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How the fuck am I meant to kill this faggot with a melee character? I have the highest tier of armour at act 2 and he's raping me in seconds
Also diablo II thread
>>345191448
better gear
mercenary with useful aura
use an aura yourself
smite
potions
you playing online?
When I first encountered Duriel, he killed me before the game even fully finished loading. It went straight from a black screen to "YOU HAVE DIED." Fun times.
I found him easier to handle with melee characters than ranged ones. That frost aura makes it hard to keep your distance from him.
>>345191448
Try doing it with skelemancer, all bosses just rape my skeles and then proceed to rape me.
I cheese it by opening a portal first after engaging him, after he killed all my skeles I run into the portal, gather up more skeles and try again, rinse and repeat until he dies.
>Post 8 mb ram post nerf patch niggers complain
>>345191448
get thawing potions and a merc. if this is on normal difficulty then ur melee build and/or weapon is a shit
this is not how i remember tal rashas chamber looks like
>>345192237
Australia so offline, I'll have to look stuff up
>>345192145
I haven't ran any patches m8y
>>345191820
How much attack/defence should be good for him? I'm speccing for a whirly barb so I'm fairly useless atm
>>345192371
That's the part where you meet tyrael
Duriel isn't suposed to be there
>>345192398
is this your first time playing diablo 2? defense rating only affects your chance for an enemy to hit you, it doesn't actually mitigate damage hits, it's a largely useless stat.
cold resistance is good vs durial because of his cold aura
>>345192536
going in blind so I'm a bit lost. What's a good sword tier for duri?
>>345192398
what version of the game are you playing? it should be in the bot right corner on the main screen. also is this with or without the expansion pack? lord of destruction
>>345192663
If you're having this much of a problem you can just abuse scroll of town portal.
>>345192684
phone posting so I can't check, but TLOD straight from the battle chest
>>345191448
Dual wield (if you can) 3-slot weaps and socket them with strong runes and your best gems.
that, and thawing & antidote potions. shouldnt be too hard familia
cool items with neat skills
class variety and hundreds of viable builds
that's really about it most maps were procedurally generated trash tho
>>345191448
you should feel good about that fact that you aren't stuck on the shitty 500mhz pcs of the late 90s that would struggle to load the fucking room before you heard "LOOKING FOR BAAL?" and died
>>345191448
Try cleaning some of the fake tombs to level up, maybe you are underleveled.
>>345192775
you could farm a 2 socked weapon then farm the countess (act 1 miniboss who is in the tower) for runes until you have a Tir and and El rune.
If you put a Tir and an El rune IN THAT ORDER into a 2 SOCKED WEAPON and you create a 'runeword' called Steel that enhances the damage and attack speed of your weapon.
You should try to get a good 'base' weapon. Probably an axe with max damage in the teens for 1h or 30s+ for 2h or sword with max damage in the teens for 1h and upper teens for 2h
>>345191448
Ok, first off, you need to get something with freeze reduction. Buy thawing potions if you can't.
Armor isn't going to do much against him, his attack rating is crazy high. You need block and faster hit recovery, also life leech.
He is going to hit you, no matter what.
>playing diablo 2 on a toaster in 98
This boss was literally impossible
>>345192775
You may want to download some patches from blizzard even if you aren't playing online. The addition of synergies in 1.10 totally revamps the skill system, and tons of items are added.
Anyway I think it's more fun to play online, dunno if that's feasible in australia but there's usually a good amount of people online in the states after a ladder reset (twice a year).
>>345193381
I always liked hammers. The 50% against undead is surprisingly handy across all acts and the base damage you lose out on isn't really that large depending on weapon choice.
Thawing potions raise Cold Resistance by 50 points for 30 seconds.
This effect stacks up to 5 minutes (300 seconds).
The same goes for Antidote Potion and Poison Resistance.
If you are melee you shouldnt have a problem with him.
>>345193457
I managed it, either that or my computer was better then I thought it was. Freaking Compaq.
>>345191448
>mfw I don't even remember having half an issue with this faggot as a paladin in my very first playthrough many years ago
1. Patch the game. Seriously.
2. Look up a guide so you don't end up as a useless faggot in Hell.
3. Use low-tier Runewords and any Uniques/rares you can find
4. Thawing potion is useless against Baal's aura, it will only reduce the damage taken from it, you'll still be a slow fuck.
