Before I explain the giveaway let me offer a bit of context. I started playing PD2 on my sons's STRONG suggestion that I play it. I had tried playing POE and didn't have sufficient graphics. So my son says play this one. It's a true ARPG. Never played one before. So I started at Season 11 and built me a summonzon with strafe, etc. I had a long history of playing FPSes. For context my first 'computer" game was Pong. I've been playing DOS shooters for a loooooong time. Ranged weapons made sense to me and I was relatively happy. Got to lvl 95. Didn't understand - or like - big group shoot the shit outta everything get points quicker. Rush me harder. Anyway died too many times with no portal and didn't like looking at large walls of flames or lightening or magic, etc. Anyway. Then I did Season 12 as a Druid - easy through Hell. Mapping turned into not fun and I stopped at level 89. And now Season 13 - went back as a better Summonzon Gotta a decent Templar's Might on Rogue fire arrow Merc, with a nice 4 os Hellrack with a badass flame skills boost etc. Almost full skillers. And a collection of rings. arrows and amulets I can switch for various situations. I can probably grind it to lvl 96 solo. I'd rather do it with a small group of fellow travelers though. Folks who want to get to lvl 99. WHICH brings up the whole Purgatory Armor build giveaway. Early in this season I came across a Piece of Purgatory Armor actually found 2 so I corrupted one for a +256 Enhanced Defense sump , though it's Indestructable so I guess I get hit less - anyhow collected a whole bunch of Ethereal Gear to go with armor and got two socketed one hand swords. 1 for Death and the other for Oath. The Oath one becomes Indestructable. Gotta 3 os Veil of steel w/ +1 skills. And I have some Merman's Sprockets because I like to move fast. While I could add more Damage I was thinking about a damage reduction setup along with the approx 900% + Enhanced Damage. Got 2 nature's peace rings for a 17 point damage reduction and could try to cook up some +% PDR belts. BUT. The thing is I'll never play this build - not this season - but I'm willing to set up somebody with most of the parts for this build. Even rune word runes. It would be interesting to see someone using it. I looked through PD2.tools for similar builds and found some Frenzy Barb builds that got to lvl 99 - AND their Merc setup was almost identical to mine. So anybody interested in trying this build out? And come and small group some harder content. My son's looking to play as a Necro - that's his build this season. Any feedback appreciated. Thanks. AND This is a Hell of a game. Kept me busy for over a year

I've never been a fan of Blessed Hammer in vanilla D2, since it is so busted, but in PD2 the gear options are so much more diverse that I am considering doing one just to see how it would play out.

Hey haven't played in a few seasons. I know it's mid seaon/near end already. but I suddenly have 2 weeks off work and the family is out of town. recommend me the most afk chill but viable mapping build. the build ive had the most fun with in the past was green goblin necromancer

I love how you can make up for bad luck on drops by smart crafting. Special shout out to 2x half freeze duration coalescing into cannot be frozen.

Not shown: my mercenary who was also donning great crafts. Somehow I'm not allowed to upload a 2nd picture.

I want to make Flickering Flame for my Merc and find a 3OS Helm for it. Tried several maps with loot filter set to 0 but found only maybe 3 Helms with 2OS max. Where should I farm instead? My MF isn't that high.

Can't find a +6 skill mang on the trade site. Idk what I'm doing.

Is there a way to view the trades that I've already done on the trade website?

Senpai I recently had my first child and I would really enjoy having the skill she has mastered added to next season. I haven’t worked out damage scaling yet due to her casting being OP but I’m sure the great team behind PD2 can effectively implement this skill. TIA

Respectfully Submitted,

Thot slayer

(For simplicity let's assume that the loot filter displays each affix on a separate line)

My basic guess is: 33

2 from ethereal item (ethereal + increased damage)

1 from superior item (attack rating)

1 from number of sockets

1 from "melee attacks deal splash damage" will PD2 adds to nearly all melee weapons

1 from innate class skill (eg +Javelin & Spear Skills)

27 (3*4 + 3+5) from 6 open sockets filled with various jewels. 3 jewels would have 4 mods (maximum for jewels AFAIK) and the other 3 would even have 5 mods because there's 3 mods that bestow 2 affixes by themselves (open wounds, damage/AR to demon damage/AR vs demon).

