Im still playing Diablo 2 , Icewind dale , Neverwinter nights , Warcraft 3 etc on a retro pc (windows XP) that isn't connected on internet. Its the best thing 😊
Im 39 years old and playing diablo since 1996. im HC Paladin world champion and HC Necromancer Europe 11. For the last 15 years im playing SP HC and i still try to find runes/items while trying to stay alive :). Started to a fresh SP HC in 2024 and i can give it another 24 years :) also thanks for the videos Phil, i still learn new things :)
@@MichaelPohoreski 3 weeks ago found a Tyraels Might (/Players 2, Cow run, BlizzardOrbES L90 Sorc) good luck with yours :) never done holygrail and i think i wont.
I began playing the 1.07 patch this year to obtain certain high quality items you can't obtain anymore. That or some ethereal weapon bases for indestructible and hireling runeword weapons. Also that version of the game is a complete different experience, enemies do so much damage.
@@Patrick_The_Purebuggy 1.07. but the rack farming is rewarding, i got the unique balrog skin and other elite unique items back then. those were the days
Or just dumping a character to get runes. I made a character called DrDupe and load up 2 of each runes. Every so often I just make the next level rune. I have been able to mess around with runewards for fun and it has been a lot more fun. Is it cheating... Maybe. Do I feel like doing hundreds of Countess or hours of Act 3? No lol
You've finally convinced me. After losing my latest hardcore ladder character after three months' work, I've started an offline grail. Up and running this morning with the Infernal Cranium 😁.
I've played countless hours online starting back in the old days of D2 LOD. I thought I enjoyed the game. I still enjoy playing online, don't get me wrong; but I will never forget the experience of getting my first SoJ in an offline account. The high of getting your GG item after hours of planning and grinding, is worth the payoff.
That's awsome :D The dopamine hit is so big when that happens! I remember getting a SoJ in A1 in early ladder once. You generally don't get that in other ARPGs. The excitement of being able to get such high tier items early on makes D2 so much fun. I wish they'd remake 2 and add more content to it. What I mean by remake is update the engine 1:1 with modern fixes, and not go D3-4 route. That'd make long time fans so happy. Worth dreaming? Haha
Absolutely agreed! I've been trying online for a week now and the server inconsistency has been so jarring. I'd very much enjoy a tutorial on hero editor so I can recreate some of the characters I lost many computers ago. Keep up the great work!
Without a single player you really don't own the game you paid for. You can't mod it, you can't play it how you want, and when they shutdown servers, you will loose the game you paid for. Single player is the only place where I can feel that I can do what I want with what I paid for.
I mean you arent going to change peoples minds. People are still going to play PvP, rushing, co-op. Terror zones is more fun with 8 players. Trading is fun. And just playing with other people makes it more fun for me. Play solo feels like a empty game.
@@hecatomb1864 I didn't say they cant play PvP and so on. I said Single-Player needs to be option. Option means you can choose it if you want to or not if you don't want to. Right now online mode is not an option - everyone has to choose it. My idea was that those who want to choose single player can choose single player and those who want multiplayer can still choose multiplayer.
great Vid Phil, well thought out and executed - I have previously played D2 for online and got bored of it and went away from the game for quite some time. Came back recently and now play SP offline exclusively - and am Slayin It! (well sort of, level 89 atm-Dad bod and work long hours.......) anyhow, the game feels much more enjoyable to me as I work to gear my main (NovaSorc) and several alts (Including the XbowSorc you inspired me to try out-level52 atm)......each time I find a piece of BiS gear it is super exciting - I just hit Mephy 2 days ago for my first SP Arachnid Mesh and I ran around the house like a chicken with it head cut off (Wife thinks I am whacked), anyhow moments like that really make me feel like the hours and effort I put into Toons pay off.....thanks as always Phil - YOU ROCK!
You make it very appealing to want to play SP for sure! The reason D2 is so great is that there are all these game mode options to fit a person's style. I only play NL. I'm not trying to compete on Ladder and not sleep. I like being able to trade when needed. I like being able to play with the homies when I can. I like being able to hook friends up or giving away items. Down sides: No players count settings, and no ladder only rune words.
Yes smalps! Social fun, give aways, helping new players, making new friends, learning from others! Trading trading trading! Online is defo better imho.
Continue farming hours to get crap items then. Ill roll 3 ctas and 4 hotos today. I also have 4 stashes of unid hell farmed items for only 90 fgs for saleé Only 90 fgs each!@@xzxxx-km4vy
I love SP, but sometimes it is hard giving up trading. With RNG you could have made a HOTO before getting magefists or have an Enigma before finding a Shako.
I started to play D2R in SP too because I asked myself ,why am I playing MP if i hadnt played with other players together for such a long time ^^ I was playing D2R Online but alone...so since then I am enjoying the game in SP mode.
Fun little tidbit about Offline Difficulty Scaling, Players 7 is nearly identical to Players 8, which then means if your having too much trouble with the highest, you CAN tone it done a notch without screwing with drop rates.
Been trying to do this myself for the first time on my PS5 copy of D2R cause I have this crazy goal of one day trying to maybe possibly hopefully plat the game. Never had a 99 character period, so this is asking a lot. Went summon necro cause it's what I'm most comfortable with but there's so many things I don't know and the guides I've found are only so helpful. Like what rune words should I be using by what point? What items should I try to get from vendors and when? (Saw that it was supposedly possible to get like a 3 socket helm and tele staff in act 1 but I haven't seen it). Just little things like that to smooth things out and make it quicker would be nice but ugh. Honestly I just want some kinda lazy spelled-out-for-me-guide and I'll just do the work of playing the game itself and following along where applicable.
