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I don't have Fathom and don't have Infinity, and I actually don't have the impression my character is too weak to do Travincal. Rerolled maps for a bit yesterday, and on a better but still far-from-perfect map I already shaved off a few seconds per run. Fastest run was 21 seconds, average only 32 seconds, but that's mainly because I lose a lot of time on stuff I shouldn't lose time on: ressurecting merc, id'ing stuff, looking for mana potions, stashing items ...

I don't kill the CI boss though. I think it's more efficient to leave him alone than to wait for the merc to kill him.

On a different note: I'm more and more tempted to start that oskill Sept I've been thinking about for such a long time now. I lack a lot of endgame items for that Sept, but switching between leveling up the characters from that Sept and hunt for the items I'm still missing with my Sorc sounds like a perfect mix to keep things interesting.
 
I see my comment started up quite a bit of discussion. Sorry if I wasn't clear, I was mainly implying that my gear is shit and I should work on my gear to get that 5k blizz damage. I did hover somewhere near 6-7k Blizz damage back in the day before I quit, but I did have stuff like Fathom, Enigma, (access to Spirit) plus cold skillers, now I'm without any of those.
 
Well. I think I finally decided to skip playing 1.00 and go straight to 1.07. Basically the only thing I needed from before then is easy sojs, and I might still go back for those someday.

1.07 p1 without my big stash of junk is so slow going. I'm playing a sorceress, and I'm 16, and my A2 merc is carrying me at the moment. It's a little better now, I decided to put more than 1 in warmth and it is helping a lot, it really works quickly. Not being able to buy mana potions so far is the only real major change I can sense. Mobs drop differently (worse it seems) so I am struggling. I went back to normal andy and got a couple low level sets and uniques, including biggin's bonnet and bloodfists, which are a huge help.

One thing I really actually liked, despite being terrifying, is the packs of shamans in act 1. When I got to the cathedral I ran into a unique shaman pack and a unique tainted pack, with might. Could have fairly easily ran past and into the catacombs, but me and my rogue buddy decided to givem a go. Great fight, really fun. I can see why they got rid of those packs though, haha!

I'll probably spam post this thread today whenever I need a break. I'm going to power through all day, 16 hours or so of scheduled D2 time, no responsibilities. The perfect day to start 1.07
 
Don't forget to use the full rejuv shop bug so that you don't have to care about mana potions at all. I farmed up enough gold from rakanishu or other bosspacks in order to buy a +3 frost nova (at first) and +3 glacial spike staff so that I could save points but still kill semi-reliably. If you're doing multi-instance, I'd level a barb in tandem and get another char to at least level 8 (or 5 if you're desperate) to start rolling mpk rings
 
ah man thanks so much!! I needed that. I read through the stickied guides, although I didn't see that bug mentioned anywhere in there I remember you mentioning something with potions before, so I tried selling and rebuying mana potions :/ Nope. Definitely doing it now.
 
I ended first day in 1.07 at level 34 and it was a journey. 17 hours with taco bell break in there, a preposterous amount of time to get to level 34... The MVP of the day goes to this ring (Level 2 required!! Insane, definitely forwarding this one eventually):

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Thanks again to @pharphis, I would have quit without your help and all your answers to my barrage of questions on your stream :)

Things are looking up for my character. Level 30 hit and with frozen orb + that ring I no longer have to worry about mana as long as I kill one thing per cast on average. I killed baal
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without much trouble, did it at 29 so no frozen orb. I heard it would be tough work to kill him since in 1.07 his mana burn rocket thing deals massive damage, but he still couldn't 1 shot me, and with full rejuvs everything was fine. Chalan, however, did not make it, choosing to run in the wrong direction and dying instantly. The dude saved me today so many times, but is worthless against act bosses. I heard that mercs sorta suck, but at least for now they feel like 1.13 mercs until you go up against a boss. He's a real trooper.

My gold was maxed since like level 15, which is really nice. Needed it for all the rejuvs I had to buy over, and over, and over. I couldn't find a good use for it in normal. I don't know how gambling works in this patch, but I gambled a bit anyways. I got nothing good. I shopped some for a mana fcr wand, but the most mana I saw on a wand was 6 (on any wand, not just fcr wands), so I don't know, it's probably different here. I've shopped high mana wands in later patches in far shorter periods of time, but I think I sat and shopped maybe 20 minutes with no luck, decided it wasn't that important, and moved on.

