How come one handed axes rarely drop? Playing this game for the first time and I went with a duel wielding axe barbarian and I've been stuck with the same two axes from level 6 (I'm at level 26 now)
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realism
The most god-tier weapon known to man should be the one with the lowest droprate, as you have to kill someone for his weapon to drop.
How many hours of Diablo 2 have you all played?
D2 drops are a complex matter. You should check the blacksmith when new axes start showing up in their inventory.
>new player
>going melee
You're gonna have a rough time.
I know I'm in the thousands but probably not broken 10000 yet.
>yet
You're still playing this game? How often?
I tend to go back to it once or twice a year.
Without mods melee is pretty terrible. It has practically no AOE, has a huge reliance on attack rating and good weapons for damage and the melee mechanics in the game are a bit buggy which can cause unnecessary misses which can be particularly bad on top of the harsh attack rating requirements to hit consistently.
Mods such as Project Diablo 2 fix a lot of the bugs and add something called "melee splash" which makes melee attacks hit monsters around the one you hit. Though mods also add quite a bit of complexity so they might not be the best thing to play for someone new to the game.
If you find 2 or 3 socket axes that have a gray name (so they're not magic, rare or unique) you can try runewords such as Steel, Malice or Strength. Malice is particularly nice for the -defense on target and Strength has Crushing Blow which helps in killing bosses.
What's wrong with playing a melee character? Why am I going to have a hard time?
worst damage, most likely to die due to close combat, least useful drops as you have noticed
it's only fine to play casually just to beat normal difficulty. Actually normal difficulty does't really offer any good drops. You can complete the game on normal just with items from the vendors.
I honestly was just planning on playing normal mode with a barbarian. Ive heard how hard the other two difficulties can be
Melee is totally fine for normal. The harder difficulties just make all the numbers bigger and require much better gear, and obtaining that gear can be boring if you don't like farming.
You can get yellows from gambling. Should be a good way to upgrade the axes every few levels if you don't get good drops.
Don't worry about any of that min-max or meta shit then. It doesn't apply to normal mode. As you can see asking veterans for any tips will get you either very vague answers or straight out wrong ones because they're thinking only of hell difficulty. Like runewords - they are fricking useless on normal for two basic reasons: you can complete the game easily with vendoer items and the game will be over before you even manage to collect runes for any useful runewords. Most of the low level runewords suck ass and are not worth wasting time on griding. You should instead use runes for bonus resistances or damage, not worrying about making words out of them.
>planning on playing normal mode
who the hell just plays the first 1/3rd of a game then stops?
How the frick do people struggle with Duriel? I beat this fricker on a necromancer using a fricking crossbow (I was moronic don't ask) on all 3 difficulties my first time through the game for fricks sake. I didn't even die once against him.
>I didn't even die once against him
I'm sure you didn't buddy
Few people remember about thawing potions and Duriel is actually strong.
Don't listen to newbs like this that never played Diablo 1. Melee is fast as frick compared to original Diablo. You don't need modded half second screen clears like PoE.
Gamble axes and hope that you get a good yellow rare one. I think you have a 1/10 chance for a gambled axe to be a rare. That's how you get through normal as a barb rather smoothly (or how I always do during ladder resets).
>Melee is fast as frick compared to original Diablo
How it is compared to D1 is irrelevant as this is D2 we're talking about.
It's relevant because both games share the same devs and design philosophy. You don't play D2 and expect PoE screen clears with melee.
You're the one who brought PoE into this. Nobody was expecting screen clears with melee. It's a fact that most melee abilities in D2 only hit a single enemy and that's not the only problem melee faces.
>Nobody was expecting screen clears with melee.
People were recommending mods for D2 that try and emulate PoE's melee design like project Diablo 2.
Project Diablo 2 doesn't have screen clearing melee.
Yes it does. Have you ever seen how busted whirlwind is?
D1 combat is a million times faster at low levels. In D1, you kill everything in a few seconds because your damage largely scales based on Strength. In D2, you take a minute to kill anything because your damage largely scales off weapons you don't have (the damage you need to kill things in melee in D2 is balanced around the assumption that you have like a 300%+ ED weapon) . Everything in D1 is lethal, everything in D2 is a meatsponge.
It doesn't take a minute to kill mobs in Diablo 2 normal mode as melee. You've don't know what you're talking about. D1 nightmare and hell is ridiculously unfair in comparison.
>comparing D2 normal, which is like 5 minutes and no one cares about, to D1 NM AND Hell at once, which you aren't even supposed to play solo
based moron
D2 melee is still way faster than D1 melee in normal mode. You get abilities that attack multiple mobs like whirlwind, double swing, zeal, etc. In D1, you just click a single mob and chase ranged mobs all over the map. I don't think you morons have played either game at this point.
what
did we play the same game?
barbarian and melee characters are the slowest in the game and the hardest to play.
expect everything to take 10x as long as it would with every other build.
I have little experience but from what I can tell, Bard starts off quite strong but scales much, much worse than other classes. Maybe it's different for other melee classes, Paladin should be far stronger but I personally enjoyed Javazon the most
You just need to farm runes for an oath as melee. It's not that bad and will probably take you 8 hours or so to do. Newbies make it seems like melee is impossible to play through the game with due to a lack of knowledge.
Anon I think you might be moronic. We're giving advice to a newbie. Yeah an experienced player won't have any trouble beating the game on a barb. No shit.
People saying that melee sucks and/or that it's impossible to get through the game with are eternal newbs. It's shameful that you guys played this game for hundreds of hours and yet never learned it.