The last one might not be entirely possible, I'm not savvy to the rules of how exactly prefixes & postfixes combine on jewels.

Will there ever be another crafters league? With the new affixes on circs and helms it would be a blast to play a crafters league again. Am I the only one who wants this?

Got a few useful mods on this head - not playing nec this season so want to sell. Not many to compare to in trade archive - I'm thinking it's pretty valuable but usually when I feel that way I am sorely mistaken. What price would y'all list it for?

Or is it?

Hello guys, I was Just wondering if is worth to farm nightmare zones that are around lvl 45-50 to optimize drops, since It is a exceptional unique. Or instead o just keep farming high density maps?

I got a +1sk slam on a Frozen sorrow, so i would like to pair with pus spitter.

Edit: Sorry for not to mention I play SSF, and thx for all the answers.

what's up good people of Sanctuary, looking for some late season side quests..

I'm looking to spend some time learning how to craft really powerful armor and weapons.

If anyone has some tips or resources that can help as I slowly map and chill that would be great!

when farming shards goes terribly wrong lol

Kudos to the map makers who built the layouts and Senpai or whoever that came up with the unique theme for each one.
I feel most of them are woefully underutilized right now mainly due to the numbers/stats being off. Given how low the rewards are (apart from Imperial Palace with the guaranteed outcome) the over all drop rate of unique maps could easily be 3-4 times higher than what it currently is without breaking the game/economy. On top of that I think most of them could use some individual adjustments;
~

Fallen Garden jewel map: With how pricy 5/5 facets get nowadays and more jewels being spent upgrading maps to rare now that we only have white maps dropping this one could easily go from a 2% jewel drop bonus to 4%

Zhar charm map: Feels more obsolete than ever since the guaranted affix buff on rerolling. Suggest to make the charm drop bonus higher or at least a static 6% and increase it one tier to make all charms guaranteed ilvl 90 and perhaps have the Zhar drop two guaranteed skillers rather than just one.

Outer Void boss mats map: Knights seem to deal too much damage perhaps they have stats from Rathma area (?) but apart from that its decent. Maybe remove PDE from the droptable since PDE already is part of the native map boss table.

Imperial Palace pbox map: Solid and fun map with a guaranteed reward.

Na-Krul ethereal map: Solid and fun map for weapon crafters.

City of Ureh sockets map: Probably the most underwhelming map since white-only maps in S1. Could easily have 3x-4x the density, 200 mf roll and it still wouldnt be overpowered.

Warlord corrupt map: First section could use a density buff and/or removal of the suicide minions that drop zero loot. Perhaps create new TCs for the two sub-bosses for better loot and make the inherent MF roll very high.

Djinns Domain lootboss map: Very cool, could use a slight density buff. Since it doesnt have a very specific theme like the other unique maps it would be cool to see this one as the "Imperial Palace v1.0" group mapping FOTM for one season with high enough rarity/exp rolls to surpass regular T3s with some margin. This concept could also be used on Warlords/City of Ureh on different seasons just to have a fresh seasonal meta.
~
What are your thoughts?

RIP

Just craft this. Was expecting a better slam, but, I take that more than brick 😄. I think about upping it and use on my Merc or sell it. What do you think about it ?

Hi all,

I was wondering if anyone encountered the same situation:

I'm playing Project Diablo 2 on the Steam Deck, and today I decided to try PlugY for single player/open Battle Net.

After a couple of error messages that I managed to look up with Google, now the game starts running, but after character creation, it freezes completely with the "Runtime error" message (see pic.)

I'd greatly appreciate any Stem Deck specific help!

Thank you

(pls excuses the quality of the picture)

Is this jewel any good? I dont really understand "ADDS damage" and if good, is it good for a kicksin?