1.07 News, Info and Gossip

[GoldenredDragon]

Re: 1.07 News, Info and Gossip

Wow. I just stumbled upon this (webarchive of arreat summit, urings) and saw that thing :

Spoiler

Constricting Ring
Required Level: 95
All Resistances +100
Replenish Life -10
100% Better Chance To Find Magic Items
+15 To Maximum Resistances

Has anybody found this beauty ? Would it be findable in any way ? Like... Nihlathak has a high enough level ? Or is it in a TC that wasn't implemented, and it's reqlevel is too high to be able to get it from crafting ? :'( And it was removed in 1.08 too, cuz why keep such an OP item ? Or was the arreat summit wrong on the first of august 2001 ?

***

My sorc is nove level 18.98 (barely not 19 ) and has finished the desert areas in act2. Things are sloooow. Finally though of purchasing a + fireball staff. Got +2, didn't fuss as it was "only" 32k gold to buy. (wow) It helps in making things more interesting than waiting for the rogue to stop running around with her 3 socketed bow with 3 flawed emeralds (+105 damage over 3 seconds).

Also, she eats mana pots for breakfast. I was reluctant to do the full purple belt thing, but I might, as gold isn't that hard to come by (I pick up EVERYTHING ! D: ). Got my first rune too ! (El)

G.R.D. (Might start a zon, but I'm scared I'll loose focus, and end up with two low level chars both waiting for level 30 to get interesting... brufskjdfk,..)

 

[Kimppi]

Re: 1.07 News, Info and Gossip

Nope, Constricting ring is set to not drop in the game files.

Rings belong in the "Good"-TC. If it wasn't implemented, you couldn't find any gems, runes, charms, jewels or amulets either.

The highest ilvl you can get using the cube is 66(99x0.66).

 

[WoRG1]

Re: 1.07 News, Info and Gossip

Actually, cubing can produce ilvl99 items...quest items like the horadric staff/khalim's will are ilvl99 when transmuted, and the axe+dagger=throwing axe and spear+arrows=javelins recipes also produce ilvl99 items. The 3ring=amulet and 3amulet=ring formulas use [clvl * 0.75] for their output. Finally, as you stated most cubing formulas (including all crafts) use [clvl * 0.66], but that will max out at [highlight]ilvl65[/highlight], as [99 * 0.66 = 65.34], which is trunicated or floored to 65.

WoRG

 

[Kimppi]

Re: 1.07 News, Info and Gossip

True, I might have cut a few corners. Didn't even bother to check the 66, just took it from kestegs' post.

 

[Kaerion]

Re: 1.07 News, Info and Gossip

wanted to share a few new toys i made with the socket quests that i rushed. I shopped the base items from hell charsi.

firstly, the unsuccessful ones:

Prefix 1001 Tower Shield of Life
Defense: 23
Chance to Block:  44%
Smite Damage: 1 to 5
Durability: 60 of 60
Required Strength: 75
Required Level: 33
Item Version: Expansion
Item Level: 66
Fingerprint: 0x2aec6f52
Damage Reduced by 7
All Resistances +17
[B]Socketed (1: 0 used)[/B]

Prefix 1001 Tower Shield of Deflecting
Defense: 22
Chance to Block:  64%
Smite Damage: 1 to 5
Durability: 60 of 60
Required Strength: 75
Required Level: 8
Item Version: Expansion
Item Level: 66
Fingerprint: 0x5ab42e52
+20% Increased Chance of Blocking
All Resistances +17
[B]Socketed (2: 0 used)[/B]

these were my first two tries, I was quite sad about these, since they were my better suffixes.
I decided to give it another try with two other shields:

Prefix 1002 Tower Shield of Absorption
Defense: 24
Chance to Block:  44%
Durability: 60 of 60
Required Strength: 75
Required Level: 24
Item Version: Expansion
Item Level: 66
Fingerprint: 0x717eb3cc
Damage Reduced by 3
All Resistances +21
[B]Socketed (3: 0 used)[/B]

