Diablo II

How the fuck am I meant to kill this faggot with a melee character? I have the highest tier of armour at act 2 and he's raping me in seconds
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better gear
mercenary with useful aura
use an aura yourself
smite
potions

you playing online?

When I first encountered Duriel, he killed me before the game even fully finished loading. It went straight from a black screen to "YOU HAVE DIED." Fun times.

I found him easier to handle with melee characters than ranged ones. That frost aura makes it hard to keep your distance from him.

Try doing it with skelemancer, all bosses just rape my skeles and then proceed to rape me.

I cheese it by opening a portal first after engaging him, after he killed all my skeles I run into the portal, gather up more skeles and try again, rinse and repeat until he dies.

>Post 8 mb ram post nerf patch niggers complain

get thawing potions and a merc. if this is on normal difficulty then ur melee build and/or weapon is a shit

this is not how i remember tal rashas chamber looks like

Australia so offline, I'll have to look stuff up
I haven't ran any patches m8y
How much attack/defence should be good for him? I'm speccing for a whirly barb so I'm fairly useless atm

That's the part where you meet tyrael
Duriel isn't suposed to be there

is this your first time playing diablo 2? defense rating only affects your chance for an enemy to hit you, it doesn't actually mitigate damage hits, it's a largely useless stat.

cold resistance is good vs durial because of his cold aura

going in blind so I'm a bit lost. What's a good sword tier for duri?

what version of the game are you playing? it should be in the bot right corner on the main screen. also is this with or without the expansion pack? lord of destruction

If you're having this much of a problem you can just abuse scroll of town portal.

phone posting so I can't check, but TLOD straight from the battle chest

Dual wield (if you can) 3-slot weaps and socket them with strong runes and your best gems.
that, and thawing & antidote potions. shouldnt be too hard familia

cool items with neat skills

class variety and hundreds of viable builds

that's really about it most maps were procedurally generated trash tho

you should feel good about that fact that you aren't stuck on the shitty 500mhz pcs of the late 90s that would struggle to load the fucking room before you heard "LOOKING FOR BAAL?" and died

Try cleaning some of the fake tombs to level up, maybe you are underleveled.

you could farm a 2 socked weapon then farm the countess (act 1 miniboss who is in the tower) for runes until you have a Tir and and El rune.

If you put a Tir and an El rune IN THAT ORDER into a 2 SOCKED WEAPON and you create a 'runeword' called Steel that enhances the damage and attack speed of your weapon.

You should try to get a good 'base' weapon. Probably an axe with max damage in the teens for 1h or 30s+ for 2h or sword with max damage in the teens for 1h and upper teens for 2h

Ok, first off, you need to get something with freeze reduction. Buy thawing potions if you can't.

Armor isn't going to do much against him, his attack rating is crazy high. You need block and faster hit recovery, also life leech.

He is going to hit you, no matter what.

>playing diablo 2 on a toaster in 98
This boss was literally impossible

You may want to download some patches from blizzard even if you aren't playing online. The addition of synergies in 1.10 totally revamps the skill system, and tons of items are added.

Anyway I think it's more fun to play online, dunno if that's feasible in australia but there's usually a good amount of people online in the states after a ladder reset (twice a year).

see

I always liked hammers. The 50% against undead is surprisingly handy across all acts and the base damage you lose out on isn't really that large depending on weapon choice.

Thawing potions raise Cold Resistance by 50 points for 30 seconds.

This effect stacks up to 5 minutes (300 seconds).

The same goes for Antidote Potion and Poison Resistance.

If you are melee you shouldnt have a problem with him.

I managed it, either that or my computer was better then I thought it was. Freaking Compaq.

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>mfw I don't even remember having half an issue with this faggot as a paladin in my very first playthrough many years ago

1. Patch the game. Seriously.
2. Look up a guide so you don't end up as a useless faggot in Hell.
3. Use low-tier Runewords and any Uniques/rares you can find
4. Thawing potion is useless against Baal's aura, it will only reduce the damage taken from it, you'll still be a slow fuck.
5. Farm up in Arcane Sanctuary and the Valley until your skills pack some punch.
6. Just chip away at his health and tele once he is got you down to low health if all else fails.

