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Are you ready for the remaster?
Going to be a blast to play through from normal to hell with friends, in up to 4K™ and and infinitely large and shared stash.
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>changing the stash size
Get out scrubs
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why do you keep posting these threads. d2 remaster is NEVER going to happen.
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>>384406943
yes it is. if i post about it enough and think about it, it will happen
this works for everything
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>>384406805
I hope they update the cinematics, they have an amazing story in them, it's just the graphics that are dated.
>inb4 Diablo 3 reskin
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yeah. i can't wait for them to turn the game into trash with the remaster
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>>384408341
if it's just higher resolution, removal of stamina bar and shared infinite stash how will it be trash?
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>>384408406
>removal of stamina bar
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>>384408516
it's completely useless though. it only affects you on a fresh new character for like less than 20 levels
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>>384406805
Not really, no. I like the game and everything but I've put so many tens of thousands of hours into it that I really just can't even play these isometric action rpgs anymore. The entire genre feels stale to me now.
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>>384408743
d2 always works though
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>>384406805
>Not knowing about the mods
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>>384406805
needs more than a remaster
it works for broodwar because no ones been able to replace brood war but diablo has a replacement so a remaster/nu textures isn't enough. Just keep playing old diablo.
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>what is plugy
>what is multires
>>384408649
Fuck you.
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>>384411313
none of that shit works. it just crashes or whatever else.
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>>384411570
use the 3dfx to opengl stuff. you can boost up the resolution with that.
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Quick guide for you:
>dig out that ancient PC w/ Pentium II & Voodoo II
>bust out your Sony or Mitsubishi CRT
>Play game with Glide API @ 800x600
That's all you ever need.
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>>384406805
If it's easily compatible with mods that exist I'll be excited for it. Resurgence blows vanilla d2 out of the fucking water nowadays
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>>384411313
>>384411846
Res increases don't work well in diablo 2 since the AI has a max range that they wont attack outside of. So if you boost to a modern resolution you can pewpew enemies from far away while on screen, but they'll sit there and do nothing. Game does need higher native resolution.
Hopefully other small QoL improvements, like stacking gems and such. Small shit that doesn't really affect gameplay, just speeds up downtime and stashing shit. Infinite stamina may as well be a standard thing, I have no idea why its even bothered with.
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>>384412717
Anon, they work fine at ~768p resolutions.
It's only if you go to 900p+ that AI range is small enough where it doesn't trigger.
You're a moron.
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>>384406805
>replay for the hundredth time
>have fun, for the hundredth time
>reach act 3
>fucking midget runs up to me at the speed of sound and explodes themselves into spikes that instantly kill me
every time
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>>384412824
why are you so fucking aggressive
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>>384413012
Because you spew factually incorrect bullshit without checking the facts yourself.
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>>384413094
not even me
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>>384412824
can you link what i have to download to enjoy the current patch in singleplayer in higher res?
want to do a p8 necromancer run
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>>384413368
>Current patch
Impossible, 1.14 blocked modding for the most part and now it needs exe fuckery among other shit, resolution mod not possible on it for now at all.
1.13 tho, that I can do.
Just go here >>>/vr/4125905
Has all you need.
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>>384413656
thank you
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>>384413094
Yeah, I'm the one that said it wouldn't work. And you proved it right. 768p is for non-gaming laptops. 900p and above would be normal for any desktop made in the past 10 years.
And your right, I didn't research it. Never bothered to try installing those mods, and heard mention that the AI range is too short so I never looked into it further. Most people aren't going to have looked up these mods, you know. Stop being a cunt, you cunt.
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>>384406943
Blizzard is hiring for remaster teams. D2 or WC3 is up next because they still have working online. Anything before that takes extra work to fix.
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>>384414003
Anon, 720p/768p is perfectly fine for strictly 2D games on 1080p screens.
If you go any further the shit becomes too small to play, pic related, Icewind Dale 2 at 900p where it's borderline unplayable due to everything being small and flat out unplayable at 1080p since font is too small to ready, loot is a pixelhunt and generally its cancer incarnate to play it at anything above 900p and even that is pushing it.
And nah, you're the cockmunching cunt for not checking your facts dipshit. Next time just don't fucking speak about the subject at all if you're not even going to do your research that would take you 10 minutes of googling TOPS.
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>>384406805
>infinitely large and shared stash.
Am cautiously interested.
Will this require Always-offline Bnet2.0 crap?
How will the cash shop jewery be implemented? Pay2skipgrind? Online cosmetics? Paid online? Clearance fees for imbuing rares and socketing items? Runewords cost BlizzGems?
Or will there just not be jewery?
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>>384414253
>>384413656
wait does this not include LoD?
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>>384414356
It does, are you fucking retarded or someshit to jump to such inane conclusion?
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>>384414356
how the fuck would anything in this point to the expansion not being included
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>>384414406
stop being so aggressive DUDE
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>>384414451
Bitch I'll fuck you in the ass like the sissy that you are and you'll like it
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One thing that I've wondered about convenience.
What would happen if there were some way to just directly turn gold into mana and health, to skip needing to TP to town and rightclick Ormus or Malah?
