Short Questions Thread

Orthrus wrote:Huh. After a number of mystic orbs that all ended up not lowering the timer I stopped, 9 completely wasted mystic orbs. I got it to level 30 by the way.

Lvl 42 is 0.2 sec. +skills help you reach that.

D2MR is freezing d2se... Sometimes this happens but today it's Every time I activate d2mr client for d2se.

I'm not even given an error, it just freezes both d2mr and d2se.

If anyone knows or has ideas for a fix let me know.

try launching the game from d2 instead of d2se and launching d2mr

if it works it should fix it when you retry with d2se afterwards

Weird...It froze the vanilla client (diablo II.exe) as well.

Maybe I should reinstall d2mr? I.e. redownload and trash current files. Doubt that will work though.

try resetting the comp and launching d2mr first, then d2se

Will wrote:Weird...It froze the vanilla client (diablo II.exe) as well.

Maybe I should reinstall d2mr? I.e. redownload and trash current files. Doubt that will work though.

it happened with me once. After few tries, i turned on the minimap and somehow it was worked (w/o restart PC) :shock:

I think I had minimap on during the tries... I'll have to recreate the error. It worked when I restarted mac...always odd!

Thanks for the help guys!

Dandy wrote:Thanks for the answers. It's a shame their immunity were throwned out the window.

I wouldn't say batstrike is totally weak, but that's mainly because of the charm effect imho. Sure, bats can reach 50k health and 60% avoid. That won't prevent them from being obliterated in most uberquest, even some "easy" ones. (I say "easy" because back in my days, doing Azmodan or Rathmas square was a mighty feat ! I remember gamma cheesing Azmodan...)

Eh. I am just a bit frustrated that playing such a highly involved and risky char like a bat assassin just leads to ok-ish results. And assassin is definitely not the character to get your first charms. I believe assassin suffers from a very acute case of endgame syndrom: "Yeah ! This skill is going to be awesome... at max lvl with full charms and full gear ! Until then, enjoy 0 defense with 20% dodge and 5% block chance TCHOO TCHOO !"

The main feature of batstrike is not the bats, it's the multiscreen 3/2 wdm nova that spreads your 400k poison dot + 40-80k physical + ele ways + slow + leech + laek + death proc. It's also the reason why the bats are so good (at least if you're dual wielding), they're some of the only passive summons in the game that don't require you to waste 15 seconds every mf run summoning your shit in cold plains or after a barrel in dunc. Unlike reanimates, they blink with you.

Also a batsin is obviously going to be bad vs. tough/semi-tough heroics but that goes without saying. Your sustain comes from leech/laek (both ineffective), damage mostly poison/physical etc... it's a melee farmer char.

Also you shouldn't have 0 defense or you're doing something wrong (at least before max block). T1 honorific gloves/boots = 120 %TCD, belt = 20-60% TCD, that's already 50k defense with dragonheart without counting a helmet like cauldron. With 60% avoid, zero block and 50k defense, your effective defense vs. slain soul in dunc = 300k with 50% DR. With 60% avoid, 50k defense and max block, it's like +1kk with 50% DR, and that's achievable with nothing but abandoned crafts.

@Cowking : I hear you. Batstrike is not ultimately bad. The spammable charm is good, and the nova is a good poison spreader. But then again, one of my main issue with the assassin in general is that it's eventually good. But the entrance cost for a good time is very steep. Significantly more than with every other character imo.

Anyway, a new unrelated question !
What's an approximate ratio of unknown skull 1 per run (in solo p1) ? I made 8 complete runs and only found 1. Including a laborious (easy but slow) run in p8 to see if the nodrop ratio increased was worth it.

If i would invest my points in tiefling form it will removes my spells damages ?