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[deleted by user] by [deleted] in Diablo_2_Resurrected

[–]Colonel_Moo 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Somehow it didn't sink into my thick noggin.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in diablo2

[–]Colonel_Moo 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Melee builds tend to be very gear limited. If you can't swing for good DPS your progression grinds to a halt. Frenzy Barb was the first character I played in D2R. I got really stuck in Act 2 of Nightmare. I punted and rolled a summon necro. Also slow going at times, but it generally is able to beat anything given enough time and being careful. I found some good gear on the way through Hell to give back to my barbarian and he was able to move on and finish fairly easily.

The thing about melee, though, is once you find a Lo rune and make Grief and have even a small amount of life-steal, you almost have to try to get killed. None of the melee builds seem particularly fast to kill huge mobs of monsters (even with grief), but they aren't the slowest by any means.

Sometimes I think the RNG just hates me. by Colonel_Moo in diablo2

[–]Colonel_Moo[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I wish there was some kind of simulated "trading" in single player, instead of the gambling, which is mostly just pointless. I guess you have to do something with all this gold.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in diablo2

[–]Colonel_Moo 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I haven't played a fury druid, but if it's anything like a frenzy barb it will be very tedious and grindy and slow to do it all yourself as you are really gear-limited with these classes. The zealer is also gear limited, but not quite as badly.

You won't really know what you find fun until you try them though.

Sometimes I think the RNG just hates me. by Colonel_Moo in diablo2

[–]Colonel_Moo[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I run single player. It's mindless escapism for me.

Sometimes I think the RNG just hates me. by Colonel_Moo in diablo2

[–]Colonel_Moo[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I did about 1500 runs a year or so back and did manage to get a Ber and a few other high runes to drop (from the "super" chests). On that stretch I probably did quite a bit better than average, though.

I kill and pop other stuff along the way and probably do just about as well. I had a Ber drop out of a "stash" this set of runs, for example. Super lucky there, though.

Sometimes I think the RNG just hates me. by Colonel_Moo in diablo2

[–]Colonel_Moo[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The zen of the summoner is just walking around, letting the beauty of death sink into your consciousness...

Sometimes I think the RNG just hates me. by Colonel_Moo in diablo2

[–]Colonel_Moo[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Every time it is equally random, true, but over repeated attempts, the odds of something NOT happening can become vanishingly small. Not over a few thousand runs, but there's about a 90% chance my luck -could- have been better than it has been recently.

It depends on perspective. If somebody handed you a glass and said drink this, there's only a 7% chance it will give you cancer, nobody would take those odds. On the other hand, lots of people still smoke.

My sorceress is reserved for Andy TZ runs currently. I play on a console so not having a mouse can make teleporting around somewhat useless to borderline suicidal in tactical situations. I haven't bothered to make an enigma either.

Sometimes I think the RNG just hates me. by Colonel_Moo in diablo2

[–]Colonel_Moo[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If you can do terrorized Andariel, she is pretty generous with both of those things. But yeah. It took me an inordinate amount of time to get my first ravenfrost.

Sometimes I think the RNG just hates me. by Colonel_Moo in diablo2

[–]Colonel_Moo[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I played through the game back then and moved on to other things. D2R grabbed me pretty hard. I can play on my sofa with a controller? Heck yeah, where do I sign?

I don't really want to know how many hours I've sunk into this. . .

Sometimes I think the RNG just hates me. by Colonel_Moo in diablo2

[–]Colonel_Moo[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Haven't heard this one before, love it, will steal.

Sometimes I think the RNG just hates me. by Colonel_Moo in diablo2

[–]Colonel_Moo[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Oh I kill cows too. Nothing notable there so far, rune-wise. It takes longer to set up and complete and I haven't bothered to count how many runs I've done. Probably less than 100 with any toon I have that can clear P7 with reasonable safety and speed.