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>HD assassin booty
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>>384406805
post yfw diablo 2 will never get a remaster
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>>384412920
When midgets step up, i stomp midget asses.
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>>384414653
>amazon tits in high res
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>>384414569
Literally pay to win.
But seriously though, is there any D2 build that doesn't include lifesteal or other forms of self heal?
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>>384412920
Did you never get any gear or stat points with defensive options?
Outside of act bosses and corpse explositions nothing in d2 hits very hard.
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>>384406805
No. The past is the past. Im too old for this shit.
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>>384408516
>Nostalgiafags defend retarded mechanics in an old game
Not surprised.
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>>384414837
Skellymancer
Bonemancer
Novamancer
Hybridmancer
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>>384414801
>>384414653
>Andariel in HD
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>>384408516
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>>384413656
I get
ACCESS_VIOLATION (c0000005)
when I try this, wat do
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>>384415117
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>>384415178
Use DirectDraw, D3D doesn't seem to work for 50% of people.
If you still get the error, run VidTst.exe, pick DDraw and then unironically reboot your PC. There's something fucked about D2 code that sometimes requires rebooting.
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>>384415065
>not using a blood golem
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Why would they even bother with remasters on games from that era? Even the SC1 remaster was pretty meh.
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>>384415350
>using Blood Golem
This is how I know you're a shitter.
Clay Golem is literally the only one even remotely worth using and even then I'd rather invest in Skelemages.
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>>384415316
thanks, this worked
this is going to be great
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>>384415416
This. It is Clay or Iron made from Insight.
You only need blood if your gear sucks and cannot survive something.
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>>384415518
Oh yeah and set compatibility for all exes to WinXP SP3 (or SP2 if SP3 doesn't work).
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>>384415416
>not picking abilities based on how cool they look
the game is trivially easy it doesn't matter what's good or bad
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>>384415605
i read in your linked post 60 fps is possible, where can i enable that?
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>>384415350
>>384415416
skeleton mages are fucking worthless endgame along with golems, why not invest your time into corpse explosion and or iron maiden/decrepify?
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>>384415590
>Insight
You put that on your Act 2 Merc.
>>384415653
By playing the fucking Multiplayer like I said. You can play it offline easily using the Other Multiplayer->TCP/IP->Host option. It uses your offline/SP character and as long as you don't share your IP and somoene else with exact same installation doesn't try to connect, then it's same as playing offline.
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>>384415416
Out of curiosity, why use clay over blood? Blood has always seemed far more useful to me.
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>>384415662
The mages do have a place, but they do not benefit from extra points so you do not really have to spend in them more than 1p. Also, amp damage > decrepify.
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>>384411570
The AI thing really isn't an issue at all since most projectiles just despawn after a certain distance anyway.
In reality, the extra range just makes the game a bit less stressful since you'll have an extra second to react to a super fast facefucking bossgroup, or pygmies and stuff. Even if you tried to cheese stuff, 80% of the time you won't be able to.
>this fucking map though
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>>384406943
>Actually doubting that ActiBlizz wouldn't dredge D2 back up if they knew they could make a buck from it
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>>384415662
because d2 necromancer is the best necromancer in any vidya ever and i want my necromancer to actually raise an army of the dead?
What's the point of trying to get advantages you don't actually need to beat the game? There's no reason to try to pick the best possible build.
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>>384415779
yeah I am doing the other multiplayer thing, still seems like 25 fps and scrolling is choppy unlike when using glide wrapper
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>>384415779
No, you put infinity on a2 merc.
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>>384415416
If you make an iron golem out of an indestructible item, can the golem still die? I never tried this because I didn't want to lose anything potentially good.
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>>384415416
Blood golem used to be the only golem worth using pre-1.10, but they nerfed it to shit and made the clay golem overpowered. Before:
>clay golem had poor life, didn't get slow (the only reason anyone uses it)
>blood golem had good life, decent damage, pretty much 100% heals the player every time it hits
>toss in iron maiden with blood golem and you couldn't die (blood golem can no longer leech via thorns)
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>>384415948
Of course. Indestructability only counts on item durability and adds jack shit on iron golems. You only have to use iron golem to get Crushing blow or auras.
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>>384415662
I didn't say I run them, I said that I'd rather fucking get Skelemages than a fucking Golem, let alone a fucking Blood Golem.
Also I prefer Amp Damage, but Decrep is fine too.
>>384415786
Cheap, synergize really well with Bone Prison, Iron Maiden and Thorns, slows enemies. Why WOULDN'T you go for Clay Golem?
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>>384413012
wow /v/ has really gone to shit are you fucking cuck or what m8? "aggressive" lol go buy some man-pads for your period you fucking faggot
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>>384415904
>tfw have almost never been able to make an endgame runeword as solo self found
never lucky
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>>384415890
You're clearly doing something wrong, use Fraps or something to check framerate as it should be 60 easily.
>>384415904
>Infinity
>for PVE
It's PVP shit anon.
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>>384416132
Do not worry, it takes time.
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Diablo 2 is shit after you finish normal mode
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>>384415904
Insight has more utility and thus overall better, lots of mana too.
Furthermore Infinity only works if you're using Conviction aura merc.
