1.07 News, Info and Gossip

[Arkardo]

Re: 1.07 News, Info and Gossip

Hello guys.

Hey, welcome to the forums, man! :wave:

Question about rolling racks w/ minions.
F.e., I make map with Sash armor stand. Okay, making new map w/ using Valkyrie gives me Barlog Skin.
I must every time make Valk after create game, or new "Barlog skin stand" is fixed?

You must recast Valkyrie every time to get a Balrog skin.

Another q... What about CbF ability on itmz without using ATMA? It work correct and don't damage saves?

I think you mean the 'Freezes Target' mod? The item can safely be in your save file. Just don't touch it with ATMA.

@Arkardo - "Would it be worth for a Vitabarb to get a second Grandfather?"(c)
Don't forget, that BO works only with base vita, +vita & +life mods. Not for +"vita/life based on character lvl" or "increase maximum life %".
And, as I know, 1.07 dual wielding don't work correct with WhirlWind.

I didn't know that... but the Vitabarb would be for 1.09+ (going to make a level 99 Barbarian in 1.09) anyway. But thanks for the tip anyway!

About exp'ing. Good locations for melee characters are Crystalline Passage->...->The Ancients' Way.
Especially icy monsters.
Just watch, how many exp give you some type of mob.
Good luck for beat 85lvl!

Will try that! Nihlathak's temple wasn't that great in comparison to using an Experience shrine and running Eldritch and Shenk. Then again, maybe my level is too low to get good experience there.

 

[Demonuga]

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You must recast Valkyrie every time to get a Balrog skin.

Bad news for me... Refresh map is easy in this case...

I think you mean the 'Freezes Target' mod? The item can safely be in your save file. Just don't touch it with ATMA.

Yeah, of course Thanks for answer. I'm use TCP/IP muling instead ATMA.

I didn't know that... but the Vitabarb would be for 1.09+ (going to make a level 99 Barbarian in 1.09) anyway. But thanks for the tip anyway!

Simple calculations is not applicable with BO + life/vita on clvl & increase max life.
If I don't forget, barb w/ BO have:
clean life + %BO
+
life/vita from charms/items +%BO
+
simple +vita/life based on clvl
+
percent "increased max life%" ability from <base life + life/vita from charms/items>

But in all case you barb will have great boost of live with 1.07 Arky/Doom/GF/Harlekine/Pavice/ets.

Will try that! Nihlathak's temple wasn't that great in comparison to using an Experience shrine and running Eldritch and Shenk. Then again, maybe my level is too low to get good experience there.

Yeah, just check, how many exp you got from different mobs.

Now I have a 66lvl dexozon 1.08 in Hell A2 Arcane Sanctum. But now the best place for exping - Nightmare A5 Snapchip Shatter in Icy Cellar

 

[Arkardo]

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Say, does anyone know what would be a 'best' end game/levelling setup for a Sorceress? I was figuring:

Weapon: Magical orb (mine is +2 Sorc skills, +2 Frozen Orb)
Shield: 3x pdiamond shield
Armor: Arkaine's Valor???
Helm: Harlequin Crest
Gloves: Laying of Hands
Boots: Aldur's Advance
Belt: String of Ears?
Amulet: Serene's Chance (spelling?)
Rings: FCR

Mercenary - Act V Barbarian
Weapon: The Grandfather
Armor: Arkaine's Valor
Helm: Arreat's Face/Vampire's Gaze?

 

[Demonuga]

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Say, does anyone know what would be a 'best' end game/levelling setup for a Sorceress? I was figuring:

Weapon: Magical orb (mine is +2 Sorc skills, +2 Frozen Orb)
Shield: 3x pdiamond shield
Armor: Arkaine's Valor???
Helm: Harlequin Crest
Gloves: Laying of Hands
Boots: Aldur's Advance
Belt: String of Ears?
Amulet: Serene's Chance (spelling?)
Rings: FCR

Mercenary - Act V Barbarian
Weapon: The Grandfather
Armor: Arkaine's Valor
Helm: Arreat's Face/Vampire's Gaze?

Belt - in 1.07 works Caster recipes? Maybe this belt is better than String.
Shield - if magic with good bonuses - yes. But maybe good craft Safety shield is better.
Amulet - i think what craft Caster Amulet with good @ is better.

Others - good decision IMHO.

 

[purplelocust]

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Amulet - i think what craft Caster Amulet with good @ is better.

Crafted caster amulets in 1.07 only get 1% additional FCR. So the best FCR you can get for a caster amulet is 11%, not the fabled 20% in later versions. And most of them have 1% FCR. There are generally better choices elsewhere- I've got some nice cubed prismatic amulets, some of which are rare, that turned out pretty well.

