Yeah, I usually unsummon all but a few skellies for maggot lair. Let sir pokesalot do the killing and pop them with CE.
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Firewall was never broken, Blizzard just used the excuse that orb/wall builds have become so meta they decided to nerf firewall so harshly and needed an excuse, so as per usual they lie about nerfing it harshly.
The BIGGEST, and shouting that for emphasis >biggest< issue in Diablo 2 is that the classes have never been on a par with one another especially in terms of damage, so the amount of whining over the years for nerfing a class/build/skill has been incessant, if any sorc skill is OP it would be simply be teleport if I’m being honest.
Because at end-game, its all MFing and the ability to do that quickly and efficiently as possible always fell right at the sorcs doorstep, teleporting…great mobbing skills and great boss killing spells, paladins with Enigma can destroy bosses even quicker but the recharge cost gets crazy so again, sorcs are the defactor MFing characters.
Fireball is a great spell with its only drawback requiring more synegies for it to be as effective as firewall, and that limits your other spells which again, limit your ability to defend yourself against elemental immune mobs which again, is another stab at the sorc, feels like Blizzard just hates the sorc so much.
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The tears in this thread are delicious. People trying to justify a newly introduced bug as “behaves correctly” and then crying all over the place when it gets fixed (one guy even asked for a free respec after his build got borked and he already spent all his freebies).
Morale of the story: Don’t make builds around clear bugs, especially if they are newly introduced. They are most likely going to be fixed then you’ll go crying in your cheerio bowl.
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but that’s the thing FW still isn’t behaving correctly, now instead of it ticking faster, it sometimes doesnt tick at all.
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If you can demonstrate that FW isn’t working like LoD classic after this patch, please do. That means there may still be a bug they’ve newly introduced that needs addressed. As far as I can tell, it’s working as it previously has if you invest in it properly.
video footage is up on the bug report
Please keep in mind depending on the angle that FW is dropped, it has an EXISTING bug where it won’t tick on the mobs. That may be what you’re seeing but the devs can look at the report and determine that themselves.
This did not happen prior to this patch. As of others in the thread reporting the same as I have.
Firewall was broken because of the low amount of skill investment needed for it to be effective it made blizz/firewall hybrid better then meteorb.
question for you in D2R is FW stacking. which it did stack in D2/LoD. if its not stacking as it should be like blaze does in LoD. then its not working as it should be.
heres a video of FW stacking version 1.14D D2/LoD https://youtube.com/clip/Ugkxxgxl0EK0HVu40ozg6FBV827l2bhdZEX_
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Typical zoomers man, it was BROKEN!! How smooth is your brain bro?
Sure, but the whiners want to get a cheap build that cruises the complete game. All other builds and characters couldn’t keep up with the farm speed of pure cold at these cheap costs already. with bugged firewall this difference become even more extreme and led to even more imbalance towards sorc. And if someone is against such additional imbalances, then they are called a purist.
If there was a firewall only build, then sure. But what they did with that fix was actually to balance the game at least a bit. And now lazy people are mad.
This thread, is a perfect analogy of the idiocracy in action (Purists).
You complain about people cheesing bosses with Firewall, cruising through the game on easy mode.
Elephant in the room = Every damn one of you takes advantage of the moat trick.
So really, What, if anything, did the Firewall actually mean to any of you?
“Blizzard takes 10 seconds and Firewall only takes 5”
Re-read that and realize you’re all special.
X-Skill takes This long, Y skill only takes this long. You could literally make a million comparisons, but suddenly because Blizzard isn’t “THE SKILL” everything is wrong.
At the end of the day, You’d all just gravitate towards the FW Moat trick instead of the Blizzard Moat Trick. That’s about the only thing that happened.
You’re still running the same boring crap over and over, nothing changed except the skill you put on your mouse click ffs.
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Blizzard grabs an electron microscope
“Eat what, exactly?”
And I’d hate to say it, but Firewall, should be more powerful than blizzard. Blizzard has the extra benefit of chilling opponents. Fire in all RPG games always had the benefit of more RAW damage.
But oh no, people can’t be beating blizzard in kill times on bosses with firewall, that’s not Diablo 2. Some of you should come to realize you have no clue about balance or what it even means in a game like Diablo 2, where 99% of you are playing solo PvE playing against a Dice roll. Complaining about something taking 5 more seconds than another skill, even though I can show you a skill that takes a minute longer, for no other reason than because it just doesn’t put out the same kind of damage as another skill, why? Because “balance”
You tell me why your version of “Balance” means Blizzard Sorceress cheesing a moat trick is “Balanced”.
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If you really wanted balance, you’d remove teleport from the sorceress and force her to build an enigma like everyone else.
Your tears are delicious.
This “balancing patch” was the first step of Activision to create a NEW GAME with D2R. From the first moment of programmng, it should just a grafic and performance fix for the future and the console players. Thats what “Resurrected” means!!! Now with the step to change the charecter balancing, Activision kills the spirit of Diablo2 for all the players, who plays it since decads and which should are the TRUE fans and pay group of D2R. I can onley cry, after I see and test this horror balancing skill fixes. And after 2 month of release, the performance is still crap since the fist D2R day. Thank you Activison to show the “Gaming Community” how to kill a great game and decands old fan page, just for Dollar.
PS: I am dieing now with my smitter on Über Tristram, because i´m on the map since 5-10 seconds and i´m on the loading screen. (Mepple is spawning with his mobs directly on the portal). Thank you Activison for this great performance. I go now back to D2 vanilla.
Yeah dude, that is really end of the world 
Firewall was trash, and still is.
Trash level can vary.
Time to move on.