1.07 Ethereal Weapons

I'm actually pretty excited. My grail isn't complete by any means, but it's getting there. I'm a theorycrafter at heart, so I'd like to make at least one character as perfect as possible, and it's getting there. That said, the only way to do that completely is to hit up 1.07 for some charms, crafts, and bases. Plus it'll give a change of pace.

That said, right now 1.07 isn't working at all. I posted a thread about the problems I'm having, and have tried a bunch of different things to no avail. So this may not work anyway :(
 
Dazliare said:
I'm a theorycrafter at heart, so I'd like to make at least one character as perfect as possible, and it's getting there. That said, the only way to do that completely is to hit up 1.07 for some charms, crafts, and bases.
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I don't understand this reasoning. You can make a 'perfect' character without time travelling at all. It'll be a 'perfect non time travelled character' rather than some absolute notion of perfectness ( which by the way is basically impossible to achieve, since it would require you to get 45 life on all your GCs and that sort of thing ).
 
zaphodbrx said:
I don't understand this reasoning. You can make a 'perfect' character without time travelling at all. It'll be a 'perfect non time travelled character' rather than some absolute notion of perfectness ( which by the way is basically impossible to achieve, since it would require you to get 45 life on all your GCs and that sort of thing ).
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I guess it's not really "reasoning" persay. I just think it's fun to see how powerful I can get one character. I agree that having a completely perfect character is basically impossible, but it's something I want to do haha. Plus I'd really like to farm for gear that you can't get in 1.13, if not just for the coolness factor.
 
I guess "perfectness" goes as far as you want to take it.

I like having some 1.07 items such as ethereal bases and max damage charms but I don't have the patience to play 1.10 betas to get the buffed up Call to Arms or +2 BK rings.

I'd say it's a personal preference thing and if you want to improve your character by time travelling go nuts. You're really only constrained by how much time and effort you want to put in to it.
 
Dodgydave said:
I guess "perfectness" goes as far as you want to take it.

I like having some 1.07 items such as ethereal bases and max damage charms but I don't have the patience to play 1.10 betas to get the buffed up Call to Arms or +2 BK rings.

I'd say it's a personal preference thing and if you want to improve your character by time travelling go nuts. You're really only constrained by how much time and effort you want to put in to it.
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That's basically where I'm at. I might give 1.10 a shot, but I don't think I really want to spend all that time getting mal/ist/ohm for cta in 1.10. For now, I'm just looking for eth bases, maybe some jewels, charms, crafts, and if I feel like it, some of the nice 1.07 uniques.
 
WoRG said:
boredom and frustration...especially when a not quite 100% stable rack decides to drop unique on one of the times it drops the WRONG base!! I have a toon with a rack that drops Legendary Mallets about 95/100 times...I've ran this rack over 3K times now, without getting a Shaeffer's...but it HAS dropped 2 Ripsaws! (which I already had in abundance from boss running :weep: )
WoRG
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did you double check that the area level and the qlvl of schaefer's are compatible?
i did that now after finding ~1850 non-golden balrog skins... (according to repusz guide it should be fine though to hunt in LK)


@dazliare: thousands of runs can be really painful, trust me..... for finding racks: as dodgydave said. as long as you don't look for just one thing (i am basically looking for berserker axes, but a map in which i can rack a balrog skin every 20s sounded too good to pass by... now i feel the frustration of the hunt :))
and i think totally the same, bases (not necessarily eth ones, a rack with archon plates can be a great source for plenty of RW-bases), nice charms (resists and damage) and a few crafts are my primary aim. dunno how far you want to go back, but gambling in pre-LoD can result in awesome rare belts, boots and rings (ok, belts have a hard time beating existing stuff, but boots and rings can)
 
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dpskane said:
did you double check that the area level and the qlvl of schaefer's are compatible?
i did that now after finding ~1850 non-golden balrog skins... (according to repusz guide it should be fine though to hunt in LK)


