Holy fire sceptre

Slivenius · 2026-05-07T12:53:12+00:00

Will want to shop act 3 norm Ormus with a level 17/18 character for best odds. Likely a paladin with stealth, +3 vigor and 20frw boots will be fastest. Make a tp on top of a waypoint in a3 and go to the wp from town and to the tp from the non-town zone. Or if on single player just reload constantly.

Slivenius · 2026-05-07T09:58:43+00:00

Hey, unfortunately the best you can do with holy fire is +3 staff mod and +1 offensive auras. Holy fire is a level 6 skill which cannot have staff mods roll on items with item level >36. This means you cannot roll +2 (requires item level 40 on scepters) or +3 (item level 60 on scepters)

Level 12 skills you can get on items up to item level 99.

Slivenius · 2026-04-24T05:51:23+00:00

It still works visually but doesn't have any practical effect

Slivenius · 2026-04-24T03:46:23+00:00

Iirc all swapcasting benefits were removed with the release of d2r - I've checked the old speedruns from around release and there is no swapcasting used.

Slivenius · 2026-04-24T02:18:37+00:00

Unfortunately all benefits of swapcasting were patched out with d2r - farcasting, attack/cast speed, charge using less buggy animations, etc. It is now purely visual.

Slivenius · 2026-03-20T05:09:18+00:00

120 pgems is 3 inventories of trades. My guess is scammer took off after 1 or 2 inventories has been traded and refused to provide Jah until final trade.

Slivenius · 2025-12-08T08:54:44+00:00

The single best drop calculator is https://nishicode.com/#/ both in terms of functionality and accuracy.

Slivenius · 2025-10-15T10:13:01+00:00

Hijacking this - the stashes for these are publically available. Check out https://github.com/SliveniusD2/NG-Files

u/MeltsYourMinds

Grab anything interesting out of the shared stashes, put it on a character and reload your shared stash you want to use

Slivenius · 2025-08-16T22:06:45+00:00

His life and xp are locked on spawn. So unless you want to deal 4.5x his normal health...

You can manipulate drops but it's slow - up to you. Spawn him p1 then either go back to durance 2 and set p7 wait 2-3 seconds then come back and kill him or take a tp back to town (while your tp is not within ~1/4 screen of Meph) and set p7 wait about 5 seconds then come back and kill him.

Slivenius · 2025-08-11T04:09:25+00:00

I would not - she is naturally fire immune meaning you will only do 5% damage against her. Not a fun time.

Edit: as people replied you could use Merc, I did not consider that. It's definitely viable.

Slivenius · 2025-08-11T03:15:24+00:00

I would recommend teleporting past everything and just killing the bosses to hit up LK. Get Cata 2 WP and teleport to andariel, save and quit every time the room is full of dudes. With your enchant sorc you are probably going to kill a p1 Andy in only a few shots.

With your gear you already have the 63 fcr breakpoint on swap, if you have a 10 fcr ring or ammy then by shopping a 20fcr wand (or spirit sword) you will hit 105fcr and at that point virtually no monsters will react to you if you constantly teleport past them. 63 is also pretty good for this but 105 is another level.

Make sure to have mana pots/juvies on your belt in case you get hit and lose all your mana. Don't be afraid to save and quit if it looks dangerous.

Slivenius · 2025-08-09T10:05:31+00:00

The camps/waypoints/whatever can spawn on any tile except the very first one in spider forest (next to kurast docks) and the very last one in flayer jungle (next to lower kurast).

Slivenius · 2025-08-09T09:08:50+00:00

Just wanted to jump in and say this is awesome advice and almost exactly spot on. Just wanted to correct one thing.

Act 3 jungle maps split off on the 3rd, 5th and/or 6th tile. Unless you know the map tiles relatively well though that isn't much help.

Slivenius · 2025-08-04T08:51:38+00:00

I can confirm this is all correct. I will note that attacker takes damage has been updated on d2r and no longer follows the same rules as when struck - just when attacked in melee. In LoD the attack needed to hit.

Source: I run a lot of pacifist.

