Because this game is the greatest nostalgia game that everyone can come back and play and have a new build to try and make with any character. Diablo 2 also has the best community of any game period. Nothing comes close.
@@krazyfoo10 it was a great game for its time but the droprates and finding gear is absolutely terrible- it's really more akin to diablo 1 in that regard, with the exception of MF gear being required to turn your .0001% chance into .001%. The game starves you of loot for such obscenely long periods of time that it feels so rewarding when you get ANYTHING remotely useful- and that's the entire game right there. If you got loot at a healthy interval you'd find yourself even more bored because there isn't any serious strategy to the gameplay; you're spamming 1-3 spells and that's it. The builds are far too limited per class; theres basically only 1 or at best 2 builds per class that is viable in hellmode despite way more spells being available. In probably 8-10k hours of D2 back in the day I found one soj. Grim Dawn is the modern, superior successor to D2 and everything it should be. The D2 nostalgia is strong but the only people who really stick with it are those who enjoy wasting hundreds/thousands of hours of their time killing the same boss to find a single item for a niche set of viable builds. Then guess what, once you create that viable build you're wasting your time equipping it because your already low odds of finding good loot drops off a cliff because you're not wearing your MF set. It's just counterintuitive when you think about it. Most people will get to hellmode, get bored, then roll another class... rinse repeat until they're bored of rolling new classes.
@@sly9263 that's all I've been thinking as well. D2 has been 10 bucks and runs just fine. There's like a few hundred or thousand people kicking around, enough to trade, so people who really want to play have been playing, and for 10 bucks. Now blizz touches up graphics and makes thing work in a higher res. Nostalgic gamers and zoomers will pay $60 to play it for a few months, remember diablo is hard, and leave. The nostalgia quickly wears off when you're killing pendel for the 3000 time and still no shako or whatever. People got bored with classic wow is months, and there is so much more there. I predict people will be done with the D2 Remaster in a month or 2. I'm really curious to see if the actual D2 community will accept it or go back to the $10 of version. It is hilarious that people are so hype and anxious for the game. Demanding no changes. For 10 bucks you could have been playing it exactly how it was. Now pretty spell graphics and screen Res have people amp to pay $60 to remember they don't like the grind.
@@johnhammond6225 agreed. I think few people will stick with it for very long. Most of the originals are now in our mid 30s or 40s and beyond while the larger target audience is much younger and never played D2 to begin with (or barely did). That same, newer generation having grown up with far better and more in depth ARPGs will probably get bored very quickly and many of the veterans will immediately realize that they have better things to do than run nightmare mephisto 1,000 times for a chance at getting gear to progress thru hellmode.
Yesterday I found the best rare weapon i've ever found on plugy. Gale Saw Legend Sword One-Hand Damage 144 to 390 Two-Hand Damage 317 to 624 20 IAS 282ED +45 to Max Dam (per character lvl) +105 to Attack Rating +1485 to Attack Rating(per character lvl) Prevent Monster Heal Repairs 1 durability in 33 seconds Ethereal/Socketed (1) Probably going to sink a 35/15 into it and play a rare item only barbarian. What started as a should I pick up and ID this two handed sword moment ended up having me stare at the screen in amazement for at least 30 minutes. I've never been lucky enough to roll nething close to this and although i'm sure grief is likely better I'm stoked to use it on a all rare barb setup.
If you use WW, you don’t need ias to hit max speed. If you are frenzy, Highlords should prob be enough. Might want to just throw an ohm in it and save the Ed/ias Check out a weapon speed calc before you waste a jewel
Thanks for the replies my dudes I have since tested the weapon and can confirm damage wise it's not quite up to grief standards. Having said that It almost never misses which may actually make it closer than I initially thought. Even if I could sell it I don't think I ever would it looks like a huge translucent white lightsaber. I've been incredibly lucky lately I rolled a Beast Berserker Axe and it rolled perfect 270 ed % which has never happened to me either. Currently have a nice 29 ed 9 str 9 min damage +15 stamina rare jewel in it(was considering Ohm/Lo for some deadly strike) bc I only have the one 35/15 and i'm debating keeping it for either eth 3os tombreaver(found 3 non eth) or a jeweler's Diadem of Speed (probably never find).
@@MunsonRoyE27 Dude that is fucking awesome. I am starting to wonder about my luck though, for some reason I'm finding high runes, a perfect war travs, perfect maras, perfect chancies, all in one week. Seems realllll fuckin fishy to me, unless God just finally feels bad about my shit luck my whole life and he's like here bud, enjoy your 1990's pc game
@@CorvinoDan if the shared space allowed more than one cube.... you could put cubes inside of cubes and have infinite space.... i suspect they have thought of this ^_^
i like using my early money to gamble for 50 circlets until i get a 20FCR... stealth, spirit sword, fcr rings/ammy, plus 20fcr helm... gives 105% fcr.... then all you need is some mf gloves/boots to finish out your budget runnner... moving/casting faster just helps more than the stats anything else can give.... and gambling for a fcr circlet really doesn't slow you down, if you are already selling the valuable stuff....
