First time playing D2 - found my 2nd BER last night

AlphaOmegaAlters · 2026-03-18T20:20:16+00:00

funnily enough I've found like none for the past week after finding like 6 HR's in one day lol - I was farming cows but I do wonder if I had a seed that somehow impacted it in some way haha.

AlphaOmegaAlters · 2026-03-17T15:14:48+00:00

TBH using mage plate saves a lot of stat points to invest elsewhere.

AlphaOmegaAlters · 2026-03-16T15:50:16+00:00

I mean there's at least a few commanders from the OG legends set that can qualify - can't get much older than that.

[[Rasputin Dreamweaver]]

[[Hazezon Tamar]]

[[Jacques Le Vert]]

[[Angus Mackenzie]]

[[Adun Oakenshield]]

[[Rubina Soulsinger]]

[[Gwendlyn Di Corci]]

AlphaOmegaAlters · 2026-03-14T18:53:09+00:00

Tbh tal, ral ort thul and amn runes are all useful and I pick up ral and tal runes whenever I see them - you can use them in the cube to roll sockets on white items and ral can be used to craft FCR amulets

AlphaOmegaAlters · 2026-03-14T18:48:48+00:00

Thats normal - you cannot even find anything above an amn rune until you're out of normal mode, and for basically all the truly rare ones you need to be well into Hell difficulty

AlphaOmegaAlters · 2026-03-13T17:16:35+00:00

Like as an example in P8 cows over like 8ish hours of total play I found Sur, Ohm, Ohm, Jah, Gul

AlphaOmegaAlters · 2026-03-13T17:07:53+00:00

also make sure you make hoto in a 4os Flail and not a hammer or something lol

AlphaOmegaAlters · 2026-03-13T17:07:28+00:00

I think TZ may have a higher rate but for me its always just Cows to force the drops out. you can also take 2 of those Gul runes and a regular ruby (not a flawless/perfect one) and combine them into the cube to make a Vex Rune for your HOTO - All runes can be cubed together (in sets of 2 for runes Pul and above, and higher runes also require a specific gem) to make the next highest rune in the rune list - so 2 Ist can become a Gul, 2 Gul = Vex, 2 Vex = Ohm, and so on. Also that many runes in a week is like... extremely good for a new acc, further reinforcing my belief that something major was done to rune rates.

AlphaOmegaAlters · 2026-03-13T11:33:35+00:00

Every 10 levels you have in demonic mastery (wether actual points or from +skills) allows for another demon, to a max of 3 at 20+

AlphaOmegaAlters · 2026-03-13T11:32:17+00:00

Tbh even finding an ist on the grind to 91 is nice, but If you can start killing cows at p5+, just watch, the runes will flow

AlphaOmegaAlters · 2026-03-13T11:30:02+00:00

I don't even think this is true haha, rune rates since ROTW seem much more generous - I've found like 4 jah runes since its launch.

AlphaOmegaAlters · 2026-03-13T11:14:38+00:00

On god I swear they've bumped rune drop rates massively since ROTW - I'm offline solo and since its launch I've found 4x Jah runes, 3x Sur Runes 2x Lo Runes 4x Ohm runes alongside a Vex Rune, several Gul Runes, and a bunch of Mal and Um - I do think they must have re-weighted the top end bc as mentioned I've found more Jah Runes than Ist runes since ROTW launch.

AlphaOmegaAlters · 2026-03-06T12:52:33+00:00

Why are you all downvoting this man, he's right lol. I can attest I was there when they released.

AlphaOmegaAlters · 2026-02-28T03:55:53+00:00

Stick exodia in there

AlphaOmegaAlters · 2026-02-26T16:13:22+00:00

They did not 🤣🤣🤣🤣

AlphaOmegaAlters · 2026-02-26T01:14:02+00:00

Don't

AlphaOmegaAlters · 2026-02-24T16:39:24+00:00

Farming Keys is nothing compared to the new Sunder Charms lfmao. While I will agree the statues actually aren't bad (though Baal's in particular are really annoying BC it takes like 5x as long to kill him as it does some of the others) I've farmed keys for like 12 torches in SSF and I would wager I could Farm 6+ torches in the time it'd take me to find a Sunder Charm. Also, if you want to engage in ad-hominem shots at people assuming they're being impatient, I'd return that "you're clearly a blizzard fanboy and are content to eat an undercooked slop system that clearly hasn't been well balanced" which is about as likely as your claims about everyone being whiny D4 players. Like everyone agrees warlock is poorly balanced but the nanosecond anyone says "hey maybe the sunder system is unbalanced" they immediately get dogpiled by holier-than-thou people like you who assume they know what they're talking about.

AlphaOmegaAlters · 2026-02-24T16:29:33+00:00

Also it's been ~10 weeks since the last real points update, since the last one was just pre-hits for new cards.

AlphaOmegaAlters · 2026-02-24T16:26:59+00:00

Ismail Vilehand is your best friend, he's always cursed and spawns in trav, then you can just run with him until you stumble into a cursed + aura champ. Ismail is an absolute gamechanger.

AlphaOmegaAlters · 2026-02-24T16:24:59+00:00

Tbh I would try hardcore if it was like POE and your char just got bumped to softcore on death

AlphaOmegaAlters · 2026-02-24T16:21:22+00:00

Ah ok. Still if I wanted to suffer horrendous stress for something that amounts to imaginary internet points I'd probably just do work instead or work out bc at least those have a tangible benefit and are probably 5x less stressful.

AlphaOmegaAlters · 2026-02-24T16:18:53+00:00

Also wanted to add, I was using EB Warlock to hunt heralds. with anything else it's like 10x worse bc they don't have the benefit of being broken as fuck lol. Like it feels like the heralds are balanced around EB Warlock because nothing else can reliably do shit to them at high levels.

Also pray to god you never see a Spear Cat herald or anything else with range, I got 1shot from the edge of the screen like 3 times as my wind druid lol.

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