Diablo 2 Miscellaneous Topics

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Various topics discussed in NightShiver's forums
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Damage Reduce
NightShiver: I operate with two entirely diferent set ups on one set of claws i carry all DR very high at 3000% the other set has none with no DR on any other items i carry charms of 5x1% DR 1x5% 2x10% total 30%
I adjust by entering duel in High DR mode then doing a weapon swap for adjustment to low DR then back again if damage is getting to much in high Dr i will steal back any life lost in adjusting for low dr

High Levels
99999, 655459, 983058, 983139, 1310819, 1318842, 3033454
1073709055
2143525575
2146041955
2147287039
2147000000
2147418111
2147473645
2147480000
2147482534
2147482880
2147482979
2147483497

Hitting Better
yes for hitting more also try -4 monsters def on each weapon.and to hit faster use zeal charges (make a charm with 1 zeal charge of lvl 31 0/0 and another zeal charge {same charm} lvl 31 with 255/0.) then make your shield have 75 %chance to block.

Invincible Golem
Use battle noels, swordguard, or boneweave armor
to make an immune to all golem put the following on a piece of armor and upload it into your character (have the iron golem skill/charms) and:
100% resist fire
100% resist magic
100% resist poison
100% resist lightning
100% resist cold
100% damage reduce
it also might be a good idea to socket the armor (as many as you can) and add as much damage and poison damage as you can... also, add attack rating and stuff for the most effective golem that's what you'd use...
And if you want the golem to look like he is almost invisible. Then Create the golem from a ethereal item

Elites
Ok an elite is effected by the operating sytem....i have access to three operating systems 98se me and xp will load only on 98se and ME reliably and for an elite that means 50% of the time
So the work around as i said i deliberatley set this as buggy no newbie will get it going easy.... so do this set level to 99 then open in a game reliabley and save
get erics stats editor and reset an elite level the absorbs will be effective from around 1.1mill to 1.4 which gives a reasonable range to obtain a stable level set the elite level from your sysem seems to make it more stable.
However the general principle of absorb is this the higher the level the more absorb required and or less resistance
so to put on a billion level character you would increase absorb and reduce resist set life to somewhere between 3 to 6 mill no higher initially...
some billion levels appear to be more difficult to achieve absorb on primarily above 2.1471 but can be set ..........
which leads me to think that absorb should be achieveable on all characters including 99s the game was made to do this..so a low level of absorb may work very effectivley on a 99 with normal life settings (just thinking out loud now) if so it would maybe if it provides a small amount of healing then it is only a matter of stacking to make it available in 99s havent tested this yet but absorbs set to around 750,000 would be the required minimum to get absorb on a 99 this would probaley require stacking of 100 attributes mmmm big file me thinks ...ok so i digress

Leech Block
Well after lots of research Unborn[HBI] found that it has nothing to do with damages. It all depends on 3 things. leech% dr% and class (important: missiles attacks leech like bows cannot be stopped since they are viewed as magic attacks with physical damages by the game). Here is a little list on how to easily stop some one from leeching (knowing your enemy is the key here )

Low dr and leech barbs: use from 50% to a max of 57% dr to stop them from leeching, what ever their weapon(s) is(are) it will stop em.
High dr and leech barbs: from 25% to a max of 32% dr
Low dr and leech pallies: from 80% to a max of 87% dr
High dr and leech pallies: from 40% to a max of 47% dr
Low dr and leech assies: from 100% to a max of 107% dr
High dr and leech assies from 50% to a max of 57% dr
Low dr necros, druids and sorcs: exactly 115% dr
High dr and leech necros, druids and sorcs: not sure but if i remember well then its around 75% dr
Low dr and leech javazons: 14% to a max of 21% dr
High dr and leech javazons: 7% to 12% dr

bowzons and all others bow users cant be stopped

There is an other way to stop leech instantly for an amount of time (depending on skill level).
Pallies: Use combo of thorn and smite.
Barbs: Use combo of war cry and bash.
Necros: use combo of iron maiden and poison nova(if your lucky and fight a non immune to poison enemy).
Sorcs and druids: Still not found.
Zons: there is no other way then dr%.

