Diablo 2: Hell Unleashed - Page 13

On December 29 2010 07:08 Chux wrote:
This is an awesome mod! If som1 wants to play it in hamachi, that would be great!

On December 29 2010 07:03 danl9rm wrote:


alrighty, thanks. That was one of my questions on my ww barb, i couldn't remember if ias affected it. I still don't know how I like it since every mob in the game can cast curses and you never know when iron maiden is going to pop, but thanks for the tips.

On December 28 2010 11:07 Garbels wrote:

i play to (garbels/gabelsX eu).

i made an account named "tl" (password is the nickname of TL's GSL semi-finallist) with a lot of act1 items. i case someone need a boost or needs to catch up to a friend or something.

On December 30 2010 01:59 ToT)MidiaN( wrote:
Played it a decent bit last few days but I'm bored of it already. It is difficult, which i consider a good thing, and every boss drops multiple unique items whenever you kill them no matter how many times you kill them which makes attaining uniques/sets pretty simple but there are a few things I dislike that made me way too bored.

The main dislike is that on some fights you can't do anything with some classes and/or builds, I've joined a few groups on Mephisto or Diablo runs as a Summon necromancer and all I'm doing is sitting there spamming astral blades and casting curse cause everything else dies instantly. Same deal with my fanaticism zealot, I'm useless on Mephisto, at least with a lack of healer or very high level oak sage/battle orders etc. I can sit there giving people my aura and occasionally charge then have to run away. It's boring as all hell doing that, I mean it's not really the difficulty, I did these fights without dying, it's just the lack of involvement which makes it completely mindnumbingly boring. Considering this mod is all about boss fights they should be a lot more enjoyable, but they're not involving and too time consuming.

Other dislike is pertaining to gearing up, like I said it's pretty easy to get sets or uniques which is fine, but the problem is that the sets and uniques that drop are just so far below your char level that they're mostly useless drops. It doesn't help that it's pretty much impossible to do anything by yourself, as a level 53 summoner pretty much the highest bosses I can solo are the bosses in act 3 that's not Mephisto, like General Hatestorm or some of the Council and as far as item drops that gives me access to like level 38 ish uniques at the highest, which aren't that useful when you're level 53. Of course, you can group with people and kill diablo over and over or shenk or whoever for items but it'd take forever and it'd be incredibly boring. In LoD I did tens of thousands of Hell Mephisto runs and well over 100k legit Pindleskin runs, not that that was fun either, but at least you could actually solo bosses at your own level and have a chance of getting upgrades, in this mod you have to group, and then you have to hope something drops, and then you have to hope some tit doesn't nab it.

Overall the mod had promise and was fun for a short while but I got bored with the lack of involvement in boss fights, difficulty doing anything solo, difficulty attaining useful gear upgrades and overwhelming general boredom. Difficulty is all fine and well, I loved doing a lot of the difficult boss fights in WoW, that's all the game was about and the fights were involving and when you downed something for the first time you often felt a sense of achievement, and the loot you'd receive would be worth it too. In this mod, the fights are not fun, there's no sense of achievement, the loot you receive is often useless, particularly if you're soloing because you can't solo anything at your level with the vast majority of builds. I know it's a group based game and all but it'd be nice if more chars had more usefulness in boss fights and if the solo difficulty was scaled down so you could actually kill some bosses alone and get some items that are useful, I wouldn't mind if they even lowered the number of items that dropped if it was at least possible for my summoner to kill Diablo solo at 53 or whatever cause then I could, given the time, gear myself up and actually be involved in fights if my builds had any use in boss fights.

On December 30 2010 02:18 Jermstuddog wrote:


Not to say that your opinion is wrong, I share a lot of the sentiment so far, but is IS unfair.

You don't expect to solo those bosses in WoW, so why is it fair to assume that you should be able to in this game? Virtually any useful gear in WoW at the top level is going to require 10 or 25 people in order for you to get a shot at it, it is equally possible for a douche to grab any of those items you wanted. The only difference is you probably have a guild and some RL friends that help you run everything you want.

If you compare the games on equal ground, I think they're pretty similar, your necro may be a curse bitch, but that is still a super useful task and you have plenty of mana left over to nuke with. With adequate healing, your fanatadin shouldn't have any problems at all.

Unfair analysis is unfair, that's all I'm saying.

On December 29 2010 03:59 odaxium wrote:
Are there still spell timers?

I want a Meditation/Fist of Heavens Paladin again, lol

On December 30 2010 03:44 fAnTaCy wrote:
Hrm, I'm having a bit of an issue creating/joining games, when I try to it automatically sends me right back to chat channel. Only goes to the load screen for about half a second T_T. Any ideas?