Hello everyone !!

I used to pvp a lot in D2, and I kinda want to give it a go in d2r but I don’t wanna make mistakes since I understood many things have changed. Did c/t, chainlocks etc disappeared ? I used to mostly fpk, are those build still viable with 2.4 or are there better ones ?
What about the scene ? Are there a lot of pub/priv games ?
I don’t have enough to time to waste building a char and then realize it’s useless in d2r.

Lmk, peace !

Pretty sure c/t still works and throwlock, just buy and enigma and test it

Yes

- c/t, namelock, chainlock still work as usual
- no more str bug, desynch, wsg or auto wsg
- new fhr mechanic will add immue to fhr time to prevent us from permanent stun locked, the immue time is longer if we were less fhr breakpoint, but lower fhr breakpoint also makes fhr animation take longer time to end. (1 frame fhr lower is ok now, the immue time usually enough for us to cast 2 hits back)
- new block/dodge mechanic now wont interupt your attacking/casting process. That means you can still finish an attack or casting a skill while blocking/dodging a hit

* Nec got buffed in dmg, but without str bug, desynch, wsg, Nec is much easier to be attacked now. Nec players must play much more carefully now
* smite / foh / hammer combo now is quite dangerous, due to no wsg, you cant reset fhr animation to keep running away from combo right when the foh hit you.
* druid is as good as usual
* ama: git huge buff from dodge/avoid animation removing, ama now cant be animation locked when she attacking or standing still (not while running). That means its dangerous if you stomp her now, she can hit you back easily.
Good meta for bowzon now is telebowzon, not running bowzon as in Lod due to without desynch, wsg. Dodge/avoid animation removing, you cant stop her from tele away even her frame cast is not too fast. And physical bow skill has synergies also, help her to able to use enigma instead forti without losing too much dmg. Good base for faith now is diamond/shadow/ or matriarchal bow, to decrease ias you need to reach ias breakpoint, so that you can increase fcr breakpoint.
* Sin: hybrid wwtrap now is out meta. Hybrid ww dmg is mainly poison & openwound, its not high burst dmg. You cant have enough time to cast 4-5 trap to cover you and jump in to ww opponents. And you cant stun lock your opponents now because of new fhr mechanic, they can hit you back while blocking or tanking against you while you wwing, and has higher chance to win in hit trading with your ww. (Higher block chance, higher burst dmg). So better go for pure physical or kick-fire blast-traps insteas ww-trap.

Nec/dudu still playable
Trapper is dead because fhr is fucked
Sw/cano Combo is dead
Smite/foh is dead
Barb got a lil buff but still garbage

Tuesday

Nah u can still smite foh