@@Taima damage reduction is op until hell act 4 tbh. Stack as much as you can and you’ll be golden. Though necro might not have the best damage Also resist must be capped at all times before the end of normal
I'm 42, always played online, but even back then I was mostly playing solo. With the new D2R, I have no more time to do all that farming, I tried, have some good characters, but with trading people only want perfects, can't get anything for decent non-perfects. People try to rip you off constantly if you are not an expert at the D2 pricing/values, it is just annoying to deal with. I just started my first offline Sorceress, so I don't have to deal with any of that anymore and I can get more drops with the /players setting and QoL mods that should have been in the game for years already (bigger stash, stackable gems+runes).
@@tonybreeden863 No, it's a web page - that's what he means by online. It used to be a program called Jamella you downloaded and ran on your computer to edit save files. Now instead you go to a website, and create then download your character. You can also upload a single player character to edit, then download the edited version.
I really enjoy single player. I tried it a few times over the years but never really got into it. Once D2R came out, Sweet Phil inspired me to try it again, and I fell in love all over(shared stash was huge for that). I doubt I'll ever finish it, but I'm working on that Holy Grail
One thing you didnt include as a single player benefit. There is nothing worse than grinding online and seeing something like a Jah rune drop and someone else in the game beats you to it. I have horrible luck finding stuff to begin with but I have vision issues as well which cause it to take a second before I see stuff like that. Takes a moment for it to register for me before I even start to scroll over and click on it. So I will never win the race to get a top tier item that drops in a groun game. Dont have to worry about that in single player. I can go anyware and clear a whole screen of stuff and then check the drops without any worry about missing something cuz someone else beat me to it.
If you have trouble with vision, in SP you can use the mod that makes those pillars of light from D3 when item drops. By default it's unique items I think, but you can use configuration menu to setup for which item type\quality this happens. Think this will help you a lot.
Yeah but you're complaining about the loot metric. These games were ALWAYS high stakes... Hell, in the original when you died all items on your corpse just fell into the dungeon... If I'm not mistaken they've corrected the rune issue by coloring them orange, a la mousepad, in the remaster... Vision aside what more can you ask for?
@@drwombat Its more of a delay for me to see it, it registers in my brain what it is, and then I try to click and pick it up. So my reaction time is far to low to get anything when playing online. The only downsides to playing offline are not being able to play with friends and having to find everything since you cant trade. Im to the point where I have almost everything I want, except runes. So I have to grind for endless hours just to play the builds I want to play. Id rather just play the game at this point instead of grinding forever to find what I need with builds I dont really want to play at this point
On diablo if you boot game as administrator. Vs not as administrator you will get a separate offline saved game folder so make sure you stay in same one.
The only flaw that I can think of with D2 resurrected is that check-in DRM that they got implemented in the damn thing. If I could find a reliable way to remove that Check-in DRM permanently then offline D2R would be absolutely perfect.
You can “trade” offline with a hero editor. Look up online how much something is going for, give yourself the item you want and delete the one you don’t. Trading without the hassle.
@ianbraun271 You are using a 3rd party program to change the game. Make no mistake about it, it's still cheating even if you are just cheating yourself.
single player is so satisfying, that first Um rune I found made me feel just as much as finding a Ber online, because the *only* way I could get that Um was finding one myself - and stuff like Ohm or Death's Fathom was on a whole other level
Um is a very common rune. You all just fooling yourselves when using the /players x command and using infinite amount of stash tabs. People online are playing the game the real way, most getting the most rare drops on P1 and no infinite stash tabs, you people are just casuals its better to say it that way than saying single player is better. I too play single player but i can admit that only casuals that want an easy mode play single player
@@87539319 Except online is a constant fight for loot, that's another layer of difficulty. I play single player with the /players x but i know that if i was online i would have to do it all on players 1 unless i feel like competing for loot and see who can click faster on that Jah or Ber rune, definitely not for me. And the fact you can't even stack gems and runes online is even more torture. Playing online is much harder
@@ryanzurawskii Playing online forces you to limited stash size, forces you to players 1 loot, forces you to compete for loot if you want to increse the odds, doesnt allow for infinite respecs etc
Yupp me2.. Got a lvl 98 sin with infinity and enigma plus other stuff.. Took me more then a year to grind thoose stuff but man the highs u get gettin a hr in sp is unbeatable
I recently started learning how to modify the game to essentially create my own "mod" kind of, and it only works on Single Player naturally, but I don't mind to be honest, usually when I play even if its online I play by myself 99% of the time, so now I'm having a blast in my own modded Single Player game, my mod supports more weapons for the Hirelings, loads of new different item affixes that can spawn, and a complete overhaul of all items to my liking :) Almost all Unique items got either buffed stats and/or completely new and interesting procs and abilities :) and I made all those crappy set item sets much better! I even buffed blue magic Items so that they potentially can roll with some useful stats and skills, completely changed how I play the game 😊
Could add one more benefit. In single player you can also farm a specific armor stash. For example wayyyy back I found a map where was an armor stash behind Mephisto and it had Lacquered plate everytime and I farmed it till I finally got my first Tals armor from it. Not that its among the rarest of items, but it was nice to have the set put together when they introduced the shiny aura with the sets.
Great breakdown there was some things that i didnt know. Single player and Multiplayer are awesome together due to you can jump onto another character if you dont like the terror zone from offline to online. tuning the difficulty not just for loot but pure fun of stronger monsters is also a bonus! Its just you against all of hells forces
I have maxed out most of my online characters so i hace been doing offline. It is really hard because i cant reach out to friends foe help or find thibgs as easily. One thing i disagree with it the player change in offline. If i make it players 8 offline its still just me playing. Which is very difficult. However online i actually have 8 players to help slay monsters. So mute point on #2 benefit of being able to change player count. Great work Phil!