5. Farm up in Arcane Sanctuary and the Valley until your skills pack some punch.
6. Just chip away at his health and tele once he is got you down to low health if all else fails.
I hope you put no points in energy OP, it's mostly useless. Just chug potions and teleport back to town for more.
>>345193573
My computer was so bad I'd be dead before the game loaded I'd just load in at the you are dead screen
>>345193759
this has to be bait
>>345193914
That would happen to me the first time I loaded to the area and then after that it would be fine. I think I also put a lot of stock into health and hit my potions right as I went in.
If anything, I had more trouble with Mephisto as he kept spawning shit, which tanked my FPS really bad.
What's the most recent version of D2?
I heard modern day Blizzard patched it a few times and I want to pirate that version.
Not going to pay Blizzard money for something Blizzard North made.
>>345194084
Meph shoots lightning, he doesn't spawn things, and hes super cheesable.
>>345194021
It is don't reply to him
>>345194348
seems like it's 1.14d
>the only good mercenary is a sandnigger
>>345195197
>easily spreads his influence over to others (aura)
>attacks everything in sight regardless of how powerful it is
>does no harm
>dies in 1 hit
yeah that's pretty isis alright
>>345195197
other mercs have some niche uses due to runewords and stuff
>>345193759
this is bait, d2 is by farrrrrrr the best d game
Almost done pirating. What class should I play? Usually play skelemancer so I want to try something else.
>>345194021
>>345194895
>>345195729
>It's bait if it's against the hivemind
Epic
>>345196517
its bait if it calls one of the best games at all time bad without justification
>>345196490
Don't play any class / spec that requires melee weapon to work. You'll be grinding to world's end to get anywhere in hell if you do.
>>345196517
d2 is better than d3 tho, the latter is p much a big number sim, like a stepmania version of cookie clicker
>>345196560
I'm fine with that honestly.
>>345196569
I think of all the very valid complaints about d3, "big number sim" is the least relevant.
>>345191448
the speed runners use bows socketed with the best gems they can find, preferably poison. its only an issue for barbs and pallies though
>>345196618
you literally have to put out bigger numbers while avoiding their steadily increasing numbers
>>345196553
>one of the best games at all time
That's one mighty opinion. I find it average at best. Grinding is awful in D2 and it's boring as shit to boot. Gearing disparancy between caster / statstick requirer is insanely stupid.
Not to mention without PluggY your stash space is fucking way way way way too limited.
Other than that a lot of the areas are boring. Act 2's desert parts = snoozefest, Act 3 as a whole = even bigger snoozefest.
That aside, the picture has ":|" face on it, not ">:(" or anything that actually resembles bad.
>>345196569
And the former is literally cookie clicker as the AoE of D2 is fucking horrible in most cases.
D2 is really dated in design in a lot of parts.
git gud
>>345196747
>D2 is really dated in design in a lot of parts.
not denying that, but d3 is so oversimplified it's insulting
>not playing Grim Dawn / Path of Exile
>>345196490
Frost Zealot.
Don't forget to keep Crushing Blow items around.
>>345193759
>>345196698
see this is an alright post
>>345191448
Open a portal and chug potions.
Chug thawing potions too.If i remember they will remove the freezing effect.You'll need a ton of them.
>>345196968
Thawing potions don't do shit against his aura.
>>345191448
ryuquezacotl/v/75987336
on twitch
fight starts at 1:57:00
>>345197026
yes they fucking do you retard. It reduces the damage he does by a shit ton and it removes the slowing effect when you use it
>>345197073
>ryuquezacotl
no thanks
>>345196795
D2 is simple as shit to begin with, dude.
>>345196517
It's bait because you post this retarded picture in every fucking diablo 2 threads in a attempt to derail the thread into d2 vs d3 shitposting you mouthbreathing retarded fucking cunt
>>345197106
hes not hue hue hes canadian, or is that even worse?
>>345197218
It's not my post, stupid.
>>345197093
>it removes the slowing effect when you use it
No it doesn't. Despite doing cold damage, holy freeze does not have cold duration. It instead afflicts slow, which is not removed by chugging thawing potions.
>>345197240
nah its how he says hype every few seconds that bothers me. teo is the better runner
>>345197093
Choke on your dad's dick, you fucking panook.
>It should be noted that Holy Freeze is not affected by Cold Resistance or Cannot Be Frozen and Thawing Potions won't offer any protection either.
http://diablo.wikia.com/wiki/Duriel
>>345197263
Have you tried it ingame? Cause I did and it worked for me. It lasted for a second or two but its enough to make a diff if I carry twenty of them.
