dark and darker - /vm/

Anonymous04/01/26, 08:34No.2322934Dark and Darker

Dark and Darker Hopes and reams for new classes/maps? Or just complain about class balance, hadn't seen a DaD thread in awhile

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Anon04/01/26, 18:37No.2323506

The biggest recent change for me was the removal of bunnyhopping. As a long term player I have hated it for the longest time. The reason ranged classes cannot be balanced and kite infinitely is because of retaining momentum in the air for weapon swapping/casting/etc. That is now gone, the survival bow is no longer the best weapon in the game bar none because you literally cannot be hit ever with it out. That was a major positive change. >However They also promised that each class would receive new spells and unique shit. That didnt happen. The barb and fighter got new spells, and every weapon got the ability to parry and riposte. This did somewhat balance the best melee weapon in the game by far (The longsword), since other weapons now can hit hard. I can talk for hours about the stupidity of the longsword, so ill just move on.Speaking of new shit, the Barbarian got Whirlwind and a couple new spells and "everyone" (Youtubers) cried WW was overpowered. It has since been nerfed. I do not believe WW should be able to attack through walls like it could/still can(?) but WW was not overpowered in any sense of the word. They brought its damage from 100% per hit>80% per hit. Why would you choose to use a spell that nerfs your damage by 20% when you could just auto attack for full damage? I dont get it. The barbarian isnt strong because it has WW, its strong because its healthpool has a base of 43%(I believe?) higher than every other class.

Anon04/01/26, 19:01No.2323524

>MOST IMPORANTLY And my final post: The game currently has 500 queues for different things. You cant argue with me; the best version of the game ever was when "Squires to riches" (Trios ONLY lobbies) was forced. Im a solo player and i still massively prefer trios only lobbies. With the addition of solos, and easy healing (squire now gives you a campfire, potions, blue potions, etc) and knowledge/experience of how monsters and the game works in general, it has flipped for me from a slow methodical dungeon delving game with pvp to a fast paced call of duty. The release of panther chicken jump/rat form through doorways absolutely ruined the game for me. Not because i was dying to it, but because when druid was released lifebloom wasnt out yet so it became a requirement of my kit playing druid. I know you can make arguments that it was/is overpowered and contributes to the movement speed meta, etc. but thats not what my biggest problem with it is. It turns the identity of the game from slow paced, to one of sprinting to other players spawnpoints because only I have the ability to do so. I no longer lurk around corners noting down how many players I see in the enemy team to decide if i should fight or run, I sprint at them knowing theres only 1 person to fight and thanks to my experience, im almost always guaranteed to win unless i screw up or am severely outgeared. (Patch dependent)>I do very much like the game, and anyone thinking about getting it; it has been the only game ive been excited for since the 2013 trailer of The Division 1. And in this instance; D&D lived up past my expectations.

Anon04/02/26, 03:00No.2324190

SDF leaving to work on another project to "prove nexon wrong" i think is a major red flag. Terry was a major part of Electronic Arts monetization back in the day. If you notice; since that community note was made about SDF stepping down leaving it to Terry and Paul(?) the game has already gotten like 10 weapon cosmetics + weapon cosmetic bundles you can only buy with real money. Granted the cosmetic is the same just for multiple different weapons, but its the first weapon skin there is and theres tons of them. >Also The bluestone shard "squish" where they gave you double blue stone shards and made them worth half of what they were. Idk if any of you caught that, but the purpose wasnt to make the system more simple, it was to half the amount of bluestone shards you earn in a season and double the amount of time it takes to get them.I fear that the upcoming season we'll start to see gayer and gayer shit in the cash shop.

Anon04/09/26, 10:30No.2338288

Blacked and blackeder. I prefer barony.

Anon04/19/26, 01:38No.2365240

cuck and cucked

Anon04/21/26, 22:08No.2375742

I HATE DRUIDS FUCK YOU RATCASTERS

Anon04/24/26, 08:16No.2384190

>rogue and ranger getting new perks and abilitys >100% theyll be OP >2 of the already meta classes will be even more metacasters in shambles

Anon04/24/26, 14:30No.2384995

I wish I had a static group to roll HR with. Playing with randoms sucks ass

Anon04/24/26, 18:34No.2385816

I played back during beta days. Is the game not at risk of shutting down anymore? Is cleric good?

