This markdown outlines the key differences between Diablo II (LOD) and Diablo II: Resurrected (D2R), categorized as presented in the original audio from MrLlamaSC's videos here:
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Graphics Update: Resolution increased to 1920x1080, resulting in increased teleport range and wider field of vision. While some item art is subjectively less appealing, the overall visual improvement is significant.
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Duriel Quest Bug Fix: The exploit allowing players to repeatedly trigger bonus drops from Duriel has been removed. Duriel now consistently drops items according to the quest reward parameters.
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Controller Support: Controller support has been added, though menu navigation remains less intuitive compared to PC controls. The functionality is generally considered viable and well-received by controller players.
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Cow King Lockout Removal: The lockout preventing repeated Cow King kills has been removed.
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Hit Recovery Nerf (PvP): Hit recovery in player-versus-player combat now has diminishing returns, preventing extended chain-locking. A short period of immunity is applied after a hit. Hit recovery remains functional in PvE.
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Bug Fixes: Numerous bugs have been fixed, including weapon swap glitches, "E" bugging, strength glitches, and a mercenary targeting bug. The removal of some exploits like E bugging is considered a loss by some players due to the previous fun factor.
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New Rune Words: Five new helm Rune words have been introduced (Temper, Ground, Hearth, Cure, and Bulwark), each offering similar elemental resistances, and additional unique properties. Hearth grants Cannot Be Frozen, Cure has a Level 1 Cleansing aura, and Bulwark provides life steal, replenish life and physical damage reduction.
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Mosaic Rune Word: The Mosaic Rune word has been added, creating an overpowered character build with excessively high damage output, particularly for assassins. The speaker indicates this Rune word is problematic.
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Hustle Rune Word: A new Rune word, offering increased attack speed, faster run/walk, and potentially bonus IAS or fanaticism, depending on the location (weapon or armor). This Rune word is generally well-received.
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Metamorphosis Rune Word: While intended to enhance shapeshifting skills, this Rune word's impact is considered underwhelming and ultimately does not have a significant effect.
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Pattern Rune Word: A Rune word primarily useful for early-game characters or those using martial arts, providing modest damage increases. Considered a relatively minor addition.
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Unbending Will Rune Word: This Rune word offers powerful stats but requires a rare Fal Rune and a six-socket weapon, limiting its practical use due to rarity.
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Plague Rune Word: Previously unused files for this Rune word were implemented. It provides a chance for lowered enemy resistances and offers a cleansing aura. Considered decent overall.
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Wisdom Rune Word: This Rune word, though requiring a Pul Rune, provides cannot be frozen and bonus attributes, making it useful for specific builds.
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Mist Rune Word: A five-socket Rune word offering a concentration aura, piercing, and enhanced damage. While potentially strong in certain builds, it has not seen extensive personal use by the speaker.
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Increased Item Quantity: Arrow, bolt, and throwing item quantities have received significant increases. This change is noted as being especially impactful for bowazons, javalons, and throw barbs.
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Dclone Spawning: Diablo Clone (Dclone) now spawns globally on all servers simultaneously across regions (North America, Europe, Asia), eliminating the previous reliance on finding specific servers/IPs.
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Cross-Region Character Play: Players can now access characters from one region's servers on those of other regions.
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22 Nights of Terror: A seasonal event running for 22 nights in December, introducing daily modifiers that impact the gameplay experience (both beneficial and detrimental). These daily effects are displayed in the bottom left of the online screen.
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Game Creation and Character Expiration: Limits on game creation frequency and character expiration have been removed.
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Name Uniqueness: Character name restrictions have been removed; multiple characters can now share the same name.
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Lobby Improvements: The game lobby has been slightly improved to allow for filtering games by difficulty and includes a refresh button, though further changes are desired by the speaker.
