I'd really like to see the base damage of exceptional and elite weapons be raised to scale better. It would instantly make a bunch of melee builds become suddenly more viable without Grief being mandatory for all of them.
Thank you for being so thorough in your reviews. You do a wonderful job answering questions I didn't even know I had. Great set combination reminders and suggested build uses and whatnot.
I wanted to test performance of the set at (30+,40+) through the end of Normal and beginning of Nightmare as I play through as a Fury Werewolf at players 8 (Armor not being available until 76 shucks, not that I have it though). Put a Shael +20 attack speed and two Sol + 9 mim damage for a more steady damage output, but although it does well enough, I have an Athena's Wrath that performs just a liiiittle bit better surprisingly. Means that our guide here is not joking when he says this might be better suited for a speed based build, that doesn't rely as much on weapon damage, but on cadence of blows. I wasted only three runes in my experiment and our guide has prevented me from wasting both time in chasing the runes to upgrade the weapon and the high runes required to do so.
project is done, lvl 85 aldurs druid. build is fireclaw/fury/armagedon hybrid werewolf. it works quite well against non-fire immunes. to makeup for this an upped ribcracker is used on switch because of the CB which this set sorely lacks. currently testing my eth stormlash to see if it is better. maybe an upgraded cleglaw set will be viable on switch, who knows. full inventory of SS charms and the helmet and armor were socketed with fire facets. weapon is the saddest part of this set, currently contemplating on adding a jewel of fervor with damage to it and 2 shaels. leveling was a pain, like mavina's set this is an all-or-nothing set and you only transition to it when you have ALL of the charms and other tidbits. i rank this set similarly to natalya's, lots of potential but marred by some flaws. if only this set has CB and a better weapon with more physical damage then it would have been much better. the build is viable in HELL, you could breeze-through p1-p3 but higher player cunt will be painfully slow. i have managed to make this damn thing work but it is not recommended, using grief PB and the standard melee items would've been much better. the handicap this set presents is both fun and frustrating to say the least.
An upped 3soc aldurs rhythem with 3x 40-15's would at least bump up the damage to respectable levels, while giving it an additional 45% IAS. It would make the set pretty viable for a weird mixed wearbear elemental druid.
I've always wanted to be able to up 3os Aldur's Weapon, and I've always wished they would change the ED% to Demons to just regular ol' ED%. I've thought about it a few times over the years. It makes no sense for end game as an un-uppable Jagged Star with ED% that only applies to demons...but a Devil Star w/ 30 Ias/10% LL/200% ED/Adds Dmg/3OS/etc...now we're talkin'. 😍
Guess the weapon does have potential to be pretty awesome if you socket it with a properly calculated combo of Ohms and Shaels. Probably Ohms should take priority, since it already has good increased speed and Shaels might not bring it over another breakpoint. Would have to calculate this, but Ohms could definitely somewhat remedy this weapon's lackluster damage problem, since two give +100 % increased damage after all. Of course two Ohms are most likely not worth it, but if someone insisted on playing with this set just for the fantasy of it and making it as good as it can be, I think Ohms would be the way to go.
My current issue has and always will be the fact that by the time you get a complete set - you likely would have found enough high runes to make something 10x better. That's especially true if you can build yourself an enigma. What they need to do is increase drop rates of these sets.
Yeah, but that is not the case with aldurs, it doesnt have a rare item in it like tals armor, gris crown, IK armor. You can have every item in aldurs for a couple of perfekt gems, if you dont mind perfekt stats (fire res on boots) i think complete aldurs is doable for
@@multanomultano232 I think you missed the point. Every piece of aludrs is around lvl 30-45 but the body piece is lvl 76. If the body piece wasn't so high lvl it would make an excellent mid tier set for lvl 45 but instead the armor locks the full set bonus at lvl 76
You make the best videos when it comes to this, the fact that you actually upgrade it is insane simply because of the resources. And when you do unique gear you typically have the ethereal versions as well
Yeah, i dont get it with XXk or even XXXk sub guys dont show everything when making a guide (which is supposed to show all options no?), and they explain it with "but its too expensive :{"
I really love this set.Unfortunatly most "elite" sets suffer from high level requirement on one item.I do not understand the design.You have a nightmare set that you cannot complete due to a high level item.It would have been better if there were sets for low level,mid level and full elite level items.I think the sets were abandoned after they started making those busted runewords :)
The intent behind the design is you get part of the set in nightmare and complete it in hell. You don't have to complete the whole set in NM; you just make use of the partial items & set bonusses
Aldur's weapon and boots, Sigons gloves helmet and shield. Makes for a really mean combo and leaves plenty of gear slots open for customizability. Were talking Massive AR boost, and tons of life steal. You just need a hard hitting skill to go with it.
With 2 shael runes you hit your speed break point with the weapon. However if you can get your hands on 15/40 jewels you still hit your break point and get the much needed 120% enhanced damage.
To be fair on the upgrade for the boots yes thats alot but also remember that you have 45 extra strength from the full set so that 163 is not that much or if you wanna say the two set bonus thats 30 extra so you only really need 133
I’ve thrown ED jewels into an Aldurs mace before brought up the ED about 120% or so it’s decent but not having innate ED or some other mod like CB/DS etc it’s not a good weapon.
I was wondering right from the start what’s that buckler doing in there, glad you tossed it away mid way , then I was able to watch the video peacefully 😂
it's very sad that they did not upgrade this and nats set in 2.4, it has a lot of potential but pales in comparison to tals set and even IK which will make you immortal in HELL but does less damage, you are correct to point out the level req issue. i faced this problem a long time ago.
