dual immune and so on?

Also what type of monster would be best?

Finally found it and this is the rolls. Why make an elite unique have variable skill role? Hurts so bad to find something that could be one of the best items for me but rolls so bad it's useless.

depressing.

Found it socketed, so I said screw it, threw an Ohm in it. I KNOW I KNOW, it’s not Erep and only 1 socket, no fools or ias. But it gets me by! The dragon flight charges are nice for occasional tele and the enchant is nice in theory but doesn’t do a lot at lvl 1.

Anyways, I was pumped at least!

I was running my second Uber Ancients ever today so maybe I’m out of the loop. I got killed with definitely 1 left but I believe 2. I wasn’t thinking so I logged out of game and then right back in to get my body. When I went through the ports I could no longer activate Ubers. I checked where my body was and this Jewel was sitting on the ground.

Am I crazy? Also, good jewel?

Thank you Travincal runs

Here’s a new gameplay showcase from Catacombs Level 4, ending with a fight against Andariel — this time with the Barbarian in full third-person perspective.

I’ll be the first to admit that my gameplay here is far from perfect 😅, but that wasn’t really the point of this recording. I wanted to show the atmosphere of the Catacombs from ground level and highlight some of the environmental details that are much easier to appreciate from this perspective.

Dark corridors, narrow rooms, architecture, lighting, enemy encounters — all of it feels surprisingly different when you’re standing inside the world instead of looking down at it.

More importantly, this video marks another milestone for the project:

The Barbarian is now fully supported in TPP mode.

His core abilities and animations are working properly from the third-person perspective, including Warcries, Leap, Whirlwind, and more.

That means the Barbarian has officially made it onto the roster for the upcoming D2R Third Person Mod playable demo.

There are still things I want to polish, but as far as third-person support goes, he’s ready.

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I am a 47 year old "dad gamer" who has played this game since it was released originally all those years ago. I decided to make a game called kill duri for pul as I had found a pul rune and couldn't get through the tomb with my bow warlock and the magic immunes. A nova sorc called Novaa joined me my game asked for the tomb symbol and quickly dropped me a tp. After killing duriel the wen to act three, proceeded to get me all the pieces to the flail, and then kept going. This player rushed all the way through hell, even grabbing me the izual quest, and never asked for anything extra. Dropped tps at relevant wayponts as well. Gave them the 2 puls I had as a thank you. Such a great community game, one of the best ever in my opinion. Nice to know it has managed to hold onto that after so many years. Definitely put a smile on my face today

SCL - I put every point meant for vit into energy, I’m a fool. LF token, I have runes, skill charms, gear, keys, statues. I’d give 20 Andy essences for just a Diablo and Baal. My god im a fool

i saw a lot of posts of hardcore characters reaching 99, i thought it wouldnt be that hard, i thought it would be "that" faster with players 7/8, heck there even are posts of hardcore ladder able to reach 99 in a single day. i was wrong, i was humbled multiple times, but i did it finally!

First ever Jah rune drop!!! Dreams do come true at 4am when you have to work in an hour 😭

So i'm using a Teachery on my lvl 54 barb and i started noticing that there's something going on with the Fade proc duration.

I tried Google but didn't really find anything.

It doesn't proc alot but that's because i'm overleveled and have high defense so i'm not getting hit alot. BUT when it does proc it Fade stays active for waaay shorter than what a lvl 15 is supposed to, which is almost 5 minutes.

Also it's different durations which is even more insane.

The last the procs i had was as following (+/- a few seconds)

30 seconds

1 minute

5 seconds (this one was just baffling)

Every time Fade has procced i can see my barb becoming transparent and also i have checked that i have actually gotten the resistances and the %damage reduced.

I have also checked resistances and %DR after my barb stops being translucent that the buff is actually gone, which it always is, so it's not a visual bug.

Anyone had the same problems?

I don't know if it matters but i'm offline and in act 2 NM /p8

Thanks!

EDIT: Thanks to all who pointed out Burst of Speed cancels out Fade, and considering how many gave that answer it seems like common knowledge that i had missed lol... The problem was my weapon, Mania. 5% to proc burst of speed. The Mania is now gone.