Suggestions for upcoming patch

Maybe change wolf mana drain not to take total regen and base and turn it negative?

would be cool Make one belladona elixir just to reskill and one just to atribut poits!

Disable charm trade so ppl need to get them by their own

Had this brilliant idea this morming, would be huge :cheers:

I mean there are 2-3 ppl who can get all charms and they flood the whole realm with it so 90% of ppl dont even explore this great mod not to mention that all charms can be obtained very fast and when ppl buy them they obv. get bored faster and ladder gets sooner empty.

This would be pretty much impossible to implement i guess or atleast hard but i would def. welcome it

How would that work ? Once you pick up charm you cannot drop it ? No ty. It used to be a feature of "bind item to user" in mmorph i played, but it required a recipe to work. Also if i bind charm to char, drop charm mule game, delete the char - can other char pick it up now ?

Disable teleports in all uber areas.
Disable all shrines in uber levels.
Boss heals when you leave uber area.
Remove luck potions from npc.
Terror Griswold drops regular luck potions 1/2 chance.
Destruction Griswold drops blessed luck potions 1/2 chance.

well there is solutiuon

ppl who sell charms - ban
ppl who buy charms - ban

:thumb:

SuchBalistas should do research on how Anya personalize quest reward works. And then make it possible to personalize charms with "charm + scroll" from npc. Then add the condition - "charm only works with the char who personalized it". If you don't personalize, transfer, delete main char - charm gives no bonuses.

RollsRoyce wrote:
Frost666 wrote:Summoner barb seems useless

thats what i thought as well. But to be fair here are my thoughts about this build.

1. The passive (greater manifestations) adds so much minion life% and minion dmg% (to your spirits only!) that stacking those stats on your gear does not make any difference at all. And since you will not stack those stats, using oskill mobs seems rather underwhelming (not to mention that even those are rather weak)

My suggestion therefore is that: Buff the base life and dmg stats and change greater manifestations to add flat defense to the spirit aura as well. This synergizes with the spirit guide aura, leaving your summons with a good amount of defense.
Im sick of watching ice and fire elemtals tank insane loads of damage and see the "mighty ancients" die in the den of evil.

Now we got 3 types of spirits:
1. the axe throwers - they have very very low life and as soon as something on the screen is not stunned they will die. I do not see a way to balance them at all, buff their base life and remove the stun of their attacks. At least they can spread wdm in a good area

2. Retaliate casting spirits. You need to adapt your playstyle if you want to use those. They are great at spreading poison damage, but its not helping if they all attack the same target over and over again, so you need to find a way to help them spread over the screen (which means you have to stance dance between snake and wolf stance)

3. Protector spirits: Those guys are completely useless, you just need them to keep that insane bloodlust buff active at all times. But with those you can play a caster based summoner which is incredibly strong!

Once you got klaatu + Nero Belt + sssu saber + a decent mercenary you can just stack vitality and end up with 1 million defense and more than 30k life and a max eagle stance, so you will not die at all.
While you can just teleport through the map, killing every enemy in your way with frostclaw totems + path of flames + hive. If you feel bored, switch from time to time your weapon slot, where you can easily equip Lo-weapon + a decently defensive shield and 50% slow snake stance and slow the entire screen with thunderslam (83% slow)

I am trying a summoner barb right now.

Colliding Fury

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Toraja's Champion

Toraja's Champion
Gilded Shield (Sacred)
Defense: (7944 - 8978) to (9847 - 11129)
Chance to Block: 1%
(Barbarian Only)
Required Level: 100
Required Strength: 700
Item Level: 105
+(2 to 3) to Barbarian Skill Levels
+2 to Maximum Barbarian Minions
+(30 to 38)% Damage to Protector Spirit Bloodlust
40% Cast Speed
+(21 to 25)% to Summoned Minion Damage
+(115 to 143)% Enhanced Defense
+500 to Life
+250 to Mana
Elemental Resists +10%
+10 Life on Striking
+(6 to 7) Mana on Striking
Socketed (4)

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Goetia Plate

Goetia Plate
Full Plate Mail (Sacred)
Defense: (8467 - 9339) to (10376 - 11445)
Required Level: 100
Required Strength: 700
Item Level: 120
+3 to All Skills
+1 to Maximum Necromancer Minions
+(151 to 200)% to Summoned Minion Life
+(51 to 75)% to Summoned Minion Damage
+(172 to 200)% Enhanced Defense
+100 Life Regenerated per Second
+750 to Life
+375 to Mana
-4 to Light Radius
Socketed (6)

