fab395 No.15123464
Recycled edition.
F.A.Q.
>Where can I get Diablo 2, mine's broken, missing, I lost my cd-key, and/or some other fucking excuse to having lost or misplaced the game.
Right here: https://thepiratebay.org/torrent/6098061
>What version is this?
We're running a slightly different version than the default 1.13c vanilla patch called Konkey Dong
It does very slight changes that increase the difficulty of nightmare and hell, adds the ability to get back into the cow portal if you fuck up and kill the king, and SLIGHTLY increases drop rates. Otherwise everything else
is still very much vanilla. (you'll still want a party to get the good shit)
Go here to download the patch http://www.mediafire.com/?nyc122n77lok2cl and drop it in your d2 folder
>Is it a virus?
No, BUT
You should scan it for yourself like every piece of software you download from the internet.
>Can I hack/bot/use redvex and other gay shit?
Turned off the warden I think so feel free to do it if you can get your shit to work. Just keep in mind that you will be mocked if you use anything other than map hacks.
>Why the fuck does my screen look pink? Fuck this game.
See below for a possible solution.
To install and play the game:
1.Extract it and run d2vidtst.exe to eliminate most graphical glitches. (I recommend you use 7-Zip to do this.)
2.Run Diablo 2.exe.
If problems persist do the following
1. Go here http://www.svenswrapper.de/english/downloads.html
2. Download the newest version. this is an emulator tool that tricks diablo into thinking your new fancy graphics card is an old voodoo2 compatible card.
3. Run the program
4a. PANIC SHITS IN GERMAN
4b. Dont be retarded and click the second from the bottom option to turn it into english.
5. Run the identificaiton option.
6. Close the program.
7. Drop the .dll or everything into your Diablo 2 folder
8. Repeat the d2vidtst.exe step and select the gfix slide third option this time
To connect to the server:
1a. go here and download the editor http://www.icyhell.net/2008/05/06/blizzard-battlenet-gateway-editor-v3010702
1b. Run BNGatewayEditor.exe.
2. Switch to the SECOND TAB. (IE the Diablo 2/ LOD Tab)
3. Click Add Gateway and fill out the following information:
Name = SRoVQ
Zone = 6
IP = 192.223.31.204
4. Set to Chosen Gateway.
5. Hit the detect gateway button to see if you can connect.
6. Run Diablo 2.exe.
7. Click Battle.net and create your account. (EMAIL REGISTRATION IS NOT REQUIRED.)
8. Have fun reaching the top of the short ladder!
———changelog———-
Major Changes:
-You can teleport and use barbarian shouts in town
-Increased stash space
-Monsters in Nightmare have +3 to All Skills, monsters in Hell have +6 to All Skills.
-Cow levels have an increased ammount of cows and those cows are higher in level. Expect a much harder challenge.
-Cow level has a Waypoint (replace Inner Cloyster). You can kill the CowKing and rejoin through the Waypoint. No more worrying about the Cow getting killed
-Typing "/ann message" in chat sends a message to all the server
-Uber Cows (New dungeon with Uber cows that now drop great loot but prove a challenge)
See the links below for the rest of the changelogs:
http://pastebin.com/QTizfccw - v1.3.4? (current)
http://pastebin.com/4Gn3H0r4 - v1.3.3
http://pastebin.com/ZCbEJzAu - v1.3.2
http://pastebin.com/2VUTRtMU - v1.3.1
http://pastebin.com/bqeR0CfR - v1.2
http://pastebin.com/XwLfnSs6 - v1.1
https://web.archive.org/web/20130910004032/http://pastebin.com/beiQC5AQ - v1.0
NEW Cube Recipes (All original recipes are working):
- Create rare item: item + Um + Pul
- Respec token (1 use): Um + TP Scroll
- Lower quality of runes: 1 rune (example, put Um in cube, transmute, receive pul)
- Horadric staff (A2 shortcut): Amulet of the Viper + TP Scroll
- Khalim's Will (A3 shortcut): Khalim's Flail + TP Scroll
- New rare ring: 3 rare rings
- New rare amulet: 3 rare amulets
- Upgrade item: Item + 3 io runes
List of useful commands - These can be used while in chat lobby or ingame:
/ann *message* - Sends a message to the whole server. Everyone will read it, unless they muted you.
/f add *accountname* - Adds that account to your friends list
/f list - Displays your friends list, who's online and where they are right now (game name or lobby)
/con - Lists all the players online, their account names and where they are
/games - Lists all existing active games
Moderator edit: Corrected TPB's domain.
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fab395 No.15123478
It's also worth mentioning that this server acts as a master server for the other old blizzard titles such as warcraft 3 and starcraft.
6206e5 No.15125704
How many people are generally online?
03313f No.15125716
>Um + TP for respec
That's a pretty fair price. Those (and higher) runes should be just common enough that you'll have a few laying around, but not so common that you can spam them
192c30 No.15125732
>Horadric staff (A2 shortcut): Amulet of the Viper + TP Scroll
Gay AF, clear the maggot lair like a proper man.
>Khalim's Will (A3 shortcut): Khalim's Flail + TP Scroll
This I can sort of understand it since you don't really need it when rushing, but still gay.
5982ae No.15125752
>>15123464
Why not Diablo 1?
3cf54d No.15125771
>>15125752
Why not Diablo 3?
