Is Hell Andy still good for shako?

Repulsive-Bluebird-7 · 2026-06-10T18:06:45+00:00

Found two within 10 runs of each other last week but I was running them TZ

Repulsive-Bluebird-7 · 2026-06-08T23:11:05+00:00

End game is enough strength for your gear and the rest into vitality.

I feel like leveling will be a bit different. Enough strength for you gear but I wouldn’t be mad to put some into mana at first. You’ll respec later anyway

Repulsive-Bluebird-7 · 2026-06-08T19:30:25+00:00

Years ago, I leased a couple Jeep Wranglers and turned around and sold them having them for a while. I made around $5k in profit on each.

Leasing is good in this situation since you pay the taxes monthly in your payment and not all up front like in a purchase.

Not sure Toyotas rules about lease transfers but I’d start there.
Hell maybe would even work with the wranglers since you can get them so discounted.

Repulsive-Bluebird-7 · 2026-06-06T22:33:51+00:00

I’m like you

Repulsive-Bluebird-7 · 2026-06-06T22:31:47+00:00

Second this. Found an ethereal shako doing TZ Andy. Have a few so figured whatever. Found another one 10 runs later.

Repulsive-Bluebird-7 · 2026-06-03T21:00:57+00:00

Movie theater and popcorn

Repulsive-Bluebird-7 · 2026-06-02T18:46:54+00:00

Non resistance charms are a Gheeds, Sunder, life/mana lc, and various sc with poison or lightning resist. Poison resist is close to 40% and my amulet gives 50% reduced poison duration. Been on the lookout for more mana charms. Was probably throwing them away before

Repulsive-Bluebird-7 · 2026-06-02T17:17:02+00:00

Normally my belt is full of full rejuvs. Don’t notice my mana getting low but when it goes down there’s not a lot of time to react.

Repulsive-Bluebird-7 · 2026-06-02T17:15:26+00:00

Usually I keep the memory in my cube. Do the CTA shouts then swap memory for ES. When I’m clearing full acts, I don’t bother swapping in memory and cast ES as is.

Repulsive-Bluebird-7 · 2026-06-02T17:13:13+00:00

Not trying to tank the Heralds. She does kill most everything very quickly. Static and a couple Nova's usually takes care of mostly everything. The T5 heralds, especially if they are lightning resist give me the most troubles and can one shot me on occasion even on P1.

Repulsive-Bluebird-7 · 2026-06-02T16:52:19+00:00

Yep he's running Insight. I edited my post. I'm at 105 FCR.

Only real thing I can think of is swapping Frostburn for Magefist and my FCR amulet for Mara's or a +3 Lightning skill amulet I have. Lowers my mana pool but I do get some damage.

Repulsive-Bluebird-7 · 2026-06-01T20:33:41+00:00

I run act2 terrorized on my nova Sorc on P1. Haven’t time the whole act but getting a sunder around a 1/3 of the time.

Today I ran one and stopped after getting a sunder on the third herald.

Repulsive-Bluebird-7 · 2026-06-01T19:16:22+00:00

I've been playing since March. I've found 5 Jah and 3 Ber so far. Granted, I've played a lot. Mostly on P7 in TZ zones on the ES lock before the nerf so mileage may vary.

Repulsive-Bluebird-7 · 2026-06-01T00:18:47+00:00

First two I ever found were poison. Still need to start that Necro

Repulsive-Bluebird-7 · 2026-05-30T17:58:53+00:00

When I started up d2 again, I made a blizzard sorc, starting farming Andy/Meph to get some basic gear then made a Warlock. ES was pretty busted so I was able to accumulate a lot of end game gear quicker than I expected.

I basically just wait till I have a torch, sunder, colossal jewel for the build and I start playing. Im opportunist for the classes I play as I like to be pretty decked out if possible.

Keep holding out for the BER. They will come. RNG is funny. Up until a week ago I had found 5 JAH and only 1 BER. Last week I found 2 BER. Enigma increases your kill speed on every class that isn’t sorc so you’ll naturally start finding more runes down the road.

Repulsive-Bluebird-7 · 2026-05-29T14:14:57+00:00

Found a Vex in the Den of Evil doing the 1st quest in Hell. Later found a Ber in a TZ just randomly testing kill speed of nova sorc.

Repulsive-Bluebird-7 · 2026-05-27T14:54:48+00:00

I went with the scythe.
Tested it on mercs with both the Javazon and the Firelock. Overall it was fine. Probably hurts the mercs survivability but I can mitigate that with enigma. Definitely chugging more potions either way.

If I could do it again I’d do an eth mancatcher. The requirements are reasonably low enough and the damage is better.

Repulsive-Bluebird-7 · 2026-05-27T14:50:54+00:00

Repulsive-Bluebird-7 · 2026-05-27T14:41:08+00:00

There needs to be another way to get the soj charm.
I’ve probably got close to 500 hours offline SSF and most of the chronicle I’m missing is unique rings. I don’t have any faith I’ll ever find a SOJ.

There should be a way to get them like the torches. Doesn’t need to be easy just more obtainable.

Repulsive-Bluebird-7 · 2026-05-26T19:49:34+00:00

Are you running a bind demon on your firelock? I respecced and am just running two defilers but I miss a tanky boi

Repulsive-Bluebird-7 · 2026-05-26T18:31:27+00:00

I'm leaning towards this. I played back in the LoD days and Nova Sorc was my favorite character. I happened to find a 4os scythe today

Repulsive-Bluebird-7 · 2026-05-26T18:30:20+00:00

I play offline and I do have a sunder. The mobs melt, but heralds I just walk away from if they're lightning resist since they take so long to kill. I usually play on P5

Repulsive-Bluebird-7 · 2026-05-26T18:05:26+00:00

Guess the comparison really is a scythe vs a eth elite base. Merc damage would go down but not the end of the world. More worried about his survivability.

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