 

[galtwish]

Re: 1.07 News, Info and Gossip

Say, does anyone know what would be a 'best' end game/levelling setup for a Sorceress? I was figuring:

Weapon: Magical orb (mine is +2 Sorc skills, +2 Frozen Orb)
Shield: 3x pdiamond shield
Armor: Arkaine's Valor???
Helm: Harlequin Crest
Gloves: Laying of Hands
Boots: Aldur's Advance
Belt: String of Ears?
Amulet: Serene's Chance (spelling?)
Rings: FCR

Mercenary - Act V Barbarian
Weapon: The Grandfather
Armor: Arkaine's Valor
Helm: Arreat's Face/Vampire's Gaze?

+3 cold skills w/+3 FO, +3 CM, +3 Static
+17% FHR, 30%+ chromatic shield w/3 PDiamonds or Stormshield
Arkaine's Valor or Spirit Shroud or Vipermagi
Harlequin Crest
Magefist, Frostburns, or caster gloves
Trang's belt or IK belt
+3 cold skills/+30 resist all or prismatic cubed +3 cold skills amulet
2 SoJs

Merc:
Grandfather + Shae or crafted Colossus Sword socketed w/3 Shae
Arkaine's Valor or Shaftstop or 4 Sol armor of Amicae
Guillame's Face (no merc LL in 1.07) or Vamp Gaze

You don't really need FCR once you get uber gear, as you won't be teleporting into anything you can't run out of and FO is timered. Your orb is good, but getting CM to 17+ and maxing resists is really all you need from your gear. If you are just looking to level then Cows, Ice Caverns, and the Halls are good spots--your CM should break any immunities and your Static will sliver most everything.

If you are MFing, your gear will need to change drastically to hit the Hell breakpoints--Harly, Skulder's, Fortuitous rings of Fortune, +3 cold skills ammy with MF, Goldwrap/Tal's belt, rare boots and gloves, and you'll use your charm slots to fill in resists. Running A5 superuniques and Council will get you a decent amount of XP and all the set items that can drop in 1.07 (outside of racking).

 

[Jaedhann]

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My sorc uses:

Wizardspike, Arkaines, harly's, magefist, wall of the eyeless, tal's ammie, 2x rare ring with fcr, gloom's trap and rare boots. She has 2k life with full resist and 110% fcr. No way she's going to die anymore.

 

[galtwish]

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My sorc uses:

Wizardspike, Arkaines, harly's, magefist, wall of the eyeless, tal's ammie, 2x rare ring with fcr, gloom's trap and rare boots. She has 2k life with full resist and 110% fcr. No way she's going to die anymore.

Wow, that's a lot of racking. What do you hunt for with her now?

 

[Demonuga]

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Crafted caster amulets in 1.07 only get 1% additional FCR. So the best FCR you can get for a caster amulet is 11%, not the fabled 20% in later versions. And most of them have 1% FCR. There are generally better choices elsewhere- I've got some nice cubed prismatic amulets, some of which are rare, that turned out pretty well.

Hmm, thanks for this tip, man!
In 1.08 I had 25% fcr ammu and don't know about only +1% fcr in 1.07.

 

[Arkardo]

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I've lost my Colussus Blade map :weep:! I accidently pressed 'Nightmare' instead of 'Hell'. I did backup my character recently. Is there any legitimate way of retrieving the map? Would be even better if I could somehow keep the extra experience as well...

At least I did get one Grandfather, but I have run for quite long to get a second one...

Guess I'll find other racks for now... It's not like I'm in a hurry or anything.

 

[raconteur]

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Hello all, been awhile...:wave:

@Galtwish(or any1 else w/ relevant info) I read your post on the effectivness of the 1.07/.09 Ravenclaw.
My question is where did you obtain it? I was hoping it would drop in the course of questing(like String,Visceretuant, etc.) but after 3 chars Mat/Pat'd...zip.
I expect the answer to come as 556%mf hell boss running, but as i cant see being able to get that number any time soon, i was hoping to get another answer.
Is there a breakpoint to get norm bosses to drop all uniques? It seems the chances for NM/Hell bosses to drop a TC9 unique is very low.

Thanx as usual...R.

 

[galtwish]

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I expect the answer to come as 556%mf hell boss running, but as i cant see being able to get that number any time soon, i was hoping to get another answer.
Is there a breakpoint to get norm bosses to drop all uniques? It seems the chances for NM/Hell bosses to drop a TC9 unique is very low.

Hell Andy or Meph w/556%+. Normal bosses drop uniques once in a blue moon, and though there may be a breakpoint, I am unaware of it. A couple hundred runs should get you one or two, but not much else worth having. I ran Andy about 100 times and Meph about 300 times and got two (threw one away before I realized they were so good).

Getting MF up there is pretty simple: 3x PTopaz hats and 4x PTopaz armors on you and your A2 merc gets you to 336%. 25% gloves and rings with 35% boots and ammy gets you to 481. Milbrega's Orb is another 20%, leaving you with 28 small 2% MF charms +/- some lucky Fortuitous Rings/Ammy of Fortune and a 5%-7% MF jewel socketed to Milbrega's. If you find a Gull or a Blade of Ali Baba, you can ditch the charms and go a lot faster. You'll likely have to cube the rings, so save them up.