This was my first character on d2r. She's a single player build. I farmed Ancient tunnels on players 1 until she was level 92 before I even killed duriel. She has almost 6k blizzard and she's only really missing wartravs, infinity, skillers, torch, and Ani. I haven't done anything in act 5 other than socket quest, as I've been focus farming lower kurast for that enigma and infinity to unlock other character builds.
I just wanted to say I love your content. I am a long time viewer and your passion for D2 has inspired me to start a Single Player Plugy grail adventure again. I had one going a couple years back but it was wiped when I forgot to back up my save files after reformatting my hard drive. I am having a blast slowly working my way through the game. Currently on Act 5 hell with my sorc (Level 79), started off with fire and the Leaf runeword but lately I've been playing primarily Blizz with Spirit in a Longsword and Monarch but switch/respec if I have to kill something quest-related that's cold-immune. I had some insane RNG with my only hell Diablo kill. With 0 (Yes, absolutely 0) MF, a Shako dropped. I also had an Ist Rune from just a few runs of hell Countess when I was farming runes for my Spirits, so I already have an Ist'd Shako. I'm pretty pumped about that! Anyway, keep up the great stuff. It's great to see someone as excited and passionate about something as you are about D2!
I recently came back to d2 after about 15 years. Found your channel while browsing some d2 videos. I look forward to your build videos you mentioned. I like your vids man :)
The first time I ever moat-tricked was with my level 18 Necro. I used a 3os long bow with 3 flawed emeralds and a full inventory of arrows. Ah those were the days...
Another tip: Blizzard sorc does enough dmg with just one 20 synergy (ice blast) and lvl 16 cold mastery. You can can invest some points into ES and telekinesis to get really tanky even with shitty res in hell
@@InfernalSpelll Energy shield. Uses up mana instead of life, making the sorc way tankier. Telekinesis is an important synergy. Read up on it to get the most out of it
Man this joke went right over these two guys who replied heads. He is making a joke about porn advertisements that say "all men hate him, use this one easy trick to grow your dick 4 inches in no time!" something like that.
I actually just went through this exact grind with a fresh start on single player after many years away from d2. At the gear and ~lvl you were for this vid Hell meph was too stressful for me, I was hell bent on using my insight merc though. I stuck with NM meph and pindle up to this point, and then discovered that cows are super easy using glacier spike to freeze for merc and blizz to kill them off in hell. I would highly recommend doing hell cows if around this level and gear, the spirit monarch (and potential for sick merc bases and runes) is well worth the danger, also the exp is decent into the 80s. I stuck with this mostly, changing to hell pindle, lvl 85 zones, and countess regularly, and occasionally act bosses to gauge my progress. Now im midway through 87, alongside an 85 javazon for cows specifically, and just this week ive actually managed to score the runes and bases to upgrade into an obedience, fort, and CTA (about 2-3 months regularly playing overall). With the Fort and CTA I could finally break my insight addiction and fully upgrade my merc, and now hell act bosses are becoming fast and safe enough that I enjoy doing them. PS: It was watching your various item finds and bot project videos that finally hyped me up enough to figure out what the heck was going on and get d2 working on my PC after sever failed attempts over the last several years, and it is just as fun as I remembered it being. So thanks for the motivation DB!
Blizz sorc is nice but for overall farming this ladder I've been using the fireball/meteor/frozen orb sorceress, working really well so far...rocking a spirit broad sword, ancient pledge shield (I do have lidless etc but I need the resist), Vipermagi, Goldwrap, Chancies, good MF/runwalk boots, a good MF amulet, 3 ptopaz crown (until shako), and good mf/other stat rings. So I get the 63 FCR breakpoint and 225 MF with good FHR breakpoint as well (86 I think?) my all resists in Hell is about ~50 and between frozen orb, fireball, and meteor (and the static/teleport of course) it can take on anything! I do stay away from Chaos Sanc and Baal at this point because I'm still gearing and farming, but everywhere else is fair game, been really fun! I don't even need to moat trick Mephisto in hell, just static'ing, fireballing and meteoring as merc tanks, maybe use 1-2 full rejuv on my merc, and it's super quick and easy. I would recommend a build like this if you want to do more than a single element sorc.
Finally made an untwinked sorc and got it to hell meph a while back(still farming there) something that really helped for me was nearly maxing static so I could lower res meph drag him to the moat then static him without getting too close
Dbrunski, my man, good cheap build, but for Amulet and Boots - check Vidala amu+boots combo, or Tancred Amu + something else from Tancred set. Pretty easy to obtain. But if you get lucky with 2-3 res MF boots - thats awesome!
these are really good in-depth guides for beginners. I used to play this game 15 years ago and just got back into it. This guide is perfect and helps a lot!. When did you get spirit on the ladder reset? were you low level? new char here and trying to see what a good timing to have spirit would be
What I used to do was farm arreats plateau on normal till a poleaxe dropped and used the socket quest, would always leave 4 sockets because of the mlvl. Last ladder I was lucky enough to get sol not long after and there you go, insight by about level 27.
