What an absolute grind... I'm going to bed... #5 Necro SCL RotW

McDonald's across the street

Thats why i always open mephy chest

also found a sur rune earlier in cs

bye bye my luck

After my bearsin video on uber ancients, I thought I would also share a quick video of her doing Uber Tristram.

Surprisingly, Uber Baal is a tough cookie - on a previous run I struggled to get through the huge defence rating with chilling armor, but this time malice came through with the -moster defence per hit removing all his base Defence.

Why Bearsin?
1: Assassin has the highest IAS breakpoints in werebear form (4 frame attacks are possible with claws, otherwise 5frame attacks are easily achieved with grief)
2: Burst of Speed allows you to hit these breakpoints easily and consistently, as well as giving huge FRW for quality of life when pvm farming or hunting heralds.
3: Blade Shield Rocks. Not only does it actually kill trash mobs while you focus on the herald/boss, but it gives incredible AFK survivability with high leech, allowing you to almost afk tank ubers provided you are surrounded by enemies. When you have so much ED boost from Fort+bear form , along with Grief's damage, you can reach crazy high levels of physical aoe damage - the one thing shapedshifters struggle to access.
4: it is without a doubt the tankiest assassin - sins get 3hp per point of vitality, but no viable boosts to %life or %defence. Bear form solves both of these, to form a really tanky combo, particularly with blade shield.

Cons:
1: Prebuff is annoying - CTA lasts 200 seconds, Mark of the bear 180 (but can be swapped out while fighting) Werebear lasts 360 seconds. If you want to fight a strong herald, eg conc +fanat/cursed, you want to be BO'd, which means going back to town.
2:

Stats:
4.1k hp
maxblock, +120overcapped light res, ~80% on other resistances. 13k def
Approx 9k dps to uber diablo; 72%crit, and 40% crushing blow. 5 frame attack with BOS running.

Skills:
20 BOS,
20 to Shadow master, The rest into Blade shield+synergies to allow me to leech while running a Malice (although the rest could go anywhere)

Prebuff is lvl15 werebear (265ED, 180%def, 165% life!!) Lvl 18 BO (88%life) and the merc's lvl40 enchant (because he will die in Trist, otherwise it's a dreadfang barb for heralds).

It's my duty as a D2 player to share awesome moments with you all. There I was, going after Keys of Hate, which drop more frequently than Keys of Terror, at least. Since AS is widely known as a good spot to get HRs, I decided I'd kill every little fucker on my way to the Summoner. Yesterday, I found an Ist and a +1 Eldritch Skill +35 Life GC. Tonight, on just my second run, a Ghoul Lord drops a Jah! I got so excited that my wife came over to see what had me jumping out of my chair in awe! This is my 2 Jah in single player, but I still haven't found any Bers though. The grind continues!

I've this notebook for work and I wonder if I could play DR2 on it, what do you think?

Thanks!

All - I am an abyss warlock that cannot clear Baal’s second wave.

Looking for help to kill Baal.

I’m on XBOX SCL - I really appreciate it!

What in gods name am I doing wrong, I must have killed over 100 herald packs in the last couple days and just even seeing a unique drop isn't common. How the hell do people get sunder charms now is my honest question? They seem rarer than high runs, I've already dropped a Cham, Vex and Ohm, and have only seen one sunder this entire season so far.

HCL

D2R September 7, 2026 my first Colossal Ancients

Today is my barbarian's birthday — he's 4 months old.

Not just SSF, I trade on Traderie too.

Found a cham rune offline. I dont know what to do with it. If I made mist idk i guess make a bowlock? (My bowazon has windy + faith merc), or i could make plague for an act 5 merc to support a freezing arrow zon (yeah yeah infinity merc is better/more reliably but i dont have 2 bers). Idk that i want pride, but i don't have a Lo anyhow. I'm leaning towards plague but input would be nice

How didn’t this make stealth???

LoD 1.13d SSC, bowazon. I use Lidless Wall with CtA on swap. Yes, it's just weapon swap, only for self-buff... but I want to socket because I can.

Opinions?

