With my last post
here, I was hinting at my project to finally get Enigma and Infinity after all those years of playing the game. Truth be told I always marveled at the dedication the fine people of the SPF showcased, the thousands of LK runs needed, and to be honest the sometimes-insane luck one has to have in this game.
Earlier in August my wife blessed me with our first child, and the government here allowed me to go on paid leave for two whole months. Anyone having cared for an infant knows that one has to be up in strange times of day and night, on mostly no to very little sleep but there is a lot of scattered free time here and there. I am writing this right now with my sleeping child on the carrier I am wearing on my chest
As this was the first time in my adult life I had “free” time of such a stretch and had to stay home for the most part, I decided to give the goal of Infinity and Enigma a go.
Huge kudos go to maxicek for the inspiration.
As showcased
here, I already had a Ber rune from my Trav Barb (at the time Frenzy but respecced to WW) and some spares which would cube up to a Sur.
The best course of action was of course Lower Kurast chesting, so I started doing that in D2R but held out for only for 123 runs what with the absurd loading times on my 8-year-old computer. In that time however I managed to score my first HR, an Ohm
Switch to 1.14 in LoD and we go on!
I got 2 Vex, an Ohm and a Sur in the space of the first 200 runs
I though I was on fire! But alas the streak did not continue.
I got bored, got joint pain on my wrist and had to do something else over the next days.
So I thought I’d try some casual Trav runs again. No timing, no counting, just to relax. I did not of course expect anything, just to let go and relax.
You know where this is going…
A f*****ing Jah rune! I never thought I’d see the day.
So, the first thing was rolling an Enigma: I went with a regular schmuck Light plate. I like the graphics in D2R on every char but the barb. Oh well.
On we go with LK then! according to my calculations I was short the equivalent of 7 Vex runes.
That seemed doable, I was hoping for a Sur rune as this seems to be the most common of the high rune patterns on players 8.
Well, the next 600 runs brought nothing. Which was to be expected. Still I was starting to get bored and distracted again. Plus, I had that sweet sweet Enigma waiting for me.
So what did I do ? More Trav runs! …Aaaaaaand ?
Nothing
So on we go… Maybe some CS runs on my Cheese-Hammerdin ? Sure why not, baby is asleep, lets give it a go.
About 20 runs in, this beauty drops.
Out of nowhere.. I do not know what monster dropped it.
So I was done.
I could not believe it…
And with some leftover runes too!
I pondered for about 5 minutes if Infinity was to be rolled In something non-eth and then I pulled the trigger on the eth-Thresher that was Insight and got Hel’d for Infinity. The base is at least 10 years old. Here is a video (as a bonus, my leftover runes upwards of um and the skillers I got)
All in all it took 1023 LK runs and two VERY lucky drops. I am really happy and pondering what to use these godly items on first.
Or I will just go play the Random tournament
Thanks to everyone for the inspiration. I could not have done it without the SPF