anyone here starting new playthroughs of either game?havent played in years but just started a self found d2 grail hunt last month. I play for a few hours every couple days with my shitty blizz sorc who is too weak and undergeared to farm Lvl 85 areas (stuck on hell meph trying to get gear). Luckily i have an ali baba on switch for when i cast my last blizz to kill himhow long does it take on average to complete everything 100%?current gear - lvl 78 sorc lore helm+3 cold skill ammyspirit swordlidless wall shield (only using to get to fcr breakpoint)chance guard gloves (25 mf)gold wrap beltgeneric +35 magic boots4p topaz socketed armor10 fcr ring25 mf ringali baba / rhyme shield on switch and 32MF gheed charm
>>10939112Have made 4 different Paladin Hardcore runs in the past week. I’ve died twice in NM Chaos Sanctuary, once in Hell against Duriel, and lastly all the fucking way in Hell Throne Room. Feels fucking bad, man
>>10939112When I do a solo run, I usually do a melee build, like zeal or frenzy. I'll usually beat nightmare but around act 2 hell it gets a bit much and I'll be too lazy to put in the time for grinding better gear.These days, when I do play, it's mostly tweaking or improving my 2 accounts of botted lvl 99 pvpers on B.Net. I'll sometimes duel in pubs when drunk. I've really just played D2 to death. I played it off and on for like 20+ years.
>>10940360What’s a good retard friendly PVP build for someone who can’t gookclick? I remember back in the days low level dueling with low level sets and just assraping everyone with charge. Deaths Set/angellics/and Hsaurus combined together
>>10940705Fist Of The Heavens lol. Charge around, get in range for conviction aura to apply to them, click somewhere in their general vicinity with foh, repeat. 1-2 shots anyone who doesn't have a respectable amount of light resistance. 1 shots noobsA 2 handed charger is not quite as braindead but it can be fun 1 shotting peopleBlizz sorc is kind of like foh, just spam blizz from range and you should 1-2 shot many different enemy builds. Requires a bit more click agility, though, since you're teleporting around n shit
>>10941839Nice dude. I’m gonna gear out a fohdin now
>>10940360May I ask, what bot(s) are up to date right now, or what do you use? On bnet many a year ago I used d2nt Etal and kolbot, but I kept kolbot around to putter around with followers in single
>>10939112trying base mod on a older computer for old games, works fine but cant cube gems to higher tiers
>>10943881It's still Kolbot. I wouldn't really worry about it ever getting banned at this point either. It had a long track record of not being banned before D2R came out, and I doubt they'll care enough to ban it now that D2R is out.
>>10944575You can try farming travincal. The council seem to have a chance of dropping flawless gems from NM and hell.The Superchest behind Mephisto also drops a lot of flawless gems. I don’t think you can get Pgems from anything other than hellforge and cubing
>>10944787well canna cube from chipped but seems is not possible, thanks mod makers
>>10939112Starting a Hydramancer for The Hell 3, level 25 and still a bit squishy in the first difficulty, great for clearing groups of mobs but the DPS against bosses is poor.
honorary cactus mention.>>10939112>grailI've never made this my objective of playing, but I do collect one of every item while doing other things.it takes people like 2000+ hours of dedicated MFing.>>10940106>hell throne hc deathouch.>>10940360is there any semblance of an active pvp community still? I don't think it can ever recapture the glory days though. it was a great product of its time. nothing else competed at the time for rpg pvp.>>10940705trap assassin.>>10944575you sure you got the right recipe? 3 matching gems.
>>10944894D2R dented the vanilla community pretty badly. I still see duel pubs up though frequently. I hate D2R. I don't really think it's better outside of a few QoL additions.