Props to the sorc that can tele to bosses in seconds flat , yall carry me through hell every time. I made a sorc and i die trying to tele to mephisto lol even in nightmare. I went there to practice the runs and died just trying to find lvl 3 lol im such an embrassemnt to sorcs
Was cool to watch the stream last night man, I'm also doing a solo mission in HC with a frost zeal pally kind of like this sorc lol. Always cool to watch bro😎👍
Hey juste some tips for you when you begin, I suggest you to put 1 into frozen orb for the bonus to your other skills and 1 in energy shield becose this will prevent you from getting one shot if you play in hardcore. :)
IMO you only need to hit the 37% FCR breakpoint to teleport safely through the durance. This way you can get a ton more MF using gull dagger, without sacrificing much clear speed
There really isn't much guides out there these days that show cases "ladder" grind or game play. Watching MrLama's guides shows him playing on single player with the options to scale to player settings. Are there ways to do this on ladder without the need to be grouped with friend? or is our best luck in joining other people's games?
FCR isn't important if you run Blizzard. It helps with teleport to avoid packs but if you are careful enough where you teleport, you don't have to worry about it.
Can you make a guide or give advise how to get to this build single player in normal and nightmare? Should we go for the same skills or pick something else first and respec later?
imo, when we have plugy, BN MFing is quite useless. bots ruined trading long time ago. but... this guide is great to people w/o old saves or just starting a new run.
Hey debrunski, What do you think of ES builds? I'm new to LoD and I tried a pure blizz vita build and It was fun but I switched to Orb Es and it seems way harder to kill my sorc with telekinesis maxed which helped me since I'm new. I tried fb vita once I got some good gear but same problem it dies so quick, though it runs pindle really fast.
I play on bnet, my experience is. Tele, get tele-locked from monster hit, die. Or, make it meph, attract all the monsters in the room, die. It's been very stressful trying to mf because I usually get tagged and die, or rubberband and die.
Hey Dbrunski you are the best, recently i found zod solo, my reaction wasn’t that crazy as yours but i also had a nice feelings founding it. High five man!
Hey DBrunski nice to see you my thoughts please can you go for a part where you show difference between more MF like 150 vs. nothing based on how many items you got from it. Rare maybe unique or sets
Not a bad little video and beginning set up for your Sorc. It is kind of strange though with how you pronounce Moat, or how the mic was picking up your voice. It continually sounded like you said Mode, besides one time where your emphasized the T. I tend to do the same 2 you do because in Players 7 to 8 it's a quick and nice way to gain potential gear. On longer Runs from people, like A2 Tombs and on, Andy an also be a worthwhile try just because of the increased items. Usually though if you're not doing Private Games, you'll be entering CS and or Baal runs.
Here's my question, do you think it is worth it to quest bug mephisto? I did some calculations when deciding this and on the German drop chance calculator site it said with about 450% mf the quest mf vs the non quest mf, for a shako for example was 1 in 400 vs 1 in 600 or something pretty close to that. Or like a 50% increase in the odds of finding most good items. That seems worth it to me. Of course it's a pain to have to join baal or chaos games or whatever. But I still think it's worth it, especially considering how often the ladder doesn't let you make games and the queues involved.
Hey man, a question for you. (Playing plygy) I'm grinding runes atm and have a hard time deciding which runewords to make first. I have hoto and cta already. Now I only need a Lo rune to make Grief+Exile+CoH for my smiter - so I can do ubers. Or I can grind some more and make an Enigma. Is it better to get the smiter going to get some torches or is enigma a "better" use for more characters? Appreciate if you could give me some reasons + and - for both options. I want to get a trapsin and wind druid going as well as my pala being able to tele doing CS runs but I also want to do ubers, so I can't decide what to do :)
I hopped on D3 wasn't happy. Still haven't completed the story mode. Is it worth playing D2? I keep hearing about bots and stuff ruining it "in a week". What do you think?
question, why aren't you spamming blizzard as soon as the cooldown is over? does the blizzard not stack and that's why you cast the next blizzard later to conserve mana?
How do you farm when it takes like 10 minutes to start each game? I just got back into d2 since patch 1.10 and the queues to create games are awful.... do you just join random games?
I'm thinking of starting again after a couple of decades. Does this all work for none ladder? There's so much new content, I'm not sure on all the new things.
@@daath912 LK is not efficient on b.net due to map resets and temporary bans that you get when you reset the game too often on b.net. You want cows + Travincal/Arcane Sanctuary/Countess/Chaos Sanctuary runs, preferably with as many players as possible, because MF doesn't affect runes, but players in the game do.
You forgot to talk about shields. Saw later you use ancients pledge. Is rhyme not better? Bit lower res, but extra mf. I prefer rhyme almost always for early ladder shield. Keep up the good work!
13 yards is full screen static. Sure it lowers your dmg, but it would lower your meph kills by 50% or more. My mf sorc's always have a tad more than full screen static. The amount of health it chunks is huge.
I can't wait for the remastered crowd to remember how grindy D2 is. Make it as pretty as you want. It won't change drop rates. It won't add things to do. The game is still rush to get through hell, farm meph, farm pen, and repeat 1000s of times until you can add more to the farm. Then keep farming. And once you've farmed, you farm some more.
