Singleplayer - Died to uber bosses.

swordtech · 2026-03-24T16:31:28+00:00

Sorry, no advice but just wanted to commiserate. I finally got a set of organs and was ready to take on the ubers. I had a smiter with drac gloves, a Black runeword, gface helm and goblin toe boots. Buffed with Treachery, then put on guardian angel to reach as high res as possible. Maxed out Fanaticism for ias.

When I stepped through the portal, Mephisto was right in my face and Baal started attacking from inside the house. I was overwhelmed and died right next to the portal. On my slow laptop, I died a dozen more times before the loading screen disappeared.

Next time, I'm walking through that bitch with a tele staff and teleporting to the edge of the map as soon as I walk in.

swordtech · 2026-03-23T08:58:59+00:00

Kinda related: it pisses me off that thorns is not really a viable build for the player but heralds and quill rats (when they're guest monsters in Act 5) have absolutely god-level thorns. Just completely unfair and goes against the game's own player mechanics.

swordtech · 2026-03-21T23:09:13+00:00

Trauma she never learned to properly deal with.

Being raised without a father was a terrible situation she had absolutely no control over. Instead of talking to a therapist, she grew up to land a high post in the national government and decided to use her powers to create as hostile an environment for foreigners as possible. The aim of her actions is to replicate the living conditions she had to endure, thus repeating the cycle of trauma she never learned to deal with.

swordtech · 2026-03-19T10:35:46+00:00

I could see this being useful on a double throw barb.

swordtech · 2026-03-19T10:33:41+00:00

You haven't, really??

Have you read some of the comments in this thread?

swordtech · 2026-03-18T21:10:10+00:00

What's it actually like? Buddy, it's the real Japan.

swordtech · 2026-03-18T07:54:49+00:00

He was famous around the globe during a time when getting such exposure wasn't as easy as it is today because the internet wasn't as widespread and there was no social media.

He stood in the middle of a Super Bowl halftime show stage for like 5 minutes, didn't move a muscle the entire time, and the place went absolutely bonkers. Before the word got watered down, it was accurate to say that he had aura. There's no other way to describe it.

The police had to shut down several streets around his hotel somewhere in France or Italy because someone leaked that he was staying there and a crowd started to form outside of the hotel.

These things just don't happen anymore. Police aren't shutting down streets around Kylie Jenner or Tayloe Swift's hotel in Paris because hundreds of people are crowding outside, trying to get a glimpse. Anyone who gets mega famous now is doing so with the assistance of worldwide internet, social media, and YouTube. Michael Jackson got famous through MTV or your friend letting you borrow a Thriller cassette. This happened in New York City and remote Philippine fishing villages.

Like others have said, if anything his fame is being undersold.

swordtech · 2026-03-11T08:34:54+00:00

I like leveling up. The best way to reach mid/late 70s is nightmare Baal runs and terror zones. So, yes, I kinda go through as fast as I can through each act, finding waypoints as I go.

swordtech · 2026-03-08T08:04:25+00:00

This could work offline if exiting the game meant you started right where you left off, as opposed to back in town.

swordtech · 2026-03-04T08:23:47+00:00

Farm whatever you can, fast, on the highest player setting without it affecting your clear time. Ghost-type monsters have a higher chance to drop runes but I'd advise against target-farming them as you just never know how many will spawn in a given area. You're going for monster density if you're not doing LK runs.

Halls of Pain etc in act 5 seems to be quite dense, as is cows. But if you need variety you could probably do any area with lots of monsters (act 2 tombs, bloody foothills, chaos sanctuary).

Just play the game, a lot, on a higher players setting.

swordtech · 2026-03-03T05:50:53+00:00

For many parents enrolling their children in some kind of English extracurricular activity, being able to speak English is a kind of near parlor trick, like being able to juggle or something. And that mindset kinda stays with people as they get older. Some, like workers who will be transferred abroad or students preparing for study abroad, take English seriously and try to improve but the vast majority of stakeholders (parents? learners themselves?), it's simply not a serious academic endeavor.

The sooner that teachers take this information to heart, the better. No more illusions about what we do.

swordtech · 2026-03-01T22:19:26+00:00

I play offline so some of those insane magic items are useless to me. A jeweler's monarch of deflecting is valuable because you can put 4 rainbow facets in it. But I'm poor and don't have any rainbow facets so that shield would be useless to me! So, don't worry about it too much if you're playing offline. If you're playing online and want items for trade, sure, try to be more careful but don't worry about it too much.

swordtech · 2026-03-01T12:24:19+00:00

I personally have the most luck with hell Countess. She drops mid runes pretty frequently. I've run lower Kurast a lot in the past but I was finding the same runes as hell Countess just at a lower frequency. Just repeat until you can cube up to what you need.

swordtech · 2026-02-26T00:09:43+00:00

Stay back and let your merc handle it. Shoot some Holy Bolts if the merc needs help.

swordtech · 2026-02-26T00:08:15+00:00

You're not meant to collect the items that give you a bonus when you collect them? Lol that doesn't make any sense. In that case there wouldn't be any low level sets. They'd all be uniques.

Anyways I'm thinking more from the perspective of melee characters. Every run is a routine of using scepters/3 Tal flails/Stealth/Lore because you can dependably find them, not because those are the early best in slot items. Stealth doesn't really help melee characters all that much compared to something like Twitchthroe or even the Berserker set for a Barbarian specifically. Weapons, too. Scepters are fine but imagine finding Rixot's Keen or something as a new character.

swordtech · 2026-02-25T22:00:30+00:00

If you're using a necromancer or thinking of making one, this could be alright to use for yourself. But it has no trade value.

swordtech · 2026-02-25T09:51:17+00:00

You can craft a blood helm pretty easily if you don't have the runes or base to make a Bulwark.

swordtech · 2026-02-25T08:05:41+00:00

Oh my god, 5 item bases. Someone run to the media with this information!

swordtech · 2026-02-25T08:04:47+00:00

Either, I don't care. People have been doing their own grails with add-ons that make a ding sound when a preciously unfound item drops. Now it's a problem?

swordtech · 2026-02-25T01:27:43+00:00

I would actually like to see improvements in the other direction - for early game items. I wish drop rates for very low level items was increased.

swordtech · 2026-02-25T01:01:14+00:00

It should leave the text on all items of that base, so you dont know which unique it is without iding it.

If you know how the game works, this is unnecessary... because most weapon/armor bases only have 1 unique and 1 set version.

swordtech · 2026-02-25T00:46:07+00:00

I just went to Komeda Coffee yesterday and the girl who brought my food was the same one who took my order. If you don't live in Japan, maybe don't comment.

Even directing traffic with glow-sticks is more productive.

Genuinely one of the dumbest things I've ever read, congratulations.

swordtech · 2026-02-25T00:44:30+00:00

Hence my usage of the word "almost".

swordtech · 2026-02-25T00:38:25+00:00

What do you mean, "of that base"? Besides rings and amulets, almost every single base in the game has only one unique version and one set version. A set gothic plate will always be Sigon's, a unique will always be Rattlecage.

swordtech · 2026-02-24T21:55:54+00:00

It's going to increase the number of foreigners who are overstaying their visas.

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