Diablo 2 thread - Page 15

On June 25 2011 07:06 ATLzac wrote:

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On June 25 2011 07:04 Glenstorm wrote:


The ancients spawn with 110% Fire resistance, 100% Lightning Resistance, and 150% Cold Resistance respectively. Cold Enchanted and fire Enchanted both add 75% to that element's resistance, so they will stack with the ancients native resistance to make them immune to that element as well. Additionally, korlic (the naturally cold immune one) has enough fire resistance that a magic resistant modifier will make him immune to that as well.

You need to respawn the ancients until you can get a fight you can handle. I can't remember if the town portal fight reset changes their modifiers or not, you may need to exit and re-enter the game.

As drew said, you should utilize teleport to keep your merc out of their attack range until you've killed most of them off. After that, you should be able to force-feed him potions to keep him up and running. If you're running out of potions, you can prep the fight area by coating the ground with pots (placing a bunch in the cube then dropping the cube on the ground with a full inventory is the easiest way to do this)

Good Luck!


You do need to build your character to handle 2 or 3 different types of elemental damage, but the game is definitely beatable with any char, even with severe restrictions. In this tournament here for example, players were able to beat hardcore with every class (except barbarian, whose run was never finished) without investing any points in vitality.

On June 25 2011 07:19 Alzadar wrote:


I hadn't thought of dropping potions on the ground, that's a good idea. I have been spamming Meteor all over before the start of a fight but the fire damage isn't much anyways.

Thanks for the tips. :D

On June 25 2011 08:18 Gliche wrote:Another good idea is to find or shop for a wand with Lower Resist charges on it. Keep in mind that when breaking immunities, it works at 1/5 effectiveness.

On June 25 2011 15:41 obesechicken13 wrote:
Well I prbably shuldn't have played tday. Hly crap its almst 3!

My o key is kinda hard t use

Anyways, games easy if you know rune wrds Nightmare difficulty. Only hard enemy are stygian dolls. Changed frm a hammerdin t sacrifice build and I realized hw shitty melee attacks are withut ignr target defenec.

Now I'm doing smite, with a life tap lvl3 wand. Does the level thing on wands and daggers apply for lifetap too?

On June 25 2011 07:04 Glenstorm wrote:


The ancients spawn with 110% Fire resistance, 100% Lightning Resistance, and 150% Cold Resistance respectively. Cold Enchanted and fire Enchanted both add 75% to that element's resistance, so they will stack with the ancients native resistance to make them immune to that element as well. Additionally, korlic (the naturally cold immune one) has enough fire resistance that a magic resistant modifier will make him immune to that as well.

You need to respawn the ancients until you can get a fight you can handle. I can't remember if the town portal fight reset changes their modifiers or not, you may need to exit and re-enter the game.

As drew said, you should utilize teleport to keep your merc out of their attack range until you've killed most of them off. After that, you should be able to force-feed him potions to keep him up and running. If you're running out of potions, you can prep the fight area by coating the ground with pots (placing a bunch in the cube then dropping the cube on the ground with a full inventory is the easiest way to do this)

Good Luck!


You do need to build your character to handle 2 or 3 different types of elemental damage, but the game is definitely beatable with any char, even with severe restrictions. In this tournament here for example, players were able to beat hardcore with every class (except barbarian, whose run was never finished) without investing any points in vitality.

On June 25 2011 15:48 Cadical wrote:


Not really. Life tap always gets you 50% life leech. But duration and radius does increase with higher skill level.

On June 25 2011 16:40 Gliche wrote:

I think he means what skill level can spawn. Any skill that appears on items as a charge should be able to spawn up to level 5. So an item can have level 1-5 life tap. The higher level your char is, the higher level the skill can be on the item.

edit: also, I'm gonna wait until you realize how shitty smite (or almost any single target ability) is for pvm. If you want to have fun, give your paladin a bow and use the frost or shock aura. Tis awesome!@.@ And add knockback from an item.

On June 26 2011 07:26 Hurricane wrote:
If you're going smite you should probably be getting a ton of CB no? I have two zeal/smite hybrids that feel obscenely overpowered. Granted, I haven't played since the patch but if you have a bunch of CB + life tap you should be fine.

On June 26 2011 07:15 obesechicken13 wrote:

I would need an oskill with something like multiple arrows though to make it work since paladins are horrible at killing stuff with bows?

I'm kind of worried that hell will cut life tap duration too much. It's the only thing making battles with champions, large numbers of monsters, and bosses really easy. On hell, a lvl5 lifetap lasts 6 seconds as opposed to the 10 that a lvl3 life tap lasts on nightmare. That combined with smite's horrible damage scaling, and hell difficulties great monster life scaling, may make progress with smite unbearably slow.

On June 26 2011 05:39 Assault_1 wrote:
So I tried to play diablo 1 LAN with some friends, but I don't understand the game at all..

1) you move as slow as a reaver
2) when you die, you respawn with 1 life and 0 mana, so have to get healed before you do anything
3) you can hostile your allies at any point in the game (outside town) and kill them
4) I saved the best for last.. you drop all your gear on the floor when you die! what happens if you die but cant retrieve your body, you just lose all your shit? or on b.net people kill you and take your gear?

i really think I'm missing something, is there a patch/expansion/mod that fixes these problems?

On June 26 2011 07:15 obesechicken13 wrote:

I would need an oskill with something like multiple arrows though to make it work since paladins are horrible at killing stuff with bows?

I'm kind of worried that hell will cut life tap duration too much. It's the only thing making battles with champions, large numbers of monsters, and bosses really easy. On hell, a lvl5 lifetap lasts 6 seconds as opposed to the 10 that a lvl3 life tap lasts on nightmare. That combined with smite's horrible damage scaling, and hell difficulties great monster life scaling, may make progress with smite unbearably slow.