>>345193759
>>345197093
http://diablo.gamepedia.com/Duriel_%28Diablo_II%29
>Duriel has a Holy Freeze aura similar to what the Paladin can use. The Cold chill that hits is unavoidable, even if the player is lucky enough to have an item that destroys all other forms of Freezing.
http://diablo.wikia.com/wiki/Duriel
>It should be noted that Holy Freeze is not affected by Cold Resistance or Cannot Be Frozen and Thawing Potions won't offer any protection either.
>>345197297
>teo is the better runner
a u t i s m
>>345197402
Also here is a video demonstration
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C0BgpoPrSu0
>>345197459
> speedrunners are autistic
wow who would have guessed
>>345197402
The point of chugging thawing potions is to remove the slow for 1 or 2 seconds so your poor ass can get some distance from duriel.
>>345192536
>largely useless stat
what the fuck you dumb shit
>>345194348
>not going to buy one of the literally best games ever made
What the hell is wrong with you?
Should I play Diablo II? I completed both Torchlight games a few years ago and sorta liked them. I also played Titan Quest and Path of Exile and never finished them though. I was probably just too burnt out on the genre at the time.
I wish I could still play ARPG's.
>>345197703
>Paying the people who didn't make the game
>>345197790
Top tier music, art style and voice actors.
You can go through maps after many, many years of playing it for hours on a daily basis and still see new details you never noticed before.
>>345197518
Thawing removes cold, it does not affect slow. Holy freeze only inflicts slow. Cold damage does not apply cold if it does not have cold duration and holy freeze does not have cold duration. The player can not ever remove, reduce or change slow. Slow is a constant upon the player. It is true, however, that thawing potions will reduce the cold damage that Duriel inflicts if you are playing on 1.10+.Before then, holy freeze only applied slow.
Who the fuck thought that archers / projectile throwers should be so fucking OP?
The worst part is that for whatever reason every fucking diablolike after D2 has replicated the same issue.
Best looking UI ever.
All the modern shit is just basic, transparent windows.
post your stats numb dumb
>>345197954
This, people who made the game abandoned it because Blizzard is made of fucking jews
They are in the Torchlight boat which seems like it fucking sunk already
>>345198364
What happened to Torchlight?
>>345198132
Bowazons in Diablo II are not powerful at all compared to most. It should also be noted that the highest single DPS in the game goes to a melee build
How viable is it to solo hell difficulty with a melee char? I'm assuming online is dead by now.
>>345197703
>Not going to pay Blizzard money for something Blizzard North made.
How does it feel to be illiterate you mongoloid?
Just because Blizzard had the money to buy a developer doesn't mean they deserve my money. I'm not going to pay for something that the creator isn't going to see a dime of.
>>345198482
Not very, unless you are willing to play a version before 1.10 or grind a lot. 1.09 was especially kind to solo melee characters.
>>345198482
USEast is actually pretty damn active.
You can solo hell with any character provided you're not an idiot and you know how to read.
>>345196490
I have diablo2 installed for some grinding if i feel like, my latest project is a bowazon with strife, bretty guud, didnt have much problem so far, tho i am somewhat struck at hell ancients since they usually get atleast 1 physical immune and I dont have much elemental dmg.
Found a pretty high % buriza, had the runes to upgrade it later, and traded an ohm from one of my other chars and voila
>>345198439
I mean enemies.
Fetish faggots in A3, Porcupines, Skele arches, any sort of projectile enemy just fucking fucks you up in moments and can stunlock you like crazy as well.
It was fun creating absolutely ridiculous items and chars with Hero Editor.
Running around in shiniest gear while meteors come down around you, or being completely invisible.
One-hit killing stuff with lvl 99 boss attacks and having every aura and shit on at the same time, stats going nuts.And then you start up open BNet, go out of town thinking you'll be wrecking shit and die instantly to something unseen
Also, did anyone else always play with /players 8 when in SP? Felt so boring the normal way.
>>345198597
>If the one guy doesn't get money it's not worth buying
Kek
>>345198679
>one guy
>the entire development team is one guy
Alright retard.
What mods do you anons play?
>>345198758
>Alright retard.
Let me quote you
>something that the CREATOR isn't going to see a dime of.
