Official 1.07 Superchest thread

Okay, here are some values of runes on 1.07 ironically the values are a bit different on 1.09 and 1.10. I recalculated them for 1.07, with the forced locked at players 1 with an expected value of 25% good drops from superchests, fresh from 1.07 treasureclassEx. Yes the fact Zod is more common than Cham is correct -.-. This means the chance of neither a Jo Cham or Zod together is ~75% on act 5 and Jo and Cham together neither is ~80%. In my old 70% calculation I forgot the lower good chance drops so I corrected it a bit, in the disadvantage I am sorry for you Pharphis.


Expected patterns players 1
Code:
Hel        16,04
Po         10,69
Lum         8,14
Ko          5,43
Fal         4,10
Lem         2,74
Pul         2,06
Um          1,37
Mal         1,03
Ist         0,688
Gul         0,516
Vex         0,344
Ohm         0,260
Lo          0,173
Sur         0,129
Ber         0,0861
Jo          0,0646
Cham        0,0430
Zod         0,0538
 
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Checked all my screenshots, same patterns for Lem, Um, Vex 1, Vex 2 and Lo already listed. I also have 3 different patterns for Fal:
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Updated based on all posts in thread thus far:

A3:
Code:
Rune                Item 1                 Item 2              Item 3
#1 Hel Rune         Greaves
#2 Hel Rune         Heavy Cr.
#1 Po Rune          Gauntlets              Heavy Belt
#2 Po Rune          War Hat                War Hat
#3 Po Rune          Field Plate
#4 Po Rune          Repeating C            Embossed P
#1 Lum Rune         Serpentskin A
#2 Lum Rune         Gauntlets
#3 Lum Rune         ---
#1 Ko Rune          Gothic Plate
#1 Fal Rune         Ogre Axe               Gothic Plate
#2 Fal Rune         Fuscina                Gothic Plate
#3 Fal Rune         Grave Wand             El Rune
#1 Lem Rune         Chain Mail
#2 Lem Rune         Cudgel                 Military Pick
#3 Lem Rune         Griffon H
#1 Um Rune          Pavise                 D Gloves
#2 Um Rune          Glowing Orb
#1 Gul Rune         Halberd
#1 Vex Rune         Barbed Club            Griffon H           Sun Spirit
#2 Vex Rune         Quhab                  Cuirass
#1 Lo Rune          Balanced Knife

A4:
-empty for now-
A5:
-empty for now-

@Burgomaster3 Your ko rune screenshot link was a duplicate of one of your lums. Can you double check what you had?
@others, for the 4th lum pattern, I didn't see any blue items or other runes, so I left it blank. I'm guessing we don't count scrolls or other things for these tables but I could be wrong. In Fal#3, I included the el rune

Ok, next post will include patterns from my screenshots from the last few weeks.
 
Ok, adding some patterns for All 3 acts from my own screenshots


A3:
Code:
Rune                Item 1                 Item 2              Item 3
#1 Hel Rune         Greaves
#2 Hel Rune         Heavy Cr.
#3 Hel Rune         Coronet                Flanged M           Gothic S
#4 Hel Rune         ---
#1 Po Rune          Gauntlets              Heavy Belt
#2 Po Rune          War Hat                War Hat
#3 Po Rune          Field Plate
#4 Po Rune          Repeating C            Embossed P
#5 Po Rune          Plate Mail             Gothic P            Gothic S
#1 Lum Rune         Serpentskin A
#2 Lum Rune         Gauntlets
#3 Lum Rune         ---
#1 Ko Rune          Gothic Plate
#2 Ko Rune          Mask
#1 Fal Rune         Ogre Axe               Gothic Plate
#2 Fal Rune         Fuscina                Gothic Plate
#3 Fal Rune         Grave Wand             El Rune
#4 Fal Rune         War Hammer
#1 Lem Rune         Chain Mail
#2 Lem Rune         Cudgel                 Military Pick
#3 Lem Rune         Griffon H
#1 Um Rune          Pavise                 D Gloves
#2 Um Rune          Glowing Orb
#1 Gul Rune         Halberd
#1 Vex Rune         Barbed Club            Griffon H           Sun Spirit
#2 Vex Rune         Quhab                  Cuirass
#1 Lo Rune          Balanced Knife