5982ae No.15125777
>>15125771
Because it's not Diablo
3cf54d No.15125780
>>15125777
But it has Diablo in the title
fab395 No.15125789
>>15125704
On average? 0. But you can change that friend ;^)
5982ae No.15125790
>>15125780
No that's Blizzard's (((Diablo))), it's completely different.
ef9aff No.15125801
I refuse to play without plugy
192c30 No.15125803
>>15125790
It's not Condor's Diablo.
2b8026 No.15127702
>>15123464
Already playing Path of Diablo, Assassain skill tree changes and the inventory changes are great. Almost finished Act 2 Hardcore, only leveling up at the start of the next act so wish me luck. Rolls have been decent so far.
11bdf1 No.15127736
Only D2 I'd play would be the new MedianXL.
fab395 No.15129719
We hit a new record of 2 players last night, if this keeps up we'll have a great economy going by the end of the week.
>>15127736
>>15125801
>>15127702
Okay thanks for stopping by.
03313f No.15129755
>>15127736
>new MXL
What did they change? I stopped paying attention once Laz left. Only ever made one character that could farm Fauztinville, an Assassin
a56cc4 No.15129766
>>15123464
>thepiratebay
FBI-kun?
d9f6f2 No.15129876
the link in the OP is fucking dead.
i tried dropping the patch in the diablo 2 folder that i had previous to this thread and it gives me an unhandled exception upon launch
help bls
fab395 No.15129921
>>15129876
replace .se with .org
d9f6f2 No.15129944
>>15129921
yep, its the same version of the game that i already had.
so, the following problem is the unhandled exception i get when running the game. i'd also like to know if its possible to run it in 16:9 aspect ratio without it becoming 16:9 aspect raidou if you know what i mean
d9f6f2 No.15129967
nevermind i made it in
boy i can't wait to find a group and p-
b8f5da No.15130072
>>15129755
Far too much has changed to say. It was really shit for a while but got better in the last year or so. The real new version, which is an engine overhaul, is supposed to be coming out at the end of this year.
bc14f5 No.15130177
>"Alright, someone finally made a Diablo 2 server. I'll just finish the next act boss before posting in the thread"
>spend 20 minutes kiting duriel with holy fire
The last time we tried this the server died because bot players flooded the ladder. I wanted to do a bot team myself, but I didn't want to subtract from the autists' satisfaction while doing it.
>>15129967
Sorry, forgot to remove the level restriction on my game. I was wondering why no one joined.
d9f6f2 No.15130748
>>15130177
well im done playing for now, these days i can't stomach any vidya for too long. i get bored too fast specially if its a game i've already played.
03313f No.15130768
>>15130072
Could you give me a short overview of the bad and why it's good again, at least?
b8f5da No.15131242
>>15130768
After Laz left, a few different people made different forks. The one that people ended up banding around was Ultimative, which was designed by a non-programmer Hue teenager (MarcoNecroX) who got people's attention by giving each character a new skill tree, bloating the endgame with a million billion new items and adding some janky bosses and areas. Most of this new content was of questionable quality and completely lacked the charm of Laz's taste in mythological references and 2000s interweb humor. But there were some good ideas in there and over time subtler parts of the game improved.
Marco also wanted to make a proper sequel to MXL Omega called Sigma which involved proper engine modding, but because he had no idea what the fuck he was doing it ended up taking years to get anywhere. Because it took so long he grew up a lot and identified most of his crap ideas and decided to get rid of them. Sigma ended up picking up steam when more serious developers got involved, and the current "2017" version is sort of a bridge between MXL and Sigma.
Things that are dramatically different to old MXL are true new areas (instead of replaced old ones), a relatively smooth difficulty curve over all difficulties, no more summoning uberquests, no more heroic levels or bosses (since the monster HP cap was removed), attempts at reducing instagibs or otherwise impossible to deal with shit, the aforementioned new character skills and items, and so on.
d59f46 No.15131271
And what about a simple online run of Diablo 2 instead of a server?
0c2b64 No.15131425
>>15130768
>>15131242
Generally its quality of life stuff and common sense improvements.
Like reducing all the numbers by 10x.
Also they somehow broke d2 engine and now you can have more than 128 locations, so every uberquest have a theme and a level dedicated to it, they are not in random places.
On somewhat related note I think they should remove at least 50% of uniqe items. They serve no purpose. A lot of things should be removed, because there are alternatives or no reason to have them at all. They were made because "every base type should have associated uniqe item" but fuck that shit. More does not mean better, although it seems they start to understand that idea.
And on somewhat related note, Breviks "it lurks below" is not really a game at this point. Its noce and all, but its frustrating at every point and its not even close to diablo play style or rather rougelike play style.
A really fucking too much of frustrating shit.
>you died? Some of your shit dropped! Now you have to pick it up! There are no fast travel options! If pickaxe drops you are really fucked because you dont have default one after resurrecting!
>you want to stash all your shit? Too bad, you need to use npc for that with 2 stash tabs only, because fuck you. You cant just craft chest and stash your shit. You have to fucking grind a shitload to unlock stash tabs and there are only few of them.
>to craft some items you need a recipe which takes up inventory space which also works as ingredient for that craft so you basically have half finished item which only takes up inventory space and you cant even know what stats it has
>you also have regular recipes, because why not, right?
I can go on and on, but I am not sure anyone cares.
>>15131271
D2 via server is simpler than via local built in shit.
95edca No.15131440
Man, I just started Titan Quest. Is there any cuckery in the enhanced version of it I should know about that would give me reason to just play Diablo 2?
