1.07 News, Info and Gossip

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Hi Guys,

I've looked into starting playing 1.07, but I'm unable to locate the files explained in Repusz's 1.07 Guide.
I Can only locate the "txt" files, which I don't know what to use for?

Hope someone can help me out!

Best,
 
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Excal, I'd read the 1.07 guides to help you starting the 1.07 adventure

Hmm, yeah I did a quick search before starting but I guess that slipped me! Thanks!
Btw, I am currently facing the issue of being unable to resurrect the hireling. I get the message from Tyrael that he can't complete that request... What do I do? :O
 
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No idea. You have enough money? Have you tried resurrecting the merc in another act?
 
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You never faced that? I though you would have a solution.. :(
I remember I faced that years ago when I was playing 1.07. Specifically, Tyrael was always the one giving me this message. Once you get that message you can't revive him on any act. I just joined to try again but ...boom I don't even get a Ressurect Hireling, it's like he is gone along with the items, luckily they were rubbish but what if that happens again..? :S

I also opened Atma to check my hireling and it's simply empty...
 
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Isn't that the "guy in the plains of despair ate my merc corpse" thing? Whatever that monster is called.
 
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Yes Tyrael says that when your merc's corpse is eaten. I didn't understand what happened either many years ago when this happened to me and I stopped using mercs for a long time, assuming they had a finite number of lives.
 
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If someone have a solution to run 1.07 on "PlayOnMac", please let me know.

Enjoy your weekend out there!
 
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After my Act2 defensive mercenary's corpse was eaten I was forced to buy one from Act5. How good Barbarians are compared to the Act2 mercenaries? I need one for pure defensive purposes.

And.. I guess there isn't any hotkey for giving potion to the mercenary?
 
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Am I right to assume that when I run Travincal with 374% MF I have better chances of finding say Vampire Gaze even though I am guaranteed set items? Or will I never get the unique grim helm because it will always be a set item?

Basically: When looking for uniques from Superuniques, is having 0% mf, 374% mf or more better?
 
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MF helps you to get Vamp Gaze but only marginally (they aren't always set, it's just that set is lowest quality of item that will spawn; higher quality is still possible). Difference really isn't that big from 0->374. I did run both with 0 and 374. I wouldn't say 374 is bad, but it's worse in long run. Get whatever green items you need and go back to low MF. It's not worth having all class specific items spawn as rare, but instead keep them as blue. Druid and barb helms can get 3 holes when socketed at Larzuk, Paladin can get 2skill/deflecting/45allress/4os shields for whatever shady business and claws are claws. No need for any special mention. I think that after 282 MF or 182 MF, not sure, all class specific items always end up as rare items, and they are horrible in 1.07. One socket max, and can't get +2 skills in that patch.

So after you get greens you are after, just return to low/no MF. Difference in unique items isn't that big and good blues can mean a lot more with 1.07 Larzuk than boring repeating green items or marginal increase in chance to find unique items.
 
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I used to play HC on the realms and had not played D2 for years until I started a Sorc in 1.07 HC single player a couple of weeks ago. Was stuck in A5 normal for a while, because I didn't have time, but progressed from A5 normal to A5 NM today.

I haven't looked at other FAM ways to run multiple instances for self-mp yet, so I'm running multiple installations in virtual machines at the moment. Since this the first character I guess it's untwinked players 8 (no exceptions thus far) hc.

Normal was pretty uneventful, albeit rather slow for the most part. Since it's players 8 experience gain was pretty good. CS was the toughest part (gave up on resurrecting moron after 3 or 4 weaponless IM deaths...), especially De Seis, who is much harder with oblivion knight minions instead of doom knight ones (I don't recall, did he have OK minions pre-LoD as well?). Lots and lots of potions used (thanks to buying purples). I think I did 3 or 4 Baal minion runs (w/o killing Baal) plus some leveling in the CP/GT/AW), finally killed Baal with level 45 I think and progressed to NM.

I just killed Shenk with level 56 on NM and no real problems so far, except the constant thirst for mana (before I continue any further I will try my luck with the saphire+thawing pot+ring recipe, just have to get another character to level 8 first, for the best fcr/maek chance). I don't do full clears, but I also don't teleport ahead much or skip monsters (the tougher you are the more I want to kill you...); I do all the quests and collect all the waypoints (yes, even things like Halls of the Dead lvl2 in NM/Hell, I always do :p). Had a couple of not so easy fights, namely:
- extra fast + teleport Horadrim Ancients boss pack @ Claw Viper Temple
- champion flayer shaman pack + dolls @ Flayer Dungeon level 2 (wtf)
- I was a wuss and didn't Kill Endugu as he was Conv/LE (no thx)

Did a full clear of Travincal before engaging the council, which proved totally unnecessary, as they had laughable mods. Found my first Skiller (Sorc Lightning) @ Durance level 1. Also, Mephisto bugged out and died to 1 static, pfff

I don't have Atma installed yet, so no readouts, only screenshots - Hellforge gave me a Shae and some other mob at RoF gave me this :whistling::
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Chaos wasn't hard except for De Seis (again...), also I didn't know triple immunes were possible in 1.07 (in nm no less) - I know CM still pierces him in 1.07, but still:
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Diablo gave me my second or third unique so far (I know I found Steelclash in normal and I think another unique as well, can't remember which one though) with 0 mf:
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I'm level 57 now:
FO 20
CM 9
Shiver 1

Static 20
TP 1

Warmth 5

I just maxed static, hindsight is 20/20, but I should have maxed it from the get go (only had it at level 12 or something and put all the NM quest rewards into it, as well as some of the latest level ups). Not sure whether I should go for higher CM or some points into teleport (mana...) next.

Other than that incredible 31 life coldskiller I'm wearing only rags basically. I think I'll stay in NM until at least level 70 or so. Maybe try to see if I can find a stable LK rack or two and run it for a bit. Will try some shopping as well and maybe try crafting a sword for moron? Not sure. I need some better gear for Hell for sure though.

Pretty pleased with everything so far. Certainly more of a challenge than what I was used to in 1.10+
 
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