2018 Spring RFL Sign-Up and Running Thread: 2nd Round
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Shuffleblast
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2 hours done, some nice charms, but otherwise a slow start.
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@Shuffleblast, are you running a Lite Trapper?
A major mishap to report. A half hour into my runs I deedsed my l96 Blizzy. I don't think I had BO on tbh. She went down fast to a Fanatic council. I'm gonna stop for the rest of the day and get my act together. Won't try and play my other Trav runners as my head's not in the game atm. Will have to level up another Sorc that's sitting in Hell Act1. RIP ChantMyName.
A major mishap to report. A half hour into my runs I deedsed my l96 Blizzy. I don't think I had BO on tbh. She went down fast to a Fanatic council. I'm gonna stop for the rest of the day and get my act together. Won't try and play my other Trav runners as my head's not in the game atm. Will have to level up another Sorc that's sitting in Hell Act1. RIP ChantMyName.
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Sorry to hear about the deeds @DaveW - hope you're able to come back strong. As for me, in the you-have-to-spend-money-to-make-money category:
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My untwinked 99er pally donated one of his Chams for the cause.
It turns out I had some time this evening to finalize gear and start the set. Early going is inefficient as these are my test runs on the solid map that I rolled last week:
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My untwinked 99er pally donated one of his Chams for the cause.
It turns out I had some time this evening to finalize gear and start the set. Early going is inefficient as these are my test runs on the solid map that I rolled last week:
View attachment 9174 Good luck to all the runners!
@DaveW Sorry for the loss.
I am now 5h in, 2h with the blizz sorc and 3h with the barb. Nothing spectacular to report. No skillers, a couple of bad roll fire facets, CB Ormus, Homunculus, Firelizard's Talons again. If I find Firelizard's in Areas, I will have a set from each round.
On the sorc I dropped the 1.07 Arkaines for an Umed Vipermagi. That let me put on 2xBKWB and Mara's, which gives my Static a much needed boost. Shaved about 3s off my runs as a result.
Some nice maps here, mine are nowhere near as good.
I am now 5h in, 2h with the blizz sorc and 3h with the barb. Nothing spectacular to report. No skillers, a couple of bad roll fire facets, CB Ormus, Homunculus, Firelizard's Talons again. If I find Firelizard's in Areas, I will have a set from each round.
On the sorc I dropped the 1.07 Arkaines for an Umed Vipermagi. That let me put on 2xBKWB and Mara's, which gives my Static a much needed boost. Shaved about 3s off my runs as a result.
Some nice maps here, mine are nowhere near as good.
Shuffleblast
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96? Ouch, a rip like that hurts.
It's a pretty cookie cutter light trapper with lvl 36 traps. I've put some effort into gearing for this round though, travi is lethal. I went from negative resists and 2.8k hp during cowruns to max resists, 3.8k hp and max fire resist even when hit by conviction. Oh and I wear 2x dwarf star lol, hydras don't do any damage at all. I could probably shave off 5 seconds each run if I didnt bother getting every single buff, played with burst of speed and used the tele trick, but it just not worth it for me. Fana + might + cursed council pack says hello.
I do probably have the best possible map there is, so I can stay on the balcony if it's safe so merc can do some damage, or I can tele underneath and be 100 % safe.Managed to run for just short of 3h so far. Picked up my first 2 qualifiers, but no S&U/rare drops of note yet.
Couple of runs below because why not! By the way, as I've been having fun with recording D2 stuff a few times recently, can anyone recommend a lightweight recording software for Mac? With QuickTime on my MacBook Pro at least, mouse movement becomes so slow/laggy and imprecise, it's just a total misclick disaster (as can be seen below, first couple of runs are messed up in particular).
Her times are slowly improving though (even though it might not be apparent
). She's a bit faster than the 18-22s range above when not recording, but so far can't beat her times from last year. One change in running was using the tele-trick in hopes of it speeding her up just a little bit, and it did make about a ~1s difference in comparison to her test runs before. Still room for improvement generally though, I do periodically misclick or miss my landing spot (resulting in stragglers), also when not recording. 
Pretty sure I'd need to roll maps again in order to get a bit closer to last year's fastest runners like @Pb_pal or @Gripphon though, which I don't have the time or patience for at the moment. So I'll stick with it and see where she's at when this is over!
Couple of runs below because why not! By the way, as I've been having fun with recording D2 stuff a few times recently, can anyone recommend a lightweight recording software for Mac? With QuickTime on my MacBook Pro at least, mouse movement becomes so slow/laggy and imprecise, it's just a total misclick disaster (as can be seen below, first couple of runs are messed up in particular).
Her times are slowly improving though (even though it might not be apparent
). She's a bit faster than the 18-22s range above when not recording, but so far can't beat her times from last year. One change in running was using the tele-trick in hopes of it speeding her up just a little bit, and it did make about a ~1s difference in comparison to her test runs before. Still room for improvement generally though, I do periodically misclick or miss my landing spot (resulting in stragglers), also when not recording. Pretty sure I'd need to roll maps again in order to get a bit closer to last year's fastest runners like @Pb_pal or @Gripphon though, which I don't have the time or patience for at the moment. So I'll stick with it and see where she's at when this is over!Malawi and I are also active (pretty recently in my case) on YouTube with some others, so feel free to connect up with us. Regarding software, I use OBS studio, perhaps that is MacBook viable? I haven't tried it on my Mac. My Mac gets hot as hell just running Diablo (the hell?!).
I use OBS and Fraps (on Windows) and have never had any problems with mouse lags.
Love your vids too! I always felt a strong connection, but now I also subscribed to your channel.
T72on1
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I thought that Valentine was exactly 2 months ago? 
We sure are getting OT. So on topic: ran for 30 minutes this afternoon. Nothing good dropped, but runs went a lot smoother, resulting in something like 23s runs or even a bit below that. Can't see myself getting any faster than that. O yes, I forgot to mention, but yesterday, the sorc also reached level 92.
Going to run for some 30 minutes now I think. Gogogo everyone !!!
We sure are getting OT. So on topic: ran for 30 minutes this afternoon. Nothing good dropped, but runs went a lot smoother, resulting in something like 23s runs or even a bit below that. Can't see myself getting any faster than that. O yes, I forgot to mention, but yesterday, the sorc also reached level 92.
Going to run for some 30 minutes now I think. Gogogo everyone !!!
Have done 260 runs now, 2h 51 min. Think I am gonna push 40 more and go to bed.
Best finds so far (apart from Runes of course )
5 nado pelt. My first one ever I think, no idea if it is considered "useful"? (see attached pic)
+9 all res jool
Nosferatus belt
Guilliams face (he drops it quite often I must say)
Merc died once :O
Exp gain is about 84k/run. If I continue with these ~39 sec runs, I will just hit level 94 before this round is over
Best finds so far (apart from Runes of course
)5 nado pelt. My first one ever I think, no idea if it is considered "useful"? (see attached pic)
+9 all res jool
Nosferatus belt
Guilliams face (he drops it quite often I must say)
Merc died once :O
Exp gain is about 84k/run. If I continue with these ~39 sec runs, I will just hit level 94 before this round is over
