https://news.blizzard.com/en-us/diablo2/23991801/diablo-ii-resurrected-ladder-season-5-coming-soon

Reset Thursday Sept 28, 5pm central, 6pm eastern.



***Tired of having to redo hotkeys on every new character? Here's the fix:***

1. Change your hotkeys/controls to whatever you want (or load into a game on a character that already has the controls you want to be your default)
2. Apply the settings and then save custom, overwrite the custom defaults.
3. Switch to the gameplay settings tab, find default key bindings (6th from the top), and click the right arrow twice to change it to custom.

I might hop on this season. It’s been over a decade since I’ve played though lol. Should be like riding a bike, right?

Psa: played d4 and got to 89 on Rogue. It’s fun but boring af. There’s 3x more people on d2:R 😅

Sort of. There have been some balance changes and new runewords added.
Mosaic assassin is the best build in the game now, it does probably 3-4x the DPS of any other class and is completely absurd.

Druid can have all their summons at once now (still only one spirit though) and fire druid is now a relatively viable build.

FoH paladin's holy bolts damage both undead and demons now so they're very good for running chaos early season without good gear.

Fire sorc with a sunder charm is very good now.

Probably other changes I forgot to mention as well

Hell yea they finally made PvM viable to the game it seems with more builds than 5. I’ll check them out. Thanks bro

Yeah a lot of the balance changes and new runewords were excellent, mosaic took it several steps too far though. You'll see what I mean soon enough.

Bone necro got a very slight buff, synergies went from 7% to 8% (should have been 10% imo).

Patch 2.4 is what you'll want to look at it to see the specific class balance changes.

Cure
Plague
Flickering Flame
Hustle

Are probably the most useful and interesting new runewords apart from Mosaic. I might be forgetting a couple.

Flickering Flame pairs well with a fire sunder charm on any character that uses one.

You'll want to check out the terror zone update and the sunder charms that came with them.

Basically they're grand charms that break one immunity each, but the downside is that they reduce your resistance to the corresponding immunity they break (-70% to -90% depending on the roll).

They break immunities by 5%, bringing monster resistance to 95% for whichever element or damage type they apply to. You can further reduce the resistance with an item like Phoenix (-28% enemy fire resistance) or with lower resist curse, conviction aura, and/or cold mastery. However the latter 3 methods only apply at 1/5 effectiveness.

For example, level 25 conviction reduces elemental resistances by 150%, but if you are breaking a hard immunity (by that I mean an immunity that is not breakable with conviction or lower resist or cold mastery) with a sunder, that level 25 conviction will only reduce the resistance by another 30%.

Hopefully that makes sense. So it's helpful to have a conviction aura paired with -enemy resistance gear as well as a lower resist curse. This mostly seems to be important with fire builds in my opinion, cold mastery on its own (with a cold sunder of course) seems to be enough on cold sorcs. And conviction still works well with lightning sorc since it seems to break most lightning immunities.

damn they've really changed the game. Sounds pretty interesting man I'll def check it out.

need 1-2 more people for my reset team. preferably paladin and/or druid

oh wow, thanks for that hotkey option!
for whatever reason that never catched my eye while checking all options

No problem, took me forever to figure it out too. Figured that some people could benefit from it. The way they designed it is sort of odd and confusing

typical blizzard