Lurker > Tarrun

I have definitely spent more than 100 hours playing Diablo 2 Resurrected. Much like OGD2, I'll play something else for a while only to get the itch to jump back in. Slowly working on getting one of each class to the endgame.

I may have cleared the 100 hour mark for Yakuza Kiwami 2 during the pandemic as well.

And this is why no one at Blizzard cared about getting clowned at BlizzCon. 99% of Diablo fans bought D2R and will buy D4, and they've got enough whales pumping cash into DI. :/

Nade Duck posted...

i forgot that dude existed and now i have something to listen to later, so something good did come out of this. thanks conservatives!

I randomly looked him up a while back and saw that he was touring last year. Saw his show and it was pretty fun!

Coincidentally, his headlining new song is... timely...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8zwEnNJumQ4

I just dislike the ones that don't look like an actual creature. Klink, Klefki, Aegislash, and the sand castle one are a few that come to mind.

The ones that wear clothes are also pretty weird.

RealityDose posted...

I would imagine summon druid would have to be a hybrid
You could always just have a wand for amp damage or else just use a merc with elemental damage

I think the biggest issue for me personally was the lack of crowd control
Having all wolves + bear might help but outside of shockwave in bear, there's nothing really that keeps the enemies from dog piling you or a summon and kill you/them fast.

Necro's 3 main curses: decrepify, dim vision and confusion/attract for crowd control work wonders and it's arguably why it's the only class that can do /players 8 naked without grinding to absurd levels

Crowd control as a shape-shifter, you mean? I've only lightly experimented with those builds so I can't really speak to that, but that's always an issue with melee builds. At least with the windy druid, hurricane chills enemies and tornado does enough damage that the merc and bear are usually enough to avoid being swarmed.

Regardless, spirit wolf caps at five summons (at five skill points) and dire wolf caps at three (at three skill points). You can easily hit those thresholds with one actual skill point and +skills gears, plus another point for the bear- that's nine summons plus a merc. That's pretty comparable to what you're running with a Summonancer until you get pretty late in the game and as you said you rarely get into much trouble with mobs. I guess it depends on how tanky the wolves are since I've never used them past level 30, but it should be a solid buff to the class.

RealityDose posted...

Have they made specs like summon druid playable past nightmare without grinding for the most specific shit?
if no I will remain a zoomancer

Windy Druid and Summonancer have always been my two favorite builds so I've been very curious to see if a summon Druid in particular is viable.

The main change to Druid summons is that you can have all of them at once now. The consensus seems to be that this will be a big boost, but not be enough on its own. Druid also won't have something like the Necro's amplify damage curse to help with physical immunes.

More likely this will be a big advantage to hybrid builds. My Windy Druid always gets a point in the bear summon to tank for me, and by the time you get into the late game with a bunch of +skills gear it winds up with like 10+ skill points. Being able to add the wolves, also with tons of +skills applied, to the mix will give the Druid a lot more protection and summon damage.

hypnox posted...

Mine was probably Beverly Hills Ninja.

My man.