Diaco wrote:poison has always been a d2 mechanic.

I don't get what's pointless about poison? It's not even that hard to deal with. First post on the thread summed it up pretty well.

You answered your own question.

Marco wrote:Builds that don't have that choice usually have some way to scale block back to 70-80 like before.

You mean like sorc's completely bungled melee tree? I guess 5K+ dex and block speed isn't enough investment, better tax their already horrible skill tree and choices as well.

It's just another useless mechanic the devs thought would make the game more interesting but actually is just super frustrating and pointless.

Characters should have more defensive options not less.

Yeah taking valuable feedback just doesn't happen with this mod, the devs are so stubborn.

Not every build even viable for labs (not couning Deimoss) is a long time known truth.. I would say only specific ones viable nd poison sorc is not one of them IMO Which is sad because outside of oskills each class only has a few builds, and the problems with most of those builds is extremely obvio...

Mana wasn't the problem lol. You'll also notice I said untwinked. Obviously if you over-level or farm runewords/tus he's going to fall over, but I don't think that should be required for the entry level quest in act 2.

I was using shapeshifter, they attack like once ever 4 seconds in normal now after the nerfs, they can't kill anything.

The balance of this mod is jacked from level 1 all the way to endgame, why expect anything different.

This was a first... Quit after Radament. :D Clearly not a mod for you. Why does an impossible boss make this "not a mod for me"? I've played since start of sigma btw. Does seem kinda odd. Radamant went down pretty easy for me once I got into melee range (I mean, had to heal a couple times...