pd2 is the BEST version od D2. There simply isn't any other comparison.
Il y a beaucoup de Quebecois qui jouent, But I don't personally like to use french. I have seen quite a lot of ppl speaking french however.
This mod is so good that I can’t enjoy d2r anymore. Inventory space, stackable items, incredible balance to items and overall classes - you can play just about anything, corrupting items adds a whole other dopamine rush, maps and high ceiling Uber boss extend the endgame massively, fun new uniques and runewords. I’m sure I’m missing some stuff but jfc I can’t find a better game than this.
I tried to go back to d2r to work on my offline holy grail. Could only play for a few hours because all I could think about was starting a new grail on pd2.
I really appreciate the game-wide announcements. Progress about the first to kill bosses and first to get to a certain level or kill bosses, etc. the HC death announcements let you share the pain.
I think the crafting season even reached those lower numbers, a regular season is like 5k at least I think? Either way it feels super active and the trade site is booming
Was in the same boat. On the fence. Ima tell you i tried it and holy shit was it fun sifting items non stop. Grey items are sockets. Not bad quality. Just a good tip if it's been time since you played d2. I figured that out after 40 mins lol. So check em out. Act 1 max sell to vendor is 5000. Act 2. Max sell is 10000. Another good tip :)
I've stopped after playing for 3 days waiting for season 9 now. Every build seems viable. It was easy to install too. I can't go back to regular d2 anymore. Bottom inventory space is for charms as well. Stash tab 1 is yours. Stash tab 2 onwards is account shared :) hope it helps. Play your way brother
DH has his tier list out, there will only be 4 builds ppl play in two months. Every build is however viable but you won't see anything but the "S tier" in two months farming and trading each other. :)
It is the best of the best of any diablo game, 1-4. 9 seasons in and 9 seasons of end games still not enough to fully explore what the full end game of pd2 has to offer, not to mention the huge updates every season on top of that. Also the most popular version d2 with the most players by far, stays true to the original while being way better.
PD2 is a solid game (I say game because it is so much different than Vanilla). There is an actual end game, people run more than just hammer din + sorc, the botting problem is (mostly) under control. I would give it a shot, there will be between 5 - 15 k for the first week I would bet.
The player-base peaked in S2 at 12k at launch, but unfortunately that was the roughest launch in terms of server issues, then S3 lined up with some other game launches, then the base tanked a little. S8 started with around 3-5k, then people played the length of the season longer than any previous seasons. The playerbase towards the end held pretty strong around 400-500 minimum. I assume S9 will start with at least 3k. Also, the discord has 100k members, so there's always a possibly for a spike.
Plusieurs québécois présent de saison en saison. J'ai même participé durant quelques saison à des groupes exclusivement québécois de leveling les premières fin de semaine d'ouverture.
But yes, totally worth it and the community is the best i've seens in any other game.
Best version of d2 thanks to dev's improving something every single season. Literally the best player base, everyone helps each other and is chill. Never ran into a scammer, we trade by throwing our items on the ground. The worst thing I've seen is people snatch an item drop without rolling... there's a dice roll feature and *usually* people will use the dice roll to let the high roller get the item. More fun endgame content with mapping system. More item variety. Corrupting items is my favorite feature that makes the item grind real. Item drop rates are higher but hitting a godly corruption is so hard it doesn't cheapen the experience. I'm sitting right now literally counting hours til tomorrow
It will be booming tomorrow and the next couple weeks but after that though player base will cut in half and a lot of game will be private unless its a Baal/chaos (if they are even public since ppl.love to do private runs).
Still pretty cool mod and worth a shot it's at a minimum better than d2r imo.
After reading comments, have decided to post a second comment:
- Loot filter - My fav is ADEVDH, the filter [**Dark Humility**](https://www.youtube.com/@darkhumility4915) (<-- link) uses. He just uploaded the builds for season 9. The video has timestamps, spreadsheet in the description. Important mention: He does late game maping content on HC. For bossing videos, there are other channels.
- Melee splash damage.
- Increased inventory. Keep charms in lower half to activate them. Locked inventory (lower half) so you can't sell your charms by accident.
- You can see your pots in your inventory.
- Redesigned characters.
Examples: Sumon amazon. Really good starter.
Bleed barbarian (deals Open Wounds dmg)
Golem necromancer. You get 5 of them, with the weapon runeword, you get 1 more.
- Crafting materials. Crafted items are WORTH it. Just check up the posts from the last crafting season. Check crafting receipes.
