Rules:
For Diablo 2 Resurrected ONLY - Temporary rules depending on bug resolution:
- Dragon talon and dragon claw are banned. (due to broken block/dodge mechanics)
- Poison Creeper and Carrion Vine are banned. (due to frame rate issues)

General:
- All mods, hacks, programs are banned. (WMC and other mouse-window capture programs are allowed.)
- Toxic attitude and arguing with the host/moderator may lead to loss/disqualification.
- Refusal to show gear, inventory, and/or weapon swap will result in suspension.
- The Moor is to be cleared before dueling. It is at the players' discretion to clear the Moor.
- Both players must signal the start of the duel.
- No offensive abilities or curses be casted prior to your opponent signaling the start of the duel.
- Towning or teleporting past Flavie and bridges in case of a bridge map results in a loss. (Being pushed via KB mechanics is not, come back out and re-signal the continuation.)
- No use of houses (accidentally entering the house is excused - request a mediator to sit in house if it is excessive).
- No use of shrines or wells.
- Recasting is allowed.
- Ties are null duels.
- Refusal to duel results in a loss.
- You may request a mediator for a duel, and by doing so you are accepting whatever decisions they make.
- Overly defensive play can result in DQ but only at a requested mediator's discretion.
- If you get to very low life, continue dueling to the finish. Running to replenish may lead to Loss/DQ.
- No poison necro, auradin, or psn jav zon.
- No respecs/tokens between or during matches.
- No ethereal breakable items.

Consumables:
- No consumables other than mana potions, arrows, and bolts.
- No prebuffing. (Inventory/cube buff allowed.)
- You may stack arrows in the Blood Moor before starting a duel.
- You may stack mana potions before starting a duel.

Items:
- No item charges are allowed with the exception of Oak Sage, Demon limb, Teleport, and Heart of Wolverine
- Doom is banned.
- Slow is capped at 10%.
- Max resistance is 85%. (Exceptions are listed under class allowances)
- No more than 450 resist stack is allowed, or 420 with raven frost.
- Max absorb is 20%.
- When using combinations of items to mitigate do not exceed 80% max resistances / 20% absorb to any single element. (exception - tgods)
- Life rep is capped at 40, NOT including + rep from CTA.
- No more than one poison damage small charm is allowed.
- Only one item that grants CtC Life Tap can be worn at a time.
- When using Phoenix, all monsters must be redeemed before dueling.

Amazon Specific Rules:
- SM is not allowed
- 2x Raven Frosts allowed (can not stack above 325 resist)
- May use +15% max fire resists
- More than one point into Plague Javelin is not allowed

Assassin Specific Rules:
- Dual Claw Assassins with more than 1 hard skill point in any trap cannot use absorb or + max resist. Those without may use +5 max resist or 20 absorb but not both.
- Dragon talon and dragon claw are banned. (due to broken block/dodge mechanics)[/B]

Barbarian Specific Rules:
- 2x Raven Frost is allowed (Can not stack above 325 resists)
- Verdungo + Dual Hoto is allowed

Druid Specific Rules:
- Poison Creeper and Carrion Vine are banned. (due to frame rate issues)

Necromancer Specific Rules:
- Bone Spirit and Teeth are banned for NvN (1v1 only)
- Bone Wall is banned
- More than 1 hard skill point in lower resist or poison nova is banned
- Bone Prison is allowed only versus characters that can teleport
- All curses are allowed except Iron Maiden, Decrepify, and Life Tap
- Corpse skills are banned
- May use +15% max fire resist

Paladin Specific Rules:
- Holy Freeze is allowed only versus characters than can teleport
- When skilling resist auras do not pass the allowed absorb limit (85 or 80/20)
- Hammerdins may use +15% max fire resist (Must be true hammerdin build)
- Activating a resist aura is banned (Exception: Salvation)
- Meditation, Prayer, Holy Bolt, and Redemption are banned
- More than 1 hard skill point in Prayer is banned
- Cleansing is not banned however using it other than the purpose of removing curses or reducing poison duration is not allowed
- Auradin builds are not allowed

Sorceress Specific Rules:
- No max resist or absorb gear when using Energy Shield (Exception: Nightwing's Veil)
- Non-Energy shield sorcs may use +15% max fire resist
- All damage reduced by integer (MDR + PDR) is capped at 20 (ES only)
- Energy shield sorcs (any percent) may not use mana potions
- Energy shield sorcs (any percent) may not use oak sage

i believe the general rule of thumb is one piece of sorb gear and one piece of max res i forget which rw it is but the combo of it stacked with cr and rfrost make blizz do zero dmg

snowclash belt not a rw 15 max cr

450 resist stack is allowed, or 420 with raven frost.
or
325 + 2 raven for barb/zon

Is cold sorc any good in bm duels? (blizzard)

This post was edited by Hypnotist on Oct 3 2022 12:12pm

poison necro and auradin banned rofl

like they are godly

who make dat rules

Because it's bm to just run around with auras like holy shock. The whole duel is just a game of tag with a timer before the aura ticks you down.

Necro can just hit you once and run then kill you with a fire golem pulse when low.

It's not because it's broken. It's because it's lame.

This post was edited by MeLLoZ on Oct 3 2022 12:36pm

Because necro with bone spirit spaming and tp'ing is something different maybe?
Trap sin?
Blizz sorc ?

all of these take a considerable amount of skill in comparison.