You cant deal the CI,and you cant solo hell! Simple as that! You can only farm certain areas and you'll beg other players help you finish the game. You can already see when he used TP that not all portals were found up,which means someone gave him the portals he need! Only those where he could farm easily. Even with Godly gear, Sorceress will strugle in player 8 games and Uber Tristram/Diablo clone... you can forget about it. ...but if you need the char that will suply gear for your others chars,than blizz-sorc is probably the better(faster) MF of them all. I personaly prefer Frenzy Barb with enigma and find item/spell... but for that you'll still need Enigma...
Its important that you dont dont runs to fast or else youll get timeouted from the server :D dont know the complete rule anymore but im sure its 20 games per hour ish
Not in Battlenet. Either he has more than one D2 account to use as mules or simply switching chars in the same account. Remember that now it's possible to leave the game, change char and go back into the same game, as long as they are password games. They are kept alive for 5 minutes before it's gone (or as they say, "permed"). You can check more here us.forums.blizzard.com/en/blizzard/t/d2-concept-patch-115a/2297
Hi there, I have a question, I saw that angelic set gives a total of 90 MF, 50 from ring (bonus for having multiple items) and 40 from set bonus, if I have a second ring from the same set, does it add another 50 or not ?
You have to avoid cold immunes, unless you're high enough level where you have a strong fireball after you've maxed out the necessary cold skills, or if you're lucky enough to build an infinity polearm for your mercenary.
I m playing Pluggy, so idk really, is it just 1.13 version, but... I m using merc and he never attracts guys from left room. Literally. He can aggro some liches from the bottom, but it is pretty rare situation. The more often situation is when he tries to go up, so i need to reposition him 1-3 times till he stops. Its not a problem with Insight. P.S. How to get monarch fast? D:
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Time Stamps
00:56 Attibutes and Skill Tree
02:21 3 Suggestions
04:14 Gear
07:24 Mephisto and Pindle Runs
16:35 Conclusion
I can't wait for resurrected! How do you deal with cold immunes as a blizzard sorc?
I just love that there are still this many people interested in D2. What a classic game
Because this game is the greatest nostalgia game that everyone can come back and play and have a new build to try and make with any character. Diablo 2 also has the best community of any game period. Nothing comes close.
And now D2 resurrected, so excited 😂
@@krazyfoo10 it was a great game for its time but the droprates and finding gear is absolutely terrible- it's really more akin to diablo 1 in that regard, with the exception of MF gear being required to turn your .0001% chance into .001%. The game starves you of loot for such obscenely long periods of time that it feels so rewarding when you get ANYTHING remotely useful- and that's the entire game right there. If you got loot at a healthy interval you'd find yourself even more bored because there isn't any serious strategy to the gameplay; you're spamming 1-3 spells and that's it. The builds are far too limited per class; theres basically only 1 or at best 2 builds per class that is viable in hellmode despite way more spells being available. In probably 8-10k hours of D2 back in the day I found one soj. Grim Dawn is the modern, superior successor to D2 and everything it should be. The D2 nostalgia is strong but the only people who really stick with it are those who enjoy wasting hundreds/thousands of hours of their time killing the same boss to find a single item for a niche set of viable builds. Then guess what, once you create that viable build you're wasting your time equipping it because your already low odds of finding good loot drops off a cliff because you're not wearing your MF set. It's just counterintuitive when you think about it. Most people will get to hellmode, get bored, then roll another class... rinse repeat until they're bored of rolling new classes.
@@sly9263 that's all I've been thinking as well. D2 has been 10 bucks and runs just fine. There's like a few hundred or thousand people kicking around, enough to trade, so people who really want to play have been playing, and for 10 bucks.
Now blizz touches up graphics and makes thing work in a higher res. Nostalgic gamers and zoomers will pay $60 to play it for a few months, remember diablo is hard, and leave. The nostalgia quickly wears off when you're killing pendel for the 3000 time and still no shako or whatever. People got bored with classic wow is months, and there is so much more there.
I predict people will be done with the D2 Remaster in a month or 2. I'm really curious to see if the actual D2 community will accept it or go back to the $10 of version.
It is hilarious that people are so hype and anxious for the game. Demanding no changes. For 10 bucks you could have been playing it exactly how it was. Now pretty spell graphics and screen Res have people amp to pay $60 to remember they don't like the grind.
@@johnhammond6225 agreed. I think few people will stick with it for very long. Most of the originals are now in our mid 30s or 40s and beyond while the larger target audience is much younger and never played D2 to begin with (or barely did). That same, newer generation having grown up with far better and more in depth ARPGs will probably get bored very quickly and many of the veterans will immediately realize that they have better things to do than run nightmare mephisto 1,000 times for a chance at getting gear to progress thru hellmode.
Only few channel will really show the "budget" build. Most of other channels are showing the endgame-like "budget" build. REally helpful.
I mean this one really should be called trash build
@@haoyangsun3278 lol, thats a good point. I think you mean the equipment-wise, right? Not the build itself.
it's been 20 years, and now I'm playing Diablo again...😅
Just bought it again !
same here:) feels good beeing back!:D
sameeee
Same, back after 10 years. Plugy +High-res made me comeback
Yesterday I found the best rare weapon i've ever found on plugy.
