Board 8 > Sooo is anyone playing Diablo 2: Resurrected?

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found a Lo rune in the first solo cow i've done today. What is this game? Where all my Ber's that i'm apparently due.

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Found The Arm of King Leoric last night. That looks pretty good for my Summon Necro.

Ancients' Pledge is a huge difference maker in Nightmare. I wish I had known about that a long time ago!

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RaidenGarai posted...

Found The Arm of King Leoric last night. That looks pretty good for my Summon Necro.

Ancients' Pledge is a huge difference maker in Nightmare. I wish I had known about that a long time ago!

funnily enough the 2nd quest in Act 5 you get the runes for it from the quest reward and the guy even tells you about it lol.

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I'm so annoyed at myself for not taking the 2 minutes to learn about this stuff when I was playing in college. I had so many issues having minimal resist in nightmare and especially hell, and getting blown up by anything with an elemental attack.

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"Use a shield" fixes a lot of early game resist problems yeah

Even if you don't know about ancient's pledge you can just chuck some diamonds in there for almost the same effect

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Is anybody playing on PS5 if I buy it right now?

Well decided to buy it anyway and downloading now. I don't remember shit from when I originally played. So any helpful starting tips/builds for when it's done in like 50 minutes?

Well I can see I wasted about 90-120 mins of playtime. I started playing in offline mode figuring that just meant nobody could jump into my game whilst I was playing. I didn't realize that it locks that character into never being able to go online. Guess I'll have to start over tomorrow or Saturday when I next play

ShatteredElysium posted...

Is anybody playing on PS5 if I buy it right now?

ninkendo posted...

I have the game on both PS5 and PC

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oh ya Lidless Wall now there's a shield

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Im playing on PS5. Probably going to get this on PC too.

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Made my Infinity tonight. Time for everything to get super face rolled.

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I had to trade pretty much all of my top gear to ALMOST get a Lo so congrats on getting 2 Ber already!

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My rune luck the past couple of weeks has been stellar.

Ber, Lo, Jah, couple vexes, couple of ohms, mals, etc

Already made my FOrt for my merc and infinity.

next I think is probably an Enigma for my javazon so I can be using her more. Then make a smiter with death or grief and stuff

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Possible that they buffed rune drops?

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Jeeze, what is with the queue. Started in position 15 so thought cool, not a long wait. After 10 minutes it dropped to 8. Then after another 5 minutes to 6. Just dropped to 5 as I'm typing this.

How can a game this big be letting so few people in.

There's a lot of legacy stuff holding the servers back from what it was like in the early 2000s. The main problem is they're worldwide now instead of regional and the game just wasn't really built to handle that. So in the interim they implemented this queue system until they're able to figure out a better solution.

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Is it ever worth keeping other class items you get early or should I just sell everything? Like it just gave me an orb worth 4403 (+3 inferno, +1 warmth, +2 fire bolt, +4 life) and a staff worth 5000 (+1 cold, +2 frozen armor, +3 ice bolt) when I only have like 8k gold total. I'm assuming just sell as they will be quickly made redundant?

And are jewels worth keeping or just use them as you get them? I seem to remember hoarding them in the original

sorc and necro stuff just sells for a ton in general

if you don't plan on playing those classes go ahead and sell them all, but even then I probably would only save any good rares or uniques I find.

as you progress through the game the sell cap eventually becomes 35K per item

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ninkendo posted...

There's a lot of legacy stuff holding the servers back from what it was like in the early 2000s. The main problem is they're worldwide now instead of regional and the game just wasn't really built to handle that. So in the interim they implemented this queue system until they're able to figure out a better solution.

Yep. Somehow the geniuses behind this project decided that instead of actually rewriting the netcode of a 20 year old game they would just rush it out the door with some hastily cobbled together patches. We are now seeing what a great idea that was!

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UltimaterializerX posted...

@Lucavi000

Where have you been farming? My luck with runes has been awful. One Sur and a bunch of bunk.

Cows and Chaos sanc are the main places due to mob density but my main mf pattern is:

Pit, cows, AT, trav, meph, chaos sanc, eldritch/shenk, pindle, baal.

I got the ber, jah, Lo in cows but the vexes, ohm, mal etc were just randomly in other places on the way.

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I keep seeing people mention runes. I just got 2 Tal runes from the Countess. Should I just stash them or are they even any good?

Keep about 2 of each rune and then don't bother picking up a third in my opinion. If you ever find a rune with a level required above 40 then always keep it but you won't find those until late Nightmare or Hell difficulty

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So how does immunity/resist work in this game. I looked up Hell zombies, and it says they have 120 cold resist and are immune to cold. I have -80% resist via cold mastery but it still doesnt damage them. That makes me think that immunity is separate from resist, and not just when their resistance is over 100, is that correct?

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Yeah if a monster is Immune then you're never going to damage them with Cold. Hell monsters can have cold resist and the mastery helps so you can deal damage (or extra damage) to them.

Basically cold and fire immune monsters have like 300% cold immune so you need to lower that to 0 before they're not immune anymore. That's pretty much impossible

The exception is Lightning Immune which is only like 120% immune for some reason. That's why people love Infinity because it lowers Lightning Immunity in enemies by 45-55%. It's much easier to get that 120% to 0 and actually damage lightning immune enemies.

Cold/Fire resist enemies just take less damage from your spells. So if an enemy is 50% cold resist and you have -80% cold resist then they're now -30% and taking 30% more damage from your cold spells.