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>>384416206
I used vid test, picked directdraw, windowed mode, and checked use plugY, and clicked "start plugin" with vanilla frosting mod. Anything wrong here?
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>>384416206
>Infinity
>PvP
you've gotta be shitting me. The aura eliminates most of the defence, resistance and the thing itself has crushing blow. Insight is for those times when you do not have the dough to get yourself one. Combine with amp damage and your army is fucking unbeatable. Sure, you can use those units that can be revived for amp damage, but it is always too much of a hassle.
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>>384416261
Tbh I think Normal is too easy, Hell has too many bullshit prefixes.
Nightmare is the sweet spot imo, I just wish there was a way to start out on Nightmare with preset higher level and some gear to get you started fairly.
Purely for SP reasons.
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>>384416036
Blood golem is cheap and synergizes with all those things as well. Plus, it heals you. Why wouldn't you go for blood golem?
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>>384406943
>Being this close to suicide
Get help bro.
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>>384416290
Insight is cheap, and can be just thrown into an iron golem. Bam, you have both.
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>>384416351
That's all good anon. So what's the problem exactly? If you're getting low framerate it's something wrong on your end or you not doing the Other Multiplayer game since Single Player is LITERALLY LOCKED TO 25. Check with fraps like I told you.
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>>384408196
Judging by the way the D3 cinimatics look, I would ratehr they leave the old ones alone. They had a grit to them, making them grim and breddy spoopy.
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>>384416569
Maybe it's just not what I expected with the 60 fps option. Should map scrolling and animations still appear as choppy as just the vanilla game?
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>>384416480
>Blood golem is cheap and synergizes with all those things as well. Plus, it heals you. Why wouldn't you go for blood golem?
See >>384416001
Sounds like you haven't played D2 in a decade.
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>>384416480
Because most of the monsters just blow up from corpse explosion at max rank + 10+ skills?
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>>384416613
Reminder D2 had another cinematic made for it shown only on E3 1998 that never made it into the game for some reason despite working extremely well as Act 1 intro.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KxnWjyvmpnI
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>>384416692
>hurr if you use something utterly unrelated to what we are talking about then it doesn't matter
Fuck off, retard.
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>>384416653
Anon, it's a fucking 2D game with sprites, they won't magically grow more animation frames that don't exist.
Map scrolling and mouse should be smooth though.
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>>384406805
whats the cheapest way to get a couple d2 cd keys?
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>>384416896
Why bother? Online is dead, just pirate it.
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>>384406805
I know old players are going to shit on this, perhaps rightly so, but if you missed out in the day, but kinda enjoyed D3 would it be worth picking up?
I don't mind grinding at all, but I'm wary of there being a lot of 'burden of knowledge' stuff I'd miss out on having not played with anyone who did previously (I'd be playing completely solo because no friends)
I like the idea of Necro or Paladin but I heard once that Pally sucks solo because it's a committed buff class or something
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>>384416892
hmm I will just deal with this, being able to play in 1080p is amazing enough, also p8 necromancer seems like fun, I like that things take a while to kill
do you know if there is a way to toggle items always being shown on ground? I seem to remember this being a default option but can't find it in the games options anymore or controls
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>>384417140
>playing on Players 8 when Vanilla Frosting gives you P8 advantage with P1 Health
Fucking why?
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>>384416896
>>384416993
This, also you can just straight up use hamachi or sorts for straight up playing with friends.
Grinding in SP is ALOT more easier than online too.
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>>384417078
Pally does just fine solo. Auras effect party members but that by no means makes it a committed buff class..
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>>384416470
>Nightmare is the sweet spot imo, I just wish there was a way to start out on Nightmare with preset higher level and some gear to get you started fairly.
I've been trying to do this with hero editors for ages and i've never been able to make it feel right. What level? What gear? What skills? How much money? I can never get the right balance.
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>>384417078
The biggest reason people enjoyed this "back in the day" was that you could join up with 7 other people super easily and fast and grind against monsters and bosses within seconds and repeat this process eternally, so D3 doesn't really compare
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>>384417140
Toggling items was NEVER an option in D2 you bitchnigger poser.
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>>384417225
I like to grind
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>>384406943
blizzard posted a job position a year or two ago for someone for a sc1/d2 remaster, then sc1 remaster announcement came recently
iirc they posted another one specifically for d2 recently
my guess is end of this year, early next year we'll have an announcement
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>yfw Blizzard announces that the HD remaster will include Diablo 1/2 in one seamless game, playable through it's entirely with any of the 10 official classes, with both skill trees and spellbooks
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>>384417329
any way to do it with any of these mods beside gluing down my alt key
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>>384417140
Why p8? p1 & 2, 3 & 4, 5 &6 and 7&8 have exactly the same drop rates on items as their higher difficulty.
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>>384406805
Inb4 it adds a cash shop
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>>384417510
Too good to be true, also D1 purists would shit all over that since D1 ain't balanced for that.
You've got Beelzebub anyway if you want D2-like D1.
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>>384417510
>It's built in the D3 engine and all the story is redone by modern Blizzard writers
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>>384417510
*Console only
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Is druid the worst class
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>>384415146
Yeah D3's '''skill system''' is shit but D2 had some literally worthless skills like Twister, Firebolt and Bash. It's nostalgia really. Synergies help but you are never going to cast firebolt over fireball once you get that spell.
