The item drop buff is a known problem in d2 if you played online, 8pp drop rate is way more than solo/self find.

its online no offline

melee splash is a bad thing lol ? melee too easy ?? melee hell first time with shit gear too easy huh ?? i bet you couldent even do it on hc lol. trvivializing the entire game ?? yeah its not like they NERFED shit like BO buffing % life and that druid spirit buffing %life or cta witch was insanly op.. or grief .. u dont even know what your talking about d2 campain was never hard (SPECIALLY normal/nm), d2 was never hard maps or uber content in pd2 is way harder than doing baal/chaos runns in old d2 lol u dont know shit dude. why do u make a vid like that ? this "complexity" stuff ur talking about makes no sense.. pls make a solo hardcore ssf melee playthrough i wanna se how u beat that super easy hell anchients with ur OP BROKEN melee splash. lets see it.

i use walk on my necro and druid all the time

I liked the part when you said "It's too easy" then the background is you taking 5 mins to kill 1 elite and chugging HP potions. I get the point though, have a friend who loved the difficulty spikes of NM/Hell. A lot of ARPG enjoyers do enjoy/prefer "I did the work to get my fat items now I wana blast." versus "I can't do anything until I find better items so I can go back to slowly progressing". Two different mindsets, no world where both are 100% happy.

Thanks for your video. I ultimately decided against trying the mod because of the melee splash. The mod is _very_ cool but I'm just not interested in that kind of change.

If im playing a d2 mod personally, I want a very new experience with lots of content and be difficult enough to have it compare as an actual game to today's standards. Median xl hits all of those marks for me. Pod, pd2, d2r dont.

i mean, 5 years ago i would agree. But these days, path of exile has gotten to a place where its easily the greatest arpg of all time. Sure they've been less precious about it and its been a moving target, but its now in a place where its just amazing from a core game perspective. I play d2 for a few weeks after the poe league and when i got back and do a fresh playthrough of poe its like stepping up from a wheelchair and going for a jog. It just feels so much better, mostly because of the quality of life they've implemented over that last ~3 years. I love d2, grew up playing it and still revisit once or twice a year, but tits the second best arpg of all time. Poe took what it did well and blew it out of the water.

alright im sold, downloading it now

I tried this mod and I could not play it because there wasn't any server available near me. I got 150-200 ping on any server that I connected. It's really a shame for me.

I dunno if you've ever played it, but Median XL is an awesome full conversion mod that is well worth checking out. Entirely new skill trees and builds, entirely new uniques and sets, TONS of new ubers all dropping badass charms like torches. If you ever wanted to play an exploding crossbow Necro or poison Sorc it's the mod for you!

Even thou I get you're point, I feel like the splash damage is just to make the melee built viable. Ofc you can melt through mob packs but you also can do it in vanilla but just with sorc, hdin and javazone (maybe with some other builts like wind druid or trapsin). But I need to say, normal and especial nightmare are easy af in vanilla as well. Funny thing is, in all d2, nightmare is always the easiest difficulty. Somehow its the worst balanced difficulty between gear, level on the one hand and difficulty on the other hand. They could make it harder imho, I fully agree on this. Even normal could be hard, I have no probs with taking a few days to reach hell baal etc. And I completely get the point on the loot thingi. Mf runs in d2 was THE thing which for me ruins even all other hack'n'slay games cause I need this mechanic with drops and runes. But in pd2 I feel you need to think the mf thingi different. In pd2 it is not the thing to find a unique once. The uniques like griffon or anything else are still rare but due to the droprate equals player3 or players5 in vanilla d2 and the higher mob densitiy ofc make them drop more often. But you will corrupt them and the goal in pd2 is maybe to find tje most rare uniques and slam them with a good mod. And I think you need to switch on this point of view in pd2 to get kept by the game for longer time. Again, as a d2 ultra from the first hours I can understand your complains and I'm in. But overall pd2 is for me the best way of experience d2. Stash, stackability, balancing and rework of skills (vengeance pally my absolut favorite class in pd2), corrupting items and brick them as well as qol features totally get me.

D2 is the best!! PD2 is also, wish it was on D2R. Id never play anything else im sure. There is a mod for D2R i forget the name of it tho. Reimagined maybe.

D2 has an endgame if you play on ladder, which IMO is the only way to really play the game. Also, many changes are straight ripped from Path of Exile.

i learned on most tricks, lets say a kickflip for example, u can just input the catch right after u fliped, no need for exact timing

Path of Exile, Grim Dawn, Last Epoch, Titan Quest, hell, even Torchlight2 all exist. The genre has grown up, and it's a beautiful thing that everyone should enjoy. Signed, 10k hours guy.

This could be the next great (comeback??) Blizzard chapter. I immediately thought: "wow (no pun intended) imagine playing thru a campaign based on sc1/brood or sc2 (as close to the original stories/maps as possible) etc - but in a first person shooter style!" - like I said *could be* next great thing....Heck even continuing work on this and polishing it up might work well! -great vid thx. -cheers ;)

To bad this game keeps blue and black screening my computer everytime i try to install it. After the 15th time im done.

Really enjoyed your vid thanks man

Claims loot drops are broken; proceeds to show zero drops. K…..?

I think this video missed the loot filters. Those make a HUGE difference to the game. Pretty much solves the issue with clutter on the ground.

It's so good! I'm so happy to be back on D2 after 15 years or so. Thanks for the video!

Did you mention a proper loot filter? That's an amazing QoL change.

