Hi Cym! I musta just missed your recent post, been away from GOG for a couple of weeks... ...since I finished Dragon Age Origins and started playing Resurrected!

I got a Frenzy Barbarian just started Act 3. I also got a Poison Javazon in Act 2, which is what I'm playing in my 11yo's game on the weekends (no school nights). He is running a Summoning Druid.

So I bought D2R twice, once under my email address and once under his email address, as I assume I couldn't log in as me on two separate machines at the same time. We do Online characters of course, and he creates a game with a password, so it's just us.

I have this incredible spreadsheet that I created back in my D2 legacy days. Got three builds per character mapped out, with synergies, how I'd assign the Fkeys for skills, and all that. I did make a D2R copy of the spreadsheet and will make adjustments based on the April patch that modified the synergies to D2R.

Not sure how I feel about the D2R April patch changes. I am kind of a purist. I probably would've voted to leave the synergies alone.

Anyways, my 11yo absolutely loves this game. He talks about it all week. He digs summoning his ravens and vine and spirit and wolves and bear and sits back and watches the action, and then joins in the clicking when the mob thins out lol.

I might try ladder at some point myself, to see what it's about. But I won't try it with my 11yo. At his age he is a very minimal player.

We go back and forth as to what we'll do when we complete Act 5: create a new dude and do Normal again, or continue with our first dude and try Nightmare.

Those terror zones are not Normal mode, right?

I'm not sure on the terror zones, but they can whoop your butt easily if you're not careful. Glad you're enjoying the game :) I'm just happy my physical bowazon is almost back to where she was in 1.09.

Take care!
-Cym