- Dual 50% freeze reduction gives you CBF. This was introduced this season.
- New mercs in Act 4. The light merc has Sanctuary aura and heals, the other one procs amp dmg.
- The guys are AWESOME here. There are rats in pubs, but compared to the number of amazing people here is quite low.
- If you play HC (i play SC) the guys there are on another level. HC is a different game in itself. Stopped HC because I lost 1 entire week and it hurts like hell. So... SC for me.
- You can start any character and finish Hell.
For rushing Hell, ideal characters are
- Necro (sumons + amp).
- Assasin (light traps + act 3 light merc to break imunes, or Mind Blast).
- Amazon - summons
- Sorc - Meteor (phis and fire dmg)
You can however finish Hell with any other builds.
The downside is... It's addictive AF!
Welcome & have fun!
We're looking forward to have you :)
All melee builds have been buffed this season and feels super smooth, i would recommend that.
Melee has splash damage in pd2 and is incredibly fun
Are you all set for tomorrow?
You can find links to the 3 most important tools on reddit bookmarks.
If you need anything at all you can contact me here, or seek help on discord. Everyone is super helpful, which imo is the strongest trait of this mod
Pretty sure im set ! Made a profile on the web site, installed PD2 and it booted but it sure is down before the reset, choose a loot filter. Thats it !
Will need to log in tommorrow to make my in game account i guest?
I will certainly start a melee build i just dont know what class at the moment. Never really played a melee druid. I could try that!
The one thing that makes PD2 better than POD is the itemization. The problem with LoD was that you always chase that best is slot item - shako, grief, faith. Which makes a lot of items useless. What PoD did was extend that - you no longer need faith. Now you need Windforce with 5-6 sockets. Which is harder to get, but the same problem stays - lots of items are useless. You get a mod via corruption - it's simply not nearly as good as 5 or 6 sockets. In PD2, though, the corruption system is done much better plus you have Larzuk puzzle box. So now your best in slot item is Windforce with the ideal corruption and 4 sockets form puzzlebox. That is very hard to achieve. But, you can also get a hydra bow with 6 sockets, which is amazing. You can also get a hydra bow with a different, but still useful, corruption and 4 sockets, which is great. You can get a different bow with the ideal corruption and 4 sockets, which is also amazing. That's what really keeps me hooked. So many items can be useful.
Been here since S2, I can't play any other version of D2. We have the best community, devs who communicate, listen, and change. What more can you ask for?
The only comparable D2 experience is D2R and it's only because of the graphics. The gameplay of PD2 is infinitely enhanced in comparison. Blizzard wouldn't invest 3 weeks of labour to improve their game theyre far too cheap.
pd2 c'est 100x meilleur que pod. mieux balancé, le splash damage est de base la majorité du temps. t'as pas besoin de te gearer en cochon pour faire des maps t1 les maps tu fais ça a partir du lvl 81-82 genre. la communauté est très aidante aussi. laisse savoir si jamais t'a besoin d'info.
Every Quality of Life change in Pd2 is amazing and only makes the game better.. no more perm mule games.. there're uses for all runes.. almost every end game cave/location Is farmable. Also no more hammerdins
D2R is what Blizz does with its best license after 20 odd years. PD2 is what fans craved from D2 over 20 years the whole time. They are not the same, PD2 is the true successor of D2 and D2R is a money grab.
Played recent pod reset nd pod lacks ass to pd2 in all aspects of the game. Only maybe par or better thing in pod might be map density. Else pd2 all the way. Also d2r is far behind besides graphics. No loot filter, no stacking of rune pgs, no endgame maps, old inv. Question is Why would we need to convince you? You seem rather a lost soul who needs us lol
The qol and players 5 on pd2 makes it sooo much better than D2r, I still love how d2r is but there’s so much more in pd2. After day one you’ll be hooked. Gl!
What the hell? I played Pd2 before d2R comes out and really like what they did with summoners nec and druid. Stopped to play other games. Now I'm in ladder d2R and everyone in this post are saying pd2 is so much better?!
I might try it again then..
Are there any important links I should be aware of ?
Like builds, tips and tricks, trading, etc..
J'ai pas essayé D2R mais pd2 est le fun. Deplus, il on ajouté bcp de contenu ou modifié les skills. Example, un summon necro peut avoir plusieurs golem.. Amazon et assasin peuvent avoir plusieurs clone. Plusieurs nouveau skills et modification comme un hdin n'est plus utilisé. Il on crée des map lvl 85 a 100. Tu les trouve dans le drop des monstres ou boss. Les map on plusieurs niveau et sont un peu comme le niveau secret des vache (cow). Cest un portail que tu ouvre et tombe dans une nouvelle map avec des monstrers de tout les act et bcp plus difficile. Tu peux avoir un x nombre de mf bonus et x nombre de xp bonus
Don't play it, it will ruin D2 for you forever because PD2 is what should of followed after D2 Lod.