Prefix 1001 Tower Shield of Negation
Defense: 23
Chance to Block:  44%
Durability: 60 of 60
Required Strength: 75
Required Level: 33
Item Version: Expansion
Item Level: 66
Fingerprint: 0x1d9003fe
Magic Damage Reduced by 6
All Resistances +20
[B]Socketed (3: 0 used)[/B]

took me less than 15 min to shop all 4 shields. could have tried for better affixes but I was lazy. with pdiamonds in them, I will get up to +78 resist all.

btw, i also made this on my first try:

Prefix 1067 Gothic Plate of Stability
Defense: 130
Durability: 55 of 55
Required Strength: 70
Required Level: 13
Item Version: Expansion
Item Level: 66
Fingerprint: 0x76759fb7
Lightning Resist +22%
24% Faster Hit Recovery
Socketed (4: 0 used)

I prefer fhr to life for my sorc as I teleport myself into trouble quite often while rushing chars. This will be an improvement over the 4 ptopaz gothic plate I am currently using.

 

[thefranklin]

Re: 1.07 News, Info and Gossip

Prefix 1001 Tower Shield of Negation 
Defense: 23 
Chance to Block:  44% 
Durability: 60 of 60 
Required Strength: 75 
Required Level: 33 
Item Version: Expansion 
Item Level: 66 
Fingerprint: 0x1d9003fe 
Magic Damage Reduced by 6 
All Resistances +20 
Socketed (3: 0 used)

I like that, great suffix. Too bad you didn't get Chromatic to go with it. With high resistances and 25+ mdr, you will almost be immune to elemental damage. My druid only has a Dwarf Star (15 mdr) and it is stopping elemental damage fine.

The other stuff I wouldn't have run through Larzuk, because it doesn't take that long to shop good items. I assume you are using a cow portal at charsi to shop her. Edit: I have about the same armor with 4 ptopazes, so I agree on that one!

I have another question for everyone. I just rushed another character through the game, and I usually don't do Act IV Hell because I will just collect Hellforges in 1.10 and dump the character. I would say this was my fourth time going all the way. How do you deal with Act IV Hell? I feel the only way I could do it easily with my orb/tele/static sorc is if I pretty much do a full clear. The OK's hit really hard, you have to do it mercless, and orb does no damage if you try to tele and clear spots due to passing through other monsters (on p2 no less). And since the merc is deceased, there is nothing that stops monsters from getting to you, causing many extra teleports. I do have a sorc with maxed nova/lm/static/Blizz that I thought might be quicker, but I am hesitant to test it in a higher player count game. I am thinking my entering with my javazon would actually be pretty quick. What methods/characters do you use to get through this area with a bunch of characters in the game?

I have no problems with any other parts. I would say the next most annoying part is Baal, followed by Achmel of wave 2 (if magic resistant).

 

[Kestegs]

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I have done a p4 and p5 full hell rush. I agree full chaos clear is your best bet. Deseis is very tough, and gv of chaos can be very tough too, since he is LI. My merc almost never dies, and I only died once in both rushes together (NM Baal)

My merc usually wears:

Shaft
doombringer
circlet (20ish resist all 13 Max damage)

he has about 1500 life, and I am only level 79, but was 70-73 when I did the rushes.

I don't consider myself to have great gear, it is mostly blues. And I use the standard orb static build.

 

[WoRG1]

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I've done quite a few rushes, full clear is safest. Until I got my resists up, I actually found the Abyss Knights in the RoF leading up to Chaos Sanctuary FAR more dangerous than the OKs...their elemental attacks are just as bad as the OKs, and they ALL shoot, whereas Doom Knights are typically only dangerous to the merc when he gets IM'd. DeSeis's pack is quite nasty as well, as they are ALL OKs, and as kestegs said the Grand Vizer is always LI (as are all Storm Caster mobs, so his minions are too.)