Anon04/29/26, 09:09No.2403666

Came back from a year break, my god does wizard seem gutted.>Magic pen is now based on their MR, ie 50% MR vs 20% pen makes it 40% >Alright w/e Zorin is now def the worst religion >True magic/phys gone >Good change it was cancer >Rogue now has shadow step, ranger new stuff >Guess solo wiz is more dead >Arcane missle nerrfed to half scaling >Fireball "buffed" but no longer does splash damage on direct hit making it actually a nerf >worst of all, STILL no wiz flavor spells like knock/grease/fly etcHowever druid was gutted too so overall a positive year it seems

Anon05/03/26, 00:27No.2418680

the game is popping off wake up

Anon05/09/26, 04:04No.2441501

Still true to this day

Anon05/10/26, 23:02No.2449033

This wipe kinda slaps fr....

Anon05/13/26, 18:11No.2459401

Squire Royale with randoms experience >Wizard fireballs in back of my head >Cleric heals me at 90% health despite having heal potted then *sits* >Druid turns in to a rat and runs away once we see the enemy >Rogue teleports behind a team of three and dies to double halberd >Barbarian spin TKs both of us >Ranger steps in his own trap >Sorc pins us in with earth elemental >Fighter fights mobs, hits 70% health then second winds instead of potting >Bard spams din of darkness during a team fight >Warlock phantomizes into enemy, sorc and wizard cast aoe him to death

Anon05/16/26, 23:16No.2473398

Sneak attack ambush full strength rogue hits over 90 on a dummy headshot with a short sword / rapier Too bad im a longsword addict in a world of halberds Anyone here kill the demon overseer yet? Fuck this gay ass party finder, just let me queue into normal trios you dumb fucking faggot SDF, squire royale is fun but then they remove content by removing bosses from 2nd and 3rd floor, great idea

Anon05/17/26, 09:34No.2475008

Sell me on this squire royale thing, what is it? Everybody is limited to white gear? Wasn't there something like this already, what is different this time?

Anon05/18/26, 11:12No.2479839

I haven't played HR at all this wipe. SR is the only fun game mode left

Anon05/19/26, 11:41No.2483484

S2R is fun because its constant pvp and the lobbies are full. Also people actually go down levels unlike norms. HR continues to be everyone perma running playing doors and third partying because if people lose their precious pixels in HR they die irl or something. By the way if any anons want to play add me in game: Castriot (eu but idm playing NA east ig)

Anon05/21/26, 00:03No.2489855

Need artifact abilities to appear on gear random starting from blue + with a nerfed effect. I fixed it

Anon05/24/26, 11:58No.2503513

Why won't they add solo squire royal? That's all I want because I hate having to build kits just to instantly die.

Anon05/26/26, 17:34No.2511787

Really like druid healing, dreamfire spam on a tanky character can keep them alive forever at least in Squire to Royale. Coin toss if a Chinese player will just TK/rob you like they did to this guy

Anon05/28/26, 09:40No.2518003

I'm a new player and kind of lost on what mode to play? I'm playing PvE pracitcing spectral knight right now cuz i think the bossfights cool but what do ppl recommend to play to learn PvP? Or it doesn't matter, just any pvp mode and grind it out?

Anon06/03/26, 13:38No.2543509

Arena was a giant mistake, catering to solo faggots was also a mistake

Anon06/12/26, 08:15No.2583396

Will turning the game into goon and gooner save it?

Anon06/13/26, 12:46No.2589154

Its funny that S2R the most popular mode by far has all the the mechanics DaD community has been bitching and moaning about endlessly.. It's trios only no solo/duo. It has the fortnite BR zone. It has no extracts except at the end. It has way larger window of continous matchmaking so you don't end up with dead lobbies. It's the only queue that feels like old DaD and isn't dead as fuck.

