What the D2R Community Is Talking About Right Now Part 2

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"Reward suggestion upon completing every quest per difficulty"

A player floated the idea of a new Akara reward — similar to the Hell's Forge quest — that would grant a rune for fully clearing every quest and waypoint in a difficulty, with better runes tied to higher difficulties (an Ohm-tier rune for Hell, Ist for Nightmare). The idea drew immediate pushback: several posters argued it's another step toward power creep and would just hand botters and multi-boxers another exploit vector, since eight accounts running the campaign could all cash in simultaneously. Others countered that campaign completion is enough of a time sink that it wouldn't meaningfully change the economy, and one player pointed out bots don't even bother rushing characters for the existing (lower) Hell's Forge reward, so a bigger prize probably wouldn't change their behavior either. A few offered alternative rewards instead — an extra respec, or a way to earn "socket tokens" similar to respec tokens — as safer options than guaranteed high-rune access.

"Need bigger than 8 player game lobbies"

The OP asked why, in 2026, D2R is still capped at 8-player games when the original engine technically supported a "players 64" command. The community response was largely a firm "no" for normal play — several pointed out that zones like Maggot Lair are already cramped with 8 people, loot division would become a mess, and visual clutter from skill effects is already a problem at 4+ players. There was more openness to the idea for a dedicated PvP or trade-only space, with one player recalling a 32-player PvP server from years back as "a blast." The most skeptical replies focused on the practical reality that a 16-player lobby would likely just mean one person running 15 mules rather than 16 real humans.

"Please add an option to leave the mercenary in town"

A short but practical QoL request: let players stash their mercenary in town (via an NPC interaction, similar to hiring one from Kashya) instead of having to kill them off before starting repeated Magic Find runs. The one reply agreed the request itself was a little unusual but pivoted to a longstanding related wish — actual mercenary commands, like "attack" and "retreat," which players have been requesting for years.

"What D2R 3.0 needs"

A wishlist thread for the next major content update. The original list included a dedicated stash tab for stacking runes and perfect gems, buffs to rarely-used unique items like Tyrael's Might, more stash space, mercenary rebalancing (plus a new Act 4 mercenary option), a Mosaic runeword nerf, class rebalancing, higher-level Terror Zone monsters (100–110), and new endgame content beyond Ubers and Terror Zones. Replies got creative fast: one player pitched a "King of the Hell" mechanic where a fixed pool of monsters in a game gets progressively harder and more rewarding to kill as the game clears, with milestone events (unique ghosts flooding Tristram, all monsters converting to Uber-tier at 95% cleared, etc.). Another pushed back hard on further class rebalancing, arguing that class identity — each character excelling at different things — is core to what makes D2 good, while a third argued the opposite, that oskills and cross-class synergies would be an improvement. A late reply just wanted more optional superbosses: Uber King Leoric, Uber Lazarus, and an Uber Goat Man pulled from the original Diablo.

"Trade window option"

A simple UI complaint: dragging large stacks of Perfect Gems or runes one at a time into the trade window is tedious, and the OP wants a Shift+Click (or Ctrl+Click, as one reply suggested, matching the stash's existing shortcut) to move items automatically. A follow-up asked for the ability to trade whole stacks of stackable items at once. One reply took the idea further, arguing the real fix is an in-game marketplace, since most trading already happens through third-party sites anyway.

"Proposed changes to multiplayer RE: multiboxing"

One of the more detailed policy proposals of the month. The OP suggested disabling the no-drop bonus and stripping active buffs (Battle Orders, Enchant, etc.) from characters that go idle for 30+ seconds, specifically to remove the advantage multi-account players get from parking idle "buff mule" characters in a game. The goal, as the OP put it, was to push players toward actual grouping rather than filling lobbies with AFK support characters. Reactions were mixed and technical: several players worried about accidentally losing party buffs during a normal town run, prompting the OP to propose a gradual buff-timer decay instead of an instant wipe. Others argued the whole framework is too complicated and pushed for simpler fixes — bringing back an online `/players X` command, or moving to a personal/instanced loot system that removes the incentive for "split MF" games entirely. The thread also got personal, with accusations of multi-boxing thrown between posters.

