1.09 Roll Call - Goals, Progress, Finds

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I have yet to find an arreats face, so i am still using guiliams face. So the 35% cb makes p8 and p3 just a few seconds different. Amazing how many times cb gets activated when you hit 300 times a second. 3rd run in a row now where everything was blue.... running with 386 mf atm, perhaps ill switch ammies up to change that number a bit, could be that ive hit a dead % or something. Now the superstitions start....
 
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Update. I found a few MF jewels and socketed my alli baba's. Next thing you know mephy droped a guardian angel, butchers pupil, jalals mane, 3 skiller GC's, and a HOZ. The best drops ive gotten from him so far. Funny how things work out.

A couple hundred runs with no change and no drops. A tiny change and the gold starts falling. I am going to try doing a few runs while hopping on one foot.. see if that helps.
 
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Nova sorcs used to be a lot of fun as long as you had the fast cast. Some ES helped for when tele'ing straight into a mob and shiver armor to freeze them up as they hit you. With the sometimes random cast delay on a hf merc's aura it's not always the most reliable thing for those hard hitting cows.

If you start running into more dry spells maybe try changing out your map seed by making a norm/nm game and then another hell game. You might not have as good of a map but may notice better drops that way. Something that may be arbitrary but can seem to make slight differences I suppose.

HammerTime defeated big D (on p1) with pretty good ease. The merc kept falling to those OK's and the IM but it was as expected. I just tried to take out those purple guys and get another curse on me asap to rid the problem. Another Iratha cuff was all D dropped so nothing special... Started taking on the bloody foothills and almost made it to Shenk before taking my son to bed and falling asleep with him. Ancients and Baal to come sometime this week/weekend :D

Question about the Anya quest: I read in a post about the resists being bugged and not actually applying, only showing on the LCS? Was that something of a later patch or disproved altogether? I've always known to go for the added 10 in each difficulty for the total +30 but that little tidbit made me wonder...
 
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The way it was explained to me, the Anya bug is that if you die and recover your corpse, you lose the Anya bump UNTIL you restart a new game. I'm not even sure if it applies to 1.09.
 
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RobbyD said:
The way it was explained to me, the Anya bug is that if you die and recover your corpse, you lose the Anya bump UNTIL you restart a new game. I'm not even sure if it applies to 1.09.
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exactly my understanding as well. If you die, its best to start a new game.

So i have 2 combat gc's 1 offence gc, GA, HoZ, and other good pally gear. My problem is finding a pally build that can actually be a viable cow killer or baal runner or good at something to give me a reason to make him.

Nova sorc for running the countess.
Javazon for killing beef.
Frenzy barb for mephy running.
I guess i could use something to run diablo with. As he has a few drops that mephy can not give.

Zeal with no damage bonus, and is basicly the same as frenzy anyhow, seems like a no go.

Smite and charge are just a single target attacks that would take a long time to clear any area.

Any ideas ?

If i cant come up with something then i might just make a werebear druid with the jalas i just picked up and a nearly perfect roll on a burrito cannon.


 
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Well, I'm very happy with the Fanatic Zealot I made. Sure you don't get the Synergy bump, but the Fana aura is mighty good all by itself, and it makes your merc a hoss. Mind you I built mine around the Schaefer's Hammer I found, but a Baranar's, Lightsabre, or even 3-chip Mythical Sword/Cryptic Sword weapon would service just fine. I went with a maxed Holy Shield + Defiance merc combo to make him able to stand in a crowd of P8 cows and hack away. After I get my Barb to 99, I plan on leveling the Pally on cow runs and cold cave runs (he's not actually super at Baal runs because Lister's crew appears to ignore all that defense).

I tell you what though - Sanctuary makes Pindle (even when he spawns PI) a complete creme puff. A Pally with Zeal and Sanctuary (a single point does the trick) could run Pindle like no other character, and Pindle is 1 of 4 bosses that can drop absolutely anything in the game. Give him some Vigor to run through town and you have yourself a reason to make a Pally.

****EDIT - corrected by jiansonz****
9 Bosses can drop anything in the game:
better rates
- Pindleskin
- Frozenstein
- Snapchip Shatter
- Thresh Socket
lower rates
The bosses of the 5 Baal waves
 
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Well that sounds good enough then. Ill make a pindle runner.

Now i always wanted to try a assasin too Robby. Any experience with a trapper in 1.09?

Ive been collecting all the gems from cows and cubing them to perfects. And been using them to roll charms.. got a few trapper charms too now.

I could use light sentry with death sent for main atack. Fire wave for 2ndary and burst of spead with a shadow master. Could perhaps work on cows. Get a few down then death sentry takes over.

Also which claws do i want to roll to look for bonus to traps? Was it Greater Claws?

Mephy dropped nothing tonight, however cows left me a nice ist rune and a mal rune. Almost missed them both. Worth the time to go back and look for gems, never know what you will stumble over.
 
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RobbyD said:
and Pindle is 1 of 4 bosses that can drop absolutely anything in the game.
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There are actually 9 bosses that can drop anything in the game, but the bosses in the Baal waves have worse odds, since they drop like Champions.



 
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@Enochdarg: If it makes you feel any better, I'm running Mephy with over 500MF on the kill, and I'll go a night with nothing really good (my best drop last night was a Hellslayer).

I've taken your observation about the power of CB and made a Black Scourge to replace the Lightsabre (since I want to get him to 99, it's worth doing on P8 if I can do it fast), and man-o-man, he kills Mephy faster on P8 with that setup than on P3 with the Baranar's/Lightsabre setup! Can't really go after any other targets with that because of the knockback, but for pure Mephy running, that is really humming!
 