Gale Saw
Legend Sword
One-Hand Damage 144 to 390
Two-Hand Damage 317 to 624
20 IAS
282ED
+45 to Max Dam (per character lvl)
+105 to Attack Rating
+1485 to Attack Rating(per character lvl)
Prevent Monster Heal
Repairs 1 durability in 33 seconds
Ethereal/Socketed (1)
Probably going to sink a 35/15 into it and play a rare item only barbarian. What started as a should I pick up and ID this two handed sword moment ended up having me stare at the screen in amazement for at least 30 minutes. I've never been lucky enough to roll nething close to this and although i'm sure grief is likely better I'm stoked to use it on a all rare barb setup.
If you use WW, you don’t need ias to hit max speed.
If you are frenzy, Highlords should prob be enough.
Might want to just throw an ohm in it and save the Ed/ias
Check out a weapon speed calc before you waste a jewel
You could sell this item for like 500$ if it was online lol
ooh nice
Thanks for the replies my dudes I have since tested the weapon and can confirm damage wise it's not quite up to grief standards. Having said that It almost never misses which may actually make it closer than I initially thought. Even if I could sell it I don't think I ever would it looks like a huge translucent white lightsaber. I've been incredibly lucky lately I rolled a Beast Berserker Axe and it rolled perfect 270 ed % which has never happened to me either. Currently have a nice 29 ed 9 str 9 min damage +15 stamina rare jewel in it(was considering Ohm/Lo for some deadly strike) bc I only have the one 35/15 and i'm debating keeping it for either eth 3os tombreaver(found 3 non eth) or a jeweler's Diadem of Speed (probably never find).
@@MunsonRoyE27 Dude that is fucking awesome. I am starting to wonder about my luck though, for some reason I'm finding high runes, a perfect war travs, perfect maras, perfect chancies, all in one week. Seems realllll fuckin fishy to me, unless God just finally feels bad about my shit luck my whole life and he's like here bud, enjoy your 1990's pc game
So this is probably going to be my go to when D2 Ressurected launches! Can't wait
Same here.. with the shared stash I can build what I really want to play
Act 1 Merc / enchant her = win
So we hope they will fix the mephisto bug :D
@@moderndad4219 now im wondering, with shared stash, how many cubes can you fit in it. if you delete a char does the cube go away? heheheh.
@@CorvinoDan if the shared space allowed more than one cube.... you could put cubes inside of cubes and have infinite space.... i suspect they have thought of this ^_^
10 days until D2R... The hype is unreal.
LETS GO BABY! 7 MINUTES!
i like using my early money to gamble for 50 circlets until i get a 20FCR... stealth, spirit sword, fcr rings/ammy, plus 20fcr helm... gives 105% fcr.... then all you need is some mf gloves/boots to finish out your budget runnner... moving/casting faster just helps more than the stats anything else can give.... and gambling for a fcr circlet really doesn't slow you down, if you are already selling the valuable stuff....
Just use wizard spike. It's better than hoto if you're going to be mfing on players 1
This was my first character on d2r. She's a single player build. I farmed Ancient tunnels on players 1 until she was level 92 before I even killed duriel.
She has almost 6k blizzard and she's only really missing wartravs, infinity, skillers, torch, and Ani. I haven't done anything in act 5 other than socket quest, as I've been focus farming lower kurast for that enigma and infinity to unlock other character builds.
Thanks for making all these guide videos. I am super pumped for D2 Resurrected and plan on using this build!
I just wanted to say I love your content. I am a long time viewer and your passion for D2 has inspired me to start a Single Player Plugy grail adventure again. I had one going a couple years back but it was wiped when I forgot to back up my save files after reformatting my hard drive. I am having a blast slowly working my way through the game. Currently on Act 5 hell with my sorc (Level 79), started off with fire and the Leaf runeword but lately I've been playing primarily Blizz with Spirit in a Longsword and Monarch but switch/respec if I have to kill something quest-related that's cold-immune. I had some insane RNG with my only hell Diablo kill. With 0 (Yes, absolutely 0) MF, a Shako dropped. I also had an Ist Rune from just a few runs of hell Countess when I was farming runes for my Spirits, so I already have an Ist'd Shako. I'm pretty pumped about that! Anyway, keep up the great stuff. It's great to see someone as excited and passionate about something as you are about D2!
Damn you bring me way back :D i remmember as a kid farming cows n stuff countless hrs in a inet cafe xD
I recently came back to d2 after about 15 years. Found your channel while browsing some d2 videos. I look forward to your build videos you mentioned. I like your vids man :)
The first time I ever moat-tricked was with my level 18 Necro. I used a 3os long bow with 3 flawed emeralds and a full inventory of arrows. Ah those were the days...
Another tip: Blizzard sorc does enough dmg with just one 20 synergy (ice blast) and lvl 16 cold mastery. You can can invest some points into ES and telekinesis to get really tanky even with shitty res in hell
question for ya because I'm new to building a sorc. why would someone throw a lot into telekinesis? I genuinely do not know. and ES?
@@InfernalSpelll Energy shield. Uses up mana instead of life, making the sorc way tankier. Telekinesis is an important synergy. Read up on it to get the most out of it
Thanks for this video. Can't believe it took me so long to find a youtube video to get me started on Sorc MF grinding. Very good early guide.
Pretty much the only game that still has me over 2 decades later 👌
Exactly what I needed to get back up and running!