Great series. I also wondered how Aldur would stack (the weapon). Also a bit disappointed. I want to mention one minor thing though. When you upgrade, the defense stat rolls again. If I remember correctly, there are some items, whose defense range between exceptional and elite is overlapping, so theoretically you can upgrade an item and its defense can go down. In this case, the boots were max defense when it was exceptional (47) and rolled almost the lowest possible (60, lowest is 59).
So as I found out thanks to a viewer the defense doesn't actually roll. Every item has a unique Identifier and the Defense in the upgraded form is a generation off of that unique Identifier. How I determined this was if you were to copy several items and upgrade each of them they all roll the same defense even in multiple games, at different times.
I really like this set, but i would also kind of like to see how things would play out for the super affluent who could just stick 3x 40ed 15% ias jewels in that mace.
no crushing blow/open wound/deadly strike as well as no ED really takes the weapon down, might need to slap 3 40/15 jewels and craft some blood gloves and rings
Aldurs rythm was my very first dual leech weapon back in the day when I first played d2. Used it on a zeal paladin and felt like a god killing the council with it. 2001 my goodness :_) It was a decent set at the time, but even then it had problems and the game has changed a lot. It's completely obsolete. That said, I can think of two ways to make it usable. First one is the obvious: fire claw. One shael in the weapon and lv24 werewolf is good for 8 fpa with highlords and loh. And then 5 facets. With infinity merc and phoenix he would be very strong actually, and the sunder charm made irrelevant by the 100% fire res that you get from boots + gloves. Second one is fury. With either act 1 faith merc or act 2 reapers and a high level heart of the wolverine. Pretty easy to get to 5/4/7 fpa, or 5/3/6 with fanat. Socketing the weapon would not be cheap. It needs a ber and a lo for crushing and deadly (no guillaume, no gore), so not a lot of room to increase the damage. An ohm maybe, or a really nice 40 with something else. Phoenix for damage, stormshield for defense. Loh gloves, highlords, soe belt. Both could easily finish the game and farm up to p3 or even 5. So if you are a wealthy druid fan, go ahead :)
It would be nice if you could find ethereal set weapons. I know that would take up a socket but it would certainly help the IK set. I feel like alot of sets that are on characters that have melee builds are just lacking in that department. I would rather run a summoner or a wind druid in aldurs before I had enough for enigma.
Just the Boots and Mace combined with the Angelic Amulet and Rings, would already be pretty massive for a melee character, right? Definitely interesting to see how far you could get with the Attack Rating in 2.4...
well ... i like those video about the set and thanks to make them but seriously speaking its quite an achievement here to try to make us hype for that one .... i mean legitimally this will just never be viable somehow... i like it that set will give u some options in the mid of the game , say u get the full set and u want to reroll a character it would be nice u can use it in nigthmare difficulty for exemple . But actually here the main problem is that because of the level 76 requirement its not even the case here which is IMO the real big big issue ... thanks a lot still for that very clear video !!
Im so curious how this build would do with 3 40/14 in upped weapon/ phoenix shield and laying of hands. Plus throw in Highlords on a shapeshifter druid. in my mind it sounds really good.
I’m curious too. Does the set bonus effect 350% ED increases the total damage if you upgrade the weapon and add 40/15 jewel? It’s and expensive option but I would like to see the difference
Full Aldurs would be such a cool budget fireclaw/Maul WB hybrid build with the changes to fireclaw synergies and weapon Upgrade able to do some physical damage to leech and take care of fire immunes. Slap on Chance guards, 1 nagelring and PT in armor and helm, go with harmony in act1 FA merc and you have a nice build that can almost take care of everything and gets around pretty fast with decent mf. Sadly activision instantly killed it with attack speed nerf for druid. Well.....gotta go pally or sorc again i guess
@@Belsteak PTR fked shapeshifters with a massive atkspeed nerf - they are dead or a meme build at best now. Other than that i liked Maul WB pre 2.4......wouldnt touch it in softcore but a nice, save build for hc in combination with shockwave. Other than that i thought with 2.4 it would be a nice skill for a fireclaw bear since they changed it to less but more effective synergies, leaving you with points for Maul - a lackluster skill of course but enough to take care of fire immunes.
This set isn't designed well. The only build that could really utilize it is shape shift, but the weapon sucks. Also if the attack speed nerf stands, this is even worse. Weird helmet, and armor, they're just placeholders for set bonuses. Weapon has no damage. Boots are dope though. I also want more set rings and this looks like a good candidate. Maybe set ammy too. That would open up using boots +1 for the attack rating set bonus, and maybe some other interesting things they throw on the ring or ammy. The big druid set only being 4 pieces is odd to me.
I'd put two Ohm's in the weapon along with one Ber rune, or just three Ohm's for 150% enhanced damage. It might work for a Fury Druid but I'm not sure.
I am surprised, you did not mention, putting 3 40/15 jewels, in the weapon. that would give it 120% ED and 45% A/S. That would capitalize on its strength and compensate for its weakness. You could then run: 1)string of ears 2) Raven frost 3) Highlords wrath 3) Wedding band 4) Laying of hands 5) Stormshield. Using the full Aldurs set.
