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Does anyone have an inside scoop on when the ladder is resetting? I haven't really touched d2 since 2010 or 2011, but for some reason I want to play and I want the ladder to reset right now. Supposedly it should reset on the 24th or 2nd, but they haven't announced anything yet.
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Anyone planning on playing the reset on the 24th? I am trying to decide between classic or expansion, softcore or hardcore, probably on USEast.
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Zogo posted:If you do HC watch out for those tomb vipers who always have that powerful damage glitch that seems more dangerous than anything else in the game except player duels. Rushing people on classic is generally faster than rushing on expansion because you don't need a glitcher. You can just take level 1s without requiring a level 40 and then convert to expansion. Classic stuff is usually worth tons more forum gold due to less supply/item selling sites not getting involved. There's no super overpowered gear and chaos is significantly more enjoyable than baal runs. With that said, it's also much grindier and there are some other downsides. I just happen to enjoy classic. Both ladders are ghost towns right now so it's hard to say how dead classic is. I always end up playing both classic+expansion. I'm just not sure what I'll be starting right after reset. Khorne fucked around with this message at 22:42 on Nov 23, 2015 |
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Dizz posted:I'm playing on USEast. I made a dinky little barb that will probably go IK. They did change how they server side detect some things with the recent ladder. If you get realm down and make games after you get perm banned. Lots of legit players are getting hit, poorly configured bots are getting hit, most botters/people cheating aren't getting banned. It's actually really lovely. To avoid realm down just don't join more than 20 games in an hour (per cd key per ip, so if you change yourcdkey or ip before 20 games you won't get realm down) and don't switch between characters rapidly, wait around 30 seconds. Also don't hammer the login or character select. Most other realm downs aren't really possible while playing legitimately. Farcast type stuff is a bit risky (auto teleport too) because there is server side detection but it's difficult and extremely rare to trigger. edit: edgeofnowhere/blizzhackers has generally safe downloads. ProjectEtal also has safe downloads. Khorne fucked around with this message at 04:38 on Nov 28, 2015 |
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FalloutGod posted:So... uswest is kind of a ghost town and I've switched to east. The population is double if not triple. Started a pally. I might be talkin to my self at this point but oh well. This subforum doesn't seem to move that quick anymore anyway so I don't feel too bad double posting. Send me a message if you're around. Khorne fucked around with this message at 12:26 on Dec 17, 2015 |
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Xenochrist posted:Same, started on east but switched to slash Diablo, where map hacks and multi boxing are allowed, and there's no botting. Pretty good community too. Unfortunately the server has been down for almost a week, apparently it will be back soon though.
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Unforgiven posted:When the D2 patch update showed up in my news feed, I had an incredibly potent feeling of nostalgia. The last time I played was probably 5-6 years ago. The hankering to return is STRONG. In middle and high school I put hundreds of hours into this game. Are there enough/any goons in the old LLJK to bother coming back to play with? If you want to actually play then reddit has a server up that's decent. There are also some passable modded servers. I don't think there is a goon presence at all, but I still enjoy playing for a while just before and slightly after resets. It's just a mechanically enjoyable game to me.
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Unforgiven posted:Blizzard isn't laying down the ban hammer for botting anymore? I got my account frozen (not CD Key) in 2010 for using maphack... What bots/maphacks are they using? I would love to try to put together all of the old classes I used to play (Smite Pally, Hammerdin, Windy Druid, Trap Sin, etc. etc.), but it would only be doable if I could bot while I sleep. Being a grad student isn't really conducive to hundreds of hours of Meph/Pindle/Baal runs. There was a minor ban scare at the start of this current ladder, but I don't think anything substantial came of it. They screwed something up and half of the people banned were legit players who got realm downs and tried to reconnect. The same site since the dawn of time has them all. Not sure if we can name drop.
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AugmentedVision posted:wtf
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Most of the sites are ran by one company. As weird as it sounds.
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Kazvall posted:It's not duping. It's just botting. Not really hard to come home from work with an inventory full of gear. Sometimes they are even the ones who leak public dupe methods to get it patched and attack competition.
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GoldenTeeth posted:Any recommendations for good private servers that are vanilla-ish? I'm happy with slightly increased drop/exp rates and other quality of life stuff but no massive ES-style overhauls It's the defacto bnet server these days for people who actually play and don't want to bot. They also have a modded server that's more ES-like, but it's not nearly as nuts as ES and it's continually developed and kinda cool. It's more like another expansion or was a year ago. I was top 3 on the ladder for that a few seasons ago by running my own 8 player games which took 3 ips because I'm a big fuckin nerd.
