@art_vandelay - Nice finds! You should definitely go and post that Ber pattern into the LK Superchest thread, as it appears to be a new one from what I can tell. That's pretty big news, since it brings p5 to 3 Ber patterns vs the 4 for p8.
@Pb_pal have fruits pattern calculations not been posted in the thread yet? There are 4 ber patterns on p5 and 2 on p7, but p7 is still generally better because of more sur patterns. The time to find or cube ber is very very similar for p5 vs p7, but p7 offers more charms and jewels. I did some LK runs on p5 as well though in hopes of seeing a ber on the ground, but only did like 850 runs with no runes higher than lem 0_0
Edit: should we also edit the tables on the LK patterns thread? I know posting the calculated results is kind of against the spirit of the thread, but I also know that plenty of players link that thread for citing # of LK patterns. So it might be nice to display the correct (less optimistic) information.
Also sorry about the double post but wanted to actually reply to the thread. Nice Progress everyone!
@ResTTe Very nice progress and sick finds as well! The 6LS trap claws I did a rough calc on, and came up with it taking 190 hours on average to shop them . The astreons and sup phase blade are sick as well. Seems like you've had some excellent luck lately. Also you're lvl'ing at an impressive pace. I definitely won't catch up unless you decide to start grailing at like lvl 97. Then I MIGHT have a shot .
@T72on1 Good stuff! I'm glad you are still enjoying the character, and that fort looks nice too. I still haven't made one yet!
@art_vandelay Nice stuff. I did 850 p5 runs and didn't find a rune higher than lem, but found enough nice charms that I didn't mind. Looks like I should've stuck with it a little longer But sweet finds! Sur ber sur Lo in two hours!
I've been doing chaos runs with Arkana since she got 94. Didn't track the runs at first, but after 7-8 hours, I was 95.1. Here I decided to do twenty hours of running before taking a break and playing some other characters. Anyways I'm like 6 hours into that little project (so 13-14 hours total in chaos), and have had nice enough drops that I couldn't help but update
(was Earth Shifter)
Woo second cold skiller!! She appreciates any damage increase immensely.
Super pumped to see this. Sanders cap is (predictably) the last of the tough-to-get tc3s for me
Was 3/3 fire -.-, but then i saw i had a sc in my inventory that cheered me right up
first nice rune from chaos. At 3xSur now (after spending my ber on merc's coh)
Pleeeease be 4os. I've been wanting an eth elite base on this char forever. This is the first eth elite I've even had to put in the cube.
BOOM
Fifth roll. Will keep happily
I'll update her on the exp table when this little run project is over, but I had to get these finds off my chest
Got Trina to 94 doing Baal runs. Did about an hour a day during the week before switching to tournament characters. Added 3 deaths before I hit 30% into the level (1 from trying to run naked to my corpse, haha). The rest of the level was safer, only iffy part is when I blind teleport into the middle of packs.
Throne Room/Baal drops so far: Blood Raven's Charge, Mal rune, eth Shako, Leviathan, Frostwind, Hellrack, IK armor, and Arachnid Mesh on the run before leveling.
Don't forget, it's almost certainly more efficient time-wise pre-97 to not include Baal in the runs at all, so you may want to test out your XP/time doing just Ventar runs, Lister runs, and full Baal runs to see what's fastest. Unless you're looking for drops too, in which case Baal is likely the best choice.
Edit: I forgot that this is for a fishyzon. CS is such a strong Baal killer that it's probably actually more efficient to include him. Test it out anyways and let us know!
Great progress everyone, especially glad to see Klaus still alive @Pb_pal.
As for me well... new job still keeps me super busy + generally gaming less in summer + being drawn a bit to the intruiging depths of fighting games = almost no D2 gaming since RFL. But yesterday and today I picked up Lucid again and took him out for a few CS runs. I'll try to show him some more love, hopefully hit 97.75 within 1-2 weeks and provide an update on him then.
About 5 or 6 of the Lister runs had to be aborted due to ubreakable LI Lister. All of the Baal runs were completed by parking Lister if he spawned LI, so the XP/hr could probably be increased on those by doing a S&E instead. So it looks like I can do just about whichever I choose. I'll probably still include Baal at this point. He could drop my Griffon's, but I won't hold my breath.
I'm a little behind on responding to recent posts, but I'll just express relief that Klaus survived his close call and more generally say congrats for the good progress by everyone else!
Pestilence made steady progress and has eclipsed 98.75, so a little less than 11 hours to go, with Ancients XP factored in. Although his progress is steady and safe, his drops have been pretty terrible given the number of runs. Drops help keep up the motivation usually, so it’s felt longer even though his XP/hour is better than any of my prior 99ers and he’s also not died since early testing.
