The standard of hereos is basically a trophy saying hey i completed the pandemonium event uber tristram and got a torch.
How about if we could actually have it do something in the game.
This is just a suggestion, not saying we should actually do it but if we can get more suggestions and more people can agree its good maybe the game developers will implement it. Who knows.
Any ways this is a way we could use the standard of heros for something.
Take the standard of heros put it in the cube with any perfect gem, any jewel, hel rune, and scroll of identification then transmute it and get a TZ key.
And not just any TZ key but one specific for the 5 acts, so TZ1, TZ2, TZ3, TZ4, and TZ5
So a random key for 1 of the 5 acts. ( 5 keys total )
You are probable thinking where are you going with this well this is the good part. You right click on the key and it will let you pick your Terror Zone you can play for the next hour from the list of Terror Zones associated with that act. So i have a TZ1 key and i use it i can pick from any Terror Zones from that act that i want to play for 1 hour so i want to do cows and select non existant level. So for the next hour any game i make that will be the Terror zone for me, then when my time is up it goes back to the regular Terror Zone.
Maybe a good idea or not but it is a idea. If you can criticize you can also add suggestion to make it better.
Not sure if blizzard has a use for this later on down the road but this would be a way to let us play the zones we like best and have a use for the standard of heros.
Option 1)
Option 2) the most ideal one and the one which would improve the game so much
As for terror zones they are heavily lacklustre and having keys for them doesn’t solve the underlying problem
Terror zones need to gain a player agency feature. By that I mean that players clearing them should have an impact on the tzone spawning
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each hour a new tzone is selected
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each time players full clear x# of tzone, terror spreads to a new zone
So the number of tzone up at the same time would be minimum 1 and maximum “infinite”
Delete the standards of H. Nobody needs it.
And I do not want more quests based on another quest. For instance, I hate the uber quest. It is a weird pala quest, that provides zero fun.
Lol how on earth is the Uber event a Paladin quest? Lol
Pala is #1 uber killer, but isn’t he?
That doesn’t make it a Paladin question lol
Also Paladin is not broken
crushing blow is
The majority of builds that can do Ubers are doing it because of crushing blow
Remove or greatly reduce the efficiency of crushing blow and you solve this issue
Ubers isn’t a Paladin quest… it’s a all class quest… what a weird logic you have
Are cows an Amazon quest?
Is chaos a hding quest?
Is Bossing a sorc quest?
Is trav a barb quest?
I have a lot of fun taking down ubers with my frenzy barb.
Are cows a weird Amazon quest?
^ this
while i love dclone, and i love the mini-ubers fights
tristram iself because of the endless monster spawning and immunizes is a horrendous design. and thats not even taken into account the horrific conviction aura they gave mephy and given him and his minions no leech values.
its basically an " abuse smite and life tap" fight its not a challenge as much as a “you have to Do “X” to beat it”. its not fun… its never been fun. it doesn’t taken skill.
its a build limiting POS fight that was designed in a horrific way.
so yeah i feel abolsutely no need to do anything more than straight up delete SOH.
no one does anything in that fight other than abuse broken game mechanics to win.
sure in theory you can make another build at 10x the cost to do what a smiter can do at lvl freaking 30 but… lets be real here people dont do that… they just abuse smite and life tab.
any decent fight would be like dclone… you can abuse it to win easy… but you can also play normally on any class and almost any build for a fun and challenging fight that is easily the most fun fight in the game.
So delete inoffensive stuff instead of fixing the broken mechanics?
What about making Ubers immune or resistant to crushing blow
And what about a unique mechanic, cursereflection. So if you lifetap a Uber, it lifetaps you
so make it so no one can do it? how is that better?
It’s plenty doable on many builds
It’s just not as cheesy as smiter
It would make it a real challenge, as it’s meant to be
i woudl rather the fight be much easier and abuse-able so many builds can do it… than build limiting like ubers.
dclone is a perfect example of a amazing fight.
im not fond of how he spawns… but the fight itself is 10/10
Everyone would like more stash space including me.
Could be easily achieved by using the unused cube quest and give you 1 tab each if you go ahead and do the 2 no one does.
everyone does the normal cube quest to get it so you can make staff but in nightmare and hell difficulties you dont have to do the quest because you already have the cube.
Make it to where when you do nightmare cube quest it adds 1 tab to stash and when you do the hell cube quest it adds another tab to the stash. no need to buy just do the quest in those 2 difficulties to earn 2 more tabs on the shared side.
Problem solved.
Not a quest just a way you can do the terror zones that you like too. Lets face it we dont play all terror zones everyone has there favorite one. If they had it key operated you could play the one you like when you want to play it because you use the key when you are ready not just when it randomly comes up on the top of the hour.
lets not get bent out of shape it was just a suggestion. Instead of complaining how about adding what would make it better. we are always open to suggestions.
So you want an easy game… weird
Can’t read, what I said about crushing blow is exactly what it needs to not be build limiting
If something exists that makes a build 10x better than other builds… remove that thing so every build are on equal footing lol
Personally I would remove crushing blow from the game
Each item with it would see it replaced with chance to splash damage and/or culling strike like in Poe
Just make it smashable at the altar for a 1:10000000000 chance at a HR above Vex otherwise it drops 5x townportals and Duriel is heard in the background laughing.
no i want a game that allows you to play your way… which is exactly what d2 does on LITERALLY every single fight in the game except uber trist.
uber trist is the only outlier here.
diablo 2 is not dark souls if u want to smash your head into a wall go play that.
every other fight in the game can be done with a ton of non-meta fun crazy and unique builds.
uber because of immunties and no leech values and conviction is just build limiting.
its not “challenging”
a “challenge” is finding a way for the build u love to play to win.
uber trist flat out goes. “that build will never win” you need to play X instead". because your build has ZERO chance at success because we dont like it.
that’s not a “challenge” that’s forcing you to play in a way u don’t want to. and nothing else in d2 does that.
d3 is like uber trist… and that’s why i hate d3.
but that’s not d2…
I gotta agree 100%. Either play with a ton of CB or a Smiter Paladin, or you are at a massive disadvantage. Can you do it with other characters? maybe… Heavily geared and take 10x longer, who wants to do that though…