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Vakal posted:Not +3 to skill set.
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bongwizzard posted:Ok, my Necromancer is at level 17, has a full possy of skelebros, a spear with three red gems in it, and I still cannot kill the act 1 Demon Lady. Do I just suck? Khorne fucked around with this message at 00:22 on May 23, 2017 |
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Star Man posted:My reaction was more of an "oh, it's inspired by Path of Exile" and that game's crowd has really put me off of playing it and I'm told that combat in the game is pretty janky. That's pretty much where my opinion on the game lies. And to disclose, I'm paragon 1400+ and placed in all 4 brackets in d3 this season. So it's not like I hate current d3. It certainly has its positives and can be very fast paced and fun. I don't think poe really has the crowd people think it does. Most of the top poe players have been decent d3/d2 players and just like the genre in general. The "gently caress d3" crowd are the bad players in general chat who want to play a "not casual" game because they told you they were hardcore. As long as you look up a build, poe is casual as heck now probably even more casual than d3. Also, PoE's hardcore experience is wonderful compared to d3's. It doesn't have anything like the constant upgrade/loot/paragon grind, though. It's more of a game you want to play because it's a game and you're exploring a build while d3 you just kinda grind to get incrementally better and start out with your finished build. You get plenty of upgrades in PoE, don't get me wrong, but there is much less emphasis on getting items once you have some baseline stuff. One way to compare the two, PoE is designed to actually be played through and with the player in mind when it comes to pretty much everything. D3 was designed by a committee of people who have never competently played an arpg in their life. It was then saved by god drat geniuses who took that dumpster fire of a game and somehow made it enjoyable despite its unfathomably poor netcode, mechanics, and single player. Like, they somehow took a bunch of bad stuff and built a good game on top of it without fixing the bad stuff. I really can't speak highly enough of the people who came up with the current state of d3. PoE really nails the d2 feeling of "what if I build this way" and keeps you interested in that progression on a new character. D3 really nails the "MORE EXP, MORE ITEMS" aspect of d2 and offers a unique experience with higher GRs and group dynamics. I can't imagine playing through d3 single player intentionally, yet in poe playing through on a new character is fun to the point where I finished top 10 on races one season. At the same time, I've never really been a big fan of poe endgame while d3 endgame is pretty fun still. Khorne fucked around with this message at 21:47 on May 23, 2017 |
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bongwizzard posted:I tried a bunch of different arpgs over the last few weeks trying to find one that I liked and PoE was the one I liked the best, but I have no interest in reading a million forum posts about builds and it quickly became apparent that I was going to hit a wall where being stoned and clicking really fast isnt' enough. Max Wilco posted:I always get confused when people use 'PoE', because usually they're talking about Path of Exile, but at first I think they're talking about Pillars of Eternity. And yeah, the d3 endgame is fun. And it dumps you in it right away if you want it to, because you can ask for a power level in lljk community and then do the season journey which most people enjoy. After that you're kinda dumped into the endgame which goes on forever. You're not missing anything from 1-70, you awkwardly fumble around with random skills gaining exp kinda slowly and learn pretty much nothing except "this is a rift, you kill stuff and a guardian spawns" and "you can level by getting a kill streak bonus, which you don't get in rifts/grifts so it's useless knowledge after you hit 70". Khorne fucked around with this message at 22:35 on May 23, 2017 |
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bongwizzard posted:Man, being able to play along is most of the appeal for me. I sunk a ton of time into WoW when it first came out but quit once I had to party up with people. Points in energy don't really help much and are a bad idea usually. You pretty much want enough str/dex to wear gear, vit. There's also the option to get max block which requires a bit more dex but I'd avoid thinking about that for now. Equipping a mercenary, especially an a2 one, with a decent weapon might help you immensely. A2 mercs also give an aura to all your dudes, and there are some runewords for auras also. And wand vs weapon depends early on. Sometimes it's better to just have a weapon on and beat stuff up, other times it's better to have the +skill bonuses from a wand. Wands can also give faster cast rate (not interesting to a summoner until insane endgame gear with teleport), mana and resists. Khorne fucked around with this message at 02:46 on May 24, 2017 |
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bongwizzard posted:Poop, well I did waste a handfull of points during respec on mana, but not too many.
