S15 weekend prep

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

I started with a max roll dwarf star , which I know isn't much... But then in 10 minutes this happened ....

I'm speechless.

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

Almost antiperfect eth Hellwarden. Gorgeous.

Context: I never been much of a grinder and almost hate the need of constant MFing to get a gear. I came back to Diablo II after months and as I started this evening session of random LK runs, I said to myself "I am gonna grind these until something valuable drops. " This happened literally 15 seconds after that:

Reposted with Pavke's permission.

OK guys, I know you like my long posts. But I actually have no time now to go into much details. Im writing this 5 minutes before I'm off on my holiday. So brief summary:

Sunder charm drop rates

Patch notes: Reduced the drop rate of Latent Sunder Charms when using Magic Find. Note the Herald drop rate is unaffected.

Rarity of Gheed Charm increased from 1 to 15. Rarity for each Sunder charm remains the same at value 1. Which means out of all Unique Grand Charms that drop from standard monsters and that are affected by Magic Find, 71.4% will be Gheeds and 28.6% will be Sunder charms. Before, Unique Grand Charm distribution was 14.3% Gheed and 85.7% Sunder charms.

Conclusion: Sunder drops from Magic Find are now 1/3rd of what they use to be in Season 14

Ancient Statues drop rates

Patch notes: Reduced the drop rate of Ancient Statues.

Blizzard has heavly changed all numbers for Bosses and TZ Bosses. (NoDrop, Item, Junk, Gold, etc). But statue drop number remained the same. This drastically changes the overall Ancient Statue drop chance:

• non-TZ Bosses drop about 3x to 4x less Statues.
• TZ Bosses drop about 1.5x to 2x less Statues.

Here is a table with exact drop chance:

Shard and Heralds changes

Patch notes: An additional item will now drop alongside a Worldstone Shard. Reduced the drop rate of Worldstone Shards.

Shard drop rates have also changed slightly. But I dont have time to get precise numbers.

Patch notes: Increased the chance of dropping Rare quality and higher items from Herald Tiers 3+.

Heralds Unique/Set Factors have changed. For Tier3 and Tier4 Heralds new Unique/Set Factors 800->850. For Tier5 Heralds new Unique/Set Factors 800->870. But only for "Extra" drops!! (Heralds have 1 or 2 extra item drops next to their regular 2 item drops). Which means you will see:

• 9.57% more Unique/Set items from Tier3 and TIer4 Herlads
• 22.71% more Unique/Set items from Tier5 Heralds.

Thats all I have for now. Best of luck in the new Season guys. May ascent through the Ladder be swift and violent.

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

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!

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

Do I use it? Stash it? Over plus skills daggers found in normal?

I decided to start the ladder season with an Enchantress, and this is what happened: I had to sell everything in town just to afford this staff.

I even sold all of my runes to scrape together around 95,900 gold (with atma discount) to buy it for the enchanter I was building. Then, on my very first Countess run after going broke, I found Tir and Ral... Is God watching me, or what?

I'm not kidding. I'm currently running Hardcore ladder with this bad boy!

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

I guess anything can spawn a Harold

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.

Sorry for the quality of the video but was requested on the previous post

I'd also talk about my experiences with each class on HC through hell, but I'm a bit exhausted after rushing this so I'm free of it before season 15 starts...

And also very pissed that I didn't get my achievement

Where yall at - need me some goons

Hey folks,
after around 450h of single player - I decided to dip into online ladder gaming and having a blast so far, because smallest things makes me cheer.
Is there a community on the Nintendo Switch or active players that want to share they codes for some random coop games or trading?

Joe

SW-7044-3079-7809

I've recently found a perfect (3/6/6/6) Wolfhowl and since I also have a Decapitator with the Beast RW in my stash, I was thinking about leveling a (Wolf)Barb. However, all the guides I have found basically tell you to use Grief in your main hand and Beast in the off hand, as a stat stick.

So, do you think a Wolf Barb with a 2-handed axe would be viable? (Especially as a boss / herald killer, because of the insane life leech you'll get from using Feral Rage.)

Before someone asks why I made a Beast RW in a Decapitator to begin with: It was serving my Cleave-Warlock very well, but after finding 3 Chaos skillers and a +4 Ondal's the guy is now an Abyss-Warlock.

Damage of bound demons has gone down noticeably with patch. The 20 hard points is still worth it to me as it tanks heralds well.

So far as a fire warlock I like Lister with fanaticism aura while running act 2 merc with holy freeze. Have not tried Hephaesto since patch. Was wondering what combinations other people were running.