- Hiring a Mercenary in Expansion mode will now always match your character's level
- Updated stat/skill gains across all difficulties to eliminate disadvantages of leveling mercs from different difficulties
- Can now use Amazon Bows
- Can now gain + Amazon skill bonuses from gear
- Skills updated:
- Added Freezing Arrow (upgrade to Cold Arrow)
- Added Explosion Arrow (upgrade to Fire Arrow)
- Nightmare and Hell difficulty now have all 6 aura types available (previously split 3/3 between difficulties)
- Thorns (Combat - Nightmare):
- Thorns aura level scaling increased
- Will now continue scaling beyond highest-level threshold
- Life baseline and scaling increased by ~25% (similar to Rogue Archer)
- Defense baseline and scaling increased by ~40% (closer to Rogue Archer)
- Resistances baseline and scaling increased by ~20% (highest base resistances of all mercs)
- Cold:
- Increased Glacial Spike casting frequency
- Increased Glacial Spike level scaling
- Replaced Frozen Armor with Chilling Armor
- Fire:
- Removed Inferno
- Added Fire Bolt
- Increased Fire Ball casting frequency
- Added Enchant (casts on self, player, and nearby allies)
- Lightning:
- Added Static Field
- Increased Charged Bolt level scaling
- Increased Lightning casting frequency
- Can now gain + Barbarian skill bonuses from gear
- Life baseline scaling increased (highest life of all mercs)
- Defense baseline increased but scaling reduced at higher levels (highest base defense)
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Two-handed Barbarian:
- Bash level scaling increased (no longer capped at 80)
- Stun level scaling increased (no longer capped at 80)
- Added Battle Cry skill
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New Dual-Wielding Barbarian:
- Cannot use two-handed swords
- Uses Frenzy, Taunt, and Iron Skin abilities
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Terror Zones: Terror Zones appear hourly once a difficulty is completed, increasing monster levels (character level +2 or area level, whichever is higher) and improving drop rates of higher-tier items. The speaker notes this is particularly beneficial for players working towards level 99. A variety of area levels are increased to area level 85.
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Thunder Charms: Thunder Charms add the ability to negate enemy immunities to cold, lightning, or fire, by introducing a substantial resistance reduction (95%). However, using these charms imposes a reduced resistance penalty to the player.
- Attack Rating bonus increased for all charge-up skills (Fist of Fire, Claws of Thunder, Blades of Ice, Tiger Strike, Cobra Strike, Phoenix Strike)
- Base bonus increased from 15% to 25%
- Per level bonus increased from 7% to 10%
- Finishing moves (Dragon Talon, Dragon Claw, Dragon Tail, Dragon Flight) now only consume 1 charge instead of all 3
- All finishing moves now always hit if the Assassin has any Martial Arts charges
- Dragon Claw damage bonus per level increased from 5% to 15%
- Dragon Tail damage bonus per level increased from 10% to 20%
- Dragon Flight changes:
- Casting Delay removed
- Damage bonus per level increased from 25% to 35%
- Fade tooltip updated to show physical damage resist reduction
- Venom buff duration scaling changed from 4 seconds to 12 seconds per level
- Shadow Warrior Casting Delay reduced from 6 seconds to 0.6 seconds
- Shadow Master Casting Delay reduced from 6 seconds to 0.6 seconds
- Casting Delays will no longer share cooldowns with other skills
- Death Sentry synergy removed from Shock Web, Charged Bolt Sentry, Lightning Sentry, and Fire Blast
- Synergy increases to compensate:
- Shock Web synergies increased from 11% to 17%
- Fire Blast synergies increased from 9% to 11%
- Charged Bolt Sentry synergies increased from 6% to 9%
- Lightning Sentry synergies increased from 12% to 18%
- Wake of Fire synergies increased from 8% to 10%
- Wake of Inferno synergies increased from 10% to 18%
- Blade Sentinel:
- Casting Delay reduced from 2 seconds to 1 second
- Missile speed increased by 20%
- Weapon Damage increased from 37% to 75%
- Added synergies with Blade Fury and Blade Shield (10% damage per level)
- Blade Fury:
- Added synergies with Blade Sentinel and Blade Shield (10% damage per level)
- Attack rating increased by 10% per level