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>>384417737
That would be the barbarian.
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>>384417638
My god it's really going to be like this
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>>384417635
>D1 purists would shit all over that since D1 ain't balanced for that
Neither game is balanced, period, so who gives a fuck?
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>>384417564
You can use an autohotkey script, but remember that having Alt pressed down means you can't click/attack shit and you will keep triggering the hardcoded button combinations by accident. It's just not viable in D2.
If you still want to try, download AutoHotKey, make a new notepad file on desktop, paste this into it and then save as whatever.ahk and run that with autohotkey before you start D2, it will turn left alt into a toggle button instead of hold:
Alt::
Toggle := !Toggle
if (Toggle)
SendInput, {Alt Down}
else
SendInput, {Alt Up}
return
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>>384417510
>literally everyone plays as the sorcerer for his 3 frame cast rate
Brilliant idea.
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>>384415779
>insight
>act 2 merc
>not infinity runeword
Found the underage retard.
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>>384417737
Depends on who you ask, druids at least have different good builds instead of being forces into 1-2 builds if you want to do anything.
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>>384417737
Why do people hate Druid exactly? Hurricane is best AoE you can get in my eyes since it's so hands-off.
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>>384417814
>Synergies help but you are never going to cast firebolt over fireball once you get that spell.
I like this though. I like that you have to think "Do invest in firebolt a couple times to make these levels easier or do i struggle and not waste the points?"
I like games that force you to make decisions instead of saying "LOL DO WHATEVER MAN YOU CAN CHANGE IT ALL AT YOUR LEISURE"
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>>384417814
>Synergies help but you are never going to cast firebolt over fireball once you get that spell
I hate this argument, what about the time you spend playing the game and leveling up? What's wrong with more options?
With this logic they could just make one single ability that does everything because why would you use anything else huh
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>>384417954
>instead of being forces into 1-2 builds
Necros have like 6 I can think off.
Skelemancer, Bonemancer, Novamancer, Daggermancer, Explosionmancer and Hybridmancer.
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>>384416470
I agree actually. Nightmare is perfect. It's not bullshit broken and you actually feel like your character has weaknesses and strengths.
Normal is cheesed by mana potions and even a retard can complete it. Hell can be incredibly hard if not impossible with certain builds.
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>>384417961
Because the druid only has one real build.
>fire druid is worthless
>wind druid is decent
>summon druid is worthless
>werebear druid is worthless (the assassin and sorceress are better werebears than the druid)
>generic werewolf druid is zeal but worse
>poison druid has awesome mechanics, but is completely outclassed by the amazon and necromancer
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>>384416801
>Cinematic shows 2 suns
#deepestlore
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>>384418104
I was a skelemancer for my entire youth. As an adult I tried bonemancer and loved it so much. Is daggermancer fun?
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>>384418104
What the fuck is a explosionmancer? Hybridmancer I guess is just a variation on summoner who just uses CEalso called fishymancer
Also, dagger, nova and bonemancer are just horrible in running hell.
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>d2: 40-50 skeletal warriors, golems, as many revives as you want
>d3: 2 skeletons
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>>384418435
Dagger, nova and bone are all fine, because corpse explosion exists. Literally every necro build should be spamming corpse explosion the moment the first monster falls dead.
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>>384418537
Then how are those really different when they lean to the same skills all the time?
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>>384418435
Bonemancer actually does great in hell because everything has a bunch of elemental resistance and spear is nonelemental
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>>384418065
leveling up Charged Bolt and Frost Nova is better than firebolt in every way. If you just want a skill to use while leveling up, you pick one of those two to put skill points into.
As for logic, you are retarded. Why make one skill that does everything when you can have a few skills that only do some things and have weaknesses? That was the natural evolution. Sadly D3 fucked that up by making certain skills mandatory and heavily weighting some or making some mandatory via sets.
If Diablo 2 had a real successor, it would have removed firebolt and made fireball the main skill OR made firebolt evolve into fireball with enough skill points added to it. Like "At X points, this spell gains AoE effect" or whatever.
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>>384418435
>get into Hell, A4 is getting tough
>actually farm trang-oul's and bramble in SP
>with lower resist, poison immunities STILL aren't broken
>DEATH'S WEB IS THE SECOND RAREST ITEM IN THE ENTIRE GAME
Fucking why? Novamancer is goddamn suffering.
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>>384418193
>all these people tho think the game starts when you start hell mode
All of those builds are perfectly serviceable. You can beat Baal with fucking dire wolves if you want to. It doesn't matter. The game is not hard enough to require any optimization.
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>>384418394
I honestly don't like Daggermancer but that's simply not what I think of when I think "Necromancer".
Same with Novamancer really.
>>384418435
>explosionmancer
Amp DMG + Corpse Exp focused build with rest in Bone Wall and Bone Prison and rest being prereqs or 1 point stuff.
Hybridmancer is Summonmancer with maxed Skellies and 2nd main being either Bone Wall/Prison/Spirit or Poison Dagger/Explosion/Nova.
