1.07 News, Info and Gossip

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This is a result of cubing - 1 sapphire gem (any quality) + thawing potion (can be bought at Akara) + any ring. But it doesnt always roll this, I have crafted maybe 30+ and got one.

Prefix 1092 Ring
Item Version: Expansion
Item Level: 20
Fingerprint: 0x4c4c6b8d
+10 to Mana After Each Kill

this one was given to me :p

Prefix 1092 Ring of Craftmanship
Item Version: Expansion
Item Level: 5
Fingerprint: 0x394ea5df
+1 to Maximum Damage
+9 to Mana After Each Kill

so my sorc has 19 MPK ^^
 
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bassen said:
This is a result of cubing - 1 sapphire gem (any quality) + thawing potion (can be bought at Akara) + any ring. But it doesnt always roll this, I have crafted maybe 30+ and got one.
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Great, I'll have to roll some mpk rings. Thanks.

Edit: What clvl did you use? I only have a level 50 right now.
Edit: Hmmm, based on those ilvls, it doesn't matter.


 
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IIRC, what happens is that it rolls the (cobalt?) prefix into the ring as an inherent quality, and if the ring also rolls the prefix triumphant, it turns the cobalt into MPK also, so it depends on how high the cold resist rolls on high high of MPK you get.
 
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bradley_turner said:
IIRC, what happens is that it rolls the (cobalt?) prefix into the ring as an inherent quality, and if the ring also rolls the prefix triumphant, it turns the cobalt into MPK also, so it depends on how high the cold resist rolls on high high of MPK you get.
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Nifty. So I'd want to use a low level character to do the cubing to maximize the chance of getting triumphant, and then I may be able to roll enough to get one with a high mpk roll.

Is this also how we can get high life leech rings? The garnet mod gets changed to life leech? Or is it the blood rings that do that? Edit: it's crafted rings.


 
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SnickerSnack said:
Nifty. So I'd want to use a low level character to do the cubing to maximize the chance of getting triumphant, and then I may be able to roll enough to get one with a high mpk roll.
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What you may really want is a Triumphant Ring of the Apprentice from that recipe. +20-ish mana per kill and 10% FCR is a great combo. Occasionally, rares pop out of that recipe (set and uniques also) and I've got some great rare huge mana per kill rings with several other nice mods as well. But I did an awful lot of cubing for those! I did get a fair amount of set and unique rings from that as well, most of which are oddities but some are quite nice.

I'll have to check but I think having a level 8 character is optimal for the Triumphant ring of the Apprentice.



 
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Level 8 is exactly right...clvl8 * 0.66 = ilvl5 = alvl5 (triumphant = alvl4, of the apprentice = alvl5). I've been trying for about a week now (about 30ish attempts since I figured this out). I've gotten a couple 'triumphant's (low rolls tho) and a couple 'of the apprentice's. The german affix calc site I used (don't have a link, sorry) sez the odds are ~315:1 (that's useing 1.09 tables, but seems about right).

My best bugged MPK ring so far was cubed before I figured out that lvl 8 was optimal (assuming, of course, that you want triumphant/of the apprentice) and is +28 MPK/+5 STR
 
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Thanks for confirming the level 8 computation. I was pretty sure it was 8 as I have a 1.07 character named something imaginative like MPKringer who is level 8. Her sole purpose in the universe is feeding ingredients into the cube, and I remember working out what the best level for that would be some time ago.
 
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Well it seems like one can ask question about 1.07 here, so here comes mine.

My sorceress has reached 60's now. I've maxed FO, CM, Static Field. Don't know how to spend the remaining points. I've heard that LM lowers the mana cost of L-spells. Is teleport included in this and how much does it lowers the mana? I have two ways of spending the points, either on Warmth to get a very high mana reg. Can be usefull when TP:ing and MFing since merc has no Insight. Or add to teleport to lower it's mana cost. Still Warmth also benefits Teleport but I don't know how the skill of Warmth look like in 1.07.
 
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@bassen: The "Lightning Mastery lowers mana costs" comes from an earlier version than 1.07, one of the early classic versions. I'm not sure exactly but maybe 1.03 or something quite early. In 1.07 it increases damage just like later versions.

Investing in teleport itself may be a good plan- that lowers the cost per teleport and works better for me than investing a lot in warmth. More +skills gear would have the same effect, though. I've invested in teleport on some of my 1.07 rushing sorcs and it worked out well.
 
