Hey guys, I have an idea to rework how Bash/Stun work to give Barbs another gameplay option and maybe bring up some skills that pretty much aren't used unless you're intentionally going off-meta. This idea heavily borrows from the Path of Exile skill "Boneshatter". In PoE, Boneshatter is a melee attack that causes the player to self-hit themselves, building a stacking "Trauma" buff/debuff, each stack of Trauma increases the self-hit damage, while also giving more damage and increasing stun effectiveness.

First and foremost, Bash is moved to level 6, swapped with Stun. I'm proposing Bash have a similar effect, with the idea of creating more dynamic gameplay and even provide a wombo-combo or generator/pay off game play, as I'll explain later. Bash causes the player to damage themselves for 1 life per hit at level 1, increasing with more investment. Each hit also provides a stack of "Trauma" (for lack of better terminology). Trauma stacks indefinitely, with each stack providing the following effects:

• +1 to self-hit damage per stack
• +X% more Weapon Damage per stack
• +X% increased Melee Splash Radius per stack

Additionally, enemies hit by Bash are "Dazed", causing them to move slower. Trauma directly scales Weapon Damage, which could make itemization more interesting and have players prioritize flat damage weapons, even if they're slower. You could maybe see, 5 or 6 hits of Bash would have you chunking your life a lot early, so, that sucks, what's the point?

Stun has been reworked and is now called "Shatter", and is moved to level 1. Shatter deals 1/4 Weapon Damage and Stuns enemies hit for an increasing duration. In addition, Shatter consumes all stacks of Trauma and deals a huge Weapon Damage multiplier and AOE per stack. This would allow for some interesting itemization, it would require players to balance their Trauma and self-hit damage, prioritizing Life Leech and life recovery ASAP, and allow for what could be satisfying game play. Bash, Bash, Bash, Bash (building Trauma), find a pack, Shatter them. Rinse, repeat. Trauma stacking has to be punishing, so % damage might be required to avoid making it absurdly OP, but you get the idea. It's a balancing act between building Trauma, with the payoff being big Shatter explosions.

Cow Phorn is recruiting players for the Project Diablo 2 Season 14 launch!

We're two brothers putting together a Hardcore leveling group/guild, looking for players who want to push through the game together from the moment the season starts.

What we're looking for:

• Hardcore players, experienced or new
• Available for at least 5 hours at launch
• Willing to stick with the group and level together
• Friendly, team-oriented players

The goal is simple: Get a full group together, level efficiently, have fun, and hopefully keep everyone alive!

Join Cow Phorn: https://discord.gg/Z5Wb9JjX9

See you at launch!

DINOSAUR NOISES.

More than one option to build out this one, especially with the Iron Golem and main hand options. Decent clear, chill playstyle similar to a summon necro

Cheers

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Hello.

What is the efficiency of sacrifice pally in group gaming? Is it much worse? The point of sacrifice is to kill one mob asap and watch all other explode, but with increased monster HP it seems like sacrifice is not really a team play build? Anyone has any experience in that matter?

Season 1 vet. Looking for guild / starting group.
I’m PST time zone. (Oregon USA)

Looking for group of homies to grind with. I feel like the new guild feature is a nice way to find consistent people to play with season after season.

Will play almost anything this season to fit group.

I just discovered this mod recently and I love Diablo 2. So ive been trying to do my own research on it but I am still confused on one aspect. So ive only played/beaten Diablo 2 once, and after you beat the expansion all there seems to be to do is just re-run through the game again on a higher difficulty. Is it true that this mod adds more dungeons and end game content or am I crazy?

Had this for a while, decided to build a char around it. Should be fun!

With people talking about meta builds or what's gonna be S+ in season 14 I am curious, what's the slowest build still capable of hitting 99?

My thought is this: some of us play the entire season and the slow grind to 99 is somewhat fun compared to blasting T3 maps in 5 mins and getting to 99 pretty quick.

Thanks to the dev team for creating such a fun game and I'd love to hear the communities ideas!