0c2b64 No.15131465
>>15131440
Just play grim dawn. Better than titan quest in every way and in titan quest some bugs exist since forever. I think "enchanced edition" is exactly the same as regular version from 2010.
95edca No.15131518
>>15131465
How bad are the spiders in Grim Dawn, are we talking giant tarantulas, black widows, etc?
0c2b64 No.15131531
>>15131518
Regular boring kind? There are no spiders with tits if that is what you are asking.
03313f No.15131545
>>15131242
>>15131425
>no more summoning uberquests
I liked the idea of them, but they always felt sort of iffy. Were they put in because of limitations to the number of new areas?
>no more heroic levels or bosses (since the monster HP cap was removed)
I didn't realize there was a monster HP cap (65,536 or 2.14m?), but I don't think I really got to heroic levels on Hell before. What was the point of them, aside from farming for charms endgame?
>attempts at reducing instagibs or otherwise impossible to deal with shit
I saw they changed what's his face's Punisher orbs in the Sunless Sea map on the last patch. That and invincibility shields felt real bad. I'm glad to skim and see lots of QOL changes to the engine itself.
>>15131425
>"every base type should have associated unique item"
I like the idea of this on paper, but as PoE has shown, this just ends up with forced pigeonhole balancing and it's negative overall. I like that we have tiers and sacred though.
I never made a summoner in MXL, since I had no idea what to itemize and always found reviving monsters to be a meme since I didn't want to learn the whole bestiary so I knew what to take along. I usually made a psistorm Assassin and respecced into melee on my most successful character
bc14f5 No.15131553
>>15131518
They like to spawn behind you to cut off your escape path. But they explode easier than most things in the game so I don't even register them.
95edca No.15131580
>>15131553
>>15131531
I'm a huge spiderphobe. Just turn into a blubbering vagina at the sight of them. Good that they die easily though.
b8f5da No.15131584
>>15131425
>On somewhat related note I think they should remove at least 50% of uniqe items.
I think they've said they're gonna remove the third set of sacred uniques since most of them have the same set of stats and don't do anything interesting. There's still tons of runewords nobody ever uses.
>>15131545
>Were they put in because of limitations to the number of new areas?
Yeah. Now there's no reason for them to exist any more.
>I didn't realize there was a monster HP cap
Actually I might've been wrong about it being removed, >>15131425 reminded me they lowered all the numbers in the game so that might've been how they got around it.
>What was the point of them, aside from farming for charms endgame?
Nothing more than that. The whole boss shield concept existed because the numbers were so overblown they literally couldn't make the bosses any stronger. Some of the side areas have been changed into super-elite-only areas which are kinda similar to heroics and have a couple of unique drops.
>I never made a summoner in MXL, since I had no idea what to itemize
Make all of your gear honorific and put a billion minion stat orbs on it, then faceroll the game until you realise some of it's impossible to beat as pure summoner.
0c2b64 No.15131624
>>15131545
>Were they put in because of limitations to the number of new areas
Basically yes.
>heroic levels on Hell before. What was the point of them, aside from farming for charms endgame?
Locations to farm instead of bosses to farm and usually they drop something special in every one of them.
>That and invincibility shields felt real bad
They were ingame because of max monster HP.
>"every base type should have associated unique item"
>I like the idea of this on paper
Terrible idea, designing items not because you want something interesting or simply useful but because you need to make 456 uniqe items. Its sure way for uninspired items which are there just to round up numbers.
0c2b64 No.15131736
Oh, instead of summoning quests there are now "portal" quests. Basically you use item to open portal after defeating specific monsters. There are bug which prevents you from opening portal if you are under effect of transformation, so if it doesnt work you know why.
03313f No.15131806
Okay so I just did the full install on LOD and I'm trying to get vanilla to work. It seems to get to a black title screen, but then it recovers and gets garbled colors; after that if I quit, I get:
>Unrecoverable internal error 6fe2156f
>Access violation c0000005
Are these trivially fixed issues, or should I fire up boku no google?
03313f No.15131834
Oh okay I figured it out, I think it was D3D instead of Glide causing issues for some reason.
2c1031 No.15131847
I want to like Diablo and all Diablo clones… but the fucking controls are atrocious, man. No I'm not trying to hit that enemy, I'm trying to walk around him. No I'm not trying to run up to that guy, I'm trying to shoot him.
I'm pretty sure the only even remotely Diablo-like game I can stand to play anymore is Borderlands.
03313f No.15131851
>>15131847
By convention, most games let you hold shift+click to stay still while attacking or using an action. I personally rebind my LMB to always be movement, instead of attacking for this very reason you describe.
b7a256 No.15131852
Diablo 1 > Diablo 2
Prove me wrong.
0c2b64 No.15131858
>>15131847
Nioh is pretty much diablo clone.
2c1031 No.15131874
>>15131851
Even still, holding shift is an extra step and it doesn't solve the issue of not being able to move and aim independently. I've played objectively worse games than the first two Diablos that I enjoyed more just for having better controls, and that's saying something since I grew up with Diablo and Diablo II.
03313f No.15132194
So far I like the general QOL things they did to MXL. Decided to roll up the psi Assassin again as usual, and just hit A2 at level 25
d2291a No.15132537
>>15131847
That's what happens when you change a game from turned based roguelike to real time action game at the last minute of development.
0c2b64 No.15132852
>>15132537
And if everyone else decided to copy everything including interface.
