The balance is completely retarded. I'm going to present two Amazon bow skills as an example.
Multiple Shot: The problem in vanilla d2 is that the ability has absolutely no scaling. Literally zero enhanced damage. Those fkin monkeys copy the failures of the Path of Diablo mod and added base damage as well as changed 75% weapon damage to 100%. STUPID. Barbs, Palas easily get 400%+ ed from their skills. Should have added damage scaling to the ability itself and added either a synergy or a skill such "Bow Mastery" which would have allowed to scale the skill further with more investment. (Also on that note. If you're playing a melee Amazon in this dogshit mod you just get 70+ critical strike as well as 600%+ ed around level 40 or so. LOL.)
Cold Arrow: In diablo 2, skills are divided into certain tiers when it comes to adding flat base damage. Those tiers are level 1, 2-8, 9-16, 17-22, 23-28 and 28+. You can see this here from the original d2 files:
https://imgur.com/a/QNlsLuHEMin and EMax is the dmg at level 1, EMinLev1 and EMaxLev1 is for level 2-8 and so on.
The guys at PD2 are SO FKIN STUPID that they actually managed to REDUCE the benefit for each skill point after level 28. From lvl 9-16 it is 8 mindmg and 16 maxdmg per point. From lvl 17-22 it is WHACKY RANDOM SHIT and goes to 32-47 dmg. Slvl 23-28 is 63-73 (Notice they didn't even manage to keep the damage variance consistent. LOL). As soon as you hit lvl 29, the damage per level is suddenly 47-55. It makes absolutely zero sense.
This post was edited by Kenny123 on Nov 17 2020 05:27pm