Short Questions Thread

[Jampula]

If reflect damage is that useless then why does it even exist?

In vanilla it had it's uses in form of Thorns-aura and Iron Golem. But I agree in Median it's pretty pointless, maybe build a melee merc around it?

And every game has stats/mods that are useless, just forgotten to replace or modify.

Thanks Jampula!
Well HC im trying a summon necro. But might respec around for certain challenges.

Summoner should carry you far without respecing if you play carefully and know what enemies can pierce through your army. I got over Kabraxis (which is super easy with Night Hawks), but shortly after died to my own laziness/stupidity. Haven't tried HC since as my nerves can't handle it and I hate to start over. Great experience though.

[Johnny Impak]

Back in the days, when there was actually 30 rooms before Uldyssian, one of them was filled with an imp like creature immune to everything except reflected damage. This is the only use of the mechanic that I’m aware of.

[Yurko1769]

About Belial lord of lies. I understand that he is a rat, but so hard to recognize him. I saw in some video he was highlighted with purple aura, but i my case he is just the same light radius color like the others and also very small. I tried to kill him with AOE, and when I heard his scream I knew that Im doing some damage on him, but he spawns so many minions... and in 20mins with this AOE hunt i cant deal with their damage.
Is there any legal patch to highlight that rat?

What char/build are you playing? He is called lord of lies for a reason, I don't believe he can't be lighted anymore. Maybe some curses might work but then again there are so many adds...

Im cold sorc(lightning support) with 5 ice elementals and 4 familiars. Zann esu set.

I've mentioned this video, belial was purple there:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y0HOuE3YTRA

[Diaco]

About Belial lord of lies. I understand that he is a rat, but so hard to recognize him. I saw in some video he was highlighted with purple aura, but i my case he is just the same light radius color like the others and also very small. I tried to kill him with AOE, and when I heard his scream I knew that Im doing some damage on him, but he spawns so many minions... and in 20mins with this AOE hunt i cant deal with their damage.
Is there any legal patch to highlight that rat?

What char/build are you playing? He is called lord of lies for a reason, I don't believe he can't be lighted anymore. Maybe some curses might work but then again there are so many adds...

Im cold sorc(lightning support) with 5 ice elementals and 4 familiars. Zann esu set.

I've mentioned this video, belial was purple there:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y0HOuE3YTRA

you can namelock him when you see him but that's about it. safest strategy is to lure and kill the clones until only belial and one or two clones are left and try killing him.before he spawns more

[Johnny Impak]

I would add not to use abyss, since he is extremely small and moves so much. Take out his clones one by one with frozen sphere, if he summuns them faster than you can kill, perhaps it is a damage issue. Just don’t get buried.

This is a lvl 125 uber. Things are getting less straightforward than they were before.

[Philby]

Anyone has a single player file with valthek's or wizardspike?

You can trade items with other SP players here:

viewtopic.php?f=34&t=52643

[nazh202]

About Belial lord of lies. I understand that he is a rat, but so hard to recognize him. I saw in some video he was highlighted with purple aura, but i my case he is just the same light radius color like the others and also very small. I tried to kill him with AOE, and when I heard his scream I knew that Im doing some damage on him, but he spawns so many minions... and in 20mins with this AOE hunt i cant deal with their damage.
Is there any legal patch to highlight that rat?

From my experience he's the only one to say something when you hit him, and then he'll turn into a rat. Otherwise if you have exceptionally high single target damage (maybe respec to melee Necro) you can take the clones down one by one.

[SwineFlu]

That just made it more complicated. So amas Defensive Harmonys UA is useless?

Just for the interest of mechanism, don't really care for the stat. I tested it on Eastern Sun -mod a lot where you can easily reach 100% UA, never noticed any difference in gameplay.

Too weird stat, better to stick standard ones.

UA bonus from Defensive Harmony is useless indeed. I see that you mentioned Pounce and here is another twist: out of all skills Pounce has built-in uninterruptible attack after you get its buff. I have no idea whether it's intentional or not, but this buff grants you Concentrate state (don't confuse it with Concentration, they are not the same) from vanilla Concentrate skill and having this state active is pretty much the same as having 100% UA. Personally I don't think that this whole mechanics is completely useless in d2 and it's rather poor description choice because not the entire attack animation sequence could be affected by it.

[Jampula]

UA bonus from Defensive Harmony is useless indeed. I see that you mentioned Pounce and here is another twist: out of all skills Pounce has built-in uninterruptible attack after you get its buff. I have no idea whether it's intentional or not, but this buff grants you Concentrate state (don't confuse it with Concentration, they are not the same) from vanilla Concentrate skill and having this state active is pretty much the same as having 100% UA. Personally I don't think that this whole mechanics is completely useless in d2 and it's rather poor description choice because not the entire attack animation sequence could be affected by it.

That clears things. UA has always been one of the most confusing modifiers, only with testing in ES I noticed it makes no difference with most skills and there are better modifiers to focus on. Nice to know about that Pounce thing.

[wewenako19]

Anyone has a single player file with valthek's or wizardspike?

how can you transfer item to another player using single player mode?