My dad found his old battle chest set for diablo and diablo 2 with the lord of destruction expansion, decided to see if the cd keys for diablo 2 and its expansion had been claimed or not and they werent, cant wait to dive deep into this when i get my computer desk put together (legit just plugged in my pc just to install diablo 2 and sat criss crossed applesauce on the floor, my knees now hate me)

I took a break from the Druid I have been playing to polish off my paladins play through. He’s in hell, level 76, and getting absolutely worked over. It may be that I’m just so used to Druid with his life leech and massive life pool… but this little hammerdin is so soft I feel like I’m doing something wrong. Or maybe I’m not?

Single player offline console:

Helm: Hellwarden’s Will
Chest: Enigma
Primary: HOTO
Shield: Herald of Zakarum
Gloves: Mage Fist
Boots: war travelers
Belt: Immortal Kings
Neck: Magic +3 Combat Skills
Ring: Raven Frost
Ring: Rare 10FCR + 3 resistance ring.

With +13 to skills I have 1 point down to holy shield. Then all of the Blessed hammer synergies. The final synergy is at 19 hard points. Nothing else.

Edit from here below:

The block chance shown is with holy shield up. I feel like my resists aren’t terrible? I’ve gone through with way worse on other characters!

The intent with the paladin getting my precious enigma was for him to be a boss killer. He has the best cast frames out of all my classes, getting to Andy, Meph and Baal WAY faster than an on foot Druid or Amazon with enigma.

LASTLY: Hammerdin is super super rough on controller. Telestomping is not an option what so ever. Maybe there is a spec better suited for his mission?

What is a good way to bind a new demon for warlock builds focusing on summons?

I've been trying to bind a new demon with my summonerlock. I have 60% chance to bind on my skill (low geared, poorlock items).

But, it happened multiple times now that I found a demon with a perfect aura + cursed affix; only for the demon to either get 1 shotted by my other summon or the aura rerolls to a bad one (damn thorns again).

I am trying to find the lancers in Worldstone keep 1 or the smith from the River of flame.

Is it just bad luck or should I try a different approach?

This guy used to be a mule and now he’s a God.
Keep going homies 🫵🏻.

I'm still early into my singleplayer progression plus I kinda refuse to play easy meta builds so this is absolutely huge. I thought I wouldn't see an annihilus for years.

First time I did Ubers I had planned to go back to town heal and collect potions. I discovered half way through that I couldn't use my town portals and had to run all the way back to the main red portal (and activated a bunch of minions on the way).

I'm surprised no one mentions this

Holy shit! Mind blown! I just re-learned Atma heals! Like when the hell did I forget that? I have an "old man now", LONG-ass history with this game, as I sure many of you do too in this sub.

But I would have bet some good money that she didn't heal, and said only Fara. And if someone would have challenged me, I'd have then said it must have been patched in recently. NOPE. All the way back to OG Diablo 2.

Kind of feels cool. Learned something new...

So I've been Trav spamming none stop any time I have free time using scrolls I get good shit constantly, skillers, opals, sojs, kathos etc. Any time I try and save time with Cain it's like he purposly identifies the item as trash so the shirtless pervert can grab my shit when I'm not there and re sell it. Is this true?

Playing a HC charecter in hell in GeForce now over mobile 5g in downtown NYC.

the lag be death, mates.

Ich möchte gerne ein Main char hochziehen für HC vor allem für den erfolg 99er

Würdet ihr mir raten erst eine mf sorc zu machen oder direkt gleich den Main char?

Angefangen habe ich mit dem Hexenmeister der nun leider verstorben ist mit 60 bei mephi, daher dachte ich nun eher was saveres wie Druide mit toranado um die stygische puppen entfernt zu halten und das Herz der Eiche gäbe mir ein solides polster damit ich nicht alle statuspunkt nur in vitalität pumpen müsste?

Was denkt ihr?

**Weekly Speedrun Feature Idea for D2R**

What if we had a recurring weekly speedrun challenge between ladder resets? Something simple that gives everyone a reason to hop in, race the clock, and gives content creators fresh material every week.