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So i use my javazon for strictly cows, in an effort to get my 1st 99 character sence i never did that back when i played on the realms.

I maxed LF obviously and fend, put a few in valcry and a bunch in critical and penetrate (which helps tremendously with LF by the way) but i still have 20 or so points left over and i am not quite 90 yet.

Stats wise i got 100 in vit. 50 or so in str and the rest in dex.

So i went ahead and maxed out multi shot with the remainding skill points, slapped a burrito cannon on her and some cleglaws for KB and sent her into a p8 cow level.

I figured with all that dex with 2 ravens and a cat eye bonus as well she would clean house with this so call overrated xbow that totally unbalanced the game. (190% ed on the burizza)

Well long story short i was incredibly dissapointed. She killed much slower then the LF, and much slower then the meteor sorc too. She was more on par speed wise with the frenzy barb and the meteor sorc using just the orb.

So am i missing a vital part here? or what did i do wrong?

I went ahead and closed the game without saving so that i get those skill pts back. Perhaps i just max guided for champion cows and put the rest into the incredibly diminished critical strike to finish that skill off.
 
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If memory serves me correct i used to join a game filled with leachers and 1 or 2 high leveled bowazons, Either WF or burriza, and they would clear the whole level before i even got moving. I guess i just remember things a bit more extreme then they ever were.
 
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Buriza's real power is with maxed GA, not Multi - she's good with Multi, but it's not her infamous skill - for instance with cows, my Burizon uses FA and GA - hardly ever multi (only when leech is needed).

If you have LF, MS is kind of wasted - had you asked me, I would have told you GA.
 
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Yep MA is definately out (until i get a WF drop from the cold caves) and GA is in. I do not think anything can catch LF in the moo moo farm.

Robby you have any experience with a blizard sorc in 1.09?

Ive been blown away by how many skiller GC's ive found or rolled. There must be much less potiential prefix- suffix then in 1.13.

Ive gotten 3 cold skillers which makes me want to make yet another sorc. Yes yess i know, a nova sorc, a meteorb sorc, and perhaps now a blizzard sorc.

The meteorb sorc is great except for the huge cast delay waiting for that meteor to quit whistleing and finally touch down. The blizzard would partially get away from that problem. The question is though without a dammage increasing mastery, will cold be as effective as fire.
 
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Enochdarg, really focus to get 100% piercing with LF. It makes it exponentially more awesome. The way to do this is having a fairly high penetrate with a razortail belt. That way you'll get the last 33% piercing from the belt. It will make a huge difference. That's why I use razortail over tgod's, but MSLE could make me go with tgod's in 1.09. But for cows, use razortail!!

As for me, I found yet another rare shako.
 
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Yea mouseman ive found the same thing. For questing perhaps tgods works better but in the moo moo farm its much better to see 1 bold hit and spread 5 or 10 times. I have pierce at lvl 18 before equip and with razortail its just a matter of herding them up and dropping 1 or 2 into the crowd to finish it all off. Then herding up the few straglers and 3 or 4 to finish them off. Definatly much more effective the more you have lined up.

I have yet to find a tgods anyway so i can not compare them yet.

Still looking for

Vipermagi
SoJ
War travs
Skullders,
BK ring
Lightsabre


Cows did drop a nice maras for me! The first one ive ever gotten, so im pretty excited over that. Mephy is giving me the cold shoulder once again though.

Cheers.
 
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I have not yet done a JavaZon in 1.09 (thus the reason for my dual Zon project), so I can't speak to how to do it. I will say that my MeteOrb was my fastest at cows until I moved her on to 1.10a. The Buriza Zon is OK at them - the strategy with her is to use FA to keep them all frozen, GA for the tough bosses.

My only experience with Blizz was my very first Sorc with that original group of characters back in 2003 or thereabouts - all I know is that she apparently ran into a brick wall with CI Duriel and somehow ended up losing all her gear. I seem to remember it working nicely against Big D and the like, but everything with my gameplay back then is foggy. I would definitely say that you need an alternative damage, since CI is unbreakable, and there are a LOT of CIs in the cold caves. Good thing is that CM is such that a single point is all you really need, so there's plenty of points for alternative skills. FW or Meteor, maybe?

Grats on the Mara's, BTW - I got my second from Mephy just the other day, so my 1.09 HybridZon will wear it.
 
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Yep i agree that strictly blizzard would be tough. I think if i find a snowclash then ill go blizard witha 2ndary, if i get the wizzy ill go with the nova. Seems to me that they both should have dropped by now.
 
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Well, after some serious Mephy running, I finally got the War Belt I was after. Some other interesting drops tonight were:

Monarch

2 IK Pieces at the same time (what's that yellow Sallet doing there?)

Nice Zon Twinking Circlet


So this project for a 1.09 TGods ended up making me 2x Stormshield and 2x Gladiator's Bane richer, among many other things. Also note the XP bar - he's level 98, so that's how close he is to level 99. I imagine I'll run some Pindle/Baal with him to get the rest of the way - I'm always hoping for a Hydra Bow (would make this project extra fun).
 
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Great drops.

I started to run the 5 champions you mentioned as well whenever im fealing mephy is getting stingy.

We will race to get the WF or Eaglehorn. Though im sure you will win.

That will make 3 or 4 99's? Meteorb, shafer hammer pally, nova sorc...
 
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Mmmmm.... I am intrigued by the idea of a WF challenge, but I think this hybrid Zon will be my last 1.09 character. I may, however, run Pindeh with my Pally to level him to 99, with hopes for a Windeh to drop.

I have 2 99s, my Zon and my Sorc. The Barb will be my third, but the Sorc was converted to 1.10a, so technically it will be only 2.
 
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