Or you can just rack a Skudler's, a Harlequin Crest, and a Blade of Ali Baba.

 

[Arkardo]

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Or you can just rack a Skudler's, a Harlequin Crest, and a Blade of Ali Baba.

I don't think the 1.07 Skullder's Ire has MF. Or at least, the 1.08 version didn't have any.

PS. Anybody know how I can get the linked page to scroll down to the armor in question automatically? I've tried to add "#Skullder's%20Ire%20Russet%20Armor", but that doesn't work.

 

[Jaedhann]

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I don't think the 1.07 Skullder's Ire has MF. .

It has, but it shows goldfind instead. However, this is a display bug.

 

[Antonio]

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PS. Anybody know how I can get the linked page to scroll down to the armor in question automatically? I've tried to add "#Skullder's%20Ire%20Russet%20Armor", but that doesn't work.

There has to be a named anchor for that section of the page for you to be able to navigate directly to that section. Since there isn't any for each presented item on that page, you can't.

On the on topic side: Balrog Skin rack, woot!

 

[Arkardo]

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On the on topic side: Balrog Skin rack, woot!

Same here! Though still no gold after +- 500 runs... But I'm not giving up!

 

[Arkardo]

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Same here! Though still no gold after +- 500 runs... But I'm not giving up!

Well, well. Look what the sorc dragged in! ^^ (OK, that was bad. I'll stop saying that.)

Arkaine's Valor
Balrog Skin
Defense: 1554
Required Strength: 165
Required Level: 85
Indestructible
Item Version: Expansion
Item Level: 87
Fingerprint: 0x14b0a3ef
+200% Enhanced Defense
Fire Resist +50%
+2 to All Skill Levels
30% Faster Hit Recovery
+2 to Life (2 per Character Level)
+2 to Vitality (2.5 per Character Level)

Total runs is about 550-600.

Now for my second one...

 

[Demonuga]

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Well, well. Look what the sorc dragged in! ^^ (OK, that was bad. I'll stop saying that.)
Total runs is about 550-600.
Now for my second one...

Gratz, man!

Rack running and map roling is bOring, but give excellent results
I have found my first... Arcaine's Valor!
Near 30 minutes playing! I'm lucky man in this case! Version is 1.08, but no green, no yellow - directly gold!
I'm not use ATMA, but can attach screens if needed.
Base defence is 518, don't know about perfects...

Now looking for Elegant Blade(Lightsabre, right?) for my pally against deadly MSLE mobs.
And thinking about Arkaine's build and jewelry for insert.
May be Hel rune... That do you think, comrades?

 

[Arkardo]

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Gratz, man!

Rack running and map roling is bOring, but give excellent results
I have found my first... Arcaine's Valor!
Near 30 minutes playing! I'm lucky man in this case! Version is 1.08, but no green, no yellow - directly gold!

Gratz on your find, too! Lucky bastard! :thumbup:

I'm not use ATMA, but can attach screens if needed.

There's no need... people are (usually) believed on their word around here. Besides, what would anyone gain with lying about this? (I dunno why I included my ATMA readout, just some kind of bragging I think? :jig

Base defence is 518, don't know about perfects...

Arkaine's Valor will always have the same stats.

Now looking for Elegant Blade(Lightsabre, right? Right! ^^) for my pally against deadly MSLE mobs.
And thinking about Arkaine's build and jewelry for insert.
May be Hel rune... That do you think, comrades?

From the top of my mind, both the strength and dexterity requirement are around 100. I'd say go for it if you need the lowered stats for equipping it. After all, it is 'but' a switch weapon. Otherwise I'd socket a Shae(l)/increase attack speed jewel in it.

For myself, I'm looking at quite some cow runs to get from 81 to 85. I hit 81 last night and I equipped my merc with my Grandfather. Man, that was a HUGE leap in attack power from my Bul-Kathos' Sacred Charge, something like 550-2000 to 520-3300. Also, his life went from 1020 something to 1500 exactly. Now I can actually bring him with me in the cow runs.

 

[Demonuga]

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From the top of my mind, both the strength and dexterity requirement are around 100. I'd say go for it if you need the lowered stats for equiping it. After all, it is 'but' a switch weapon. Otherwise I'd socket a Shae(l)/increase attack speed jewel in it.

For myself, I'm looking at quite some cow runs to get from 81 to 85. I hit 81 last night and I equipped my merc with my Grandfather. Man, that was a HUGE leap in attack power from my Bul-Kathos' Sacred Charge, something like 550-2000 to 520-3300. Also, his life went from 1020 something to 1500 exactly. Now I can actually bring him with me in the cow runs.

May be I'm not correctly post. I think Hel in Arky is good decision. Do you have some ideas?
Ofc, Ber or Jah better, but more simply to get second Valor instead this runes

About cows - just check exp and "kill per minute". May be A5 monsters is better.
Cows are pretty for sorc, bow/jaws, DS assasins, necroes w/ CE.