Was there anything about orange (crafted) items? I think you could make some recent rings with that, although I haven't actually played D2 for a descade or more.
This is probably the most in-deph D2 guide on RUclips, and people in the comment section be like "how did you get more stash?" or "why didn't you edit this?" as if their brain has withered from industrial top ten videos of tips and tricks. I'll take a moment to appreciate, I played this since the dawn on of time and even I learned something new. You don't know what you don't know, so sometimes you can go on for years without knowing something as basic as the Anya bug. So thank you.
this is mostly generic stuff for people who are too lazy to read through arreat summit tbqh most ppl probably don't know what's arreat summit and don't have it lol this doesn't even touch complicated things like per-frame-damage gets wrong about magic immunity and blessed hammer doesn't know normal/exceptional/elite before googling (calls them tiers) doesn't know the difference between uniques, superuniques and bosses etc etc etc
@@TheExai This guy has multiple world records in d2 yet you talk like he's an idiot 😂 Yes there is more complex stuff in d2, yes he might not know everything. This is a FAQ, not a no life's pk guide or a course on how to become a d2 speedrunner. If you consider EBug to be noob stuff, good for you. I played for years and did not know certain things he said.
I'm Mfing with this in the background, and literally moments after you mentioned that Pindle can drop a spiderweb sash but not an Arachnid Mesh, Meph dropped me my first ever Arach Mesh :P
~46:29 The Chance Guards calculation only makes sense if you somehow start with 10 defense. So I looked it up and apparently if you have enhanced defense % on any item, it will always count it as having the max base defense + 1. So Chain Gloves can normally have 8-9 defense, therefore it's counted as having 10 defense. You can get 20-30% ED on them. If you get 20-29% ED, they will have 27 defense total (it always rounds down). If you get 30%, they will have 28. I don't think this applies to upping them though.
Most underrated comment. The video itself is awesome, but imo this was the only part with a mistake. Especially, that there was a guy in chat who had written the same formula (ed gives maxdef+1 always). And sadly yes... with his Balrog Skin example, it was seen that this factor vanishes after upping (it whould have converted to 1388def). So he was right about that.
@@sdave89 unique items with %ED always spawn with the max def possible for the base item. when you up an item from exception to elite (or normal to exceptional) it randomizes the defense roll of the base item, and then adds the ED. 98 def is max for magefists, FYI.
About blocking; it's bugged to hell. Blocking an attack also always causes your next attack to miss, without exception. If you keep left-click (attack) pressed while blocking, especially when surrounded, you may end up never hitting anything. So it's not just the blocking frame recovery. One can realise the importance of this, when one considers skills like Zeal or Fend, where an entire sequence of attacks miss, if one does not stop attacking immediately after blocking. Blizzard never fixed this, of course... Blind Target doesn't just reduce the monsters' sight radius. It also prevents mages from casting spells. Very useful for a Necromancer wanting to protect his minions from, say, a Hak'u Shaman's fiery breath or a Cantor's blizzard.
Man I've been watching this vid several times, still finding it interesting and great how you manage to create that relaxing atmosphere. Thank you for that.
37:50 technically incorrect, there was an eth bug before 1.10 that we used in 09 which involved an eth item having a zod rune socketed in 08, before 09 socketing a zod removed the internal durability stat. If you removed zod afterwards you'd have an eth bugged item that instead of getting the double dipping defense bonus was just eth and indestructible, so players could use it. People duped tons of eth bugged arreats and swords for fury runewords.
this is correct. they reapplied the etherial status to an item that had a zod rune removed with the cube recipe. this process indirectly created the higher defense socket cube recipe to roll a random amount of sockets. Also, the max sockets that an item can have dictates the % chance of a certain number of sockets for, say, an armor. it's 25% chance for 1,2,3,4 sockets. not a 1/6 chance for 1,2,3 or 3/6 chance for 4 sockets.
Small correction: you should always max telekinesis with Energy Shield. With lvl20 TK you get a multiplier of 0.75, which is essenciall 25% DR to mana.
Regarding chancies @49:30 -- Whenever an item has enhanced defense, the item always has max base defense. Archon plate def range is 410 to 524. If an archon plate has 5% ED, it will ALWAYS have 550 def (524 x 1.05).
I know this was posted over 2 years ago, but two follow up question: 1. If I give a merc Insight (which gives lvl 17 Meditation aura) then give him a +1 to all skills helm, does that add to the meditation aura? 2. Anything in this video that you missed or that's changed? Just coming back into the game after a 10 year period of not playing and am fascinated by how much I didn't know! Really loving all your content on youtube, thanks so much for all you do!
So Did I back in 2004 as Tifas-Revenge :) Once you have the first-hand experience of levelling up from 1-99 as fast as possible, you really don't forget that huge marathon you ran, especially since it lasted just over 6 weeks.
I'd say D3 has more to offer, when you've played D2 so much and done everything it gets boring when you can easily get to lvl 80 in a few days from a new account. In D3 I haven't even been too Whimmyshire because the spawn rate for the items and monsters was so low.
Path of Exile. Its more of a successor to diablo2 than diablo3 is. Free to play but not pay to win. Don't take my word for it check out its steam rating (93%) and videos. The skill tree and the gemming system is amazing.
@@jimmyrekosuo3045 Yeah. The way how people did was get themselves both nagel and manald stashed somewhere, and just gamble the crap out of rings until it roles unique. And if that happens, it WILL always be soj.
@@NinjaSushi2 No, they just needed to be IN the game. I had them in a stash and my buddy got a unique drop in den of evil and he got a SOJ. Pre Expac I think?
Yup, I'm about to watch an almost 2 hour long video of a game I havn't played in 6 years. I think I know a lot of this too. I was a super nerd ^^ NOSTALGIA!
