https://news.blizzard.com/en-gb/article/24266710/diablo-ii-resurrected-ptr-3-2-now-live

"Fixed Echoing Strike not rolling to hit." (message written in the path description on the Blizzard website itself)


Imagine we have a Smite paladin whose active and effective base ability is "Crushing Blow," such as the runeword "Lastwish," which can offer up to 70%, Guillaume's Face which can offer 35% "Crushing Blow," Gore Rider, and even crafted LL gloves which can offer up to 10%. In short, against an Uber or Clone Diablo, and even Colossal Ancients, Smite will destroy them.

The same applies to the warlock, however the warlock relies heavily on the "deadly strike" attribute, for example Flashripper, death cleaver, high lord, gore rider boots, Arioc's Needle or runewords like Death which can use eth because it is indestructible, however the main problem isAR "attack rating", where can we find this resource? Well, we could find it in angelic, but it's a terrible idea to substitute rings and amulets to have AR, so the only way would be to have a "Visio" ciclet or helm, preferably "2os" which will give AR, or "Fools" weapons with a good amount of ed% (closer to 300 the better). The fools weapon doesn't need to depend on the amount of ias%, it's dispensable for the warlock, but the weapon must have "2os", preferably eth rep to be able to add 2 Lo runes, making the weapon have a total of40% deadly strike, in short we will have a For a weapon with AReth rep and high ed%, we will have the main factors DS and AR.


There is a chance of dropping Fools "2os", premium items with no repair option, so one of the slots would be used for a Zod rune to make the item indestructible, and the remaining slot would be used for a Lore rune.

A good idea is also to use a crafted helm (craft armet" have DS LL Ar and other atrib) which is "visio", has Deadly Strike and LL% and other attributes, it just won't have points for class skills. A great option.
Even using an eth rep 2os Cruel300%+ weapon with 2xLo will help if the circlet, helm, or armor is set to "visio" to compensate for the AR, since getting a quality fools weapon is difficult and expensive.

This post was edited by Devilfight on May 4 2026 06:42pm

update sucefull loll

im not sure what your point is

theres countless ways in d2 that you dont need attack rating for anything

theres ignore targets defense on countless items, theres -% defense on items, there conviction aura, theres fanatism aura, theres blessed aim merc, theres shit like raven frost, theres angelics, theres enchant from demon limb, theres an act1 mercenary that casts inner sight that literally reduces everythings defense to 0, theres hsarus belt + boots, theres angelics combo

my god i could go on for hours, not to begin with that monsters barely have any defense to begin with

also smite paladin does 10k damage per hit, not 400k, so it makes sense, this crying about warlock nerfs is just getting tiring at this point

This post was edited by Stefbef on May 22 2026 08:03pm

Sorry for sounding like a fking boomer but this says it all

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