So yeah resist and immune are different things and Lightning Immune is different from cold/fire immune

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Thanks, that makes a lot of sense now! Im wondering if I should use my respec for this character to go Cold/Lightning instead of Cold/Fire. Its a real pain in the ass to hit moving targets with something like Meteor or Fire Wall on Switch.

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Honestly you're better off just ignoring cold immune monsters unless your merc can kill them easily. The only reason to dual spec is if you're specifically targeting something that's cold immune. Like when you're doing Chaos Sanctuary runs one of the seal bosses is always going to be Cold Immune, one Fire Immune, one Lightning Immune. But there are plenty of areas in the game with very minimal cold immune that are easy to farm and you'll just be slowing yourself down in those areas if you're dual speccing.

But not everything is min/max so honestly just do whatever you want to have fun. You just need to decide what you're looking to do with your character and work towards that.

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in my blizzard MF sorc I put a a single point in the skills leading up to firewall + fire mastery and with my skill boosting equipment that's usually enough to take out ice immunes since my merc isn't always up to the job yet

Once he is I may respec again

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My biggest issue with ice immune is that I can never hit them. If I recall correctly, on PC way back you could select where you wanted the Meteor to fall, or the fire wall to pop up, and kind of lead them into it. I play primarily on Switch now, and it just puts the attack where the enemy is at that moment, so they either run through the firewall and take minimal damage, or theyre long gone before the Meteor drops, unless I can get around them and lead them into it again.

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I'm torn between just running NM Andy just to get my SoJ trophy or just doing that full run in Hell to level up my mf sorc and maybe it drops along the way

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I didnt start playing around with a Hammerdin until a few weeks after Remastered, and they seem really, really good.

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Fwiw I found my soj from Hell Diablo

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UltimaterializerX posted...

Do you pop the jars and such in Tunnels?

I did at frist but nothing ever seems to pop out.

ninkendo posted...

I'm torn between just running NM Andy just to get my SoJ trophy or just doing that full run in Hell to level up my mf sorc and maybe it drops along the way

Odds of SOJ dropping of NM andy is like 1:1800ish with 300 or so MF. It gets even worse in hell because more potential drops are intruduced.

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I'm assuming any class can work for MF with the right gear? I'm thinking I should try to use my Summon Necro or a Hammerdin for MF, since I keep running into walls in Hell with my sorc due to the abundance of cold immune enemies.


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Sorc is the king of MF unless you got an enigma to level the playing field.

Most cold immune stuff I came across I just let my merc handle unless it was a giant pack of cold immune mobs like shenk or eldritch. I mean merc can stiill kill the entire pack, it was just slow.

I ended up going Lightning/Orb to combat that and then after getting an infnity, immunities are even more laughable.

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Thanks! I might respec to go with Lightning as my secondary, it seems like it would be a lot easier to hit cold immune enemies with Lightning since those can be aimed better than something like Meteor. What Lightning skills do people generally use? I recall seeing a lot of Nova and Chain Lightning back in the days, and a few charged bolts, but I don't know which one is generally considered best.

My goal is to be able to get the runes for Infinity, but from what I've seen her those Ber ones will be a huge problem, and you need two. There's no specific place that increases the odds of getting a particiular rune, right?

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Lightning is not a good secondary at all since it takes so much point investment to get the damage high enough to deal with enemies quickly.

if youre set on making cold your primary then I'd suggest going meteor as your secondary or maybe even firewall.

Takes less point investment to get going for a good damage boost. I believe that meteor shares a CD with orb/blizzard tho so be wary of that.

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He's mentioned that meteor and firewall suck on console because they're impossible to aim. In that case I'd recommend fireball as your fire investment then. You'll need to invest a lot more into fireball to make it work over fire wall but it'll actually hit enemies.

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ahh yeah, that would suck if you really cant aim it.


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firewalls been okay for me, but I only use it when my merc is engaging an enemy so they stand still. I like it since you can stack multiple firewalls on the same spot.

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I could probably start playing on PC and use Meteor or Fire Wall the way I used to, but yeah, it's damn near impossible on Switch. I think I need to get my merc some better gear, he dies way too quickly in Hell.

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Until I got my merc better gear I just ended up doing the merc bug so melee monsters cant target him.

It puts the mobs more on you but he's pretty much gauranteed to stay alive.

A good source of life leech and a high damage weapon will go a long way too.

Crown of theives or Andariels visage are great soruces of Lifeleech.

A good weapon would be like an eth insight using a thresher, giant thresher, crypitic axe. I mean it doesnt even need to be eth I guess. But using an elite class polearm will make it pretty strong.

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mine has insight cryptic axe and an extra Tal's mask. It's really just his armor I still need to do something.

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Armor you want something with cannot be frozen unless you cham the helm.

Something like duriels shell or gladiators bane will do it.

If you cham the helmet then getting a Fortitude runeword on the merc is the best of the best.

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Is it possible for a dungeon entrance to just not generate on the map? I'm in dry hills and I've cleared out the entire map and there's no exits or dungeons anywhere except to the rocky wastes. In the rocky wastes there's only 1 dungeon I already cleared out. So like I'm not sure what I'm supposed to do here as I've cleared out all the areas available to me

Edit: I think I immediately see what happened. Yellow on the map means stairs except where that was marked on the map there was no stairs. Became obvious once I exited and re-entered and got a new map with actual stairs.