Actually as diablofag I was listening to Brevik a lot, so diablo should have been different, but they werent really thinking at a time, so we got what we got. To give blizzard some credit it seems they were actually positive influence on the games. Hell, some random people insisted and annoyed the shit out of Condor and that way we got diablo soundtrack.
53a384 No.15135211
Is this /v/.net? Where is MelGibson?
03313f No.15135915
Recorded MXL to show to a friend, couldn't think of a video host that wasn't Dropbox or Jewgle
03313f No.15136092
Hold on, might have had to encode it as webm
b8f5da No.15136263
>>15136092
>>15135915
Should probably go with a lower resolution in future, encoders really don't like D2's level of detail.
bb94d6 No.15136444
>>15123464
This shit has a backdoor in it.
DO NOT DOWNLOAD
03313f No.15136469
>>15136263
With my Assassin, I just hit the end of Hatred difficulty and like I said above, I only really played when Laz worked on it, so I see a whole bunch of little changes here and there. For example, the autopickup on gold is fantastic.
Anyways, they seemed to have made Psistorm very mana hungry. I'm only 52, but it's at level 14 / 283 mp, and I only have 2616 max, and I've sunk most points into energy. What should I stack to help it out the most? I'm assuming +regen%? Right now I'm building honorific shit to increase gold% and doing sunless sea
95edca No.15136485
>>15136444
The hell are you on about? Show us evidence.
b8f5da No.15136508
>>15136469
Mana after each kill is probably best since your damage is going to be huge. TU Bone Helm is great for mana builds. Also remember perfect topazes get you +5% energy each.
03313f No.15136541
>>15136508
Oh yeah, Stillwater, that's pretty damn good for what I need. Surprised I never noticed it before. Thanks, that'll be great
fab395 No.15136903
It was lagging last night because some jew was downloading from the server, should be better now.
>>15136444
SKYKING SKYKING DO NOT ANSWER
03313f No.15137103
>>15136508
Another thing, since I feel like I'm kinda starting to fall off enough that I can't keep /p8 on reliably… how important is survivability? I never really got through Hell on classic as a kid, but having played Path of Exile for a few years, stacking hard on life and resists saved me a lot of headache. Is it mostly the same thing here?
I tend to die in about 4 hits that I get stunlocked from and just melt
2e41cd No.15137113
>>15137103
If its softcore than whatever you feel comfortable with. But the usual build stays
vit - everything
str/dex/energy - nothing
03313f No.15137118
>>15137113
But MXL has a bunch of stuff with energy and energy factor. Is it just Psistorm that needs hard energy points? Also, did they remove Belladonna Elixir?
2e41cd No.15137133
>>15137118
Oh, you mean median. In that case its more difficult. Generally your class will have some ways to survive. Just look for forums, its harder than vit-everything. ITs not that hard to equip t6 set anyway, just pick whatever you want and craft it.
>Belladonna Elixir
There are recipe for it or some vendors sells it, not hard to get. Look for documentation.
b8f5da No.15137134
>>15137103
Depends on what you mean. There's never gonna be any point in trying to make Assassin tanky. You survive by killing things fast. But you should max your defensive passives and use Shadow Refuge.
Assassin's hit recovery breakpoints are 86 for 4 frames, 200 for 3 frames so you need to hit those to avoid stunlock.
>>15137113
MXL has totally different rules to LoD. His build is 0/0/0/everything ideally.
>>15137118
If I'm remembering correctly Psistorm doesn't use EF nor spell damage stats at all. Its damage is 100% from hard points in energy. So when you run out of stat points there's no way to improve it further. Mana Sorceress works on similar terms and has similar problems.
Belladonna Elixirs are now a drop in Terror onwards. They're not that uncommon.
2e29d7 No.15137646
>>15123464
I really want to get into ARPGs and i think that Diablo 2 would be a great starting point, but i can't access piratebay.se i tried the link and going to the website directly but it keeps saying they can't find the server, can some kind anon please help.
I use Firefox with Duck Duck Go but i tried googling it as well
pls no bully
792929 No.15137671
>>15137646
11d0d6cf275826bee7d7e014c25279298015364a
Lazy ass. And get d2se later.
2e29d7 No.15137716
>>15137671
Thank you anon.
03313f No.15138584
>>15137134
Oh, I didn't realize EF didn't interact with Psistorm, but seeing as it's scaling mechanic is different, then that doesn't surprise me. On the other hand, I guess I don't need Tiefling Form for the EF, then.
03313f No.15138904
>>15138584
Wait shit, magic immunes are kicking my ass. I'm okay with being a glass cannon but as soon as I run up against any I get my ass kicked. I've been using black hole to deal with them, but it's slow and needs kiting, which can be hard to clear some areas. Similarly, Doom gives them about -20% magic resist now, but since it's breaking an immunity, it only functions at a fraction of effectiveness, and I barely even see their hp go down if I use Doom+Psi on immunes
7f6154 No.15139243
>>15136263
This just looks retarded. Median was retarded when I tried it all these years and and it seems to be just as retarded now.
>>15137646
Keep in mind that the official 1.10 and up patches completely change the feel of the game. 1.10+ locks you into having only a few viable skills per class for the higher difficulties (unless you twink out your characters). 1.08 and 1.09 have almost every skill work to some degree, so you can just look at the skill list, pick a skill that sounds/looks cool to you and build around it.