>>345191448
>not playing amazon/wizard/necromancer and having ranged combat like a non-caveman would
you just picked barbarian to feel manly didnt u
its fucking manly to get raped by dungeon bugs right
>>345198159
true, shit looks so good
>>345198795
I just used PLUGY for the extened stashes, MP runewords and all that stuff.
>>345198132
Archer enemies are OP, bowazons are not (javazons are at clearing tho).
bowazons do fucking shit damage even with a faith grand matriarch and top end gear.
They have practically no "additive" damage without a chains of honor (barbarians generally get like 700 with might mercenary, paladins about 1000, werewolf druids 900ish WITHOUT chains of honor) and they only do 3/4ths weapon damage and have weaker crushing blows.
>>345198482
Physical melee? ridiculously difficult, hell is balanced around you having a top end runeword(grief+) and good gear with crushing blow + deadly strike.
Try playing a zealot with any unique elite weapon, your weapon would break before you kill 10 zombies. Actually your weapons break so fast in hell anyway, hence why almost every top end weapon is indestructible.
2 handers fare a bit better, with an exceptional->unique upgraded ribcracker or an IK weapon or an earthshifter or something.
you still need good uniques that grant crushing/deadly strike though.
>>345191448
get a thawing potion, it increases your frost resistance
How does the original Diablo run on a modern PC? Do you need to tweak anything to make it work?
>>345196698
>Gearing disparancy between caster / statstick requirer is insanely stupid.
how? due to lack of currency (runes and items) i always built low coast builds and did great. the most expensive part on my zealer / ut-smiter was the herald of zakarum and the non perfect ones go away for a mal-rune, tops. sorc full tal set was available even shortly after ladder reset or immortal king barb were cheap alternatives even if you couldnt manage to find the soul cage. javazons were the cheapest mass murderers anyways with titans, peasant crown and skin of the vipermagi. dex-as-dex-can bowazon did great with eaglehorn, and runeword armors like lionheart and natalyas helmet and gave you stats out of the ass. farming torches and annis is a joke with a cheap ass smiter.
if you talk about classic your right, on the other hand.
>>345198842
I'm sorry I mispelled a word.
>>345198795
What mod is this?
>>345199307
Alright go clear hell as a zealot without any high runes and just a basic bitch unique weapon that drops off of nightmare baal.
Meanwhile sorceress with only low runes (spirit +rhyme) and exceptional uniques will absolutely tear through hell.
>>345199240
I played it recently and it worked fine
>>345199240
Works pretty fine on the latest version. I tried vanilla D2 a while back and it simply refused to work except in windowed mode, but I've been playing LoD with no issues over the past week. Only problems I've had are a few framerate issues, funnily enough.
>>345199307
Throughout the game from start to finish casters will always do better with almost no gear needed whereas melee / physical needs that good stat stick upgrade once in a while and constantly needs better and better armor
DARK AND GOTHIC
>>345199442
Lord of Maidens. It is an interesting mod, as it and Baldur's Gate, Harry Potter and the X-Files are the only other fandom based mods that I am aware of.
>>345198482
If you use skill that adds damage not depending on your weapon, like Phoenix Strike, druid skills and so on, then you are going to have a good time. Barbarians with Berserk kill pretty fast, but die fast.
Basically, you need very good gear - otherwise, monsters may heal faster than you damage them.
I still remember to this day one of my fights with Hephasto the Armorer. Took literally 20 minutes.
>>345198627
Nigga use freezing arrow and multishot/guided with buriza, xbows have crap strafe frames. The cold explosion from freezing arrow gets the freeze and damage bonuses from buriza so it's hella good and you can just spam it unlike immolation arrow.
>>345191448
crushing blow and deadly strike
>>345200092
>and then the RQ only drops shit
I remember Izual taking me that long one time.
>>345198627
Which version are you playing? Piercing attack on buriza was nerfed after 1.10 came up if i remember well.
>>345199810
Is the right screenshot from WoW?
I don't think you get to complain if you play melee.
This guy was annoying as sorceress.
>>345200492
>play ice sorc
>immune to ice enemies
REEEEEEEEEEE
>>345199621
>Alright go clear hell as a zealot without any high runes and just a basic bitch unique weapon that drops off of nightmare baal.
goblin toe and guillaumes face for crushing blow. done.