- Blade Shield:
- Duration baseline increased from 20 seconds to 120 seconds
- Duration scaling per level increased from 5 seconds to 12 seconds
- Weapon Damage increased from 25% to 75%
- Added synergies with Blade Sentinel and Blade Fury (10% damage per level)
- Lightning trap damage now affected by +% Lightning Damage and -Enemy Lightning Resistance items
- Trap bug fixed (traps no longer count towards unique monster counts in areas)
- Casting Delays no longer share cooldowns between skills
- Firestorm cooldown display added to tooltip
- Molten Boulder:
- Missile speed increased by 100% (range decreased by 50% to keep same travel length)
- Casting Delay reduced from 2 seconds to 1 second
- Volcano synergy increased from 10% to 12%
- Fissure cooldown display added to tooltip
- Volcano:
- Molten Boulder synergy increased from 12% to 16%
- Duration now shown in tooltip
- Armageddon:
- Casting Delay removed
- Physical Damage significantly increased
- Physical Damage now shown in tooltip
- Volcano synergy changed to increase Physical Damage (instead of Fire) and increased from 14% to 18%
- Hurricane requirement removed
- Missile damage radius increased by 33% (from 3 to 4)
- Missile drop rate increased by ~30% (from ~3 to ~4 per second)
- Arctic Blast:
- Hurricane synergy removed
- Base damage and level scaling increased by ~100%
- Controls updated for free-form casting instead of target locking
- Twister:
- Damage scaling increased by 50%
- Arctic Blast synergy added: +20% Stun Duration per level
- Hurricane:
- Casting Delay removed
- Can now be cast in Werewolf/Werebear form
- Cyclone Armor can now be cast in Werewolf/Werebear form
- New attack speed calculation system implemented
- Attack speed cap raised from +75% to +150%
- Rabies:
- Attack Rating bonus increased from +7% to +10% per level
- Poison Creeper synergy increased from 18% to 20%
- Fury:
- Attack Rating bonus increased from +7% to +10% per level
- Attack Speed increased by 40%
- New attack speed calculation system implemented
- Attack speed cap raised from +75% to +150%
- Damage bonus per level increased from 8% to 15%
- Base defense value increased from 25% to 40%
- Defense bonus per level increased from 6% to 10%
- Cannot be interrupted while performing attacks/skills
- Maul:
- Grants +3% attack speed per charge
- Damage bonus per level increased from 20% to 30%
- Attack Rating bonus increased from +20% to +40% baseline
- Attack Rating per level bonus increased from +10% to +15%
- Shock Wave: Maul synergy increased from 5% to 10%
- Fire Claws:
- Damage increased by 75%
- Fissure synergy removed
- Volcano synergy removed
- Can now have Spirit Wolves, Dire Wolves, and Bears all summoned simultaneously
- Spirit Totems (Oak Sage, Heart of Wolverine, Spirit of Barbs):
- Health values standardized (no more random variation)
- Physical Damage Resist standardized to 25% across all difficulties
- Spirit of Barbs changed to deal flat damage when aura-affected targets are attacked
- Ravens:
- Attack Rating bonus per level increased from 15% to 30%
- AI modified for more frequent attacks
- Damage scaling significantly increased
- New synergies added: Spirit Wolf, Dire Wolf, Grizzly (12% Damage per level each)
- Spirit Wolf:
- Health values standardized
- Now deals cold damage and chills
- Damage scaling increased by 10%
- Base Life increased by ~80%
- Life now increases by 10% per level
- Dire Wolf:
- Health values standardized
- Damage scaling increased by 30%
- Base Life increased by ~90%
- Life synergy reduced from 25% to 15%
- Grizzly:
- Health values standardized
- Base Life increased by ~15%
- Life now increases by 10% per level
- Poison Creeper:
- Health values standardized
- Poison damage scaling significantly increased
- Life scaling increased by 100%
- Rabies synergy added: +10% Poison Damage per level
- Carrion Vine:
- Health values standardized
- Life recovery changed to +1% Healing per level
- Solar Creeper:
- Health values standardized
- Mana recovery changed to +3% Mana baseline with +1% per level
- Sword Mastery renamed to Blade Mastery and now affects daggers
- All Masteries received Attack Rating bonus increases:
- Blade/Axe/Mace/Polearm/Spear: Base bonus increased from 28% to 40%
- Throwing: Base bonus increased from 30% to 44%
- Throwing Mastery additions:
- Added chance to not consume quantity (up to 55% at level 20)
- Critical strikes now replenish quantity
- Added chance to pierce
- All Warcries now display radius in tooltip
- War Cry:
- Damage increased by ~30%
- Mana cost increase per level reduced from 1 to 0.75
- Shout duration baseline increased from 20 seconds to 30 seconds
- Battle Command duration baseline increased from 5 seconds to 30 seconds
- Grim Ward:
- Radius baseline value increased
- Now adds Slow and increases Damage Taken for nearby enemies
- Find Potion synergy added: +5% Damage Taken per level
- Whirlwind changes:
- No longer tracks moving enemies (stops at click location)
- Always performs when targeting adjacent enemies
- Removed -50% damage penalty, now starts at 30% damage
- Leap:
- Baseline minimum distance increased
- Speed increased by 75%
- Added minimum jump height and duration
- Knockback Radius now shown in tooltip
- Leap Attack:
- Speed increased by 75%
- Added minimum jump height and duration
- Damage baseline increased from 100% to 200%
- Attack Rating baseline increased from 50% to 100%
- Attack Rating per level increased from 15% to 20%
- Added AoE physical damage on landing (4.6 yard radius)
- Leap synergy applies to AoE damage
- Mana cost increased from 9 to 10
- Always performs when targeting adjacent enemies
- Berserk:
- Shout synergy replaced with Battle Orders synergy
- Double Throw:
- Added 16% baseline damage bonus
- Added 8% damage increase per level
- Frenzy:
- Added Increased Stamina synergy: +0.4 Seconds per Level
- Improved Leap/Leap Attack animation behavior for smoother trajectory
- Updated barbarian dual-wielding attack speed calculations
- Impale:
- Now an uninterruptible attack
- Always hits (Attack Rating requirement removed)
- Added slow effect on target
- Animation speed increased by 30%
- Fend:
- Attack Speed increased by 100%
- Power Strike:
- Lightning Fury synergy removed
- Lightning Bolt synergy increased from 10% to 14%
- Charged Strike synergy increased from 10% to 14%
- Lightning Strike synergy increased from 10% to 14%
- Charged Strike:
- Lightning Fury synergy removed
- Power Strike synergy increased from 10% to 14%
- Lightning Bolt synergy increased from 10% to 14%
- Lightning Strike synergy increased from 10% to 14%
- Lightning Strike:
- Lightning Fury synergy removed
- Power Strike synergy increased from 8% to 11%
- Lightning Bolt synergy increased from 8% to 11%
- Charged Strike synergy increased from 8% to 11%
- Poison Javelin:
- Adjusted high-level damage scaling
- Casting Delay no longer shares cooldown
- Plague Javelin:
- 20-33% damage-per-second increase
- Poison Javelin synergy increased from 10% to 14%
- Casting Delay reduced from 4 seconds to 1 second
- Casting Delay no longer shares cooldown
- Inner Sight radius increased by 35%
- Slow Missiles:
- Now scales instead of fixed 33% slow
- Radius increased by 35%
- Added enemy missile damage reduction based on skill level
- Valkyrie:
- Casting Delay reduced from 6 seconds to 0.6 seconds
- Casting Delay no longer shares cooldown
- Dodge/Avoid:
- Animations can now be interrupted
- No longer locks out other actions
- Freezing Arrow:
- Mana Cost per level reduced from +0.5 to +0.25
- Magic Arrow:
- Increased physical to magic damage conversion
- Multiple Shot:
- Added Guided Arrow synergy: +12% physical damage per level
- Guided Arrow:
- Damage bonus per level increased from 5% to 7%
- Added Multiple Shot synergy: +12% physical damage per level
- Strafe:
- Removed 25% weapon damage reduction
- Added +30% baseline Attack Rating (+9% per level)
- Added Multiple Shot synergy: +5% physical damage per level
- Added Guided Arrow synergy: +10% physical damage per level
- Fire Arrow:
- Removed mana cost increase per level
- Exploding Arrow:
- ~50% higher damage scaling at higher levels
- Fire Arrow synergy increased from 12% to 14%
- Mana Cost per level reduced from +0.5 to +0.25
- Immolation Arrow:
- Average Fire Damage per second scaling increased by ~100%
- Cooldown reduced by 40%
- Mana Cost per level reduced from +0.5 to +0.25
- Casting Delay no longer shares cooldown
- Raise Skeletal Mage:
- HP per level increased from 7% to 10%
- Poison total damage scaling increased by ~750%
- Poison duration standardized to 4 seconds
- Cold damage scaling increased by ~50%
