How on earth does someone get 30 jah runes? I’ve never seen one in my life. Non ladder prices are unrealistic!

So cute and baby stats!

I'm pretty sure anyone who is summoning a bind demon would much rather be using it than consuming it anyway and it is SOOOOO annoying on a controller to have to be extra careful everytime to consume defiler instead of your demon..

If a skill is that annoying to work around it needs to be adjusted.

Hey guys

So I’m super bummed out right now.

I have been playing offline since 2019 on and off and have gotten many characters up to about 90-97.

I have been playing on a steam deck.
Yesterday the steam os updated and my Battle.net couldn’t launch due to a .dll error.
I redownloaded and installed Diablo again only to find that all of my offline saves were gone. I have been looking all over for the .d2s files, but I can’t seem to find them.

Does anyone know anything that could maybe help me get my characters back?
Really not looking forward to grinding for my CoHs, ctas, enigmas etc again… 🥲

"I've already invested 100 runs. One more i will find an hr for sure."

Protecting us from gambling since '99

And I love it. No seasonal "rush" to get to end game. It's all about min maxing each battle with no gear from a main.

It's been great.

I will say after my first death to chaos sanctuary demons I know very little about the leveling process/ early game defence mechanics.

Any tips would be greatly appreciated.

More info.

I died at level 28 as a warlock. I had stealth and other garbage on.

Only 12/13, but still pretty damn happy!

Only farmed 3 torches so far and have a Sorc and a Lock (druid is the 3rd).

Also picked up a Mal, enough lower runes for probably 2xUms when cubed and an SOJ!! from Nith during the key hunt!

2nd SOJ found, so debating popping for a 2nd anni for QoL, but seems like a waste. My first one rolled 13/20/10 so doubt I can do better than that. Seems like the SOJ is probably better to keep rather than being too lazy to change.

Getting closer and closer to an enigma, still so very far away though! One day ill be able to finally play the game!

I am perhaps uniquely qualified to speak on this topic as countess has been my default farm run for basically my whole d2 career. I do other farm runs to mix it up or to target farm but I always come back to doing countess runs on my lite sorc. Someone recently shared with me a post which I guess is old lore at this point about how you will spend your whole life cubing up runes and never even get a zod and that's just using the cube not even the rune farming. This upset me for more than a few reasons.

First of all, el might be the lowest rune but it's far from the most common. The vast majority of rune drops from hell countess and other hell mobs in act 1 fall between tal and sol. Honorable mention to ith and eth.

Second, most of the time when you farm countess you end up with 3-5 runes in your inventory not 1. If you kill elites and rares and high density packs on the way not to mention open the chests on the 5th floor you almost always get yourself an extra rune or 2 out of the run.

Third, I don't think anyone is actually pushing high runes up higher than ber/Jah until you have an excess of them and after you already have that first enigma and have unlocked many other varieties of playthroughs with that advanced gear.

Some weeks ago I started a fresh offline playthrough and naturally defaulted to countess farming. All of my meaningful loot has come from countess. I'm sub 100 hours and I have a grief and a shako and I just made my hoto. Yes I was absurdly lucky to get a Lo rune off countess. No one should expect that. But to tell people that picking up low runes is a waste of time is blatantly wrong. You can get huge value out of them by cubing them up over time, and not nearly as much time as everyone implies. Your limiting factor will always be chipped topaz and amethyst and nothing else. If you play online you should never cube up rals or hels because they are so valuable on their own. But here's what my inventory looks like after pushing everything I had up to a vex for my hoto and then doing another 30 minutes or so of countess runs afterward. I wanted to make sure I still had runes for my CTA if I get an ohm like I got the Lo so I set aside a few mals.

If anyone thinks they can casually make more progress on a fresh offline playthrough through a different method, fking prove it. Up there I said sub 100 hours because I don't want to get caught exaggerating but honestly I'm probably at like 20 hours. There's no way I've had even 50 hours of free time in the past few weeks and I play other games too lol.

Merc has insight thresher tal helm with a ral and treachery if anyone is curious. I also have a +3 light ammy, war travs, gheeds, trang gloves, a few skillers. Rest of the gear is fcr and resist blues and yellows.

No anni or torches yet my smiter is level 29 and I don't think I'm going to be able to make my frenzy barb strong enough to be worth risking the keys in the short term so that's my next short term goal.

before a Ber or a Jah or even a vex. I've gotten 4 Sur 5 Lo 1 Ohm and now a Zod this season. well first online zod ever.

I came back after 2 decades, made a blizz sorc, had very little items and hell act1 was very hard for me with cold immunity.

Got boosted for free by someone called Isolde. Even gave me a couple items for the road ahead!

Theres a few good guys left in this world, thank you!

AS the title says, I have been playing since I got the OG game in EBGames at launch all those years ago. But I just got D2R+RotW and was wondering if there are any 'need to know' differences with the new version that might effect my playthrough experience.

I have always mained NovaNecros if there is anything granular to know about that in particular as well, but that is an aside from the main question. Yes I know many of you hate them. I have been hearing that for a *long* time.

I know, It's not a 15%, but maybe worth something?

Newish player. Just beat A4 hell with poison/LF hybrid javazon. Got 1 respec left. Should I go full LF amazon or wait till I finish A5? I don’t mind running from some mobs if I respec. How bad are light immunes in A5?

Anyone else think about how many God tier rolls they tossed before they knew what they were actually looking at?

I know for a fact I tossed a perfect shako before I knew how good it was because I was a summon druid and thought it had no use. And idk how many triple res boots before I knew how important resistances are.

I do countess runs until my eyes bleed. It's what I do to chill after work. It's how I used to build up currency in online ladder seasons selling perfect spirits and insights and sets and hel runes.

Now I'm doing an offline play though. I'm allergic to LK and my horker is fun and coming online but I still want to do braindead countess runs until I can push a hundred bazillion nef runes all the way up so that in 6 years I can have an enigma.

The problem is I keep running out of chipped topaz and amethyst. I wish they would let me shatter my normal and flawed gems down but until they add that, what's your favorite way to do p8 playthrough of normal? What gear do you use and how do you play? Alternatively do you have a fun way to farm chipped gems specifically? Fun>optimal

Was leveling my nova sorc. Might be the the best amulet i could have found for it

If each playable character class had a canonical name assigned to them what would it be?

Like the Druid could be called Ulfric or something or the Sorceress had a name like Elena?

What are your thoughts on this one? 🤔