Offline is the only way to go really. Leveling new characters is easy, i literally have a separate sorc for each of the boss with perfected maps. Also to mention the unlimited character creation as storage. Offline presents a chalenge of its own and makes the game much more interesting as playing an "iron man" mode.
yo P, have you heard about the D2R Reimagined Mod? It reminds me of PD2 in terms of quality of life features and new items. Currently it is only playable in offline mode and from what I ve heard, the balance seems to be similar to vanilla D2R. Right now I dont see a point anymore in playing offline D2R vanilla, because the quality of life is just a game changer. Ideally they would port PD2 at some point into D2R, that would be an absolute dream, because the graphics is the only thing holding be back from Pd2. but the reimagined mod is such a good start towards this goal, it even brought back the burned out Debrusnki back to D2R. what are your thoughts?
Make sure to backup your characters every once in a while. I had a power cut & my character file was corrupt & lost everything. It was my first SP character. It was a painful lesson
I want to get back into D2 but i dont have the time like i used to so I might look into D2R offline + mods... looks like there are mods for boosting drop rates and xp gain so that would be fun
If there's a build you wanna go for but you just can't find that high rune to complete the build and you don't wanna waste years farming it, you can always "make" yourself that rune/item with hero editor.
I tried playing online , and it felt a little laggy , hits werent regustering when i pressed buttons. I went offline and it felt completely different. Maybe different servers on console vs pc. But i play it on ps5 offline only and i have a blast so far. Also, this "here editor' can that work on console? Or is this only pc? really would love to have diablo 2 ress on my pc..maybe one day!
I already played Diablo 2: LoD for thousands of hours online as a teenager and I even kept up "perming" my characters for years. However, I got tired of doing that eventually and Blizzard just deleted literally all my accounts/characters, so to me, I'd rather play offline now. I had enough PvP experience for a lifetime anyways. If you care enough to amass your fortune and characters online, then you'll probably care when they delete it as well, which will happen eventually, so which one is pointless? At least I can backup my offline characters.
Frankly, for someone like me that likes collecting things in games, the very existence of Gomule means I'm playing offline exclusively. The complete lack of any lag, the static maps and the /players x command sure don't hurt either.
Hero Editor (an older one that wasnt as nice as this one) is what i used to start my grail. I took my old broke af, poorly geared level 74 ladder sorc and remade her identically in hero editor and ported it over into singleplayer to start my grail. I didnt transfer any of my gold (that was a huge mistake lol) or anything from my merc (kinda stupid) but at the same time it made my start feel more legit because i was on the back foot.
I am new to diablo 2 so I am playing offline single player in order to learn the ins and outs of everything then I will go online but right now having a blast just playing single player tbh great game so far
I only play Single Player offline for the following reasons: 1. You can run any terror zone as much as you like 2. You don't have to search for high player number games 3. You don't have to be afraid of players leaving as soon as you joined (like in Baal runs for example) 3. You don't have to fight over the loot with other players 4. You don't have to hear "it's my zone GTFO" or from hostile players 5. No more map reloading everytime 6. AND OFC.....Lower Kurast CHESTS!
Im an old school d2 player from the time prior of the lod expansion and prior d2r and I always enjoyed the game much more playing offline. The game is perfect for soloing, its more challenging to find the items you want and progress...
it's like offline I already have enigma but the saddest thing is online even with like 10+ level 80+ characters I can't find one ber, my highest was a sur lol permanent maps help a lot
I started playing online because I was hoping to play with my brother, because I don't have any friends. Unfortunately he doesn't have time to game anymore. I was playing solo online and never checked the lobby browser. I decided to check the lobby browser and seen people giving away free loot and I was amazed at all these cool things they dropped that I could never find back in the day, Titan's Revenge, Oculus, Tal's set, etc. This one cool dude gave me all his hammerdin gear and I had a blast destroying everything.
Another online benefit you didn't mention is characters are shared on different devices and platform. If you have been playing in the PC for a while but now you want to play in the couch, just log off, pick your Switch and you will be playing your character where you left it. And a downside to offline is your characters cannot be shared between devices, they are stuck to the device they are created. This is the reason I only play online even if I play by myself 99% of the time.
Lag seems the most important reason to choose offline play. I died so many times due to lag or Misshapen's orbs hitting me when I was 10 meters away from them
Pre LOD i installed on the computer i had at my moms, no internet. /players 8 and d2 character editor was a blast. I made items that weren't game breaking. Also, this game is better when you cant get rushed to the endgame content in a single day.
I genuinely had to laugh at this. I've spent days now doing terror zones, trying to find Tal's armor. That's all I need to complete the set, and it won't drop.
@@djinn_tseng its always that one item you really need that wont drop. On my offline I have infinity, grief, hoto, cta, soj's but i cant hit the one item i need - arachs. Guess same is for you with tal's. Got 4 tal's btw >< good luck on yours
I play both :D online for pvp mostly though. SP is kinda cool when you find rare stuff. The other day I found a Jah rune in single player, which is what I needed to finish up Enigma. It's much more rewarding to find that in SP than online
When do we get an offline or online local Coop Mode. Want to Run around with my Brother, drinking a Beer and talking about Life while slaying... It is Not hard at all. Splitscreen, two in one Screen, whatever...
also added perk of offline, is you can hero edit characters with socket quests so you dont have to constantly relevel a new character every time you need a socket
I 100% agree with the concept of infinite players on SP. I myself am doing a grail and I stash all my finds. If not for that fact I wouldnt be able to. Im ok with not trading and being limited on how long it takes to grind out super end game gg gear.
So ladder only runewords are available on offline day one or his explanation was a bit off? he says you can do them day one of the patch.....i thought you can't do that
Not anymore, but you used to be able to play your offline/local hd online in “open battle net” as opposed to “closed battle net” or just battle net now. Lots of ppl used hacks and modded games and mod chars, was cool. Now, offline is only offline as there is no open battle net. Some mods were like you could level to 99 in one fight so it could ruin ur actual legit offline char.
Question: If I play offline and something happens to my pc, is that progress lost? Example: Let's say, fresh windows install etc where the drive is wiped.
Yes, unless you back the files up. The single player files are stored here: C:\Users[yourusername]\Saved Games\Diablo II Resurrected. Save all of those files outside of your computer, on a harddrive or google drive or something and whenever you clean install windows you just copy them back in.
