D2R PTR 2.5 New Builds | How to Make Builds in Diablo 2 Patch 2.5 and Season 2 Ladder

D2R PTR 2.5 New Builds | How to Make Builds in Diablo 2 Patch 2.5 and Season 2 Ladder

9/16/2022 5:09:06 PM

The updated PTR 2.5 for Diablo 2 Resurrected is running starting from September 15 and will close on September 19 (PDT time). Blizzard brought a group of new build templates that were equipped with newly added sunder charms into the D2R 2.5 PTR. So today we are going to list all of the options and tips on how to make the best D2R Patch 2.5 (Season 2) build.

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Related Read: D2R 2.5 Patch Notes

New D2R PTR 2.5 Builds

In the PTR of D2R 2.5, all of the created characters will be removed and replaced with 13 different level 85 build options for players to use. Each build has a new sunder unique charm equipped.

- Freezing Arrow Amazon: Cold Sunder (The Cold Rupture)

- Fire Arrow Amazon: Fire Sunder (The Flame Rift)

- Frenzy Barbarian: Physical Sunder (The Bone Break)

- Fire Claw Druid: Fire Sunder (The Flame Rift)

- Fire Druid: Fire Sunder (The Flame Rift)

- Bone Necromancer: Magic Sunder (The Black Cleft)

- Poison Necromancer: Poison Sunder (The Rotting Fissure)

- Hammerdin (Blessed Hammer Paladin): Magic Sunder (The Black Cleft)

- Holy Fire Paladin: Fire Sunder (The Flame Rift)

- Tessladin (Holy Shock Paladin): Lightning Sunder (The Crack of the Heavens)

- Cold Sorceress: Cold Sunder (The Cold Rupture)

- Fire Sorceress: Fire Sunder (The Flame Rift)

- Lightning Sorceress: Lightning Sunder (The Crack of the Heavens)

How to Make the Best Build in D2R Patch 2.5 and Season 2 Ladder

Diablo 2 Resurrected Patch 2.5 is going to introduce a lot of cool items, which brings the possibility of a huge variety of new builds.

What to consider when you are making builds in D2R 2.5 and Season 2 with these new D2 Ladder items? In terms of the sundering charms, the magic sunder is going to be the worst of all by far, the reason is that, unlike poison, physical, lightning, fire, and cold, there is no form of negative enemy magic resistance in the game. So setting the monster’s resistance to 95% does not necessarily do anything because you're essentially causing the monster to be 95 resistant to your attack, which still effectively means that they're relatively unkillable unless you have an insanely high level of damage. On top of that, not only does it really not offer any huge bonuses for those characters, but it also has probably the worst negative out of all of the charms, while other types of resistance can all be countered using a myriad of items effects and skills, there is no effective way to counter negative magic resistance, so it is in a class by itself and having negative 50 magic resistance can effectively murder you. The only thing that it could potentially allow you to do is kill the magic immunes that are inside of Uber Tristram. These charms provide a very interesting way that you can build characters that you might not necessarily ever wanted or could build before.

There are multiple ways for players to use multiple charms on builds, maybe you're a dual-spec sorceress, maybe you're a fire slash cold sorceress, for example, if you had a corpse explosion, you can use both Bone Break charm for the physical sundering and Flame Rift charm for the fire, the same thing for an elemental druid. But the level requirement on these is level 75, this indicates that you wouldn't necessarily be able to build your character directly with these, you're still going to have to level up your character the normal way up to the point where you get your hands on one of these, and once can access one of these, then you can maybe respect into a more singular build.

One thing you should know is that these charms only set the monster's resistance to 95, they don't necessarily fix your problem, you still have to obtain other pieces of Diablo 2 items with negative enemy resistance, and in combination with those other items like Flickering Flame, you will obtain the effect that you're looking for, but they don't work in PVP.