With new Runewords coming: Things to Prioritize

  • Cham and Zod are rare AF but hardly used, so new runewords should incorporate them to make them more valuable than they currently are. No more “Ber” using runewords please.

  • Bowazons need assistance. Give them a Zon-specific runeword that provides that damage and resists at the same time.

  • Grief nerf - to make eth rare zerkers actually useful again and stop neutering 99% of other melee weapons. That’s the ONLY item nerf I think is necessary.

  • Make some of the new runewords very powerful to compete with the same 4 or 5 runewords that are currently used end-game for almost every builds.

  • We need a good Helm runeword.

  • We need runewords that help classes like Shapeshift Druid, Zons, Poison / Summon Necros, Summon Druids, etc.

  • Runewords that have special mods like “chance to cast Amp on…” or “Grants level 9 Might Aura” are very welcome as it opens up new build diversity

  • If you are just going to release irrelevant runewords that no one uses, or ones that are incredibly weak, just don’t bother releasing them at all.

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Go play d3 if you want nerfs after 20 years. No one here bought this game for blizz to nerf it, we bought it to play a REMASTERED NOT REMAKE of Diablo 2 as it was but in all its graphical glory.

You want a “new” diablo 2 with nerfs? go play median XL.

You want new weapons? Go play median XL and leave our classic alone.

If you had better ideas like fixing the bugs the game still has then your ideas might be widely accepted but as of now you’re barking up the wrong tree over the wrong squirrel.

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lmao another purist clown.

Stop trying to ruin D2 with your backwards mentality of not changing anything.

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The irony here is palpable :rofl:

Here a place for your ideas where they belong :wastebasket:.

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Ah. Your post is vitriolic just like your mentality. What a surprise. Typical “go play X since I refuse to accept changes” mentality.

I don’t understand this idiotic mentality of not wanting to improve the game. Sure bad changes are bad, but good changes will make the game better.

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REMASTER not REMAKE simple as that.

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I just hope they dont bring any OP runewords in the game. Rather see runewords that would improve builds that are currently either not viable or underwhelming.

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Purist argument 101: HURR DURR tHe WoRdINg oF tHE NeW GaMe PrEvEnTs CHanGeS

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LOLOL no it’s more like the developer direction was a remaster not a remake. To be so ignorant must be bliss.

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It’s the same 4 or 5 runewords that kill item diversity anyway. Adding OP runewords simply means that the number is increasing to 6 or 7 or 8. Which isn’t a bad thing.

You must take every word at face value and not realize what PR talk means.

The irony of the naive calling others ignorant. lmao.

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Oh cool, we are getting new words?
Think they might do a bit of balance of some of the talents as well?
Barbarians could use some love.

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Runeword ZOD All monster must bow before you

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I don’t think you realize you’re doing exactly what you’re accusing me of…

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You know what is new runeword that make Zod and Cham useful, at the same time nerf Enigma?
Enigma runeword changed to ZodChamJahBer

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Let’s bring back “Ith” hacked ethereal weapons!!! And SOJ duping!

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I see no point in ladder while the que exists. The race to 99 where one guy plays while one waits in que.

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I liked the runewords that allowed some classes to cross-build, like the WW-sin and the Bear-sorc. I’d like to see a few more of those, it kind of reminds me of Diablo 1 where the warrior could learn how to cast firewall or any other sorcerer skill.

I’d also like to see a few lore based items get some buffs. Spire of Lazarus deserves to have a a roll of up to +7 to lightning skills. (Why up to 7? Because it’s a two hander). It’s currently +1, get the hell outta here, his voice is literally in all the tome books in Act 1.

Also I agree with the Grief nerf, that item is broken.

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someone did a calculation and found that for an eth weapon to compete with Grief, it needs at least 800% enhance damage mod.

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Lol that’s insane.

eth tir lo mal ral, really? It’s not at least zod, ber, jah, ist?

But purists: tHe gAmE iS pErFeCt

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Where did they say new runewords are coming?

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