@dazliare: thousands of runs can be really painful, trust me..... for finding racks: as dodgydave said. as long as you don't look for just one thing (i am basically looking for berserker axes, but a map in which i can rack a balrog skin every 20s sounded too good to pass by... now i feel the frustration of the hunt :))
and i think totally the same, bases (not necessarily eth ones, a rack with archon plates can be a great source for plenty of RW-bases), nice charms (resists and damage) and a few crafts are my primary aim. dunno how far you want to go back, but gambling in pre-LoD can result in awesome rare belts, boots and rings (ok, belts have a hard time beating existing stuff, but boots and rings can)
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I just broke 4k 1.13 LK runs and 2k pindle runs. Lots of runs isn't really a big deal. I'm slower than most, but netflix + an evening without the roommate makes for easy running! I have a ways to go though, I'm just about to kill big D in normal hahaha
 
thousands of runs on pindle are a different thing, there you get something that let's you hope or be happy every once in a while. do 1000 runs and you probably find a handful of useful items.
rack runs on uniques: you are only happy with golden letters....


after about 2500 runs i have seen about 2000 balrog skins (12 yellow, 16 green) - can someone confirm that he/she found an arkaine's in LK? doing this for a full week now, i need something to raise my spirits..... :(
 
Is any of the yellows a failed unique?

I've read that LK can drop everything but Sacred Armors and Cranium Bashers.
 
nulio said:
Is any of the yellows a failed unique?

I've read that LK can drop everything but Sacred Armors and Cranium Bashers.
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how would i tell a failed unique from a standard rare in general? didn't know it can be recognized... (not needed here due to frozzzen, but i am still curious...)

frozzzen said:
They drop. I racked 2-3 Arks in LK, so your spree is just very unlucky one.
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well, chance of ~13% to have such an unlucky long spree, that is not terribly low. it's just quite frustrating that i'm doing this for one week now without any success. hvala for the answer that will keep me racking, then :) and should i get one before the end of the year, i'll post it here :)
 
nulio said:
Failed uniques will "generate" triple durability rares, iirc.
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thanks nulio, though after this experience i probably won't rack-run any other unique anymore, this is indeed some valuable piece of information!

today i was diligent and i just got my reward: after 13 yellow and 22 green balrog skins, ~2600 balrog skins in total (and more than 3000 runs), accumulating to a "unlucky spree chance" of 7.5%, finally my sight fell on some golden letters.... amen!!!

happy!!!!!
 
Gratz on the Arkaine's...VERY nice armor there!

Don't let your bad luck here discourage you too much, though...there is always the flip side of it. I recently got two 1.07 HC Vamp Gazes(25%DR, very nice!) off a grim helm rack before I got Nat's Totem (just over 250 runs in total!!)

WoRG
 
Congrats on the Arkaines, a great and well deserved score.

Racks are so funny (read frustrating). I don't know how many I've had to run thousands of times to get what I want while others have dropped uniques straight away when I've been rerolling maps (of course none of the uniques have been any good!).
 
worg: vamp gaze would be nice indeed, even though i use it only on mercs so far (my best is a 19 DR 7 LL). actually i am a big fan of skullder's ire, but i am not sure whether the 1.07 version can beat an ethereal newer version (don't have the latter, but i am confident in finding one).
i also realized that arkaine's doesn't really look that nice on my favourite chars (MF sorc and travincal WW barb - both wear skullder's). haha :) so i keep it on my 1.07 rack runner, she's happy with it ;)

dodgydave: oh, yeah, had the same experience. the very first rack i touched when i started with rack running dropped an exceptional unique sword (guess blacktongue, dunno), my merc was happy about it. i also found string of ears while rack rerolling, not the worst find - though i guess a perfect newer version beats a 1.07 one.

let's see. right now i am not in the mood for unique racking. but i fear that i will indeed do it. but only for very few selected ones that i will truly make use of with my 1.13 chars.
btw: after i found the AV i rerolled only few maps before i got a BA rack. a very unstable one, but i got 2 eth ones and one eth 5 socketed one => i finished my primary goal of visiting 1.07: getting to ebugged grief BAs. and i was lucky with the IAS roll, both are over 34%, 393 and 373 damage bonus, so in total a success. ;)
now my barb needs to find some other nice high runes so that i can make use of that archon plate rack map of mine..... :)
 
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