Bnet players hate him. Farm amazing gear on ladder with this one easy trick!
I don’t understand why Bnet players hate him.
Man this joke went right over these two guys who replied heads.
He is making a joke about porn advertisements that say "all men hate him, use this one easy trick to grow your dick 4 inches in no time!" something like that.
@@prisonmike3665 it’s a meme
Really hope your channel ends up blowing up even bigger with D2R coming out
I actually just went through this exact grind with a fresh start on single player after many years away from d2. At the gear and ~lvl you were for this vid Hell meph was too stressful for me, I was hell bent on using my insight merc though. I stuck with NM meph and pindle up to this point, and then discovered that cows are super easy using glacier spike to freeze for merc and blizz to kill them off in hell. I would highly recommend doing hell cows if around this level and gear, the spirit monarch (and potential for sick merc bases and runes) is well worth the danger, also the exp is decent into the 80s. I stuck with this mostly, changing to hell pindle, lvl 85 zones, and countess regularly, and occasionally act bosses to gauge my progress.
Now im midway through 87, alongside an 85 javazon for cows specifically, and just this week ive actually managed to score the runes and bases to upgrade into an obedience, fort, and CTA (about 2-3 months regularly playing overall). With the Fort and CTA I could finally break my insight addiction and fully upgrade my merc, and now hell act bosses are becoming fast and safe enough that I enjoy doing them.
PS: It was watching your various item finds and bot project videos that finally hyped me up enough to figure out what the heck was going on and get d2 working on my PC after sever failed attempts over the last several years, and it is just as fun as I remembered it being. So thanks for the motivation DB!
Awesome man!! And thank you very much for the kind words!! More people come back to Diablo 2 the better
Mephisto’s damn moat has put more items into the game than any dupe method.
I dunno man 1.08/1.09 was a crazy time, duped item rained from the sky.
Thanks dude, I'm just getting into D2 and these are super helpful.
Blizz sorc is nice but for overall farming this ladder I've been using the fireball/meteor/frozen orb sorceress, working really well so far...rocking a spirit broad sword, ancient pledge shield (I do have lidless etc but I need the resist), Vipermagi, Goldwrap, Chancies, good MF/runwalk boots, a good MF amulet, 3 ptopaz crown (until shako), and good mf/other stat rings. So I get the 63 FCR breakpoint and 225 MF with good FHR breakpoint as well (86 I think?) my all resists in Hell is about ~50 and between frozen orb, fireball, and meteor (and the static/teleport of course) it can take on anything! I do stay away from Chaos Sanc and Baal at this point because I'm still gearing and farming, but everywhere else is fair game, been really fun! I don't even need to moat trick Mephisto in hell, just static'ing, fireballing and meteoring as merc tanks, maybe use 1-2 full rejuv on my merc, and it's super quick and easy. I would recommend a build like this if you want to do more than a single element sorc.
Yea i use meteor n frozen orb too i like the orb cuz it gets the whole room then ill use meteors as i retreat its pretty good for mobs
Finally made an untwinked sorc and got it to hell meph a while back(still farming there) something that really helped for me was nearly maxing static so I could lower res meph drag him to the moat then static him without getting too close
Thanks for this. This was just what i needed
wow 2nd toadest video on TH-cam that I have ever seen TBH
Botnet ain't all that toad tho..
Love you man, can't wait for the d2ressurected comeback
Dbrunski, my man, good cheap build, but for Amulet and Boots - check Vidala amu+boots combo, or Tancred Amu + something else from Tancred set. Pretty easy to obtain. But if you get lucky with 2-3 res MF boots - thats awesome!
these are really good in-depth guides for beginners. I used to play this game 15 years ago and just got back into it. This guide is perfect and helps a lot!.
When did you get spirit on the ladder reset? were you low level? new char here and trying to see what a good timing to have spirit would be
What I used to do was farm arreats plateau on normal till a poleaxe dropped and used the socket quest, would always leave 4 sockets because of the mlvl. Last ladder I was lucky enough to get sol not long after and there you go, insight by about level 27.
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this guide will blast again! lets gooo
Props to the sorc that can tele to bosses in seconds flat , yall carry me through hell every time.
I made a sorc and i die trying to tele to mephisto lol even in nightmare. I went there to practice the runs and died just trying to find lvl 3 lol im such an embrassemnt to sorcs
Nice to see such interested player ;) in my memory it was so difficult to get good stuff and runes !
Great guide...why not static charges on mephi while aggro him?
last time i came this early my son was born
Love the content man. Keep grinding and I’ll keep watching 😄.
Was cool to watch the stream last night man, I'm also doing a solo mission in HC with a frost zeal pally kind of like this sorc lol. Always cool to watch bro😎👍
Awesome video mate! How do you deal with Magic Immune, and Frozen Immunes?
Hey juste some tips for you when you begin, I suggest you to put 1 into frozen orb for the bonus to your other skills and 1 in energy shield becose this will prevent you from getting one shot if you play in hardcore. :)
IMO you only need to hit the 37% FCR breakpoint to teleport safely through the durance. This way you can get a ton more MF using gull dagger, without sacrificing much clear speed
Awesome thx for the guide! Just what I asked for! :D you the best!
