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jiggerypokery posted:aren't countess and shenk cold immune? Regardless I'm not really into doing the same stuff over and over, I just never heard of this seal glitch before and I want to work it out
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jiggerypokery posted:aren't countess and shenk cold immune? Regardless I'm not really into doing the same stuff over and over, I just never heard of this seal glitch before and I want to work it out
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Apr 13, 2021 23:50
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jiggerypokery posted:I've had a go at this on vanilla (plugy) single player and just keep dying. I've tried various hybrid sorc builds at level 87, fo/nova fo/fireball and pure blizzard. Is there something special that makes it work on slash diablo? I can't be thaaat bad can I? I am going to do it with BO because my character is hardcore & I am not dying to record a video. Maybe I will die & then I'll still post to video to get laughed at.
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jiggerypokery posted:aren't countess and shenk cold immune? Regardless I'm not really into doing the same stuff over and over, I just never heard of this seal glitch before and I want to work it out pre-emptive sorry about the split screen didn't realize I had it set to the 4 box scene when recording & also the random commentary isn't good but it'd take too much time to upload again https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vrK7AQlicko There's videos out there of the optimal way to play with fb or lit, but generally people only post their absolute best run & also only make those after they have godly gear. These runs show some of the fundamentals of controlling how much damage you take as a sorc in chaos which is pretty important in hardcore, with not great gear, or in 8 player games. One mistake that shouldn't have happened & that's easily avoidable is I cast something other than teleport after teleporting into mobs that were attacking me. In hc or while trying not to die I'd always teleport again to not be struck. Another big mistake is I wasn't holding down the view items key some of the time for some reason so my teleports got stuck and didn't move when my cursor went over objects. Some stat targets for not dying constantly would be decent fcr (105 or 200 if you want to glitch, bp below 105 if you are just getting started), max fire res, 50+ lit res, 800-1100 hp in softcore. In HC I'd want ~1400-1600 hp for spamming runs minimum but ~1100-1200 is safe if you play safe. Going above max fire or having fire absorb is good, too, so you don't accidentally die to conviction or certain infector combinations. One of my rings is a dwarf star & my hat+armor are ral runed for fire res. Might play more later in the week and maybe I'll record a video that occupies the entire screen & has coherent commentary & has better play hopefully. If your gear isn't there yet then I'd probably do hell andariel (quest glitch which you probably did by accident) or ancient tunnels. Hell Andariel is one of the fastest non-chaos ways to get some baseline gear. Ancient Tunnels gives you access to much better drops than andy, but it takes longer to find essentials if you have literally nothing. Ancient tunnels is seen as a better use of time by most. Chaos is something you graduate to after ancient tunnels. Khorne fucked around with this message at 14:34 on Apr 14, 2021 |
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Tunnels and The Pit (I think? there are several high ilvl areas between acts) are where I would go to farm socketed base items. Those areas and Countess are a good use of time if you need runes/bases for yourself or your merc. Andariel and Meph are good if you are looking for uniques. Countess does not drop the highest runes, but if you aren't already geared for end game you can make some really nice pieces from the runes she drops and elite socketed items from Tunnels and Pit. There are some pretty decent runewords you can make from these scraps, and it's a nice change of pace if you've been running hell Andy or Meph until your eyes bleed.
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I ripped a level 63 sorc to hell travincal earlier this week. Good Times I had a go at seal glitches again on my sc sorc is fo/nova atm which is pretty cool for being able to do it. Its mega sketchy though. Diabolo gave me an occulus, which should have been named "suicide branch" instead. Chance to teleport is the most troll mod ever
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Where do you farm in nightmare if you're playing the PD2 mod? I'm trying to gear up a pure frozen orb sorc for hell. Is it actually worth farming in nightmare or should I push for hell meph runs?
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i usually do nm cow runs until I have decent enough gear to move up to stony tomb in hell. meph is kind of a pain now that they moved the council up near him if you aren't geared oh you said cold scratch the stony tomb part. but I would go with nm cows still to get some starter gear
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Khorne posted:whenever youtube actually processes it, 7 consecutive runs in 15 minutes in hardcore on a blizz sorc: Thanks! By the way
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I've been playing the d2r alpha because it's been cracked and it looks absolutely gorgeous, hope a good mod scene comes out of it. I'm gonna lol super hard if it ends up looking better than Diablo 4. It loses nothing from being isometric and not 3d.
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It'll still play like a 20 year old game thanks to weirdos like llama.
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I like that uniques are reflected visually on your character.
