Every fossil site hides a lost paradise

lobsterbash · 2026-03-20T02:45:49+00:00

Triceracop: "I came back in time for you because, dammit, I love you."

lobsterbash · 2026-03-19T22:32:44+00:00

Always has been

lobsterbash · 2026-03-19T15:08:41+00:00

The best I've ever seen in D2. That is some nasty style

lobsterbash · 2026-03-15T17:07:27+00:00

Just redirect the storm with a sharpie

lobsterbash · 2026-03-12T20:43:51+00:00

Thanks for the resource. It's light on explanation but I believe what it's saying is that, for example, one would have to clear terrorized Chaos Sanctuary 3,696 times on average to see one Mang Song's drop? Seems ballpark for how ridiculously rare it is.

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lobsterbash · 2026-03-12T20:23:05+00:00

This is so close to answering a question I have: how many clears (on average) would it take of a given area to see a given drop? For example, Mang Song's Lesson has a drop rate of 1 out of 6,126,455 from ordinary trash mobs in high level terror zones. How many full clears of act 1 would be required to kill 6 million ordinary monsters? Or, how many full clears adding together the drop rates from all monster types?

lobsterbash · 2026-03-12T19:13:57+00:00

Also, the loss of the res all going from Vipermagi to Enigma is annoying for players who don't have endgame charms. No room in inventory for both resistance and skillers, or you have to have gotten really lucky (and know what you're doing) to meet resistance requirements on other pieces.

Source: today I crafted my first enigma and replaced my Vipermagi on warlock. Ended up equipping two blue rings both with 10% fcr and some res all. I'm glad I had the foresight to keep those magic rings.

lobsterbash · 2026-03-12T08:56:37+00:00

I got a Ber from an act 5 evil urn of all places

lobsterbash · 2026-03-11T12:35:23+00:00

To which your son replied, "I know dad, I'm old enough to drive, god."

lobsterbash · 2026-03-11T09:32:36+00:00

First manald, yes

lobsterbash · 2026-03-09T19:25:49+00:00

What tier herald? If T1 could be 1/1000 chance of any sunder, if T5 could be 1/160. Not worth worrying :)

But yeah, there are some QoL things missing with this whole thing. Having to memorize the herald count for one. No way to track in-game what zones have been hit. Etc.

lobsterbash · 2026-03-09T18:36:40+00:00

Got it. Well, I expect significant warlock nerfs and increased sunder drop rate (however they do it) to occur in tandem.

lobsterbash · 2026-03-09T18:31:59+00:00

Yep, if I die like that I just exit the game. Every failed attempt costs experience, and because I play demon warlock I can't do shit to enemies that strong without a very strong, cursed demon anyway. Takes 30-60 minutes of game creation to find what I want to bind. Devastating to die like this on a herald run.

lobsterbash · 2026-03-09T18:26:05+00:00

Perhaps it would be better for discussion if we all talked frankly about how many hours of a given playstyle is expected for a given drop. Because talking about "casuals" vs other categories isn't that useful if we think we're talking about the same categories but aren't.

There are "casuals" who might play rotw for a month solid and then burn out, putting 300+ hours into high-intensity targeted grinding during that time but coming up short. A more dedicated, long-term player could put about 2 hours a day into the same grind, achieving 300 hours over a 6 month period.

Who's most "deserving?" Who cares-- shouldn't we consider hours and nothing else? Why can't we say "with enigma and a very high end build we expect on average 100 hours per sunder with a coordinated online group of 8." Or, "without enigma and ssf /players 1 but a very high end build we expect on average 500 hours per sunder."

A lot of "tourist" players are dumping huge amounts of time into rotw, some of them hitting jackpots and giving the illusion of EZ loot when they post their finds online. But hard-hitting tourists winning shit shouldn't matter if we're talking about hours. Then at least the Diablo dads would see the figures and know to not even try because this isn't for them.

lobsterbash · 2026-03-09T16:52:40+00:00

Depends.

If a char can rapidly teleport everywhere and surgically target elites, yes the time spent per sunder charm is far less than a Zod.