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Metal Meltdown posted:Don't sweat giving yourself some energy. The old mantra of "never skill energy" comes from the days of no respecs. It also comes from the fact that the super end game gear gives you enough energy to completely manage your skills with judicious use of mana potions. However, you're very far from that point so some extra energy will make your early levels far more pleasant, which is what counts.
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Holyshoot posted:you expect star man to have a good op? He melted down in the d3 thread. A game where people play for a few weeks then quit because the game play is about as deep as a kiddy pool.
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SuperKlaus posted:Does anyone know the following things about Leap Attack: It's not very viable. You can cheese some stuff by using normal leap to get it to a wall, use the hold position+leap attack to spam it with next to no travel time, and then it dies if it's a single thing. You can also use things like taunt or the fear shout whose name escapes me to isolate single dudes? But this sounds really gimmicky when all the good builds just murder a man instantly. Normal leap is real fun with a group. In classic it's pretty common to max it because barb just uses BO and find item. It doesn't do damage, but it's fun. Khorne fucked around with this message at 01:07 on Jun 22, 2017 |
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Gaggins posted:I just made my first meteorb sorc because I knew Infinity was far, far away. It's not that great - I like it better than a blizzard sorc but that's about all. When I do get Infinity, I'm going to respec back to fire to give it a shot (currently using lightning+frozen orb but it's not much better) because those fireballs really are no joke. Lit sorc with Infinity is still the best, though. http://forums.d2jsp.org/topic.php?t=53828922&f=87 You can ignore the ES stuff. I use that build early season while playing legit and also while botting. It's good with poo poo gear and it scales reasonably well (math wise, arguably almost as well as lightning until you start getting into super nerd gear) with infinity. It does take mana pots so if you don't like those then sorry. It's also pretty solid with just insight on merc which is fun and good in my opinion.
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codo27 posted:>try to type "its" Trying to writ english with rune names is hard.
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wtftastic posted:I reinstalled and am playing as a bowazon on US east. I blame Mr Llama for getting me back into it. Any tips on low level rune gear? I never seriously tried to make runewords or other gear and am trying this go around. I just made myself a Stealth to help with mana etc but not sure what else to do with low runes or how to trade up for sol etc.
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OhFunny posted:So kinda cross posting from the W3 thread, but Blizzards wants to crackdown on the cheaters in multiplayer before moving forward with a D2 remaster. They could have a nearly cheat free ladder by hiring a single skilled dude, ensuring there is adequate logging after a new reset, and then fixing the exploits that the companies use. Khorne fucked around with this message at 04:29 on Nov 27, 2017 |
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Siets posted:So Blizzard dropped 1.14D with sparse information for patch notes not too long ago. Sounds like the real meat of the patch was improvements to their bot and hack detection that resulted in a mass ban-wave shortly after the patch dropped. The downside I’m noticing is that the game feels VERY laggy now. I constantly experience heavy rubber banding and lag teleports. This is all despite living in a metro area and owning the fastest internet tier that is offered by my cable service. I’m wondering if Blizzard divested in Diablo 2 BNet resources just that much, or if maybe their new security detection methods aren’t well optimized with the old net code? Curious if others here are experiencing lag issues as well. I’d like to keep playing and reroll when the upcoming ladder reset happens, but these dramatic lag spikes are really putting me off (and make playing hardcore an impossibility.) It's real common to lag the server hardcore using exploits to dupe.
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moush posted:Hopefully they add some new endgame to it if they do remake it. The gameplay is still probably the best in the genre but it could use some refinement when it comes to longevity. This was a half-assed stopgap to stop pindle botting and item seller spam that didn't even work because you can also stop this from happening with third party tools that don't involve cdkey or ip changes.
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dad on the rag posted:Ladder only rune words, no more plugy development, ladder is fun for the first week or two. Khorne fucked around with this message at 19:30 on May 23, 2018 |
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Maha posted:What's generally better to run - NM Meph, NM Baal or quest-bugged Hell Andy? If nm baal is good exp then might as well run it until it's not. If you can't do it fast or efficiently, or if you just want beginner gear, then do nm meph/hell andy, depending on which you can slay easier.