A4:
Code:
Rune                Item 1                 Item 2              Item 3
#1 Hel Rune         D Gloves               Gauntlets
#2 Hel Rune         Amulet                 Throwing S
A5:
Code:
Rune                Item 1                 Item 2              Item 3
#1 Hel Rune         Quhab
#2 Hel Rune         Winged H               Jewel
#1 Lum Rune         Ring
#2 Lum Rune         Amulet
#1 Ko Rune          Ring                   War Scythe          Grand Charm

I've attached the "blank" hel rune pattern for clarification if necessary
 
Ok, going through my screenshots from before my giveaway to add other patterns since there are quite a few... I think I've covered ALL of them, now.
A3:
Code:
Rune                Item 1                 Item 2              Item 3
#1 Hel Rune         Greaves
#2 Hel Rune         Heavy Cr.
#3 Hel Rune         Coronet                Flanged M           Gothic S
#4 Hel Rune         ---
#5 Hel Rune         Pike
#1 Po Rune          Gauntlets              Heavy Belt
#2 Po Rune          War Hat                War Hat
#3 Po Rune          Field Plate
#4 Po Rune          Repeating C            Embossed P
#5 Po Rune          Plate Mail             Gothic P            Gothic S
#6 Po Rune          Lochaber A             Smoked S            Barbed Club
#7 Po Rune          Great Sword            Gothic P
#8 Po Rune          Great Maul             Breat Plate
#1 Lum Rune         Serpentskin A
#2 Lum Rune         Gauntlets
#3 Lum Rune         ---
#4 Lum Rune         War Hammer
#5 Lum Rune         Poignard
#1 Ko Rune          Gothic Plate
#2 Ko Rune          Mask
#3 Ko Rune          Circlet                Gothic Shield
#4 Ko Rune          Great Maul             Throwing Spear
#5 Ko Rune          Light Plate            Gothic Plate
#6 Ko Rune          Giant Sword            Gothic Plate        Cleaver + Antlers
#1 Fal Rune         Ogre Axe               Gothic Plate
#2 Fal Rune         Fuscina                Gothic Plate
#3 Fal Rune         Grave Wand             El Rune
#4 Fal Rune         War Hammer
#5 Fal Rune         Plated Belt
#6 Fal Rune         Military Pick
#7 Fal Rune         Defender               Sharksin Boots      Poignard
#1 Lem Rune         Chain Mail
#2 Lem Rune         Cudgel                 Military Pick
#3 Lem Rune         Griffon H
#1 Um Rune          Pavise                 D Gloves
#2 Um Rune          Glowing Orb
#1 Gul Rune         Halberd
#1 Vex Rune         Barbed Club            Griffon H           Sun Spirit
#2 Vex Rune         Quhab                  Cuirass
#1 Lo Rune          Balanced Knife

A4:
Code:
Rune                Item 1                 Item 2              Item 3
#1 Hel Rune         D Gloves               Gauntlets
#2 Hel Rune         Amulet                 Throwing S 
#1 Po Rune          Long War Bow
#2 Po Rune          Gauntlets              Gothic P
#1 Ko Rune          Great Maul
#1 Fal Rune         Gothic Plate
#1 Lem Rune         Plate Mail             War Axe
#2 Lem Rune         ---
#1 Pul Rune         Rune Bow
A5:
Code:
Rune                Item 1                 Item 2              Item 3
#1 Hel Rune         Quhab
#2 Hel Rune         Winged H               Jewel
#3 Hel Rune         Poignard               Greaves
#1 Lum Rune         Ring
#2 Lum Rune         Amulet
#3 Lum Rune         Demon Heart            Great Helm          Great Sword
#1 Ko Rune          Ring                   War Scythe          Grand Charm 
#1 Fal Rune         Bone Shield
#2 Fal Rune         Gauntlets              Shamshir            Grand Charm + Amulet

Interestingly, only one pul pattern so far, and it's in A4
 
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quick question here: Nihlathak's Halls have a "fixed" map and also some interesting chests right? Did you try to run them for high runes and skiller? I assume someone did for sure. I know this thread is more about LK chests but I'm just curious, it could be interesting.
 
This thread is for any superchests people are willing to run. The most viable ones are LK followed by RoF, followed VERY CLOSELY by A5 chests (in terms of chests/sec) depending on the pattern distribution. We can't say for sure until we've found some HRs to compare them for overall efficiency, though.
edit: As mentioned earlier in the thread, arcane sanctuary might be a worthwhile target as well even though the upper limit for HRs is much lower (Lo?)