1:32:11 NHD tststss MrLlamaSc: The tornado skill deals two types of damage "on Collision-dmg"+"periodic dmg" both deal the same total damage (correctly shown charscreen). Only the on collision dmg have the 25frames next hit delay (with last collide entry and is blockable). The periodic dmg is an area dmg (radius 1.5 sub-tiles), it deals damage during the first 16's 31's frame and is unblockable). 0f = cast; 1f = 1 pdmg, 10f: 1.cdmg => 25 f nhd (incl 34), 16f: 2.pdmg, 31f: 3.pdmg 32f:last enemie contakt, at 35f: NHD ends
1:04:30 hm... so Redeev and their Anima ARPG mobile game seem to have a lot of these issues ironed out... . You equip a +1 to all skills and the synergy will consider every point that adds to it. I wonder whether they addressed any of these issues as to whether they want to leave all the way it was or adjust something like these for Resurrected?! Surely seems like a missed opportunity not to fix these "bugs" considering the price tag for Resurrected.
30:08 I believe that upping a unique item only upgrade the base item to the next level (normal -> exceptional -> elite), changing its base stats (e.g. base dmg, base def), but it won't change the unique item's mods (e.g. ED) that the unique gave. So it won't upgrade the unique item to the next level unique - it's just the same unique but with better base stats. It also doesn't reroll any of the existing magic mods. It does reroll the base item's base stats, as mentioned.
48:00 first % enhanced damage applies, then + ... damage and then on top of it assassin charges and finishing moves apply. Is that correct? By the way do crushing blow and critical strike apply before assassin charges released?
No, I'm not talking about chance to hit, which is influenced by defence. I know, you was talking about defence. But I'm actually talking about physical damage dealt on hit. I've found out that damage is explaned good here: classic.battle.net/diablo2exp/basics/characters.shtml By the way, I'm kinda confused about block chance. Arreat summit says that chance to block is reduced to 1/3 (but capped at 25%) when running and description of weapon block skill says that it doesn't work while running at all. However on some websites I met info about that actually assassin's weapon block chance is not reduced even when running. I've played Diablo 2 last time long time ago, but I believe when I was running with assassin weapon block still worked. What do you say about chance to block for shield and dual claws? And is that true that assassin's cloak of shadows has hidden ability to extinguish casted fire wall? I know for sure only that Fade has hidden physical resistance bonus, which is not displayed (that's from arreat summit).
people thought i had a map hack with how fast i could find the next levels back when i was playing d2 back in the day. but it just came from with knowing how the maps could be generated. this was a long video but a lot of cool things i never knew. thanks!
@1:29:40 No offense, but that's wrong! - If you max out TK (lvl 20), your "Dmg to Mana ratio" is 1 to 0.75 ! The cap is NOT 1 to 1, as the indiablo.de skill-calculator shows this for years correct. Unfortunately, they overhauled their site a while ago and it's not working as good/accurate as before... Anyway, If 100 dmg. is incoming to your char and you have 95 % ES (lvl 40) with a lvl 20 TK (hardpoints only), 95 of the 100 dmg. will be absorbed by your ES but you will only lose 71 mana. This is because Diablo II rounds all numbers and the 71.25 mana loss can't be subtracted otherwise. The 5 remaining dmg. will get checked by all of your resistances, (probably lowered even further), and than hits your life orb. Notice, that all of your resistances will NOT take into account, by damage which gets absorbed from your ES. Hope this helps, cause I know ES & TK is for many players nothing, but a big mystery! ^^
Here is a super good tip I have never heard anyone talk about. A super budget way to keep your merc alive is to give them that unique helm that "blinds target" when striking. Everything your merc hits won't attack your merc. Super budget way to keep you merc alive with what ever life leach you can get on a weapon and or armor.
Edit: also I think make "target flee" is a super under rated ability for a merc. That you use with a sorc anyways. Another super budget way to keep your merc alive if you have nothing else. It also doesn't matter if the enemy runs cause your a sorc and can kill at a distance.
Mr Lama, 1. does synergy soft points counts as hard point when they are below 20? (like 10 hard points and +7 skill from no matter what above frost bolt) 2. how critical strikes works with deadly strike? for example if ive got 50% critical strike chance and 50% deadly strike chance, do ive got 50% chance to x4 dmg or 100% to x2 dmg or ive got nothing? xD ty
You missed some of the subtlety of hammerdins and magic immune monsters at 9 minutes in. Yes, you cannot remove magic immunity with auras, curses or anything else; however, blessed hammer specifically does extra damage (150%) against undead. It just so happens that MOST of the monsters that spawn with magic immunity are also undead. (usually those act 2 mummies) This extra damage to undead from blessed hammer actually acts as an immunity breaker and will do damage to them anyway despite no extra -resistance mechanics at play. TLDR: Hammerdins OP. Very, very few monsters spawn that they can't kill with their main button.
Its weird to see something like this with information that has actually changed like with the addition of Sunder Charms to Break Immunities. This is all still good information and I know D2R came out after this, but still really cool. I grew up playing LoD and never in my years of playing this game did I expect to get any sort of upgrade. Thanks for the info Llama!
Unique items with %Enhanced Defense don't roll defense. They get the max possible defense for that item +1. You can see it at 32:24 with the 252 defense Vampire Gaze.
130% cold/fire/lightning immunity and above is unbreakable even with a level 25 Conviction. 150% - res. all Conviction works at 1/5 efficiency --> 150/5=30; 130-30=100% resistance, still immune.
Hey, quick question for the whole resistances thing, if you had enough rainbow facets to socket(all -5 element). So 6 in a weapon, 3 helm, 4 chest, 4 shield, plus lower resist/conviction aura or infinity. That would still not be able to break the highest element immunities?
btw, i think if you put more points into TK(past 16) it starts to act like physical reduction and resistances for your mana were normally your phys reduction and resist don't count towards the dmg to your mana. People don't use it because of mana leech.