"Please Blizzard make possible turn on p8 on battlenet"

A recurring request: let players manually set game difficulty online (similar to the classic `/players X` console command) so solo or small-group players can access harder difficulty and better drops without needing a full lobby. The thread was notably contentious — several replies accused the OP of reposting the same suggestion across alt accounts, and others called the request "entitled." A more constructive middle-ground suggestion proposed making it a consumable, shard-like item that raises the minimum player count for a game rather than a freely toggleable setting. Critics argued that manually raising the player count would actually make solo play harder (since monster health and damage scale up), and that the underlying problem is really a lack of online players to group with, not a missing setting.

"Terrorized Music Toggle"

A music-focused complaint: Terror Zones currently override an area's normal music with a single dedicated Terror Zone track, and players want the option to keep the original per-area soundtrack instead. Multiple posters agreed enthusiastically, noting the TZ track was a fun nostalgic callback at first but gets repetitive fast, especially since Terror Zones are designed to cycle through different areas for variety — variety the music doesn't currently reflect. Workarounds suggested included muting in-game music entirely and playing something else, or (only half-jokingly) swapping the TZ theme for the Airwolf theme. Not everyone agreed it needed fixing — one player argued a unified Terror Zone track makes sense since terrorized areas are conceptually "one" state regardless of which map they occupy.

"Hardcore Level 99 Race: The Grimoire of the Unfallen — 300 Champions"

An official Blizzard announcement celebrating 300 Hardcore players who reached level 99 during a ladder race event, framed around the "Demon Sorceress" (Warlock) class. Congratulations aside, the thread's most engaged sub-discussion was players approving of Blizzard's decision to disqualify entrants found using multi-loaders or other unauthorized programs, calling it a good sign for competitive integrity. A side tangent broke out over the event's "Demon Sorceress" naming convention, since the overwhelming majority of the 300 finishers played the Warlock class — several players found the phrasing confusing or unnecessary, while others defended it as simply the class's official title.

"Windows process explorer bannable"

A cautionary post from a player who got a ban upheld on appeal for multiboxing — running two D2R accounts on one PC by using the Windows utility Process Explorer to kill the client's "check for other instances" process, letting a second copy launch. He shared Blizzard's appeal response confirming the ban was for "unauthorized third-party programs" and warned others using the same widely-circulated method (which has its own tutorial elsewhere on this forum) that it isn't actually safe. The thread turned into a detailed technical debate: some argued Process Explorer is a legitimate first-party Microsoft tool and that "third-party program" is a vague, arguably unfair label to apply to it; others pointed to Blizzard's EULA language banning "any code not expressly authorized by Blizzard" that alters gameplay functionality, which would cover it regardless of who made the tool. Several posters argued Blizzard likely isn't scanning background processes directly but is instead detecting the behavioral fingerprint of one input stream controlling two characters simultaneously — meaning legitimate multi-account players (e.g., two people on the same LAN) aren't at risk, but automated or synced multi-boxing setups are.

"Can we all agree this is the worst season at this point?"

The forum's biggest thread of the month by far (300+ replies, nearly 3,700 views) opened with a longtime solo-self-found player announcing they'd quit earlier into a season than ever before. Their complaints: Heralds feel worthless despite pre-release promises of better loot (700+ kills with nothing better than a yellow item), elite packs are dropping Worldstone Shards instead of real loot, boss kills are yielding "dust and statues" instead of uniques, and even rune drops feel unusually weak. The thread split hard into two camps. One side backed the complaint with their own data points — Shards and Statues diluting the loot table by an estimated 20–33%, Herald loot being nerfed too aggressively after PTR feedback that it was too generous, and offline/singleplayer players noting Heralds are actively annoying to deal with since they spawn on nearly every map. The other side, led by a player logging steady mid-tier rune drops on a Warlock character, argued the complaints were exaggerated or anecdotal, which triggered a lengthy, fairly hostile back-and-forth about "echo chambers" and RNG variance. By the end, even skeptical voices seemed to concede that Shard/Statue drops have meaningfully crowded out other loot, with multiple players independently proposing that shards should be an *additional* drop rather than one that consumes a loot slot.