Ladder Season 2 will begin on October 6th/7th

General Discussion
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Ladder Season 2 will begin on October 6th/7th (depending on time zone).

New feature:
Amulet that sets monster resistances to 95%.

  • Works before any other resistance reductions
  • Only on amulets and charms
  • Only from terror zones (not 100% sure about that one)
  • Only from elite/unique monster
  • They lower your resistances too
  • PvE only

PTR is up!

Source:

Honestly, not a bad change. The only way to not nerf Hammerdins and Light builds. If you can’t nerf them, bring everyone else up to their level. This is going to make a lot of builds a lot more fun to play.

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woa woa woa woa woa…

ok…

new unique charm/ammy or new affix?

can only be droped by bosses and only in TZs?

everything has a price

makes sense

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New items allowing to break any immunity at the cost of your own resistance.

Everyone happy now?

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Guess I’ll be playing something else soon.

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and won’t be available in classic?

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Classic is classic, ain’t it?

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should we start selling our infinitys?

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Infinity still works. Except it starts at 95%.

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but it sure wont be as mandatory/valuable as it is now

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No. Some cheaper -resist items and you can play Terror Zones without thinking about immunities.

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Nothing about the ruined PvP, for real?

Time to quit forever

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Bye. For real.
Also, I don’t trust the source here.

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Baalor. For real, you like baalruns?

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Lol! It was my callsign in 90s mechwarrior 3 days.

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I booked vacation time, postponed my marriage, and plan on calling in some fake complaints to child protective services right before that date to ensure some alone time until things get figured out.

This date better be real or I may be in trouble. Sarcasm tag needed. If anyone books time off based on any dates posted, even by blizzard, its on you :slight_smile:

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Official English news is now out.

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RIP melee builds. Please just delete them all. Bye barb

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nope, amplify damage will have full effect now instead of 1/5 after breaking immunities.

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Yes. All -resist, if you have the charm, works at full effect.

The charm also does not work for minions.

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edit: misread. So this only drops in terror zones? hmmm
Maybe this is a not so good idea. It basically eliminates the amulet slot. It will be a must have item for any build… besides Hammerdin. Again, it leaves hammers OP in this respect.

Why not just make hammers do fire damage instead of magic and call it a day. This completely flips the meta upside down and eliminates the amulet slot. That means sorc is screwed for tal set.

Are actual D2 veterans developing this? What’s going on? This is a WoW move.

edit 2: They are charms…
much better

NEW SUNDERED CHARMS

In Hell difficulty, many monsters receive resistance to specific damage types. If their resistance increases above 100%, that monster is then immune to a specific damage type. Because there are only a handful of ways to reduce a monster’s immunity, only a minute portion of hero builds can successfully farm all zones in Diablo II: Resurrected. We realize that this can create scenarios where certain builds are unable to take full advantage of the current Terror Zone, thus missing out on the experience gains, and most importantly, the fun of these zones.

To promote increased class build diversity, we are introducing six new Unique Grand Charms that allow the player to break specific monster immunity types while the charm is in their inventory.

You’ll notice a new keyword below called Sunder. This keyword means that if a monster has immunity to a specific damage type, their resistance will be reduced to 95% regardless of what their starting resistance percentage was—breaking their immunity and allowing damage of that type to be dealt to them. Sunder is applied before other resistance reducing modifiers and only affects non-players. These new unique charms will only drop from Terrorized monsters of Champion, Unique, Superunique, or Boss difficulty. There is one tradeoff the comes with the new Unique Grand Charms—while they reduce a monster’s resistance, they also reduce your resistance to the same element, allowing you to receive more damage of that type. During the PTR, Sundering Charms will not drop from monsters and can only be tested through the PTR character templates mentioned later in the blog.

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