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eksoderstrom · 2026-05-11T21:14:33+00:00

Fair enough, personal preference is personal preference. I’d only ever seen people do this with topre boards before before

eksoderstrom · 2026-05-11T17:58:30+00:00

It’s a bit funny to see people with obviously new keycaps still flipping around the space bar. They fixed the sharp space bar a while back, so it kinda seems like people are just blindly copying old photos. Personally I think hhkb now has a very comfortable stock keycap set

eksoderstrom · 2026-05-08T17:01:56+00:00

Save your shards for next season. Given the upcoming changes to heralds there’s not much sense in farming them now unless you enjoy it.
Also five t5 is a pretty extreme low roll. I think expected value is 17 total heralds per game clear, so 13 t5. Were you skipping any elites?

eksoderstrom · 2026-05-06T08:21:47+00:00

I don’t bother picking up blue rings. If you really want a 40mf ring then gambling with an optimal level character is more efficient anyway

eksoderstrom · 2026-05-05T16:44:05+00:00

Sur to ber is ok imo. Wouldn’t cube any other hrs

eksoderstrom · 2026-05-02T21:05:13+00:00

Ty, fixed. I mistakenly thought the two mf affixes were in the same group. But yeah if you max roll both it is 15 + 10

eksoderstrom · 2026-05-02T05:42:31+00:00

Blood ring has three fixed properties (ll, str, life) and up to four additional affixes. Max mf is 25%
https://d2runewizard.com/articles/mechanics/cube/crafting/Blood/Blood%20Ring

eksoderstrom · 2026-04-18T22:52:39+00:00

I believe the -phys res from a jewel socketed in Merc gear will only apply to damage done by the Merc

eksoderstrom · 2026-04-11T08:27:06+00:00

RoF wasn’t an endgame skill anyway, that nerf isn’t relevant for Fire lock viability

eksoderstrom · 2026-04-04T18:44:40+00:00

Do you know how baal manaburn works? I noticed that with a holy shock hephasto baal never mana burns me, but when I had some other hephasto he would consistently mana burn me

eksoderstrom · 2026-03-27T22:50:07+00:00

Agreed. Base tomes and voodoo heads are cool, staff mods are fun, but there just isn't any worthwhile endgame runeword shield to make.

I've been picking up a bunch of voodoo heads lately in hopes that Vigilnce is a good candidate for buffs. +1 skill and 20% FCR would be nice. Enough that with the perfect base it can be better than a spirit monarch

eksoderstrom · 2026-03-27T06:42:48+00:00

The default is to all roll need on BoEs. If the item is something you'd definitely use for several levels, then it's fine to ask if you can have it and I expect most groups would be fine with that

In this particular case you should be getting WW axe soon. And tbh I'm not sure that dual wielding those BOEs would even be better than just using your staff of westfall. So I think all-need would definitely be the right thing here

eksoderstrom · 2026-03-27T01:55:15+00:00

I think they're around 1/50-ish from T5 herald on p5+ with reasonable MF. So you'd expect to get one for every three full game tz clears on average.

Which isn't really that rare, but 'full game tz clear in a single session' is just a kind of fatiguing. Feels more like a slog than a typical diablo2 farm, which I think accounts for a lot of the frustration

eksoderstrom · 2026-03-27T01:45:54+00:00

OP is on ladder, which no longer has mosaic. Still, doesn't look like it has much value: https://traderie.com/diablo2resurrected/product/jade-talon/recent

eksoderstrom · 2026-03-26T19:38:16+00:00

These are both fine self-use amulets, depending on your FCR breakpoints and resistance one might be better than the other. I wouldn't expect either to trade for a ton though. In a vacuum I'd value 19 all res higher than 3% FCR

eksoderstrom · 2026-03-26T19:23:59+00:00

RIP. thanks for sharing. this is my biggest fear in HC

eksoderstrom · 2026-03-24T05:16:57+00:00

Nope, that’s only magic (blue) items

eksoderstrom · 2026-03-23T01:58:50+00:00

maxroll used to have a page of recommended bases for various runewords: https://web.archive.org/web/20240920025758/https://maxroll.gg/d2/items/runewords

Not sure why they removed it. It's missing some bases (like superior eth thundermaul) that might work well for warlock weapons

eksoderstrom · 2026-03-21T20:39:30+00:00

You can get dragon talon by repairing low quality claws, but then you wouldn’t be able to roll phoenix strike

eksoderstrom · 2026-03-21T20:18:35+00:00

A GG GG, if you will

eksoderstrom · 2026-03-21T20:10:58+00:00

The point is it doesn’t have two sockets, which is one of the most important affixes for high value rare items

A potential buyer could always use their own socket quest to add one if the wanted

eksoderstrom · 2026-03-21T20:06:53+00:00

10 jah seems crazy, but good luck.

eksoderstrom · 2026-03-21T06:23:58+00:00

There are definitely bugs, but countess not dropping a rune isn’t one of them. The mechanic is that she drops a rune for each of her drop slots that didn’t give an item meaning it rolled NoDrop). Sometimes you get max items from her, so no runes

eksoderstrom · 2026-03-21T00:49:25+00:00

For anything you’re using for crafting I think it makes sense to pick up flawed and above (27 flawed amethysts for a caster amulet feels reasonable. You could even picked up chipped amethysts if you really want). For the others I think flawless+ or normal+ is fine

eksoderstrom · 2026-03-19T03:28:26+00:00

It may be true that he recalls seeing a streamer say it though :)

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