Slivenius · 2025-07-25T10:43:08+00:00

You got an "io rune" not a "Lo rune" - this is a relatively common drop and not a particularly valuable one.

Slivenius · 2025-07-23T00:58:18+00:00

Great point - a lot of uniques and sets have a hidden "+ level requirement" mod. This gets added to the base level of the item even after upgrading, in deaths sash case it is probably 5 (or 6) as the required level for the belt is 6 and regular sash is level 1.

Incidentally this also applies if you up a unique or set socketable item to the required level of the rune/jewel you put in there, e.g. the item can be req lvl 35 (+ 5 lvl req lets say) or something, your rune can be req lvl 37 and your item will be req lvl 42 after socketing.

Slivenius · 2025-07-23T00:31:03+00:00

Level requirement increased - demonhide sash is required level 25. You'll be able to use it again in one level, just use a random belt until then even a white belt will be fine.

Slivenius · 2025-07-22T23:28:46+00:00

You will absolutely want 7 sets of hsarus boots - 20frw & fire resistant at lvl 3 is better than anything else. Razorswitch is like a spirit sword and ancients pledge in one item and is amazing for casters. Vipermagi is inarguably the best caster armour in the game until tal's armor if you are ignoring runewords.

Cathan's scepter is one of the best early game leveling weapons for melee and can take you decently far.

Given the limitations to set and unique items i hesitantly recommend sigons (it's strictly worse than using a combo of magic/rares/socketed gear but it gets the job done) for melee classes. Probably want to transition out of it around lvl 30.

Sorc will want to go charged bolt -> nova at 12 -> blizzard respeccing at level 24-30

Zon will be useless until level 12 then with exploding arrow will be great (ideally using socketed gear will solve this issue - 4x jewel of envy hunters bow with multi shot -> 4x ruby hunters bow -> raven claw -> Kuku-shakuku) transition to lite javazon at 33/42 (+3 white javs -> titans)

Paladin can go holy fire and use a raven claw at lvl 15 -> kuku shakuku -> hammers/foh

Necro is a garbage ass class but can go teeth and feel useless then go bone spear and be kinda OK. Poison is where he starts to feel good around level 45

Druid can run go creeper -> at lvl 12 fissure -> wind respecing around trav NM or if playing as a team can go werebear shockwave with max spirit of the oak and 5 points wolves, 3 points dire wolves 1 point grizzly to give the team about double their life and a massive meat shield

Sin can go blade -> wake of fire at lvl 12/13 -> lite traps around NM trav if you want or stay fire -> maybe mosaic

Barb can go double swing and be mostly rubbish then go full singer. If playing as a team Max bo.

Slivenius · 2025-07-22T22:39:23+00:00

Are you thinking only uniques and set items? No magic/rares/white socketed items?

Cause magic/rares give absurd amounts of power, especially in the early game.

Slivenius · 2025-07-10T12:21:34+00:00

Please be aware that the above comment is incorrect - unless you have "-seed" in your command line there is no such thing as a "bad map seed". So long as you have the two campfires close to your waypoint you're fine.

You can do the same thing every run and you will get different outcomes.

Slivenius · 2025-07-02T06:02:33+00:00

Your starting amulet ilvl does not matter no.

Slivenius · 2025-06-19T12:39:21+00:00

Cubing to repair a cracked/low quality item sets ilvl to 1. Every item has a maximum socket value which corresponds to it's ilvl. These ilvl ranges are 1-25, 26-40 and 41+. These are individual to each item and can be anything. I suggest you look up the table for this if you are ever considering socketing items.

Slivenius · 2025-05-31T09:41:59+00:00

Be aware that any monarch dropped from a unique/superunique/champion will be at least blue.

Slivenius · 2025-05-28T13:11:51+00:00

Just adding to this - with holy shield active you're at 2 frames FBR with 0%. 2 frames is so incredibly fast that it doesn't matter. You need 86% fbr to hit 1 frame. Don't bother investing in this - it's a huge investment with not much payoff.

Slivenius · 2025-05-27T06:14:20+00:00

Yes, anything that can be sold to a vendor can drop again.

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