>>384418519
>>d3: 2 skeletons
7 actually but yeah, it's shit.
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>>384418394
It isn't a build. Fucker is just talking out of his ass. Daggermancer is just a Novamancer really. Fucker didn't bring up Magemancer that uses mages, lower resistances and fire golem along with bonewall or something.
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>>384418519
>d2 patch 1.13
>8 skeletons
man fuck that patch
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>>384418908
you're lying
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>>384418519
obligatory
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>>384418065
>With this logic they could just make one single ability that does everything because why would you use anything else
Please, it was objectively poor design. Tabletop systems had found ways to keep low level spells relevant throughout the entire game decades before Diablo 2.
When the system was conceived, synergies and skill resets didn't exist. So if you point a point in fireball, that shit was wasted forever. Nobody did it. Not even casual children on their first playthrough did that shit. I know, because I was a casual kid when the game came out.
The fact that it's even (arguably) remotely viable to temporarily spend points on largely useless skills now is the result of a band-aid on a fundamentally broken idea.
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>>384418961
>necromancer with 100 revived naked butt demons and 50 skeletons
>*blocks ur path*
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>>384418908
Skeleton numbers were nerfed in 1.10, not 1.13. But skeletons were worthless before 1.10, so it works out.
>>384418813
Most people judge characters by the end game, hence why my explanation as to why the druid is commonly considered the worst.. By early game standards, druid is one of the best since fire is so amazing in normal.
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>>384418908
Liar bitch nigger, >>384412824 is from 1.13
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>>384418908
>8 skeltals
>at 20 skill points
>you will hit 30 easy
>11-12 skeltals
>tons-o-damage
>30+ revives
>Amplify damage removes physical resistances.
It was fun to run around with 25+ melee skeletons but they literally died to anything and did no damage.
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>>384418519
Hundreds of skeletons would have just broken the game.
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>>384417246
speaking of pally...
think they will do some balance changes in the remaster? would probably assblast a lot of people, but making some tweaks could be interesting
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>>384418805
>>DEATH'S WEB IS THE SECOND RAREST ITEM IN THE ENTIRE GAME
How mad does this make you? It's not cheated.
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I remember how necro revives were dumb as shit and would just speed off into random directions and sometimes group up and kill shit off screen
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>>384419216
Well, if they do balance changes, they should make it so that melee builds arent complete shit without items with amp damage to break the phys immunities.
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>>384419169
That is a mod or hacked, you retard. You cannot get that many skeletons in vanilla. Even with an impossible level 70 raise skeleton, you only get 25 skeletons. In reality, you are going to cap around 22 of each variety, and that is with perfect equipment.
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>>384418805
>death's web
fuck, at that point just use a hero editor or something...
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>>384419150
>Most people judge characters by the end game
My point is that this is extremely stupid. The end game is when you stop playing. How good your character is when you aren't playing them anymore isn't a very good standard.
The reasonable standard IMO is how well they do in nightmare from rogue's camp to baal, which as far as I'm concerned is the real game. Normal mode and Hell mode are both shitty and boring and not very fun.
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>>384419404
It might be from Vanilla Frosting restoring pre-1.10 balancing for some stuff I think.
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>>384419150
>Skeleton numbers were nerfed in 1.10, not 1.13. But skeletons were worthless before 1.10, so it works out.
Huh, didn't know that because I stopped playing in like 1.8 i think.
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>>384419394
that's pretty much exactly what I thinking. make melee a bit more viable
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Blessed hammer now becomes electric damage
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>>384419639
Also ranged could use the same love.
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>>384417078
http://diablo.wikia.com/wiki/Paladin_builds
Half of there are fine for SP.
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>>384417985
I prefer games that let me change shit whenever I want. I don't need to waste a dozen or more hours leveling up another character just to try something different. No fucking thank you.
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>>384419394
>they should make it so that melee builds arent complete shit without items with amp damage to break the phys immunities.
What? Dealing with physical immunes is trivial for melee characters excepting for the druid. And the rare times you get dual immunes, just ignore them.
>Amazon is going to be dealing lightning + physical
>Barbarian has berserk
>Necromancer deals poison + physical
>Paladin deals physical, can break all undead immunities with melee attacks, and has vengeance
>Sorceress is going to be dealing at least fire + physical, if not fire + lightning + physical
>Druid has no means of dealing with immunes, fuck druids
>Assassin deals poison + physical or physical + tri-elemental
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>>384417078
http://diablo.gamepedia.com/Zealot_by_lMarcusl
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>>384407279
>>384414191
>>384415863
>>384417470
The diablo 2 game director said in an interview many times that a remaster is extremely unlikely.
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>>384415878
BLASHEMY
YOU MUST MIN/MAX
hardcore ARPG players are total faggots.Do what's fun (but make a hardcore character..)
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>>384419367
>that gem
I'm not mad, I just lament all the days wasted on farming ancient tunnels and cows. Congratulations. At least someone in the world has it.
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>>384420138
when? because the job postings specifically mentioned d2
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>>384420138
But he doesn't even work at blizzard or has any connections left, like he doesn't know anyone that works inside blizzard
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>>384417985
>I like games that force you to make decisions
but anyone who has played the game knows that it's not a real decision and they're wasted points.
same with attribute points. If you put points in energy, you haven't made a meaningful decision, you've merely fucked up your build.
