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I want to try a lawbringer in my off-hand on a Dual Swing / Frenzy barbarian who uses mace mastery. I've seen some cases where mace rune words maybe dont work in hammers (hoto iirc?) so I just wanted to be sure Lawbringer really works in Hammers and Scepters for this Scenario. And I want to ask:

• Does Lawbringer really work in both Hammers and Scepters?
• Does Mace Mastery for a Barbarian increase scepter damage?
• What is the best base I should use for my offhand? Would it be a Legendary Mallet with 3 slots or a Divine Scepter with 3 slots? I want to keep my dex requirements low or none if possible.

Thanks!

I decided to take up Pindle runs last night, having never done them before, and on my 8th or so run, I got a Griffon's Eye. I think the roll may be pretty low (-18%, +14%) but regardless, apparently Griffon's Eye is somewhat rare, based on the posts I saw when searching to see if its good or not.

I see a lot of people excited by the -lightning resistance, but I dont have any, and wont ever have any, of the fancy runewords from the ladder that make conviction auras or that kind of thing ... I have pretty poor gear and no high runes and no way to get ladder runewords ... which is totally fine. I play vanilla single player without pluggy or runes.txt, but I have 2 pcs and so I mule over TCP/IP

I'm in Act 3 hell, players 1, and I can deal with lightning immunes in a tolerable way with my base point in Jab and Titans revenge. BUT despite having 180 base dex and 4 points in penetrate (after my weak +3 skills), my chance to hit with jab is about 59%.

I dont have Jah to put in my titans, or any high runes, I'm single player with no ladder runewords, etc.

SO I'm wondering, what is a good way to make my jab damage better? I whiff a lot. (I seem to recall there is a bug with the Dodge/Evade/Avoid passives, which I have 1 point in each, but that its minor for jab). Anyway, it feels like I miss a lot. My merc and my maxed Valk are getting most of the LI kills, or at least half. Oh and my

Are there any good builds for Mauls that are NOT Whirlwind Barbarians or Melee Druids? I keep getting decent Mauls for a melee character, but I loathe Whirlwind and melee druids. Are there any hell-viable builds, that aren't completely tedious, for such weapons? A 2-H paladin build? Some Barb skill other than WW? Something completely unexpected?

I'm making a Double Swing barbarian with dual wielded maces. And I hope I remember right that as a Barb, I can wield a 2H weapon in one hand. Do barbs really pump STR to 225 for the top end mauls?

Anyway, I know Double Swing is inferior to Frenzy or other builds, but I'm OLD now and just cant handle the Frenzy speed, and I hate the slow feel of concentration or berserk, and Whirlwind isn't my thing, confuses the hell out of me. So I'm doing Double Swing because its kinda speedy, but not beyond my control.

I'm planning to do Double Swing 9, Battle Orders 20, Mace Mastery 20, Bash 20 for the Double Swing damage bonus, and then all the one point wonders (Increased Stamina, Natural Resist, Bat

I have a level 88 Frost Sorceress who has been doing hell mephisto, but I moved up to Ancient Tunnels. I'm killing at P7, and I've really seen no uniques dropping at all, but I've only cleared ancient tunnels 15-20 times. I think my MF is only 200, but I'm levelling too, so I'm more into the experience points. But I would have assumed I would have gotten at least 1 unique or something.

Should I be doing this, if doing it for MF, at P1? P3? P7? And should I be just doing champions and boss packs?

Thanks!

I'm thinking of making a Frozen Orb / Blaze Sorceress, and I'm wondering... am I better off pumping Warmth for the 4% per level damage bonus to Blaze? or pumping Firewall for the lesser 1% bonus per level, but with the benefit of also having Firewall as another main skill?

I'm tempted to just do warmth, skip FW, and "commit to the bit" of being a Blaze sorceress, but thought I would see if people thought Firewall was worth the sacrifice. I would sacrifice forced committed blaze playstyle, and get more mixed gameplay, which is a pro and a con.

Thanks!

I'm going to get back into single player again, and I found among my most ancient single player characters a level 78 sorceress that is pretty terrible (FO/FW and all Energy stats) but I never respecced her ... I think she may even be from pre-respec era. Super old.