>>345199749
This is true to some characters. Bowazons and Barbarians suck early game, pallys and assassins rock everything by just using the skills you activate until you get your skills for endgame. except hammerdins. you can throw hammers from level 24 or 30 on i guess but it is not viable until around lvl 45 because of the high mana cost and low damage. javazons get theyr lightning fury starting with lvl 30, until then they suck as skillbased characters. gearing discrepancy between skill heavy and stat heavy builds exists, but only on specific builds.
>>345198795
>Still waiting on MedianXL Sigma
>>345196956
This. Bar the improvements D2 made (which ware a no brainer since it had the benefit of following up on the first game) D1 is the superior game.
>>345199626
>>345199743
Thanks, yep, it works.
>>345191448
Just drop from /players 8, kill him and then put it back up again.
You have been playing on /players 8, right? There weren't people that actually played players 1 post-patch, right?
>>345199901
It certainly looks interesting, thank you anon.
>>345200492
>Duriel
>annoying
>as a sorceress
You do know that slow does not affect cast speed, right? Were you trying to play as an enchant sorceress or something?
>>345200728
What did the patch change?
>>345198159
They actually put effort to make it look like a real object in the game, not some half-assed overlay taken from some in-house UI library.
any resolution mod that works with the new patch?
>Want to do some desperate Countess farming on Hell taking ~15 minutes to get there
>Diablo walks the earth just before you get there
I'm going to play Diablo for the first time.
What should I expect?
>>345200907
>Sorceress' players spend the entirety of the early game kiting monsters in large, open fields.
>Suddenly get locked in a tiny room with a giganigger that slows them to a crawl and then onebangs them.
An untwinked, average level Sorc isn't going to out DPS or out tank Duriel.
>>345201227_________fun_____
>>345201227
The first one? Warrior is the canon class. Always have a Town Portal scroll handy, and good luck.
>>345201227
Depends entirely on which one.
>Diablo 1
Dated mechanics, but fair dungeon crawler that has stood the test of time.
>Diablo 2
Probably a letdown considering the hype and legacy the game has. Game experience may vary depending on class. Game stops fucking around on hell difficulty.
>Diablo 3
Modern hack n slash designed to lull you into comfort.
>>345201319
dont forget they nerfed fire wall at one point and I had all my points in it xD
>>345201227
less
Thinking of pirating D2 as I heard it is generally the best one and I never play any of the series before, only play Path of Exile which I hated as the items seem overall more importation than the character growth and that annoyed the fuck out of me. Didn't help gems (items) gave you your skills. Anything I should know if I do so? Like would the multiplayer still work or what? Heard people are still playing it to this day beside speedrunners.
>>345201469
>Path of Exile which I hated as the items seem overall more importation than the character growth and that annoyed the fuck out of me.
Don't bother with this genre lol
>>345201469
I recommend playing the first game. It is just 15 hours, so if you end up not liking it, I don't think you should bother grinding the rest of the series.
>>345198436
Not sure what he's implying with the sunken boat but Torchlight 3 is not going to happen since the devs said their burnt out of arpgs
>>345201520
So it is basically the same then? That a shame as a speedrun I seen make it look like it is mostly skill based not equipment based.
>>345201582
I might do that. If nothing else I would know what started the whole genre.
>>345200641
D1 might have better atmosphere, but it plays like a shit. I have a couple friends that still play Lord of Destruction to this day however.
I wouldn't say either is superior utterly, you clearly have an Alien/Aliens thing going though.
>>345201469
>items more important than character
that's the entire point of the genre.
go play baldur's gate or something, gramp
>>345201630
Spellcasters in diablo 2 only require a modest amount of equipment.
physical melee/bowazons need ridiculous gear to even be usable.
>>345201630
ARPG's are all about grinding, grinding, grinding.
It's why it's such a niche genre.
>>345201630
A big big appeal of the genre is gear, since you are constantly given new equipment and items with many varying properties so you're constantly upgrading and min/maxing
Another appeal of D2 in particular is builds, there's lots of interesting ways to build characters that plays very differently. You can have a lot of fun with experimental builds and shit.
And yes online still exists though I've not played in a long, long time
>>345201718
My boner was expensive as fuck.
>>345197654
There's not going to be a speed elite pack in this run :^)
>>345201469
There's a chance that the CD key has been banned if its a pirate version.
Items in D2 compared to Path of Exile is polar opposite. Rares are easy to find and usually have decent stats, but uniques are stronger as they have no drawbacks. Some high end runewords are game breaking strong and have no equal.
>>345201730
>arpg
>niche
every other rpg genre are more niche except mmo. and mmo is the king of grind.
