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    Anything Goes D2 Lounge!

    Been carrying on with our Co-op adventures, we're now at the end of Act 3 Nightmare. So far just using Blessed Aim and Might Mercs. We did a couple of Baal Runs at the end of normal but otherwise just kept chugging along. I feel we've been pretty fortunate with item drops. I'm wearing Goldskin...
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    Anything Goes D2 Lounge!

    Been playing some Untwinked HC Co-op with a friend of mine, which has been a fun change of pace from all the solo gameplay. We're playing on TCP/IP (via Hamachi) as well rather than Battle.net this time around, although I haven't put the players command to much use yet. He always goes Summoning...
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    Inventory Space Management

    I'd agree with @b1ur in that unless the charms are actively improving your speed or efficiency, cutting back on some of your space seems reasonable. There's nothing wrong with vacuuming up drops if you have fun with it, I tend to play the same, so best to improve your experience and cut down on...
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    Anything Goes D2 Lounge!

    @D2DC A fair amount of wikis imply he was semi-popular for that reason at some point, but he's never one that comes to mind personally. I guess when I think of a similar situation my mind always goes to Eldritch, for example, although obviously that's not relevant for low levels. Maybe it's just...
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    Anything Goes D2 Lounge!

    So recently after viewing the Level 75 In Normal thread, I was curious about looking into other sorts of self imposed restrictions. The most extreme example I can recall is at some point there was a thread talking about optimizing leveling/gearing in solely the Blood Moor (it was a Holy Fire...
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    Everything and the Kitchen Sink (Long Term Project)

    Well, I just looked up an alphabetical list of skills, and that tells me there's 210 of them. Is that correct? Who knows, Arreat Summit can lie sometimes. It does make sense though, 30 per character, 10 per tree? That sounds correct. I actually hadn't quite processed that until this very moment...
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    Everything and the Kitchen Sink (Long Term Project)

    Cookie is currently progressing through Hell, with a mix of greedy teleporting and more cautious clearing. Found a Riphook, which is not the most exciting of drops for a bow, but while in the Sewers I was blessed with quite the lucky drop that my other Zon could sure appreciate. A little late...
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    2 weeks too late - Item Find Thread April 2018

    Not so impressive as much as I was amused by the notion of Andariel hoarding all these boots. The downside of hooves, I suppose.
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    Everything and the Kitchen Sink (Long Term Project)

    So I'll likely slow down my frequency of posting for the beginning, since I doubt the adventures of cookie cutter builds are all that noteworthy or interesting to read about. That being said, it turns out there's this skill called Teleport, and it's pretty good at letting you move around...
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    Everything and the Kitchen Sink (Long Term Project)

    Cookie the Sorceress is now into Act 5, although like most of my Sorceresses she's lower than 25 on arrival. Given that you can't as readily fight upwards in levels until you are Level 25 without massive penalties, there's the conundrum of what to do to get yourself up to that magic number...
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    Everything and the Kitchen Sink (Long Term Project)

    That's the goal, although truth be told I know there's quite a few traditional builds I know I haven't played all the way through Hell, which always feels strange given the amount of time put into this game, so that's another perk of the project. My goal for the time being is to build up a...
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    Everything and the Kitchen Sink (Long Term Project)

    I found it worked out fairly well so far. Being aware that the +% AR from bow attack skills doesn't work I was relatively mindful of my attack rating, and some rings and charms that my Javazon picked up earlier were swiftly shipped over to the bow user. I was using a Blessed Aim merc until...
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    Everything and the Kitchen Sink (Long Term Project)

    It's certainly something I've mulled over and flip flopped on a few times when thinking about the project. There's quite a few "strictly better" skills in the arsenal, and I'm not certain how much insight or entertainment one gains just from intentionally knee capping yourself. My guess is in...
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    Everything and the Kitchen Sink (Long Term Project)

    I haven't started empty handed however. My first character was the fairly classic LF/CS Zon to start things off. The goal was to have a character to kill Cows with, but the character hasn't yet been drafted to that purpose. instead just finishing the game and mindlessly killing Pindle and...
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    Everything and the Kitchen Sink (Long Term Project)

    So I've had this idea for a while, but I think putting it down in writing should hopefully improve my ability to keep this on track (because I've always followed through with everything I've posted.. :rolleyes:). But my idea is to try and make a group of characters that between them has maxed...
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    Inner Sight vs. Penetrate Comparisons

    It covers similar ground, but I wouldn't say it's entirely covering what I did. The strategy in that post was to guess what Attack Rating values you would have (or use base values) or how to fill in the entire To Hit formula. What I tried to do was isolate the parts of the formula where the...
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    Inner Sight vs. Penetrate Comparisons

    Hello again everyone. So unrelated to the realm of Sanctuary, I was recently trying to figure out at what AC values my Ranger in D&D 5e would be better off utilizing his Sharpshooter feat. A handful of graphs and calculations later I came to my answer and realized that it's not that difficult to...
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    TC3 Hunting Tournament winter 2018 - Sign-up and running thread

    Oh, this seems fun, I'll slide in a little late here and see what I can do this weekend. Will probably not do anything too optimized, and instead play some sort of quirky low level gimmick build, because when do you really get the chance to do such a thing? Who needs optimization when you can...
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    SPF Reform Proposals and Discussion

    This was certainly an interesting read. Given that there seems to be some confusion, I also just recently read the rules (am I correct in saying this is the only official thread for the rules of the SPF, besides some retreading?) to see if I was missing something. So that being said, unless...
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    5 Stages of Grief Tournament

    Exams have kept me away from spamming this thread, but I hope to see the rest of this tournament through over the holiday break. For a quick bump, I made my way into Lut Gholein, but not before spending some resources on upgrading my Shield to its exceptional variant. I also switched to a Might...
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