Late to the party, buy terror zones in single player are tied to your pc date and time so you can turn off auto time update and change time to jump to a terror zone you want to farm.
Yes, the single player files are stored here: C:\Users[yourusername]\Saved Games\Diablo II Resurrected. Save all of those files and put it in the same place on the new pc.
I was able to transfer my plugy characters over! Hadn’t seen them in a few years. Salvaged my 94 sorc. Everything is legit found! Grinded many high runes so I’m decked out. Been playing it again. Miss the good old days playing hardcore ladder with that whole community. Great times
I prefer playing d2 offline, since my first Gameplay in 2005. Recently i am discovering this Game again by playing it on Xbox series x. It is fun. I do have one question thou, is there a way to transfer my offline PC saved characters to Xbox???
The never have to connect back to the internet isn't entirely accurate. I believe Battle net detects when you've been offline for 30 days and requires to see internet again before it will let you launch D2R again. This is also true for the remodded mod.
I agree that single player is best for serious players who want to invest in their account forever… but multiplayer is pretty good too under the right circumstances. Jsp screwed up a lot
For console players, we have a limited number of character both on or off line. It's only the PC version do we get unlimited offline characters. The worst part of playing offline on console, is that you can't use any mods or make any trades. However their is a way to dupe anything and or reroll charms or runewords infinitely on console.
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Im still playing Diablo 2 , Icewind dale , Neverwinter nights , Warcraft 3 etc on a retro pc
(windows XP) that isn't connected on internet. Its the best thing 😊
Hell yeah, I've been playing alot of oldschool stuff lately. playing Ravenloft : Strahd's Possession atm
wtf this is a nest of virus
@@stevensv4864 He's not connected to the internet
@@Monojoe oh i see
This is what I need wc3 map editor and offline d2 on a xp. Your the man ❤
Online was fun when i had friends lol
This
Lol so true. 😂 I used to wait for friends to log on but after LOD old friends list went bye bye 👋.
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Bots and dupes killed online for me. That's why private servers like pd2 are so much fun
Offline multiplayer would be great for those who game with family and friends but also would enjoy the different mods.
you can play online with your friends as well, while being able to sue some additional runewords.
@@danielandrews3878 What additional runewords?
LoD has it, sadly they removed it on D2R
They did this on purpose to ruin local network multiplayer and force online accounts. Better to just play the original with mods.
Im 39 years old and playing diablo since 1996. im HC Paladin world champion and HC Necromancer Europe 11. For the last 15 years im playing SP HC and i still try to find runes/items while trying to stay alive :). Started to a fresh SP HC in 2024 and i can give it another 24 years :) also thanks for the videos Phil, i still learn new things :)
Preach. Been playing D2 for 24 years and will play it for another 24 as well while I work on my Holy Grail.
@@MichaelPohoreski 3 weeks ago found a Tyraels Might (/Players 2, Cow run, BlizzardOrbES L90 Sorc) good luck with yours :) never done holygrail and i think i wont.
I began playing the 1.07 patch this year to obtain certain high quality items you can't obtain anymore. That or some ethereal weapon bases for indestructible and hireling runeword weapons. Also that version of the game is a complete different experience, enemies do so much damage.
@@Patrick_The_Purebuggy 1.07. but the rack farming is rewarding, i got the unique balrog skin and other elite unique items back then. those were the days
Hey, a fellow d2 player. Do you have a discord?
On PC single player you can save your map for each difficulty by copying the map file into a different folder for your character.
Or just dumping a character to get runes. I made a character called DrDupe and load up 2 of each runes. Every so often I just make the next level rune. I have been able to mess around with runewards for fun and it has been a lot more fun. Is it cheating... Maybe. Do I feel like doing hundreds of Countess or hours of Act 3? No lol
@@jason6569can’t use the online market and doesn’t effect other people’s experience, more power to you bro.
You've finally convinced me. After losing my latest hardcore ladder character after three months' work, I've started an offline grail. Up and running this morning with the Infernal Cranium 😁.
you forgot the MOST important benefit of single player, NO ASSHOLES WILL STEAL YOUR LOOT!!!!!
Who ever said it is your loot tho? Brainfart dude
@@andersmortensen7415 cause I'm always leading the runs for lower levels ???? Dimwitted piss eater ?
@@andersmortensen7415 cause I'm the one leading the runs, thus killing everything? You dimwitted piss eater?
@@andersmortensen7415 cause I'm the one leading the runs thus killing everything?
@@mhebert350 thats how children would think mate grow up 😂😂
I've played countless hours online starting back in the old days of D2 LOD. I thought I enjoyed the game. I still enjoy playing online, don't get me wrong; but I will never forget the experience of getting my first SoJ in an offline account. The high of getting your GG item after hours of planning and grinding, is worth the payoff.
hell yeah man, soj was my 2nd big project after I did a lot of countess runs, it was so exciting when I finally got it after so many andy runs
That's awsome :D The dopamine hit is so big when that happens!
I remember getting a SoJ in A1 in early ladder once. You generally don't get that in other ARPGs. The excitement of being able to get such high tier items early on makes D2 so much fun. I wish they'd remake 2 and add more content to it. What I mean by remake is update the engine 1:1 with modern fixes, and not go D3-4 route. That'd make long time fans so happy. Worth dreaming? Haha
Just curious, what would the "hours of planning" have been?
@@delorneggmaybe he respecced to a fire sorc and found a good map layout?
Dropped for me while lvling
Absolutely agreed! I've been trying online for a week now and the server inconsistency has been so jarring. I'd very much enjoy a tutorial on hero editor so I can recreate some of the characters I lost many computers ago. Keep up the great work!
Man, I've been working on a Majesty playthrough, and your avatar definitely threw me for a loop. Didn't expect to see a Warrior of Discord here!
