Diablo II 1.10 Beta Test begins

[Ruvanal]

Fought Duriel in Normal. Ouch! Ouch!

He has Holy Freeze, so he's doing a little damage from that. With a Half Freeze time item, and Duriel in Normal probably having a low level HF, I was occasionally - while running away crying "Mommy" - able to unfreeze if he stopped to attack me, before he started chasing again. Most likely in Hell his aura would cover the entire room.

Decide to take a look at teh slugs stats. Surprised that you could even manage to run away from him in the first place. A characters base walk/run values are 6/9 while Duriels are 10/15.

But that's just incidental to his major hurt. You know you're in trouble when you start wishing Duriel was charging you  After his charge he would do a Jab or Double Swing or something, so he would do two quick consecutive hits that would HURT! I had 310 life (and no AC at all), and the charge was doing maybe 1/4 or 1/5 of my life, and each 'Jab' hit maybe 1/6 or 1/8, so I just could not even close to stand there and tank him without rejuv pots. I've made very similar builds recently in 1.09, and I could tank Duriel with these characters without too much problem - at least until my heal pots ran out, which didn't take very long. But now Duriel was doing damage waay too fast for heal pots to help.

In normal his skills are
Charge level 5
Jab level 15
Smite level 7
Holy Freeze level 1
+3 level s at NM and +7 levels at Hell.

Resistances norm/nm/hell
Damage 0/0/50
magic 0/0/33
fire 20/50/75
ltng 20/50/75
cold 50/75/95
pois 20/50/75
blocking 0/25/50
HP 3995/55799/61162(non-ladder) or 81546(ladder); not sure which of these two values will be used in SP mode, probably the ladder value.
damage in normal only and only the base amounts without skills
A1 attack 19.6-25.2
A2 attack 19.6-25.2 +100% chance of 15 frame stun.
Rather messy to dig this out by hand. I see part of why the AS site was not taking time right away to try to list monster stats. But it would not be to bad to set up a data base program to crunch a lot of this out.

So far, I've yet to see a non-rare drop (other than gems, etc) from an Act Boss. Four rares from Andy, three from Duriel. I imagine that that's not the case if you've already killed them, and I'm sure it is possible to get set/unique items, but has anyone gotten a blue item from an Act Boss being killed the first time? I expect that the chance for a rare (if not set/unique) is 100%.

From the look of it the monsters with a boss=1 are the ones that will not be getting the magic find applied to them. The quest TCs for the act end bosses have very high chance checks for uniques and sets and then a 100% chance of rare checks (providing the item can be rare).

Lemekin:

Also, have anyone able to create some tempered items using the tal (or ral) + jewel + superior weapon/armor cube recipe? Or am I simply trying the wrong one =O

The tempered formulas are not enabled and are incomplete also. They would nothing very useful in their current set up if they were enabled.