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Suburban Dad posted:It'll still play like a 20 year old game thanks to weirdos like llama. I agree with him on almost all of D2R's current issues. I don't really agree with him on the direction they could/should take d2r. If you want 1.13/1.14 d2 you can always just play 1.13/1.14 d2. I'm guilty of playing older versions from time to time. Some of the changes people want are crazy and should only happen if they plan on having a "RESURRECTED" game mode, but infinite stash space, a charm inventory (the decision making/opportunity cost they imagined for charms just didn't play out in practice -- it's failed design), and incorporating some qol changes present on pd2/pod/bhmaphack/slashd maphack should definitely be in the game. I'd add all this stuff and tell the no changes crew to get over it:
For multiplayer /players and /next could maybe only be usable by the host and then there's no vote mechanic? I don't know, but these would be massive qol. Scrambling to join games is nostalgia and I am faster than most, but maybe we can do better in a remaster. Maybe there's a better system than the "/next" idea I came up with in 5 seconds. Hotkeys/commands would be:
And a controversial change:
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I'd like if they made skill hotkeys cast the skill rather than having to right click again. Just make qol stuff toggleable and it's a win for everyone. Otherwise if I play I'll play with a controller. Looks to be a better control scheme from what I've seen. 
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Suburban Dad posted:I'd like if they made skill hotkeys cast the skill rather than having to right click again. Just make qol stuff toggleable and it's a win for everyone. Otherwise if I play I'll play with a controller. Looks to be a better control scheme from what I've seen. I wonder if they could implement it so pressing the key switches to it and casts it (or just casts it if it's already selected). That would dance around the aura implementation issue while still mostly offering functionality people expect. The way abilities work behind the scenes kinda hinges on lmb/rmb. Allegedly, d2r's controller support is pretty good if you like controllers. D2's control scheme kind of grows on you over time. It feels almost fps-like where you're switching guns to change m1,m2 functionality. Khorne fucked around with this message at 16:23 on Apr 17, 2021 |
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If they can make it work with a controller, then it can be done on a keyboard. Why make using one input an advantage vs the other?
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Suburban Dad posted:If they can make it work with a controller, then it can be done on a keyboard. Why make using one input an advantage vs the other? I'd argue controller puts you at a disadvantage even with that change. I'm not even sure modern hotkeys would provide an advantage in d2 over the current system so they probably should just add it considering they already did the work.
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You'll get carpal tunnel before me. Game. Blouses.
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Suburban Dad posted:You'll get carpal tunnel before me. Game. Blouses. I don't think I'd use new input method for paladin because r+t / f+g for hammer+conc, charge+vigor and then shift+lmb to use them are so ingrained at this point, but it'd be real nice for every other class. Khorne fucked around with this message at 17:26 on Apr 17, 2021 |
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what's the established way to run og D2 these days? It doesn't seem to want to run on my new computer (getting that error 25 thing) so I suppose I should install a mod or something to get it working
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Aces High posted:what's the established way to run og D2 these days? It doesn't seem to want to run on my new computer (getting that error 25 thing) so I suppose I should install a mod or something to get it working Setting windowed mode ("-w" in shortcut) can also help.
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Aces High posted:what's the established way to run og D2 these days? It doesn't seem to want to run on my new computer (getting that error 25 thing) so I suppose I should install a mod or something to get it working This thing is pretty handy http://www.svenswrapper.de/english/ Gives you a few more resolution options and makes the screen freak out less on modern systems. You'll need to set "-3dfx" as well as "-w" on your shortcut for it to kick in. (after copying the .dll to the folder)
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Your Brain on Hugs posted:playing the d2r alpha because it's been cracked C'mon do me a solid here.
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MOD EDIT: Removed post on where to find files. (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)
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curse necro seems pretty good this pd2 season, although you need a lot of +skills to solo stuff, otherwise your dark pact feels a little weak. one of the dudes i play with is a death sentry assassin so i just spend all my time cursing stuff and desecrating bodies for him to blow up, it makes maps really easy
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I'm waiting for the release of D2R, but some of the QoL stuff, like loot filters, expanded inventory, and the like are things that are already done by mods - which is great, and I'm sure there will be comparable mods made for this version, but it also launches on the consoles, and I doubt that version will get any mods... Also, is the "run=lowered defence" ever explained in game? I wonder if D2R will get a tutorial, since it should be accessible to new players, too. It might not be too complicated at the core, but the original game had a manual, I doubt they'll reprint that.
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Szurumbur posted:Also, is the "run=lowered defence" ever explained in game? I wonder if D2R will get a tutorial, since it should be accessible to new players, too. It might not be too complicated at the core, but the original game had a manual, I doubt they'll reprint that. It's not even mentioned in the manual or BradyGames guide. Also, the BradyGames book that came with the Battle Chest is hilarious. "Put 20 points in Clay Golem and it'll have 600 hit points! Wow!" E: Spelling. THE BAR fucked around with this message at 14:27 on Apr 20, 2021 |
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What an absolute disgrace Bradygames was. I remember buying a guide for FFIX that was thin as gently caress because it was barebones and wanted you to go to their website and enter some corresponding code in the book to get the actual info.