Zonfire99😅
Without a single player you really don't own the game you paid for. You can't mod it, you can't play it how you want, and when they shutdown servers, you will loose the game you paid for. Single player is the only place where I can feel that I can do what I want with what I paid for.
They should still be making games with LAN support. Support GOG, support dev's that still give you true choice.
Ya just don’t lose your hard drive and you’re good. Switched from ps4 to ps5 and lost my 98% grail progress 😂
Well the original D2 is the best because you can still enjoy multiplayer through LAN. You get the full experience
I mean you arent going to change peoples minds. People are still going to play PvP, rushing, co-op. Terror zones is more fun with 8 players. Trading is fun. And just playing with other people makes it more fun for me. Play solo feels like a empty game.
@@hecatomb1864 I didn't say they cant play PvP and so on. I said Single-Player needs to be option. Option means you can choose it if you want to or not if you don't want to. Right now online mode is not an option - everyone has to choose it. My idea was that those who want to choose single player can choose single player and those who want multiplayer can still choose multiplayer.
I play D2R mostly on switch and strictly single player. I'm able to play diablo 2 anywhere
I play D2R on my ASUS Rog Ally, which is just like a switch but its a Windows PC. :) But yeah, anywhere. Its top tier.
great Vid Phil, well thought out and executed - I have previously played D2 for online and got bored of it and went away from the game for quite some time. Came back recently and now play SP offline exclusively - and am Slayin It! (well sort of, level 89 atm-Dad bod and work long hours.......) anyhow, the game feels much more enjoyable to me as I work to gear my main (NovaSorc) and several alts (Including the XbowSorc you inspired me to try out-level52 atm)......each time I find a piece of BiS gear it is super exciting - I just hit Mephy 2 days ago for my first SP Arachnid Mesh and I ran around the house like a chicken with it head cut off (Wife thinks I am whacked), anyhow moments like that really make me feel like the hours and effort I put into Toons pay off.....thanks as always Phil - YOU ROCK!
You make it very appealing to want to play SP for sure! The reason D2 is so great is that there are all these game mode options to fit a person's style. I only play NL. I'm not trying to compete on Ladder and not sleep. I like being able to trade when needed. I like being able to play with the homies when I can. I like being able to hook friends up or giving away items. Down sides: No players count settings, and no ladder only rune words.
Yes smalps! Social fun, give aways, helping new players, making new friends, learning from others! Trading trading trading! Online is defo better imho.
the best feeling is buying 10x mal ist ohm runes and roll a 6/6/4 cta to then sell it on JSP for 1k fgs
@@RetroGameThrowdown1 Lol... " jsp " who gives a crap about some cringe little forum and their cringe forum gold lmao.
Continue farming hours to get crap items then. Ill roll 3 ctas and 4 hotos today. I also have 4 stashes of unid hell farmed items for only 90 fgs for saleé Only 90 fgs each!@@xzxxx-km4vy
I love SP, but sometimes it is hard giving up trading. With RNG you could have made a HOTO before getting magefists or have an Enigma before finding a Shako.
Agreed, I have always had a better experience playing single player offline over online.
I started to play D2R in SP too because I asked myself ,why am I playing MP if i hadnt played with other players together for such a long time ^^ I was playing D2R Online but alone...so since then I am enjoying the game in SP mode.
The fun for some of us is finding that item so rare its worth 10,000 dollars
My main (maybe only) reason i enjoy online is for trading.
Fun little tidbit about Offline Difficulty Scaling, Players 7 is nearly identical to Players 8, which then means if your having too much trouble with the highest, you CAN tone it done a notch without screwing with drop rates.
Offline Hardcore is where it's at
Been trying to do this myself for the first time on my PS5 copy of D2R cause I have this crazy goal of one day trying to maybe possibly hopefully plat the game. Never had a 99 character period, so this is asking a lot. Went summon necro cause it's what I'm most comfortable with but there's so many things I don't know and the guides I've found are only so helpful. Like what rune words should I be using by what point? What items should I try to get from vendors and when? (Saw that it was supposedly possible to get like a 3 socket helm and tele staff in act 1 but I haven't seen it). Just little things like that to smooth things out and make it quicker would be nice but ugh. Honestly I just want some kinda lazy spelled-out-for-me-guide and I'll just do the work of playing the game itself and following along where applicable.
@@Taima damage reduction is op until hell act 4 tbh. Stack as much as you can and you’ll be golden. Though necro might not have the best damage
Also resist must be capped at all times before the end of normal
I'm 42, always played online, but even back then I was mostly playing solo.
With the new D2R, I have no more time to do all that farming, I tried, have some good characters, but with trading people only want perfects, can't get anything for decent non-perfects.
People try to rip you off constantly if you are not an expert at the D2 pricing/values, it is just annoying to deal with.
I just started my first offline Sorceress, so I don't have to deal with any of that anymore and I can get more drops with the /players setting and QoL mods that should have been in the game for years already (bigger stash, stackable gems+runes).
wild that hero editor is online now lol. I still remember downloading some program that likely gave my computer a virus but it worked
Wait, you can use hero editor on online characters?
@@tonybreeden863 No, it's a web page - that's what he means by online. It used to be a program called Jamella you downloaded and ran on your computer to edit save files. Now instead you go to a website, and create then download your character. You can also upload a single player character to edit, then download the edited version.
@@tonybreeden863 Online hero editor for offline characters.
@@tonybreeden863no I think he means there's an editor on a browser, no need to download and install. Works for offline characters only.
Jamela hero editor was the one back in the day. I just got d2r playing sp hc paladin. Cool to know there is online editor tho. Too bad no open bnet
I really enjoy single player. I tried it a few times over the years but never really got into it. Once D2R came out, Sweet Phil inspired me to try it again, and I fell in love all over(shared stash was huge for that). I doubt I'll ever finish it, but I'm working on that Holy Grail
shared stash made offline a breath of fresh air. That's why the plugy mod was so huge for LoD. infinite stash made holy grails easy to do.
