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DariusTriplet
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+Dex tops out at +14 on boots, which is still plenty. Gold find is a suffix, so I'd probably swap +dex for 119% gold find.
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Been playing a hammerdin lately. levels 1-18 are horrible but it improves rapidly from there, especially if you have 2 sojs to twink your character with. Here's my character shortly after attaining level 39 in hell cs:
I'm not going for diablo yet, and i'm terrified of lord de seis, both because he crashed my game during a nightmare cs run (i tried to pick up a potion on the ground at the same time de seis hit me), and that he'll probably kill me until i get more hp and max resists.
I'm not going for diablo yet, and i'm terrified of lord de seis, both because he crashed my game during a nightmare cs run (i tried to pick up a potion on the ground at the same time de seis hit me), and that he'll probably kill me until i get more hp and max resists.
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I always empty my belt completely before de Seis and he never crashed my game so far.
For Diablo there is only one way to be safe: Greyform. It totally cripples him if you have good resists otherwise.
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How does the pink hose work? I checked my old writeups, and at 40% LR and 3 MDR, he one-shotted a character with 639 life in Hell. Obviously, not great resists+MDR, but I had hoped that it would provide at least some resilience against the hose.
Glad to see I'm not the only one on Team Greyform
It really is an incredible item, and available for absolute peanuts.
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I'm pretty sure it is frame based. I know that at least in some 1.10+ patch and onwards the effect of MDR is reduced versus the lightning hose. For modern patch see this page:How does the pink hose work? I checked my old writeups, and at 40% LR and 3 MDR, he one-shotted a character with 639 life in Hell. Obviously, not great resists+MDR, but I had hoped that it would provide at least some resilience against the hose.
Glad to see I'm not the only one on Team Greyform
and for the fact that it isn't before 1.10 see this post by Jarulf which was just days after the release of 1.09:
That post also strongly implies that before 1.09 MDR came after resistances which would make it even more powerful against any elemental attack.
I personally must have had 75% LR and 7 MDR when I tanked Hell Diablo's Lightning hose:
[1.00] Baron Pius XIII the UT Hammerdin vanquishes Diablo in 20 seconds
I was in the mood to play some untwinked 1.00 and read up on potential builts in the Time-Traveler's Vortex by @Helvete : Paladin These guys can be built in a number of ways. None as effective as barbarian or sorceress, and they have a lot less life than barbarians and no teleport to get out of...
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Yeah, can't get a better item for that price
I was shopping SoJs when I finally got my first failed ML stick:
Dmg sucks but I guess this will do some maggot farming.
m4ke
Dmg sucks but I guess this will do some maggot farming.
m4ke
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Grats, 125 durability is so much more convenient for maggot farming. I took me ages to find a good failed pike... (in the end, Cow King delivered).
Btw, on topic of maggot farming: I often use Howl and Taunt to reset maggot AI to "force" them to lay eggs. When I'm planning to do a longer haul of maggots, I use Taunt to lure most if not all maggots to a few central spots with more space around. That way you can get some ridiculously dense packs and you need to move around less:
This reminds me on my first ever "successful" character (Battle Hammer Bash barb 
). For him hell RoF with maggots was a no-go zone, they spawned faster than he could kill them...
). For him hell RoF with maggots was a no-go zone, they spawned faster than he could kill them...Usually I lure Hephasto (DO NOT FIGHT HIM!) near the RoF stairs to abuse the hellforge surroundings for even more maggots. The rushees are kept near the RoF WP, in front of Hadriel. Of course, everything between Hadriel and CS is killed before the rushees enter RoF.
My barb reached lvl 85 yesterday, the rushees are lvl 74. About 12mil gold stored, also found this semi-decent sword:
After being informed that it's quite easy to get Soj in 1.00 I started my journey. I decided to start a Sorcy thinking the game will be a piece of cake.
Little did I know... It was probably my worst D2 experience as I was completely unprepared for what was coming.
I spent 2 Saturdays and 2 Sundays playing all day to beat the game only to find out that Normal Cows can drop Soj too.
I finally found my pattern and I obtained my first 1.00 soj!! Yeah!
Little did I know... It was probably my worst D2 experience as I was completely unprepared for what was coming.
I spent 2 Saturdays and 2 Sundays playing all day to beat the game only to find out that Normal Cows can drop Soj too.
I finally found my pattern and I obtained my first 1.00 soj!! Yeah!
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If you want to continue in 1.00 you should really ditch that armor, Greyform is much better
That's the best I could find, really. xDIf you want to continue in 1.00 you should really ditch that armor, Greyform is much better
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In 1.00 you don't find, you gamble
(or go to the Cow King)
I haven't tried gambling to be honest and I just started farming the cows so perhaps my gear will start changing soon!
But I mainly care only for Soj!
In case you know, now that I've found a Soj, if I equip it to my character will the Cow King stop dropping it?
Do I need to drop it down before killing the Cow King?
Thanks!
But I mainly care only for Soj!
In case you know, now that I've found a Soj, if I equip it to my character will the Cow King stop dropping it?
Do I need to drop it down before killing the Cow King?
Thanks!
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Gambling has a 3% chance for uniques. So for cheap items like Quilted Armor it's really good but for rings it's easier to farm the cow king.
Usually people do this:
- Roll a CK map with SoJ pattern in a LAN game.
- Visit that game with your runner and leave the game with that character only. That character now has the same map as the one in the LAN game.
- Run until you got an SoJ, then transfer it to another character. Visit the LAN game again to regain the map.
- Rinse and repeat.
At least that's how I understood it. I never bothered with it. In any case you will need to keep an instance of the game running until you have enough SoJs. It's way more profitable for farming rares because you can run longer before you have to mule off and regain the map.
EDIT: If you wear the SoJ you won't get another one. Totally forgot to answer that
Great thank you!Gambling has a 3% chance for uniques. So for cheap items like Quilted Armor it's really good but for rings it's easier to farm the cow king.
Usually people do this:
- Roll a CK map with SoJ pattern in a LAN game.
- Visit that game with your runner and leave the game with that character only. That character now has the same map as the one in the LAN game.
- Run until you got an SoJ, then transfer it to another character. Visit the LAN game again to regain the map.
- Rinse and repeat.
At least that's how I understood it. I never bothered with it. In any case you will need to keep an instance of the game running until you have enough SoJs. It's way more profitable for farming rares because you can run longer before you have to mule off and regain the map.
EDIT: If you wear the SoJ you won't get another one. Totally forgot to answer that
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In pre-LoD patches, there is no such thing as unique qlvl, so if a monster can drop the base, it can also drop the unique. Normal monsters, first kill of act bosses, and the CK, that is. Bosses and champions can't drop uniques or sets.
You need Nagel and Manald either equipped, in inventory, stash or cube. You also need SoJ to be neither of these places, and not have spawned (unid in the gambling screen counts too!) already in that game. Leaving it/them on ground for the king kill will do, I've been told. Personally, I muled them off, which can be done without losing the map, but that method adds the risk of creating dupes if one is careless.
You need Nagel and Manald either equipped, in inventory, stash or cube. You also need SoJ to be neither of these places, and not have spawned (unid in the gambling screen counts too!) already in that game. Leaving it/them on ground for the king kill will do, I've been told. Personally, I muled them off, which can be done without losing the map, but that method adds the risk of creating dupes if one is careless.
Yes yes YEAH! My third Soj!
Also these boots are sexy!
Also these boots are sexy!
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