Short Questions Thread

[GregMXL]

Dear All,

I have some issues while playing Median. I am playing a melee necro on the realm. However, my survivability is very low. I had the same issue with my pouncezone in the mid/late game despite huge life leach %. The solution was to farm signets on destruction Nihlathak and putting more stats into dex. On the other hand I am unable to efficiently farm Nihlathak with my melee necro. The main issue are elite monsters with thorns aura (deflecting damage), so I kill myself with every hit. Bypassing is difficult because no attack = no life leach which is essential for my survivability. I have even tried to max my defence on items, smax deahlord and death ward and respec to dagger + shield with all stats into dex (I got 8% block), but it did not help much.
What is more, playing melee nec is kind of boring, you mostly run with parasite and jump from time to time using AoD. I stopped enjoying the game and I am thinking about respec my nec to something less lazy playing or starting a new char. I would appreciate any suggestions.

I have all easy charms and some more difficult ones. My gaer :

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Chthon
Level 61
0-5 Jewels
+Sur
Necromancer Scythes
25% Chance to cast level 10 Crucify when you Kill an Enemy
25% Chance to cast level 5 Tremor when you Kill an Enemy
+(151 to 200)% Enhanced damage
+200 to Maximum Damage
(21 to 40)% Chance of Open Wounds
Enhanced Weapon Damage +100%

Erawan
Level 100
0-5 Jewels
+Nih
Body Armors
-10% Slower Run/Walk
10% Bonus to Buff/Debuff/Cold Skill Duration
10% Chance of Crushing Blow
25% Bonus to Strength
25% Bonus to Vitality
+(251 to 300)% Enhanced Defense
Damage Reduced by (11 to 15)%
Total Character Defense Plus (11 to 20)%

Nephilim
Level 100
0-3 Jewels
+Nih
Boots
100% Chance to cast level 51 Fire Splash when you Die
10% Bonus to Buff/Debuff/Cold Skill Duration
(21 to 25)% Bonus to Strength
(21 to 25)% Bonus to Vitality
+(251 to 300)% Enhanced Defense
+150 Defense
+50 to Strength
+50 to Vitality


Ahriman
Level 100
0-1 Jewels
+Ghal
Belts
+1 to All Skills
Adds 200-600 fire damage
Adds 200-600 lightning damage
Adds 200-600 cold damage
+(301 to 350)% Enhanced Defense
+(31 to 50) to all Attributes
All Resists +(31 to 40)%
Requirements +10%


Rathma's Death Gaze
Cap (Sacred)
Defense: (1351-1361)
Durability: 27
Required Strength: 456
Required Level: 100
+(1 to 2) to Necromancer Skill Levels
20% Faster Hit Recovery
+(31 to 50) to Maximum Damage
+500 Defense
+(31 to 50) to Strength
All Resists +(11 to 15)%
Socketed (4)

Gloves:
craft MOed with FHR and res and fire pierce

All socket stacked with jewels with LL and resist. My res are between 300-400 according to stat reader.
Amu 5% ctc Doom and ATAD
rings MOes wit - fire res and ctc hammer

Don't forget your on switch gear should be Vizharan wand and Trollskull shield for awesome buffs for your melee necro.

[PimpinSuperSized]

So does the text shrink when you put alot of stuff on your stuff?

[Stealthmaster]

PimpinSuperSized

Yes it does shrink if you have bad socketing skills

You should choose jewels which you want to socket very carefully. For example one of your jewels you has A, C, D, E modifiers, another one A, B, F, G, and the last one C, D, E, G. Of course it will be wiser to put 1st and 3rd jewels in one peace of gear, and leave the 2nd for another gear. Otherwise you'll have, let's say a body armor with +3 to dex, + 2 to str, + 30 to NRG, + 2 to vitalty, when it could have been with just NRG bonus without any other stats.

Tl;dr

[mecheye]

Is it possible (Or is there already) a full documentation on how each skill works?