That said, he started off strong with Griffon’s as his third TC87 unique from Nihl:
It also had a really nice roll:
Code:
Griffon's Eye
Diadem
Defense: 221
Durability: 15 of 20
Required Level: 76
Fingerprint: 0x81313b6f
Item Level: 95
Version: Expansion 1.10+
Unidentified
+1 to All Skills
+25% Faster Cast Rate
-19% to Enemy Lightning Resistance
+15% to Lightning Skill Damage
+167 Defense
And then that was it, in terms of drops worth screenshots. Runes were Gul # 3, plus two Mals and two Puls. So his Vex+ runes from Nihl so far are a Lo and three Ohms, so well behind the other Nihl runners
Other noteworthy drops were Dragonscale x2, 3os HHG, and that’s about it. A dozen unique rings that were all Nagel/Manald/Raven/Dwarf except a Carrionwind, two unique amulets (Nokozan and Saracen), and four RBF, one a 5/5 poison and another a 4/5 cold. He socketed the other 5/5 poison in his Shako when the second dropped, just for the extra -1 poison resist because why not. No charms of note or rare jewelry except for possible twinking use.
Okay, enough bellyaching about drops Pestilence had more than his fair share of luck so far with 2 vita PnB skillers, Dweb, a 2/20 amulet, and plenty of good runes before 98
Time to focus on the last stretch. He’s due break though, as we were getting sloppy toward the end with him. I hadn’t had life drop below 1000 since last gear shuffle, until the last little bit when we had this close call in the Halls of Pain and two S&Es at Nihl with <1000 life:
He will get the last 2M over the next day or two and then go on break until next weekend. We’ll see about some Baal runs with Quinta, who got an hour or so in last week, CS with Death, or more likely getting to Hell with my Overburdened tourney character or getting into the Three Way Dance tourney.
@Vildecor - Interesting that Baal is still slower, wouldn't have expected that. Are you using Delerium on the merc? That can speed up times as well. I know some don't love it, but I swear by it for all non-melee Baal runners (necros excluded obviously).
@PhineasB - Nicely done! Almost there, but smart choice to take a break if things are getting sloppy. I think a big reason Klaus has survived is because I've only played him when I felt like it and taken plenty of breaks with other chars. It only takes one bad run where you're forcing it too hard to undo a ton of work. Oh, nice Griffon's too.
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Thanks for the kind words on Klaus everyone. He is in fact still alive and still going strong lately.
Short but sweet update this time with another 10% done.
Great! Things are very smooth by this point at Nihl, which is not surprising after thousands of runs. Still not fast mind you, but smooth, and that's good enough for me in HC. Verdungos next, then a rash of nothing until at the end of the set he popped a Shadow Killer and then:
It was only 2 sockets and non-eth, but still a fun find! Back to grinding.
Great progress guys btw i would rly like to see like 10 runs video of @Pb_pal firedruid doin nihla.
So, im still avoiding LK runs with my necro but did lots of pindle/eldricht/meph runs with him (got a map 1 tele from waypoint to lvl 3)
Most of the times i did p3 on pindle and eldricht (hoping that the minions arround drop some HRS haha) but didnt find anything higher then gul which dropped on a chest before meph.
now i stopped doin meph and respecct to poison and do some pit runs, dno how long, but after that im gonna go to the lk...^^
still no shako btw ):
@Vildecor - Interesting that Baal is still slower, wouldn't have expected that. Are you using Delerium on the merc? That can speed up times as well. I know some don't love it, but I swear by it for all non-melee Baal runners (necros excluded obviously).
Nice progress anyone. @PhineasB Good luck on the last stretch. I keep finding it amazing: 3 99ers already, 4th almost there, 5th well on her way. Crazy stuff !!
@Bewitch I got an almost identical one after less than 10 minutes. Huts are slightly more to the south, otherwise it's the same. Me likes .
Does anyone have exp data from untwinked CS sorcs? I'm not a super efficient player, but I was curious how my runs and map stack up. From 95-96 I averaged 18mill per hour and so far it looks like it will be just above 9mill per hour for lvl 96. I'm guessing its not stellar though, since it equates to ~3.7mill/hour at 97, and some people average more than that at lvl 98 lol.
I bet the data is in our 99er compendium, particularly this section.
If my memory serves me well, I was averaging around 1:00 to 1:10 minutes for Gripphon runs with my untwinked Blizzard Sorc. I'm not really sure though. The tables in the compendium will be a better place to start .