Loved the assassin build. Spent a lot of time playing this game over LAN with my brother and buddies.

Think I'm going to pick up D2/LOD, and play some over the next few weeks. I haven't played in a long time. It's still supported multi-player correct?

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Looks like I'll either be rolling a hammerdin or windy druid to start until they make big changes.

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If they don't significantly increase rune drop rates, hammerdin is gonna be pain. It's a bit easier since they added respecing, but that build is worthless until you have a lot of high level gear. And I'm pretty sure the whole economy for Jah/Ber runes was built around duping... which I'm guessing they actually manage to fix this time around. Vex is easier to get, but still not exactly common.

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Think I'm going to pick up D2/LOD, and play some over the next few weeks. I haven't played in a long time. It's still supported multi-player correct?

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If you're talking about closed battle.net then yes it is still supported. Fairly decent sized player base to this day but a lot of long time D2 players have moved to some rather large modded private server communities like Project Diablo 2, Path of Diablo, and MedianXL.

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Looks like I'll either be rolling a hammerdin or windy druid to start until they make big changes.

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If they don't significantly increase rune drop rates, hammerdin is gonna be pain. It's a bit easier since they added respecing, but that build is worthless until you have a lot of high level gear. And I'm pretty sure the whole economy for Jah/Ber runes was built around duping... which I'm guessing they actually manage to fix this time around. Vex is easier to get, but still not exactly common.

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I was playing around with the current patch 1.14D and it felt like quite a few runes drop, even in normal difficulty.

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Looks like I'll either be rolling a hammerdin or windy druid to start until they make big changes.

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If they don't significantly increase rune drop rates, hammerdin is gonna be pain. It's a bit easier since they added respecing, but that build is worthless until you have a lot of high level gear. And I'm pretty sure the whole economy for Jah/Ber runes was built around duping... which I'm guessing they actually manage to fix this time around. Vex is easier to get, but still not exactly common.

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I was playing around with the current patch 1.14D and it felt like quite a few runes drop, even in normal difficulty.

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That's nice to hear. Reading back through old patch notes, 1.13c increased rune drop rates (and that was also the patch that added respec). I had just about stopped playing by that point, so I never really got to see the new stuff in action.

I think if I was going to do it, I'd move back to the 1.14d servers, just to get used to the game play again, since the remaster will launch there. Tempting to spend the 1.50$ on an enigma and go.crazy on the magic find runs( enigma was always the corps of my hammerdin and zookeeper necros..... the zookeeper was great, people just hated playing with me on dial up ;-) )

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Looks like I'll either be rolling a hammerdin or windy druid to start until they make big changes.

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If they don't significantly increase rune drop rates, hammerdin is gonna be pain. It's a bit easier since they added respecing, but that build is worthless until you have a lot of high level gear. And I'm pretty sure the whole economy for Jah/Ber runes was built around duping... which I'm guessing they actually manage to fix this time around. Vex is easier to get, but still not exactly common.

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I was playing around with the current patch 1.14D and it felt like quite a few runes drop, even in normal difficulty.

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"Rush 4 forge"

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Looks like I'll either be rolling a hammerdin or windy druid to start until they make big changes.

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If they don't significantly increase rune drop rates, hammerdin is gonna be pain. It's a bit easier since they added respecing, but that build is worthless until you have a lot of high level gear. And I'm pretty sure the whole economy for Jah/Ber runes was built around duping... which I'm guessing they actually manage to fix this time around. Vex is easier to get, but still not exactly common.

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I was playing around with the current patch 1.14D and it felt like quite a few runes drop, even in normal difficulty.

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"Rush 4 forge"

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Haha memories! What I'm very much looking forward to is it sounds like we're going to have the chat lobbies and a similar create/join games list just modernized to include options for difficulty level. I can't wait to scroll through a never ending list of "bring freebies" and "duelzzzz"

Speaking of memories, have you guys watched the series by CarbotAnimations on YouTube? If not, check it out.

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Speaking of memories, have you guys watched the series by CarbotAnimations on YouTube? If not, check it out.

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Oh yeah, it's pretty great. Some way funnier than others but I always am like...

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Speaking of memories, have you guys watched the series by CarbotAnimations on YouTube? If not, check it out.

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As I had been playing Diablo I, The Hell 2 quite a bit lately, this one cracked me up.

So apparently old save files will still work. Not sure how I feel about that, but there it is.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.pcgamer.com/amp/diablo-2-resurrected-will-let-you-pick-up-where-you-left-off-20-years-ago/

Single player only. Figured that's fairly obvious, but throwing it out there anyways. I don't know that I've made one single player character in my thousands of Diablo 2 hours played to be honest so doesn't move the needle at all either way for me. I'm sure it'll make some of the offline diehard holy grailers happy though.

Good point. When D2 first came out, many folks only had dialup internet so I often only played single player myself. I recently installed PlugY to emulate ladder restricted things and mess with characters I never used to play.

I will be 100% playing this one online only (except when servers are crashing the first week)

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Good point. When D2 first came out, many folks only had dialup internet so I often only played single player myself. I recently installed PlugY to emulate ladder restricted things and mess with characters I never used to play.