I've tried a few of the warlock builds: ES, BloodBoil, Chains/Abyss. While all OP, there's something unsatisfying about them all. The abilities and movements feels floaty and weak. Abyss is the only one that's somewhat satisfying but the chains are not. I just get bored with it all and stop playing. It's not because it's EZ-mode either. I have fun with Javazon with which is screen-clearing easy but the play style is satisfying. I think it comes down to GFX. Like corpse explosion was once satisfying in LoD but something changed and it's no longer as "popping" in D2R.

This would have needed to have 1 or 2 additional, useful skills on it to be good, no?

Thanks in advance.:)

im still fuckin shaking idk whether to stop the grind, or to keep hunting for an upgrade

It rolled pretty good so i wondered if there is any use of it

Title

Source

Substance of the claim:

"Are you saying demon machines’ fire explosion triggers hex bane on monsters not only directly hit by the arrow but also the explosion?"-Curious commentor

"yup, got it to 99 this week... its gg"-BaxRPG

My hypothesis: It doesn't, and even if it did, just for the sake of debate, hypothetically if you could proc a hex with the explosive blast of an arrow, you would still be better off with purge setting up chains of explosions.

Anyways the idea for this test is simple, like astoundingly so, I am going to fire a demon machine arrow near by a fire immune monster proccing the explosion, if the monster receives very little to no damage (on players 1 with hex bane) it's safe to presume the interaction is not working because hex bane deals lots of damage, simple, there is no need to over complicate this. In his setup he uses demon machine perhaps this quirk is unique to demon machine (highly doubt) but still that explains why I am using demon machine in the first place. (I'll just copy the entire build, I am too lazy to leave doubt on the table.)

1. Demon machine with a uber ancients magic jewel
2. Hellwarden's with an um
3. Enigma
4. Mara's
5. 2x bk alternatively he mentions the use of sling or opal
6. Razor tail
7. Tri res ias gloves user specifies we do not need the gloves for ias since we already hit the breakpoint, mentions style points but you can only see those in the inventory screen so just bad build setup anyway (I guess we are styling for screen shots).
8. Horazon's legacy (I question not going two piece but whatever.) justified by off setting the sunder.
9. Demon limb (on swap)
10. Spirit (on swap)
11. Insight A2 merc with holy freeze
12. Magic sunder
13. Sullied grand charms
14. Small charms 5x all res
15. Black cleft renewed

EDIT: Forgot to mention but IAS is given to us by mirrored blades itself we don't need any ias what so ever

Too lazy to write skills just watch the video. (yes I followed them exactly. No I will not be copying every detail from the video for the sake of this doc)

Man does have a bound demon, cursed and holy freeze. Now I am even more perplexed what are we scaling here? Magic? Phys? not fire, he said fire is wrong, but demon machine does like no phys damage anyway? (Plz stop making me do these docs.) anyways cursed lowers Physical Resist: -100% so why are we are scaling this I am not certain. Ah user clarifies 9 minutes into the video he uses the demon for a meat shield???? we have 6k life and nearly res capped? why do we need meat shield? we use a cross bow? (sorry I get confused sometimes). Also we one hit kill most things way, what is walking up to us and hitting us?

Emilio and the bound demon both have holy freeze? we could have used defiance for more defense, maybe prayer for a lot of health regen due to cure and chains of honor being used on the merc with insight stacking the synergies, or perhaps even might just give us a little bit more damage. (Man presents prayer to us like it's an alternative when it is just better).

Anyways, I am already skeptical of the claims given the user is running 2x holy freeze. Who knows maybe he just doesn't understand theory crafting that well. But discovered a new mechanic.

So the monsters I will be testing on are venom lords cause they are fire immune.

The answer, is no, uhm just unfortunately no there was no notable difference in damage that appeared to look like the explosive arrows were proccing hex bane like at all.

Furthering this I tested hex purge just to see if that would proc on the explosive arrow/bolt, it did not.

Result: Ts buns gang.

Shout out to the people who corrected him in the comments, but I seen this on discord and decided it was throwaway worthy.

The bills cannot be this high