I currently run 2x RoF + 2x halls of ___ chests on one of my sorcs so that's 2x A4 and 2x A5 chests per run, at about 30 seconds per run iirc. One can very easily get the 2 quickest chests in nihl's temple (I think 1/9 if there are 3 maps for the first two floors). There are also tons of other objects that can be popped as well as relatively slow/easy enemies for the most part

The advantage that RoF/A5 have over LK is that they can drop the best of the best charms (45/skill tree), as well as theoretically mal/ist/ohm/sur/ber/jah/cham/zod but again we don't know if any of these will drop, yet. (I think we can be reasonably certain that LK doesn't drop mal/ist/ohm/sur/ber given the number of years people have been running 1.07 LK)
 
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Hey thanks for the detailed answer! I'll be sure to check them out in act5. It's been a while since I really grinded like this (played PoE for a long time and map offers some variation, but boy do I get feed up quickly, but that's me I have friends who prefer mapping or doing rifts). I kind of like how you can really tailor your grinding in d2.

Tried to watch your stream recordings earlier, its nice but make me dizzy. Something about the speed and not actually playing, oh well. Thanks again for the answer.
 
understandable :p

I can hardly watch other people play D2 if they're playing really fast.

I don't think it was in my most recent stream (maybe it was) but in one of them I was doing the A4/A5 chests, so you can see what kind of map you need there. Anyway, I'll describe what I do:

Tele down-left a few times from WP to superchest. Tele up-left to the stairs going back up a floor (center of the area like always). Then I tele up-right like 3 times to the other superchest (it's in the little corner of the big room). I think this is as efficient as it can get
 
@pharphis The fact we have only one pul confirmed from rof and noone from LK doesn't suprise me the slightest. As I posted in my table the expected value is 2,06 that means there is a 70% chance of 2 Pul patterns and 91% chance of one or two Pul patterns. That means there is a 9% chance there is no Pul pattern. As I posted in the ROF thread the fact there is no Jah pattern when the expected rate is 2 is still 10%. Count yourselves very lucky with the double Vex pattern (maybe triple if the rumors are true!) The chance you have a double vex pattern is 3,5% so yeah very lucky indeed!

Also the blank patterns, did they contain any throwing pots? They do count as a valid weapon drop and therefore as a valid piece of equipemt!
 
I'd have to double check but I'm not sure. I think one or more of them did, and I also think there might be more to it according to some jjscud posts I was reading last night.

edit: check post 26 for an image with no throwing pots and a hel rune ;/
 
Added hel #3 #4, lum#1 for A4. Duplicated the pul find as well.


A3:
Code:
Rune                Item 1                 Item 2              Item 3
#1 Hel Rune         Greaves
#2 Hel Rune         Heavy Cr.
#3 Hel Rune         Coronet                Flanged M           Gothic S
#4 Hel Rune         ---
#5 Hel Rune         Pike
#1 Po Rune          Gauntlets              Heavy Belt
#2 Po Rune          War Hat                War Hat
#3 Po Rune          Field Plate
#4 Po Rune          Repeating C            Embossed P
#5 Po Rune          Plate Mail             Gothic P            Gothic S
#6 Po Rune          Lochaber A             Smoked S            Barbed Club
#7 Po Rune          Great Sword            Gothic P
#8 Po Rune          Great Maul             Breat Plate
#1 Lum Rune         Serpentskin A
#2 Lum Rune         Gauntlets
#3 Lum Rune         ---
#4 Lum Rune         War Hammer
#5 Lum Rune         Poignard
#1 Ko Rune          Gothic Plate
#2 Ko Rune          Mask
#3 Ko Rune          Circlet                Gothic Shield
#4 Ko Rune          Great Maul             Throwing Spear
#5 Ko Rune          Light Plate            Gothic Plate
#6 Ko Rune          Giant Sword            Gothic Plate        Cleaver + Antlers
#1 Fal Rune         Ogre Axe               Gothic Plate
#2 Fal Rune         Fuscina                Gothic Plate
#3 Fal Rune         Grave Wand             El Rune
#4 Fal Rune         War Hammer
#5 Fal Rune         Plated Belt
#6 Fal Rune         Military Pick
#7 Fal Rune         Defender               Sharksin Boots      Poignard
#1 Lem Rune         Chain Mail
#2 Lem Rune         Cudgel                 Military Pick
#3 Lem Rune         Griffon H
#1 Um Rune          Pavise                 D Gloves
#2 Um Rune          Glowing Orb
#1 Gul Rune         Halberd
#1 Vex Rune         Barbed Club            Griffon H           Sun Spirit
#2 Vex Rune         Quhab                  Cuirass
#1 Lo Rune          Balanced Knife