I hope you put no points in energy OP, it's mostly useless. Just chug potions and teleport back to town for more.

My computer was so bad I'd be dead before the game loaded I'd just load in at the you are dead screen

this has to be bait

That would happen to me the first time I loaded to the area and then after that it would be fine. I think I also put a lot of stock into health and hit my potions right as I went in.

If anything, I had more trouble with Mephisto as he kept spawning shit, which tanked my FPS really bad.

What's the most recent version of D2?
I heard modern day Blizzard patched it a few times and I want to pirate that version.
Not going to pay Blizzard money for something Blizzard North made.

Meph shoots lightning, he doesn't spawn things, and hes super cheesable.

It is don't reply to him

seems like it's 1.14d

>the only good mercenary is a sandnigger

>easily spreads his influence over to others (aura)
>attacks everything in sight regardless of how powerful it is
>does no harm
>dies in 1 hit

yeah that's pretty isis alright

other mercs have some niche uses due to runewords and stuff

this is bait, d2 is by farrrrrrr the best d game

Almost done pirating. What class should I play? Usually play skelemancer so I want to try something else.

>It's bait if it's against the hivemind
Epic

its bait if it calls one of the best games at all time bad without justification

Don't play any class / spec that requires melee weapon to work. You'll be grinding to world's end to get anywhere in hell if you do.

d2 is better than d3 tho, the latter is p much a big number sim, like a stepmania version of cookie clicker

I'm fine with that honestly.

I think of all the very valid complaints about d3, "big number sim" is the least relevant.

the speed runners use bows socketed with the best gems they can find, preferably poison. its only an issue for barbs and pallies though

you literally have to put out bigger numbers while avoiding their steadily increasing numbers

>one of the best games at all time
That's one mighty opinion. I find it average at best. Grinding is awful in D2 and it's boring as shit to boot. Gearing disparancy between caster / statstick requirer is insanely stupid.

Not to mention without PluggY your stash space is fucking way way way way too limited.

Other than that a lot of the areas are boring. Act 2's desert parts = snoozefest, Act 3 as a whole = even bigger snoozefest.

That aside, the picture has ":|" face on it, not ">:(" or anything that actually resembles bad.

And the former is literally cookie clicker as the AoE of D2 is fucking horrible in most cases.

D2 is really dated in design in a lot of parts.

git gud

>D2 is really dated in design in a lot of parts.

not denying that, but d3 is so oversimplified it's insulting

>not playing Grim Dawn / Path of Exile

Frost Zealot.

Don't forget to keep Crushing Blow items around.

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see this is an alright post

Open a portal and chug potions.
Chug thawing potions too.If i remember they will remove the freezing effect.You'll need a ton of them.

Thawing potions don't do shit against his aura.

ryuquezacotl/v/75987336
on twitch
fight starts at 1:57:00

yes they fucking do you retard. It reduces the damage he does by a shit ton and it removes the slowing effect when you use it

>ryuquezacotl
no thanks

D2 is simple as shit to begin with, dude.

It's bait because you post this retarded picture in every fucking diablo 2 threads in a attempt to derail the thread into d2 vs d3 shitposting you mouthbreathing retarded fucking cunt

hes not hue hue hes canadian, or is that even worse?

It's not my post, stupid.

>it removes the slowing effect when you use it

No it doesn't. Despite doing cold damage, holy freeze does not have cold duration. It instead afflicts slow, which is not removed by chugging thawing potions.

nah its how he says hype every few seconds that bothers me. teo is the better runner

Choke on your dad's dick, you fucking panook.

>It should be noted that Holy Freeze is not affected by Cold Resistance or Cannot Be Frozen and Thawing Potions won't offer any protection either.
diablo.wikia.com/wiki/Duriel

Have you tried it ingame? Cause I did and it worked for me. It lasted for a second or two but its enough to make a diff if I carry twenty of them.