@@andybrummel5555 I would have to still disagree. Using 3ias jools is 45ias => 9 frames, 3 shaels is 60 ias => 8 frame attack. You would be gaining some physical damage (hundreds) but losing a %13 increase on your fire damage (thousands). The physical component on this set design is just for leach purposes. Not to mention 15/40 jools are extremely expensive; I don't know of anyone who would be willing to sink such wealth on a mediocre set like this (even if the weapon is upgraded). I think the streamer is right to not mention 3 15/40 jools as an alternative. Those jools are meant for physical builds & usually two handers; this is a fire build with a bit of physical on the side via a one hander.
I think with using the sockets to boost the damage, which then gets magnified by the set bonus, it would be pretty good damage, but maybe I just don't know what good is.
11:40 well to fix it just put 2 ruby jewel of fervor or ruby jewel of carnage for max dmg, ias and ED and finaly a good ber rune for crushing blow or deadly strike.
So just a thought, now that you can upgrade the boots, the weapon/ boots would make a sick combo for a kick sin. Additionally the full set with loh and head hunters glory makes the possibility for something interesting with all the facets you could slap in it, possibly a rabies druid setup.
6:14 "Relatively high strength requirement" he says with a straight face while this legit being the 3rd highest str req item in the game at 230 after Sacred Armor 232 and Thunder maul 253... you sir had me cracking up there ^_^ p.s. See what I mean when I say set items were not meant to be upgraded.. the weapon 0 ED, waste a Pul rune (which is pretty useful in general) for 20 something damage on top lol, for endgame this is a joke and if you're using it for attack speed I wouldn't waste the rune on it. Definitely needs a rebalance to be viable. Still, I kind of admire the fact that you give even the crappiest items a chance ;-)
Sometimes it's not about trying to convince someone an item is good, but rather seeing what purpose it could serve, or showing them it's garbage. Solo Self found is a very interesting form of play where you use what you get handed to you, and should you get this set handed to you on a playthrough you would make the best use of it.
@@GGMentor I can respect the solo self find gameplay but if you don't have massive amounts of free time and you have full knowledge of the game it's kind of annoying knowing you're never gonna get to use like 70% of the endgame stuff.. remember kids, having a job really cuts into you d2 playtime xD
The more I see of PTR, the set upgrades and how much they cost, and how instead of making others more powerful, they tried nerfing stuff (ie druid) really gives me no confidence in the team working on these updates and changes. So much work, for something that no one will use or care about. Only real noticeable changes are to the mercenaries, which is totally awesome, but I honestly think changes to merc, and runewords FOR MERCS is all they should have done this update. They are trying to do too much at once, and its causing a problem where what they are doing isnt that good. They need to scale back and make 2.4 about merc updates, 2.5 about 2 classes updated, 2.6 another 2 classes ect ect Like upgraded sets I thought would be a great idea, but then I realized, out of ALL the uniques, barely any are worthy of being upgraded. The problem is you can find something better, and save the runes for a runeword instead. There might be a couple decent set upgrades, but be real... are they good enough to warrant using a old set piece instead of other GG gear? My main problem is there is so much in 2.4, so much they decided to do, but fix major issues in the game that NEED to be addressed get ignored. like WTF. Problems such as barbarians WW still sucking. They nerfed it HARDCORE really long ago, and the nerfs where too heavy handed and need to be reverted to back to the way it was before. items that give IAS not working with WW is horseshit. Procs not procing with WW is horseshit. Or what about the mana burn bug in hell hwere MANA BURN burns 256x more mana then they should due to a coding error/ bug or something, then we can talk about the FIRE enchant bug they forgot to fix in NM where when they explode when they die they can kill even high level characters instantly. (this bug is why I dont play HC anymore) , simple bugs like Cains identify not identifying items in CUBE, but no, lets change a bunch of shit not one asked for... Im not trying to hate on the game or the update, but I see my hype levels where WAY to high for this update.
Add some decent ED on the weapon or let it have increased elemental damage with more pieces. Put some plus skills in the helmet. Then it'd be ok for shape shifting fire attacks druids with some elemental skills since they can cast hurricane while in wolf or bear form.
@@GGMentor That would be the best slot to add.If the add full gear for mercs,purist will have a heart attack.I think adding the belt slot would not cause much fuss.Private D2 servers already have expanded merc item slots.Pity they have the old D2 graphics.We can only hope that VV add belt at the next patch.
i didn't realize all full sets glow until today. I have full tals and IK, mostly because they glow. Aldurs is so bad though, I have most of the set but don't use any of it on my druid.
I don't think they all glow man. I'm copying this from a 2008 response in a forum by Nimbustratus: Tal Rasha: glow Immortal King: glow Mavina: glow Natalya: faded appearance (only graphical) Trang-Oul: becomes a vampire/ghoul Aldur: glow Griswold: glow
if the weapon had natural enhanced damage, it would be nice for all classes end game. but you only get 350% enhanced damage with the whole set so viable for druids only to try and use it in hell
If they changed the 350% ED to be a green bonus on the weapon it would actually apply to the weapon correctly. Could be a very viable weapon, perhaps requiring at least 3 pieces to get the effect.
This set really lacks added skills! It has the +3 for complete set, like all the other class specific sets, but they also usually have +2 to every tree on separate pieces. This set is not for an elemental druid to say the least! I think this is a greater problem than no enhanced damage on the weapon. In the end, you can insert Ohm runes or 15/40 jewels.
the weapon, upgraded, should be socketed with ias ed jewels, to anybody not knowing how to socket certain items :). but overall, in hell, you'll not be using this weapon anyway. If the weapon had any ED (80-150%) it would absolutely destroy many weapons with 3x ias ed jewels. Considering how easy the weapon is to find, the stats are just fine, imo.
