[D2]Diablo Ladder Reset June17

[Needless]

This has to be the hardest god damn game to pick a class.. theyre all awesome and have so many variations of types its ridiculously hard to choose.. I still cant decide T_T

Smite paladin, Zealot, Light Sorc.. Summonecro fuck man its just too many

[Seo]

Originally Posted by Needless

This has to be the hardest god damn game to pick a class.. theyre all awesome and have so many variations of types its ridiculously hard to choose.. I still cant decide T_T

Smite paladin, Zealot, Light Sorc.. Summonecro fuck man its just too many

if you plan on playing a while and want to magic find i cant recommend meteorb enough. once you get an enigma you can MF with other classes but teleport is the key to speedy runs.

[Kreugen]

What would be a cheap way to get a CD key? $40 is absurd. Always kinda wondered what playing the game on battle.net would be like, though.

[Aetos]

I miss things like this, and also it sucks being ip banned for up to 2 weeks, totally killed my buzz to play

[Caocao]

Originally Posted by Aetos

I miss things like this, and also it sucks being ip banned for up to 2 weeks, totally killed my buzz to play

Are those pictures and you being banned for 2 weeks related?

[Aetos]

Nope they are from 1.09 in 2004. I think im banned for installing with a keygen, and trying to go on bnet before changing my cdkeys

[Goliath]

Funnest class in Diablo 2 is a hybrid sorcerer. I never conformed to the cookie cutter popular builds, ever. And I always surprised people with how well I did. At the time (before synergies) nobody could believe that as an 80 sorc, I could solo anything in the game relatively easy, including hell Baal and Hell Diablo. Hybrid sorc are still viable now, the key is getting +10 all skills or higher and at least 60% faster cast rate. I HATE HATE HATE playing Diablo 2 when as a certain class/build I cannot do everything. If I have only light skills and a mob is immune light it's going to piss me off if I can't kill it. Same goes for every other class. Oh god I was unbeatable in PvP too because of my max Tempest and high fast cast rate. I'd teleport around and nobody would be able to hit me (guided arrows couldnt catch either) and Tempest would just either insta kill people or drop them very low.

Sucks that Amazons aren't good anymore (apparently?) because they were the second most fun class. Having Windforce in one weapon slot and Titan's in the other and having max split arrow and lightning fury was sick and you could do anything. Both my 80 zon and 80 sorc solod diablo clones (admittedly took about 10 mins each) back in the day.

P.S. God I hated meteor. As a hybrid sorc I had at least 1 into everything and every skill did decent damage with my +15 to all, but meteor was always a massive pain in the ass. Waiting 3-4 seconds for the damage was annoying. I even tried meteor after synergies and got it all maxed and it was all still lame.

What's this business about 5 people needing to be in the game for MF? I used to MF solo on my sorc with around 375 and always found tons of items. I had everything.

[Goliath]

LOL serious internet nerd rage:

"You actually sucked at D2 and didn't have a viable hybrid sorc you fuckin liar.. why lie about this IDK but you are."

Bnet will somehow always attract the worst. Which unfortunately leads to blizzard in generally attracting the worst.

[Menoman]

I don't think its necessary to be as vehemant as that, but I am skeptical myself of a hybrid sorc build that can solo with any sort of efficiency in the HellMode we know today.

If you are talking more along the lines of Maxed X-skill + All synergies... with remaining points thrown into an alternate skill. I'd understand that, I personally wouldn't call it a hybrid so much, but I can see why it could be called one.


Anyone know of a healthy place I can download the CD's for d2+expansion btw? I have CD keys, but my play disc hasn't worked in probably 2 years. I'd like to start up a necro and work with some assassins with the fresh new ladder!

[Goliath]

Originally Posted by Menoman

I don't think its necessary to be as vehemant as that, but I am skeptical myself of a hybrid sorc build that can solo with any sort of efficiency in the HellMode we know today.

If you are talking more along the lines of Maxed X-skill + All synergies... with remaining points thrown into an alternate skill. I'd understand that, I personally wouldn't call it a hybrid so much, but I can see why it could be called one.


Anyone know of a healthy place I can download the CD's for d2+expansion btw? I have CD keys, but my play disc hasn't worked in probably 2 years. I'd like to start up a necro and work with some assassins with the fresh new ladder!

About 12 months ago when I played my sorc could solo everything hell with hybrid build (cept all the ubers shit). It was harder than it was years ago before synergies and what not, and my build was more focused, but I still did it relatively normal without any extremes. I didn't use any synergies then or 12 months ago, except by accident. 20 Frozen Orb, 20 Cold Mastery, 10 Meteor, 20 Lightning, misc. The key is having +10-15ish all skills and not sucking balls. If you can teleport after an orb before getting hit than it's really no problem unless something can out regen you, and nothing can except for ubers and the bosses to get to ubers. I can flat out tell you I got owned by Lillith and could not do shit to her and can only imagine how bad it'd be in ubers. But hell baal and diablo? Np. Hardest part was poison round of baal's summoning and the harpy bitches that could sometimes be immune to cold as well as the casters in Diablo summoning that could sometimes be immune cold. But all doable.

[Seo]

Originally Posted by Goliath

20 Cold Mastery,

newb. sorry.

[Goliath]

Originally Posted by Seo

newb. sorry.

Lol @ being called a newb in "Diablo 2". What's next? Super Mario Brothers newbs who don't know how to properly use the parachute cape?

[Caliane]

Well.. he is right. After all that time and you don't know how cold mastery works and why its pointless?
Unlike conviction and lower resist, it does not lower resistance past zero. It will not break immunities. And if you looked at the cold resistance of the npcs. You will find 95% are either immune, or have zero resistance. You point 1 in cold mastery just to have it. And no more.

(edit) Arreat summit does say that cold mastery will take resistance below zero, but not break immune. Was this changed? None cold immunes will take extra damage then.

A large part of the endgame of D2 is understanding the more or less hidden effects of faster cast, ias breakpoints, and the like.
The lying character sheet and all.


Alot of shitty builds become viable with +15 skills...

Hybrid sorcs are viable. And tend to be the most popular now, due to the immunities.
Meteorb. Meteor+frozen orb.
Lit sorcs tend to rely on Infinity runeword to break lit immunes.

[Aetos]

If anyone else is playing on USWEST hit me up, Archmage164

[Fadaar]

Seriously, need a working maphack. I forgot how much this game fucking sucks without one.