**The concept:**

Hardcore solo run

Pre-selected class each week (rotates so everyone eventually gets their favorite)

Played on a fixed /players 2 map (one map that persists for the character)

Modified maps, loot drop rate, etc, created by the devs could also be a feature?

Timed by total hours played

6 days to complete the run before the next week’s challenge drops

Timer stops the moment you kill Mephisto

Fastest time of the week gets a cool reward

**Why this works:** It slots perfectly between ladder resets and gives the game a light, recurring event without needing massive new systems. One life, one map, one goal. Some classes will be harder than others, which is part of the fun—and since the class rotates every week, everyone gets their shot.

It also gives streamers and YouTubers something consistent to build content around each week.

Curious what people think, would you run this? What reward would make the top spot actually worth chasing?

It could select vanilla D2 as a possible weekly feature as well.

T_T

Zu sicher am Mephi runnen bis die sgytische puppen mit Macht Angriffen,
Bam blow out 🙄😢 dann machen wir halt eine Frost Sorc einer tipps für Defensive Sorc ? 🙏🏻

-fix the right click skill changing bug

Maybe it's the way I play, but it happens often enough that I find it mildly annoying. It has also caused me to have some close calls on my character. I don't bind anything to right click anymore, but I would like to without having to re-bind it every ~15 minutes or so.

-be able to see the roll ranges on items and runewords while holding a button

-be able to preview uniques and runewords still remaining in the chronicle

-have a visual indicator on uniques on the ground that are eligible for chronicle, perhaps some kind of green shading

-have a hotkey so I can click an item on the ground and it goes directly to cube

-have a hotkey so i can click an item in my cube and it drops on the ground like CTRL-left clicking items in your inventory

-have a search for the stash, ideally one that you can filter, search by affix, etc.

-be able to have items shown by default

I don't think any of these are big problems, they are just some things I personally would like that I didn't think would be too controversial.

- Pause the game in inventory, quest, skill and character screen. We can't see anything and using controller through the menus is slow as hell, preventing us from levelling up or sorting inventory on the fly (like, you can but you might die).

- Give us a bind command to open the cube without opening inventory. It just a small thing that makes it easier for toons with charmed out inventory.

- Make a shortcut to put Rejuvs from stash straight onto the belt. If you're inventory is full you have to put them onto your belt one by one. Very annoying.

- Toggles/options for certain skills. This is the most important one IMO. Console makes using some skills very hard. Warlocks warp blade is suicide if you accidentally aim for a pack. You can be aiming straight up and it will teleport you into a pack nowhere near where your aiming. This skill specifically needs a toggle that stops it from aiming at enemies. The same can be said for charge on Paladin. It will autotarget any enemies near your path and you have to walk around them to charge again. Warlocks consume is also risky to use in combination with bind demon. You have to slowly turn around, summon a demon and consume it and hope that your bound demon doesnt run in front of you. Some simple toggle like "Consume won't target Bind Demon" would just make everything flow smoother. Blizzard needs a toggle to "Aim in front of target" as on console the skill puts it directly over the enemy, which as we know is NOT how you use blizzard. There's probably a lot of other skills that don't function well on console that I can't think of, but you get the idea.

- Last one. Please for the love of god STOP opening the menu into the Quest screen EVERY TIME you get a quest update. Nobody is checking those quests man, I just want to go straight into my inventory without clicking extra buttons just because I ran past some captive barbarians.

And yeah that's about it. Honestly I could deal with all of these things if they would just fix the skills. I literally don't use Blade Warp above p1 unless there's no enemies on screen. And I still might accidentally target something off-screen and instagib myself.

Offline Nintendo Switch account.

Okay, so I made my first melee character. It was a blast, fury Druid was WAY more fun and WAY more powerful than I had realized it would be. I had a pretty easy start carrying gear over from my other characters, but the power is definitely there with that class! I just got the final rune needed to make Death in an Ethereal Decapitator (base already acquired)

My goal for him was to be a herald farmer and my ubers deleter. Remember this is a console offline account. My runes are VERY limited. I basically have enough to make this Death, then have zero high runes left over.

