Please Remove Stamina, Blizzard!

Stamina is at a really awkward place, and it is much much inferior compared to the other statuses like life, mana, strength, intelligence, agility.
Stamina is totally useless in middle and late games, and unlike dark souls that any movement will cost stamina, in Diablo 2, even you play Paladin or Barbarian, who logically should use the energy to use abilities and attack, are using mana instead.
My suggestions are either remove it or make it more useful

  1. remove the stamina, this is good, and won’t change this game a lot
  2. some mana cost abilities changed to stamina cost abilities, but this changes this game a lot. Like Paladin swing his sword with Zeal to hit multiple enemies, how could zeal cost mana? Add maximum stamina and stamina regen status in gears.

If it is useless. It doesn’t matter if it’s removed or not right?

Next suggestion…

It takes up resources of the computer and the game, imagine there a bunches of useless things in your room, on your table, desk and bed, will you feel good?

Lol… what? No it doesnt.
Its a nuisance in early game and you want it gone, dont make up reasons…

I believe the original developers of the game even said stamina didn’t really turn out how they envisioned it to work, I could be wrong on that.

I actually find it fine, there’s monsters that drain stamina in the game and that can be deadly in the late game.

Upgrade your Pentium 2?

No one walks in in nightmare and hell mode, how could this be deadly? If some abilities cost stamina, you can’t attack when your stamina got drained up, that will be an issue, but I prefer just to remove stamina.

A very dangerous pack of extra fast, aura enhanced in hell difficulty. I’ve teleported into it once or twice, and just get forced to walk. Then die pretty fast, it does happen.

So you mean when there are useless things in your room, your decision is not to remove them, but to purchase a larger house? This sounds really logical, also, I am pretty sure that my computer is better than yours

I like it. I know it’s annoying and doesn’t quite work as intended but it does add to the game. First off, walking vs running effects defense and block ability. And so monsters that remove stamina have that extra power after doing so. If there’s more content in the future the devs could surely develop on this to make the game difficult.

Um. What?

Every char I have walks, except the sorc, until enigma/tp ammy. And that’s if I get enigma/tp on everything…

You’re comparing a game with the stuff I keep in my house and yet you talk about logic?

When you run you reduce your defense and block ability. This is definitely a consideration in HC and PvP

NO stamina stays…next

This ^

Hardcore is such a different game, I swear…

I totally agree with you, yet many OG players dont want this change and I have to try really hard to see it from their perspective.

I would like to however add more versatility to this resource so it’s more useful throughout the game.

If you could make Stamina more useful, what and how would you have it work?

Be creative, I know some one our community posters have some great ideas!

Then keep it in PVP mode and HC, remove it in normal games. Totally useless function, a really awkward design to make games awkwardly more difficult.

With it being 6 days until release, it’s a bit late for suggestions at this point.

After they add mounts there will be no stamina issues.

If your computer is struggling due to the stamina function in D2, I strongly suggest upgrading your rig.