- Lightning damage scaling increased by ~5%
- Life scaling per level now properly displayed in tooltip
- Blood Golem:
- Attack damage increased by ~20%
- 20% reduction in mana cost per level
- Now gains Max Life per level
- Increased damage scaling per level
- Iron Golem:
- Thorns changed to deal flat damage when aura-affected targets are attacked instead of returning percentage damage
- Fire Golem:
- 20% reduction in mana cost per level
- Holy Fire damage increased by ~50%
- Fire attack damage increased by ~30%
- Fixed bug where Holy Fire damage max value displayed as half of true value
- Bone Armor:
- Damage Absorbed per level increased from 10 to 15
- Bone Spear synergies increased from 7% to 8%:
- Teeth synergy
- Bone Wall synergy
- Bone Prison synergy
- Bone Spear synergy
- Bone Spirit synergies increased from 6% to 8%:
- Teeth synergy
- Bone Wall synergy
- Bone Spear synergy
- Bone Prison synergy
- Weaken:
- Now scales with level: 33% base + 1% per level damage reduction
- Decrepify:
- Tooltip updated to show status changes
- Frost Nova:
- Damage level scaling increased by ~25%
- Blizzard:
- Casting Delay no longer shares cooldown
- Frozen Orb:
- Casting Delay no longer shares cooldown
- Frozen Armor:
- Base duration increased from 120 to 144 seconds
- Shiver Armor:
- Damage level scaling increased by ~25%
- Base duration increased from 120 to 144 seconds
- Chilling Armor:
- Damage level scaling increased by ~200%
- Duration bonus per level increased from 6 to 12 seconds
- Chill length bonus per level (level 16+) increased from 1 to 2 seconds
- Defense baseline increased from 45% to 60%
- Defense bonus per level increased from 5% to 7%
- Frozen Armor damage synergy increased from 7% to 9%
- Chilling Armor damage synergy increased from 7% to 9%
- Nova:
- Static Field synergy added: +5% Lightning Damage per level
- Mana cost reduced from 15 to 13
- Thunder Storm:
- Static Field synergy added: +7% Lightning Damage per level
- Duration baseline increased from 32 to 144 seconds
- Duration bonus per level increased from 8 to 24 seconds
- Radius now displayed in tooltip
- Energy Shield:
- Tooltip updated to show Mana consumed and Telekinesis synergy
- Inferno:
- Base damage and level scaling increased by ~75%
- Warmth synergy increased from 13% to 16%
- Controls updated for free-form casting
- Mana Cost reduced from 7 to 4 per second
- Range baseline increased by 75%
- Blaze:
- Damage scaling increased by ~60%
- Warmth synergy increased from 4% to 6%
- Fire Wall synergy removed
- Added Run/Walk Speed bonus of 2% per level
- Duration now displayed in tooltip
- Fire Wall:
- Casting Delay no longer shares cooldown
- Meteor:
- Casting Delay no longer shares cooldown
- Hydra:
- Can spawn multiple hydras on controller when holding button
- Casting delay removed
- Limited to 6 Hydra groups maximum
- Resist Fire, Cold, and Lightning:
- Tooltips now display max resist bonus
- Blessed Aim:
- Tooltip now displays passive Attack Rating bonus
- Holy Fire:
- Now scales with distance (double damage at melee range, scaling to normal at max range)
- Resist Fire Synergy increased from 18% to 21%
- Damage level scaling increased to 70%
- Salvation synergy increased from 6% to 10%
- Holy Freeze:
- Now scales with distance (double damage at melee range, scaling to normal at max range)
- Holy Shock:
- Now scales with distance (double damage at melee range, scaling to normal at max range)
- Sanctuary:
- Now scales with distance (double damage at melee range, scaling to normal at max range)
- Thorns:
- Now deals flat damage when attacked in addition to returning percentage of damage taken
- Sacrifice:
- Self damage now reduces per level (from flat 8% to 8% minus 1% per level)
- Conversion:
- Maximum conversion chance increased from 50% to 90%
- Smite:
- Tooltip now shows that skill always hits
- Holy Bolt:
- Now damages Demons in addition to Undead
- Blessed Hammer synergy removed
- Damage increased by 50%
- Now pierces targets (Friendly and Hostile)
- Prayer synergy increased from 15% to 20%
- Fist of the Heavens:
- Now damages Demons in addition to Undead
- Casting Delay reduced from 1 second to 0.4 seconds
- Casting Delay no longer shares cooldown
- Holy Bolts now pierce targets
- No longer forces attack when out of mana
- Improved targeting functionality for auto acquiring enemies