How to improve diablo 2 - I need your feedback

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Most of my 2.4 PTR suggestions are still relevant…

Lets Talk Runewords

Before discussing runewords, lets have a small discussion about sockets in gear and some of the level requirements for higher socket items. First order of business is that Normal difficulty has a maximum of 3 sockets in any piece of gear regardless of whether the maximum sockets for said piece is higher. This limit increases to 4 for Nightmare. This is to say that it is impossible to find any weapons with 5 or 6 sockets in Nightmare and below through monster drops. Socketing using Larzuk results…

Runeword Itemization Issues

Runewords broke itemization. Rares, uniques, and sets all have fixed affixes can can appear on them and that number has a hardcap of 6 affixes(there are some uniques that go higher due to addition of special modifiers). Even crafting recipes which usually include 3 fixed affixes limit (yes, there are a couple of safety pieces that have 4 fixed affixes) the roll of additional affixes to 4 providing a total of 7 (up to 8 on some safety gear). Sets and uniques currently don’t take advantage of st…

Feedback on low level sets

Since PTR is closing tomorrow until further notice, I am posting this thread here as well. Classic sets are mostly worthless in LOD with the rare exceptions. Most Low level sets only spawn with 2 affixes which is basically in line with Magic items. Magic items dropped in the game can have two magical attributes, one from a Prefix and another from a Suffix. Rares and Uniques can have up to 6 affixes. Magic and Rare items can also roll staffmods (auto mods) on class specific gear as well as staff…

Sets need to roll Ethereal and staffmods

There is a world of issues with sets and uniques that will require a more in-depth analysis of the issues but the most overlooked properties for sets often overlooked is their inability to roll ethereal or include staffmods on class specific gear and staves/scepters/wands. Sets and bows are the only items in game that can’t roll ethereal. The logic for bows/crossbows is they have no durability. There is no logic as to why sets were exempt from the ethereal roll. Having ethereal sets would open …

Skill synergies need a hard points cap

Most synergies are BROKEN. They either end up in 1 of 2 categories: Pump all of your points into one tree to maximize damage for 1 skill. Examples: Ice Bolt literally requires all 110 skill points(120 actually, 20 points each in Frost Nova, Ice Blast, Glacial Spike, Blizzard, and Frozen Orb) to max its synergies and still no Cold Mastery (140 with Cold mastery as well!). With 110 points invested, Ice bolt does a total of 551-717 damage with 32.6 seconds cold length and is still unusable in H…

Petition for sockets recipe

As it currently stands the armor and weapon socket cube recipes only allow for regular quality items to be socketed. The only option for superior items is Larzuk quest. As the developers continue to place greater restrictions on rushing characters and the shared stash doesn’t even allow the transfer of certain items like the cube, the prospects of rushing through to Act 5 for a socket quest on Alts is becoming ever burdensome. This is especially true for offline and online console play. Since …