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Shadowtwin

Shadowtwin
Fanged Helm (Sacred)
Defense: (2978 - 3285) to (3149 - 3474)
(Barbarian Only)
Required Level: 100
Required Strength: 500
Item Level: 105
Summon Two Ancient Spirits per Cast
+2 to Barbarian Skill Levels
+(41 to 50)% to Summoned Minion Life
+(31 to 40)% to Summoned Minion Resistances
+(172 to 200)% Enhanced Defense
Cold Resist +40%
Socketed (4)

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The Defender

The Defender
Long Sword (Sacred)
One-Hand Damage: (174 - 207) to (205 - 264)
Required Level: 100
Required Strength: 270
Item Level: 105
Strength Damage Bonus: (0.11 per Strength)%
+150% Bonus Fire Damage to Retaliate
Adds (75 to 90)-(100 to 140) Damage
(50 to 100)% Bonus to Attack Rating
5% Life stolen per Hit
-20% to Enemy Fire Resistance
+(120 to 160)% Enhanced Damage
+(10 to 20) to Retaliate
(10 to 20)% to Strength
Physical Resist 5%
Requirements -50%
Socketed (6)

, Magical crafted gloves and boots for minion life and res.

I was using

Blade of the Jitan

because I thought the Death's Fury totem would be a very useful asset to the 100+ minion army, but found out that even with the decent amount on the oskill, its still only like 90 per element, which is really minimal. That's about as good as a mid-hatred necro, so there's no use for it on an SU that requires level 100 and would ideally be used for Destr areas. I'm sure it would match well with a crafted Kraken stance helm, but my gear choice didn't involve that because I wanted the minion stats and the Veil King oskill from the helm (which by the way is incredibly strong in relation to the oskills on Colliding Fury. Granted... its 1 Veil King in comparison to 25 ice eles.. but still)

I guess the build seems okay, but spirit walk feels buggy with the teleporting at times -- sometimes it just won't teleport when you cast it.
Also, for Colliding Fury, can the Ice Elemental oskill be fixed so they provide their proper auras and %DR? They just become useless meatshields otherwise. I haven't really noticed yet, but I imagine the Fire Elementals are also invalid in the same way that their Inner Fire and Fire Cannonade don't proc as they should. But again.. I haven't really paid attention to see if those work or not. That's my main issue with the character right now. I would like the summons to actually be the summons they should be -- not a nerfed Ice Ele (for reasons unknown to me or just an issue with the oskill in the d2 engine?) when you're expecting a real Ice Ele with the defensive buffs they provide on a sorceress.

I also wish the spirits would follow you like normal minions. With the decreased density in areas within the last patch or two, it makes it harder to find an enemy to Spirit Walk onto to collect your minions back together.

I use Protector Spirits strictly for their.. roughly 600% bloodlust buff for the rest of my summons to put out more DPS. They have the highest life as well. I think you should be able to summon two types of spirits though. It seems wrong to have to choose a less mechanically useful spirit just to get their bloodlust buff, whereas you could decrease the amount of extra spirits that Spirit Trance provides PER SPIRIT TYPE (so instead of.. 28ish protector spirits, you could have 14 protector and 14 of the Retaliate ones.)

It just feels like summoner barb would be more useful. The necro minions follow around. Why can't barb summons be the same way? Barbarians can't get close to the same cast rate as a necro to be able to continuously recast summons as you move too far away with no enemy to target, unless you use some morph like Creep staff, which would be really dumb for a summon barb.. I bet way more people would at least test out the build, if not use it more often overall with a few of these changes. The summon barb felt like a cool concept, but the skills and mechanics just don't seem to match up as they should.

Disable teleports in all uber areas.
Disable all shrines in uber levels.
Boss heals when you leave uber area.
Remove luck potions from npc.
Terror Griswold drops regular luck potions 1/2 chance.
Destruction Griswold drops blessed luck potions 1/2 chance.

wow man, why not make every moster kill you with one hit!

Anonymous: wrote::mweed:

SuchBalistas should do research on how Anya personalize quest reward works. And then make it possible to personalize charms with "charm + scroll" from npc. Then add the condition - "charm only works with the char who personalized it". If you don't personalize, transfer, delete main char - charm gives no bonuses.

Y i have faith in SuchBalistas, he will figure something out and present a working solution to Marcovec so he can implement it in sigma. Its nice to be mxl player these days.

kiki22vu wrote:well there is solutiuon

ppl who sell charms - ban
ppl who buy charms - ban

That feels counterproductive to the mod. Half the players would be banned. I understand the concept of giving a hard incentive for players to play the full content but it just feels like that should've been written in blue text. Just my opinion though I guess.