You aren't wrong, I just feel like helm is a more valuable position than rings in D2, lots of +2 skills, damage reduction, IAS and all sorts of goodies in helm slots, as compared to rings, but it's a more reliable choice to be sure and I normal have one on my Merc.
i think biggest bug that many peoples dont know about is when you equip merc with +x%dmg jewel the bonus will not work even its showed as boosted on merc stats (im not sure if that applies also on +x%dmg items tho)
Just need to change your runes.txt actually! Check out links like this. May be of help: www.gamefaqs.com/boards/370600-diablo-ii-lord-of-destruction/62650884
Have a high strength amulet in inventory and equip before picking up body will help you pick up body much safer, original amulet will go to the inventory slot so just swap it out later
This is awesome, you are explaining things that i didn't even know when i was playing D2 back when i was child. Any chance you could play SC:BW? That background music is getting me. XD
Brilliant video, I learned a lot. I was really enjoying it right up to the point when you found Arm of King Leoric and then THREW IT ON THE GROUND?! LOL I want that item so bad, I almost choked when I saw that hahaha
Going back from d2r to lod was a breath of fresh air. Going back from Diablo 4 to lod was like escaping from a mildewed rug immersed in sewage. By the way I love the Starcraft music he used.
Wooooop, keep up all this new material coming. So much unique and great ideas. One idea off of my head, speed run with 8 characters, each a different class and a different mercy lol.
MrLlamaSC I checked it. It said on Monday you would stream 7:30. I went to your twitch and it was a musician you were hosting. Tomorrow will you stream cause I'd love to see 7 different classes all working together. 7 classes and maybe another sorc or fishymancer.
Ended up streaming at around 8:30 on Monday because I had to make dinner for the week. We ended up running I think 5 of the classes though across 8 players?
You forgot: Normal merc also has higher resistance vs nm or hell. You can only upgrade uniques, not rares... but you can roll magic items for multiple sockets with cube recipe if the item is capable. Lastly, the maps aren't procedurally generated but there's a lot of variations. Good video though, cant believe I watched the whole thing...
you can definitely upgrade rares, though it's a different forumla than the unique upgrade. Source: classic.battle.net/diablo2exp/items/cube.shtml Some maps are also procedurally generated, though not all. Some maps (Such as outer cloister) have set variations, others though were generated using tile pieces. :)
Ever considered doing guides for end builds stat priority and overall item explanation ? I would love to see some of those. Really enjoy your vids keep it up :)
I've thought about it, but I actually much prefer early game-mid game stuff. End game usually just gets too easy in most games and I don't quite find it as enjoyable.
I have been playing D2 on and off for many years, always kind of casually. I want to know if you have or could make a video of how to play the game as efficently as possible, to mae the most progress the quickest basically, because doing a startup can be slow..
hmm that's an interesting idea actually. Make a sort of "let's play" where I half speedrun but make it still comfortable enough that anyone could do it.
Hey Llama, so this means that peace is not a viable runeword for an act-2 merc? I have a 3os sacred armor and don't know what to do with it. Maybe just throw resistances in it lol
More on "Ignore defens": Ignore Target's Defense will not work on super unique bosses, but "negate" Target Defense will work, that is why a Last Wish is a bad weapon for a kicksin against the übers, but a Fleshripper is just so awesome aginst them ;-)
Have Q about ebugging armor: So if you find normal class eth armor and upping it to elite version, that 50% bug applies every time? And adds again when socketing with cube? ;)
The ebug only works with normal quality items and when using the recipe to socket. It doesn't work with the upping recipe and uniques can't be socketed with the cube.
@MrLlamaSC If what you said about conviction auras are true against Uber mephisto shouldn't smiters run that aura and get IAS from items rather than fanaticism?
Hey there Llama, I got 2 questions. How is it that your map is already explored? Is it a mod or something? The Second question is how do I fix Plugy for the new version of Diablo II (v1.14d)?
A little more info about Plugy and the latest build of D2. There were a lot of non-trivial changes made that will make it tough for anyone other than a relatively serious coder to make plugy work again. That being said, I believe that the plugy was released so someone could take the project and run with it.
plugy on 1.13 only. Also single player maps only reset when you change difficulties so I had already explored these areas. That's standard without any mod
your tip about the crystal sword is a good tip in norm cows a normal crystal sword will socket to get 4 sockets any where else it will get ether norm-baal=1 socket nightmare -hell end=6 sockets
There's also this problem with traps and +fire\lightning damage% - apart from not receiving the elemental bonus by traps, the bonus from itself is actually displayed in character stats.
What mods do you use in your game? Wanted to play d2 on upcoming holidays and was wondering what mods to install for the best gameplay (e.g. stats reset, talents reset etc)
What mods are you running? I've also noticed in your streams that your hot keys are normal letter keys, and not just restricted to the f buttons. I play online, so not just single player, am I able to use certain mods on bnet, or is that more of a single player thing?
question, how do you upgrade normal (white items) teir 1 weapons and armor to exceptional weapons and armor to elite? or can it only be done on unique and set items? I know you can up low quality to normal
Watching this made me feel like I was back in high school where you had that one teacher that had absolutely little to no focus at all. lol only 10 minutes in and I feel like drawing on my text book.
When an item has %ed, it will always have the maximum roll for base defense. The exception are upgraded items, as for those the base defense gets rolled when upgrading. One of the reasons why perfectly upped (or double upped) bloodfists are worth quite a bit. Diablo drops ilvl 94, nila 95, baal 99.
