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[drmalawi]

Anyways hope you're doing well!

I am doing okay, a lot better now than back in the days. Still not 100% great though.
Would be better if you just wrote "I have missed you" and not the other stuff.
Its like "Hey I have not seen you since you got into prison" or similar.

But he deleted that account too like a year ago. Must have wanted to make a clean break.

Yeah I found an e-mail in my trash can that my discord account was marked for automatic deletion.

You know I am in here, no need in speculating.

 

[Luhkoh]

I am doing okay, a lot better now than back in the days. Still not 100% great though.
Would be better if you just wrote "I have missed you" and not the other stuff.
Its like "Hey I have not seen you since you got into prison" or similar.

Yeah I found an e-mail in my trash can that my discord account was marked for automatic deletion.

You know I am in here, no need in speculating.

Sorry man didn’t mean anything by it, missed you and glad to hear from you! Second message was referring to art vandelay who also replied! Fun to be back and hear from the old faces!

 

[SirName]

I usually put enought points in stats to be able to equip my gear at any time. I just switched some gear on my pally and noticed this (for me) mildly interesting behaviour as I no longer have enough of strength to equip my gear from naked state:

To have an equipment piece equipped after loading in to the game one needs at minimum the equal amount of points in stats required by the equipment piece subtracted with the stats the equipment piece grants. This applies only to the equipment piece with lowest requirements.

In the picture I have just loaded into the game. I have 74 hard points in strength and no other items than equipped (than HoZ) or any item in stash give any strength. Hoz requires 89 strength so it enables itself to be equipped.



At the time I kept a Crushflange (+15str) in cube and equipped it temporarily to enable the rest of the gear to be equipped. I just leveled up and put 1 point in strength and now everything is equipped at start:

95 str with Hoz -> Wartravs requiring 95 str equipped (+10 str) -> 105 total str, Coh Archon requiring 103 str equipped -> 125 str total, both Thundergods requiring 110 str and Guillaume's requiring 115 str equipped -> 160 str total.

What is the big deal? Well I thought one needed the exact amount of points in stats that is the requirement of an item to be equipped at start but apparently not.

When I now unequip HoZ and exit and start game I still need the Chrushflange to get everything equipped as without Hoz there is not enough strength to wear HoZ. This trick must also be needed in sad hypothetic case of corpse retrival.

 

[SirName]

Just respecced my sorc with good LK map to get gear for 200 fcr. Forgot my usual 1 point in Frozen armour. This was bad and good:
- now teleporting into a pack is more dangerous and needs to be avoided
- not needing the extra cast (as I can't ) at run start feels good.

To the point then. Did 15+ runs with no issues, but then suddenly monsters were spawning inside the huts. Started paying more attention to this and seems that if I keep my route just a bit south of the first hut then I meet no packs in the huts. Is this something that is real or am I imagining things? (Too few runs to deduce anything myself)

 

[Luhkoh]

@SirName could definitely be real. The order in which you load the tiles (aka your teleport path) definitely affects span locations and density.

 

[LouB]

@SirName There is a long discussion over the correct teleport path for doing Trav runs. So it stands to reason that there would also be one for doing LK runs.

 

[ziambe]

If I make an iron golem with an indestructible item, why is the iron golem destructible?

 

[LouB]

Because he's only made of iron?

 

[Maltatai]

If I make an iron golem with an indestructible item, why is the iron golem destructible?

It must be like electronics, a warranty void if you tamper with the item

 

[SirName]

Crystal as a raw material.

Where does it come from? The worldstonemine?

How are swords manufactured from this material? Something like cutting diamonds?

How does crystal break when used and how is it repaired? Glue pieces back on?

Why are only swords made of this material?
I mean I’m sure there would be a market for indestructable Phaseplates.

 

[LouB]

They are grown and repaired in the same crystal bath used to create them. Ever grow crystals as a kid?

At least they get used. Does anyone even use Mythical swords? Maybe that's why they are called mythical as they don't exist in the real world!

 

[SirName]

They are grown and repaired in the same crystal bath used to create them. Ever grow crystals as a kid?

I actually have not. But I am going to give that a go with my kids. Thanks for the tip.

 

[drmalawi]

Does fade from trechery not work on mercs in D2R? I see it is activated because merc is "ethereal" but his resistances was not increased. Iirc resistances got "updated" in D2LoD

 

[drmalawi]

I also discovered that sanctuary aura from lawbringer/azurwrath makes magic immune undeads take magic damage from berserk skill. It is same mechanic as making dragon tail not work against physical immunes? The damage is being converted on hit.

 

[SirName]

I also discovered that sanctuary aura from lawbringer/azurwrath makes magic immune undeads take magic damage from berserk skill. It is same mechanic as making dragon tail not work against physical immunes? The damage is being converted on hit.

Tested in LOD. Berserked first without Lawbringer an then with one equipped: no difference, both setups do nothing against the magic immune undead in Lost City. Sounds like a D2R bug to me.

PS. Does Dragon Tail by any chance work against PI's in D2R? I mean without Lawbringer.

 

[drmalawi]

Sounds like a D2R bug to me.

or a fix

 

[LouB]

@SirName The following is from Maxick's TS/DT guide:

The important thing to note from the sequence above is that the fire damage is dependent on your applied physical damage. And this is one of the criticisms of Dragon Tail – It suffers from two immunities. Fire immunes and Physical immunes take no damage. This is only partly true. Fire immunes take no damage from the fire damage, but if you target a FI with DTail, it will be damaged by the physical part of the kick. If you target a PI, it will take neither fire nor physical damage. Nor will anything else in the area of effect for that matter. But any PIs in the area of effect when you target a non PI enemy will get the full fire damage.

