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Greetings Adventurer,
It's time to hone the edge of your axe, summon fresh skeletons, and repair your staff - Season 22 is coming Friday, June 15th at 5:00PM PST!
We hope you're as excited as we are to bolt out of the Rogue Encampment in less than two weeks! We'll see you in a new ladder season soon.
Cheers,
- Diablo Community Team
https://us.battle.net/forums/en/bnet/topic/20765176862
So the ladder reset for Diablo 2 is coming out in two Fridays (Saturdays, for you European folk).
Is anyone going to be running during the reset? If so, put down your server and intended class! If there are enough people interested, we could set up a discord or some such.
I'll be playing on E/L/SC, probably a blizz sorc (although I may actually be traveling that weekend...oops!).
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Netherlands4804 Posts
Very tempting, but I've sworn to not touch D2 ever again.
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On June 06 2018 04:08 Peeano wrote:
Very tempting, but I've sworn to not touch D2 ever again.
Do you have a particular reason behind this? :D except the usual 100+ hours wasted every season
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On June 06 2018 04:45 Isualin wrote:Show nested quote +On June 06 2018 04:08 Peeano wrote:
Very tempting, but I've sworn to not touch D2 ever again. Do you have a particular reason behind this? :D except the usual 100+ hours wasted every season
Short answer:
I'm too perfectionistic and bots and hacks really sicken me.
Long answer:
I try fun builds that generally only work on paper, because D2 droprates know way too many variables (even when you exclude as many as you can). I spend anywhere from 5-30 hours to calculate my build in full detail and then I'll need another 100-1000 hours to actually reach my goal. When I finally reach my goal I feel fulfillment for maybe 5 minutes? That simply doesn't justify wasting all that time. I can get similar fulfillment out of playing 1-3 hours of BW.
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I don't get much fulfillment after i reach my full build as well. And i think this should be similar for most people. Since the core part of gameplay is continuously finding upgrades and getting stronger little by little. This gets much slower after some point obviously, thats when i switch to a new build.
One of my longest playthroughs was on a private server and i had to find almost every single rune i needed and i am still burned out from that :D
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On June 07 2018 02:26 Isualin wrote:
I don't get much fulfillment after i reach my full build as well. And i think this should be similar for most people.
Pretty much every game. In Sc2 most player stopped when they are/were finally in GM League.
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On June 07 2018 02:26 Isualin wrote:
I don't get much fulfillment after i reach my full build as well. And i think this should be similar for most people. Since the core part of gameplay is continuously finding upgrades and getting stronger little by little. This gets much slower after some point obviously, thats when i switch to a new build.
One of my longest playthroughs was on a private server and i had to find almost every single rune i needed and i am still burned out from that :D
Is level 20 dueling not a thing any more? I know it used to be freaking awesome back in the day, you made your char really quickly but had to find the gear for them (shaftstop and rockstopper primarily) with others and needed someone to run you through all difficulties for extra stats, skill points and resists without going over level 20.
Was fun and the builds were cool and not something you'd use on a regular char.
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On June 09 2018 05:44 Manit0u wrote:Show nested quote +On June 07 2018 02:26 Isualin wrote:
I don't get much fulfillment after i reach my full build as well. And i think this should be similar for most people. Since the core part of gameplay is continuously finding upgrades and getting stronger little by little. This gets much slower after some point obviously, thats when i switch to a new build.
One of my longest playthroughs was on a private server and i had to find almost every single rune i needed and i am still burned out from that :D Is level 20 dueling not a thing any more? I know it used to be freaking awesome back in the day, you made your char really quickly but had to find the gear for them (shaftstop and rockstopper primarily) with others and needed someone to run you through all difficulties for extra stats, skill points and resists without going over level 20. Was fun and the builds were cool and not something you'd use on a regular char.
I'm not sure how accurate that is as I quit in 1.10 but since 1.10 you can't progress without killing the Ancients. And pretty sure that alone would get you above 20 if done on all difficulties.
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On June 09 2018 06:01 HornyHerring wrote:Show nested quote +On June 09 2018 05:44 Manit0u wrote:On June 07 2018 02:26 Isualin wrote:
I don't get much fulfillment after i reach my full build as well. And i think this should be similar for most people. Since the core part of gameplay is continuously finding upgrades and getting stronger little by little. This gets much slower after some point obviously, thats when i switch to a new build.