The short description is nice in giving a brief overview, but I'm interested on how each skill deals its damage or interacts with other skills.

e,g: The Paladins Vessel of Retribution says it attacks targets within 3 yards, with a blast delay of 0.05 seconds and fires 5 blasts. Does this mean it fires 5 blasts every 0.05 seconds, for a total of 100 blasts in a second? Does it fire 1 blast every 0.05 second for a total of 5 blasts after 0.25 seconds then NOT fire for 1 second? Does it fire 1 blast at up to 5 potential targets every 0.05 seconds (upgraded by Equinox)?

The Amazons Sun Strike ability. It deals a listed amount of damage, but is a majority of the damage dealt when the missile impacts the target, or in the small flame trail that follows? What is the duration of the flame trail? What % of the listed damage is dealt every "tick"?

Does the Sorcs Hive poison damage override the Lorenado poison damage? If two Lorenadoes from the same cast impact the target, do their damages stack? What if they are different casts?
Also it says her Forked Lightning strikes multiple times. Does this mean the same beam can strike more than once over the beams duration, or does it just mean that if multiple beams from the same cast can strike the same target?

[Food]

Is it possible (Or is there already) a full documentation on how each skill works?

There isn't AFAIK. It would be possible but it's probably not worth the effort. Once you start understanding how d2 stuff works, you can make out most of the skill mechanics by using it and reading the short description. For everything else usually a couple posts in this thread suffice.

The Paladins Vessel of Retribution [...]

AFAIK VoR and VoJ cast up to their number of blasts to the creatures in their range. So in the case of VoR every 0.05 seconds up to 5 blasts will be casted. If there are less than 5 creatures in the 3 yard radius, less then 5 blasts will be cast; if there are more creatures than blasts, some creatures won't be hit. The number of potential blasts can be increased with the passive. Special note: if no holy or unholy skill is chosen, both bonuses of the passive apply (this is usually called a neutraldin build).

The Amazons Sun Strike ability [...]

I'm pretty sure the arrows do damage on impact and the trail is just a nice gfx effect, I'm not 100% sure though.

Does the Sorcs Hive poison damage override the Lorenado poison damage? [...]

Poison damage is special in many ways. You should definitely check here to understand it better.

Also it says her Forked Lightning strikes multiple times [...]

Generally speaking when a skill is said to "hit multiple times" or "multihit" it means it releases missiles that have a next delay (ND) of 0.
ND is a missile property that starts a timer when a monster is hit. When the timer is active, that monster can't receive damage from the same kind of missile (or every missile? I'm not sure). A missile with ND equal to 0 can multihit, that is, hit more than once in a single frame.

Take hunting banshee: when it explodes it releases a nova made up of 64 missiles. In its first incarnation those missiles had a ND of 0, so the explosion could potentially deal 64 times the listed damage of the skill. Now hunting banshee's missiles have ND (I don't know the exact value, let's say it's 1 for the sake of this example); if a nova explodes on top of a monster, it'll be hit 64 times in a single frame, same as before, but after the first time it takes damage a timer that lasts 1 frame is started; it can't take damage from the same kind of missiles until the timer expires, so the other 63 missiles don't do damage. On the next frame, if it's still being hit by at least a missile, it'll take damage again, once, and so on.

[sharky]

Hey, guys. You tell me where i can read about sacred unique SECRET weapons? thx

[01001010]

screenshot thread, old forums screenshot thread, google.
they are not documented so it requires some digging to find out their stats.

[sharky]

01001010, thx. But i can't find ssssu maiden javelin stats:(

[ChuckNoRis]

Hello guys , i've been playing arround with the melee (lightning) amazon , i first tried going for high weapon damage and such items (i saw that you can equip a sword instead of the "required scepter") , then respec'd to %lighning spell damage gear , then respec'd to a combo with elementals as meatshield+ caster gear ( lighning ) to see how it works . all 3 versions where either slow (kill speed) or very annoying (Hammer of Zarae low AOE in narrow places as example) . the character is level 120 and has half the charms . i don't know what am i doing wrong...or maby that tree is just weak ? any toughts ? how do you guys play it ? i'm thinking about going on high weapon damage and use Stormblast (Thundercrack) as main attack .

[01001010]

it's weak