One thing you didnt include as a single player benefit. There is nothing worse than grinding online and seeing something like a Jah rune drop and someone else in the game beats you to it. I have horrible luck finding stuff to begin with but I have vision issues as well which cause it to take a second before I see stuff like that. Takes a moment for it to register for me before I even start to scroll over and click on it. So I will never win the race to get a top tier item that drops in a groun game. Dont have to worry about that in single player. I can go anyware and clear a whole screen of stuff and then check the drops without any worry about missing something cuz someone else beat me to it.
If you have trouble with vision, in SP you can use the mod that makes those pillars of light from D3 when item drops. By default it's unique items I think, but you can use configuration menu to setup for which item type\quality this happens. Think this will help you a lot.
Yeah but you're complaining about the loot metric. These games were ALWAYS high stakes... Hell, in the original when you died all items on your corpse just fell into the dungeon...
If I'm not mistaken they've corrected the rune issue by coloring them orange, a la mousepad, in the remaster... Vision aside what more can you ask for?
@@drwombat Its more of a delay for me to see it, it registers in my brain what it is, and then I try to click and pick it up. So my reaction time is far to low to get anything when playing online. The only downsides to playing offline are not being able to play with friends and having to find everything since you cant trade. Im to the point where I have almost everything I want, except runes. So I have to grind for endless hours just to play the builds I want to play. Id rather just play the game at this point instead of grinding forever to find what I need with builds I dont really want to play at this point
On diablo if you boot game as administrator. Vs not as administrator you will get a separate offline saved game folder so make sure you stay in same one.
The only flaw that I can think of with D2 resurrected is that check-in DRM that they got implemented in the damn thing. If I could find a reliable way to remove that Check-in DRM permanently then offline D2R would be absolutely perfect.
I went back to offline… SSF is so much gratifying when something extremely rare drops. I got a PERFECT griffons eye not too long ago, insane
Where did you get it? :D What did you farm? What build did you use?
You can “trade” offline with a hero editor.
Look up online how much something is going for, give yourself the item you want and delete the one you don’t.
Trading without the hassle.
this is nice advice ! i like it.
Moral cheating, I love it. That's a really clever way to go about it.
That was some nice advice! I don't like to use the hero editor, but this way it doesn't feel like "cheating" _/
@@tbl268 Its single player. Not really cheating, just playing the game how you like.
@ianbraun271 You are using a 3rd party program to change the game. Make no mistake about it, it's still cheating even if you are just cheating yourself.
Ok I actually love this video. Can I get a suggestion as to what character I should make first? I’m sure a sorceress of some kind?
6:37 : not true. I just started the game while my internet was out and the game said I had to launch the game once in online mode for verification.
single player is so satisfying, that first Um rune I found made me feel just as much as finding a Ber online, because the *only* way I could get that Um was finding one myself - and stuff like Ohm or Death's Fathom was on a whole other level
Um is a very common rune. You all just fooling yourselves when using the /players x command and using infinite amount of stash tabs. People online are playing the game the real way, most getting the most rare drops on P1 and no infinite stash tabs, you people are just casuals its better to say it that way than saying single player is better. I too play single player but i can admit that only casuals that want an easy mode play single player
@@xzxxx-km4vy I play unmodded, and you can easily find mf games to kill stuff on higher difficulty online
@@87539319 Except online is a constant fight for loot, that's another layer of difficulty. I play single player with the /players x but i know that if i was online i would have to do it all on players 1 unless i feel like competing for loot and see who can click faster on that Jah or Ber rune, definitely not for me. And the fact you can't even stack gems and runes online is even more torture. Playing online is much harder
@@xzxxx-km4vyplaying online literally enables power leveling and rushing yet you call sp easy mode? ok.
@@ryanzurawskii Playing online forces you to limited stash size, forces you to players 1 loot, forces you to compete for loot if you want to increse the odds, doesnt allow for infinite respecs etc
I hate this stupid trend of making every game online. And the whole "games as a service" model.
5 weeks in d2r again and still haven’t found tal armor thanks for slapping me virtually 😂
I'm full SP for more than a year and I still enjoy it tremendously. Best gaming fun I had in a long time.
Yupp me2.. Got a lvl 98 sin with infinity and enigma plus other stuff.. Took me more then a year to grind thoose stuff but man the highs u get gettin a hr in sp is unbeatable
I recently started learning how to modify the game to essentially create my own "mod" kind of, and it only works on Single Player naturally, but I don't mind to be honest, usually when I play even if its online I play by myself 99% of the time, so now I'm having a blast in my own modded Single Player game, my mod supports more weapons for the Hirelings, loads of new different item affixes that can spawn, and a complete overhaul of all items to my liking :) Almost all Unique items got either buffed stats and/or completely new and interesting procs and abilities :) and I made all those crappy set item sets much better! I even buffed blue magic Items so that they potentially can roll with some useful stats and skills, completely changed how I play the game 😊
Could add one more benefit. In single player you can also farm a specific armor stash. For example wayyyy back I found a map where was an armor stash behind Mephisto and it had Lacquered plate everytime and I farmed it till I finally got my first Tals armor from it. Not that its among the rarest of items, but it was nice to have the set put together when they introduced the shiny aura with the sets.
Great breakdown there was some things that i didnt know. Single player and Multiplayer are awesome together due to you can jump onto another character if you dont like the terror zone from offline to online. tuning the difficulty not just for loot but pure fun of stronger monsters is also a bonus! Its just you against all of hells forces
I have maxed out most of my online characters so i hace been doing offline. It is really hard because i cant reach out to friends foe help or find thibgs as easily. One thing i disagree with it the player change in offline. If i make it players 8 offline its still just me playing. Which is very difficult. However online i actually have 8 players to help slay monsters. So mute point on #2 benefit of being able to change player count. Great work Phil!