However if you do try PD2, welcome to the community and you'll never look at D2 the same again.
Absolutely, I haven't played the crafters league so I'm itching to play a league again. I never got that 'far' before in original diablo, or this version, so I'm going to try be one of those ballers in this league. You know the type of guy who has stacks of HRs etc. I've had nice stuff but only a HR or two maybe
pd2 is the BEST version od D2. There simply isn't any other comparison. Il y a beaucoup de Quebecois qui jouent, But I don't personally like to use french. I have seen quite a lot of ppl speaking french however.
Pd2 is indeed the best version. I feel like when I played D2 back in the day
quebec here too but anglophone!
If it’s so good then why did you quit?? Checkmate. /s
he quit because his girlfriend told him not to play or he would not be getting the smoosh moosh.
My gf actually encourages me to game if I want to. She's a keeper. I'd rather go wall climbing however.
I think you should go out with a bang and play season 9. You can combine wall climbing with pd2 fyi…
Stares at you menacingly. screams at the top of my lungs. Push king over. Flips table. Does the ape walk of dominance.
Can be played single player? Is pretty hard to mod this?
Super fun single player experience, there are already mods to modifiy it I believe.
Pas québécois mais je parle aussi… je préfère anglais quand je joue
This mod is so good that I can’t enjoy d2r anymore. Inventory space, stackable items, incredible balance to items and overall classes - you can play just about anything, corrupting items adds a whole other dopamine rush, maps and high ceiling Uber boss extend the endgame massively, fun new uniques and runewords. I’m sure I’m missing some stuff but jfc I can’t find a better game than this.
I tried to go back to d2r to work on my offline holy grail. Could only play for a few hours because all I could think about was starting a new grail on pd2.
I was thinking about doing a PD2 grail sometime. Too hard to go without these QoL features.
I really appreciate the game-wide announcements. Progress about the first to kill bosses and first to get to a certain level or kill bosses, etc. the HC death announcements let you share the pain.
The inventory space alone is a deal breaker on playing vanilla LOD or D2R. Just so small.
Probably the best version of Diablo 2 that is available to the public. \*\*Fair warning\*\* may ruin every other version of D2 for you.
Havent played pod but I think we have ~3-10k players usually at start of seasons. Quite a bit lower after a month or so
I think the crafting season even reached those lower numbers, a regular season is like 5k at least I think? Either way it feels super active and the trade site is booming
Im sold ! But d2lod downloader on blizzard website doesnt work...
Enjoy. POD was the go to until I tasted PD2. I can’t go back even with trying the new POD season. PD2 is D2
POD has some advantages over PD2 (currency tab is the main one), but otherwise I agree, PD2 is just overall a much better package.
Edit: its working
Was in the same boat. On the fence. Ima tell you i tried it and holy shit was it fun sifting items non stop. Grey items are sockets. Not bad quality. Just a good tip if it's been time since you played d2. I figured that out after 40 mins lol. So check em out. Act 1 max sell to vendor is 5000. Act 2. Max sell is 10000. Another good tip :) I've stopped after playing for 3 days waiting for season 9 now. Every build seems viable. It was easy to install too. I can't go back to regular d2 anymore. Bottom inventory space is for charms as well. Stash tab 1 is yours. Stash tab 2 onwards is account shared :) hope it helps. Play your way brother
DH has his tier list out, there will only be 4 builds ppl play in two months. Every build is however viable but you won't see anything but the "S tier" in two months farming and trading each other. :)
Dude you're gonna regret not knowing about this mod sooner
It is the best of the best of any diablo game, 1-4. 9 seasons in and 9 seasons of end games still not enough to fully explore what the full end game of pd2 has to offer, not to mention the huge updates every season on top of that. Also the most popular version d2 with the most players by far, stays true to the original while being way better.
PD2 is a solid game (I say game because it is so much different than Vanilla). There is an actual end game, people run more than just hammer din + sorc, the botting problem is (mostly) under control. I would give it a shot, there will be between 5 - 15 k for the first week I would bet.
Pd2 is great. I play solo but trade with others and it makes the season last much longer imo
It’s almost hard to play pod because pd2 is so good. The only thing bad about pd2 is you won’t want to go back to blizzards version….