Personally, I always just leave the merc dead in the CS...its just too hard to keep him from one-shotting himself under IM to be worth it, IMO. He's also very bad about pulling in mobs before you're ready for them, and generally messing up targeting and avoidance/evasion...

One thing that can help is to use one of the rushee's to open a portal in a cleared area of the CS itself...that way your rusher always has a useful gateway into and out of the CS. I usually spend more time running than 'porting in the CS...I find that the Bone Spirits from OKs will often become invisible if you 'port around too much, and those HURT (especially if you're cursed with LR), so I avoid that...obviously, if you do this, you'll want good FRW on your gear. I often end up killing the GV by shooting orbs AWAY from him and his pack and then chasing them (the orbs)...that way you're always shooting into the clear, and they'll be hot on your heels, so they still catch plenty of shards. Sometimes I'll do this for the Infestor of Soul's pack as well, especially if the merc is dead, as they are bloody fast, and will surround you quickly if you stand still long...

WoRG

 

[Kestegs]

Re: 1.07 News, Info and Gossip

That's pretty close to my strategy, but I keep the merc up.

I also forgot to mention:
Rush a barb, if you do normal and NM ancients he will be 42ish. That gives you a pretty strong Bo/BC to buff your sorc with.

 

[baqarah]

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I've rolled my first prismatic amu today and here's the result:

Prefix 874 Amulet of Thawing
Required Level: 7
Item Version: Expansion
Item Level: 50
Fingerprint: 0x6f761ad9
Fire Resist +22%
Lightning Resist +24%
Cold Resist +22%
Poison Resist +22%
10% Damage Taken Goes to Mana
Half Freeze Duration

The rolls made me smile.

I've also took all of my sapphires and this little beauty popped out:

Prefix 1092 Ring of Craftmanship
Item Version: Expansion
Item Level: 5
Fingerprint: 0x4b71e78d
+1 to Maximum Damage
+37 to Mana After Each Kill

Sigh, so close.

 

[WoRG1]

Re: 1.07 News, Info and Gossip

LOL...at least it got a great roll on the MPK, here's what I got this weekend:

Prefix 1092 Ring
Item Version: Expansion
Item Level: 56
Fingerprint: 0x2d7fb284
+8 to Mana After Each Kill <--1 above absolute minimum for such a ring

In fact, that seemed to be the theme of the weekend: 'here's what you asked for...and here's a middle finger to go with that for ya'

Those who follow this thread may have noticed that I collect poison damage bows and socket them w/Larzuk, looking for 4 sox and good affixes...well, this dropped:

Prefix 1096[Artisan's] Long War Bow of Anthrax
Two-Hand Damage: 3 to 23
Required Dexterity: 65
Required Strength: 50
Required Level: 25
Bow Class - Slow Attack Speed
Item Version: Expansion
Item Level: 90
Fingerprint: 0x71cb829b
Adds 25-50 poison damage over 4 seconds
Socketed (3: 0 used)

If any of the new players just starting out in 1.07 would like either or both of those, you can have them for the price of an email address...

Also got this, but gonna hang onto it:

Prefix 1182[Cunning] Tiara of the Magus
Defense: 47
Durability: 25 of 25
Required Level: 37
Item Version: Expansion
Item Level: 89
Fingerprint: 0x192f0aa4
20% Faster Cast Rate
+3 to Trap Skills (Assassin Only)

So, yeah, been a 'yay...kinda' sort of weekend...