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If you plan on racking with that sorc, theres just one way - pump teleport. I`ve done that and it works great for me. I`d still recommend it to anyone as I prefer max vita sorcs (this is hc ofcourse) in 1.07 as well so warmth cant help me much with my <500 mana.
 
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I tried to open my sorc in atma in order to check some stats, and I get this (roughly):

This file has been corrupted. Would you like to open it anyway?
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I chose not to and went to start up my sorc in D2 (the character looked fine in the character selection screen), and after clicking on Hell in the difficulty selection box, I get a message saying roughly:

Ominous Message said:
A Diablo II character cannot enter a game made by a Diablo II Expansion character.
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Then, when I get back to the character selection screen, the character is Level one, and has only the items that a level one character has. When I open the character in Atma, it has only the new character items!

Fortunately for me, Atma makes backups, but now I can't play 1.07, at least for a while. I tried this several times, each time replacing the damaged file with a copy of the backup, and if happened every time.

Now that I think about it, I got a Blue Screen of Death recently, and I think that D2 was running at the time. Maybe D2 was also saving at the time?

Since D2 is still doing it, I'll have to reinstall.

Edit: Reinstalling did not help. The game corrupts character files. Any ideas?
 
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That sounds more like ATMA corrupted your character files than issues with the game...do you have any other 1.07 characters you can try to open? ATMA is known to have fatal issues with most 1.07 runewords and also with 1.07 uniques that have the mod "freezes target"...did your character have any of those?

Edit: Sorry, I'm a moron...you were asking about bramble just the other day...bramble is one of the runewords known to cause ATMA to corrupt characters...if I'd realized you didn't know, I'd have warned you. If one of your ATMA backups is old enough to be before you made bramble, it would probably work...sorry 'bout your character :(
 
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No, I've had a bramble for quite a while. Even if I take the bramble off an old backup, it still is broken.

I can still pull all of the items off a backup, so maybe I can get someone to rush me to a reasonable level. Or, I can level again. (And not use runewords anymore. Weird, the one of the most useful ones causes ATMA to corrupt files. :crazyeyes:)

This is just really ****ed up. This is the sort of thing that should be in those 1.07 guides. If it is, then I just overlooked it. If this isn't in there, then they need to be updated. At least one of the guides I read specifically endorsed bramble.

I'm pretty pissed off, as you'd expect. I wish I'd know. Maybe I'm done with D2 for a while. :yuck:

Edit: Maybe there's some chance that someone (silospen) knows how to repair the file. I guess I'll send him a pm.
 
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my best saphire crafted ring was 34 mana after kill / 10% faster cast rate

You can regularly backup in differnet directories your characters.
Yust copy char before opening atma you should be safe.

One of my mercs is wearing bramble runeword for quite awhile and no problems in atma

I have corrupted files though in 1.08 with ancients pledge giving +108 max damage and iceblink getting random funny modes everytime with atma opening.
 
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I had the same thing happen to a L75ish sorc, but with Crescent Moon in a Colossus Sword for my merc. The character was totally lost, as were the runes.

Thankfully, you can probably go back through your files and salvage some of the gear for the next sorceress.

I've learned my lesson and have a L87 Strafeazon with "Death" in an Ashwood Bow that conitinues to rack Balrog Blades and hunt cows. I don't touch her weapon in ATMA.

Here's a brief recap:

Do not ever look at a 1.07 runeword in ATMA. Above all, do not move it. You can view the character no problem, but keep your cursor off the runeword.

Some runewords (e.g. Bramble) and all "Hit Freezes Target" items will corrupt your character, possibly causing you to lose the character. Do not uses these items in 1.07 if at all possible, and certainly do not open a character in ATMA that has these items in their possession.
 
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The best armors for mercs tend to be Jewelers of the Whale/Balance or Larzuk-socketed dual mod magic armors. Stuff them with resist/fhr jewels and Sols.

Here are a couple of good examples (though they took a while to get the components)

http://www.purediablo.com/forums/showthread.php?p=6768809#post6768809

For characters, Skin of the Vipermagi isn't terrible and Goldskin is OK as well. You can probably craft some amazing PDR Safety crafts, but for just starting out, try to max resists and use hit-and-run tactics.
 
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