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diablo.gamepedia.com/Duriel_(Diablo_II)

>Duriel has a Holy Freeze aura similar to what the Paladin can use. The Cold chill that hits is unavoidable, even if the player is lucky enough to have an item that destroys all other forms of Freezing.

diablo.wikia.com/wiki/Duriel

>It should be noted that Holy Freeze is not affected by Cold Resistance or Cannot Be Frozen and Thawing Potions won't offer any protection either.

>teo is the better runner

a u t i s m

Also here is a video demonstration

youtube.com/watch?v=C0BgpoPrSu0

> speedrunners are autistic
wow who would have guessed

The point of chugging thawing potions is to remove the slow for 1 or 2 seconds so your poor ass can get some distance from duriel.

>largely useless stat
what the fuck you dumb shit

>not going to buy one of the literally best games ever made
What the hell is wrong with you?

Should I play Diablo II? I completed both Torchlight games a few years ago and sorta liked them. I also played Titan Quest and Path of Exile and never finished them though. I was probably just too burnt out on the genre at the time.

I wish I could still play ARPG's.

>Paying the people who didn't make the game

Top tier music, art style and voice actors.
You can go through maps after many, many years of playing it for hours on a daily basis and still see new details you never noticed before.

Thawing removes cold, it does not affect slow. Holy freeze only inflicts slow. Cold damage does not apply cold if it does not have cold duration and holy freeze does not have cold duration. The player can not ever remove, reduce or change slow. Slow is a constant upon the player. It is true, however, that thawing potions will reduce the cold damage that Duriel inflicts if you are playing on 1.10+. Before then, holy freeze only applied slow.

Who the fuck thought that archers / projectile throwers should be so fucking OP?

The worst part is that for whatever reason every fucking diablolike after D2 has replicated the same issue.

Best looking UI ever.
All the modern shit is just basic, transparent windows.

post your stats numb dumb

This, people who made the game abandoned it because Blizzard is made of fucking jews

They are in the Torchlight boat which seems like it fucking sunk already

What happened to Torchlight?

Bowazons in Diablo II are not powerful at all compared to most. It should also be noted that the highest single DPS in the game goes to a melee build

How viable is it to solo hell difficulty with a melee char? I'm assuming online is dead by now.

>Not going to pay Blizzard money for something Blizzard North made.

How does it feel to be illiterate you mongoloid?
Just because Blizzard had the money to buy a developer doesn't mean they deserve my money. I'm not going to pay for something that the creator isn't going to see a dime of.

Not very, unless you are willing to play a version before 1.10 or grind a lot. 1.09 was especially kind to solo melee characters.

USEast is actually pretty damn active.

You can solo hell with any character provided you're not an idiot and you know how to read.

I have diablo2 installed for some grinding if i feel like, my latest project is a bowazon with strife, bretty guud, didnt have much problem so far, tho i am somewhat struck at hell ancients since they usually get atleast 1 physical immune and I dont have much elemental dmg.

Found a pretty high % buriza, had the runes to upgrade it later, and traded an ohm from one of my other chars and voila

I mean enemies.

Fetish faggots in A3, Porcupines, Skele arches, any sort of projectile enemy just fucking fucks you up in moments and can stunlock you like crazy as well.

It was fun creating absolutely ridiculous items and chars with Hero Editor.
Running around in shiniest gear while meteors come down around you, or being completely invisible.
One-hit killing stuff with lvl 99 boss attacks and having every aura and shit on at the same time, stats going nuts.
And then you start up open BNet, go out of town thinking you'll be wrecking shit and die instantly to something unseen

Also, did anyone else always play with /players 8 when in SP? Felt so boring the normal way.

>If the one guy doesn't get money it's not worth buying
Kek

>one guy
>the entire development team is one guy

Alright retard.

What mods do you anons play?