There really isn't much guides out there these days that show cases "ladder" grind or game play. Watching MrLama's guides shows him playing on single player with the options to scale to player settings. Are there ways to do this on ladder without the need to be grouped with friend? or is our best luck in joining other people's games?
FCR isn't important if you run Blizzard. It helps with teleport to avoid packs but if you are careful enough where you teleport, you don't have to worry about it.
When did Deckard Cain move to the stash in Act 5?
Bnet feature
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Can you make a guide or give advise how to get to this build single player in normal and nightmare? Should we go for the same skills or pick something else first and respec later?
How do you deal with cold immune monster? Im try to go through hell and it's quite difficult
Fronzen orb / fireball ;) my favorite! I can kill everything. Or my merc can :)
imo, when we have plugy, BN MFing is quite useless. bots ruined trading long time ago. but... this guide is great to people w/o old saves or just starting a new run.
thanks, it's a great video.
Hey debrunski, What do you think of ES builds? I'm new to LoD and I tried a pure blizz vita build and It was fun but I switched to Orb Es and it seems way harder to kill my sorc with telekinesis maxed which helped me since I'm new. I tried fb vita once I got some good gear but same problem it dies so quick, though it runs pindle really fast.
That would work with meteor/fireball too right? Like, why do people prefer cold so much? Is it just because if the cold res pierce?
Curious how you plan on getting the dex for the wiz spike. Do you just invest hard points and respec later?
FCR / FHR break points...can you make a vid explaining these?
Yooooo DB!! THANK YOU! Ive been searching for a video like this. You rock man!
I play on bnet, my experience is. Tele, get tele-locked from monster hit, die. Or, make it meph, attract all the monsters in the room, die. It's been very stressful trying to mf because I usually get tagged and die, or rubberband and die.
Does this same max vita concept/ guide apply to hardcore ladder starts too? Or is max block the go to?
Hey Dbrunski you are the best, recently i found zod solo, my reaction wasn’t that crazy as yours but i also had a nice feelings founding it. High five man!
NO WAY HE FINDS LVL3 THAT FAST! AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH... XD That is great!
Hey DBrunski nice to see you my thoughts please can you go for a part where you show difference between more MF like 150 vs. nothing based on how many items you got from it. Rare maybe unique or sets
Not a bad little video and beginning set up for your Sorc. It is kind of strange though with how you pronounce Moat, or how the mic was picking up your voice. It continually sounded like you said Mode, besides one time where your emphasized the T.
I tend to do the same 2 you do because in Players 7 to 8 it's a quick and nice way to gain potential gear. On longer Runs from people, like A2 Tombs and on, Andy an also be a worthwhile try just because of the increased items. Usually though if you're not doing Private Games, you'll be entering CS and or Baal runs.
Hi, i been back to D2 for a couple od years. I'am thinking about single player game. Which soso build wilk be the best to start ? This one ?
nice guide!
Hey DB, have you ever done an enchant / frozen orb sorc?
Here's my question, do you think it is worth it to quest bug mephisto? I did some calculations when deciding this and on the German drop chance calculator site it said with about 450% mf the quest mf vs the non quest mf, for a shako for example was 1 in 400 vs 1 in 600 or something pretty close to that. Or like a 50% increase in the odds of finding most good items. That seems worth it to me. Of course it's a pain to have to join baal or chaos games or whatever. But I still think it's worth it, especially considering how often the ladder doesn't let you make games and the queues involved.
Hey man, a question for you. (Playing plygy) I'm grinding runes atm and have a hard time deciding which runewords to make first. I have hoto and cta already. Now I only need a Lo rune to make Grief+Exile+CoH for my smiter - so I can do ubers. Or I can grind some more and make an Enigma. Is it better to get the smiter going to get some torches or is enigma a "better" use for more characters? Appreciate if you could give me some reasons + and - for both options. I want to get a trapsin and wind druid going as well as my pala being able to tele doing CS runs but I also want to do ubers, so I can't decide what to do :)
it would be nice to see this character's road all in one piece,
the video is no longer on twitch.... can you upload it here or on twitch??
I hopped on D3 wasn't happy. Still haven't completed the story mode.
Is it worth playing D2? I keep hearing about bots and stuff ruining it "in a week". What do you think?
question, why aren't you spamming blizzard as soon as the cooldown is over? does the blizzard not stack and that's why you cast the next blizzard later to conserve mana?
Hey DB just started up on ladder today. Let me get some of that super low stuff you throw away(:?
I’m wondering why you wouldn’t use Spirit in sword and shield? It’s +4 to all skills and up to 70 fcr for some easy to get runes.
He didn't get the base yet :) That's all. He's prioritizing MFing in Meph and Pind. His approach. Others might prioritize going after a monarch ASAP.
How did your Ladder Reset go bro? Havent been playing to much on NM HC Baaling atm
How do you farm when it takes like 10 minutes to start each game? I just got back into d2 since patch 1.10 and the queues to create games are awful.... do you just join random games?
Does the speed in which you kill bosses affect the loot? The faster you kill a boss, the better the loot?
Nope, but of course it's better to kill him in 2sec than 20, faster kills let you spin the lootwheel more often...
