Short Questions Thread

Act V mercs can wear barb helms. Act 1 rogues cannot wear amazon gear because they are of different race (Diablo II lore). :-D

Can Act 5 mercs wear any other barb armor? Can they dual wield? I suppose not since it's not visually showing.

They cannot use barb axes (obv), normal/barb shield (obv) but they do use both 1-handed normal/barb swords and 2-handed swords. You cannot make them dual wield though.

I suppose since they're considered barbs then they benefit from +X to barbarian skill levels, huh?

Can anyone explain me why/when Kabraxis heals in the new patch? I obviosuly dont use minions and have rip modifier in my gear. I got him to 2/3 health, then died, died again to recover my body, started cleaning skeletons and when he blinked on me after that, his hp was full. :-?

I don't remember this happening in prev patch.

Immortal Toraja enemies: sometimes they keep being immortal despite being hit by 10 edyrems at the same time. Any ideas on how I can circumvent this bullshit?

Nitz wrote:Immortal Toraja enemies: sometimes they keep being immortal despite being hit by 10 edyrems at the same time. Any ideas on how I can circumvent this bullshit?

They are completely invulnerable when they get chilled. Don't use ice elementals or any cold spells in there. To dispel 'godmode', cast TP, go to town and back.

Stealthmaster wrote:Can anyone explain me why/when Kabraxis heals in the new patch? I obviosuly dont use minions and have rip modifier in my gear. I got him to 2/3 health, then died, died again to recover my body, started cleaning skeletons and when he blinked on me after that, his hp was full. I don't remember this happening in prev patch.

perhaps you took too long to clear body and attack him again? it's known in d2 that bosses tend to heal after not being damaged for a while. yes it's very annoying

Nitz wrote:Immortal Toraja enemies: sometimes they keep being immortal despite being hit by 10 edyrems at the same time. Any ideas on how I can circumvent this bullshit?

yeah i face this quite a bit with my ice elementals. what someone said was to go to town and return. that will roll off their immunity

Stealthmaster wrote:Can anyone explain me why/when Kabraxis heals in the new patch? I obviously dont use minions and have rip modifier in my gear. I got him to 2/3 health, then died, died again to recover my body, started cleaning skeletons and when he blinked on me after that, his hp was full. I don't remember this happening in prev patch.

It's got something to do with his use of jitan's gate. Obviously no one apart from Marco can actually say what is really going on here, but my personal theory is one of two cases:

1) if Kabraxis kills you shortly after using Jitan's gate, before the temporary max hp increase fades, the game won't reduce his current life back to the previous value so it returns to max.

or

2) the increase in max life from jitan's gate causes his life to overflow (as he is at the life cap I believe) back to full sometimes. Under this assumption its unclear why it happens only some times and not others. For example I've had him proc jitan's gate at 1/3 life and then I dodge his stuff for another 30sec without a res drop and he does not "heal".

Unfortunately I haven't had much opportunity to test in detail, as I am playing a sorc this ladder that just one shots him with abyss as soon as he spawns ( :oops:

), but there's definitely something fishy going on.