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>>384406805
it's shit tho
D1 is the only good/atmospheric Diablo game, the reason you morons love D2 so much is because of nostalgia
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>>384420193
>At least someone in the world has it.
In fucking single player offline, not much of a consolation.
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>>384406943
Pretty sure all blizzard Classic games will eventually be remastered if Starcraft Remastered sells well.
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>>384419980
Yes, but this does not fix the issue that physical damage is pretty much useless in many scenarios without amp dmg.
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>>384418805
You know Bramble, Trang-oul's and Death's Web don't help break immunes, right? You can only break immunes with active skills.
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>>384420298
I'm gonna have to say I enjoyed D1 with Beelzebub more than D2 with Plugy and Multires.
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I love how after all this time D2 is still a game I can still get into once or twice a year and have fun playing for a few weeks. The last time I played a couple months ago I didn't even get HotO, so it's been itching in the back of my mind that I stopped too soon.
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What to level first, skeleton mastery or amounts of skeletons?
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>>384420346
I cannot remember if it was fire or poison that was the hardest to break and to find in monsters, but it is exhausting as fuck.
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>>384420475
If your skeletons die too easily, mastery. If not, increase their numbers.
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>>384420475
Always raise skeleton. It gives more stats, and greater amounts of those stats.
>raise skeleton
>gives flat damage
>gives percentage damage
>gives attack rating
>gives life
>gives defense
>gives more skeletons
>skeleton mastery
>gives damage
>gives life
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Anyone else gonna roll on ladder now because of this thread?
The reset was 6 weeks ago, its not already too late and the market is fucked, right?
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>>384420340
Physical immunities arent really the issue. The issue was always how gear dependent physical builds were. Leech is 100% necessary but it's only really found on yellow gloves and certain uniques. Every class, including druid, had a way around physical immunities (rabies, which was actually good).
Physical immunities weren't as much a problem as people are making them out to be.
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>>384406805
Nigga' D2X was like 15 years ago or some shit, the gameplay is dead on the vine.
Nobody gives a fuck about Pindle runs, spamming one skill, and filling your inventory with skillers or 3/20/20s, except the too-far-gone autists still doing it today.
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>>384420309
>in single player
Fuck this gay earth
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>>384420648
>Anyone else gonna roll on ladder now because of this thread?
>800x600 resolution max
>no mod support
>the shit nuBalance
Nah.
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>>384420475
You balance them both
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>>384416801
>working extremely well
that's pretty generous, considering it's hamfisted as fuck. It would also run completely contrary to their decision to narrate events through Marius, which was frankly a fucking excellent decision because his cowardly nature gave extra weight to the sense of horror and hopelessness engendered by the return of the prime evils. Having a direct line into what the Dark Wanderer was thinking would also have severely dampened the mystery surrounding him. The way his identity unfolded through Marius' eyes (who, like almost everyone in-universe, knew nothing about what happened in Tristram), was undoubtedly a better choice than having the DW go "alas I am becoming evil woe is me I cannot resist Diablo's will"
This trailer is ok for building hype for returning players, but beyond that it's pretty mediocre (narratively speaking)
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>put the game on second monitor in 1080p thanks to anon linking it above
>just have it in the background and move my character and play a bit whenever i need a break or something
the comfiest shit. thanks anons
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>>384420224
One of the questions he was asked is if he still stays in contact with Blizzard, and he somewhat does. He said he is still aware of their upcoming projects, and was even offered positions on them
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>>384420346
No. No, I didn't. What's the -xx% enemy poison resistance stat for, then? DW and Trang Oul's should add up to 75%, right? Do they only apply after you've broken the immunity with Lower Resist? I thought it was like an AoE effect.
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>>384421145
Also he seemed a bit off in one of the videos I saw uploaded some months ago. Like it appeared like he works way too much and was lacking sleep and was talking in a really weird way
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>>384420220
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zxy7xUXBLJA
I'm not sure if this is the segment specifically. You'd have to look. This guy uploaded a bunch of these interview videos. I'm sorry this isn't the exact moment I'm referencing, it was a while back when I saw these I can't remember which one exactly
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>>384421150
Yeah, but good luck breaking poison immunity.
It applies so that when you break the immunity, the monster still has like 80% resistance or so. Apply 75% -res to that, it should fall to 20 and is done on-monster basis.
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>>384421150
iirc when a skill breaks an immunity it does so with a penalty to its effectiveness, so the mobs still have a bunch of resist left over, they just aren't immune any more. I believe it is at that point that -% resist kicks in.
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It's never going to happen, Starcraft can be easily remade but a massive game like Diablo 2 would take insane amount of work.
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>>384420220
Also, it probably mentioned d2 because it is one of their better games. All evidence suggests Diablo 4 is already if not about to be in development. Diablo 3 was shit and they want to hire people familiar with Diablo 2.
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>>384421423
I don't get why they would make that such a pain in the ass when only two classes can use poison. Nobody ever used poison jewels or gems anyway.