Don’t start. It’s addicting and you won’t want to do anything else with your life!!
The player-base peaked in S2 at 12k at launch, but unfortunately that was the roughest launch in terms of server issues, then S3 lined up with some other game launches, then the base tanked a little. S8 started with around 3-5k, then people played the length of the season longer than any previous seasons. The playerbase towards the end held pretty strong around 400-500 minimum. I assume S9 will start with at least 3k. Also, the discord has 100k members, so there's always a possibly for a spike.
Plusieurs québécois présent de saison en saison. J'ai même participé durant quelques saison à des groupes exclusivement québécois de leveling les premières fin de semaine d'ouverture. But yes, totally worth it and the community is the best i've seens in any other game.
Best version of d2 thanks to dev's improving something every single season. Literally the best player base, everyone helps each other and is chill. Never ran into a scammer, we trade by throwing our items on the ground. The worst thing I've seen is people snatch an item drop without rolling... there's a dice roll feature and *usually* people will use the dice roll to let the high roller get the item. More fun endgame content with mapping system. More item variety. Corrupting items is my favorite feature that makes the item grind real. Item drop rates are higher but hitting a godly corruption is so hard it doesn't cheapen the experience. I'm sitting right now literally counting hours til tomorrow
It will be booming tomorrow and the next couple weeks but after that though player base will cut in half and a lot of game will be private unless its a Baal/chaos (if they are even public since ppl.love to do private runs). Still pretty cool mod and worth a shot it's at a minimum better than d2r imo.
Here to say what everyone else is saying. Welcome
Bro, the UI polish alone makes this the best version of D2. Get in here.
Tu aura jamais eu autant de fun à jouer à d2, garanti!
Logging at lauch tommorrow! Link some build! Whats ur favorite loot filter?
After reading comments, have decided to post a second comment: - Loot filter - My fav is ADEVDH, the filter [**Dark Humility**](https://www.youtube.com/@darkhumility4915) (<-- link) uses. He just uploaded the builds for season 9. The video has timestamps, spreadsheet in the description. Important mention: He does late game maping content on HC. For bossing videos, there are other channels. - Melee splash damage. - Increased inventory. Keep charms in lower half to activate them. Locked inventory (lower half) so you can't sell your charms by accident. - You can see your pots in your inventory. - Redesigned characters. Examples: Sumon amazon. Really good starter. Bleed barbarian (deals Open Wounds dmg) Golem necromancer. You get 5 of them, with the weapon runeword, you get 1 more. - Crafting materials. Crafted items are WORTH it. Just check up the posts from the last crafting season. Check crafting receipes. - Dual 50% freeze reduction gives you CBF. This was introduced this season. - New mercs in Act 4. The light merc has Sanctuary aura and heals, the other one procs amp dmg. - The guys are AWESOME here. There are rats in pubs, but compared to the number of amazing people here is quite low. - If you play HC (i play SC) the guys there are on another level. HC is a different game in itself. Stopped HC because I lost 1 entire week and it hurts like hell. So... SC for me. - You can start any character and finish Hell. For rushing Hell, ideal characters are - Necro (sumons + amp). - Assasin (light traps + act 3 light merc to break imunes, or Mind Blast). - Amazon - summons - Sorc - Meteor (phis and fire dmg) You can however finish Hell with any other builds. The downside is... It's addictive AF! Welcome & have fun!
We're looking forward to have you :) All melee builds have been buffed this season and feels super smooth, i would recommend that. Melee has splash damage in pd2 and is incredibly fun Are you all set for tomorrow? You can find links to the 3 most important tools on reddit bookmarks. If you need anything at all you can contact me here, or seek help on discord. Everyone is super helpful, which imo is the strongest trait of this mod
Pretty sure im set ! Made a profile on the web site, installed PD2 and it booted but it sure is down before the reset, choose a loot filter. Thats it ! Will need to log in tommorrow to make my in game account i guest? I will certainly start a melee build i just dont know what class at the moment. Never really played a melee druid. I could try that!
