The Moving Caravan

Nice work! Beating Duriel is no joke in 1.05 HC. I've always fought him in self-hosted p8 games so it's odd not seeing him teleport around the chamber :lol: I'm a huge fan of using Jab against him - you attack at a fixed speed, and he can't charge you if you're in a corner. The damage on javelins+sh...

Aside from WW Barb, what are some good builds for Classic 1.05b? Static Field + Frozen Orb Sorc is arguably the strongest 1.05 build, since SF scales with players. Levels 1-29 are tough since you're using junk slvl 1 skills, but once you get Orb + Mastery you really zip through the game. A fire Sor...

I remember hearing at some point that itemization in 1.00-1.06 was built so there was no "best item" - you would always be looking for something better. Hence why rares were generally better than anything else, because there was so much variance in affixes that I don't think the perfect la...

fearedbliss Thanks for the history lesson! It explains a lot that 1.10 was based on a planned expansion pack, but implemented by one person - now it makes sense that the changes were both so sweeping (synergies, new items, Ubers) but also kinda half-baked (guest monsters, synergy balance). It's a s...

I remember hearing back during the wait for 1.10 that one person was doing everything for it. Was that actually true, and did that include design (synergies et al)?

Snotspill wrote: ↑Fri Jun 16, 2023 2:16 pmI'm afraid my first attempt this time round (Amazon) ended at Hell Duriel. I got cocky.

That's one of the single toughest fights in the game, especially for an Amazon. I don't think it's really possible without Jab + loads of life leech.

I'm thinking of https://www.purediablo.com/forums/threads/act-v-barb-merc-damage-doubled-for-1h.867/ - I've seen the occasional discussion about if 1h weapons get their damage doubled, and there's a Fruit post walking through it for 1.07, but I haven't really seen anything definitive for 1.08+. If i...

Nice! Does 1.09 also double the damage of 1h swords, or was that just a 1.07 thing?

I tried this with an old version, but I couldn't do a whole lot in this. It's been years, but I recall the game crashing whenever I tried to use the Act 5 portal or a waypoint. I did poke around the mpqs and wrote up some of my findings, but ran out of gas before getting through items - https://tcrf...

These are the best that I've seen - the damage is high enough that Lo might actually out damage Ohm.