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Max Wilco posted:PC Gamer | A coder spent 1,200 hours reverse-engineering Diablo's source code Khorne fucked around with this message at 04:36 on Jun 25, 2018 |
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Malah posted:I wish D2 had functional borderless. Tabbing out of fullscreen is glitchy and windowed mode is too small to play on. It's better than the glide emulator or anything else I've tried. Fatal flaw to the emulator's windowed is mouse cursor position resets. Laslow posted:You can maximize the window now, so you get a nice big 4:3 window. It’s much better than full screen because it doesn’t stretch to widescreen so it looks decent.
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feelix posted:Spirit shield is such a troll
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Molybdenum posted:I'm probably just going to buy gear rather than grind for anything. Can anyone recommend a store or explain how the purchase works? I just make a game for a mule bot that dumps everything or??? I'd probably not buy things. Just play for fun. Probably on a private server. One of the modded ones or reddit's r/slashdiablo. Their ladder resets nov 16th which will be a good time to play. If you want to bot, official servers are good too. Khorne fucked around with this message at 14:04 on Nov 11, 2018 |
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Molybdenum posted:I'm doing a lightning jazaon for the first time ever, so any items they would use. I've only ever played paladins, necros and sorcs. All of them bad builds. This is probably my first standard character. Honestly, starting as javazon solo is pretty brutal.
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If anyone is interested in playing slashdiablo's ladder reset next friday I'm up for it. I already have my windows xp vms all setup to run the max allowable clients like a big nerd. I'm open to expansion or classic, hardcore or softcore although I have no clue how stable my internet is at my new place. In fact, if anyone is interested in trying classic it'd be kinda fun. I don't think there's really a classic community there judging by the ladder being a few nights worth of classic play. Star Man posted:I'm walking my way through the game on ladder for an upcoming project. At the casual pace that I'm going, I seem to remember that once I hit level 24, the only quick way to get through it quickly was in normal cows or the Ancients quest. Otherwise, it was a bottleneck for experience and you'd reach it in act III and be stuck at that level for a while. Even if you did Hell Chaos runs with a glitch rushed character at a low level, level 24 would take a while to get through. Was that bottleneck removed? Khorne fucked around with this message at 14:14 on Nov 11, 2018 |
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Having messed around with Path of Diablo and Median XL this weekend, they're both really good in their own ways. PoD is like normal LoD with some quality of life improvements. It's 95% d2, 5% a different game or 90%/10%. You can even pick which game server you get put on despite being on one shared realm. So you can have good latency no matter where you are. And most of the changes seem legitimately positive for the game. It's not surprising they're one of the most active servers out there and that the lod private servers practically died out. Median XL is an entirely different game and kinda overwhelming at first but it has lots of neat stuff too. I avoided it for ages because I like plain ol d2, but having tried lots of ARPGs in the past 5 years I figured I'd give it a shot. It seems like you mostly level as you plow through the game, there is a ridiculous amount of item customization you can participate in, and they completely redid most things. It feels like 20% d2, 80% a different game.
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Slashdiablo's realm resets on friday at 7pm est. I might be playing classic for a bit after the reset. If anyone else wants to join in, we'll almost certainly have space because no one plays classic on slashdiablo. Which means you'll be in the top 10 ladder for sure! All season! Even if you quit after the first night! This post goes over some cool things about classic, but in all honesty you'll probably just convert to expansion at some point during the night. Setup guide for slashdiablo. Requires a fresh install. Note, you should always use garbage cdkeys and not your real ones for private servers. Slashd has been around for a while, has no monetization, and the guy who runs it is a big nerd who loves the game and plays resets himself so you're probably safe either way. A lot of people will probably play the expansion reset, too. Resets are always kinda fun for a few days. Khorne fucked around with this message at 19:50 on Nov 14, 2018 |
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THE BAR posted:I was just browsing my LoD manual, and... Was there really no elite items in classic? At release, uniques couldn't drop if they were already in the game. You could use this to force every unique ring to be an soj. Also, gambling odds were really, really good until they nerfed them due to multiplayer. Classic as it stands in the current patch is very different because almost all expansion changes trickled down into it except for the new content of expansion (well, with hacks you can go to a5 in classic). Khorne fucked around with this message at 20:01 on Nov 14, 2018 |
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THE BAR posted:I do remember being able to gamble for uniques, specifically those awful Hotspur boots from Alkor, which I'm not sure I've ever seen drop. Khorne fucked around with this message at 20:04 on Nov 14, 2018 |
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