Hammerdins can celebrate.

With addition of the new charms, the one for magic immunities will greatly reinforce hammerdins. As the charm can be used vs. any monsters. So the only stalling imperfection of hammers not affecting magic immune monsters is no longer an issue.

It seems Blizzard has found yet another way to buff hammerdins even further. So, your bots will be more effective than they were. This was expected, as the employees that run bots have had their say. No changes that the players asked for but blizzard added TZ's and these charms that were never conceived nor asked for.

Tis is on par with what we have come to expect from them.

There are slow increased buffs being done behind the scenes to bolster the sorceress as well. This is a back-up just in case the backlash from players about hammerdins grabs a foothold. This way there will still be viable bots to be run.

In that sense, trade will flourish. No threat at this time to bots. ONLY if they use a detectable form of maphack at the moment.

Have script backups for sorc if it goes sideways.

The charm does very little for hdins or bone necros

Given there is no way to further reduce monster magic resistance, doing 5% of your damage against previous immunes will still mean you will opt for 1 point smite + Fanta + merc for magic immunes

download the ptr and try out a hammerdin.
you legit get two shot in wk2.

the ptr chars appear weaker. i dunno if its just because they gave us crap gear or if the monsters are now harder.
the light sorc legit got one shotted by souls

vs. how much damage before? So, it does help with the magic damage that you do to them. Is a step in the direction of increasing damage, however little more. Baby steps, they can't make it too obvious. Is a very well known fact that blizz will do almost anything, no matter how discreet, no matter how small to buff hammerdins. Even in the guise of enhancing the other 6 classes. And as far as slowly buffing the back-up bot class .... the light immunity charm says it all. No one else gains much from this change.

This post was edited by luciferus on Sep 15 2022 02:17pm

One more thought ..... they are keeping the tradition of keeping prices for items high and d2stores running. By adding terror zones and the sundering charm, they can now justify keeping seasons shorter. Hence, keeping prices up.

No more requirement for group play to kill certain areas and having people grab your drops. So solo-farm-botting is GREATLY benefitted from new changes while appeasing the hell raisers to keep seasons short, keep prices of items up, encourage solo play, making the general player feel like they got something, buffing the bot classes, and doing very little behind the scenes work to bring this about ... all previous glitches, loopholes, etc are still in place. Win win win. I can see the FG growing dramatically on all botters.

This post was edited by luciferus on Sep 16 2022 05:35am

Additionally, looking at the list of sundering charms ..... all are -75% on immunities, EXCEPT the one needed by Hammerdins the most, magic immune .... it only affects the hammerdin for -50%, and that's for magic immunity .... last I checked, the only immunities you control are fire, poison, cold, and lightning.

This is literally the dumbes thing ive ever read, please lock/delete this.