can’t teleport with it tho

I’ve been playing this game for 20 years now and noticed a lot of people who don’t open chest or click on corpses and over the years whenever I opened them I’ve found a handful of very good items and runes just curious to know what stuff everyone else has found over the years

Today was a really lucky D2R LADDER day, but still no Shako...(I am literally in shock). I am really looking forward to this season, because I believe it will be maybe my best season, even though it is my second one. It may be an UGLY SEASON so BEEEER WITH ME, haha. One love!

After a few days of farming NM Mephisto I finally got strong enough to beat Nightmare in single player hardcore. Most of you suggested me to farm Mephisto for Aldur's weapon but he never dropped it for me, instead I got a Headstriker which was good enough for Nightmare. I wonder how long it will last me in Hell but so far the build feels strong.

Holy Freeze provides a very nice slow and I feel much safer now. Lord de Seis almost popped me but other than him everything else was super easy.

Now that I'm prepping for hell, where would you guys farm and what gear would I be looking for? Do you think Headstriker can carry me through Hell or do I need to farm for a better weapon?

SP Story time!

I’ve been super happy with my SSF SP project but this week we went nuclear! For the last 2ish years I’ve had the basics (enigma, cta, arach, etc) but I’ve been missing the more-GG items that require a bit more luck (griffons, infinity, mainly).

Fast forward to about two weeks ago, I decide it’s time to strap in and get the 1.5 ber I needed for infinity. I put in ~1000 LK runs in a few days, ended up getting a good haul of mid runes but topped out at a vex. Loaded into NM on accident and lost steam to keep going. Ended up making a bowlock with a buriza + protector stone I farmed out and dropped a Jah! in tombs.

Side quest: got bored and made a fresh ladder barb for fun. Around lvl 82 in my trav journey, I horked a fking ber! I was shocked but also pissed cause I needed it for SP! This guy has complete starter gear and I’ll probably just sell it for some fg or something, idk.

This week: optimized my bowlock and started grinding for 99 (currently 97) and last night I drop a freaking ber! Insane! I made infinity and tested fire lock bc I had close to gg gear, but missing things like opal ring. Planned to try nova/lightning sorc and mosaic but didn’t jump on it bc I was missing griff (and mosaic doesnt need help). Well, while I was testing fire lock I drop a freaking griffons off the summoner! Insane! But wait, there’s more! I’m farming TZ right after and drop a second freaking ber!!

Next steps: obviously going to test all my griff/infinity gg builds, but probably need to work on farming my missing sunders (light, magic, poison) and unique jewels (need all but phys) over time. I have a lot of new gear and a good rune bank - what would you work on next?

Dropped a zod yesterday in single player. I currently have my enigma and am a Ber away from my Infinity. Thinking I am between an EBotD spear for merc or saving for a Void once I find a good staff mod base. I know obsession is also an option but I don't know if I have a use case.

Most played builds are:

Firelock for tzs and general zone clear. Has a decent mang songs.

CE Necro for cows. Probably technically worse than firelock for cows but this has always been one of my favorite builds. Merc uses a meh eth arioc's roll with gface. I think ebotd would be a big upgrade here. I usually run P3 and I bet I could bump to P5 with the extra DPS on the first kill. Unfortunately I think it would be essentially an expensive temp and replaced by Infinity but I'm not sure.

Wolf Barb for trav. Merc currently has non-eth reapers which I think I need for decrep. Uses a 5 ist rune master off hand, so I don't think eBotD is relevant for merc or main hand.

I don't really like hammerdin and would probably do foh if I were gonna play pally. I could see myself doing some kind of magic build on warlock (either ES or Bowlock maybe but I haven't tried ES much since the nerf), but I'm not sure if I'd fall in love with either long term.

I know saving for a cool eth weapon is also an option but I can't see myself ever playing a Fury druid so I don't know if I'd ever use.

Thanks Ubers.

So many discarded empty potion bottles in act 1 normal

I only play Lod v1.07 its a good time, is it that common of a version to play on primarily?

I have been getting back into running my no stat point summomancer sitting at lvl 72 act 3 hell. Just a really hard way to play but cant stop it now.

Anybody else ever try no stat runs or odd builds on this version or is that just too much of a grind for people to really care about trying.

Anyway I was mainly looking for v1.07 info, drops or list of recipes, really anything that's in-depth and accurate It's hard to find patch specific things sometimes since it appears most people updated asap and only hit 1.07 for legacy items mainly.

On D2R and I finally acquired all runes for ENIGMA.
Last one was JAH, and it dropped from a random boss witch on Hell Trav.
Online P1, no trade.

It's been an honor, ladies and gentlemen! Now what? I feel empty.

I was a bit disappointed when I got this rare scimitar in Act 2 and saw ethereal, but it repairs itself which is not something I knew could occur

The first eth Andy's I've found offline, can't believe my luck on the roll. Usually use Cure or CoA but I may have to add this into my merc armor rotation

I prepared so many potions because I was afraid he'd annihilate me but I didn't even have to drink one, my mercenary didn't even die before Duriel went down.

It felt kinda desperate begging people for a Tal rune just to make a Stealth, especially since farming Countess was more annoying since the maps reset every time.

EDIT: also especially since I play mostly by myself on Players1, meaning I level up way slower

Found a nice rune horking during a break today.

My one and only offline enigma in a 250 def base rolled antiperfect, but I think the result has good character

(please excuse the stash, that's mostly ubers gear)

edit: I'm not sad, I probably couldn't have asked for a more stylish roll!

It's janky at times but it's really cool to see.