03313f No.15139266
>>15139243
So what, do you just live in the past and only play v1.09 private servers or something? Do you even play with other players, for fear that they might make your character imbalanced by donating items?
7f6154 No.15139297
>>15139266
I haven't played much since 1.10. The little I've played was solo and offline with tool assisting for muling. Bnet is absolute cancer anyways, what with the rampant botting and duping, plus bnet has all those annoying restrictions to deal with. But then again, the fun of Diablo, for me at least, was to start a fresh character and work my way through the game. Never was one for endlessly grinding, I always preferred to just make a new character and try playing with a skill I hadn't created a build around yet. Sanctuary Paladin ho!
07aec5 No.15139642
Sorry for leaving all of a sudden. Something got in the way. Gonna stop for tonight.
03313f No.15140113
>Assassin doing Trial of Fear
>Not complete
<Complete immunity
<Avoids damage 50%(?) of the time
<Killing something heals a huge chunk of his life
<Insane physical damage
<Have a 20% chance on being hit to spawn a ground region for 5 seconds that lowers his immunity shield
6f8a1d No.15140657
>That intro
Blizzard only wishes they could write something this good nowadays. Thanks for the thread lads, time to rev up the nostalgia machine.
b8f5da No.15141207
>>15140113
You need summons. Sha runeword in a claw or Ix runeword in an Assassin-specific shield will do the job. I wouldn't bother with BRC until level 120 anyway, there's no way you're gonna be able to get through Fauzt.
>>15139243
Let me guess, you like visual consistency or atmosphere or something? What a gay.
03313f No.15145648
>>15141207
>Shitty summons just to have as pseudo tanks
Wow I never thought of that. Actually makes sense though. I did do Fauztinville before on a naginata assassin, so I could feasibly farm some T6 uniques/honors and do an item set just to clear it, barring a respec or two. For some reason I think the Harpylisks kept one shotting me last time I tried the naginata build but I'm not sure. Is the assassin skill for it even that good? I mean I've used it before but I don't remember it being particularly helpful for the amount of effort I put into it.
Which also reminds me, I made a bunch of T6 honors to max my goldfind and I think I hit like 1800% so I could clear sunless sea, and I end up with like 500k+ per clear on normal. Do other people do that too?
03313f No.15145847
So I went with the Ix shield, holy smokes those summons are just what I needed. Maggots have a fat ass and take little damage, while the bone flayers give me a huge life aura. Meanwhile, I killed the Butcher trivially (I thought he healed on kill) and he dropped pic
9840cf No.15145904
>>15136092
Play on hardcore or you might as well not play at all.
03313f No.15146040
>>15145904
>Dying to a bullshit heroic monster that is just a brush offscreen and lose 80+ hours of farming
Yeah. Fun.
03313f No.15146298
Cool, this is the first time I've ever managed to get a Destruction difficulty charm, hopefully the first of many.
9840cf No.15146317
>>15146040
Sounds like a shit game.
03313f No.15146409
>>15146317
For what it is, the mod is actually pretty good, if you like the style of what it offers. It has a lot of small intricacies I can't be bothered to learn though
792929 No.15146436
>>15146409
It mostly easy until you hit a wall and you cant do anything. It could be really enjoyable to play around mechanics, like stacking 500 fire res and some absorption and respecking into cold damage for some boss, but it takes a shitload of time to craft all the gear. And all the 1hko enemies are fucking retarded.
09f393 No.15146585
>>15123464
>Turned off the warden I think so feel free to do it if you can get your shit to work
Oh boy, time to learn how to use Redvex/D2NT all over again…
>Server is already dead
Nevermind.
>>15130177
>The last time we tried this the server died because bot players flooded the ladder.
Don't forget they flooded the server with free items/HRs, making an economy entirely pointless and destroying the need to grind specific items.
07aec5 No.15147976
>almost a week passed
>become second guy to beat normal
Come on guys. Step it up.
bc14f5 No.15148567
Well I finally beat nightmare because I found a way around poison immunity. Turns out mercs can survive just fine when they outlevel everything by 20. The venom lords which make up two thirds of chaos sanctuary are all poison immune so I was at it for a while.
But I couldn't unlock hell difficulty because of second pic.
07aec5 No.15148706
>>15148567
This is actually pretty amazing. Give me some time and we can do hell together.
07aec5 No.15148711
>>15148706
>But I couldn't unlock hell difficulty because of second pic.
The amazing part if it wasn't clear.
e6cfb6 No.15148953
What are the chances of this getting the starcraft remastered treatment and anticheat?
bc14f5 No.15149106
>>15148953
Blizzard devs have said they'd need to totally rewrite the game for any resolution boosts, which is too hard man.
That plus given how incredibly complex Diablo 2 is under the hood compared to warcraft 3, starcraft 2, basically everything nu-blizzard ever developed, do you really want to see what they would give us?
fab395 No.15149127
Reborted myself to fix the OP :DDDDD
5f8dd1 No.15149135
any mods that let you have a qt succubus as a companion?
967724 No.15149744
>>15149106
That excuse doesn't even make any sense. Multires exists and the only problem with it is that the AI doesn't know what to do with a higher resolution, so the game is clearly capable of it. I expect it's more to do with the effort of "updating" i.e ruining the massive amount of graphics.
03313f No.15150999
>>15149744
Ever use maphack? You can pan the view left/right offscreen a hell of a lot.
36f434 No.15151376
I have absolutely zero experience or knowledge with diablo style games.
