Diablo II Single Player Thread - 3

Sure, try to make it sound attractive. I like casters. I like AOE death. Beating them individually or a couple at a time is great and all for Normal and maybe nightmare (although Act III is just no fun for the first half with a pure melee character), but I pretty much have to wait until level 76 for the set to really be useful.

Again, gah, I hate myself. Oh well, at least it's December and things tend to be slow around work.

 

Huh - I only ever played it single player and I downloaded ATMA almost immediately. Shared stashes for all. I wouldn't have played past my first character without it.

 

I only use(d) it for shared stashing. Not sure that it is capable of editing. It made building characters possible in that you could save stuff for other characters, etc.

Heck, I used it to accumulate tons of runes so that I could make some of the more interesting (and ridiculous) high end rune words. Absent that, some of my builds would have been, ahh, shall we say less than useful.

A pure lightning sorceress would have all kinds of problems doing hell runs, but with a merc with Infinity, not so much.

 

Oh, absolutely. My fishymancer used that as his primary (actually, only) tactic.

See enemy, teleport with army to enemy, walk slightly away, laugh, rinse, repeat . . .

He runs around with 14 skellies, 14 mages, a golem and an idiot.

 

So, I wish to slightly re-evaluate my opinion of the barbarian. Now that I have him with the IK set (plus a Highlords, ravenfrost and some rare ring I forget what it does), he readily ripped through Act I Hell. I started him at level 76 and about half. Players 1 was a joke, and players 8 felt a little slow, so I have been running around on players 4 with little problem.

He whirls through the enemies and they basically explode. It sounds a little like popcorn. It still takes a while because the reach on the weapon isn't great and all of that, but it's fun. I punched a hole in the armor (no idea why it doesn't come with sockets) and you lose the ability to gain the fourth socket item because the weapon is 2 handed, but I really don't know what to do with the sockets I have anyway. I had to shael the weapon as I have no sexy jewels of fervor (i.e., a +15% IAS and +30-40% ED jewel would be awesome, but I ain't got any).

He really cannot emphasize MF because none of his equipment really helps. I think all of his items add up to about 35% MF (or maybe it's 25%, I cannot recall). So, I can give him a Gheed's, which will bring the MF into the 70's. His resistances are basically maxed with a couple of small charms, and I will be able to get rid of that once I get the quest bonus for resist. His inventory right now is four rows of charms because I have 2 +1 combat skillers, but I'd rather have a +1 warcry one. His switch is two echoing weapons of very little dex requirement.

Once I do my warcries, he's got about 3500 life or so and around 12000 defense or so. I've maxed everything but shout on the standard build and then I will probably continue either with iron skins or find item, as I do want to increase my chance of a second chance at goodies.

He's definitely fun, although I think the Auradin was a better killing machine (he swept through Hell on players 8, but he was an EXPENSIVE build and this guy is really cheap).

All in all, pretty fun.

 

So, done. Nothing more to really report than the above post. It held through during all of hell. I think he mowed people down a little quicker when his idiot toted the infinity I built for might lightning sorc's idiot, as opposed to the Reapers I had been using.

Nothing close to a death, but no really great finds either, as, mentioned previously, his MF pretty much blew.

Time to put this game away for another year.

 

I spoke too soon. Turns out that I completed the Aldur's set without knowing it, as I thought it was five piece, but it was four. So, I have a Fire Claw Bear decked in the full Aldur's set, plus a Spirit Monarch, T-gods, crafted gloves, etc.

Not too terrible. The merc definitely needs the infinity because of the sheer number of fire immunes in Hell. I'm on Act IV and a random mook dropped a Jah. That last change really must have increased the rune drops.

Almost done, and this time I really will be done for a bit.