What's good in the hood? Got new job and been away for awhile. Only have done maybe 20 or 30 Hell Mephisto runs on my very fragile, lvl 83 HC Blizzer..(she wears a 4OS Gothic Plate with Thul, Ort, Ral, Thul and a 3P Diamond Gothic Shield LOL
) and found absolutely nothing of value or use.
Any cool stuff happen over the last few months lol? I also want to say hi to everyone! A lot of people may not know me, some of the more recent players may remember me, likely as the annoying guy who asks a lot of questions and likes to know every little detail about every thing lmao. I hope the active players during my short hiatus, have found some nice items! I think I am either going to continue Mephisto unless I can't find crap and can't take it, then I will either switch to AT and other spots, or I think I may make an untwinked Druid, Necromancer or Assassin. The lure of making new, untwinked characters, where little items along the way that hold know communal, but mean a lot for your character at the moment, is so fun for me.
Edit: Actually I did find an Ethereal Suicide Branch! Although it isn't necessarily the greatest thing, with Spirit, Wiz Spike, HotO, Occy and Eschuta's being relatively easy to come by and Death's Fathom being out there. But I love the bonus points of it being Ethereal and since I am playing off of the 37 FCR BP on my Sorc (I am at 43, 20 short of next 63 BP), by necessity to keep her resists and life as high as I can, this item could put me over the 63 PB when I do things outside of playing on my two teleport Durance LvL 2 Map, with a clear lane down the left side on LvL 3, so FCR means basically nothing here.
But when I surely go back to Ancient Tunnels again, switching from my 33% Spirit Long Sword to the Ethereal Suicide Branch, probably will be the best option. Also when questing forward eventually in Act 5. I feel Blizzard is the must option for playing through untwinked, but the pain of not being able to Shenk, Eldritch immediately into Act 5, is a tough pill to swallow. Tons of experience and potential items you essentially have to pass on. Especially since my merc has only been able to go up to a NON-ETH Bec-de-Corbin for Insight (I feel Insight is a must have playing through untwinked), I had to waste an Um on a Dusk Shroud Duress to help his killing speed
. So he can't help a whole lot yet, until I find a formidable Insight Base. I could respect and fight them with Fire or Hybrid, but I don't think I can afford to waste the Akara quests to go back and forth and I hate the weakness of a Hybrid and not a pure Blizzer, who can own as soon as her Might Merc is formidable. So I guess I'll have to push onto saving Akara and doing Pindleskin runs, as hard as it is to do.
I know a lot of people swear by the hybrid, Orb/Meteor or similar styles playing through the game, to counter immunes, but I have always played pure Blizz+strong Might Merc and found it to be faarrrrr stronger, plus with the option of moating Mephisto. I just find Blizzard much more powerful than Orb or Meteor, by quite a bit. Normally I don't have such sad luck finding items (outside of the insane rune luck I've had) and I never get tripped up along the way with a pure, untwinked Blizzer. Having this happen on Hardcore, which I rarely play, makes it even more frustrating. I have to play super safe P1 Meph runs and accept that I will have to sloowllllyyy build her gear up. Have done AT runs, at various levels, but I feel that is more for finding high level items that you can't get doing things like Mephy or Andy, and at slower rates. I need these Hell Mephisto Runs to get the basics at faster rates, like Shako, Vipermagi or another Um, Wiz Spike/Occy, Skullder's, War Travs, Arachnid's Mesh, Mara's or Tal's Amulet, you get the idea
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But I mainly came to check in on what I've been missing out on, on here. Like any super crazy finds or altercations or anything a die harder would want to know. The last crazy thing I saw before leaving, was the +6 Tornado/Hurricane/Cyclone Pelt that someone found and, as I am sure we all instinctively had the same thoughts, I thought it was completely fake. But as it went on, the person it was and vouchers and all that stuff, it appeared to be a real item, one of the absolutely craziest I had ever seen. I think it even had ~30 life and 3 sockets on it from 1.07 Larzuk. It might actually be the best thing I have ever seen on D2. Did that end up being vouched and confirmed as 100% legit by the powers that be and did the guy keep it and use it, trade it or what? It was so amazingly, absurdly awesome. The odds of all of those skills falling in line, were like one in millions I would have to guess, then adding in the 3 sockets, all odds considered from kill of monster to final product, had to be like one in millions or billions.
Anything cool like that happen since then?
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