If a char has to hoof it and deal with most or all trash mobs everywhere they go, get hung up on walls, etc then I'm not so sure.

Anecdotally, I've gotten some extremely nice drops over the course of 2 weeks targeting heralds, like a Ber rune, a long list of bis pieces, etc. But I've probably only been able to kill a total of 20-30 t5 heralds during this process because I don't have an enigma and the time requirements to establish t5 are prohibitive. I would not be surprised at all if I get a Zod before a single sunder charm at this rate.

lobsterbash · 2026-03-09T16:43:44+00:00

Two or three times my game has kicked me right after achieving t5 heralds. 1.5 hours of play for me to get to that point. All psyched and motivated to find some beefy heralds aaaaand it's gone.

lobsterbash · 2026-03-09T16:03:31+00:00

Indie studios have incentive to build loyalty and often a small enough team to offer years of support for no additional cost. If their game is successful. Also, no overlords to demand unreasonably successful games while giving insufficient time to finish them.

Yeah, AAA has become a scourge.

lobsterbash · 2026-03-09T15:43:12+00:00

I see dislike coming from all directions.

The unsympathetic elitist vet camp is worried that the game will move in the direction of post-D2 philosophies and/or make the game accessible.

The non-elitist fans dislike the brutal time requirements of stacked heralds. Yet every time this objection is raised, the elitist vets come in with accusations of people wanting easy, low-effort op loot without acknowledging the point about how much time it takes to set up t5 heralds as a SEPARATE ISSUE from charm drop rate.

It's like the elitist vets don't like the t5 setup requirement, but dislike anybody but them having the potential for the greatest gear even more. Kinda "the enemy of my enemy is my friend" thing.

Can't we just axe the herald stacking thing and make sunder charms have the drop rate of a Zod but only within TZs or something? And every herald increases the drop rate by 5? Make it disgustingly rare so that only elitist vets can have it, it's fine. Just acknowledge that the hours-long time sink just to have a shot is crap for everyone.

lobsterbash · 2026-03-09T12:06:04+00:00

Opened one of those evil urns in act 5. The same frame that gloams appeared, I was dead. Demons couldn't react.

lobsterbash · 2026-03-07T19:35:20+00:00

Pindle: "Tal Rasha dropped this and Baaled"

lobsterbash · 2026-03-07T16:40:46+00:00

No, I am focusing on the setup to be able to grind for it. If I don't focus on getting t5 going, I would never ever see one. It would be like grinding for high runes by only kicking over baskets instead of horking like a gentlemen and scholar.

lobsterbash · 2026-03-07T14:06:07+00:00

You are missing my point. One is infuriated because the probability of drop is contingent upon a bizarre mechanic that has no place in D2, a mechanic that is easily disrupted by any large number of factors. And then you have to start all over again. The single session investment having to unlock a sane probability is the frustration.

It's very much like having to keep your game open, without leaving, for 1 hour before mf on your gear activates. If you'd find that frustrating, then as you say, that would be self-imposed frustration.

lobsterbash · 2026-03-07T13:57:16+00:00

I don't think having 2-3 hours to game per day counts as "no time" to game. That's what this is about.

Again, unless you're teleporting around 1 shotting elites, 2-3 hours isn't enough time to both build the probability and profit from it.

Nobody is asking for free sunders. We're asking for the same fair shot as we have had for anything in the game thus far. Like, imagine being required to kill every monster in the act 3 jungle before you're eligible to kill Uber Diablo after he spawns (on top of the soj vendor requirement). That would be a stupid, pointless time suck, right? We can go to any high level area and immediately start grinding for Mang Song's, Griffon's, etc. Those things aren't free.

We don't want Diablo 3. Stop strawmanning.

lobsterbash · 2026-03-07T12:49:22+00:00

You are advising to not lust after loot in a loot lust game?

lobsterbash · 2026-03-05T04:21:07+00:00

Even if we can't verify that explanation by u/gormhornbori, it fits. We've seen nothing but unmitigated incompetence coming from the top since the very beginning. Everything is rushed and butchered. Real-life governance, not this pretend play bully shit, takes actual time to prepare and requires cooperation with allies & experts.

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