>play SF swordbarb
>only clubs, staffs and axes drop
>>345201227
A slow game with average gameplay and God Tier atmosphere and music.
Thread theme:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ET7OEgRgwPU
>>345201227
Clicking. Lots and lots of it. Awesome music, great atmosphere, slightly dated visuals, and a fuckton of fun.
>>345198364
>This, people who made the game abandoned it because Blizzard is made of fucking jews
They're fucking spread everywhere using cliché "BY PEOPLE WHO MADE DIABLO 2" fucking everywhere.
I'm currently trying a werebear build. I'm using Maul, Shockwave and the dire wolfs. Should I ditch Maul for the Fire Claws and are the wolf/bear summons any good for a melee build?
>>345202193
Fucking best.
I'm currently trying out a martial arts assasin, everything was well until i hit act 4, can't kill mobs for shit.(Playing on 8 players).
What are some good low level runeswords?
>>345193759
please don't bait me anon.
>>345202332
>tfw bill roper made the mess that was hellgate London
I remember reading about it back then and being hyped for it because "it was made by the D2 headdesigner"
>>345202193
I prefer this one:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uxg5W5wKvLE
>>345202341
Druid's summons are pretty shit desu
They're worth putting at least a point into though
POTIONS STACK
POTIONS FUCKING STACK
All of them do, so keep this in mind for the poison fuckers in act 3 as well, and if you're just using a ton of stamina potions.
>>345202890
What potions stack, D2's?
>>345201469
just pick a class or play-style that doesn't revolve around the damage of your weapon. Diablo is heavily item based but in a fun way wheras PoE is tedious as all hell.
>>345203112
Of course. All the resist ones and stamina are most affected by it.
>>345203214
You mean the effects or the actual potions?
Playing melee druid, should I go for Werewolf or bear?
>>345203446
the duration. also thawing potion gives ice resist, antidote potion gives cold resist
>>345199307
>even if you couldnt manage to find the soul cage
As if that was an easy task. Doesn't that shit drop from like 5 mobs total, with an INSANELY low drop chance?
Recently I got Nat's Mark from Pindle and I had no idea how difficult that is to get until I consulted the drop rates.Too bad it's singleplayer only so I must start an assassin to make use of it.
>>345202382
i'm not the one who posted that pic, but d3 is god-like compared to d2 imo. I'd like to hear what is so much better in d2, but if it's about numbers or stats don't bother answering as every single stat in d2 is one way or another baked into d3.
>>345203481
Werewolf is good but the grind to level 30 is suffering
>>345199901
>X-Files
All right you piqued my interest
Alright, lay it to me.
I remember having a blast playing Necromancer, is it actually as fun as I remember it or it's just faulty memories talking here?
>13 years old
>play D2
>get to Andariel and die 1000 times because you're fapping furiously
whats the best way to play diablo 2 on modern machines,i think i saw something about widesrceen mods but apparently it gets you banned or something.
bought it long ago but never managed to actually stick with it.
>>345204063
Latter
>>345204235
Play offline, do not get 1.14, get 1.13c.
Get PlugY and D2SE
>>345204253
What's not fun about commanding a wall of everslashing skelingtons while you yell curses and make corpses blow up left and right?
>>345204235
Recent patches (yes they're still updating it for whatever reason) have made it a little bit better for newer pcs I believe. So you don't really gotta do anything. If you don't like the 800x600 res max though you kinda just gotta deal with it, if you're using your paid version.
>>345204362
Gets boring as shit
>>345204362
A2 Maggot Lair.
>>345204362
maggot lair
Can I buy diablo 2 online instead of a disc?
Also, how fun is the assassin class or huntress? I feel like using bows as my primary.
>>345204668
You can just buy a key and then download the game from battle.net.
>>345201804
>spend months grinding for tal rasha set
>3/4th set is stronger than full set due to speed reduction of looking like witch
>>345204743
Wasn't that only the case with the fireball skill the set granted you?
>>345204728
A key huh? Would that happen to work with the keys on the disk packages? I still have them but I don't have all of the disk to complete installation.
>>345191448
i beat it with a meleenecromancerif you're not on nightmare or hell mode, you can eventually somehow plow through anything.
thawing potion
>>345204814
kek, yeah sure that works!
No problem there, mate.