The only thing i don't like of aldur's is the high level requirement, for the moment you can weare this full set you can have much better things, and the green bonus are not that great.
Attack rating is how accurate you are with your attacks. If you have very low attack rating you are likely to miss, if you have very high attack rating you are very likely to land your attack. Faster Hit Recovery is when you get hit how fast do you recover from the hit.
I mean the upgraded versions level requirement didn't go up that much so maybe not so bad. I feel like it's a solid canidate for ED Jewels. 40% Ed Jewels in an upgraded 3 socket would be pretty massive increase in damage.
@@GGMentor The weapon has quite low damage.Sure the jewels would help but they are hard to get.Using them on these items is not really an option.Cheaper jewels or shaels are good candidates thought.Could you try a short run on Hell with the upgraded set items and some shael runes?
@@GGMentor I got some homework to do. I just downloaded it last month. And randomly saw this video lol. Thx so much! I’ll be checking out your other videos!
after a while i think there is just no reason to track the train of thought of those desigerns. there was none. d2r is super imbalanced, super random, super 1% of whole armory and weaponry dependant. geez..
My friend, it's hard to watch a full video, too long mostly because you repeat information. Do you really need to tell us 3 times that every piece adds 15 stats and show how 1 piece gives you 15, 2 pieces 30 etc? C'mon, cut some bs and make the videos around 10 minutes.
lol, I am long winded, it won't change trust me I tried. If it's something you can't deal with there are plenty of other diablo II youtubers out there. Check out alzorath, or dbrunski
You can upgrade weapons and armor that are already socketed, you can also upgrade items that have a rune or jewel or gem in the socket too. I have done it many times on cam.
People are specifically requesting I upgrade these sets, and its not a waste of time for newer players to get an understanding of the usefulness of these sets. The only thing that was a waste of time was reading your comment.
That fire resist, + to life, and 40% faster run walk makes the boots pretty spicy to have on their own.
yea, I use them a lot
I use it most of the time.
Super popular boot choice. I use them on my grounded hdin
The boots have always been a popular choice depending on your other gear/inventory
This is actually my second fave boots after Gore Rider.
I'd really like to see the base damage of exceptional and elite weapons be raised to scale better. It would instantly make a bunch of melee builds become suddenly more viable without Grief being mandatory for all of them.
Thank you for being so thorough in your reviews. You do a wonderful job answering questions I didn't even know I had. Great set combination reminders and suggested build uses and whatnot.
I wanted to test performance of the set at (30+,40+) through the end of Normal and beginning of Nightmare as I play through as a Fury Werewolf at players 8 (Armor not being available until 76 shucks, not that I have it though).
Put a Shael +20 attack speed and two Sol + 9 mim damage for a more steady damage output, but although it does well enough, I have an Athena's Wrath that performs just a liiiittle bit better surprisingly.
Means that our guide here is not joking when he says this might be better suited for a speed based build, that doesn't rely as much on weapon damage, but on cadence of blows.
I wasted only three runes in my experiment and our guide has prevented me from wasting both time in chasing the runes to upgrade the weapon and the high runes required to do so.
project is done, lvl 85 aldurs druid. build is fireclaw/fury/armagedon hybrid werewolf.
it works quite well against non-fire immunes. to makeup for this an upped ribcracker is used on switch because of the CB which this set sorely lacks. currently testing my eth stormlash to see if it is better. maybe an upgraded cleglaw set will be viable on switch, who knows.
full inventory of SS charms and the helmet and armor were socketed with fire facets.
weapon is the saddest part of this set, currently contemplating on adding a jewel of fervor with damage to it and 2 shaels.
leveling was a pain, like mavina's set this is an all-or-nothing set and you only transition to it when you have ALL of the charms and other tidbits.
i rank this set similarly to natalya's, lots of potential but marred by some flaws. if only this set has CB and a better weapon with more physical damage then it would have been much better.
the build is viable in HELL, you could breeze-through p1-p3 but higher player cunt will be painfully slow. i have managed to make this damn thing work but it is not recommended, using grief PB and the standard melee items would've been much better. the handicap this set presents is both fun and frustrating to say the least.
An upped 3soc aldurs rhythem with 3x 40-15's would at least bump up the damage to respectable levels, while giving it an additional 45% IAS.
It would make the set pretty viable for a weird mixed wearbear elemental druid.
I've always wanted to be able to up 3os Aldur's Weapon, and I've always wished they would change the ED% to Demons to just regular ol' ED%. I've thought about it a few times over the years. It makes no sense for end game as an un-uppable Jagged Star with ED% that only applies to demons...but a Devil Star w/ 30 Ias/10% LL/200% ED/Adds Dmg/3OS/etc...now we're talkin'. 😍
Guess the weapon does have potential to be pretty awesome if you socket it with a properly calculated combo of Ohms and Shaels. Probably Ohms should take priority, since it already has good increased speed and Shaels might not bring it over another breakpoint. Would have to calculate this, but Ohms could definitely somewhat remedy this weapon's lackluster damage problem, since two give +100 % increased damage after all. Of course two Ohms are most likely not worth it, but if someone insisted on playing with this set just for the fantasy of it and making it as good as it can be, I think Ohms would be the way to go.
Yes, I feel like It would remedy the issue of no On Weapon ED, Plus the 350% bonus on the set is nice too bad it doesn't function as on weapon ED.