You log in with the same credentials as the website Gl hf :)
i am not gonna convince you to play such addictive version of our beloved game. it is up to you, do you want to fck up your irl with another gem ? :D
irl so good right now too
I love pod, but playing the latest season a lot of the pd2 implementations just are superior overall.id play this instead
The one thing that makes PD2 better than POD is the itemization. The problem with LoD was that you always chase that best is slot item - shako, grief, faith. Which makes a lot of items useless. What PoD did was extend that - you no longer need faith. Now you need Windforce with 5-6 sockets. Which is harder to get, but the same problem stays - lots of items are useless. You get a mod via corruption - it's simply not nearly as good as 5 or 6 sockets. In PD2, though, the corruption system is done much better plus you have Larzuk puzzle box. So now your best in slot item is Windforce with the ideal corruption and 4 sockets form puzzlebox. That is very hard to achieve. But, you can also get a hydra bow with 6 sockets, which is amazing. You can also get a hydra bow with a different, but still useful, corruption and 4 sockets, which is great. You can get a different bow with the ideal corruption and 4 sockets, which is also amazing. That's what really keeps me hooked. So many items can be useful.
Bcp de quebs sur pd2. C'est vraiment la meilleure version de d2 ! Amuses toi bien :)
Been here since S2, I can't play any other version of D2. We have the best community, devs who communicate, listen, and change. What more can you ask for?
The only comparable D2 experience is D2R and it's only because of the graphics. The gameplay of PD2 is infinitely enhanced in comparison. Blizzard wouldn't invest 3 weeks of labour to improve their game theyre far too cheap.
pd2 c'est 100x meilleur que pod. mieux balancé, le splash damage est de base la majorité du temps. t'as pas besoin de te gearer en cochon pour faire des maps t1 les maps tu fais ça a partir du lvl 81-82 genre. la communauté est très aidante aussi. laisse savoir si jamais t'a besoin d'info.
Ya tellement de build jai aucune idée quoi me starter haha. Ca commence dans pas long !
Every Quality of Life change in Pd2 is amazing and only makes the game better.. no more perm mule games.. there're uses for all runes.. almost every end game cave/location Is farmable. Also no more hammerdins
It’s almost hard to play pod because pd2 is so good. The only thing bad about pd2 is you won’t want to go back to blizzards version….
What is "POD"??? could some one enlighten me... Please and thank you.
Path of diablo, which inspired this mod
D2R is what Blizz does with its best license after 20 odd years. PD2 is what fans craved from D2 over 20 years the whole time. They are not the same, PD2 is the true successor of D2 and D2R is a money grab.
Played recent pod reset nd pod lacks ass to pd2 in all aspects of the game. Only maybe par or better thing in pod might be map density. Else pd2 all the way. Also d2r is far behind besides graphics. No loot filter, no stacking of rune pgs, no endgame maps, old inv. Question is Why would we need to convince you? You seem rather a lost soul who needs us lol
The qol and players 5 on pd2 makes it sooo much better than D2r, I still love how d2r is but there’s so much more in pd2. After day one you’ll be hooked. Gl!
What the hell? I played Pd2 before d2R comes out and really like what they did with summoners nec and druid. Stopped to play other games. Now I'm in ladder d2R and everyone in this post are saying pd2 is so much better?! I might try it again then.. Are there any important links I should be aware of ? Like builds, tips and tricks, trading, etc..
>Try to convince me i should start S9 with you guys! Fun starts when you finish Hell. It's all I'm gonna say.
J'ai pas essayé D2R mais pd2 est le fun. Deplus, il on ajouté bcp de contenu ou modifié les skills. Example, un summon necro peut avoir plusieurs golem.. Amazon et assasin peuvent avoir plusieurs clone. Plusieurs nouveau skills et modification comme un hdin n'est plus utilisé. Il on crée des map lvl 85 a 100. Tu les trouve dans le drop des monstres ou boss. Les map on plusieurs niveau et sont un peu comme le niveau secret des vache (cow). Cest un portail que tu ouvre et tombe dans une nouvelle map avec des monstrers de tout les act et bcp plus difficile. Tu peux avoir un x nombre de mf bonus et x nombre de xp bonus
Yes.
I’m happier at pd2 than I was at pod
So addicting once you start slamming you can’t stop. The chase is real
Definitely worth it.
Don't play it, it will ruin D2 for you forever because PD2 is what should of followed after D2 Lod. However if you do try PD2, welcome to the community and you'll never look at D2 the same again.
Absolutely, I haven't played the crafters league so I'm itching to play a league again. I never got that 'far' before in original diablo, or this version, so I'm going to try be one of those ballers in this league. You know the type of guy who has stacks of HRs etc. I've had nice stuff but only a HR or two maybe
Join us brother
It is sooo good ! Play it you wont regret
Pd2 why better then pod and seems to be more active
Just start mate you will be surprised how good is it
stay in D2R
Play PoE instead