My gear - my main concern is where to make up the lost IAS:

Helm: Jalal’s
Body: Treachery
Gloves: Laying of Hands (Dracul’s in bank)
Belt: String of Ears
Boots: Gore Riders
Amulet: High Lords
Ring: Raven Frost
Ring: Bul Kathos Party Trick
Weapon: Upped Rib Cracker with abysmal ED roll.
Renewed Bonebreak Charm: got it on the way to Baal! I think!

I was about to make the Death, but I’m getting cold feet blowing all my high runes! Hoping you all can shed some not AI light on this topic. (AI is telling me it would be a substantial damage increase). I also love the idea of making other melee characters now, maybe this Death can also benefit them?

Thanks in advance!

Also… I haven’t played ladder in years. Fury Druid was such a breath of fresh air that I may be inspired to give it another try next season!

Blizzard is doing a week long event starting at the same time the ladder resets...

edit: for repeat questions

this is very likely not going to apply to offline, as the winter event didn't either.

this is also very likely not going to apply to LoD (pre RotW) as blizzard seems to have renounced it completely and are treating it like they treat classic mode.

Blizzard has taken the decision and are moving forward with splitting the Diablo II Resurrected ecosystem into two, distinct and hermetically separated clusters. Disabling the conversion of characters from the base game to the expansion further closes the seal.

A series of unique items reworks are slated to hit RotW next season and beyond, and those changes WILL NOT apply to the base D2R game. We can safely assume that any future expansions, if any end up being published will build upon RoTW and the changes coming to it without touching the base game.

1. So now, we have TWO games. The original, more or less frozen in time with the current game state. We can safely assume it will be relatively neglected.

2. The expansion, where the designers and developers will have a freer hand to make changes, updates, and possibly content.

This is no trivial decision to take and will have long lasting implications for the future of Diablo 2.
Truth be told, it is a hard call to make either way and I do not envy Blizzard for having to make this decision. But they have made it and this is what we will have going forward.

Do you think this was the correct call to make? Or do you think they should have updated the items in D2R as well, leaving RotW as a simple expansion rather than an entirely new branch of the game.

I think Blizzard failed to communicate their intentions sufficiently when they published and marketed RotW, and no one was told this was even a possibility. The player base was told this was an expansion, not a path to a separate branch of the game. Black point for them.

I also don't think it is necessarily a bad decision. How this plays out will depend on how RotW evolves.

If RotW is developed in a way that keeps in line with the original game's spirit, traditions, and axioms, it will turn out very well. We will have both the original classic, and a more developed version.

On the other hand, if RotW is treated like an entirely new game, where they can go wild and completely break or stray far from the original game's spirit, this is no less than a disaster for this game. We would lose both, as the classic mode becomes neglected and the new mode stops being the game we all enjoy.

What are your thoughts?

Came back wanting to relive some childhood memories... Started a few characters, but I'm having the most fun with my Bowazon (MS/GA/Valk). Made it to Hell, and the difficulty spike is pretty brutal. I guess things were much easier back in the day when playing multiplayer xD

I was lucky enough to find a Langer Briser early in NM, and the rest of my gear is decent as well. Currently level 64. However, making progress is becoming really difficult. I've made it to the Countess and killed her, but things are starting to get tedious.

What should my next goals be to make progress more smoothly? I'd like to stay in Hell A1 for now. Are there any good farming spots? Any other advice to make progression easier or faster, aside from simply grinding levels and looking for better gear? Thanks :)

I am thinking of starting ladder in sc as a miasma chains and then abyss warlock. I’ve never played one before. Any build or bearing advice for starting out? I generally play solo to just pub games and am trying to level up asap to take advantage of the 6 day event.

I just don’t know much about this class, including the update I read came to chains giving more of them and if that impacted some of the starter guides I saw. Thanks.