WoRG

 

[Kestegs]

Re: 1.07 News, Info and Gossip

I finally used my first socket quest in 1.07:

Cobalt Gothic Plate of the Colossus 
Gothic Plate 
Defense: 130 
Durability: 55 of 55 
Required Level: 22 
Required Strength: 70 
Fingerprint: 0x5e37457c 
Item Level: 83 
Version: Expansion 
[highlight]+43 to Life 
Cold Resist +148%[/highlight] 4 Sockets (4 used) 
Socketed: Sapphire Jewel 
Socketed: Sapphire Jewel 
Socketed: Sapphire Jewel 
Socketed: Sapphire Jewel

Brought forward and then jeweled up. My first attempt was a 30% CR gothic that got 2 sockets, I wasn't even going to be picky on a second mod, as long as it had good CR, so this was a lucky find. This will now be the bane of cold sorc's

 

[Kaerion]

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hi guys, I'm not sure if anybody else is doing this but I figured out a way to run LK with a secondary character without spending a lot of time on leveling.
I rushed an assassin with normal and nm ancients so that shes on 42, then i maxed burst of speed so that i can use her for racking in LK. I also put about 10 points in shadow master, with 1 point in CoS and mindblast.
I then put on FRW boots and whatever FRW charms and vita charms that I have. equipment wise just a lot of +hp/mana stuff. she zooms around in LK and uses CoS to get out of trouble. if things get really dicey i throw out the shadowmaster. I try not to do that though cause I think it changes the racks.
On my 2nd try I rolled a 2 campfire map next to the portal, and 2 armour racks on the route. 1 is a stable russet armour so I'll try to rack a Skullders.
in other news, I also cubed a 10% fcr 32 mpk ring. hope to get a few more of these.

finally, I have a question. What build will anyone suggest for collection of hell HF in 1.10? I have a few sets of rushees waiting to be forwarded, but I need a decent collector first. any suggestions?

 

[Naab]

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Depends on your gear, but mainly sorceress is always a good bet cause of teleport. Lightning sorc with infinity was what i used, but if you dont have infinity any common hybrid sorc should work(Blizzballer,lightning/forb etc) too since its p1 anyway.

 

[Kaerion]

Re: 1.07 News, Info and Gossip

wut. you had an infinity pre collection of hell forges? how did you come by the runes? must have been some serious time invested there.
I do have some basic sorc gear but I will like to keep them on the sorc in 1.07. What immunes are there in the RoF?

 

[Naab]

Re: 1.07 News, Info and Gossip

I haven't visited RoF lately, but i think there was lightning immunes(mages),cold immunes(those nasty things which breed very fast), venom lords not sure what immunity they were, probably poison or fire and those maggot thingies i think were poison immune not 100% on it The main hard hitter is hephisto ofc. In beta 1.10a were i didnt have any good runewords i was using pure blizz sorc with merc for cold immunes. It worked quite ok, but merc needed to have decent gear to take down cold immunes.

 

[thefranklin]

Re: 1.07 News, Info and Gossip

wut. you had an infinity pre collection of hell forges? how did you come by the runes? must have been some serious time invested there.
I do have some basic sorc gear but I will like to keep them on the sorc in 1.07. What immunes are there in the RoF?

Hell Act 4 is going to be tough to do without good gear. And you are correct to not count on having infinity... I to have this dilemna in my future, but I will probably rush and level up a character in 1.07. It won't have any gear, but I am planning on hitting up 1.10a for BK rings so I might do that first.


From h_immu.xls which is hosted on this site in files somewhere:

[FONT=Arial][FONT=Verdana][SIZE=2]Monster Group Type Level % Resistance     [/SIZE][/FONT]
[SIZE=2][FONT=Arial]   Physical Magic Fire Lightning Cold Poison[/FONT][/SIZE]
[SIZE=2][FONT=Arial]Blood Maggot Sand Maggot  85 66 0 33 0 0 125[/FONT][/SIZE]
[SIZE=2][FONT=Arial]< Blood Maggot Eggs Sand Maggot Egg  85 0 0 0 0 0 0[/FONT][/SIZE]
[SIZE=2][FONT=Arial]> Blood Maggot Young Sand Maggot Young  85 0 0 0 0 0 100[/FONT][/SIZE]
[SIZE=2][FONT=Arial]Urdar Blunderbore Demon 85 55 0 75 75 75 0[/FONT][/SIZE]
[SIZE=2][FONT=Arial]Grotesque Vile Mother Demon 85 66 0 0 0 160 0[/FONT][/SIZE]
[SIZE=2][FONT=Arial]< Grotesque Wyrms Vile Child Demon 85 25 0 0 0 160 0[/FONT][/SIZE]
[SIZE=2][FONT=Arial]Strangler Finger Mage undead 85 50 0 0 100 0 0[/FONT][/SIZE]
[SIZE=2][FONT=Arial]Maw Fiend Regurgitator Demon 85 50 0 0 0 0 110[/FONT][/SIZE]
[SIZE=2][FONT=Arial]Doom Knight Oblivion Knight undead 85 33 0 110 20 20 50[/FONT][/SIZE]
[SIZE=2][FONT=Arial]Pit Lord Megademon Demon 85 50 0 120 75 50 75[/FONT][/SIZE]
[SIZE=2][FONT=Arial]Hephasto the Armourer  Demon 88 50 0 75 45 45 0[/FONT][/SIZE]
[SIZE=2][FONT=Arial]Spectral Hit  Aura Enchanted         [/FONT][/SIZE]
[/FONT]

Arreat summit has different information for Hephasto, and I haven't been there in 1.10+ in a while. There are no magic immunes, so I would lean toward hammerdin or berserk barb. Unless I had good gear I am going to stay away from sorcs as you have to rely on the merc to tank Hephasto or moat him, which would require you to clear out more of the map and/or take forever. Looking at it, the berserk barb makes a good bit of sense with howl and bo to help out the merc.

PS can't get the table to line up for the life of me.

 

[Naab]

Re: 1.07 News, Info and Gossip

High level mercenary can tank hephisto quite well with the help of gear gotten from even mephisto(shaftstop, bonehew, andys/vamp gaze/tals helm) and telekinesis. Thanks to teleport the runs will be much faster then with any barb.(whos killing speed is largely dependant on his gear aswell)

 

[WoRG1]

Re: 1.07 News, Info and Gossip

Been running hell champs and superuniques w/374%MF for the past while, and noticed that occasionally, with higher qlvl items, I'd get blues that were NOT double dura...turns out that 374%MF is not quite enuff to guarantee sets from champs/uniques, its 375%. In checking up on this, I found this post by Yuiman from several years ago in this thread, detailing this exact thing...

In running the numbers on the MF formula, I also confirmed something else I had suspected...if you are looking for class-specific set items (in my case, Tal's orb and Trang's shield), then 375%MF is FAR too much...in fact, for Hell Champion/Uniques, 328%MF or more will force all class-specific item drops to be RARE or better quality...for class-specific set items from Hell Champ/Uniques, the magic number is 282%MF!! That explains the four rare Swirling Crystals I've found with NO green ones in the past few weeks!

WoRG

 

[WoRG1]

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I'm writing up the 1st draft of my 1.07 crafting guide this weekend, and wanted to doublecheck a few things:

1) has anyone ever crafted (or even seen readouts of) bugged blood (i.e. greater than 6%LL, esp. double-digit leech) amulets, boots, belts, or body armor?

2) has anyone ever crafted (or even seen readouts of) bugged blood items with Life Leech of 40+?

3) other than the 3 cube recipes that explicitly put sockets in items (3 chippy + sword, 4 healthpot + ruby + sword, and small sheild + spiked club + 2 skulls), has anyone ever cubed (crafted, 3Pgem reroll, 6Pskull rare reroll, Savage bardiche formula) an item that got sockets? For that matter, has anyone EVER seen a crafted item (in 1.07) with only 1 socket (excluding daggers that could only GET 1 socket)?

If you can answer yes to any of these questions, please let me know!

WoRG