Any tips for a newbie?
03313f No.15151942
Made a Sorceress in MXL because I have a few endgame set pieces for her. Made it melee bladestorm or whatever, and jesus christ is it OP.
>Level 36
>T3 unique warp blade and sorc armor (wedding dress of zann)
>Able to kill skeletons in Kurast 3KBA (lv 60) and gain exp
I'm gonna basically jump in level stupid fast, farm a few crystals to upgrade to T6, and breeze through the next difficulties. Oh, I did fire+ice spec
967724 No.15152275
>>15151376
Run around and hit things.
>>15151942
I don't like melee Sorc much, but surely it makes more sense to go fire + poison (life + %life) or cold + lightning (def + %def). Cold used to be must-have because the aura on Ice Elementals gave %TCD + %DR but that's been changed now, and Blade Spirits are better meatshields anyway.
bc14f5 No.15153359
>>15148567
Sorry, my mistake. Turns out the server wouldn't let me make a hell difficulty without logging in again.
Turns out hell difficulty was almost easier than nightmare. Nothing is immune besides those useless act 2 zombies and these flayer guys.
>>15151376
Find some skill that kills lots of shit fast and spam the hell out of it. Respec into the build you want when you're in a comfortable position.
bc14f5 No.15153375
>>15146585
Oi. When I said that thing about bots I had you in mind specifically. You mind moving them off the ladder?
eebe88 No.15153442
>>15137646
>Firefox
>DuckDuckGo
>ThePirateBay
I love how this board acts like its full of elite gaming masters who know their shit yet you toddlers consistently reveal yourselves to be mentally retarded children.
3d2fccc5acd81df594984e1dc4b2a345d7732125
Here, shitheads. If you don't know what to do with that, you don't belong here.
b8567a No.15153517
>>15153442
>looking at one post from an obvious mentally retarded child, complaining about mentally retarded children and generalizing it to everyone.
Note for you, mentally retarded child. Only mentally retarded children reveal themselves to be mentally retarded children. If you don't know what to do with that knowledge, you don't belong here.
03313f No.15154649
>>15152275
I was doing very good melee dps to bosses (eg downing normal diablo on /p8 in about 30 seconds) but it seems to fall off unless I rapidly upgrade my weapon. I assume that I should be stacking +ED% and/or max damage?
I didn't get poison because its passive was reactive? Extra whatever and crushing blow, I figured I can just slap some pgems in my sword and call it a day. I think that's where my damage is coming from, anyways
cc4ead No.15155316
>Have to visit my folks for a day
>I know I'll just shove it on my craptop and play it when things settle down
>12 FPS
46669d No.15156680
>>15154649
Vengeful Power gives passive effects too, you're not going to take it for the retaliation bit.
<Snow Queen at 20 points
>+25% life
>+4800 defense
<Snow Queen at 28 points + 22
>+25% life
>+16000 defense
<Vengeful Power at 5 points
>+25% life
>20% DR
Looks to me like poison is better and more economical.
>I assume that I should be stacking +ED% and/or max damage?
I did some arithmetic about this recently. The actual maths requires effort so a lot of this is crude especially Crushing Blow which is a logarithmic sequence based on the monster's current HP, but it's worked for me.
>max +%ED on everything with orbs generally speaking
>1% Crushing Blow > 1% damage if it takes >~24 hits/kill with missiles (includes Bladestorm etc) or half that with direct melee
>if (weapon stat bonus + %EWD on gear) < 2000 then go for +20% EWD orbs
>otherwise go for 1% Deadly Strike orbs (1% DS = flat 1% damage which should be obvious)
46669d No.15156690
>>15156680
>if (weapon stat bonus + %EWD on gear)
I should say + %EWD in total, not just on gear, since skills like Baneblade also give you EWD.
70f870 No.15156780
>1.13c
I'll pass.
Anyone know of an easy way to downgrade 1.14 to 1.09d? D2SE doesn't work for 1.14.
2285cc No.15156820
>>15156780
>1.09
enjoy your no build variety
70f870 No.15156838
>>15156820
>1.09
>Nightmare fire enchants don't instagib you due to Blizzard being retarded
>Don't be railroaded into a cookie cutter build because they're the only ones viable
2285cc No.15156851
>>15156838
>1.09
>anything but cookie cutter builds
You need to be 18 to post here.
bc14f5 No.15157476
>>15156780
Just as well. The server's mostly bots now doing baal runs 24/7.
09f393 No.15157586
>>15153375
>You mind moving them off the ladder?
Why?
6dcb88 No.15157663
>>15157586
Ah I was just about to say let's do uber cows.
09e2c1 No.15157697
whats the point of this?
everyone plays by themselves anyways, might as well play SP by yourself
09f393 No.15158135
>>15157697
>whats the point of this?
To play D2 with /v/bros
>everyone plays by themselves anyways, might as well play SP by yourself
That's because the server is dead. Not sure why host started one tbh, there has been D2 threads in the past and some people were somewhat interested in playing on our own private server because reddit diablo doesn't allow botting but It'll never have the same 30-50 population as /v/.net season 4.
>>15135211
RIP MelGibson
03313f No.15158439
>>15156680
Thanks, that's very helpful.
>Crushing Blow is logarithmic with current HP
So they changed it then? I know previously it was between 1/4 and 1/16th of current HP, depending on whether it was a boss monster and if you were using a melee weapon or not. Either way, it's good to chew through bosses and SUs I find.
