Explosive arrows (question)

[Crystalion]

It's too bad, but lots of variants are totally hamstrung by the ridiculous monster regeneration in hell difficulty, not to mention immunes.  I wish they would just remove the regen, all it does is screw over slow killing builds (most variants), or force them to find/use PMH.

Well, the game is often more enjoyable when it is harder (e.g. see MongoJerry stories). Yes a slow killing build player may get frustrated if they are having trouble and think about how easy it is for some cheesy build to do what they are stuggling with. But some things are good *because* they are difficult.

A "slow" build either has to plan on spending a lot more time playing or has to plan on "seeing the light at the end of the tunnel" a bit sooner, in clvl terms, than faster builds.

But a good player can fairly easily complete D2 hell in party in their 60s, with most builds, if the party members are halfway competent. (I'm speaking for softcore, of course, hardcore player's understandably would probably prefer to wait a bit before pushing their luck).

Many of these "fast" builds that cookie-cutter players favor need to be fast simply because the players aren't very good, so they need the clvl vs. mlvl, the stat points and the skill points and the goodies dropped/traded for. Most of these players apparently feel they've done well only when something seems pathetically easy to do. Many of the players I've seen in public games just bail when things get tough (after dying a few times).

So by all means try an oddball Paly build, instead of an "uber" blessed hammer build... you'll probably have a bigger challenge, to be sure, but I bet you'll have more fun. :)

edit: I know that BH involves skill... imo BH is one of many skills that is a bit overpowered in v1.10 however, which means that a lot of unskillful players are now attracted to cookie cutter BH builds. I saw one player bragging about his BH/conc damage tonight... very silly (I'd much rather hear the "brags" of the players like MongoJerry, that beat the game with their bare hands :D ).