I'm thinking of starting again after a couple of decades. Does this all work for none ladder? There's so much new content, I'm not sure on all the new things.
Hey brotha, please make some projects like 1k travi or 1k pindle on Ladder. I don't play single player and having hard time finding runes on p1.
Lower Kurast runs (including Chests so have Keys ready) and ironically the Council Members at Durance Level 3 have a good chance of dropping HRs.
SmaugUKA lower kurast on player 1?:) aren’t the rates are terrible
@@GlobalMyko he is talking about chestruns, not "kill"runs, dbrunski has a video about it
@@daath912 LK is not efficient on b.net due to map resets and temporary bans that you get when you reset the game too often on b.net. You want cows + Travincal/Arcane Sanctuary/Countess/Chaos Sanctuary runs, preferably with as many players as possible, because MF doesn't affect runes, but players in the game do.
When pindle charges you : NOW THATS A LOT OF DAMAGE
You forgot to talk about shields. Saw later you use ancients pledge. Is rhyme not better? Bit lower res, but extra mf. I prefer rhyme almost always for early ladder shield. Keep up the good work!
Rhyme is great. More mf. I just have very limited space with bnet and and not using mules. Rhyme would be a good alternative tho
Whau u like more? Plugy or Bnet?
13 yards is full screen static. Sure it lowers your dmg, but it would lower your meph kills by 50% or more. My mf sorc's always have a tad more than full screen static. The amount of health it chunks is huge.
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Do I increase CM right after maxing blizzard or push the synergy spells first?
What I'm learning..... is I dont need to gear more than I am now at lvl 44 to do hell meph just level
I can't wait for the remastered crowd to remember how grindy D2 is. Make it as pretty as you want. It won't change drop rates. It won't add things to do. The game is still rush to get through hell, farm meph, farm pen, and repeat 1000s of times until you can add more to the farm. Then keep farming. And once you've farmed, you farm some more.
They increased drop rate, so after 1 or 2 weeks of release everyone have enigma ez
Grindy? Thats the whole point of ARPGs. Grinding gear. If you think thats a problem then I dont know what kind of game you think Diablo is.
How do you deal with cold immunes? Or does the mastery take care of that?
You cant deal the CI,and you cant solo hell!
Simple as that!
You can only farm certain areas and you'll beg other players help you finish the game. You can already see when he used TP that not all portals were found up,which means someone gave him the portals he need! Only those where he could farm easily.
Even with Godly gear, Sorceress will strugle in player 8 games and Uber Tristram/Diablo clone... you can forget about it.
...but if you need the char that will suply gear for your others chars,than blizz-sorc is probably the better(faster) MF of them all.
I personaly prefer Frenzy Barb with enigma and find item/spell... but for that you'll still need Enigma...
Its important that you dont dont runs to fast or else youll get timeouted from the server :D dont know the complete rule anymore but im sure its 20 games per hour ish
d2 is the bomb
Where do you store your farmed items? Are you using some kind of mod to increase storage capacity?
Not in Battlenet. Either he has more than one D2 account to use as mules or simply switching chars in the same account. Remember that now it's possible to leave the game, change char and go back into the same game, as long as they are password games. They are kept alive for 5 minutes before it's gone (or as they say, "permed"). You can check more here us.forums.blizzard.com/en/blizzard/t/d2-concept-patch-115a/2297
@@wagbs Thanks. Is the game still capped at 800x600 resolution?
Is the full tal rasha set still good I want to make a sorc with that and either do light cold or hybrid
You've probably figured it out by now, but Tals is very good. I'd say it's the best way to go if you don't have some expensive runewords like enigma.
Hi there, I have a question, I saw that angelic set gives a total of 90 MF, 50 from ring (bonus for having multiple items) and 40 from set bonus, if I have a second ring from the same set, does it add another 50 or not ?
what mod or patch are you using, for that giant chest? thanks for answer :)
You don't shoot ice blast/glacial spikes between blizz casts? cuts ttk mephy in half.
I have 270 mana..... maybe once I have a little bit more of a mana pool
Why dont you shoot ice blasts at Meph while you wait for the Blizz to cooldown?
I have 270 mana. It's a day 2 build for me. Maybe once many people gets larger
Why no cold mastery?
Why do you use glacial spike? Doesn't ice blast deal much more damage?
Ice blast is more dmg. I prefer glacial spike early on to freeze all pindle minions when I am very weak. It's just a personal pref thing
What about monsters immune to cold? Can this sorceress complete the hell difficulty level solo?
You have to avoid cold immunes, unless you're high enough level where you have a strong fireball after you've maxed out the necessary cold skills, or if you're lucky enough to build an infinity polearm for your mercenary.
Is Monarch only shield that can get 4 sockies?
I m playing Pluggy, so idk really, is it just 1.13 version, but... I m using merc and he never attracts guys from left room. Literally. He can aggro some liches from the bottom, but it is pretty rare situation. The more often situation is when he tries to go up, so i need to reposition him 1-3 times till he stops. Its not a problem with Insight.
P.S. How to get monarch fast? D:
Sp is static map seeds right so you must have a nice seed where they dont get triggered by the merc. Diff then dynamic maps on bnet