For Merc's having higher stats in normal - they gain more stats when you level themselves as opposed to hiring them at a higher level; meaning if you take a level 90 char and go to hire a merc there shouldn't be a difference between normal + hell, but, if you hire a merc. when you're levl 10 in normal and level it to 90 it will have higher stats.
this is not correct. you can go to normal diff and hire a merc at say, level 80, and if you had leveled the merc from level 1 to level 80 they will have the same stats. what matters is the difficulty setting where you hire the merc. Normal has higher stats than Nightmare, and higher still than Hell diff.
So the conviction aura overwriting thing is due to how auras are coded. You can only be affected by one of a given aura at a time, so if one paladin has a level 20 fanaticism aura and another a level 10, the game picks the level 20 as the one that affects both. The issue with conviction comes because the conviction aura graphic that shows on your character when you activate it signifies an actual conviction aura, it just doesn't have any affect on you for obvious reasons. This is fine until we run into another conviction aura. The "only one aura" rule still holds, so your benign conviction aura on you can be overwritten by a higher level non-benign one from an enemy, but their benign conviction aura isn't overwritten by yours, meaning your conviction aura effectively doesn't do anything at all versus that enemy.
I know this video is old but could i get a reply, I very much need to know this Llama!! If my merc is using Insight or Infinity, will a +skills armor or helmet add levels to the Insight or infinity Aura?
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0:00 Resistances and immunities
9:40 Conviction aura interactions
13:35 Strenght bugging
16:55 +dmge modifiers
28:46 upgrading items
51:30 Infinity(and similar items) interactions
54:30 The Anya bug
57:30 Damage reduction
1:03:57 Synergies
1:05:30 Item prefixes and suffixes
1:11:55 Gambling
1:18:40 Funky magic find and item drop interactions
1:27:00 Sorcerer Energy Shield tips
1:35:00 Life gain mechanics
1:37:45 +skills on mercenaries
1:40:45 selling to vendors trick
1:41:45 map layouts
pinned. The hero we deserve!
Was there anything about orange (crafted) items? I think you could make some recent rings with that, although I haven't actually played D2 for a descade or more.
Ya I craft items every now and then for fun. Haven't crafted anything good yet
Tal rasha bonus, is better for MF. (Belt 15%+Amu+Armor) try it
Yep I use that now. I didn't have tal's amulet at the time haha
This is probably the most in-deph D2 guide on RUclips, and people in the comment section be like "how did you get more stash?" or "why didn't you edit this?" as if their brain has withered from industrial top ten videos of tips and tricks. I'll take a moment to appreciate, I played this since the dawn on of time and even I learned something new. You don't know what you don't know, so sometimes you can go on for years without knowing something as basic as the Anya bug. So thank you.
this is mostly generic stuff for people who are too lazy to read through arreat summit tbqh
most ppl probably don't know what's arreat summit and don't have it lol
this doesn't even touch complicated things like per-frame-damage
gets wrong about magic immunity and blessed hammer
doesn't know normal/exceptional/elite before googling (calls them tiers)
doesn't know the difference between uniques, superuniques and bosses
etc etc etc
@@TheExai This guy has multiple world records in d2 yet you talk like he's an idiot 😂
Yes there is more complex stuff in d2, yes he might not know everything.
This is a FAQ, not a no life's pk guide or a course on how to become a d2 speedrunner.
If you consider EBug to be noob stuff, good for you. I played for years and did not know certain things he said.
i feel like it's these hidden secrets and tricks and mechanics that actually contributed a lot to what made diablo 2 so fun and exciting
I'm Mfing with this in the background, and literally moments after you mentioned that Pindle can drop a spiderweb sash but not an Arachnid Mesh, Meph dropped me my first ever Arach Mesh :P
Sorceress has amazing magic find due to this one secret trick! Necromancers hate her!
You won't believe what Pindleskin does next!
what trick is that?
lol Blizzard synergies and cold mastery.
99% of people fail this test!
Literally every video title ever
im confused, what do you mean this secret trick or was it just an attempt to troll?.
~46:29
The Chance Guards calculation only makes sense if you somehow start with 10 defense. So I looked it up and apparently if you have enhanced defense % on any item, it will always count it as having the max base defense + 1. So Chain Gloves can normally have 8-9 defense, therefore it's counted as having 10 defense. You can get 20-30% ED on them. If you get 20-29% ED, they will have 27 defense total (it always rounds down). If you get 30%, they will have 28.
I don't think this applies to upping them though.
Most underrated comment.
The video itself is awesome, but imo this was the only part with a mistake. Especially, that there was a guy in chat who had written the same formula (ed gives maxdef+1 always).
And sadly yes... with his Balrog Skin example, it was seen that this factor vanishes after upping (it whould have converted to 1388def). So he was right about that.
@@sdave89 unique items with %ED always spawn with the max def possible for the base item. when you up an item from exception to elite (or normal to exceptional) it randomizes the defense roll of the base item, and then adds the ED. 98 def is max for magefists, FYI.
About blocking; it's bugged to hell. Blocking an attack also always causes your next attack to miss, without exception. If you keep left-click (attack) pressed while blocking, especially when surrounded, you may end up never hitting anything. So it's not just the blocking frame recovery. One can realise the importance of this, when one considers skills like Zeal or Fend, where an entire sequence of attacks miss, if one does not stop attacking immediately after blocking. Blizzard never fixed this, of course...
Blind Target doesn't just reduce the monsters' sight radius. It also prevents mages from casting spells. Very useful for a Necromancer wanting to protect his minions from, say, a Hak'u Shaman's fiery breath or a Cantor's blizzard.
wait Diablo 2 has a BLOCKING button........
O.o
@@diamondsfinest9386 No. A blocking chance.
Man I've been watching this vid several times, still finding it interesting and great how you manage to create that relaxing atmosphere. Thank you for that.