Reading is hard.
>I have little experience but from what I can tell, Bard starts off quite strong but scales much, much worse than other classes.
>I have little experience yet I talk out my ass like a moron
That wasn't my post.
Barbarian is extremely depended on good gear, if you don't get lucky with drops or trade with others on batttlenet, you're going to have a very hard time, especially on hell difficulty.
Casters like sorceress or necromancer can get away with shit items because they mostly scale with spell upgrades. If you want to play melee as first character then go for paladin, even if you are not lucky with items, auras will carry as they do magic damage and have ridiculous scaling along with other skills. Then you can either go Zealot with fanatism/lighting/cold aura or hammerdin which is pretty much the easiest build to go for hell.
Barbarian is ironically the hardest class to play so you picked the worst option. Not that he is bad, but others have significant advantage over him on early-mid game. You might try to find better weapon with grinding or search shops, but paladin will be much easier for you.
Nothing if you don’t mind killing each enemy individually or respec with whirlwind
Thousands.
Though, over the last 10 years I've played a lot more path of exile. This league blows, luckily last epoch was fun and scratched the itch for a league. Might go hard on d2 again for a few months before poe2 launches.
Omfg that discord vomit
Shits unusable if you're in more than 3 servers at the same time. I also do not see the point in being in any to begin with but whatever
>Shits unusable if you're in more than 3 servers at the same time
how so?
The spam
You can't turn off most "badge" notifications on this shit and it's pissing me off
user error
being in so many servers is proof of homosexualry. you dont look at any of that shit so its just using up space
Yeah, I accidentally posted the uncensored version and showed my shame. I only check 4-6 of the the discords regularly because they are long term friends and only 2 I genuinely keep up with.
The rest are basically used as wikis since forums are dead. Or for seeing announcements or patchnotes.
Anyways, bone necro is my favorite d2 class, followed by javazon. If I get top tier gear, then 200fcr light sorc is a fav.
Who knows
8 years
Thousands by now easily. Been playing this shit on and off for over a decade.
You just have shit luck.
too many
glad I quit that rubbish and found some purpose in life before my end
t. leap baba
Played around 300 hours when it came out and I was like 13. Thankfully the shitty experience immunized me forever against gacha, roguelikes and all the mobile-tier skinner boxes that prey on morons these days.
Hate to tell you bro, but you are in for thousands of hours of moron grinding, chasing a constantly shifting carrot
Is it at least enjoyable?
>are 20 second runs for hours a day fun
you decide
Barely anymore is playing Diablo 2 expansion (not remaster) anymore and I'm pissed off. Did everyone jump ship?
People generally play modded private servers over Jizzard's trash remake.
just shop for them and make runewords or gems to boost them
Can't shop for white weapons after act 2.
Short Answer: Different items will drop based on level.
Long Answer: All items have an item level, and it is derived from what dropped it (area and difficulty). As you level up / gain access to new areas you will see different types of equipment drop. Early game drops are fairly uniform so you won't see a lot of variety until after level 30.
To add to this - gamble on War Axes on npc vendors. War Axes are the best 1h axe for Barbarian for normal mode (fastest speed, longest reach).
Just use a hero editor if you're playing solo. I played solo LoD with PlugY a while ago and I wanted enigma. I had the runes but not the mage plate so I just cheated to get the item. Remember that Diablo 2 loot is balanced around multiplayer trading, you're not supposed to farm the same chests or bosses over and over for thousands of times, leave that to the autists. I recommend this for hell though, it's not worth to cheat in normal/nightmare cus the loot is ass anyway.
Shit game
D2 Bad
D4 Good
gamble for them
This is why you dont go all in on one weapon type early game.
You basically need to use runes to craft an axe, or buy from vendors or get super lucky that the unique item drop you get is an axe
After playing Last Epoch, I just can't go back to this game anymore.
Nice try shill
baalpit-0001
Kill everything that moves (and some of the things that don't) and you'll get drops in normal and early nightmare, it's easy. Getting viable weapons after that gets increasingly harder, even more so for melee builds.
>tfw they nerfed iron maiden+blood golem back in the day a million years ago
feels bad
>playing WW barb
>in chaos sanc
>when they still casted iron maiden on you
>click to WW
>get iron maiden'd mid WW
>die
cries in zeal pala
which builds are fun just to play the game on single player for story?
so far I've tried
>sorceress
>very fun skill choices
>annoying hp + mana pot buying and spamming
>paladin
>very very veeery tanky
>auto attack snoozefest
>summon necromancer
>it's fun for killing mobs
>little shits dissappear when you log out/back in for farming and give me panic attacks on bosses
Bonemancer
whatever you do don't play full summon druid
Not him, but why? I don't know the full viability of it but the remaster removed the limited summons
>build full summon
>get a bunch of crows and a creeper
>"MY BIRD ARMY WILL BLIND EVERYONE AND KILL THEM WITH THE HELP OF THE POISON CREEPER"
>crows do no fricking damage
>creeper dies
>no mana to perma summon creeper
>get wolves
>"FOR SURE I WILL DO DAMAGE NOW"
>wolves lick the enemies for 0 damage
>15 fricking mana cost
>constant summoning of crows, creepers and now wolves
>sad wailing at enemies while all the summons go hunt rabbits in act 1
it was so boring i didn't even get to andy
>200fcr light sorc
taxis are fun
I always put like 40-80 into spirit for every new char and just respec later