Normal was always terribly easy. I used to play on "players 8" for normal/nightmare, and "players 4" for hell back in the day. And I was not too good at the game even.

shame there's no PD2R

I don’t care what kind of fallacy it is, if I’m not having fun and enjoying a game, then I don’t consider it fun. I’m sorry but I can’t say something is fun if only 3% of the game is actually fun lol

Been playing PD2 for the last couple years! Now I'm sort of tempted to play vanilla just to see if PD2 really is easier in normal and nightmare. Because to me it seems like you just get a lot better at D2. As in, you know exactly how to skill a character and how to get the items you need to easily progress through normal and nightmare. To me it actually feels like vanilla was a bit OP. Runewords like spirit were just soo good requiring zero currency. Grief only required a Lo and gave you 400 flat damage, so OP that it outclasses nearly every other weapon. The QOL and graphics alone is worth playing PD2. I think instead of the loot drop giving dopamine like in vanilla it's now the corrupting and hitting an absolute GG corrupt on a GG drop. Finding a griffons and slamming +1 skill on it or getting am eth cranium basher and corrupting it for 6OS is the new excitement.

Charm slots is a fail already in my opinion - was it annoying to have to choose between the ability to pick more stuff up and have more charms? SURE - but THAT'S THE GAME! That crap is sacrilegious.

a huge part of d2 and pd2 is the in game economy. myself and many others enjoy the aspect of trading in an active economy that changes quickly. so while pd2 isnt the best "hack & slash" it does offer the best experience with an in game economy.

Agreed! I hate it when changes trivialize a game. For me challenge and friction is what makes the game fun or rewarding. I think it's very easy for modders to make changes that buffs our characters, but without remembering to buff the enemies as well, to compensate and balance it. The game should be fun and challenging from lvl 1, not after x hours. Did you end up going back to normal D2, or continue with PD2?

If this ever gets to be played with the updated graphics I'm all in to play it. I just can't handle the outdated graphics now.

Right wingers - be they fascist or merely conservative - cannot appropriate this song. This song is from the left of Biden. Thumbs down,

Nah, I disagree. The point of charms is that you have to decide whether you want more MF, power, or room to pick items. D2 was so successful because it remembered to real life, real pain, real rewards felt more intense... Now we replace all hard decissions with "quality of life improvements", so many, that then you don't even think anymore. Stacked gems look just like an image with a number, instead of having an identity. Only stuff for the worse.

Project D2 has become nothing but open bnet...

norm and nm are easy on reg d2 too man but thanks for the video havent tried this yet

Same same, but different

Just started skating last year, at the the age of 42, but I was diagnosed with gout earlier this year. Looks like I'll have to stick with Session for my skating fix. I'm about 350 hours in, but I still manage to have fun.

Is this better than diablo 2 resurrected? Whats ur opinion? I played the original game btw lol :)

True, melee in vanilla is too weak, especially after the successive nerfs over time, like what they did to whirlwind. And you kinda have to use Grief to be efficient. OTOH, splash damage makes PD2 too easy. It should probably be an item mod, with range and/or quantity of mobs hit expressed as a stat. There should be a jewel or rune to increase these numbers, and most melee uniques and RW should have at least some splash damage, but way less than what we have now. It would be cool to have a set dedicated to melee that gives the best possible splash damage as full set bonus, but with other drawback like not being the best option for damage or survivability.

Great video I have a question where can I play this game

perspective user

Yeah the main point of me sticking to original D2 was I liked the balancing more. It feels better while lvling.

This was an interesting video. Every 4 seconds I would agree with something you said, and 4 second later would disagree completely with something else. I am also a d2 nerd and have been playing pd2 since season 3, so I am very easily offended and cry at even the slightest criticism. For the sake of being argumentative on the internet, here are some counter points: 1)You are "drowning in [trash] loot" because you are the only person not using a loot filter which is built into the launcher. 2) The increased item drops fit well into to a ~4 month season. The marketplace/economy works extremely well and I think that supports my opinion that the rarity of items and season lengths has a good balance. You may be accustomed to never ending non-ladder grind. 3) There are EXTREMELY rare drops that you are likely not even aware of, so that satisfaction of grinding for a grail still exists even when vanilla d2 items may more common. The "less rewarding" feeling you describe makes sense when you compare apples to apples, so if you get a shako you're not spitting out your coffee anymore. But let me know how you feel when you get a Vial of Lightsong. 4) Immaculate attention to detail was paid when designing the increased drops around usability of added/adjusted runewords and builds. It is NOT as simple as a linear increase in items so everyone gets good gear. 5) Norm and NM are easier because of the added mechanics that end up being important in hell. No argument there. They shouldn't be a chore. I find them a chore in d2r, especially with a narrow selection of builds and play styles. TLDR: If you're on the fence about trying PD2, play it when a new ladder starts for 3-4 weeks. Come back to this thread and comment how great pd2 is. Good video! Good content.

splash dmg is dumb, i would love to try it without having to have fkn mellee splash damage

Im hardcore lover of Diablo 2 LOD....i still have character from 2001 Barbarian....i still didnt complete Immortal King set for him. But now i stopped long time ago since i find moded Diablo very very good for playing. I am using 5 mods

it would be perfect if blizzard wasnt assholes and allow full mod support for d2r. graphics... just too old

Its 70% off rn. Will definitely conciser it.

I want Diablo 2 classic to be developed, never liked LoD and the unique and runeword meta

I'll subscribe just because you like ARPGs, good vibeo

STOP cursing God. It's disgusting.