Assassins don't use keys?! WHAT?! 1,000's of hours into D2 and I never knew that.
I just learnt that from your comment lol
20 years of D2 and I learn this now.
Lol same
Hehe always a noob 😜
Wtf
17:00 - wrong.
An "adds X damage" modifier to a weapon is applied SEPARATELY from and AFTER the %Enhanced damage mod.
37:50 technically incorrect, there was an eth bug before 1.10 that we used in 09 which involved an eth item having a zod rune socketed in 08, before 09 socketing a zod removed the internal durability stat. If you removed zod afterwards you'd have an eth bugged item that instead of getting the double dipping defense bonus was just eth and indestructible, so players could use it.
People duped tons of eth bugged arreats and swords for fury runewords.
this is correct. they reapplied the etherial status to an item that had a zod rune removed with the cube recipe. this process indirectly created the higher defense socket cube recipe to roll a random amount of sockets. Also, the max sockets that an item can have dictates the % chance of a certain number of sockets for, say, an armor. it's 25% chance for 1,2,3,4 sockets. not a 1/6 chance for 1,2,3 or 3/6 chance for 4 sockets.
Small correction: you should always max telekinesis with Energy Shield. With lvl20 TK you get a multiplier of 0.75, which is essenciall 25% DR to mana.
Regarding chancies @49:30 -- Whenever an item has enhanced defense, the item always has max base defense.
Archon plate def range is 410 to 524. If an archon plate has 5% ED, it will ALWAYS have 550 def (524 x 1.05).
I love that u use starcraft music for backround, u truly appreciate blizzard's clasics
I know this was posted over 2 years ago, but two follow up question:
1. If I give a merc Insight (which gives lvl 17 Meditation aura) then give him a +1 to all skills helm, does that add to the meditation aura?
2. Anything in this video that you missed or that's changed? Just coming back into the game after a 10 year period of not playing and am fascinated by how much I didn't know!
Really loving all your content on youtube, thanks so much for all you do!
Nothing has really changed since this time
And yes for his natural aura it will buff it, but not in your case because that aura comes from an item
Dood. I sank thousands of hours on this game. Diablo 3 aint got nothin on this.
So Did I back in 2004 as Tifas-Revenge :) Once you have the first-hand experience of levelling up from 1-99 as fast as possible, you really don't forget that huge marathon you ran, especially since it lasted just over 6 weeks.
97-99 took for fucking ever lol
I'd say D3 has more to offer, when you've played D2 so much and done everything it gets boring when you can easily get to lvl 80 in a few days from a new account.
In D3 I haven't even been too Whimmyshire because the spawn rate for the items and monsters was so low.
Path of Exile. Its more of a successor to diablo2 than diablo3 is. Free to play but not pay to win. Don't take my word for it check out its steam rating (93%) and videos. The skill tree and the gemming system is amazing.
Scott Humphreys it's a skill forest
"it can't drop the same unique twice in a game" ooohhhh so that's why they're called uniques. I never knew that lol.
@barbara gill yeah, ive once droped 3 nagel in 1 game xD
it used to be that way, but it was patched as getting SOJ was way too easy..
@@jimmyrekosuo3045
Yeah. The way how people did was get themselves both nagel and manald stashed somewhere, and just gamble the crap out of rings until it roles unique. And if that happens, it WILL always be soj.
@@JohnnyCasey really? I always thought you had to wear Nagel Ring and Manald Heal.
@@NinjaSushi2 No, they just needed to be IN the game. I had them in a stash and my buddy got a unique drop in den of evil and he got a SOJ. Pre Expac I think?
havent played this game in like 13 years just bought it again
Nice!
UPDATE: Anya bug has been fixed by blizzard
Yup, I'm about to watch an almost 2 hour long video of a game I havn't played in 6 years. I think I know a lot of this too. I was a super nerd ^^ NOSTALGIA!
Feels like im learning for an exam
try playing Path of Exile, feels like you need several masters, phd's.
Just play PoE :) Its even got whirlwind (cyclone).
That broodwar music just gets me excited every time I hear it. Awesome video.
1:32:11 NHD tststss MrLlamaSc:
The tornado skill deals two types of damage "on Collision-dmg"+"periodic dmg" both deal the same total damage (correctly shown charscreen).
Only the on collision dmg have the 25frames next hit delay (with last collide entry and is blockable). The periodic dmg is an area dmg (radius 1.5 sub-tiles), it deals damage during the first 16's 31's frame and is unblockable).
0f = cast; 1f = 1 pdmg, 10f: 1.cdmg => 25 f nhd (incl 34), 16f: 2.pdmg, 31f: 3.pdmg
32f:last enemie contakt, at 35f: NHD ends
1:04:30 hm... so Redeev and their Anima ARPG mobile game seem to have a lot of these issues ironed out... . You equip a +1 to all skills and the synergy will consider every point that adds to it.
I wonder whether they addressed any of these issues as to whether they want to leave all the way it was or adjust something like these for Resurrected?! Surely seems like a missed opportunity not to fix these "bugs" considering the price tag for Resurrected.
Is it true that the -resistance debuff in Nightmare and Hell difficulties also applies to enemies, like he mentioned?
30:08 I believe that upping a unique item only upgrade the base item to the next level (normal -> exceptional -> elite), changing its base stats (e.g. base dmg, base def), but it won't change the unique item's mods (e.g. ED) that the unique gave. So it won't upgrade the unique item to the next level unique - it's just the same unique but with better base stats. It also doesn't reroll any of the existing magic mods. It does reroll the base item's base stats, as mentioned.
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first % enhanced damage applies, then + ... damage and then on top of it assassin charges and finishing moves apply. Is that correct?
By the way do crushing blow and critical strike apply before assassin charges released?
