This is where I'm at. I love grim dawn, but Titan Quest was my jam as a kid. Wish 2 was looking like my hopes for it

What do you mean by recover? Has something gone wrong with development?

Recover? It sold well, and it's not v1.0 yet.

Grim dawn

Probably going either Berserker/Nightblade for those piercing/bleeding/cold synergies or Berserker/Necromancer for the 2h/cold/piercing style. I'm not completely sure for now haha

Not gonna go for a chaos build for a first char tho - i am such a masochist that i deleted every single thing in my stash when FoA came out lol

FWIW, I've only ever played grim dawn on Linux via proton.

Nowadays there's Diablo 2 Resurrected which runs fine under Linux using Proton.

Also, there is a long running community mod (since 2016) for Grim Dawn called Reign of Terror which tries to replicate the D2 feeling in Grim Dawn - just be aware that although it already has been updated to work with the new expansion, there might currently be some unexpected issues around.

Which game requires Windows to run? I run diablo 2 ( resurrected) on Linux.

I've run it through battle.net ( over steam ) and you can buy I directly through steam as well. You'd need to link your steam account to your battlenet, but it works fine.

Unless you mean grim dawn. I haven't tried that one on Linux, but protondb claims it's platinum.

Maybe you'd like this https://www.projectdiablo2.com/ works fine on Linux thru lutris n proton

I play Diablo II Resurrected on a regular basis. I'm on Fedora.

Installation procedure was pretty simple.

Running Lutris, use the installation instructions for the BattleNet launcher.

Once you get that set up, log in like normal and install D2R through the launcher. Once installed, you can create a shortcut to launch D2R by duplicating battlenet and changing the exe to the newly installed D2R and add launch options to log in straight to your account without the launcher.

I was looking for d2 experience but alas this game presented zero challenge for higher difficulty modes. Only 2 opponents are giving trouble - those gods (optional boss fights), and mostly cause they heal themselves faster than I damage.

Kind of sad given how d2 challenges you from nightmare right away.

I realized that quickly. I only play hardcore in ARPGs, and the character show in in the screenshot is already populating my graveyard, something that hasn't happened to me that quick in a long time (most of my chars die somewhere in the transition from veteran to ultimate)

Yeah veteran has been a challenge to say the least. I've had to use movement skills a lot more than I am used to. Not sure how werewolf form works but even with a sword and board i was getting nuked occasionally with some unique spawns.

It took a friend and I a few dozen hours to hit a difficulty spike. Before that, it was easy enough that we had to turn the difficulty up a notch.

LoL it wont stop a those 5 builds, i can tell you as much haha

Haven't played it in coop, but it is an ARPG, meaning text/interactions are neither common nor needed (although i always enjoyed the codex entries one can collect)

I have played through the game in co-op and solo many times. It is GREAT co-op. The limitation, more of a feature really (i'll explain) you're referring to is that only one person in the group can interact with the same NPC at once if it is quest related (sellers and such do not have this limitation). What this also entails is that only one person in the group needs to accept or return a quest for the whole group. You don't all need to portal back to the NPC to turn in a quest, just one person can so it while other people go turn in different things, sell items, etc. It is a convenient time saver in my experience, but I can see this perhaps being annoying on your first time playing through the game when you want to see and hear all the dialog/more.

I've got thousands of hours in this one! It's my all time favorite ARPG. The only thing that even gets close to this is Last Epoch, but that's a completely different feeling to play.

Occultist has always been my favorite secondary class - there's something for everyone in there ;-)

It IS squishy in the beginning, but part of that is due to the difficulty tuning changes. I've just been playing as if I was building a character for hardcore.

They did add it, it isn't great and you can still firmly ignore it.

Cloud saving was always wonky in Grim Dawn, including inducing performance problems; i would advice you to disable it if you don't need it,