One of my longest playthroughs was on a private server and i had to find almost every single rune i needed and i am still burned out from that :D Is level 20 dueling not a thing any more? I know it used to be freaking awesome back in the day, you made your char really quickly but had to find the gear for them (shaftstop and rockstopper primarily) with others and needed someone to run you through all difficulties for extra stats, skill points and resists without going over level 20. Was fun and the builds were cool and not something you'd use on a regular char. I'm not sure how accurate that is as I quit in 1.10 but since 1.10 you can't progress without killing the Ancients. And pretty sure that alone would get you above 20 if done on all difficulties.
I might get confused a bit since it's been a long long time since I played D2. Maybe this was a thing before LoD?
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you can if you level/get carried on vanilla and then convert to lod after having the later quests/waypoints.
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Last time I played D2 I was bothered by the lack of difficulty when you have reached a high level and own a lot of near high end stuff (even on hardcore). After a month or two of ladder there are a lot of pretty much OP items around and dealing with most of the monsters in the game in hell difficulty is too easy, so it seems you're stuck trying to go for the very hardest few things with the most OP gear that you need for another challenge. Notably very few characters die anymore in the hardcore ladder then.
I had in mind playing a less strong character after a new ladder starts with reset economy. Sorc based on enchant (europe ladder hardcore). Might do that after June 15, thx for the information because, even on arreat summit they don't really tell when will be next ladder reset..
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On June 06 2018 07:38 Peeano wrote:Show nested quote +On June 06 2018 04:45 Isualin wrote:On June 06 2018 04:08 Peeano wrote:
Very tempting, but I've sworn to not touch D2 ever again. Do you have a particular reason behind this? :D except the usual 100+ hours wasted every season Short answer: I'm too perfectionistic and bots and hacks really sicken me. Long answer: I try fun builds that generally only work on paper, because D2 droprates know way too many variables (even when you exclude as many as you can). I spend anywhere from 5-30 hours to calculate my build in full detail and then I'll need another 100-1000 hours to actually reach my goal. When I finally reach my goal I feel fulfillment for maybe 5 minutes? That simply doesn't justify wasting all that time. I can get similar fulfillment out of playing 1-3 hours of BW.
Funnily this fulfillment vs time wasted thing is why I stopped playing starcraft D:
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The lack of flexibility is what puts me off of the Diablo 2 nowadays. Every season I have to start with sorc(90% of the time blizzard), and then spend countless hours MFing and then finally I can have fun. I have done this routine too many times...
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Netherlands4804 Posts
Any of you guys playing? How is it going?
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How is the bot situatiaon? Not tempetd to join if the best strategy is to join bot games and collect the stuff that they mercifully leave behind.
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On June 17 2018 07:56 11cc wrote:
How is the bot situatiaon? Not tempetd to join if the best strategy is to join bot games and collect the stuff that they mercifully leave behind.
Good point lol, but there are private D2 servers to get rid of the bots aren't there?
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On June 06 2018 07:38 Peeano wrote:Show nested quote +On June 06 2018 04:45 Isualin wrote:On June 06 2018 04:08 Peeano wrote:
Very tempting, but I've sworn to not touch D2 ever again. Do you have a particular reason behind this? :D except the usual 100+ hours wasted every season Short answer: I'm too perfectionistic and bots and hacks really sicken me. Long answer: I try fun builds that generally only work on paper, because D2 droprates know way too many variables (even when you exclude as many as you can). I spend anywhere from 5-30 hours to calculate my build in full detail and then I'll need another 100-1000 hours to actually reach my goal. When I finally reach my goal I feel fulfillment for maybe 5 minutes? That simply doesn't justify wasting all that time. I can get similar fulfillment out of playing 1-3 hours of BW.
It's about the journey. Nothing you can do in this game (or pretty much any other) can justify playing it for a thousand hours (unless it's your job). The moments when you find another item for your build in Diablo or maybe winning a hardfought match in Starcraft is the reason you actually play.
The enjoyment comes from the journey. The reason you feel at a loss in the end is because you already fulfilled your goal and there is nothing left to do.
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Things are going well for FrigidBridget the blizzard sorc (that like....everyone and their mother has. Seriously, probably like 80% of all characters are blizz sorcs at the moment). I found an almost perfect Gheed's and a Jah rune (wtf), two things which I've never actually found before even though I played like...four years over a decade ago (like when 1.10 was first released). Pretty excited!
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