Besides the crashes and the queue… uber tristram is just bad. Crushing blow is too dominant, resistances of enemies are way too high. Because of this … … weird design, all elemental classes/builds cant do this content and most people have a smite paladin.
This sucks.
Yea i know, its D2… dont change anything never ever … but … uber tristram is just bad/crap. Players do this for the torch. Not for the challenge (because there is no challenge).
Enemies absolute immune to all elemental attacks (pit lord)? Wow. Which child designed this? I hated this in D2 and now… many years later its still the most stupid event/level i’ve ever seen in any(!) video game since 1990!
If done uber tristram in D2LOD a few times… and now i remember why i hated this crap.
So basically i would like to see a redesign of this uber bullsh!t.
Maybe tweak some numbers, change some resistances so that uber tristram can be finished by all classes solo but it should be challenging. Ubers which deal 1000+ damage per hit is not a challenge. Its luck in blocking or a two shot. So using a paladin and spamming big potions is just embarrassing game play.
When people use… a lot of dots… in their posts… I can’t help but think… about that black kid in… Malcolm in the middle…
But yea, you got a point, this whole process of getting a torch is somewhat tedious.
A more constructive thread with less whine and curse would have more impact though. Easier to read and a slightly more professional approach does wonders
working as intended, one of the few places where a psisical char is required, smiter yeah but can be done with a zealer, frenzy baba, conc baba, wolf/bear dudu, bowazon, phisical javazon/spearzon, ma/kicksin. hwll even a summon necro works with revived urdars. So man up, pick a phisical class and just do it.
The MAIN complaint I am getting from this post is that you cant kill ubers with a caster class.
Thats like complaining that you cant tank a raid in WoW on your mage.
My point… It was MEANT TO BE THIS WAY. Think of the state of the game when uber tristram was released… It was OP sorcs and hammerdins teleporting around farming fast AF. Any other class played was simply “for fun” (for PvM). There was literally NO reason to build a melee char for PvM, UNTIL uber tristram (and the key bosses) was introduced.
When the keys were introduced into the game i loved it. It was SOMETHING ELSE TO FARM, AN ALTERNATIVE to meph/Baal/TC85 area farming. I could farm keys/organs and trade them for stuff I needed.
So, go build a melee char (with a lot of CB)… an ENJOY uber trist LMAO. Get rich off selling keys/organs/well rolled torches.
Check pit lord immunities before talking bs. Infinity, Griffon, facets, … even as a lightning sorc, you cant break their immunities. 145 lightning resistance. You need -225 lower resist to break this.
So you need a real paladin with high conviction AND a real necro with high lower resist.
Fire and cold ist the same: unbreakable without real paladin and real necro in a party.
There are many pit lords while fighting izual and in tristram they will be summoned by diablo.
All physical classes got at least SOME skills to deal with physical immunities.
So now tell me … which physical attacks are available for sorc, trapsin, eledruid? Hm? NONE.
And even physical builds have to stack crushing blow because of insane and stupid health numbers.
I would like to see someone doing uber tristram without crushing blow and without prevent monster healing…
And that’s the problem:
Uber tristram forces players to play a certain build. Because the mechanics are just the worst I’ve ever seen.
It’s not a physical class, it’s a crushing blow class. Stack crushing blow and attack rating or abuse smit (always hits).
Uber tristram forces players to abuse some stupid exploits (smite always hits) and to stack the most stupid stat (crushing blow).
Uber tristram is not great to play.the mechanics are awful.
Uber tristram is just: play mf sorc and smiter because all other characters and builds are useless shit.
Are you using always spoon to eat or eating without plate, maybe hammer in nails with bare hands? If so, we may think about changes and make special ubers where everyone could kill them without Crushing Blow and other stuff, maybe even gear.
I would like to see a challenging uber event which can be done by all classes with high level, good gear and a good build.
But currently we got an event which says: “use this build (smite, cb), keep left mouse button pressed until the boss is dead and take one big potion every 3 seconds”
It’s not a challenge, it’s just stupid.
That fact that you like this awful design is not a surprise at all.
What would be your problem if some immunities would be reduced, so that no enemy is absolute immune to ALL elements?
Would the event be bad once an eleDruid or a trapSin or a dualEleSorc would be able to do uber tristram too?
You can still use your stupid smite-CB-exploit if you prefer.
We weren’t talking about pit lords with modifiers or the intentionally immune mobs summoned by ubers. We were talking about ubers themselves. Even Necros gotta run from wraiths with stone skin, that’s just the game.
As for ele druids being shit, yeah. They are. It’s not just about immunities, it’s about a fundamentally bad class.
I agree with the OP. Played the game when I was a kid, I am playing it now in my 30s and I still think this is something Blizz didn’t think through.
BTW, don’t know why people are getting butthurt like children over this. We can like Diablo 2 and still not like particular part of it, you understand that don’t you?
Uber Tristram is not endgame. The endgame in D2R is basically to farm best items so you can create new characters to farm even more items.
Its a long grind playing the same content over and over again to maybe create a fun build.
Thats how the game has always been. I enjoy it , dont know why but i do.
Uber Tristram has never been a challange. You can roll through Ubers with a hammerdin just investing 1 hard point in Zeal & Fanaticism equipping budget smiter gear.
You analyse Uber tristram and the whole diablo 2 game with the wrong perspective. First, uber tristram is not meant as endgame, there is no endgame in d2 and it is fine like this imo.
Second, you have the possibility to build any character, it is very quick to get lvl 80 so complaining that all classes should be abble to do everything has no sense. Different char and spec have a specific purpus. That is meant to experiment builds with Items and all.
This is not an mmo, the game wasn’t designed for you to play only one char and you can have fun building as many originals chars as you which.
This game is like advanced tamagotchi and if you seek endgame or more content you probably misundrstood what d2 is about.
Hf!