(HC, Singleplayer)

I know this isn't record-breaking clear speed, but man is this FUN. What do you guys think? 🤟

Share your cool off-meta builds in the comments, I wanna hear what you guys have cooked up, and maybe get some inspiration myself. ⬇️

Hi I'm trying to figure out how to make magic items with a specific prefix to appear.

For example I wanted to try to get 3 to summoning (druid) blue ammy and circlet but even with the pd2 code page its confusing on how to make that work. Could anyone point me in right direction? I see the google doc sheet with all the prefixes but it doesnt have a specific code for each one

Adding Magic and Physical Rainbow facet jewel versions has been suggested quite a few times now and I'm sure mods are sick of reading it. The problems are two - there is no % physical skill damage and Pierce would be way too OP for both magic and phys builds. Not to mention Rainbow jewels roll -3-5. There's a reason no -magic resist items exist and so few - phys resist items exist. Lot's the latter have also been nerfed - I remember soul drainers rolling -5to10 and now they are -2to4. Crossbows were also -10 at first. A jewel with phys pierce would also be exploited by non-caster phys builds and make them OP.

So the new jewel is: Yin-Yang facet. It's 2 times rarer than Rainbow facet.

It rolls either magic or phys version.

Magic version:

100% chance to cast Bone Nova when you level up OR 100% chance to cast Blessed Hammer when you die
18-26 magic damage
2 to 4% magic skill damage

In addition to this Rare magic skill dmg jewels should probably be nerfed a bit.

The physical version uses a new mechanic called Deadly Cast. I got this from discord when people were discussing whether the current Deadly strike bug should be kept for skills - it feels great for lots of people, but 4xLo runes in weapon would be OP. The Deadly Cast is a crit which works only for your physical spells. But unlike Crit and DS it's capped at 50%.

Physical version:
100% chance to cast War Cry when you level up OR 100% chance to cast Tornado when you die
2 to 4% chance for Deadly cast
2 to 4% deadly cast multiplier

% extra Multiplier works just like %Deadly Strike Multiplier. Deadly cast default damage multiplier should be 100%. Now you can reach up to 50% chance to deal 150+% damage with your physical caster spells with 13 jewels in gear.

Too late for this season, maybe we'll see it in later season, but I love it.

Hello and welcome. After much interest and overall s14 changes i decided i would revamp my old s11 guide that was in the pd2 discords barb section pinned comments.

Plenty of blood sweat and tears and help from twitch chat we managed to make something that should satisfy you all wanting to make a bowbarb.

The guide contains 2 different builds for midgame and endgame you can take inspiration from to make your own version and also the both builds also has some map clear videos to give you an idea what it can look like.

Also much love to the pd2 devs you guys are the best.

planning to start ice sorc or bone necro (or arctic blast druid?...), not sure which one is more ssf friendly

I normally campaign with a group, then I do baal runs to level up, and then I start my grind. I wanted to do a volcano druid a season or two ago, and after my baal runs I was this pet spamming druid and it was an absolutely miserable experience. Then I find out I need some very hard to get/buy gear and there was no way I could continue my currency farm on that druid because I was not having any fun and ended the season there. Any recommendations for a boomer gamer that needs something strong (tanky with some decent damage) right out the gate. Was thinking of trying amazon this season.

Sooo last season I played HC SSF the first time ever in 20 years playing Diablo and I have to admit: I can never go back again.

So wondering what others will play as a starter...I am thinking of Amazon but find Summonzon very boring - what other Amazon starter works in HC SSF?

I've played a few seasons of pd2 in softcore but I usually play HC in other arpgs and I'm ready to give it a shot in this game.

Any advice for ladder start? Common places in campaign to die? I know capping res from nightmare onward is giga important in d2 hc. Are there certain hp breakpoints to look for in progging nm/hell?

Hey everyone!

I'm looking for other players from Ukraine to team up for the upcoming season. With the new guild system being added this season, it would be great to join an existing Ukrainian guild or find people to start one together.

I usually play on Softcore / Europe servers and plan to hang out, farm maps, and just enjoy the new season reset.

If you have a guild or are also looking for a group, drop a comment here or send me a DM with your Discord. Let's link up!