Anon06/14/26, 18:24No.2595660

What are some busted Squire Royale builds? I'm getting slapped queueing up with randoms, need something that can carry

Anon06/15/26, 22:37No.2600740

Faustian Bargain is still one of their better additions hiroshimoot pls give us mp4 with sound and larger filesizes

Anon06/16/26, 01:06No.2601314

hows this game nowdays for someone who just likes fucking around by voiping with people? i remember it being really fun when voip was first released, but then other games caught my attention

Anon06/21/26, 15:01No.2627726

We still lost this one

Anon06/21/26, 18:58No.2629783

Finally took the time to fix my driver issues and enable HVCI so I could play HR. Loaded in a match and experienced consistent, awful lag; making the game freeze for 1-2 seconds at a time. Which was not happening the hour prior to enabling HVCI. Thanks, Ironmace!

Anon06/24/26, 22:07No.2642264

>Squire lobby >Rando runs off while we are fighting a team 2v3 and die >Spectate him thinking he looted something real good/cockatrice feather >doesn't even have extra pots in invWhy do some of these people act like they are going to die IRL if they lose?

Anon06/30/26, 22:39No.2666237

nerf wizard that shit is braindamaged. yes still is even after 20 patches of nerfs. I think it became 20x more OP since the movement speed changes two patches ago

Anon06/30/26, 22:40No.2666239

i am half the posts in this thread why do i bother. wished people used the /v/ off boards more cus /vg/ is unusable now

Anon07/03/26, 14:52No.2678400

Making norms common items only fixed the game for me. I hated spending an hour trying to make a kit only to die instantly. Now that everyone in norms is equal I actually win fights sometimes. Game is good again now they just need to actually add more shit to do.

Anon07/04/26, 03:52No.2681362

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9y5OOuowqB0Looks like wiz is getting teleport next wipe, not a fan because it means three classes will have TP tech. Sorc and Rogue have downsides for it but with wiz I don't know what they will do since even one charge would be OP

Anon07/10/26, 06:07No.2705312

New teaser trailer dropped https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bf6tmQqaYIk>wizard can fly, put you to sleep, play prop hunt, and turn you into a pig now Fuck yes. Hope cleric got more than three measly spells though. Especially when it's the "cleric and wizard' update and it looks like rogue AND ranger are getting some new abilities too

Anon07/12/26, 16:11No.2713663

Barb Leap Slam When?

Anon07/17/26, 17:11No.2731279

>they just turned cleric into release sorc with a AoE teamwipethis is like the fourth time that insect swarm has just killed entire teams in a second, how do they fuck this up

Anon07/17/26, 22:40No.2732387

>first posts in literally almost a week Holy ded Also why the fuck doesn’t the game have a 1v1 friend dueling option

Anon07/18/26, 12:49No.2734087

Are there any classes that work well pvp wise with hobo gear? I don't want to be a loot goblin just to have a decent chance at killing someone

Anon07/19/26, 04:59No.2736664

>parry cucks begging for their crutch backmost parrys were easy as shit to land for what was basically I win in melee and im glad they made it harder to land, what they shouldve done was made parry timed and not just a hold

Anon07/19/26, 05:24No.2736695

why haven't they removed rangers from the game yet?

Anon07/21/26, 00:15No.2742701

Is this game good for solo or is it a sweatfest like tarkov where if you arent playing religiously you are behind a massive powergap and the only thing that matters is your gear, nothing else

Anon07/22/26, 04:15No.2747697

tried it again and the game is still just running around chasing people with no way to catch them I don't know how anyone finds this fun

Anon07/23/26, 16:09No.2755006

i want to get this game but it seems like you need a lot of esoteric knowledge about the maps, the mobs and the stats/builds when all I want is a dungeon crawler with pvp. it used to be even worse when there was no text/legend on the map so you literally had no clue where you were going until you played 50+ games getting gang raped on one map, and even then you didn't even know the secrets of the map. but now there are also gems and socketing so the items are more complicated.

Anon07/24/26, 18:56No.2759007

the game might reach 1.0 guys wait until then and see if you still want to come back

Anon07/25/26, 12:04No.2761251

okay so i just tried playing againthe game has literally just devolved into people filling their entire inventories with throwing weapons, and as soon as you turn around to fight them they press X and run awaythe game is not fun

Anon07/25/26, 12:31No.2761288

Does this game have proper pvp or is it still a zoomer '80% of your time is looking at the floor for loot in the downtime' game. Game would be sweet with deathmatch or ctf.

