I downloaded your fix Endymion and i could drop for the 1st time an icescale armor in legendary. Thanks for your work 

When i used TQvault in this session play though, i got an error. The tqvault version 2.5.2.0 is maybe old. Is there a new version i should use with your fix ?

How do you make it triggered ?

I weared the tunic of the allfather during a one hour session play, trying in fight to run out of mana. And.. no raven in the sky.
I would have seen it since it lasts 24s according to the tooltip.

Runny Smith - Lvl 61 Twinked - Helos

An update for Runny now in Epic. Although act V fluidity has been improved since the beginning of the year, the whole act is too much overcrowded. Sure, Xmax mod is a pleasure for acts I to IV, but not for act V imho. In particular, I didn't expect that Jotunheim was so difficult for a melee char in normal mode.

Btw I used Athlon head armor which is handy in Xmax since it gives a free level each 4 levels.

Found a nice piece of Allfather set:


But the grant skill, apparently, can't be triggered 

Runny Smith - L51 Twinked - Corinth

The artefact Silver Heart made Act 4 much more easier. I wished i knew that before ! I only kept Tyran's fist for bosses.

In Hades palace, i took time to check each pack of gigantes. Two dactyles were there in normal difficulty  . The first one guarding a crystal Erebus and the second one blocking the way to Hades. While i was wondering how to deal with, the 1st one with its erractic move finally rushed to me and started firing his lethal wave. I retreated to the door in urgency and respecced skill points maxing the shield charge tree, hoping that charge impact and skill disruption would give me enough time. I came back, playing with the camera so that i could charge the dactyl behind the door. And the dactyl exploded at the impact  The 2nd dactyl was less difficult since he was well in the line of sight.

Runny Smith - Lvl 40 Twinked - Village of Zhidan

@Ororo You won't have any problems with such high resistances in Act 5, enjoy and explore 

So here is the Barmanu crash-test.

I got many toons crushed by Barmanu, even in normal. The smart way is to pull 1 by 1 and run around while avoiding the incoming ice shower. But shit happens in Xmax. In this test i tried to find a good setup so that my toon could stand ahead of 3x Barmanu. I first begin with one Barmanu to check numbers. In the steam forum, i found a tip that allows floating damage numbers (this implies a change in the game.dll) since i don't use TQdefiler.

setup I: 80% stun res, 80% cold res, 18% physical res, 80% block and -90% recovery time, 30% less from beastmen (ardent greaves), 48% CtAP, and 30% chances of 100% dmg reflected.
The dmg number is around 100. A rough estimation of the max damage per projectile, corrected from (1-0.8)x(1-0.3) is then around 700. Since there is 15 projectiles iirc, the full damage of an ice shower is then over 10000. Correct me if i am wrong in the numbers.

setup II: the same as I, but with 55% cold res.
The damage input is around 250. And the toon went down to half-life. Oups !. This time, correction with 55% res implies 800 dmg per projectile which is ok with the 1st estimate.

setup III: the same as I, but without the 30% less from beastmen
The damage input is around 300. And the toon life went down to 3/4. This time, the correction comes from (1-0.8 ) and then gives 1500 dmg per projectile which is far from the 1st estimate. i don't understand why.

Anyway it appears that 80% cold res, high CtAP and good res against beastmen are necessary to survive one ice shower. In the lastetup i tested the damage reflection. As expected Barmanu killed himself.
setup IV: the same as I, but with 55% CtAP, 30% chances of 200- 350% dmg reflected (from 2 pieces of icescale armor)

Finally, i went with Xmax and took setup IV to see if it was really Ok. As a last but not least protection, i put the toon in colossus form for the good perk in % damage absorption.

Yes 

I won't contrast TQ, D2 or  PoE. I like playing them both. But DII remains my best gaming experience ever (with Morrowind). Sure it's outdated now and the vault ingame is a drawback but What ... such an immersive game  ! If there was a DII remastered and the vault fixed, I would buy it with my eyes closed (for a PC version  )

However, what Blizzard did on youtube by removing the dislikes is dirty and will be remembered by fans as a Blizzgate. Too bad.