Ok, is it me, or is LoD really frickin' easy?

[Fireheart]

I've been away from D2 nearly two years and I never played a Druid, so I fired up LoD today to do some "get back in the groove" playing.

I beat Act I with Stormwind, my Druid. He was level 15 and had 14 saved skill points and 70 saved stat points.

That's right. I beat the entire act having never put a single point into any stat and only putting one point into poison creeper.

To me this is farkin' ridiculous. I just distributed my points for Act II and I'm going through Radament like sh*t through a goose.

Is this unique to the druid or a real problem in LoD in general?

[FoxBat]

Heh, D2 Normal diff has always been that way since 1.00... guess you've really been away for awhile.

[FirEFroG]

its not just you, i can do it solo with an assassin without having to really think...

i wish you great luck on getting back into the groove of things and i think the main point of good mod making in the time being is that people want everything, and i mean everything, to be diffrent...

[Fireheart]

I think the key difference is the hireling. I could never tank like this in D2 Classic and when I played LoD through as an Assassin I ignored my hireling and killed her off.

And actually I have to disagree. Cold Fusion was NOT the most "out there" or "different" mod ever built. Not by a long shot. We had our share of new material, yes, but our absolute focus was on tightly integrating and rebuilding Diablo II into what we hoped, in the end, would be a better game. We added some new graphics and skills and tweaked difficulty, leveling, uniques, gems, etc, but we didn't go for level re-design hardly at all.

[max_power]

Yes LoD is bloody easy.... That said what makes it harder is typing 'players x' Where x is a number from 1 - 8, doing that will simulate a multiplayer game, the mosters haveing x*hitpoints, experience and better drops, I have, since the disaperence of CF, played on 'players 8' and have gotten as far as act 1 hell with no difficulty...

[Psychomech]

I cannot believe that lord of destruction actually improved upon classic diablo, nor can i believe that lord of destruction is even a worthwhile challenge. the only good thing LOD has brought us is charms, improved mercs, and lots of excellent mods. i can't believe blizzard ripped everyone off like that, starbucks wannabe's

[Fireheart]

1.10s is DEFINITELY harder.

[ThorAsgard]

FireHeart, just to let you know... Its like that in every game - Equipment > Level

You can be level 1 and beat lod if you want, its not about the level, its about the equipment! or better yet, as you mentioned = Skills > Level

Or to make it even more exact = Equipment > Skills > Level

Well, have you tried doing a non-equipment mod and then play the game with only using whatever you can put your hands on (levels, stat points, skill points) and then we shall see how easy LoD is