Misc
try around 15 - 17 mill. AR with a +1 target defense charm.
i found that attack rating is also based on the others defense. not gonna exactly say right now. but 15 - 17 mill is somewhat an inbetween number use that. and you should hit 8 out of 10 times if not more.
actually what you have is an overlapping number probably shows 1-2.
its actually pretty good but for a bowzon.
str doesnt matter i use around those stats cuz im also a javzon. i was just letting you know

I use 70k on bow and 120k on java and i do fine. lets just say i became the #1 on the teen ladder with that -- Tigerpaw_13

The best damage for java zon i currently use is 71-71 or 71-75k and for bow zon the best damage that will take half letter per hit is dam of 75k max Dont Exceed or else u wont kill anyone.

if you use leech a lot dont us like 8mill life use about 830k life

one way i found to see if ur leechin is put the same amount mana steal as u do life steal on ur stuff. then, put damage-->mana on ur stuff. next, have a relatively low amount of mana (like 30000). then during a duel, ull get hit, and ur mana will go down. when u hit then, ull steal mana. just check out your orb. if u fill it all the way when u hit, uve got good stealing.--- and also, this lets u know how good people are hitting u or how fast ur gonna die
Hi,with all the different combinations of DR,life steal and defense that players use it's kind of impossible to say what is perfect.I just make them so that they work good for my character ( take in to account what you use ,charms,attributes,armor etc.).I use 1 stave and 2 glaives and switch as needed.The stave is base 1-5 damage and 66k in game damage.1 glaive is 5-17 base and 1-2 mil in game and the other is 68-69 base ( attributes added )and 14 mil in game damage.I use up to 5 or 6 attributes and no sockets on each.All are regular items and they seem to work for me.You have to put your character together like a puzzle and each part affects the rest.Make up 2 or 3 with different attributes and see which is best then make 2 or 3 more and try till you get the best for your character.As the great words of wisdom from the post's remind us-test,test,test then test again.Hope it helps

The best damage of java zon is 72-73k n using 156% life steal and having all item defense to 1 and having 510 DR.
LB is leech block .. 127% Damage Reduce% or DR%

Negative Attack Speed... yeah, i tried it -240 seems to work, pain is right i haven't dropped since i put it on my char.
Bowazon dmg. try 65424 it kills butt
actually bro with a bowzon i found best damage around 100k i know it seems a bit much but highly effective for me. in testing took more off than my other test of 12k, 20k, 40k, 75k, and 82k.

Str: 20157000
Dex:2147200000
Life: 830000
Mana: 25000
Stamina:9000
Damage reduce: around 500%
Life steal: 127% (split on 3 diff items) so that meens one 42 one43 one 42.

Java Sorceress
str. 982 mill
dex. 1,080,000,000
of course adjust ar to suite your needs...
jab charms: make a skill charm.....in fuzziers
skill charge one : 0/0 jab
skill charge two : 255/0 jab
that will give ya the unending jab
damage around 80 k
try around 830000 mana. and around 1500% dmg taken goes to mana
I use a melee sorc, and her stats aren't that far from zon stats, and they work pretty good for her. Oh, and massive DR% would be another helpful hint too.
use jab, a sheild, and skills like dodge, avoid and evade
nova field is the best for killing zons

100% block shield??
i started with 45% block shield. After reading something about making colors in armor by socketing a jewel first it retains that color. So for a shield that blocks 98% so i can attack (it works) i made 2 jewels. a 63%, and 34% ICB. 63%of 45% is 28.35, so its 73.35 CB. so take 34% of that is 24.94. add to 73.35 and u got 98.29% chance to block. i tested w/ no def in 8 player hell took 1 in 20, took off and got 8 of 10 hits on me. trick is to add 63% 1st then 34%. hope it helps.
well i started with a 45 ctb shield and added 2 jewels one with 63 ctb and one with 29 ctb put the 63 ctb jewel in first and it should work fine all if you are a pali and you use holy shield with that shield with the jewels it prob messes the ctb stat

Matafleur: This is just plain... [ah, I'll just go ahead and say it] STUPID!
Adding %CtB does NOT increase a shield's base block by a fraction. It adds the total percentage. If your char has a shield with no modifications on it, it will have a base %CtB, for example 35%. If you add a 30%CtB mod to it, the new base is 65%. Actually, you know what... I'm tired. Please go check out the "Chance to Block" section on this page Matafleur's Info

2Bill Bowazon Stats
1/Create a new char with shadowmaster just fix name ;
2/ open jamella and fix your char at lvl 99 with skills at ONE (like this you can fix your A.R later in game)
3/ take all the items you need (i have a bow cheated with poison and DS, OW, CB ; boots, gloves, rings : -1TD, and so on)
4/ have a lot of dmg red charms (10000%) and leech life and mana (2000%)
5/ try to enter a game from time to time to check if you have no dead bodies...LOL
6/ when everything is ok, open D2stateditor from ericjwin and fix the attributes as follows :
- lvl : 2 147 483 645
- exp : 0
- strength : 2013200000
- dex : 1 074 100 000
- energy : 500
- stamina : 1000
- life : 800 000
- mana : 800 000
- gold : 0

DR must be around 10000% (40 charms X 255%) and leech life and mana around 5000% for a 2billion bow zon.