My current issue has and always will be the fact that by the time you get a complete set - you likely would have found enough high runes to make something 10x better. That's especially true if you can build yourself an enigma. What they need to do is increase drop rates of these sets.
Well Specifically the body pieces with the lvl 76 requirement means it's stupid difficult to actually even utilize at a decent level.
Yeah, but that is not the case with aldurs, it doesnt have a rare item in it like tals armor, gris crown, IK armor. You can have every item in aldurs for a couple of perfekt gems, if you dont mind perfekt stats (fire res on boots) i think complete aldurs is doable for
@@multanomultano232 I think you missed the point.
Every piece of aludrs is around lvl 30-45 but the body piece is lvl 76.
If the body piece wasn't so high lvl it would make an excellent mid tier set for lvl 45 but instead the armor locks the full set bonus at lvl 76
@@GGMentor Honestly i dont think leveling
@@multanomultano232 it's not about leveling being an issue, but that aldurs would make a pretty strong lvl 45 set.
You make the best videos when it comes to this, the fact that you actually upgrade it is insane simply because of the resources. And when you do unique gear you typically have the ethereal versions as well
I just want to make sure you guys can see all the options, so you don't have to waste the resources yourself.
Yeah, i dont get it with XXk or even XXXk sub guys dont show everything when making a guide (which is supposed to show all options no?), and they explain it with "but its too expensive :{"
I really love this set.Unfortunatly most "elite" sets suffer from high level requirement on one item.I do not understand the design.You have a nightmare set that you cannot complete due to a high level item.It would have been better if there were sets for low level,mid level and full elite level items.I think the sets were abandoned after they started making those busted runewords :)
Ya they need to revisit sets and uniques because so many of them are just trash
The intent behind the design is you get part of the set in nightmare and complete it in hell. You don't have to complete the whole set in NM; you just make use of the partial items & set bonusses
5:37 for me the best part of this review
Lol 😂 a little tongue tied
Aldur's weapon and boots, Sigons gloves helmet and shield.
Makes for a really mean combo and leaves plenty of gear slots open for customizability.
Were talking Massive AR boost, and tons of life steal. You just need a hard hitting skill to go with it.
Diamond on the Devil Star... perfect!
With 2 shael runes you hit your speed break point with the weapon. However if you can get your hands on 15/40 jewels you still hit your break point and get the much needed 120% enhanced damage.
15/40s would be wasted on this garbage set
@@Mike-om4tvso true
To be fair on the upgrade for the boots yes thats alot but also remember that you have 45 extra strength from the full set so that 163 is not that much or if you wanna say the two set bonus thats 30 extra so you only really need 133
I’ve thrown ED jewels into an Aldurs mace before brought up the ED about 120% or so it’s decent but not having innate ED or some other mod like CB/DS etc it’s not a good weapon.
It is a set for fire druid; it is not meant to be used as a physcial damage dealer
Finally we can upgrade aldurs, thanks for this video
I was wondering right from the start what’s that buckler doing in there, glad you tossed it away mid way , then I was able to watch the video peacefully 😂
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it's very sad that they did not upgrade this and nats set in 2.4, it has a lot of potential but pales in comparison to tals set and even IK which will make you immortal in HELL but does less damage, you are correct to point out the level req issue. i faced this problem a long time ago.
In time we might still see upgrades they stated this was only the first wave.
Great series. I also wondered how Aldur would stack (the weapon). Also a bit disappointed. I want to mention one minor thing though. When you upgrade, the defense stat rolls again. If I remember correctly, there are some items, whose defense range between exceptional and elite is overlapping, so theoretically you can upgrade an item and its defense can go down. In this case, the boots were max defense when it was exceptional (47) and rolled almost the lowest possible (60, lowest is 59).
So as I found out thanks to a viewer the defense doesn't actually roll. Every item has a unique Identifier and the Defense in the upgraded form is a generation off of that unique Identifier.
How I determined this was if you were to copy several items and upgrade each of them they all roll the same defense even in multiple games, at different times.
@@GGMentor interesting that this is predetermined.
I really like this set, but i would also kind of like to see how things would play out for the super affluent who could just stick 3x 40ed 15% ias jewels in that mace.
no crushing blow/open wound/deadly strike as well as no ED really takes the weapon down, might need to slap 3 40/15 jewels and craft some blood gloves and rings
Aldurs rythm was my very first dual leech weapon back in the day when I first played d2. Used it on a zeal paladin and felt like a god killing the council with it. 2001 my goodness :_)
It was a decent set at the time, but even then it had problems and the game has changed a lot. It's completely obsolete. That said, I can think of two ways to make it usable.
First one is the obvious: fire claw. One shael in the weapon and lv24 werewolf is good for 8 fpa with highlords and loh. And then 5 facets. With infinity merc and phoenix he would be very strong actually, and the sunder charm made irrelevant by the 100% fire res that you get from boots + gloves.
Second one is fury. With either act 1 faith merc or act 2 reapers and a high level heart of the wolverine. Pretty easy to get to 5/4/7 fpa, or 5/3/6 with fanat. Socketing the weapon would not be cheap. It needs a ber and a lo for crushing and deadly (no guillaume, no gore), so not a lot of room to increase the damage. An ohm maybe, or a really nice 40 with something else. Phoenix for damage, stormshield for defense. Loh gloves, highlords, soe belt.