Offline is the only way to go really. Leveling new characters is easy, i literally have a separate sorc for each of the boss with perfected maps. Also to mention the unlimited character creation as storage. Offline presents a chalenge of its own and makes the game much more interesting as playing an "iron man" mode.
yo P, have you heard about the D2R Reimagined Mod? It reminds me of PD2 in terms of quality of life features and new items. Currently it is only playable in offline mode and from what I ve heard, the balance seems to be similar to vanilla D2R. Right now I dont see a point anymore in playing offline D2R vanilla, because the quality of life is just a game changer. Ideally they would port PD2 at some point into D2R, that would be an absolute dream, because the graphics is the only thing holding be back from Pd2. but the reimagined mod is such a good start towards this goal, it even brought back the burned out Debrusnki back to D2R. what are your thoughts?
Make sure to backup your characters every once in a while. I had a power cut & my character file was corrupt & lost everything. It was my first SP character. It was a painful lesson
Same here, and I almost had my Enigma at the time
I want to get back into D2 but i dont have the time like i used to so I might look into D2R offline + mods... looks like there are mods for boosting drop rates and xp gain so that would be fun
If there's a build you wanna go for but you just can't find that high rune to complete the build and you don't wanna waste years farming it, you can always "make" yourself that rune/item with hero editor.
I still like playing asa group there is something special about that still despite just a difficulty factor
I tried playing online , and it felt a little laggy , hits werent regustering when i pressed buttons.
I went offline and it felt completely different.
Maybe different servers on console vs pc.
But i play it on ps5 offline only and i have a blast so far.
Also, this "here editor' can that work on console? Or is this only pc?
really would love to have diablo 2 ress on my pc..maybe one day!
I already played Diablo 2: LoD for thousands of hours online as a teenager and I even kept up "perming" my characters for years. However, I got tired of doing that eventually and Blizzard just deleted literally all my accounts/characters, so to me, I'd rather play offline now. I had enough PvP experience for a lifetime anyways. If you care enough to amass your fortune and characters online, then you'll probably care when they delete it as well, which will happen eventually, so which one is pointless? At least I can backup my offline characters.
Frankly, for someone like me that likes collecting things in games, the very existence of Gomule means I'm playing offline exclusively. The complete lack of any lag, the static maps and the /players x command sure don't hurt either.
I play alot of it single player. But I still have online guy just cause doing runs with people is fun
I'm glad you mentioned point 5, loot donations, on your pro-online list
I do this often and have given many a new player an occulus
Thank you! I was just given an occy and shake from a random person my second day back playing, I was so stoked
@@derekisdeadx5083 you have to earn it
can you use the hero editor on Console? I'm playing on the PS5 but using the PS4 version on offline mode
I do a lot of this and play on LAN with people. The social aspect was and is still important to me. Playing solo online is depressing.
I used to play LoD offline and, occasionally, online with my buddies via TCP/IP. bc they removed that mode, I came back to online play.
Hero Editor (an older one that wasnt as nice as this one) is what i used to start my grail. I took my old broke af, poorly geared level 74 ladder sorc and remade her identically in hero editor and ported it over into singleplayer to start my grail. I didnt transfer any of my gold (that was a huge mistake lol) or anything from my merc (kinda stupid) but at the same time it made my start feel more legit because i was on the back foot.
Heck yeah. That's the only way I play D2 now. I do Terror andy runs and got a 1% away from perfect fathom. Was an amazing find.
for me there is only 1 benefit to online and it is the chat gem
😆
"Perfect gem activated."
I wish that there was a way to play open battlenet, like back in the days, is there any options for that ?
yep same, my only concern is not being able to play with some real life buddies every now and then
I am new to diablo 2 so I am playing offline single player in order to learn the ins and outs of everything then I will go online but right now having a blast just playing single player tbh great game so far
Hello, my english isn't too in a high level but, you did mean that you trade items offline in a game mode that you can use a character editor?
I only play Single Player offline for the following reasons:
1. You can run any terror zone as much as you like
2. You don't have to search for high player number games
3. You don't have to be afraid of players leaving as soon as you joined (like in Baal runs for example)
3. You don't have to fight over the loot with other players
4. You don't have to hear "it's my zone GTFO" or from hostile players
5. No more map reloading everytime
6. AND OFC.....Lower Kurast CHESTS!
And in line with #6, you can set a seed in sp.
LK rules!! Got 2 Sur runes in less than 10 min
You should have stated with LK chests. Hahaha
Im an old school d2 player from the time prior of the lod expansion and prior d2r and I always enjoyed the game much more playing offline. The game is perfect for soloing, its more challenging to find the items you want and progress...
Do you usually use any mods that you presented when playing offline?
it's like offline I already have enigma but the saddest thing is online even with like 10+ level 80+ characters I can't find one ber, my highest was a sur lol permanent maps help a lot
To reset your maps every time without changing difficulties: put -resetofflinemaps command in your d2r shortcut
I started playing online because I was hoping to play with my brother, because I don't have any friends. Unfortunately he doesn't have time to game anymore. I was playing solo online and never checked the lobby browser. I decided to check the lobby browser and seen people giving away free loot and I was amazed at all these cool things they dropped that I could never find back in the day, Titan's Revenge, Oculus, Tal's set, etc. This one cool dude gave me all his hammerdin gear and I had a blast destroying everything.
The disciple is my favorite set. It's so good for for melee builds it's bonkers. Plus you can whatever helmet weapon and or shield that you want.
How you deal with Hell immunities offline? There are a very few build that can damage everything.
Shatter Charms or avoid them
the best selling point : you don't have to grind your ass off making shael io tal runewords, you can do it directly with hero editor xD
But on the other hand, this makes everything pointless
Another online benefit you didn't mention is characters are shared on different devices and platform. If you have been playing in the PC for a while but now you want to play in the couch, just log off, pick your Switch and you will be playing your character where you left it.
And a downside to offline is your characters cannot be shared between devices, they are stuck to the device they are created. This is the reason I only play online even if I play by myself 99% of the time.
