My main beef is that all game content is balanced around the strongest builds instead of bringing the strongest builds in line with everything else

So certain builds literally can't complete all content solo. They put all that emphasis on creativity then smashed it into the ground. The last time I played I might find/craft enough gear to build a 20k fg char but if the skills I chose weren't meta I couldn't even get to the new bosses added in X content patch

I found path of diablo very balanced compared to regular d2.

If you're talking about poe, then yes some builds are just ridiculous. I made a winter orb headhunter eternity shroud trickster, and it's just completely broken. They "nerfed" it but it's still doing 20 million damage per volley, and it auto aims. lol

I had a vaal lightning warp build on hardcore that teleported bosses onto teammates
Just so hardcore players can enjoy the classic d2 hardcore feel

20 million damage per volley?
I think my arc witch did like 15k damage or some shit at level 90ish

This post was edited by Worrywart on Jul 16 2019 04:09pm

yeah, super end game damage might be like 1M to 2.5M on most builds.

But eternity shroud adds 50% of your damage as chaos, and it applies on every conversion stage. So if I have all cold damage, I get 50% of all my damage as chaos, and then I convert 100% of that into fire, I get another 50% extra chaos, then you have all the cold damage scaling, chaos damage scaling, crits, extra non ele damage as chaos damage from weapons, etc.
also double corrupted the 6L chest to get +2 gems and something else. Anyway all in all with 21/20 gems and the rest of the super expensive gear you end up with a broken build.

Arc is still very viable, you can reach like 1M dps and it clears insanely well. Might need to go totems to get the most out of it tho.

note that 20M is with all the boxes ticked, the tooltip won't show that. It might show like 600k dps, but as usual the tooltip is wildly inaccurate.

This post was edited by laztheripper on Jul 16 2019 04:25pm

I guess the game has changed a lot since I played it.

Are golem builds still viable? That's one thing I always wanted to try and never got around to

Yes very much so, not many people take the time to figure out the mechanics and how to scale them. But golem builds can be very strong and they added a lot of minion scaling on the tree.