I was wondering what would be a good build for running Hell Countess? I was thinking Nova 20, Lightning Mastery 20, Frozen Orb 20, and Cold Mastery 1+ .... I've never done Nova but she does have a WizardSpike and a ViscerTuant with an Um in it ... I was thinking of keeping str fairly low, going for max block for use with Nova in close.

But I'm not sure. I was wondering .... if you had a level 78 sorceress with mostly crappy sin

All,

I'm sort of mentally planning out what characters I intend to play in D2R, and I'm wondering what the best approach is for Sorceress and Necromancer caster type characters.

My 2 main concerns are this:

• I will be mostly playing single player, so I will have poor / untwinked quality gear
• I always had slow reflexes and now I'm 20 years older. I want to have at least one teleporting MF sorceress. For people with slow speed and poor reflexes, am I better off with max block or max vita, does block lock factor into speed/reflexes, etc?

Thanks!

I have 3 questions about the D2R release that I am hoping to get answered, so I can make plans for the game, or be prepared.

• What happens when a Ladder season ends and there is a reset on Battle.net? Do your characters vanish, or do they drop down into an indefinite/forever open league?
• Will my single player files from 1.14d work with D2R in single player mode? If so, I may play up a single player MF sorceress, or respec an old one.
• Will I be able, at least after install and registration, be able to play strictly offline, like when my internet is down, or my pc isn't on the network? Or will single player fail without being able to lick battle.net?

Thanks!

I really want to play a pure Fire sorceress, or pure Cold, but I only play single player, so I will never be able to make Infinity in a merc polearm for the conviction -resist aura. I'm wondering if there is any way to do this in single player without access to high runes?

I'm really excited to play D2R but all the old frustrations of "what I want" vs "what works" for Hell mode, it's all flashing in front of my eyes again.:) I am hoping there are options for single element that I am unaware of. I will probably have to give up my dreams, crush them. I also wish a dual element charged bolt + hydra build were hell viable, but that's another false hope. :)

I own 3 copies of Diablo 2 LoD, and I have 2 of them installed now, and I can use 1 pc for mule characters and act-rushing characters, etc.

I haven't been on battle.net or bought a Blizzard product in a decade ... do you think I will be able to buy the game twice, just like back in the day, and have 2 game keys, and an install on each PC?

I was wondering if anybody could rule that in or rule it out based on anything new within the last decade of Blizzard and Battle.net. All 3 of my old Diablo 2 installs work, so I am hoping D2R will let me do the same thing.

I have this silly desire to pick an unusual skill to get to 20, whether its teleport or warmth or telekinesis or static shock or shivering armor .... whatever it may be .... but still have a dual-element Sorceress that is hell-viable.

I think one of the 2 skills would probably be Frozen Orb, since I think I could do OK with FO 20 and Cold Mastery 1.

But I'm wondering if there is a second skill that can get by on a good 40-45 points or so (roughly what I'd have left after maxing a silly skill and doing FO 20 / CM 1).

Fire Wall 20, Fire Mastery 20? Hydra 20, Fire Mastery 20? Nova 20, Lightning Mastery 20?

Or something else?

Thanks!

I'm playing a character off and on who is a Crossbow Trapper, using Bear Traps from the Lockpicking line in Ordinator. It isn't a stealth build, I'm doing crossbows only, heavy armor, and restoration too.

Its pretty dope but my followers I've tried (Erandur, Sven, and a follower named Among-The-Hist from a non-Enai mod iirc) all love to run up and do melee, even when I've given them ranged weapons and magicka pools.

As you can expect, they keep running over my Bear Traps constantly, and getting themselves KO'ed. I'm wondering if anyone can recommend a follower from the base game who almost never does melee? Do any of the pure mages use ranged exclusively? I've not teamed with many mages wh

Currently, I only use Ordinator, but I'm thinking about adding Wintersun. I want to have my Illusionist/Bard become a Hermaeus Mora worshipper. However, one concern is that I already have one ongoing playthrough per race (10 total), and I'm worried about how Wintersun may impact games when installed.

I have read the FAQ and the Compatibility link, but I still have a few questions:

• Can it be installed mid-game or does it require a new game?
• Does it require a bash patch, or directly alter lots of levelled lists, or does it use script injection, or neither?
• Does it make tons of alterations to the worldspace for adding new shrines or etc? I have most of the Arthmoor town expansions, plus