You can backup and restore the files from/to different pcs.
hi wich version or patch has to have the game for offline terrorized zones?
i think was added in 1.9
Very informative and I love the commentary. Subscribed!
Lag seems the most important reason to choose offline play. I died so many times due to lag or Misshapen's orbs hitting me when I was 10 meters away from them
Pre LOD i installed on the computer i had at my moms, no internet. /players 8 and d2 character editor was a blast. I made items that weren't game breaking. Also, this game is better when you cant get rushed to the endgame content in a single day.
I genuinely had to laugh at this. I've spent days now doing terror zones, trying to find Tal's armor. That's all I need to complete the set, and it won't drop.
tal's is hard to chase down! maybe try baal runs? one baal kill is worth 20 kills of tc87 uniques for tal's armor
Hell Meph drops it often 4 me.
i’ve found 3 ber yet no tals ammy
@@djinn_tseng damnnn I've found full tals 3-4 times over but for HRs I've found 3 sur 1 ohm 1 vex, so I'm jealous!
@@djinn_tseng its always that one item you really need that wont drop. On my offline I have infinity, grief, hoto, cta, soj's but i cant hit the one item i need - arachs. Guess same is for you with tal's. Got 4 tal's btw >< good luck on yours
I never finished my first D2R playthrough, stopped at Duriel. Maybe I should've started offline lol i'm going to try again today thanks for the tips
I play both :D online for pvp mostly though. SP is kinda cool when you find rare stuff. The other day I found a Jah rune in single player, which is what I needed to finish up Enigma. It's much more rewarding to find that in SP than online
I was gonna take care of my backlog and then i got hooked on this game and cant stop lol
When do we get an offline or online local Coop Mode.
Want to Run around with my Brother, drinking a Beer and talking about Life while slaying...
It is Not hard at all. Splitscreen, two in one Screen, whatever...
Always played D2 by myself since it first came out back in the day. My friends weren’t addicted to it like I was so they usually just held me back.
also added perk of offline, is you can hero edit characters with socket quests so you dont have to constantly relevel a new character every time you need a socket
Sweet Phil, nice video keep up the great content
Can hero editor be used for console?
I 100% agree with the concept of infinite players on SP. I myself am doing a grail and I stash all my finds. If not for that fact I wouldnt be able to. Im ok with not trading and being limited on how long it takes to grind out super end game gg gear.
So ladder only runewords are available on offline day one or his explanation was a bit off? he says you can do them day one of the patch.....i thought you can't do that
but @sweetphil do you have a link to that hero editor and does it only work for D2R or will it work for older versions like 1.14 ?
so u can switch with ur offline char to play online and then offline again? is that new or was this able too in the original?
Not anymore, but you used to be able to play your offline/local hd online in “open battle net” as opposed to “closed battle net” or just battle net now.
Lots of ppl used hacks and modded games and mod chars, was cool. Now, offline is only offline as there is no open battle net.
Some mods were like you could level to 99 in one fight so it could ruin ur actual legit offline char.
Is there a way to transfer my plugy stash to any form of d2r stash?
Wish they still kept the character in the cloud for offline. I like to play on steam deck and my PC
Question: If I play offline and something happens to my pc, is that progress lost?
Example: Let's say, fresh windows install etc where the drive is wiped.
Yes, unless you back the files up. The single player files are stored here: C:\Users[yourusername]\Saved Games\Diablo II Resurrected. Save all of those files outside of your computer, on a harddrive or google drive or something and whenever you clean install windows you just copy them back in.
Late to the party, buy terror zones in single player are tied to your pc date and time so you can turn off auto time update and change time to jump to a terror zone you want to farm.
Question: But there is no Anni or Torch in the single-Player offline game or?
of course there are
Is it possible to transfer offline char from a pc to another ?
Yes, the single player files are stored here: C:\Users[yourusername]\Saved Games\Diablo II Resurrected. Save all of those files and put it in the same place on the new pc.
Pre expansion is where it's at. I think runewords ruined the game a bit.
Found a steelclash shield last night and I was smiling for hours....
Smiling for a steelclash?
@@protodg6567 pretty godly shield for my 50 paly
It didn't ruin solo play if you don't use them. Doing a non-runword run right now with Zeal Paladin and I'm having a blast.
1.09 was the best, expansion without runewords
Can I play the same characters on each of my consoles and PC since the accounts are linked?
Can I play "offline" with people I know?
I was able to transfer my plugy characters over! Hadn’t seen them in a few years. Salvaged my 94 sorc. Everything is legit found! Grinded many high runes so I’m decked out. Been playing it again. Miss the good old days playing hardcore ladder with that whole community. Great times
but why map farm on single player offline when you can just hero editor?
why not just hack tools on online? why progress at all?
Why play video games, at all??
Which hero editor is this?
I prefer playing d2 offline, since my first Gameplay in 2005. Recently i am discovering this Game again by playing it on Xbox series x. It is fun.
I do have one question thou, is there a way to transfer my offline PC saved characters to Xbox???
The never have to connect back to the internet isn't entirely accurate. I believe Battle net detects when you've been offline for 30 days and requires to see internet again before it will let you launch D2R again. This is also true for the remodded mod.
I would love to see more about the hero editor. I love D2 but didn't know hero editor existed.
I agree that single player is best for serious players who want to invest in their account forever… but multiplayer is pretty good too under the right circumstances. Jsp screwed up a lot
Offline: you can manipulate the time settings and basically play your favourite terror zone nonstop
For console players, we have a limited number of character both on or off line. It's only the PC version do we get unlimited offline characters. The worst part of playing offline on console, is that you can't use any mods or make any trades. However their is a way to dupe anything and or reroll charms or runewords infinitely on console.
He literally says that in the video lol he said “on PC specifically you have unlimited characters in offline”
I've been playing solo since release, and I just got my first Anny and Torch ever. Holy fuck it felt good