Felt a little bored with LK runs (apparently I haven't developed Vildecor-level stamina), so I decided to visit Andy just to mix it up a little. She gave me a grailer, one of the harder-to-find TC3s.
Back after a break and started fresh with D2R. Rolled a FOrb/FBall sorc and respec'd into a blizz sorc after Hell A4. So far RNG has been very kind to me. Here's some highlights:
From NM Baal:
40%
First roll with Monarch:
Runes so far are 2x UM, 2x PUL and after 20 or so LK runs this:
If you want some improbable luck, I've got the post for you. So I spent my morning writing my D2R FAQ, popped on my D2R UT99 sorc to do more LK runs, nabbed a sur rune!
Encouraged by my success, I continued. Here I'm thinkin, wow, already a quarter of the way to infinity, barely started and already making great progress. I've been strapped in for the long haul, fully expecting to be grinding LK nightly for the next couple of weeks at least. Then this happened.
That seems extremely unlikely. I think I've only found 1 of these in LK directly before.. I was freaking out needless to say, my brother in law is over playing next to me and he doesn't know much about LK or D2 in general, so I'm going on and on and on to him about exactly how unlikely this is and how many LK runs I've done in the past in legacy and blah blah blah.
I had barely finished gushing about it to him when this happened
I mean it's wild. It's so wild I can't honestly believe it. They were both from the same exact chest out of the 6 chests... Anyone got the pattern tables handy? Are these the patterns for these? I can't even remember how many patterns there are for this.. is it 3? It's so wild it's got me wondering if something has changed. I don't even have a base for it yet. I only have 1 um rune. I can't even make CTA yet. I have maybe 8-12 hours farmed in LK on this character. That's gotta be some kinda speed record. The worst part is I gotta keep going because I actually need lower runes for stuff. It's so backwards. I know it's weird but I'm kind of disappointed in a way. I actually love grinding LK, it's a very relaxing activity for me, I've done it fairly consistently over the years to build up my charms and runes, make all my fancy runewords in my old stashes. Part of the enjoyment for me is the hard work and the payout hitting at long last I guess? This is just too quick. It feels like I don't deserve it.
Edit: So yeah.. those are patterns from 1.13/1.14. No changes from 1.14 in the D2R superchests. omw to buy a lotto ticket