A4:
Code:
Rune                Item 1                 Item 2              Item 3
#1 Hel Rune         D Gloves               Gauntlets
#2 Hel Rune         Amulet                 Throwing S
#3 Hel Rune         Quhab
#4 Hel Rune         Amn Rune               Cryst. Globe
#1 Po Rune          Long War Bow
#2 Po Rune          Gauntlets              Gothic P
#1 Lum Rune         Shamshir               Crossbow
#1 Ko Rune          Great Maul
#1 Fal Rune         Gothic Plate
#1 Lem Rune         Plate Mail             War Axe
#2 Lem Rune         ---
#1 Pul Rune         Rune Bow
A5:
Code:
Rune                Item 1                 Item 2              Item 3
#1 Hel Rune         Quhab
#2 Hel Rune         Winged H               Jewel
#3 Hel Rune         Poignard               Greaves
#1 Lum Rune         Ring
#2 Lum Rune         Amulet
#3 Lum Rune         Demon Heart            Great Helm          Great Sword
#1 Ko Rune          Ring                   War Scythe          Grand Charm
#1 Fal Rune         Bone Shield
#2 Fal Rune         Gauntlets              Shamshir            Grand Charm + Amulet
 
Found another ko rune for LK w/ some necro wand... I took a screenshot but I don't see it in my folders :(
So, Ko#7 coming up eventually?
 
Ah, I think this post makes my efforts for A5 not exactly worthwhile:

Re: The Quest for Zod

So far, all of the chests I've investigated in act 5 that sparkle appear to actually be Special Chests.


Now for some technical info I dug up last night.

I wanted to cover my bases before I went nuts on the Act 5 Special Chests so I dug up some facts from Jarulf about the special chests. All Act 1 - Act 4 Special chests are object type 580 or 579? (mostly 580). While most objects have descriptions in the objects.txt file, objects 573+ (including 580) are hardcoded somewhere.

No other objects appear to have this limited seed so it appears that its this hardcoded function that has the 16 bit seed for drops. I finally found an old post by Jarulf where he confirmed that all chests have a 16 seed BUT he later states that the drops appear to be governed by the game seed. This doesn't appear to be the case for the hardcoded object 580 drops and so we get the 2^16 (65536) limited drops.

So last night, I dug up a d2 map editor and a mpq extractor and started examining some maps. First I checked LK to make sure I was looking at the right thing, found the campfire area and sure enough there were the type 580 objects.

Then i dug up some of the outdoor act 5 map areas and found one of the chests there that sparkle. It turns out its type 455. A quick check in the objects.txt file and sure enough, type 455 is a special chests. So that's confirmed, at least some of the sparkling chests in act 5 are actually special chests.

Here's the catch, type 455 is well defined in the objects.txt file and uses standard initialization and operation functions. All evidence points to these functions drawing from a proper 32 bit seed and so, no limited drops and no unusual drop odds on HRs. Its not a guarantee, but that's how it appears.

So now I'm deciding between RoF and LK at p3.

So perhaps I just need one more clarification: do type 455 objects drop magic/rares only or was jjscud looking at the type of chest that drops sets/uniques? I think based on the location the chest should be magic/rares only but I'm not certain. 4.3 billion patterns leaves very marginal room for improvement (deviation from normal chance of zod, etc. runes) compared to similar objects.
 
A3:
Code:
Rune                Item 1                 Item 2              Item 3
#1 Hel Rune         Greaves
#2 Hel Rune         Heavy Cr.
#3 Hel Rune         Coronet                Flanged M           Gothic S
#4 Hel Rune         ---
#5 Hel Rune         Pike
#1 Po Rune          Gauntlets              Heavy Belt
#2 Po Rune          War Hat                War Hat
#3 Po Rune          Field Plate
#4 Po Rune          Repeating C            Embossed P
#5 Po Rune          Plate Mail             Gothic P            Gothic S
#6 Po Rune          Lochaber A             Smoked S            Barbed Club
#7 Po Rune          Great Sword            Gothic P
#8 Po Rune          Great Maul             Breat Plate
#1 Lum Rune         Serpentskin A
#2 Lum Rune         Gauntlets
#3 Lum Rune         ---
#4 Lum Rune         War Hammer
#5 Lum Rune         Poignard
#1 Ko Rune          Gothic Plate
#2 Ko Rune          Mask
#3 Ko Rune          Circlet                Gothic Shield
#4 Ko Rune          Great Maul             Throwing Spear
#5 Ko Rune          Light Plate            Gothic Plate
#6 Ko Rune          Giant Sword            Gothic Plate        Cleaver + Antlers
#1 Fal Rune         Ogre Axe               Gothic Plate
#2 Fal Rune         Fuscina                Gothic Plate
#3 Fal Rune         Grave Wand             El Rune
#4 Fal Rune         War Hammer
#5 Fal Rune         Plated Belt
#6 Fal Rune         Military Pick
#7 Fal Rune         Defender               Sharksin Boots      Poignard
#1 Lem Rune         Chain Mail
#2 Lem Rune         Cudgel                 Military Pick
#3 Lem Rune         Griffon H
#4 Lem Rune         Mesh Armor             Poleaxe
#1 Um Rune          Pavise                 D Gloves
#2 Um Rune          Glowing Orb
#1 Gul Rune         Halberd
#1 Vex Rune         Barbed Club            Griffon H           Sun Spirit
#2 Vex Rune         Quhab                  Cuirass
#1 Lo Rune          Balanced Knife