>>345204814
Yes
>>345204814
Actually you can reclaim keys through the ones on your physical copy.
how could you possibly have problems with anything in Vanilla diablo
>>345203662
>>345193759
you're a retard shill and you post this image, every day in every thread.
you should kill yourself and die alone before you live too long
>>345204776
nope. i was a boner necro and the attack animation for the witch is waay slower than the necro and amazingly that factors in
>>345205114
Feeling edgy today, huh?
>>345205175
Dang.
>>345204959
Well, it actually did work and i'm downloading diablo 2 right now.
This thread made me want to play D2 again after fuck knows how many years. I assume that Battle.net is basically dead or filled with bots, so I'll have to go with singleplayer. Never played a Paladin before, so I guess now's a good time as ever. They any good?
Also, is there any sort of patch/loader to make the game compatible with modern stuff like resolutions above 800x600 and CPUs above 1GHz? I'm afraid that running the game as is might fuck something up.
>>345205649
Like I said, no problem there.
Have fun.
Wtf. I had no problems with him back when i was a KID. I must be a genius if 10 yo me is smarter than an adult man
>>345205876
Try running it in a windows XP virtual machine, that generally eliminates the issues.
>>345196854
How's Grim Dawn compared to diablo 2 or 3? Thinking of buying it (on sale perhaps)
>>345206242
I personally didn't like it, skill tree felt weird and I didn't like having 2 of them. Items were weird too, I mean what the fuck was that upgrade thing?
>>345191448
>200+ replies
>not a single mention of this to OP
Thawing potions help a ton yes, but his deadliest ability requires him to knock you back too, this can be countered by having your back against a wall.
This is a key component to fighting him, especially as melee but also a good tip for everyone. Armed with this knowledge I rarely have any issues with this guy
>>345205876
wait does anyone know if diablo 2 runs on game ranger through lan??
>>345207440
Seeing how LAN is independent of Bnet, there's no reason why it shouldn't work. Either GR or Tunngle should do the trick.
Is there a way to pirate D3?
Wanna give it a try but don't want to send my shekels to Blizzard.
>>345207548
welp
>>345207651
Nope. There's a demo of act 1 only I believe but you need battle.net to get that. Nobody's bothering with piracy for it anymore.
>>345207151
So his hard-hitting knockback ability won't even do its damage if there's a wall behind you?
Itemization is shit in D2. There are too many useless or unique-exclusive mods for there to be a reasonable chance to get non-crap rares, especially considering that the higher tier base items are still super rare in Hell difficulty. Prove me wrong if you can.
>>345208204
Nope. Can't do shit if he can't knock you back. Which somehow makes about as much sense as surviving a direct hit from a truck by having your back to a wall, but fuck it, it's Diablo, they ain't got to explain shit.
>>345191448
>having trouble with NORMAL duriel
>NORMAL
you're in trouble, kid
prepot with thawing potions, they raise your cold resis which you need against duriel
you can try for a prayer merc but even if you throw cold resis gear on him and make him as survivable as possible, mercs die like paper to bosses, they take massively increased damage and do decreased damage against act bosses
consider whether your build is viable in early-game. you get three talent resets, that's something we never used to have. make use of them. something that's viable in hell doesn't necessarily scale well at lower levels with shit gear and only a few skill points. consider making an early game build and resetting once it becomes useless (probably sometime around mid-nightmare).
>>345205114
Just ignore the shill anon.
>>345205876
>>345207440
>>345207548
>>345207914
>>345209163
Normal Duriel is the hardest Duriel because you don't have any good skills and items on normal.
>>345194348
>He doesn't have his physical CD-keys to just input those with an .iso.
And people still play this shit online?
>>345200641
>D1 is superior if we ignore that it's not
Damn you are retarded.
>>345209272
i can't remember ever having issues with him in single player normal, but then i played the game for like 15 years and knew how to break everything in every class
>>345198159
FUCKING
FLAILS.
WHY HASN'T ANOTHER GAME DONE FLAILS MAN?
I
FUCKING
LOVE
FLAILS.
>>345209230
on principle, just no.
i was looking for battlenet keygen sites, because although playing LAN on gameranger is convenient in the short term, LAN characters can't be transferred to bnet, and i know at some point in the future i might end up on bnet.
>>345201730
>ARPG's are all about grinding, grinding, grinding.
Not necessarily.
I like the formula Grim Dawn has. It can have just as much griniding as any other ARPG if you want it to, but it can also be about making new builds based on the drops you got playing your current build.
Also I like that it has a lot of very good items that you are assured to get once you grind enough reputation. It feels better than praying to RNG all the time.