Both could easily finish the game and farm up to p3 or even 5. So if you are a wealthy druid fan, go ahead :)
It would be nice if you could find ethereal set weapons. I know that would take up a socket but it would certainly help the IK set. I feel like alot of sets that are on characters that have melee builds are just lacking in that department. I would rather run a summoner or a wind druid in aldurs before I had enough for enigma.
Ethereal set item would be fun imo
Just the Boots and Mace combined with the Angelic Amulet and Rings, would already be pretty massive for a melee character, right? Definitely interesting to see how far you could get with the Attack Rating in 2.4...
well ... i like those video about the set and thanks to make them but seriously speaking its quite an achievement here to try to make us hype for that one .... i mean legitimally this will just never be viable somehow... i like it that set will give u some options in the mid of the game , say u get the full set and u want to reroll a character it would be nice u can use it in nigthmare difficulty for exemple . But actually here the main problem is that because of the level 76 requirement its not even the case here which is IMO the real big big issue ...
thanks a lot still for that very clear video !!
@@guetali with the stats and lvl requirements along with the runes needed you'll prob already found better stuff to wear...
Im so curious how this build would do with 3 40/14 in upped weapon/ phoenix shield and laying of hands. Plus throw in Highlords on a shapeshifter druid. in my mind it sounds really good.
Hmmm 🤔
I’m curious too. Does the set bonus effect 350% ED increases the total damage if you upgrade the weapon and add 40/15 jewel?
It’s and expensive option but I would like to see the difference
Its really too bad so many set pieces have flat +defense and not enhanced, would make upgrading a lot more worth it
Full Aldurs would be such a cool budget fireclaw/Maul WB hybrid build with the changes to fireclaw synergies and weapon Upgrade able to do some physical damage to leech and take care of fire immunes. Slap on Chance guards, 1 nagelring and PT in armor and helm, go with harmony in act1 FA merc and you have a nice build that can almost take care of everything and gets around pretty fast with decent mf. Sadly activision instantly killed it with attack speed nerf for druid. Well.....gotta go pally or sorc again i guess
maul needs a very good weapon otherwise it is useless. I tried it in the ptr and honestly in comparison with other classes, the maul druid sucks.
@@Belsteak PTR fked shapeshifters with a massive atkspeed nerf - they are dead or a meme build at best now. Other than that i liked Maul WB pre 2.4......wouldnt touch it in softcore but a nice, save build for hc in combination with shockwave. Other than that i thought with 2.4 it would be a nice skill for a fireclaw bear since they changed it to less but more effective synergies, leaving you with points for Maul - a lackluster skill of course but enough to take care of fire immunes.
Atk speed fixed
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This set isn't designed well. The only build that could really utilize it is shape shift, but the weapon sucks.
Also if the attack speed nerf stands, this is even worse.
Weird helmet, and armor, they're just placeholders for set bonuses. Weapon has no damage. Boots are dope though.
I also want more set rings and this looks like a good candidate. Maybe set ammy too. That would open up using boots +1 for the attack rating set bonus, and maybe some other interesting things they throw on the ring or ammy. The big druid set only being 4 pieces is odd to me.
Im armor off of IK and helmet off of trangs. I just love collecting these class specific set
They are fun collectors items, especially trangs which turns you into a vampire 🦇
I'd put two Ohm's in the weapon along with one Ber rune, or just three Ohm's for 150% enhanced damage. It might work for a Fury Druid but I'm not sure.
Boots + weapon shaeled and you don't need that much strength, you'll get it as bonus on the weapon. Say for kicksin.
I like using it in nightmare, good that it can be upped now, specially weapon
I wish that they wld change the dmg to demon on the weapon to plain dmg%
I am surprised, you did not mention, putting 3 40/15 jewels, in the weapon. that would give it 120% ED and 45% A/S. That would capitalize on its strength and compensate for its weakness. You could then run: 1)string of ears 2) Raven frost 3) Highlords wrath 3) Wedding band 4) Laying of hands 5) Stormshield. Using the full Aldurs set.
Since base dmg of weapon is low, 120%ed wouldn't help much. Small number * 2.2 is still small number :)
@@onurdagci if you upgrade it that will help
@@andybrummel5555 I would have to still disagree. Using 3ias jools is 45ias => 9 frames, 3 shaels is 60 ias => 8 frame attack. You would be gaining some physical damage (hundreds) but losing a %13 increase on your fire damage (thousands). The physical component on this set design is just for leach purposes. Not to mention 15/40 jools are extremely expensive; I don't know of anyone who would be willing to sink such wealth on a mediocre set like this (even if the weapon is upgraded). I think the streamer is right to not mention 3 15/40 jools as an alternative. Those jools are meant for physical builds & usually two handers; this is a fire build with a bit of physical on the side via a one hander.
I was really hoping they would buff this set in patch 2.4. Especially the weapon, by changing the added damage to Ed damage.
i wonder if you put poison facets in the whole thing and made a rabies druid, you could use trangs gloves for the skill damage
Could be interesting to try it out
I think with using the sockets to boost the damage, which then gets magnified by the set bonus, it would be pretty good damage, but maybe I just don't know what good is.
11:40 well to fix it just put 2 ruby jewel of fervor or ruby jewel of carnage for max dmg, ias and ED and finaly a good ber rune for crushing blow or deadly strike.
So just a thought, now that you can upgrade the boots, the weapon/ boots would make a sick combo for a kick sin.
Additionally the full set with loh and head hunters glory makes the possibility for something interesting with all the facets you could slap in it, possibly a rabies druid setup.