-4 Monster Defense per Hit
please trust me, it really works!
create Matriachal Javelin:
select Matriachal Javelin from item tree,
set to magical quality, set durability, set quiver quantity,
add "-4 Monster Defense per Hit", save.

Only use -4 defense per hit for only java zon.And combine them with 7 target defense to hit around 99.9%...

Bowazon Damage
For a bow zon here are good figures for bow dmg :
1/ from 12k to 20k ;
2/ from 71k to 75k ;
3/ from 120k to 140k.
Had a lot of poison dmg and u will kill in one or two hits.

Javazon Stats
Strength - 2013200000
Dexterity - 2147196024
Vitality - 500
Energy - 500
Life: 830,000
Mana: 800,000
Stamina: 20,000
Defense - 600 Million +
Attack Rating - 15.3 million
Damage Reduce - around 5000%
Leech - around 2000% stolen per hit.
All Resistances at 95%
Damage 70 mil, only 1 point between min and max
use a +1 TD Charm
Use conviction and iron maiden in a duel
dont overhack your java, add poison dmg to it, use d2ice, worked the best for me.
Chance to block - 75%
Your probably gonna need to use quite a few + % to attack rating charms.
8 charms with 255 % Dmg Red and 127 % life and mana leech.

Barbarian Stats
Damaga= 75,000 to 80,000 on stats
Strength= a value that adds up to weapon damage to give u the stat damage above
Dexterity= 2,147,100,000 or close
Health= 830,000
Mana= 500,000
Stamina, Vitality and Energy= 500
Leech= Total of 127%, split in three, 42% on two rings, and 43% on amulet.
Damage Reduce%= 1000%, or 255% on four charms.
Skills= level 20
Ignore Target Defense= 1%TD or a bit higher
Sheild= When not using Frenzy .. use a Sheild and Concentrate (anti-knokback) or Zeal (fast multiple hits)

heres what you do for a 2bil barb.
one damage doesnt matter. get it in the millions if you want.
two use max elemental damage to your weapon.
three add crushing blow bocl.
4 get your ar in the negatives. yes negatives around -16 mill if possible and use a 5% td charm.

Assassin Stats
HIGH DEX SASSY
Str 500
Dex 2147255000
Life 830,000
Mana 830,000
Dam Claw attack 15.9 mill
Bam Talon 700mill
Life steal 2600%
Dam red High 3000% low 1% adjust as nessessary

LOW DEX SASSY
Str 500
Dex 50000
Life 830000
Mana 830000
Dam Claw attack various good ranges from 30k to 120k
Talon Kick 90k to 120k
Life Steal 1800%
Dam red High 3000% low 1% adjust as nessessary
All attack ratings 20 to 21mill 95%
One trick i use is to build all the Dam red into one set of weapons cartry a charm of 1% and no dam red on the other set this enables you to swap between high and low dam red quickly

Paladin Stats
415000 str
2147195904 dex
500 vit
500 energy
32000 mana
830000 health
20000 stamina
10000%-16000% damage reduced by
3000%-4000% damage taken goes to mana
2000%-9000% mana and life steal should prove effective on high lvls and very effective on low lvls

Java/ Bow Zon Stats:

strengh-2013200000
dex-1074000000
hp-800k or 790k
Dr- good at 2040 at life 790k .

Damage for bow must b 12k-28k
Java zon damage-28k-43k
17 mill for good attack rating.
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On amazon your dex affects your damage as well as your strength so that means if your aiming for damage between 1000-100 000, then u can forget about 2.1 billion dex plus u dont need such high dex when u have passive skills.

If you are using a javazon. i use around 75 000-85 000 damage. And for life leach u can use a very famous combo of 42% 42% 43% that works fairly good but i use something a bit higher.

As for 1-2 Damage. even if it says that, you will still be doing a fair amount of damage but i wouldnt keep it like that. Means your damage overlapped. It's like your dex. if you raise it to 2.2 billion your defense starts going negative. But it still works perfectly just overlapped and instead of when u raise ur dex and your defense goes up it starts going down when u raise ur dex.

