Re: 1.07 Awesome charms and LK chests?
What I think - it
definitely isn`t worth the effort if all you want are the good damage charms. If you want to get enough to fill an inventory, get ready to play only 1.07 for the rest of your D2 career.
Yes, I`ve found some quite awesome ones:
Code:
Prefix 928 Grand Charm of Maiming
Keep in Inventory to Gain Bonus
Required Level: 37
Item Version: Expansion
Item Level: 88
Fingerprint: 0x64e90456
+50 to Attack Rating
+29 to Maximum Damage
Prefix 849 Grand Charm of Maiming
Keep in Inventory to Gain Bonus
Required Level: 37
Item Version: Expansion
Item Level: 90
Fingerprint: 0x6b28e849
+37 to Maximum Damage
Prefix 853 Large Charm of Maiming
Keep in Inventory to Gain Bonus
Required Level: 40
Item Version: Expansion
Item Level: 88
Fingerprint: 0x4a1c39fc
+20 to Maximum Damage
Prefix 854 Large Charm of Maiming
Keep in Inventory to Gain Bonus
Required Level: 40
Item Version: Expansion
Item Level: 88
Fingerprint: 0x7ed9d4ae
+20 to Maximum Damage
Prefix 853 Large Charm of Quality
Keep in Inventory to Gain Bonus
Required Level: 30
Item Version: Expansion
Item Level: 90
Fingerprint: 0x55e4978f
+17 to Maximum Damage
Prefix 840 Small Charm of Maiming
Keep in Inventory to Gain Bonus
Required Level: 43
Item Version: Expansion
Item Level: 90
Fingerprint: 0x5f3764a
+3 to Minimum Damage
+6 to Maximum Damage
Prefix 856 Small Charm of Maiming
Keep in Inventory to Gain Bonus
Required Level: 43
Item Version: Expansion
Item Level: 78
Fingerprint: 0x45c5f0f2
+9 to Maximum Damage
Prefix 857 Small Charm of Maiming
Keep in Inventory to Gain Bonus
Required Level: 43
Item Version: Expansion
Item Level: 88
Fingerprint: 0x6c5aa8fb
+11 to Maximum Damage
Prefix 931 Small Charm of Maiming
Keep in Inventory to Gain Bonus
Required Level: 43
Item Version: Expansion
Item Level: 88
Fingerprint: 0x67d2cab2
+18 to Attack Rating
+7 to Maximum Damage
*end of bragging*
But these have been picked up during THOUSANDS of runs of all kinds. One who would spend the same amount of time in 1.12 LK would probably already have that `Nigma and a decent amount of skillers/other great charms. And the reroll receipt is broken in 1.07 as well.
Just some info: cows don`t seem to drop too much goodies for me (although I`m probably just killing them too slow as I`m running them @p8), chests are probably the best way to go, but building a fast runner (which is a must for thousands of runs - don`t expect finding the good affix combinations very soon) takes quite some time. I`m quite sure Normal LK isn`t enough for the highest damage affixes, Nightmare probably is, but I`m not sure either (I`m not that deep into game mechanics).
Like galtwish said - Travincal is also THE farming place (in 1.07 council members drop like uniques while being nerfed to champion drops in later patches iirc) - but its hard to compare to LK for me as I`m only running it with a goldfinder and he isn`t very fast at it.
What makes it (hopefully) worth playing 1.07 for me - I`m using every advantage there is in 1.07 - racking some awesome uniques/making broken crafts/cubing jewelery/HF rushing/getting
very high level characters (although many think 1.07 is not the place for that)/running bosses&uniques with high mf for uniques and sets...I`m probably forgetting something -
edit:indeed-1.07 eth weapons for example ) In this case it is
probably worth to play 1.07.
And did I say that I like the gameplay of 1.12 so much much more? Mostly because 1.07 is extremely easy (when you start to understand what you are doing here) but time to time there are some
insane challenges (read:unbalanced gameplay) - for example you can run an area for days and never lose more than 5% of life and one day something kills you in one hit (this is mostly about the combinations of modes on unique monsters).
@galtwish - btw after getting more than 30 ravenclaws in about 500 Andy runs I can say that she is a better target for this item
To sum up - the haX damage charms are waiting for you in 1.07...if you`ve got the years to spend getting them
EditDarkChaos below - very interesting thoughts, never heared of a Lo from 1.07 chests, that would be quite crazy! Given that I`m planning to do 1.12 LK runs @p7 Lo is what I might miss the most. I`ve recently found a Gul from a chest in 1.07 but that isn`t nearly as high.