6:14 "Relatively high strength requirement" he says with a straight face while this legit being the 3rd highest str req item in the game at 230 after Sacred Armor 232 and Thunder maul 253... you sir had me cracking up there ^_^
p.s. See what I mean when I say set items were not meant to be upgraded.. the weapon 0 ED, waste a Pul rune (which is pretty useful in general) for 20 something damage on top lol, for endgame this is a joke and if you're using it for attack speed I wouldn't waste the rune on it. Definitely needs a rebalance to be viable. Still, I kind of admire the fact that you give even the crappiest items a chance ;-)
Sometimes it's not about trying to convince someone an item is good, but rather seeing what purpose it could serve, or showing them it's garbage.
Solo Self found is a very interesting form of play where you use what you get handed to you, and should you get this set handed to you on a playthrough you would make the best use of it.
@@GGMentor I can respect the solo self find gameplay but if you don't have massive amounts of free time and you have full knowledge of the game it's kind of annoying knowing you're never gonna get to use like 70% of the endgame stuff.. remember kids, having a job really cuts into you d2 playtime xD
@@talictdf4757 it does indeed
The more I see of PTR, the set upgrades and how much they cost, and how instead of making others more powerful, they tried nerfing stuff (ie druid) really gives me no confidence in the team working on these updates and changes. So much work, for something that no one will use or care about.
Only real noticeable changes are to the mercenaries, which is totally awesome, but I honestly think changes to merc, and runewords FOR MERCS is all they should have done this update.
They are trying to do too much at once, and its causing a problem where what they are doing isnt that good. They need to scale back and make 2.4 about merc updates, 2.5 about 2 classes updated, 2.6 another 2 classes ect ect
Like upgraded sets I thought would be a great idea, but then I realized, out of ALL the uniques, barely any are worthy of being upgraded. The problem is you can find something better, and save the runes for a runeword instead. There might be a couple decent set upgrades, but be real... are they good enough to warrant using a old set piece instead of other GG gear?
My main problem is there is so much in 2.4, so much they decided to do, but fix major issues in the game that NEED to be addressed get ignored. like WTF. Problems such as barbarians WW still sucking. They nerfed it HARDCORE really long ago, and the nerfs where too heavy handed and need to be reverted to back to the way it was before. items that give IAS not working with WW is horseshit. Procs not procing with WW is horseshit. Or what about the mana burn bug in hell hwere MANA BURN burns 256x more mana then they should due to a coding error/ bug or something, then we can talk about the FIRE enchant bug they forgot to fix in NM where when they explode when they die they can kill even high level characters instantly. (this bug is why I dont play HC anymore) , simple bugs like Cains identify not identifying items in CUBE, but no, lets change a bunch of shit not one asked for...
Im not trying to hate on the game or the update, but I see my hype levels where WAY to high for this update.
You could throw some 15/30 Jewels or only Damage jewels or even OHM Runes in the weapon and it will be much better
Yes and they would act as on weapon Ed.
The pain you felt when you put the Diamond in the mace 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 Oh man that hurt
Add some decent ED on the weapon or let it have increased elemental damage with more pieces. Put some plus skills in the helmet. Then it'd be ok for shape shifting fire attacks druids with some elemental skills since they can cast hurricane while in wolf or bear form.
If they ever want to make a set as strong as runeword(worth hunting for) they should allow set items to be the base of runewords
Could you look up Hwanin's set upped, since the weapon is quite useful for the transition into nightmare?
Sure added to the list
I use Hwanin's for act 2 merc.If only D2r mercs could use a belt.....It would be really nice to have a few more item slots on mercs.
@@nikospolitis5635 I would settle for just a belt slot 🤣
@@GGMentor That would be the best slot to add.If the add full gear for mercs,purist will have a heart attack.I think adding the belt slot would not cause much fuss.Private D2 servers already have expanded merc item slots.Pity they have the old D2 graphics.We can only hope that VV add belt at the next patch.
i didn't realize all full sets glow until today. I have full tals and IK, mostly because they glow. Aldurs is so bad though, I have most of the set but don't use any of it on my druid.
Nats doesn't glow it makes her ethereal
I don't think they all glow man.
I'm copying this from a 2008 response in a forum by Nimbustratus:
Tal Rasha: glow
Immortal King: glow
Mavina: glow
Natalya: faded appearance (only graphical)
Trang-Oul: becomes a vampire/ghoul
Aldur: glow
Griswold: glow
if the weapon had natural enhanced damage, it would be nice for all classes end game. but you only get 350% enhanced damage with the whole set so viable for druids only to try and use it in hell
If they changed the 350% ED to be a green bonus on the weapon it would actually apply to the weapon correctly. Could be a very viable weapon, perhaps requiring at least 3 pieces to get the effect.
What would you socket into that weapon? 40/15s? Hmm
Either that or ohm runes 50% Ed each
So I always thought that % damage to undead/demon applies to base weapon damage, when it was on the weapon itself. So that isnt the case?
No even on the weapon demon/undead apply as off weapon ED
@@GGMentor
Well….. mind blown…. Thanks!
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This set really lacks added skills! It has the +3 for complete set, like all the other class specific sets, but they also usually have +2 to every tree on separate pieces. This set is not for an elemental druid to say the least! I think this is a greater problem than no enhanced damage on the weapon. In the end, you can insert Ohm runes or 15/40 jewels.
I didn’t know full set added +350% ED. That might offset the low weapon base damage
i have the Pul, Lum, and Emerald but my Aldurs Rhythm wont upgrade, any ideas?