>>10944894yeah 3 chipped gems of same color, nothing happens, it is a base mod thing? with this bigger cube size?. other cube stuff works fine>>10945101i only play offline what happened? (not giving nu blizz a cent)
>>10944779thanks. Dunno if I will be getting back on bnet, but I randomly heard my magic find anthem, rolling stones' "you can't always get what you want," and am increasingly worried that that d2 itch is coming back again
>>10945921D2r is easily pirateable. You don’t need to buy it.>>10945101I appreciate it for making dogshit skills like Holybolt actually viable. LOD is my favorite game of all time, but every class had to wait for lvl 24-30 before the game actually opened up which really sucked. Even shit like -50 dmg penalty for whirlwind is inexcusable
>>10946596i know and i did, yo ho ho, sad to know it dented the community hope wasnt as bad as reforged did, at least d2r is competently made
Switched to LK runs and found this little guy. Probably the best thing i found in 5 hours besides a lem, ethereal mancatcher and a six socket war spike (i guess i can use it for CTA?)>>10944894>it takes people like 2000+ hours of dedicated MFing.Fuckiin hell. Oh well i guess im in it for the long run. It actually pretty relaxing and zen doing these runs over and over. I probably only have about 50+ hours in so far. Im hoping to find some titans so i can switch to a Javazon
>>10939112I got about 90% of my grail finished but got stuck on TC87 loot. Usual suspects
>>10947991The best mfer in the entire game is Pitzerker. You go to pit, go to every boss mob, scream the minions away, kill boss and find item his corpse and move to next one. Can easily get 700+ mf. On Battle.Net you'll get a realm down pretty fast, so you also have to do ancient tunnels and maybe some other lvl 85+ areas in a run so you don't exceed 20 games per hour and get a temp ban. None of this applies to non-ladder either.Javazon is pretty good at clearing Worldstone and Baal. Very good mf areas, as long as you are geared well and avoid doll explosions right near you. (or use stormshield but I prefer spirit)
>>10949464I def plan on making a Pitz/Horker barb once I get Grief. Thank you
anyone play PD2? season 9 HC has been a lot of fun, got a 90+ singer barb and a fury druid
>>10950203I tried both Path of Diablo and Project Diablo. But in the end I kept going back to vanilla.
>>10950186If you want to make one sooner, you could probably get away with using any other half decent weapon, you're only killing puny act 1 shaman mob bosses in the pit. You howl away the rest of the enemies so. Also here is the correct build. Forgive the spaces but I'm too lazy to correct it from copy pasting it Weapon: Grief (Phase Blade Phase Blade preferred) Weapon Offhand: Phase Blade Phase Blade socketed with 6 Ist Rune Ist Runes Weapon Swap: Wizardspike Wizardspike and Wizardspike Wizardspike Body Armor: Enigma Helm: Harlequin Crest Harlequin Crest Gloves: Chance Guards Chance Guards Boots: War Traveler War Traveler Belt: Goldwrap Goldwrap Ring 1: Nagelring Nagelring Ring 2: Nagelring Nagelring or Ring with +10% Faster Cast Rate to reach the 105% breakpoint Amulet: Highlord's Wrath Highlord's Wrath or Amulet with +5% Faster Cast Rate to hit the 105% breakpoint Charm 1: BarbarianHellfire Torch Hellfire Torch Charm 2: Annihilus Annihilus Charm 3: 40% MF Gheed's Fortune Gheed's Fortune Rest of Charms: Small Charms with 7% Magic Find
>>10950757fuck it, fixedWeapon: Grief PBWeapon: 180 mf 6x isted PBWeapon swap: 2 wizspike/2 hotoArmor: EnigmaHelm: Shako isted, or 40% mf IK helm with 2 istsGloves: Chance GuardsBoots: War TravsBelt: GoldwrapRings: 30 nagels or 2x 40 mf magic ringsAmulet: HighlordTorch Anni Gheeds and many 7 mfscMerc: Insight, Fort, Andy
>>10950757>>10950770>>10950757Thank you. I’ll try to target similar things cause I don’t have much of those items. I am playing Single player self found so I know this is gonna be a long process without trading and free gibs. My main worries is lack of enigma and lack of grief (which would help barbs shit attack rating). I don’t think I have enough runes to cube a Ber let alone a Mal. my highest rune i have found is a single Gul. I do plan on making the barb as my absolute final goal cause I know he has the best chances of getting the highest TC items. I’d like a Java too cause I know with shit gear I can run cows to help with the runefarming and base hunting .Weapon: Only usable gear I’ve found so far are lightsaber and azurewrath. Just waiting on that MAL so I can make my grief as I do have a phase blade base (not eth unfortunately but any grief is better than no grief). I’ll try out what I have and see how the killing speed is. Off hand, I have a single Alibaba, no ists yet and no 6OS basesWeapon Swap: I do have 4x Wiz. LmaoBody Armor: Nothing close to Enigma yet. Just the trusty D-shell, and the usual low level rune words and some setsHelm: No Shako yet. Got my endgame merc helms which is niceGloves: have shit roll chancies unfortunately, but whatever Boots: Have some really really nice rare MF boots with 30MF and dual resists. Gonna try gambling for War TravsBelt: have the gold wrapRings: 1 nagel with shit roll. Lots of FCR ringsAmmy: nothing good yetCharms: Have a 34 Gheeds. Have not completed Ubers yet, I don’t know if I’ll ever get a torch from dclone cause I don’t think I have the heart to sell a SOJ in single player (if I ever find one nonetheless since I’ve never found one in 20 years of on/off playing). I think I’ll just make that my exception from my grail.Merc: Have a beauty eth colossus insight, and a Reapers Toll. I got Gface/Tal Rasha Mask/Crown of Thieves, no Andy yet. Using Dshell at the moment, no fortitude yet.
