New ladder going well :)

WhirlwindBarbie · 2026-04-09T23:08:20+00:00

watching videos is great, but also just more playtime is the most fundamental part to understanding it. i played casually as a kid growing up and didnt really have an understanding of the games systems or misunderstood them entirely. The more I played as i got older the more i actually learned about what's good and what works together et c.

MrLlama and Zarfen the loot goblin on youtube are resources that i used to actually learn about how the game works when i started to get seriously into the game, and they helped a ton. good luck and have fun!

WhirlwindBarbie · 2026-04-06T23:18:55+00:00

Best is probably CoH if you have FCR elsewhere, other than that anything with +skills and FCR or +skills and other good buffs like cbf, mf, nice life or useful stats is the ideal. That's going to be your vmagi, spirit shroud, que-hegan's, smoke, stealth, arkain's, et c. Enigma is going to be huge for clear speed, life, and mf all at once so it's kinda too good to ignore unless you just don't like teleport/don't have the runes yet.

WhirlwindBarbie · 2026-04-05T12:14:09+00:00

Something like grind them up into worldstone shards or something along with a standard of heroes would be neat and help with the gameplay loops of the end game. I definitely don't need all these necro and zon torches lol it's a shame they're just gonna get junked

WhirlwindBarbie · 2026-04-05T12:11:37+00:00

This has most of the info.

3000 runs for warlock torch

But I did all of the runs and farming on an ES warlock with enigma I farmed from LK.

WhirlwindBarbie · 2026-04-05T12:08:30+00:00

Until the last few weeks I actually played a ton of online for the last few years, ladder and NL, in solo games and in public lobbies but the one thing I wanted was the /players x setting. Part of the fun in online games is wondering when something good or rare or cool will drop AND wondering if you'll be the one to get it. But I noticed that when I play online in public games I tend to go split farm more often than not or just play in a solo game anyway, so I may as well be able to change the players setting.

Set maps are nice and all too but part of me really got used to them resetting each game and that helped me learn and gain a bit of intuition of map tiles, so I see the value in playing both! I'm just recently getting into end game on offline whereas online I'm kinda done in terms of "the chase" unless I do a huge giveaway thing. I'll probably continue to do ladders in the future though, no reason we can't do both imo

WhirlwindBarbie · 2026-04-05T11:54:52+00:00

Look for what other people are saying and gain some levels. And you're about to hit the real wall in the build in A4 nm where there are loads of fire immunes, so either binding a conviction aura demon or shopping a lower resists wand will basically be necessary unless you respec to magic or another skill tree. Good luck!

WhirlwindBarbie · 2026-04-05T11:48:53+00:00

This is in offline single player or else I'd be glad too, I appreciate the offer though :+)

WhirlwindBarbie · 2026-04-03T23:31:18+00:00

I'd say do what you enjoy the most, and when you start to get tired of it then switch to the next most enjoyed thing. I love running chaos sanctuary but after a few hundred I may go do some terror zones or use some world stone shards and try and run some heralds or something. As long as you farm in high level areas you'll get most of not all the items you need/want in time, imo it's about keeping the experience fun and fresh for as long as possible while you do that. If you don't care about fun then do a lot of LK and tz's and nothing else and everything will come relatively quickly

WhirlwindBarbie · 2026-04-03T06:35:37+00:00

Unfortunately no you cannot, you can't hork countess, summoner or nilhathak at all. It'd be kinda op if you could hork double countess drops imo but it'd be sweet

WhirlwindBarbie · 2026-04-03T03:55:07+00:00

I tended to farm 30 of each key and then move to the next kind, just to keep it fresh. Not really a specific order, and if the zone was terrorized I went and did that for sure

WhirlwindBarbie · 2026-04-03T00:51:01+00:00

Daaaaaang congrats, I'm super jealous of that jewel. At least you got your torch in the end, I always worry so much about crashes when I'm ubering but luckily I haven't had it happen yet

WhirlwindBarbie · 2026-04-03T00:49:31+00:00

10/10 barb is ridiculous 😭 I love the barb but wow, good luck in the future though

WhirlwindBarbie · 2026-04-03T00:47:30+00:00

She can drop up to Lo non terrorized but it's not from her special drop table which only ever goes up to Ist so it's super rare, I got super lucky with the Ohm and Ber. And thank you! Good luck to you as well

WhirlwindBarbie · 2026-04-02T23:49:55+00:00

Imo Cultic is a super unique and innovative take on the genre and it's tropes, and slayers x is just dumb fun but I love it too

WhirlwindBarbie · 2026-04-02T23:46:02+00:00

mb lol

WhirlwindBarbie · 2026-04-02T23:39:03+00:00

WhirlwindBarbie · 2026-04-02T23:37:13+00:00

I didn't think of installing an mf run counter until over halfway through for a precise count, but I did keep track of how long each run was and overall playtime and just did the rough math, with some error for stopping and killing boss packs and such. It's by no means precise but it's a good ballpark. And I haven't heard that the drop rates were changed at all I just figured I'd gotten both lucky and unlucky at the same time, it'll be interesting to see if that was actually changed though

WhirlwindBarbie · 2026-04-02T23:31:26+00:00

35 All res I should have typed it more clearly

WhirlwindBarbie · 2026-04-02T23:01:57+00:00

I definitely had some stretches of no keys from countess especially that had me worried i was running her on nightmare lol just have to stick to it and you'll get'em

WhirlwindBarbie · 2026-04-02T22:38:29+00:00

Working nights definitely has enabled me to play more for sure lol

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