This also is true in D2R. I recently completed this build in D2R with a Lawbringer and it wasn't till Decrepify spawned that damage was done against the PI. However, attacking a monster next to the PI did do damage

 

[Nano]

I also discovered that sanctuary aura from lawbringer/azurwrath makes magic immune undeads take magic damage from berserk skill. It is same mechanic as making dragon tail not work against physical immunes? The damage is being converted on hit.

It's unrelated to Dragon Tail and just how Sanctuary aura functions.
I equipped my blizzard sorc with Azurewrath, took off her Cold Rupture Sunder, and took a couple of swings at CS Oblivion Knights and they were chilled despite being cold immune, so I'm guessing the cold damage on Azurewrath is doing damage. However, her cold spells didn't do any damage, so it seems to be melee only. A while back, I heard a rumor about Sanctuary ignoring all resistances of undead, not just physical, but wasn't sure if that was true.

 

[Pavke]

A while back, I heard a rumor about Sanctuary ignoring all resistances of undead, not just physical, but wasn't sure if that was true.

@SirName

Yes, Sanctuary aura is bugged on D2R since Patch 2.4

• Fixed an issue where Sanctuary aura was not granting its bonus damage to Undead

It ignores all resistances of undead from attacks and spells that carry physical damage in addition to elemental damage*.
*mostly

Magic Arrow	Amazon	Ignores all resistances
Fire Arrow	Amazon	Ignores all resistances
Jab	Amazon	Ignores all resistances
Cold Arrow	Amazon	Ignores all resistances
Multiple Shot	Amazon	Ignores all resistances
Power Strike	Amazon	Ignores all resistances
Poison Javelin	Amazon	Direct hit ignores all resistances
Exploding Arrow	Amazon	Direct hit ignores all resistances
Impale	Amazon	Ignores all resistances
Lightning Bolt	Amazon	No effect
Ice Arrow	Amazon	Ignores all resistances
Guided Arrow	Amazon	Ignores all resistances
Charged Strike	Amazon	Direct hit ignores all resistances
Plague Javelin	Amazon	Direct hit ignores all resistances
Strafe	Amazon	Ignores all resistances (all arrows)
Immolation Arrow	Amazon	Direct hit ignores all resistances
Fend	Amazon	Direct hit ignores all resistances
Freezing Arrow	Amazon	Arrow ignores all resistances, splash does not
Lightning Strike	Amazon	Direct hit ignores all resistances
Lightning Fury	Amazon	Direct hit ignores all resistances
Teeth	Necromancer	No effect
Poison Dagger	Necromancer	Ignores all resistances
Corpse Explosion	Necromancer	No effect
Poison Explosion	Necromancer	No effect
Bone Spear	Necromancer	No effect
Poison Nova	Necromancer	No effect
Bone Spirit	Necromancer	No effect
Sacrifice	Paladin	Ignores all resistances
Smite	Paladin	Ignores physical resistance
Holy Bolt	Paladin	Holy Bolt ignores magic resistance
Zeal	Paladin	Ignores all resistances
Charge	Paladin	Ignores all resistances
Vengeance	Paladin	Ignores all resistances
Blessed Hammer	Paladin	No effect
Conversion	Paladin	Ignores all resistances
Fist of the Heavens	Paladin	Holy Bolt ignores magic resistance
Bash	Barb	Ignores all resistances
Double Swing	Barb	Ignores all resistances
Stun	Barb	Ignores all resistances
Double Throw	Barb	Ignores all resistances
Leap Attack	Barb	Direct hit ignores all resistances
Concentrate	Barb	Ignores all resistances
Frenzy	Barb	Ignores all resistances
Whirlwind	Barb	Ignores all resistances
Berserk	Barb	Ignores all resistances
War Cry	Barb	Ignores physical resistance
Firestorm	Druid	No effect
Molten Boulder	Druid	Ignores physical resistance
Arctic Blast	Druid	No effect
Feral Rage	Druid	Ignores all resistances
Maul	Druid	Ignores all resistances
Eruption	Druid	No effect
Rabies	Druid	Direct hit ignores all resistances
Fire Claws	Druid	Ignores all resistances
Twister	Druid	Ignores physical resistance
Hunger	Druid	Ignores all resistances
Shock Wave	Druid	Ignores physical resistance
Volcano	Druid	Ignores physical resistance
Tornado	Druid	Ignores physical resistance
Fury	Druid	Ignores all resistances
Armageddon	Druid	Ignores physical resistance
Hurricane	Druid	No effect
Psychic Hammer	Assassin	Ignores physical resistance
Tiger Strike	Assassin	Ignores all resistances
Dragon Talon	Assassin	Ignores all resistances on direct hit
Shock Field	Assassin	No effect
Blade Sentinel	Assassin	Ignores all resistances
Fists of Fire	Assassin	Ignores all resistances on direct hit
Dragon Claw	Assassin	Ignores all resistances on direct hit
Cobra Strike	Assassin	Ignores all resistances on direct hit
Blade Fury	Assassin	Ignores all resistances
Claws of Thunder	Assassin	Ignores all resistances on direct hit
Dragon Tail	Assassin	Ignores all resistances on direct hit
Mind Blast	Assassin	Ignores physical resistance
Blades of Ice	Assassin	Ignores all resistances on direct hit
Dragon Flight	Assassin	Ignores all resistances on direct hit
Blade Shield	Assassin	Ignores all resistances
Phoenix strike	Assassin	Ignores all resistances on direct hit

 

[SirName]

Quite a bug! Many skills on that list are not possible to use as afaik you can only get Sanctuary from Azurewrath/Lawbringer and need to self wield to reap any benefit.

Nevertheless quite useful weapon switch for something like tesladin. Good bye gloam problems. Rabies druid is glad too even though it is only for direct hits.