Anon07/27/26, 12:24No.2768696

this game cant be fun until barbarian is gutted, its actually been S tier for the entire games lifespan while every other class has at one point been utterly useless and barbarian has never had a true counter besides maybe PDR fighter but ofcourse barb got counters to that while pdr fighter was nerfed. no other class besides barb has all of their perks and skills being so good that you could probably play full random and still get great value out of the class including all of their gear being so good that warlocks sacrifice a perk slot just to use it.>melee classes cant contend because barb does fuck you damage upclose with a stupid amount of HP >magic/ranged classes either run out of spells or need three business days and massive outplays to stop a barb just reaching you and one shottingwhy the "slowest" class in the game can keep up with a rogue/ranger while also getting access to the best speed up and slows in the game is some dumb shit and every major class change has also only ever been indirect barb buffs like when the flip flopped with health changes or removed melee swing slow.

Anon07/30/26, 15:23No.2780003

I'm a burnt peanut fan. How can I become more like burnt peanut in the context of dark and darker?

Anon07/30/26, 16:37No.2780158

Do people still play? Last I played the dungeons were always empty, and they got rid of the zone closing in so nobody interacted, and I ultimately uninstalled last year because linux performance became unplayable and I was done dealing with it.

Anon07/31/26, 21:31No.2783886

seems like the game is still broken on linux won't go above 60 no matter what setting I change

Anon07/31/26, 21:46No.2783929

They still haven't added squire to riches solo either. Just an instant uninstall again.

Anon08/01/26, 06:10No.2785133

Are we playing Mistfall?

Anon08/03/26, 12:25No.2792326

No anons have added me... SeedandFeed

Anon08/07/26, 05:53No.2804833

>wizard has teleport >rogue has wall climb >warlock has phantomize >ranger has backstep and multishot >fighter has longsword >sorc has teleport and other bullshit spells yeah this game is fucking aids core melee gameplay is just continuously butchered in favor of parryslop and rangedslop

Anon08/07/26, 06:46No.2804981

Dark and Darker's melee will always be pants-on-head retarded until movement is overhauled Remove muh speed modifiers and change it so heavier gear affects finer movement traits such as turn rate and strafing rather than straight speed

Anon08/09/26, 08:27No.2812767

what do as a melee in a trio standoff? just wait for the other team to be bored and charge in?

Anon08/10/26, 20:10No.2818729

You did get your third anniversary cake, right?

Anon08/10/26, 20:53No.2818879

Does luck do anything? Had 301 luck in goblin caves and was pulling blues and purples from common chests and enemies but that seems pretty normal...

Anon08/14/26, 04:03No.2831783

Coming from a Barb player, Sorcerer is so damn fun. Just slinging spells and waving around your big dick longsword.

Anon08/23/26, 06:04No.2862931

Any rumors about the Warlock and Bard reworks/changes for next season?

Anon08/24/26, 15:45No.2867539

Druid is actually so fucking broken. They can rat and do all these cheezy escapes and just hide in the dark. They can also panther and just jump at you at mach 2. Bear is also so fucking tanky and hard hitting. AND druids can also put down gay little flowers that heal like 70% of their hp, they can also cast other spells that are good. druid seriously needs a nerf.

Anon08/24/26, 17:36No.2867751

Does this game still have the tavern anticheat that scans your PC and needs to be deleted seperately. I saw some stuff recently that made me wanna play, but only if they've reined in Tavern.

Anon08/25/26, 16:49No.2870887

I don't care about arena at all. I have rank chaser fatigue

Anon08/29/26, 20:50No.2887013

How hard is this game to get into these days? It has been intriguing me for a while because i very much dig the athmospheric design, looting and the pvm aspect but i feel like i would instantly be teabagged by an adderall timmy and lose all interest

Anon08/31/26, 04:24No.2893059

It's a shame west HR is so dead except for the chinese early morning. If I play on East there is half a second delay between everything and door fighting like this would have gotten me killed

Anon09/07/26, 05:49No.2921012

I'm going to pop a blood vessel trying to kill this fucking frost wyvern

Anon09/08/26, 10:41No.2925030

hi im trans

Anon09/10/26, 03:01No.2930673

How tf do you deal with people camping pillars and doors as a ranger or any ranged class/spellcaster?