A4:
Code:
Rune                Item 1                 Item 2              Item 3
#1 Hel Rune         D Gloves               Gauntlets
#2 Hel Rune         Amulet                 Throwing S
#3 Hel Rune         Quhab
#4 Hel Rune         Amn Rune               Cryst. Globe
#1 Po Rune          Long War Bow
#2 Po Rune          Gauntlets              Gothic P
#1 Lum Rune         Shamshir               Crossbow
#1 Ko Rune          Great Maul
#1 Fal Rune         Gothic Plate
#1 Lem Rune         Plate Mail             War Axe
#2 Lem Rune         ---
#1 Pul Rune         Rune Bow
A5:
Code:
Rune                Item 1                 Item 2              Item 3
#1 Hel Rune         Quhab
#2 Hel Rune         Winged H               Jewel
#3 Hel Rune         Poignard               Greaves
#1 Lum Rune         Ring
#2 Lum Rune         Amulet
#3 Lum Rune         Demon Heart            Great Helm          Great Sword
#1 Ko Rune          Ring                   War Scythe          Grand Charm
#1 Fal Rune         Bone Shield
#2 Fal Rune         Gauntlets              Shamshir            Grand Charm + Amulet

:( Screenshots still messed up, so relying on prnt scrn and paint lol

Lem #4 added. There may have been a third item but there were too many monsters around. Almost died a few times lol
 
Ok, adding some patterns for All 3 acts from my own screenshots


A3:
Code:
Rune                Item 1                 Item 2              Item 3
#1 Hel Rune         Greaves
#2 Hel Rune         Heavy Cr.
#3 Hel Rune         Coronet                Flanged M           Gothic S
#4 Hel Rune         ---
#1 Po Rune          Gauntlets              Heavy Belt
#2 Po Rune          War Hat                War Hat
#3 Po Rune          Field Plate
#4 Po Rune          Repeating C            Embossed P
#5 Po Rune          Plate Mail             Gothic P            Gothic S
#1 Lum Rune         Serpentskin A
#2 Lum Rune         Gauntlets
#3 Lum Rune         ---
#1 Ko Rune          Gothic Plate
#2 Ko Rune          Mask
#1 Fal Rune         Ogre Axe               Gothic Plate
#2 Fal Rune         Fuscina                Gothic Plate
#3 Fal Rune         Grave Wand             El Rune
#4 Fal Rune         War Hammer
#1 Lem Rune         Chain Mail
#2 Lem Rune         Cudgel                 Military Pick
#3 Lem Rune         Griffon H
#1 Um Rune          Pavise                 D Gloves
#2 Um Rune          Glowing Orb
#1 Gul Rune         Halberd
#1 Vex Rune         Barbed Club            Griffon H           Sun Spirit
#2 Vex Rune         Quhab                  Cuirass
#1 Lo Rune          Balanced Knife

A4:
Code:
Rune                Item 1                 Item 2              Item 3
#1 Hel Rune         D Gloves               Gauntlets
#2 Hel Rune         Amulet                 Throwing S
A5:
Code:
Rune                Item 1                 Item 2              Item 3
#1 Hel Rune         Quhab
#2 Hel Rune         Winged H               Jewel
#1 Lum Rune         Ring
#2 Lum Rune         Amulet
#1 Ko Rune          Ring                   War Scythe          Grand Charm

I've attached the "blank" hel rune pattern for clarification if necessary

you found a uni balrog skin and shot the screenshot of a hel? :D
 
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