I believe this should give you some sense of it: bfed2.diablomods.ru/site/index.php?page=gm_damage
No, I'm not talking about chance to hit, which is influenced by defence. I know, you was talking about defence. But I'm actually talking about physical damage dealt on hit.
I've found out that damage is explaned good here: classic.battle.net/diablo2exp/basics/characters.shtml
By the way, I'm kinda confused about block chance. Arreat summit says that chance to block is reduced to 1/3 (but capped at 25%) when running and description of weapon block skill says that it doesn't work while running at all. However on some websites I met info about that actually assassin's weapon block chance is not reduced even when running. I've played Diablo 2 last time long time ago, but I believe when I was running with assassin weapon block still worked. What do you say about chance to block for shield and dual claws?
And is that true that assassin's cloak of shadows has hidden ability to extinguish casted fire wall? I know for sure only that Fade has hidden physical resistance bonus, which is not displayed (that's from arreat summit).
15:25 javelins casting amazons with nothing in their hand xD, that produces weird mental images
xD
bug str.
Jason Dunne ghost dicks ;)
You watch videos like this and you realize how truly bad Diablo 3 is.
Not really, I still prefer D3 (yes I played D2 as a child and later on blih blah bloh)
don't need to watch a video like this to realize d3 is bad
@@SamusLovesMilk not for me. I beat D3 once and never touched it again. I still play D2.
@@bradclark5913 yea I agree
I only played it when it first came out and never touched it again. I tried it on Xbox for a week with my buddy but we quit.
people thought i had a map hack with how fast i could find the next levels back when i was playing d2 back in the day. but it just came from with knowing how the maps could be generated. this was a long video but a lot of cool things i never knew. thanks!
thanks! Ya lots of people just assume map hack but it's pretty cool how it's all generated
LOL he rolled a 720 armor to a 1080 on a youtube vid. Ithink that's funny :D
HD - FHD
nice :D
@1:29:40
No offense, but that's wrong! - If you max out TK (lvl 20), your "Dmg to Mana ratio" is 1 to 0.75 ! The cap is NOT 1 to 1, as the indiablo.de skill-calculator shows this for years correct. Unfortunately, they overhauled their site a while ago and it's not working as good/accurate as before... Anyway, If 100 dmg. is incoming to your char and you have 95 % ES (lvl 40) with a lvl 20 TK (hardpoints only), 95 of the 100 dmg. will be absorbed by your ES but you will only lose 71 mana. This is because Diablo II rounds all numbers and the 71.25 mana loss can't be subtracted otherwise. The 5 remaining dmg. will get checked by all of your resistances, (probably lowered even further), and than hits your life orb. Notice, that all of your resistances will NOT take into account, by damage which gets absorbed from your ES.
Hope this helps, cause I know ES & TK is for many players nothing, but a big mystery! ^^
interesting, I'll have to study it up a bit more and maybe do some testing of my own! ty
Here is a super good tip I have never heard anyone talk about. A super budget way to keep your merc alive is to give them that unique helm that "blinds target" when striking. Everything your merc hits won't attack your merc. Super budget way to keep you merc alive with what ever life leach you can get on a weapon and or armor.
Edit: also I think make "target flee" is a super under rated ability for a merc. That you use with a sorc anyways. Another super budget way to keep your merc alive if you have nothing else. It also doesn't matter if the enemy runs cause your a sorc and can kill at a distance.
Mr Lama,
1. does synergy soft points counts as hard point when they are below 20? (like 10 hard points and +7 skill from no matter what above frost bolt)
2. how critical strikes works with deadly strike? for example if ive got 50% critical strike chance and 50% deadly strike chance, do ive got 50% chance to x4 dmg or 100% to x2 dmg or ive got nothing? xD
ty
dude im watching 3 of your videos at once! what have you done to me?! your content is awsome. and I love diablo 2
You missed some of the subtlety of hammerdins and magic immune monsters at 9 minutes in. Yes, you cannot remove magic immunity with auras, curses or anything else; however, blessed hammer specifically does extra damage (150%) against undead. It just so happens that MOST of the monsters that spawn with magic immunity are also undead. (usually those act 2 mummies) This extra damage to undead from blessed hammer actually acts as an immunity breaker and will do damage to them anyway despite no extra -resistance mechanics at play.
TLDR: Hammerdins OP. Very, very few monsters spawn that they can't kill with their main button.
this got fixed at some point, though. So it's no longer the case.
Its weird to see something like this with information that has actually changed like with the addition of Sunder Charms to Break Immunities.
This is all still good information and I know D2R came out after this, but still really cool.
I grew up playing LoD and never in my years of playing this game did I expect to get any sort of upgrade.
Thanks for the info Llama!
Yeah the game has shifted! Maybe time to make a new tips video
Unique items with %Enhanced Defense don't roll defense. They get the max possible defense for that item +1. You can see it at 32:24 with the 252 defense Vampire Gaze.
130% cold/fire/lightning immunity and above is unbreakable even with a level 25 Conviction. 150% - res. all Conviction works at 1/5 efficiency --> 150/5=30; 130-30=100% resistance, still immune.
Possible breakable immunity by additional lower resist curse (by necro or by item charge)
Hi. Thanks for the tips. May i know why do your inventory have so many pages? Mine only have 1
Hey, quick question for the whole resistances thing, if you had enough rainbow facets to socket(all -5 element). So 6 in a weapon, 3 helm, 4 chest, 4 shield, plus lower resist/conviction aura or infinity. That would still not be able to break the highest element immunities?
Those will only apply once resistance is broken, so no those will not aid in the actual breaking of a resistance
btw, i think if you put more points into TK(past 16) it starts to act like physical reduction and resistances for your mana were normally your phys reduction and resist don't count towards the dmg to your mana. People don't use it because of mana leech.