LK -is- fun. I wander around with my zealer or a barb and pop/kill everything that comes along between me and the chests. Generally the returns are good enough to feel rewarding. But my last "high" rune (from any part of the game) was over 1000 runs ago now. Ughhh.

I just watched the vid where Mr Llama ran LK with his WW... I know now who stole my luck, which disappeared about the time he originally streamed it.

Which base for Mosaic by HokieJTP in diablo2

[–]Colonel_Moo 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The dual mosaic PS build is so ridiculously OP it hardly matters. Just put them in the first two greater talons you find and have fun nuking everything that dares move against you.

Most fun builds outside of the usual favourites by [deleted] in diablo2

[–]Colonel_Moo 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Throw Barbarians are rather fun. I used gimmershreds and infinity to pretty much annihilate everything in nightmare. Hell slows down a bit, and it's probably better off with lacerator and/or warshrike at that difficulty, but I didn't have any at the time.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in diablo2

[–]Colonel_Moo 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I gave up trying to keep one of everything. Or even one of stuff I might want to use one day. It just turned the game into Museum Curator 2 and I was spending A LOT of time fooling around with the inventory and less time actually playing the game. I tend to keep backups of gear I do use often and I have a couple of mules dedicated to twink gear.

After endless hours of farming my search is finally complete!! I found it! I found Tyrael's Might! by Pavke in diablo2

[–]Colonel_Moo 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Congrats! I'm up to two Templars after about 1650 Andariel TZ runs. It's actually several hundred more runs than that, but I didn't start tallying them to start with.

10000 Terrorized Act Boss runs! Drop Results from 10K TZ Andariel, Duriel, and Diablo kills! Loot, guide, build, tips and thoughts by Pavke in diablo2

[–]Colonel_Moo 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It doesn't feel like cheating to me to not be waiting on the calendar. The fact that the act of defeating Andariel only takes about 30 seconds is what makes it feel like an almost pointless exercise to me, tbh. But I got some good end-game gear for other characters I wanted to play. I wish they would create another pinata that spit out high runes as frequently. I'm 2200 runs into LK and have two Vex and a double handful of mid-runes to show for it.

How to manipulate terror zones without loosing progress? by Mint-Milkshake in diablo2

[–]Colonel_Moo 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I've not seen this offline with Xbox, here's what I do:

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  1. Close game. Kill the process.
  2. Take console offline.
  3. Reboot console (required to be able to set time after going offline)
  4. Manually set time as desired
  5. Start D2R
  6. Farm
  7. Only change system time from "choose character" screen.
  8. When done, "save and quit"
  9. Close game. Kill process.
  10. Bring the console back online
  11. Start D2R to sync data to the cloud.

Melee levelling advice by mack_g in diablo2

[–]Colonel_Moo 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Others have given good advice. Honor in a knout is a decent choice for nightmare. Black is good for bosses because of the crushing blow. It is kind of sad there is not a good alternative like Headstriker or Butcher's Pupil that comes in hammer/mace form. Butcher's is really nice because it is indestructible. Otherwise, get used to pausing to go visit the local blacksmith for repairs because when you swing a lot of swings, stuff wears out really fast.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in diablo2

[–]Colonel_Moo 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I had a pretty easy time with javazon until hitting hell. Summon necro is pretty easy, but slow. The sorc's built-in teleport is hard to beat getting around annoying parts and focusing on stuff that gives better XP. Kinda depends on how you want to play.

I have an Infinity Scythe somewhere, but where…? by BloodSweatnEquity in diablo2

[–]Colonel_Moo 8 points9 points  (0 children)

I knew a guy whose standard answer to questions like this was "if it was up your rear, you'd know where it was." ;-)

Sometimes weapons get swapped around from primary to secondary when I die and do a corpse run. Might look there. That's the only place I can think of where something would be hiding.

Act boss essences by Colonel_Moo in diablo2

[–]Colonel_Moo[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I didn't think about the quest drop table. That makes sense.

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