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codo27 posted:What an absolute disgrace Bradygames was. I remember buying a guide for FFIX that was thin as gently caress because it was barebones and wanted you to go to their website and enter some corresponding code in the book to get the actual info. It was a really terrible idea. Like why even have a guide at that point, just have the website! Ah but they have to get you to buy something first. But that something is going to be useless. But if you're going online you can just get that info free elsewhere, like gamefaqs. Its like making you buy a cd-key to log into IGN.
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Too poor for infinity on my lightning/poison zon and I struggle with mana anyway. Would be worth obtaining an elite eth 4 socket polearm just for insight?
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Milo and POTUS posted:Too poor for infinity on my lightning/poison zon and I struggle with mana anyway. Would be worth obtaining an elite eth 4 socket polearm just for insight? CA/Thresher/GPA, whatever strength your mans can handle. As good as infinity is, you'll be fine without it. http://classic.battle.net/diablo2exp/items/elite/polearms.shtml
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unrelated to anything but i think its sad that even after all these mods there's still no viable pike-a-zon. my first ever toon was a pikezon and she sucked. rip.
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Smythe posted:unrelated to anything but i think its sad that even after all these mods there's still no viable pike-a-zon. my first ever toon was a pikezon and she sucked. rip. In LoD we just did the pking on east/west with level 9 assassins and we regularly killed level 50-7Xs who were helping their friends in normal and sometimes we'd kill naive people in nm/hell too but in those difficulties people would be very suspicious of a level 9 showing up and hostiling while in normal they thought you were a clown. They usually didn't share loot, but on asia2/asia3 the culture was to auto share loot and people would be real stubborn and try to fight you because you were low level. You just hold down jab until you connected a few times with an imbued pike + as much AR as you could get and they'd rip. The assassin thing took way more gear and specialized charms/jewels but was also way funnier because one time we one hit kod a level 78 druid. In retrospect, I don't think most of this would work with the level of game knowledge people have today. Although, with d2r coming out, there's maybe some window to do it again. The newer runewords and synergies make it way more difficult to do on a low level character & people will just save and exit now. Khorne fucked around with this message at 01:09 on Apr 21, 2021 |
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Smythe posted:unrelated to anything but i think its sad that even after all these mods there's still no viable pike-a-zon. my first ever toon was a pikezon and she sucked. rip. There's viable Spearzons if you're willing to play the weirder mods. Spearzon is one of the classic power builds in Median XL (though you spend most of your time teleporting around so it plays nothing like the classic version) and Amazons get native access to Whirlwind in Eastern Sun and there's a couple improved melee spear skills, with the caveat that melee characters have it kind of rough in that mod in the sense that casters can clear the screen with one button.
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Khorne posted:I have fond memories of going to play hardcore on asia2/asia3 when they opened and pking level 40-60 people with a level 18? jabazon and then selling their loot on ebay. We had a team of 2-3 and 12 year old me was bringing in way more money than chores for a few weeks there until word spread and people would start leaving games when they saw us. This is the only time in the history of the game I used a pike on an amazon. lol this is badass. how did the assa work? mindblast or psychic hammer and traps? or just a huge crit on the blinkstrike kick? Big Mad Drongo posted:There's viable Spearzons if you're willing to play the weirder mods. Spearzon is one of the classic power builds in Median XL (though you spend most of your time teleporting around so it plays nothing like the classic version) and Amazons get native access to Whirlwind in Eastern Sun and there's a couple improved melee spear skills, with the caveat that melee characters have it kind of rough in that mod in the sense that casters can clear the screen with one button. yea those are too exotic for me anymore lol
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Did anyone playing the technical alpha test if the fend bug is still there and we're just going to have to accept that it will never ever get fixed?
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codo27 posted:What an absolute disgrace Bradygames was. I remember buying a guide for FFIX that was thin as gently caress because it was barebones and wanted you to go to their website and enter some corresponding code in the book to get the actual info. To be fair to Bradygames, that was all Square trying to push their new site, the Piggyback one also did the "want to find out more?" go to siteXYZ for the complete info we're obviously redacting.
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Smythe posted:lol this is badass. how did the assa work? mindblast or psychic hammer and traps? or just a huge crit on the blinkstrike kick? I'm not sure if 5% frw small charms were usable at 9, but with burst of speed you could move pretty fast. Khorne fucked around with this message at 03:18 on Apr 21, 2021 |
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