With Tgods belt and wisp you can heal from lighting damage with 75 res, it's super handy with boss packs of gloams
Blackhorn's Face is good for that too.
You aren't wrong, I just feel like helm is a more valuable position than rings in D2, lots of +2 skills, damage reduction, IAS and all sorts of goodies in helm slots, as compared to rings, but it's a more reliable choice to be sure and I normal have one on my Merc.
i think biggest bug that many peoples dont know about is when you equip merc with +x%dmg jewel the bonus will not work even its showed as boosted on merc stats (im not sure if that applies also on +x%dmg items tho)
Ya there's a lot of issues with the +%dmg stuff. It works in weird ways (I think same thing for like if you have it in armor and stuff)
13:45 - How did you get a spirit runeword on a solo character? Isn't it ladder only?
Yes. My mod allows for ladder runewords in single player
Right. And the mod is not compatible with 1.14d. My neverending quest for ladder runewords continues!
Just need to change your runes.txt actually!
Check out links like this. May be of help: www.gamefaqs.com/boards/370600-diablo-ii-lord-of-destruction/62650884
When the music started I thought a SCV will appear in Lut Golein an start building a bunker at the entrance :-)
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"I have not found Mang Song yet, no"
Took you 4 years :D
Lmao
Starting sound is starcraft terran ?
yes sc 1 for sure =)
here for my refresher course in 2021
Have a high strength amulet in inventory and equip before picking up body will help you pick up body much safer, original amulet will go to the inventory slot so just swap it out later
knowing all of this makes me feel so nostalgic
Holy Crap.... The music at the beginning.... Sounds like SC1.... Great Vid as always Llama
This is awesome, you are explaining things that i didn't even know when i was playing D2 back when i was child.
Any chance you could play SC:BW? That background music is getting me. XD
I do love me some SCBW. I've got some vids on my channel of it (I think I have a playlist)
MrLlamaSC SCBW?
starcraft brood war LMAO
starcraft : broodwar
great questoin bra; one of the greatest games ever; way better than sc2
Brilliant video, I learned a lot. I was really enjoying it right up to the point when you found Arm of King Leoric and then THREW IT ON THE GROUND?! LOL
I want that item so bad, I almost choked when I saw that hahaha
I throw a lot of stuff away haha :P
Going back from d2r to lod was a breath of fresh air. Going back from Diablo 4 to lod was like escaping from a mildewed rug immersed in sewage. By the way I love the Starcraft music he used.
is there a place where all of this is written down? is there a website or app that will tell me my actual damage/resistance?
Wooooop, keep up all this new material coming. So much unique and great ideas. One idea off of my head, speed run with 8 characters, each a different class and a different mercy lol.
MrLlamaSC when are you streaming? I think I could watch it tomorrow
mrllamasc.com/schedule/
MrLlamaSC I checked it. It said on Monday you would stream 7:30. I went to your twitch and it was a musician you were hosting. Tomorrow will you stream cause I'd love to see 7 different classes all working together. 7 classes and maybe another sorc or fishymancer.
Ended up streaming at around 8:30 on Monday because I had to make dinner for the week. We ended up running I think 5 of the classes though across 8 players?
You forgot: Normal merc also has higher resistance vs nm or hell. You can only upgrade uniques, not rares... but you can roll magic items for multiple sockets with cube recipe if the item is capable. Lastly, the maps aren't procedurally generated but there's a lot of variations. Good video though, cant believe I watched the whole thing...
you can definitely upgrade rares, though it's a different forumla than the unique upgrade. Source: classic.battle.net/diablo2exp/items/cube.shtml
Some maps are also procedurally generated, though not all. Some maps (Such as outer cloister) have set variations, others though were generated using tile pieces. :)
I don't know how I never ever noticed that. D2--full of little things you never realized.
Ever considered doing guides for end builds stat priority and overall item explanation ? I would love to see some of those. Really enjoy your vids keep it up :)
I've thought about it, but I actually much prefer early game-mid game stuff. End game usually just gets too easy in most games and I don't quite find it as enjoyable.
i kinda like the idea of the conviction auro overwriting, because if u have more knowledge the spell doesnt affect u, i like that
so if they are cold immune at 105% resist, and your cold mastery is 160% resistance ignoring, it still wont do any damage?
Wait so why didnt the duskdeep at 36:20 cube into a darksight if thats is its exceptional version? awesome video thanks
It upgraded from a Full Helm to a Basinet
It upgrades the BASE item type (full helm to basinet) but it doesn't change the item to the next level unique.
Great video!
What is a mode you use with infinite stash and item level display? Is it PlugY?
thats it indeed
I'm intoxicated on whiskey, I like this video, gj mate.
I have been playing D2 on and off for many years, always kind of casually.
I want to know if you have or could make a video of how to play the game as efficently as possible, to mae the most progress the quickest basically, because doing a startup can be slow..
hmm that's an interesting idea actually. Make a sort of "let's play" where I half speedrun but make it still comfortable enough that anyone could do it.
Hey Llama, so this means that peace is not a viable runeword for an act-2 merc? I have a 3os sacred armor and don't know what to do with it. Maybe just throw resistances in it lol
I mean...it wouldn't be great but it could be okay!
@@MrLlamaSC Would the +2 critical strike affect your mercs damage
I heard that in version 1.14d putting hard points into raven will add elemental resistance for spirit wolves/dire wolves/ grizzly. Is that true?
I haven't heard this but I also haven't studied that tree too much!