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>>384421635
the job posting was for someone interested in "working on remastering old blizzard classics such as sc1 and d2" or wording very similar to this. that was the one from about a year ago, idk what the wording was for the more recent one.
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>>384421150
It works like this:
>active -resist% applies to resistances above or at 100% at 1/5th effectiveness, so 110% poison resistance with -55% lower resist brings it down to 99% poison resistance (amplify damage, lower resist, conviction are active)
>passive -resist% applies to resistances below 100% at complete effectiveness, so fighting the now 99% resistant monster with -20% poison resistance from gear will bring it to 79% poison resistant (cold mastery and -% to enemy resistances are passive)
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>>384421598
>insane amount of work
>one modder did it in a couple of hours
They could literally just take this mod and apply it to live and everyone would be happy.
Higher resolution, shared stash and we should be able to choose player difficulty multiplier when creating a game online
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>>384406805
If it's just D2 with updated graphics and some QoL improvements I'm for it. If it's reskinned D3 then fuck no.
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>>384421791
Oh, was aplication of passive -res flat and not just a %reduction of the value of the resistance?
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>>384421872
>one modder did it in a couple of hours
Well this modder must be a rich guy.
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>>384420138
are you literally retarded?
The Starcraft Remaster director (Who is the director of the "Remaster Team", not Starcraft director) said that they'll be looking at other titles to remaster next, and Diablo 2 was obviously one of the most popular requests but he couldn't promise anything.
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>>384421985
It applies as a sum. So if you have -10% resistance and they have 90% resistance, they are now at 80% resistance. The game used to have percent reduction back in 1.09 on most resist reduction skills, but now they all just directly subtract.
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>>384421985
all resistance works as a % out of 100 (but can go above 100 or below 0)
-res is additive, so once a resistance is broken, -15% will bring a mob from, say, 75% to 60%.
this post seems to be a comprehensive roundup of the mechanic. http://www.medianxl.com/t2226-guide-to-understanding-broken-immunities-and-monster-resistances
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They should do what Beamdog did to Baldur's Gate, remake it and then make a new expansion pack for it.
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>>384422907
>new expansion
What is there even left to do? You already defeated the prime evils.
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>>384419805
I'm NEET so hours have negative value for me. I need to fill time, wasting time means nothing to me.
waitin out that death by old age
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>kill a skeleton
>explode the skeleton into sudden flesh gibs
>another skeleton raises out of the skeleton
explain this
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>>384423156
That's cool and all, but I don't really have the kind of time to waste like you do or like I once did when I was in school. Pointless time wasting mechanics like locking you out of respecs do nothing for me but kill my enjoyment.
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>>384423320
>even skeletons have skeletons inside them, waiting to be released
Diablo 2 was a horror game all along.
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>>384423101
They could just pull a new prime evil out of their asses that supposedly no one knew about, Diablo lore has always been a joke anyway, little retcon here and there is a small crime for getting a new act/classes/content for Diablo 2.
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>>384423320
>>384423432
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>>384420317
The only reason the starcraft remaster exists is because the Korean stracraft scene is abandoning Legacy of the Void and going back to Brood War, and Blizzard has gotsta get paid.
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>>384423432
THERE IS A SPOOKY SKELETON INSIDE OF ME, THERE IS A SPOOKY SKELETON INSIDE OF YOU,
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My favorite event in the game was smashing the soulstone
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>>384419214
I'd honestly rather have a bunch of skeletons as the necromancer feels outclassed in Diablo 3 compared to that of Diablo 2 with him feeling balanced - Diablo 3 is surprisingly about movement and speed endgame, and the small number of skeletons really hampers on your ability to do anything fast.
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Everyone who bought Diablo 3 should be rounded up and shot.
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>>384424161
calm down hitler
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>>384424161
Diablo 3 is pretty fun, man.
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>>384406925
>giving a shit about storage size
Have you even played the game? You get way more than enough, but if you want to get the best shit you need shared+huge inv
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Imagine how many pre-rendered sprites a 1080ti could spit out, fug.
8 necromancers up the ass, also enemies should be multiplied by playercount instead of scaling their stats.
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>>384422126
Are you retarded? A diablo 2 remaster would need to be built from the ground up. It is nothing like starcraft. Diablo 2, at the time of development, used many visual tricks and the limitations of computers to their advantage. They relied on the shit resolutions to make certain things look nice. If you were to upscale those or remaster them in the same engine, things would be off and just wouldn't work correctly. It would need to be essentially built from scratch and at that point Blizzard would sooner just make an entire new game
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Man are the act 3 mercs the most useless ones
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>>384426676
They are pretty good. I'd almost always use the act 3 cold mercenary if the act 2 mercenaries didn't exist.
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I've been playing occasionally ever since release, still do once or every other year with friends (we level up to 70+ and finish hell a few times), probably over 5k hours played total, and the rarest item I have ever found myself was a fucking nagelring while waiting for my friend to stop being afk and I was randomly smashing urns in act 2 crypts on nightmare.
Item rarity in this game is so bullshit.
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>>384427375
Good thing the game drops runes around the Ist tier like candy so you can quickly trade those for the best shit.
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>>384427682
yeah good luck trading in this game with its current community. might as well learn chinese or some other language.