I will be 100% playing this one online only (except when servers are crashing the first week)

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The struggle was real trying to get loot with dial-up. I would take my computer to a friend's for the weekend so I could use his 1mb Cox internet and get the good loots.

The heyday of Diablo 2 was great to be in the dorms all connected to each other. We had every person playing a different class and skills that all complimented each other. Great times.

I am curious what they are going to do with bots. If they block them then people are going to be surprised at how much they fueled the economy.

The drop rates in Diablo 2 were like winning the lottery. If you said you got enigma legit you are full of ****.

Not FOS, just damned lucky.

I actually had the runes at one point, but I was also a 99 on US East ladder that season. I did it once, and am lucky I didn't get scholastic probation that semester..... since then, my enigmas have not been so legit.

I bought and started playing again last night. I'm about 6hrs in, with a lol 40 paladin heading into nightmare. The bots.... hmm. Like I talked with the guy about tonight, banning the bots is fine IF the player base gets big enough. With what it is now..... not enough people, period, to go botless.

I also kinda like being able to jump in and get the WPs, especially now heading to nightmare.

The developers touched on bots and said the Battle.net 2.0 architecture the game is built on will drastically clean that up. We'll see about that of course. I think the season 1 ladder economy will be really interesting because you guys are right, I think people forget how rough the drop rates can be in D2 for high runes and particular elite unique items. I personally love it that way, it's part of what made so many different items so special to me. If they're actually able to keep botting and duping to a minimum, I think it'll make it fun to see super useful items like Skullder's Ire make a big comeback as a great substitute for an MF sorc versus the obvious best in slot Enigma.

I became pretty much unfazed by the bots and duping back in the day so either way I'm going to enjoy this, but I definitely would prefer a toned down bot and dupe economy if achievable.

Playing WoW Classic I can tell you that botting is a huge issue. Good and bad. But if you think botting and RMT will not have a massive impact on D2:R, I have some seaside properties just outside Phoenix to interest you in.

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Playing WoW Classic I can tell you that botting is a huge issue. Good and bad. But if you think botting and RMT will not have a massive impact on D2:R, I have some seaside properties just outside Phoenix to interest you in.

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Haha yeah you're probably right. Devs even pretty much said there's only so much they can do.

If any of y'all playing bnet need help muling, im probably going to pick up a discount cd key, and start setting up a transfer game every couple of days. Let me know and we'll get in touch and make thebprocess easier.

Just got added to the F&F list. I'll let you know how it goes.

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Just got added to the F&F list. I'll let you know how it goes.

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F&F list... Friends and Family List I'm guessing? Care to elaborate?

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Just got added to the F&F list. I'll let you know how it goes.

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F&F list... Friends and Family List I'm guessing? Care to elaborate?

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Yup. One of the guys I play with in WoW is on a dev team and got me on the Diablo and WoW Friends and Family lists. Should be a good time.

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Oh nice, so you're just recently added to a F&F list that covers Diablo. You're not saying you have an actual test date for D2R you get to participate in coming up, right? That's how I took your original message and it got me all hyped. Still cool either way.

Some dude was live streaming the beta last night. Graphics looked good. If they are just revamping the graphics, I don't see why it would take them very long to get this out to us.

Edit to add streaming gameplay on youtube live

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Some dude was live streaming the beta last night. Graphics looked good. If they are just revamping the graphics, I don't see why it would take them very long to get this out to us.

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Yeah that's the technical alpha and they're also adding quite a bit of quality of life improvements. Also previous systems for multiplayer were written for systems that don't exist and need support new platforms more players etc.

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Some dude was live streaming the beta last night. Graphics looked good. If they are just revamping the graphics, I don't see why it would take them very long to get this out to us.

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Yeah that's the technical alpha and they're also adding quite a bit of quality of life improvements. Also previous systems for multiplayer were written for systems that don't exist and need support new platforms more players etc.

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Did that F&F technical alpha you mentioned already start?

It's not just the graphics( which a 60fps overlay of a.ln engine running slower, with wider resolutions running on an engine that has screen size as limiting factors is not JUST graphics), but they're also doing QOL improvements and moving it to a new form of battlenet

I look for a December release. It will mean the current d2 ladder ends, and we get one more ladder period in....then D2R drops.

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Some dude was live streaming the beta last night. Graphics looked good. If they are just revamping the graphics, I don't see why it would take them very long to get this out to us.

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Yeah that's the technical alpha and they're also adding quite a bit of quality of life improvements. Also previous systems for multiplayer were written for systems that don't exist and need support new platforms more players etc.

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Did that F&F technical alpha you mentioned already start?

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Technical alpha is not F&F it's dev, Q&A and specific players that are invited. Blizzard has some internal metric for the player portion that seems to be based around bugs submitted, confirmed, fixed and play time. I was definitely not invited to that one.

Can someone at least give me Diablo immortal. 3 Diablo projects out there and nothing is out.

If anyone is playing d2 and wants a rush, let me know, I got the hookup and have a pretty well geared hammerdin that can do full hell rushes now, and with the bots running chaos and baal, you want to just grush...1-75 in 2hrs ish.

Thought they kind of put experience restrictions in place to where you have to do trist/sanc runs before even normal ancients and going to nm and hell. Like nothing will give you exp