Anyways who needs damage in the millions. your damage already starts to overlap on most classes when u reach 100 000 im pretty sure.
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ok.... here are my stats that i use on my bow zon. these stats are meant to only use guided arrows. these stats work very well for me.
str. 2,147,483,645
dex. 2,147,483,647
vit. 500
engy. 500
life. 830,000
mana. 700,000

you should have absorb amulet and rings resist all, resist poison max resist poison, and poison length reduced by. for a fast character all the the attributes below should equal a total of -180. -180 attackspeed, -180 faster run/walk, -180 faster hit recovery, -180 faster blockrate, and -180 faster castrate. oh and the damage overlaps three times which is very good so don't worry about it.
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For javazon... strength is the biggest influence on damage. depends on your base damage, but I get good damage with javelin at 2,126,300,000 strength.
"...up to about 75 thousand damage... don't over do it...if you can get a 1-2 damage that really does like 100 thou to 200 thou get that, my zon has it, very nice... "
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The best damage of java zon is 72-73k n using 156% life steal and having all item defense to 1 and having 510 DR.
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stats first
strengh-2013200000
dex-1074000000
life-800k
mana-700k
Dr-2000
Have life leech like around 1500-2000 they work well on zons. And use d2edit for stats hacking. Items to use r up to u. Well to me i use ultimate items. I also experiment stuff like prevent leech, kb, etc.
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use guided arrow so u dont need attack rating... Defense i use dex of 1074000000 and my defense is above 1 bill.

Assasin Stats

The best attack rating for assassin (Dragon Claw) is 17mill......
and try to make charm w/ 100% attack rating.
And 1 target defense ring (2 of them equip for good Rating)
And to adjust talon kick to 690mill, the dex should b at 2122000000 and adjust ur attack rating...
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There are two types of assassins: defense assasin uses High damage red 2000% or more, and High dex. This type of assassin level for level is almost impossible to kill...However they will leech you like crazy so your damage has to be spot o.n

Then there are damage assassins uses low damage reduce about 30 -60 % on armour and add in 10% increases on charms up to 127% damage red .
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High dex assassin damage is ok at 690mill talon dont exceed 700mill aim for around 14 to 16 mill claw attack

Barbarian Stats

Damaga = 75,000 to 80,000 on stats
Strength = a value that adds up to weapon damage to give u the stat damage above
Dexterity = 2,147,100,000 or close
Health = 830,000
Mana = 500,000
Stamina, Vitality and Energy = 500
Leech = Total of 127%, split in three, 42% on two rings, and 43% on amulet.
Damage Reduce % = 1000%, or 255% on four charms.
Skills = level 20
Ignore Target Defense = 1%TD or a bit higher
Sheild = When not using Frenzy .. use a Sheild and Concentrate (anti-knockbak) or Zeal (fast multiple hits)
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1. Strength - Well, that depends on how much damage your weapon does! Tweak your strength until you do about 80K damage. Do NOT exceed 84K..
2. Dex - I use 2147100000 Dex. You should have 550Mil Def when naked, no charms, anything. Ok, but your attack rating is screwed- I use uhh.. 1752% Bonus to attack rating. That's two 491 rings, one 330 amulet, and 200 on each weapon. Your atk rating should be around 13mil..
3. Damage Reduction - I use 510% damage reduction total, all on my armor.
4. Resists/Absorbs - I use 100% Absorb on all elements/magic, and since you can't absorb poison, use 127% poison resist with +31% to max poison resist, and reduce poison length by 100%.
5. Life Steal/Mana Steal: I use 127% TOTAL Life Stolen per hit. I also use the same amount for Mana Stolen per hit.
6. Life/Mana - I use 830K Life, and 830K Mana.
Lastly, DO NOT over hack your items. All my equip has like, 400 defense, and less than 5 modifiers on it.
I use Double Swing as my main attack when using dual maces, and I use Stun as my main attack when using Mace/Shield. (Damn Zon's.. make me pull out my shield) and Whirlwind is always my right skill. (I know, "Why not Frenzy?" or "Why not concentrate?" Because - Frenzy adds too much AR. and Concentrate adds too much defense, which makes my defense go lower.)
ok to kick-start this .. barbarian are awesome melee fighters .. they are a bit tuffer to hack .. but if u get it write u can be more than a match for most players. all u need is:

Paladin Stats
1074000000 or try 1074100000; make some +% to attack charms .. chose your one or two best skills and adjust to them

Necromancer Stats
For a necro u should have around 1500-2500 DR%. Use multiple 255 dmg red% charms.

