D2 why is grief so good

I have dropped it twice from Pit over the years and have cubed it from other runes that drop as well.

Yep… Has it happened quick? Yup… that is D2 beauty, each playthrough is different. Ok I am very stupid I messed up my math big time lol its not as overpowered as I made it out to be… I fixed the math. Even without grief Smiters are derp derp easy, so nerfing grief makes little sense for Ubers, but yes everything you said here is spot on.

Smite is just ridiculously Good vs single target, even with items found only in normal. The thing is that Grief is designed for 1-hand weapons mainly, whilst runewords such as BoTD, Doom and Destruction is designed for 2-hand weapons. Can We all agree that Grief should be changed?

Here is Why. Kind of… an unnecessary thing to do 20 years later. Consider that within the PvP community it has always been indisputably recognized that Bone Necros, Trappers, Wind Druids are the strongest. Under this you have unusually good Bowazon play or Ghostin play or sometimes good Hammerdin play, that can contest those top 3. Anything under what was listed here are meme builds for fun, not competitive play. So from a sheer intra-class balance standpoint, Grief needs to stay the same.

People probably like grief because os phase blades are cheap, fast and never need repaired. Try the Demo! User Info: Ramiran. Ethereal, it does I think. The max damage is lower, but the average damage is way higher. Now this next part I'm going to say I'm a little iffy on as I haven't played in a couple years, but IIRC, ED on skills will be a percentage of the for the nongrief, but will be for the grief. I don't think this huge difference would be displayed on the character screen, but in practice you'd see it.

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On smiters, the dmg is very significant as it adds dmg to ur shield, while holy shield usually add about dmg. Smackin said:. Darkflight Diabloii. Grief damage adds directly to the base damage of your shield when using Smite. For example: Fictional numbers and a little simplified You use a shield with Smite damage Lets say Holy Shield adds 70 damage to Smite. You don't use Grief. So your Smite damage is So your damage will be When using Grief, the extra damage you do is not shown in the Character Screen.