What's the difference between +ED% and +Weapon Damage%? Obviously they both scale attack damage but is one more preferred? It seems like ED is easier to acquire in general. Or rather, are they both separate multiplicative effects that I should stack both of? (like how PoE does it)
I feel like I should get at least 1% CB/DS on any weapon just to have it trigger, especially with bladestorm, no? 4% seems like the sweet spot for a minimum since it's roughly every 25 hits
46669d No.15158947
>>15158439
>So they changed it then?
No, it's exactly the same, I'm just being a dumbshit. It's not logarithmic, it's geometric with exponential growth in efficiency as monster life increases over player damage. But it's still hard to put a fixed value on since both the player's damage and enemy life are unknowns. It's 1/4 for melee attacks, 1/8 for missile attacks, 1/10 for melee vs. bosses, 1/20 for missile vs. bosses.
The weapon type you're using doesn't matter, only whether the skill is classed as melee or projectile. The 25ish figure (closer to 24 really) is an estimate of when it's worth it over the same % increase in raw total damage, which is best represented as Deadly Strike because it's flat.
>What's the difference between +ED% and +Weapon Damage%?
They're seperate multiplicative effects.
%ED multiplies the base damage of the weapon. It normally caps at 200% but you can go over this with socketables or runewords.
%EWD multiplies the total weapon damage and it has no cap. You might think that's something to focus on then, but what's called EWD/+%WD in descriptions is the same thing as the stat damage bonus on your weapon. +20% EWD would be a lot if it was +20% damage, but if you're already getting 1000% of the same thing from str/dex then it's only +2%. This is why I say use the +20% EWD orbs until you hit 2000% total, because it's then that they'll be equal or less to 1% damage.
The modifer on weapon damage skills comes after both of these things, and it also affects any elemental damage to weapon you have as well. So each Bladestorm blade scales ALL of your total outgoing damage to 35%. The only thing this doesn't apply to is Target Takes Additional Damage, which is the same thing as the "damage per hit" on Doom.
>I feel like I should get at least 1% CB/DS on any weapon just to have it trigger
CB I can kinda understand because if you run into anything that's way too tanky for you it can help, but then if the enemies are too weak individually it does nothing. DS just doubles the damage a given hit does so it's no different to increasing damage in any other way. Both are affected by physical resist so you're not going to be killing anything unusual with them. When CB is really useful is on weapon characters that rely more on elemental damage than physical since it helps them deal with elemental immunes even if their phys damage is low.
bc14f5 No.15159883
>>15157586
Because it bloats the ladder with bots that are pushing actual players lower in the ranks than they should be. The most visible ladder spots are held by characters with low-effort names and perfectly identical EXP counters.
As a grind game it's no longer about who knows the game better or who can exploit the new mechanics to amazing effect, but who had their bot-blob running longest. That's not the part of diablo I have nostalgia of.
09f393 No.15159925
>>15159883
>Caring about ladder ranks, on a dead server
I don't agree with anything you say, but these characters are only temporary until I can get some decent gear.
bc14f5 No.15160083
>>15159925
You say that but you did make them ladder didn't you. And I don't care whether or not you agree, I told you why and how it affects anyone on the server besides you. Which you asked.
09f393 No.15160229
>>15160083
I made them ladder in-case I need to use ladder only runewords on them. As I've said, once I get proper gear (or quit because of the dead server), they will be deleted.
Besides all that, who the hell cares (except you) about ladder rank on a dead private server?
You're not even playing, you're complaining about literally nothing.
Pic related.
03313f No.15161775
>>15158947
Meanwhile, on my assassin I've got a few areas done, but I feel like I'm lacking both damage and life and got stuck somewhere at the end of Act 4.
Do the summoned minion bonuses on items affect things that come from "X% chance to reanimate as: Y" mods, or only things I actually summon?
03313f No.15166454
>>15161775
Got a few more zones checked off. Meanwhile
18ed62 No.15166899
>>15125789
is the game really that dead nowadays?
5f0166 No.15167668
Friend said official bnet killed a bunch of bots and started a new season, also let games be instant permed for muling
03313f No.15168152
>If the game rolls a Unique, and there is no Unique of that item type you will get a Rare item with 3x normal durability. If the game rolls a set and there is no set of that item type, you will get a magical item with 3x the normal durability.
Weird
03313f No.15168483
>Those drops
Holy shit, gonna farm this bitch while I get geared for more endgame shit. Also I stacked up on +vit%, flat vit and life, +life%, and such on my armor and boots
d46cca No.15168505
>>15166899
That's the private server. Last time I checked was march and there was around 16k active according to the chat message on battle.net
ef9aff No.15168522
>>15168152
D2 is full of weird mechanics. Treasure chests are multiple levels of random, increasing magic find to a cartain amount can lead to increased non-magic drops, framebreak is an actual feature the devs expected and worked around, etc.
fab395 No.15169051
Anyone know how to set the nodrop to 0 for the server?
>>15157697
;;
03313f No.15169983
I have no idea how you're expected to kill this guy on hardcore or as a caster. His punishers do retarded damage and I have 7k hp and 90% resist poison.
46669d No.15171397
>>15169983
He's not meant to be tankable. My Paladin with 1700 life/second regeneration can just barely outheal the degen novas if I drink a potion. Most characters have to TP out. If you can't survive against him at all the best approach is to bait his teleport, get some damage in and run away.