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>>384428035
I have never met a player in Diablo that didn't solely speak english. Check your realm settings.
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>>384425038
Diablo 3 exists because of you two
Diablo 3 should not exist
You and everyone like you should not exist
Prove me wrong or i kill the GOAT
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>>384406805
>mfw griefing people in tombs runs with 800dmg level 21 zealot
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>>384428531
>prove me wrong
Nah, I don't give a fuck about your opinion. Diablo 3 is a fun game that I enjoy and there's not a damn thing you can do about it.
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>>384426676
A2 > A3 > A1 > A5
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>>384428693
CIVILIZATION IS DEAD AND YOU KILLED IT
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>>384428792
Civilization is a shit series that hasn't been good in over a decade, I'll agree with you on that.
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>>384428896
no i mean actual civilization
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>>384421150
>>384421791
https://www.theamazonbasin.com/wiki/index.php/Immune
the various diablo wikis are great for basic stuff like runewords and item lists but nothing beats zon basin for pure autism about game mechanics
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>>384429265
>caring about the real world
Get out, normie.
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>>384429363
the real world is where the good vidya comes from
It's like the demiurge in reverse
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>>384428693
you can enjoy whatever you want but diablo 3 failed abysmally as a successor to d2 and completely missed a lot of the things that made d2 great to begin with.
>>384428896
fuck you, civ4 and 5 were both fantastic after their expansions. 6 will get there once it gets a few and beyond earth would have been fine if it got another on top of rising tide.
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>>384429665
>completely missed a lot of the things that made d2 great to begin with
I still don't understand how fucking stupid they were to not make coop as accessible as d2 was in d3. That was its biggest reason for success and replayability etc. so fucking abysmally stupid.
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>>384406805
>andariel's tits in 4k
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>>384429665
>beyond earth would have been fine if it got another on top of rising tide.
beyond earth was doomed from the start by a terrible setting and terrible writing. I'll never forgive them for the soft reboot trash it was.
SMAC is the greatest vidya of all time and it deserved a good successor ;_;
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>>384429665
Has it occurred to you that maybe Diablo 3 wasn't trying to be a successor to Diablo 3? Diablo 3 is a good game in it's own right, regardless of the existence of any other game.
>b-but civ was good after expansions
So was Diablo 3.
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>>384429909
Watch as they put a bra on or something
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>>384430124
>maybe Diablo 3 wasn't trying to be a successor to Diablo 3
then they made a big mistake calling it "Diablo 3"
>So was Diablo 3.
it wasn't a successor to diablo 2 and i didn't enjoy it enough to play much beyond a bit of co-op on the campaign. i still play diablo 2 every time the private server i play on does a ladder reset and that's over ten years after i first started playing the game.
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>>384430124
>diablo 3
>good
maybe launch diablo 3 with low legendary drop rates, no +1200% increased damage sets and rares actually being worth a damn
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>all these people think a remaster absolutely must mean entire game remade with new assets
Literally all they need to do is apply the current mods to live, which are
Higher resolutions
Infinite stash size and shared between characters
(Remove stamina bar)
Consolidate realms into single ones where possible
Player amount difficulty multiplier option when creating games
Attempt to delete bots
And we're good. The work put into it would pay itself off within a week of the announcement
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>>384430165
>Watch as they put a bra on or something
pls no
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>>384430271
Plenty of games out there go with a new direction for the sequels. Diablo 3 is hardly the first and wont be the last.
I still enjoy playing Diablo 2 as well, but that doesn't mean I can't enjoy Diablo 3.
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>>384429294
>but nothing beats zon basin for pure autism about game mechanics
No. D2mods has far more information, but it isn't localized like it is in the AB.
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>>384430271
>then they made a big mistake calling it "Diablo 3"
A good sequel is everything the previous game was but better. Diablo 1 -> Diablo 2 is literally a textbook example of good vidya sequels, because Blizzard North was a competent development team full of people who liked vidya and wanted to make enough money to make vidya.
A bad sequel is some flanderized bits of the previous game plus a bunch of nonsense, and that's what Diablo 3 was. It's just a bunch of shallow simulacra of game mechanics with no thought or depth but which make pretty lights appear on the screen and fool people into thinking they're playing a game. Blizzard discovered this genius money-making strategy some time during wow Beta and they've been goin at it hard ever since.
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>>384430418
they would probably make high res sprites and mess around with b-net like starcraft remaster
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>>384430418
add
>free to play because it's a game they already sold and which ended its market cycle decades ago and they're only remastering it out of respect for their audience and mutual love of the game
and i'm sold
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>>384430082
it's an ok game on its own, if heavily flawed, and it did well in not billing itself SMAC2 because that's not what it was. if 2k hadn't given up on it and gave it another expansion, it could have been a decent side-entry in the civ series. i agree it doesn't come anywhere near SMAC though.
>>384430642
it's more a mistake in branding, but they couldn't avoid it with the story they told since it WAS a direct sequel to d2.
it's an ok game but i didn't enjoy it any more than any of the other diablo clones out there, probably less in some ways. it doesn't cut it as a sequel to d2, though.
>>384430723
i don't disagree
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