Upgrading set items is restricted from non ladder, only works on Ladder, and Single player.
@@GGMentor well shit, the vid was pretty informative tho.
Make it +350 damage like grief it will make the set usable. Still wouldn't be OP but would be at least used instead of ignored.
I dont see the point in the new upgrades when you need 163 str for the boots, its nuts to me....
you could vendor it and equip butchers clever and other usefull items
the weapon, upgraded, should be socketed with ias ed jewels, to anybody not knowing how to socket certain items :). but overall, in hell, you'll not be using this weapon anyway.
If the weapon had any ED (80-150%) it would absolutely destroy many weapons with 3x ias ed jewels. Considering how easy the weapon is to find, the stats are just fine, imo.
Sick jacket GGM
My girl got it for me, came with pants too =}
Devil star needs at least 300 damage max cast level 40 fissure.
One of my favorite set
The only thing i don't like of aldur's is the high level requirement, for the moment you can weare this full set you can have much better things, and the green bonus are not that great.
Will the ED from Ohm runes and jewels count as an initial ED so it could be used in off-hand calculations from the set bonus?
Yes if socketed into the weapon directly, they will work as On Weapon ED.
@@GGMentor Hmm, so it won't suck so much when upgraded, I think someone should test it out on the final form of SS druid since they were busted on PTR
@@Chasodey unfortunately I can't upgrade them on 2.3 hmmm
@@GGMentor yep, so the only thing we can do is to wait till some changes for SS happen.
Even if they just added like 100% ed onto the base weapon it would make it really nice but not OP.
I didn't know the ED coming from the set would matter.
Is the Hel rune + town portal cube recipe to remove gems on items legit?
What's attack ratng and faster hit rate? 🥺
Attack rating is how accurate you are with your attacks. If you have very low attack rating you are likely to miss, if you have very high attack rating you are very likely to land your attack.
Faster Hit Recovery is when you get hit how fast do you recover from the hit.
I forgot aldur's club has no ED hahaha, still a great weapon until about level 70
I mean the upgraded versions level requirement didn't go up that much so maybe not so bad. I feel like it's a solid canidate for ED Jewels. 40% Ed Jewels in an upgraded 3 socket would be pretty massive increase in damage.
@@GGMentor The weapon has quite low damage.Sure the jewels would help but they are hard to get.Using them on these items is not really an option.Cheaper jewels or shaels are good candidates thought.Could you try a short run on Hell with the upgraded set items and some shael runes?
@@GGMentor I feel like you put 3 bers in there for memes
@@nikospolitis5635 40% Ed jewels with no other effects are pretty common.
Especially by comparison to 15/40's
Them boots are all I lack from the complete set.
Pretty sure I have a pair of you want em on live.
@@GGMentor thanks for the offer but I am on xbox, unless ....
I'll never in a million years understand the lvl req on these sets tho
They are very strange
Throwing three enhanced damage jewels into the weapon might actually make it useable.
Is this set good enough for end game items
You can use it endgame for certain builds like a fireclaw druid.
But it's not bis
Would there be a reson why this wont work for me?
They limited upgrading sets to ladder only at the last minute
@@GGMentor Thank you, i thought I was doing something wrong!
3x 40/15 in the weapon Pog
Nice jacket.
Thank You sir
Head Chala! HEAD CHALA!!
15:34 only assasin needs the kick dmg, this boots are not that bad.
Best socket runes for weapon?
Wait…wait?…WHAT? you can upgrade items???
Yup
@@GGMentor I know I saw what you did. But is there a page or person to go to on how to do this!?
@@stevencorey7623 yes the upgrade recipes are clearly posted all over the web.
Likewise in every video on items I usually upgrade them
@@GGMentor I got some homework to do. I just downloaded it last month. And randomly saw this video lol. Thx so much! I’ll be checking out your other videos!
I Wonder what the base dmg will be with 3 Ohms in it
Sadly this set is very mediocre. They need to look at Aldur to make some adjustments.
3 Ohm runes will fix the low damage of the weapon 😂
lol see now you make me want to go test it out =)
no %ed on the weapon kills this set
after a while i think there is just no reason to track the train of thought of those desigerns. there was none. d2r is super imbalanced, super random, super 1% of whole armory and weaponry dependant. geez..
D2r is the exact same as the old D2. At least they are really looking into stuff. It's a PTR still. Hope they listen to feedback.
Ure right too
Aldur maldur haldur 1 hit form Lilith
13k defence 1 hit and dead ahhahaahahahahah
My friend, it's hard to watch a full video, too long mostly because you repeat information. Do you really need to tell us 3 times that every piece adds 15 stats and show how 1 piece gives you 15, 2 pieces 30 etc? C'mon, cut some bs and make the videos around 10 minutes.
lol, I am long winded, it won't change trust me I tried. If it's something you can't deal with there are plenty of other diablo II youtubers out there. Check out alzorath, or dbrunski
you forgot to metion that you cant upgrade a weapon that alrdy socketed gg rage quit
You can upgrade weapons and armor that are already socketed, you can also upgrade items that have a rune or jewel or gem in the socket too.
I have done it many times on cam.
Such a waste of time ure doing.. i know you need some content to talk about, but not this much plus not this kind of topic.
People are specifically requesting I upgrade these sets, and its not a waste of time for newer players to get an understanding of the usefulness of these sets.
The only thing that was a waste of time was reading your comment.