Belial is pretty much always a giant pain in the dick, but casters have the advantage on him, since a faster cast rate means faster teleports to run away from him and faster summoning to block him/Punishers with. Seems like the problem you had is you couldn't survive long enough to clear the Henchmen and the fight snowballed into a giant clusterfuck.
Also
>>15161775
>Do the summoned minion bonuses on items affect things that come from "X% chance to reanimate as: Y" mods, or only things I actually summon?
All reantimates and revives as well. I THINK it even helps summons by your minions i.e. Spirit of Vengeance reanimates.
1d3137 No.15171564
Are Cold Sorc viable?
Who plays the Diablo1 HD mod Bezelbub?
03313f No.15173239
>>15171397
Christ.
Incidentally, with %dmg reduction and flat magic from Prismatic Cloak or whatever, I was able to take Quov Tsin down with essentially no problem - I could stand his in his stream and take no damage. Still had to dodge the hives and bones though
bc14f5 No.15173453
>>15160229
Obviously a significant portion of the server cares, just like you said. Happy to hear you're gonna delete them though, and I hope it happens soon.
Kinda curious how you'd need several accounts to make a runeword, not that I think it's a weak after-the-fact excuse.
>>15171564
It's definitely weaker than lightning/fire, but the cold effect and -cold resist are things you will very much like having in hell. Don't use glacial spike.
09f393 No.15173948
>>15173453
>Obviously a significant portion of the server cares
So far the only ones that do on this thread end with ID: bc14f5, which is (you), that's not a "significant portion" and I have yet to meet anyone else in the server that tells me otherwise.
>Happy to hear you're gonna delete them though, and I hope it happens soon.
My intentions was to only use them temporarily until I have acquired some decent mid level gear to solo NM/early Hell ilvl 85 areas for my Sorc.
>Kinda curious how you'd need several accounts to make a runeword
I said in-case I needed to use ladder runewords on them such as Insight or Infinity for mercs which was a weak argument TBH since I use Paladin for Meditation until I got an Insight for my Sorc, Barbarian for it's Shouts until I get CTA, Necromancer for it's skeleton army since my Mercs are shit.
Another reason I neglected to mention was I didn't know if I needed them all to be ladder to play together or not. I'm guessing that I don't.
>>15171564
http://diablo.wikia.com/wiki/Ancient_Tunnels
>The Ancient Tunnels is a popular Magic Find location, since it is one of the few area level 85 zones, and contains no cold immunes on Hell difficulty.
a3650d No.15173965
>>15173948
One person is a significant portion of your dead server, faggot.
09f393 No.15174158
>>15173965
>a3650d (1)
Here's your (you), nigger.
c8f544 No.15174206
Is anyone playing this? I've never really been able to get into this because no friends.
411c4d No.15174269
>>15159925
>>15159883
>>15157586
>>15153375
>>15146585
>>15173965
>>15173948
>>15173453
>>15160229
are you ni🅱️🅱️as seriously making drama in a private D2 server from a sri lankan pottery club with like 10 people tops?
who cares about ladders, just like play the game
09f393 No.15174337
>>15174206
It's a dead server, just me (multiboxing jew), someone else and a HCfag. The rest are underage shitposters with English as a second language.
>>15174269
>some autistic screeching asshat bitching about fucking nothing and me telling to to calm his tits
>drama
c8f544 No.15174355
>>15174337
So avoid the server like the plague? Got it.
fab395 No.15175243
>>15174355
Yeah m8, avoid it at all costs, I hear goons run it.
fab395 No.15175353
Ladder is slowly recovering from that last shoah that was me running out of shekels.
3af96b No.15176612
>>15175243
interesting……………
03313f No.15179924
MXL Assassin is donig well.
fab395 No.15190065
ama > nec > bar > dru > sin > sor > pal
03313f No.15193739
Random question. What part of the game files handles the rendering? Is it a .dll or the exe itself?
I just realized if you know what you were doing, you could make a "composite" character by setting eg different body/limb parts to belong to different characters. Imagine seeing a tanky barbarian but with a Necromancer head, for example.
I think it might work, since existing characters are basically a set of offsets when drawing, anyways. Animations might be trickier.
09f393 No.15199155
>>15123464
>Can't create games
reeeeeeeeee
>Hell Countess can now drop ALL runes. Increased frequency a bit.
I've done 100+ cuntess runs and not a single rune above Ko was found. Half the time I get no runes.
b69d1a No.15199225
>>15199155
Because shiteater moders cant code for shit. Loot system is quite advanced for them. Basically increased droprate might mean that shit items drop more often and good items are displaced by them. And even if what they did worked you still need around 500 runs to get PUL rune. Its one low lvl mob hidden behind a lot of zones, what you expected? Just farm travincal or lvl85 zones. Countess exist only to make low tier runewords, like insight. Just because its doubled droprate its still one mod. Killing 3 mobs is better than this. Killing a rare mob with minions is like 10 times better than this.
>>15193739
Shit moders like this dickhead.
2aeb1a No.15208037
why is the server offline? i cant create a game at all for the last 3 days or so.
36f434 No.15208234
Any good widescreen mods?
03313f No.15208261
>>15199225
>Modders can't code
Maybe because the drawing API is handled by DirectX calls in the .exe and most mods are just changing flat game data in the .mpq files?
fab395 No.15208633
>>15208037
>>15199155
Sorry lads, the server must've crashed without me noticing.
The server is back up.