that will give you sacred armor with 1012 defence and no stats, it will have 11 sockets with nothing in it. have fun. -- Hunter
4a4d 1008 8000 6464 0850 1726 0702 c282 5ba3 b1e0 7f1e 9e10 a6ff 01
This will give you an 11 socketed bone helm with nothing in it and no stats (1012 armor)
4A4D 1008 8000 6464 082A 86D6 0602 C282 5BA3 B1E0 7F1E 9E10 A6FF 01

Try overlapping ur damage on super , elite , and supreme and put max poison dam..And u kill 2 hits kill..

please add 2-handed min/max dmg for bows,
1-h and 2-h dmg for swords that can be used in either 1 hand or 2 hands.
1-h and throwing dmg for thowing weapons.

im a 99 bow zon ive toyed with my char but i cant figure out my ideal leech. some say 2000 cumilative some say 43% on all stuff.
I leech but not enough to stay afloat. My vitality is low so i know its not that.

I use about 42 on both my rings and 43 on my amulet. Works good for my Zon. i use 830k life.
Try 156% Life steal on bow...

High lvls
High lvls have attacks that "ignore" DR% and do a lot of damage. Good hi lvls can take u down to 1 life in 1 hit so u have no chance of leeching, because 2nd hit is fatal. Imagine them as U fighting a low lvl legit char .. same effect.
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2bil TD: Use target defense 1 on charm and u can use with it about 6-7 of them even if ur attack is 5% u'll attack about 99% of the time.
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ok take a known mask level like 983139 (99)
add 65536 and you have the next mask level
Ps- goes in blocks of 65535
ss- goes in blocks of 255
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For lvl 2 bil javazon ..I use -neg Attack Rating (AR) ..never miss either, always hit and kills in 1 hit.

Masks
A mask is a specific high lvl char (over lvl99) which looks on party screen as lvl99, ie it appears to be as normal lvl99 but in reality is much higher.
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Masked char are easy to discover .. set ur self as target practice and see if u can survive for more than 2 hits. But then there r high lvls who cant do it rite .. so u can kill them.

Tips vs Hi lvls
Its is pretty difficult to kill them with lvl99. It is even hard to hit them. They will usually kill u easily with 1 or 2 hits. first hit will get ur life to 1 usually, second ur dead. Whirlwind can help some + a shield + dodging (if zon). I know that some Jav and Bow zons are effective against high lvls, especially with good Def/ dodge/ knokbak. Or u can just make u own high lvl and kick butt.

Tips For Low Lvls (lvl 13)
Here r some tips for all u lvl 13s. Use Prefix (Amber) and Suffix (of Health) to test best combinations for lvls ..it should give u base Req lvl.
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Make all your items "Superior" and they will have no level requirements.
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I have a few low lvl Magical Affixes I use.
All made in Jamella:
Tin of the Mind
Jade of Excellence
Rugged of the Wolf
Cobalt of Fire
They should be lower than lvl 10, but every item in the game has a Base lvl Req. so try to stick with Lower Quality Bows.
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Strong of Amelioration
rainbow of health
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No-req lvl magic?? Foul of Restoration (Septic of self-repair in Game)

right now bowazon is my bread and butter so hopefully i can steer u in right direction. yes dex and ar factor into u hittin people 15-18million has treated me well on ar and dex gets u the damage ur lookin 4. also to set dam right socket weapon with a sol rune. i haven't decided for myself what best dam is mine is 72k i kill who i should but draw the good ones

I think the second best damage reduce for java zon is 10,200 Dr. But theres a trade off on that damage reduce { it Lowers ur damage n only damage 25% of ur original damage.. Not VEry good but it will take them centuries to break or kill u just have good leech n good counter leeech stop.. And I also say 510% dr is also good for java zon cuz it perfects ur damage and leech but they easy break ur damage reduce...

thanx to fuzzier's post on a topic i read, i managed to insert gems threw hex, but it doesnt show any attributes of the gem on that item. i want to insert jewels i made but doing what fuzz said and changing 0x0D to the number of gems i want and 2, and changing 0x07 to 18 worked, but when he said to paste the jewel at the end, i tried it but the item didnt have the jewels attributes. plz help
I. change the byte at 0x0D of the ITEM to 0x?2 (e.g. 0x32 means 3 gems inserted)
II. change the byte at 0x07 of the GEM to 0x18. or just paste a gem already inserted from an item --- e.g. a socked sword, 1 gems inserted, open the sword by a hexeditor, select from the 2nd 'JM' to the end of the file, copy, paste to the end of the item you want to insert gem to.
III. save, load, play.

well my dex is 2146000000
and my level is 2147473645