More on "Ignore defens": Ignore Target's Defense will not work on super unique bosses, but "negate" Target Defense will work, that is why a Last Wish is a bad weapon for a kicksin against the übers, but a Fleshripper is just so awesome aginst them ;-)
Wow nice bro. You like the creator of the Diablo 2. Love all your video. Bringing back memories :)
This video needs to be put into your guide playlist
Have Q about ebugging armor: So if you find normal class eth armor and upping it to elite version, that 50% bug applies every time? And adds again when socketing with cube? ;)
The ebug only works with normal quality items and when using the recipe to socket. It doesn't work with the upping recipe and uniques can't be socketed with the cube.
I'm pretty sure etheral bugging only applies when using the socket cube recipe.
This makes me wanna play D2 again. It's been a long time.
@MrLlamaSC If what you said about conviction auras are true against Uber mephisto shouldn't smiters run that aura and get IAS from items rather than fanaticism?
Hey there Llama, I got 2 questions. How is it that your map is already explored? Is it a mod or something? The Second question is how do I fix Plugy for the new version of Diablo II (v1.14d)?
A little more info about Plugy and the latest build of D2. There were a lot of non-trivial changes made that will make it tough for anyone other than a relatively serious coder to make plugy work again.
That being said, I believe that the plugy was released so someone could take the project and run with it.
plugy on 1.13 only. Also single player maps only reset when you change difficulties so I had already explored these areas. That's standard without any mod
In single player the maps are saved after you explore them but they will be reset once you start a game on another difficulty.
Thanks so much MrLlama! Definitely using this for D2R!
music from 1:00:29 to 1:04:13 pls?
your tip about the crystal sword is a good tip in norm cows a normal crystal sword will socket to get 4 sockets any where else it will get ether norm-baal=1 socket nightmare -hell end=6 sockets
yo llama, have u ever done a video that explains how defense works? it always just seemed like an abstract number lol, never really understood it
eg, if someone does 100 - 110 dmg and i have 500 defense, how much do they do? n does physical / magic attack matter?
There's a formula to explain it, but a video could be good to do!
u had me at diablo!!!
if they have hight rezist on fire then lightning ?
There's also this problem with traps and +fire\lightning damage% - apart from not receiving the elemental bonus by traps, the bonus from itself is actually displayed in character stats.
What mods do you use in your game? Wanted to play d2 on upcoming holidays and was wondering what mods to install for the best gameplay (e.g. stats reset, talents reset etc)
plugy mod is all I use. Takes care of all of that stuff and is pretty nice to have
What mods are you running? I've also noticed in your streams that your hot keys are normal letter keys, and not just restricted to the f buttons. I play online, so not just single player, am I able to use certain mods on bnet, or is that more of a single player thing?
He's using pluggy, which is a SP mod. You can also assign skill hotkeys to any key you want - just explore the keybinding menu.
question, how do you upgrade normal (white items) teir 1 weapons and armor to exceptional weapons and armor to elite? or can it only be done on unique and set items? I know you can up low quality to normal
you don't upgrade normal white items. Only unique and rare!
MrLlamaSC OK thanks, wasn't sure if you could or couldnt
13:35 str bug. When I do this, i always carry a 20+ strength ring or ammy to switch out.
"Number 8 will shock you!" LMAO As long as it will make my jaw literally drop.
Watching this made me feel like I was back in high school where you had that one teacher that had absolutely little to no focus at all. lol only 10 minutes in and I feel like drawing on my text book.
question doest magic find applies on runes?
When an item has %ed, it will always have the maximum roll for base defense. The exception are upgraded items, as for those the base defense gets rolled when upgrading. One of the reasons why perfectly upped (or double upped) bloodfists are worth quite a bit. Diablo drops ilvl 94, nila 95, baal 99.
Yep just remembered that. It's those pesky re-rolls that can getcha
For Merc's having higher stats in normal - they gain more stats when you level themselves as opposed to hiring them at a higher level; meaning if you take a level 90 char and go to hire a merc there shouldn't be a difference between normal + hell, but, if you hire a merc. when you're levl 10 in normal and level it to 90 it will have higher stats.
this is not correct. you can go to normal diff and hire a merc at say, level 80, and if you had leveled the merc from level 1 to level 80 they will have the same stats.
what matters is the difficulty setting where you hire the merc. Normal has higher stats than Nightmare, and higher still than Hell diff.
So the conviction aura overwriting thing is due to how auras are coded. You can only be affected by one of a given aura at a time, so if one paladin has a level 20 fanaticism aura and another a level 10, the game picks the level 20 as the one that affects both. The issue with conviction comes because the conviction aura graphic that shows on your character when you activate it signifies an actual conviction aura, it just doesn't have any affect on you for obvious reasons. This is fine until we run into another conviction aura. The "only one aura" rule still holds, so your benign conviction aura on you can be overwritten by a higher level non-benign one from an enemy, but their benign conviction aura isn't overwritten by yours, meaning your conviction aura effectively doesn't do anything at all versus that enemy.
+dmg from Grief doesnt work on kicks right?
I know this video is old but could i get a reply, I very much need to know this Llama!! If my merc is using Insight or Infinity, will a +skills armor or helmet add levels to the Insight or infinity Aura?
nope, won't increase it!
Awesome, thanks for taking the time to reply i really appreciate it, i couldn't find the answer on google.
How about the melee poison damage and critical strike interaction I.e. Making it break.
Everyone- Hammerdin OP
Act 2 baal wave- hold my beer
are you using an inventory mod? how do you have extra tabs?
Harley Russell Use D2SE
Wait but you're giving this guide with a mod that expands storage space right?
hey just found your channel.. how do you get the extra inventory space?
plugy mod!
you go on battle.net forums and complain about bots on battle.net d2. they will gift you stash space so you get the fuck out to single player
1:23:30 so if i sell any unique item i get it wont ever drop again in that game?
witch version do you use to play diablo2 i play d2 for 17 years and i never see a stash like yours
most of the time 1.14 but I'm using 1.13 for this character so I can use plugy mod for the big stash