>>345194348
blizzard had a job position open last year for someone to update sc1 and d2 for modern computers
i'm guessing we'll get a massive update sometime in 2017 or 2018
you can always get the latest official patches from blizzard.com/patches but if you're playing on slashdiablo you need a slightly older patch (it's not lacking anything important)
>>345209573
k, not gonna pressure you. it's a decent community imo and they're pretty helpful, they know a lot about the game (some knew more than i do and that's impressive to me) and i don't recall them being shitty or annoying, but you gotta do what you gotta do.
>>345206242
Have you ever palyed Titan Quest?
It's literally post-apo victorian Titan Quest 2.0. The overall atmposhere is closer to D2 than D3 is, too.
>>345191448
Did they change something on the map? Its been ages ago when I last played D2 but IIRC you started the fight with Duriel in a little ass chamber hardly bigger than the screen.
>>345198482
Solo Any% Hell Speedrun for the Barbarian WR is currently 12h 44m!
http://www.speedrun.com/d2lod#Any_Hell_HC
>>345203662
>I'd like to hear what is so much better in d2
Pic and atmopshere/music.
Just fucking compared the cutscenes from D2 and D3, it tells everything.
>>345209447
One of the very best weapons in Baldur's Gate is the Flail of Ages once you hit the second game with your character.
>>345210149
Sorry, that was for HC. Normal is 12h 15m.
>>345198482
My spearzon does fairly well.
My only real concern are extra fast cursing moonlord minions with fanatism.
>>345209703
>it's a decent community imo and they're pretty helpful, they know a lot about the game (some knew more than i do and that's impressive to me) and i don't recall them being shitty or annoying, but you gotta do what you gotta do.
i briefly considered it when i came across /diablo, but, having read some of the regular d2 reddit comments/threads/whatever, i'm very uncomfortable with knowing that these people will be on /diablo
>hey guys, do you know where i could get a keygen?
>just buy the fucking key from blizzard
>they deserve your money
>which they use to maintain servers
>hey kid
>need a diablo 2 keygen?
>come here, g2a, totally legiteddit[[.]]com/r/Diablo/comments/2caeon/where_can_i_get_a_working_cd_key_for_diablo_ii_lod/
>>345210393
/diablo is way different from /slashdiablo, it's a completely different community
the reddit d2 server doesn't even keyauth, as long as you can manage to get the game installed with some random key you find online, you can play on their server
>>345202193
Always a classic.
>>345202717
Also breddy gud.
But this shit right here nigga?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OO-vG8oPhhM
Fuckin comfy.
>mfw this sound
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kVBi4jtr0jk
>>345210608
Nah. The real sound that turns my crank is the ring/amulet dropping sound, or gems.
>>345204932
>Melee Necro
Oh fuck are you me?
I did that shit when I was like 9 or 10 when the game came out.
>Rollin around with my skele-bros with a socketed shitty crystal sword.
>pick Barbarian or Paladin
>Stuff all your points in Double Swing/Zeal
>Have good gear/companion (preferably archer with frost)
>Spam Greater rejuvs
>win
Still one of the hardest bosses though
>>345210590
This is my favorite.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GI4iHTR_FUM
Captures heading into a zone through the great D2 atmosphere and then getting down to business.
Really liked the zone it was attached to as well.
>>345210714
My first character before I knew what I was doing was a bone-spear flinging zweihander swinging necromancer.
>>345204932
>>345210714
>not a melee enchant sorc
has been nerfed since the old days but it's still a fun build
God damn, when is the next ladder reset for diablo 2 ?
>>345191448
Nigga, you need freeze aura and the 3 hit skill which i forgot. Niggerdin is the dankest SOB for this boss and the next act.
>>345210226
>vanilla d3 picture
Summon some dire wolves. By the time he smashes one you can summon another. Takes a while but it's possible.
>think about playing diablo 2 again
>realize i would have to actually play through the desert, act 3 and act 5 on my own
nope never tocuhing this again
>>345211553
I actually liked Act 5 anon.
>Helping those barb-bros up the mountain.
>Gettin your very own barb-bro.
>Dat free socket quest.
>>345211553
I don't get what's wrong with the desert, I had fun exploring it, unlike the fucking jungle
>>345210910
In November 2017 i think. They reset ladder like 2 month ago.
>>345211553
I like that feel of relief that you get when you decide not to replay a game
