The new runewords personally i find underwhelming but cool to have new stuff. The staff i am just straight up confused though lol.
Hopefully they make unique like Grandfather, Windforce, Eaglehorn, Earthshaker, Schaeffers hammer things like that better so they can compete with some of the high-powered runewords.
For instance Grandfather and Windforce the most iconic uniques in D2 lore are very underwhelming with all the patch updates.
These were very strong in d2 classic and need to be made great again, a WF or GF is even more rare then High runes they should be powerful endgame weapons!
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I am fairly sure Windforce & Grandfather were NOT in classic D2.
But I get you. Grandfatser especially need a msssive buff, for something so rare.
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Windforce and grandfather were both in diablo 1 and 2 LOD lol
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I D1 yes, not D2 classic. By classic, you meant pre LoD right?
There are NO exceptional & elite unique items in D2 Classic
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D2 LOD has grandfather and windforce. D2LOD came out in 2001
Most iconic diablo weapons. They were in the original diablo and LOD.
I forgot they were not added in D2classic and came with the expansion. I knew for sure they were in both d1 and d2.
WF is still ok could use some work, GF is really outdated.
By “Classic”, you mean pre 1.10.
You are probably the only one that refere to pre 1.10 LOD as classic…
Dude I made a typo error , stop trolling. Everyone knows the difference between classic and the expansion. Looking for a internet forum trolling match move on man.
They are iconic weapons need some work get back on topic, they existed long before diablo 2 “classic” or “LOD” ever came out.
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There is NO trolling. I don’t deny enjoy the occasional troll, but this isn’t.
Edit: Okay, to be fair I missed your last post before my last post.
I do agree they need update.
Make all uniques great again!
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Agreed , orb of corruption could help with this.
Make them hard to find like high runes, give u a chance to either destroy your unique or rare item, add a random mod, add 1-maz random sockets, or so nothing at all.
Cool feature used in mods, a 6 socket grandfather would be nuts. Stick 6 ohm in there or something haha.
Be cool if they did something in the future runewords are amazing and all but the unique items so iconic and cool
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a 15-40 Grandfather slaps.
But my god i would geek out for a full unique rebalance. Just add a bunch of +skills to uniques.
Grandfather, slap on +Sacrafice
The Minotaur, Slap on +Charge (CHARGAZON!)
Skull Collector, Slap on +Raise Skeleton
Saracens Chance, Slap o +Find item
BloodRavens Charge, Slap on +Revive
LightSabre, Slap on +Fire Mastery (Could actually pull off a hydra paladin, or a Decent Trangoul Set User)
and so on.
They were of course and the most iconic items.
Grandfather 1.08
+20 Strength
+20 Dexterity
+25% Mana
+25% Life
+150% Bonus to Attack Rating
+175 Life
+2.5 Max damage per Clvl
Indestructible
+150% Enhanced Damage
Somehow people forget how GODLY 1.08 Grandfather, Arkaine’s Valor, Shako etc… were.
I say bring back the 1.08 versions that were deemed too powerful and removed. Especially the 1.08 Arkaine’s valor which would compete with Enigma and other items in many builds.
A Barb with 1.08 Grandfather, Shako and Arkaine’s Valor had the most ridiculous Health it was funny. It’s a shame they removed the % LIFE mods.
1.08 Shako had 40% Life
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Arkaine was the best armor back then, Grandfather 1.08 but make the enhanced damage a bit higher and add 20-30 ias i think be nice
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I was thinking that adding a load of sockets to them was the fix, but having seen the 1.08 version as listed above, that is definitely the answer.
Shako doesnt need 40% life granted - but look at that Grandfather! Yes please
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Idk- think if it just had 3 open sockets it would be good. Leaves room for jewels.
Keep in mind it’s top end damage was pretty insane and is Indestructible so Eth 1.08 GF would rip. So don’t think more damage is needed?
Yea it was a lot of fun
Arkaine’s Valor 1.08
+2 to All Skills
+200% Enhanced Defense
+2.5 Vitality per Clvl
+2 To Life per Clvl
30% Faster Hit Recovery
Indestructible
Fire Resist +50%.
They reduced 2.5 vitality per CLvL to .5 vitality and removed the + life per level. I think they just wanted the new planned LOD items not be invalidated so everything was hard nerfed in 1.09.
Can you find a etheral grandfather? I have never seen one dunno if it exists, if I remember correctly any unique “indestructible” item cannot drop etheral.
I almost certain this is the case of an item has a natural indestructible mod then it cannot drop etheral, this can only be done by a zod rune or zod would be useless otherwise than BOTD
Yea correct. Was in the thought process Eth didn’t exist in 1.08 so having it be able to spawn in today’s game with it.
Items that spawn with the Indestructible mod can never spawn as ethereal items, except for two exceptions which ONLY spawn ethereal – Shadow Killer and Ethereal Edge. Those two were programmed into the game that way.
So if we brought back these 1.08 versions they simply could be programmed in to spawn Eth.
Edit- After further reading there are other Uniques that could spawn as Eth besides the 2 I listed.
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would be nice to change the Indestrucible mod so that it allows for eth version to spawn.
Eth Grandfather would be very nice.
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Defeats purpose of zod, maybe just make GF stronger.