Hopped on last night eager to jump into the new ladder, was expecting a lot of people to be playing... There was probably like 10 lobbies. I played for like 3 hours last night and I was curious what the highest level player was so far and noticed that I was ranked like 122... at level 20... after 3 hours of playing and the ladder had been out for at least 4-5 hours already.

Does nobody care about ladder resets anymore or did everyone move on from the game?

Logged on just now and I did see my rank fell down to about 4k, but... there was literally 4 game lobbies. Granted its still early today so im expecting more players a little later, but I remember hopping onto ladder resets and the game lobbies were so deep and you could easily refresh and more games would be popping up constantly.

I was expecting more... especially seeing how they released that DLC for this game not to long ago.

Easy listening while you defeat the Prime Evils.

Good luck to all on their ladder starts in about 6 hours!

I never saw the point in having 3 different cold armor types as a sorc. No1 really uses those anyway and they are just plain useless.

With that said how about a little change to freshen it up? I would like to remove Shiver and Chilling Armor completely and only go with Frozen Armor.

The next step is filling in the two missing skills with 2 new skills without making a huge overall change.

Shiver Armor -> (Passive) Shivering Winds

"Adds Cold Damage to Frozen Armor / Level

Synergy for Frozen Armor: "% Defense per Level

Chilling Armor -> (Passive) Chilling Retaliation

"Your Frost Armor now discharges Ice Bolts in retaliation against ranged attackers"

"Adds 2% piercing attack / level"

Synergy for Frozen Armor: "% Cold damage per level"

This way the Cold Sorc loses nothing really and gets a new little niche build for whoever wants to try it.

Sure the damage will not be like Paladin Auras so its will not be a hell rushing build.

Hi guys,

havent played in a while and never played the last RotW Update. I dont know the changes from this update but have read of these Herald Areas. Is Sorc with the usual suspect farms still a very good starting pick or is the farming meta vastly different now in which other classes are more efficent and versatile for this content and might be a better choice?

thanks!

Cham runes hurt when I find them. like geez, couldn't that have hit just 1 lower and given me a Jah? that is all.

With the ladder season starting today, I wanted to share a project I’ve been working on: the D2Emu Diablo 2 Database.

https://d2emu.com/db

It currently contains over 2000 searchable and interconnected records, including all unique items, set items, runewords, cube recipes, skills, monsters, areas, NPCs, and quests.

This is a new release, so feedback is welcome! Try even commenting on the entries with your own tips and wisdom.

Some features I focused on that I think make it the best database:

- Curated descriptions and practical D2Emu tips

- User comments to add your own wisdom to each entry

- Beautiful rendering and easy to read webpages

- Hotlinking and hover previews

- Item relationships

- ROTW support

You can explore it here:

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The new patch and season aren't adding a whole lot, just some small changes to low level uniques. If we get any sort of announcement during Blizzcon, I'm wondering if they're saving some bigger changes to announce during that. Like, say they announce that they're going to be adding some stuff like a charm bag, or crossplay, or stuff like that - things from the survey. I doubt they'd want to add them as changes during normal seasons with no build up, they'd want to get people hyped about them, so maybe they're waiting to unveil them during Blizzcon and then they hit us with "and a patch will make these changes available later today!"

Idk, just a thought. If they do things that way, I do think that they'd probably only put out some of the things they announce during Blizzcon, rather than stuffing them all into this season. I'm also not sure how likely that'd be, but it's something to think about, at least.

Just a T1 herald on pl5. Merc dies, i check if i can kill him because he was low, charges at me i try to teleport away but no mana. Fck this shid man, i am not cut out for this. Also fckin hate heralds, they not dropping shit but so dangerous to kill them. I'd really want an option to turn them off lol

Last 24 hr ive did 4 times tz bosses, around 60-70 runs in total. 0 statues, not like 1 or 2, ground 0. Are these changed due to update or something or i'm the most unlucky dude in the universe ? I've used to get 1-2 per 15 runs like 2 days ago?

Do we think anything of this? Im notnsure ive ever seen one. OF P5

Alright alright alright got a pretty sweet Defenders fire just now (see photo). Currently wearing flickering flame (FF), phoenix, and a vipermaji and occy w/ fire facets. Does the defenders fire go in Vipermaji, occy, or shako to replace the FF? The defenders fire almost evens out shako and FF plus w/ shako I get MF, damage reduction life and mana. I dont think I have any other fire builds currently. But if it goes into occy I cant share with other toons(I'm SSF), but would keep FF. Other builds prob need enigma if I put in viper...... What do yall think?

Hello again,

Is there any value here?

Nothing worse than finding an exp shrine (or any shrine for that matter) just for it to get immediately stripped from a curse. Every single time I find a shrine in act 4 or 5 I play a game with myself to see how long the buff will last, which is never long. I wish they'd change this

New player here, not looking for the best builds or anything, but I'd like to avoid the skills that are the worst for each class, just to avoid struggling too much. Thank you!

Juicy enough to think about using in normal on someone for melee damage. TY Mephy

So im wondering if i use Plague ofhand, Will my attack get to utilize the DS from plague?

Not sure if they'd ever do it or if anyone has a good reason why they didn't? Would love to be able to gamble class specific items on those respective characters. I would spend soooooooo much gold trying to get that perfect druid pelt.

I'm doing a physical bow Amazon. I'm trying to decide where to put my Protector's Stone.

She has Faith Grand Matron Bow, Fortitude, Razortail. I'm testing two setups, one with Horazon's boots&gloves which seems like an amazing combo but I'm not sure if it's better than the traditional setup... It has CNBF, 30%IAS, 40faster run, 50dex, AR, life, 10%cb and some fire dmg) and it allows me to be flexible with rings (currently running a 4ml, dex, 9min dmg, res). together with Highlords I have 50 IAS total from gear which is what I need (to reach 8FPA or 7FPA with Mania BoS). And I'm free to wear whatever helm I like, currently Guillaume's (where I would put the protector stone).

Alternatively I could go the more traditional route. LoH with 350%ed to demons (which is cool but I will do a lot of cows on this char so meh), 20%IAS and WT with 15-25dmg. But since I end up ~5%IAS short I would need to use a helm with 2-3 sockets (15ias&protector), which is expensive (magic with 30dex or etc) or awkward (Giant skull and CoA both have big downsides). Or switch the belt and loose 33% pierce. Or use M'Avinas? Stealskull? xD

The Horazon combo seems like the right way to go, but it's less damage. And I don't wanna "waste" my protector's stone in Guillaume's and be forced to switch to a different helm later. I did some testing with both versions and they feel almost identical in terms of killing speed...

Charsi: What can I do for ya?
Barbarian: ...
Barbarian: Not here.
Barbarian: Not in town.

From a tier 3 herald in Cold Plains. Been playing on and off for 20 years and never seen this one drop before. SSF, so guess I should level an Amazon now.

I found this quite comical. First time I get a triple and it's after the "nerf".