Diablo 2: Resurrected (remastered)

[Zeze]

Played for 2 hours at 1am EST. It was buttery smooth.

Played a bit more now during the day - definitely sliiiiightly laggy... but tons better than yesterday.

Good job blizz.

I'm lvl 28 sorc already, abusing cheap runewords like Leaf (only Tir + Ral cheap runes in 2 socket staff)

Leaf provides:
+3 to all fire skills (wtf)
+3 to fireball
+3 to inferno
+3 to warmth
+2 to mana after wach kill
+2-198 armor
Cold Resist 33%

Unreal for these two cheap runes. I'm going through Fireball / Meteor build now in Act 5.

After I reach Act 1 of Nightmare, I'll respect to the famous Blizzard sorc for fast farming for my Paladin.

Buff those two to build gears/items for other crappier starting characters.

I want to revisit Necro again (skeleton build and poison build)
Also wanna try Fury Druid in Werewolf form
And wind Druid

I never actually killed Ubers. I wanna do it with Paladin later.

Time to build Spirit runeword (biggest early value), then slowly get the famous ones (Grief, CoH, Enigma, Faith, etc)

Fun game, new economy, fun stuff.

Once you learn the meta, it's shame runewords make lots of uniques obsolete.
I miss the days as a more casual when it was a total lottery and every uniques / drops were exciting.

 

[shortylickens]

theres literally ten thousand people streaming this on Twitch right now.

 

[bbhaag]

Downloading now. Can't wait to see how this refresh compares to the original. D2 and the Lord of Destruction expansion were one of the best games ever made. IMO it should be in everyone's top ten list.

 

[shortylickens]

Downloading now. Can't wait to see how this refresh compares to the original. D2 and the Lord of Destruction expansion were one of the best games ever made. IMO it should be in everyone's top ten list.

you dont have to wait. theres a metric butt ton of vids right now you can watch. most with commentary.
What I've seen so far is people are thrilled. But then it was mostly purchased by fans of the original, so, there may be bias.

 

[imported_tajmahal]

My wife and I are enjoying playing it again. We played D2 for years after playing Diablo, Hellfire and all the mods. It's a slower paced game than Diablo3, but still fun.

 

[Zeze]

you dont have to wait. theres a metric butt ton of vids right now you can watch. most with commentary.
What I've seen so far is people are thrilled. But then it was mostly purchased by fans of the original, so, there may be bias.

I'm sure a huge majority are simply returning older gamers. There's a thread on blizz forums about age of D2R players. Not a single younger player. All responses were 30+ yo.

We all love it a lot. Art direction and QoL changes and keeping-it-real made it perfect.

It's amusing to see big mainstream reviewers not liking as much - GameSpot, etc because of a more traditional leveling / skilling system.

Warcraft II Reforged was an utter disaster.

If they screwed up D2R, it would've been a major major headturn in terms of how far Blizz has fallen.

I know Blizz hired a third party to do it - Vision something. They nailed it.

A+

 

[[DHT]Osiris]

If they screwed up D2R, it would've been a major major headturn in terms of how far Blizz has fallen.

I know Blizz hired a third party to do it - Vision something. They nailed it.

Well that's just sad. They couldn't figure out how to copy/paste WC3 into a new engine, so they farm out D2 to another group. May as well just give up making games at all if that's the case.

 

[RPD]

I really wanted to enjoy and buy it while doing 3p co-op with my sons on our Switches. But having logged thousands of hours on D2 and mods and that play experience coupled with the finished product and Blizzards antics (office and sucking up to China), have to pass.

 

[Zeze]

I found shacko baby. And I wasn't even farming.

For newer players, shako is a general-purpose best in class helm for all characters, unless youre using specialized helms for melee characters that provide life/mana steal, AR, crushing blow, etc.

(Not my screenshot)


People generally add a socket to this via Larzuk and put in a perfect Topaz gem for +24% magic find. That makes the helmet give you 74% magic find alone. Insane.

You can also put in Ist rune for one more % at +25% MF. But that's only if youre rich. An Ist rune as a currency can trade you great items.

Damn I can't believe I got shako. And I don't play too much and it was with 0 grind.

People grind in Hell for this. Mine was casually dropped by a random skeleton in Nightmare Act5 (where Baal is).

 

[Zeze]

Uh... I got TWO shakos...?? without even trying...

found it in Hell Sewers.

 

[cytg111]

Is there new s$ in resurrected or is it just remastered?
It looks like the thing I am already playing in poe

 

[Zenoth]

I found shacko baby. And I wasn't even farming.

For newer players, shako is a general-purpose best in class helm for all characters, unless youre using specialized helms for melee characters that provide life/mana steal, AR, crushing blow, etc.

(Not my screenshot)
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People generally add a socket to this via Larzuk and put in a perfect Topaz gem for +24% magic find. That makes the helmet give you 74% magic find alone. Insane.

You can also put in Ist rune for one more % at +25% MF. But that's only if youre rich. An Ist rune as a currency can trade you great items.

Damn I can't believe I got shako. And I don't play too much and it was with 0 grind.

People grind in Hell for this. Mine was casually dropped by a random skeleton in Nightmare Act5 (where Baal is).

Oh, I clearly still remember to this day.

Something like that.

 

[Zeze]

So I traded that extra shako for 2 Ists and Ravenfrost ring.

Traded first Ist for an entire Spirit shield white monarch and Gold wrap belt

Traded second Ist for Thresher Insight and 4os disk shroud

I made it out fine.. these add up to about 3 Ists.

Now sorc is quite happy with a casual 160 MF and lvl 30 blizz

 

[Zeze]

Is there new s$ in resurrected or is it just remastered?
It looks like the thing I am already playing in poe

Just remastered with new graphics, moderate quality of life changes, and remastered sound.

This is not a content update or a remake.

 

[shortylickens]

I'm sure a huge majority are simply returning older gamers. There's a thread on blizz forums about age of D2R players. Not a single younger player. All responses were 30+ yo.

AH HA!

 

[Hail The Brain Slug]

AH HA!

It seems to me that using an age poll/thread from a forum would inherently screen out younger people. They don't use forums, they use discord.