By far the hardest area was chaos sanctuary. The only problem there is the oblivion knight casters. You really have to teleport on top of them quick and freeze/merc them before they blow you up. The rest of the mobs aren't too bad because they don't do nearly as much damage as quickly, and clump up for easy freezing and kiting. Special shoutout to Lord De Seis, dude is a real jerk, probably the hardest part about beating normal.

Planning on no-lifing it again tomorrow, we'll see how it goes! I think nightmare will be less of a problem, should be able to cruise on through a little quicker now that I have everything all sorted out.
 
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Mezion said:
Very nice! And I'm wondering, did you make it work without cd? If so, how, and installing from what?
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The route I took for installation (on windows 10) was this:

1. Install 1.00 from disk, select full installation.
2. Install 1.07 from expansion disk
3. Insert Bliss Version Switcher files into that 1.07 installation folder, as it's readme tells you to.
4. Launch 1.07 from BVS according to instructions in BVS with disk still in the drive, then quit out of diablo 2 and bliss version switcher
5. Copy the .mpqs from your classic and expansion disks into your Diablo II directory (main folder path, the one with diablo II.exe and game.exe), and then eject your disks (obviously)
6. Install daemon tools lite
7. Mount D2_LOD_MINI.mds from the Singling Mini-Images folder that comes with Bliss Complete Package
8. Launch BVS and launch 1.07 from BVS

Extra step if D2 won't launch in step 8: Close BVS, relaunch BVS with BlissVersionSwitcher_UAC.bat, and then launch 1.07 from there. I needed to do this to get it working on Windows 10. Disabling User Account Controls didn't work, I had to launch the game after BVS was launched from BlissVersionSwitcher_UAC.bat

If it still won't launch, try launching in windowed mode with -w. If it still won't launch, run or rerun the video test. If it still won't launch, install sven's glidewrapper and follow those instructions.

It's honestly pretty straightforward and I probably overexplained for what you were asking. But I struggled to get it launched with no disks in the past, and looked for very clear information so I could see what I was missing, so there it is.

If you don't have the disks, then you're gonna have to struggle more than all that. I dunno if there's a simple way to do it or not, as I have the disks still. It wasn't so simple for me, my disk drive in my desktop was disconnected, so I had to go fiddle with that junk for a while, was a huge pain roping power through my case to the drive and getting it connected to the motherboard. I also didn't know where my disks were, I had to hunt through bins that haven't been touched in 10 years, strewing messes all over the guest bedroom. That's extra information you did not need to know, but I am in a typing mood today I guess.
 
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Well shit I can't physically use any CDs with my laptop, and the .iso doesnt work pass installation... thanks again for the help.

Edit: holycrap those items!

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Joy of short duration. My 1.07 character appears "disconnected" in GoMule... should be enough for tonight. Thanks for the help guys
 
Be careful with some things that can corrupt your character in ATMA. 'Freeze target' mod IIRC. Check the 1.07 threads for more details.
 
It's 1.08 only I think, but even then it was probably realms-only IF it was ever implemented at all. I did a quick google search and only ever found copy-pastes for the recipes themselves. Maybe someone can find images in google image search (I doubt it)

edit: I found one with some effort from a recent (2015) single player play through...

http://i.imgur.com/7ZewS6r.png
(belt)
edit2: and another

http://i.imgur.com/vxevKrK.jpg
(gloves)

Not sure if this play-through is modded in some way to activate or if these are always activated... if so, I'm surprised no one ever mentions them.
 
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So, day 2 of my 1.07 adventure is over and I'm definitely less exhausted today. Although I'm still struggling to find any usable items at all, it's far easier now. Frozen orb is maxed out, static is at 19, and I got the flow down. I am level 58 which is much farther than I thought I'd ever get in 1.07 yesterday when I was tearing my hair out at level 11 wondering why nothing gave exp.

So this morning I leveled in cow level for a short while, got to around 40 and then started blasting through NM. In the catacombs, a unique ring dropped
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spoiler alert, it sucked
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I killed NM Andy no problem, check out these fantastic drops!
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Act 2 was no harder. Duriel was fairly easy, dropping nothing. Act 3, I stopped for a bit and ran LK which up until this point seemed to be the only place where I could actually find any rares at all. I ran through the flayer jungle to see if it would be alright for some exp, it wasn't. Definitely far worse than normal cows. Hit a pretty insane drop here

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Too bad I won't be able to use that for a while! Act IV was tough again but with frozen orb it was much better. In act V I found out shenk runs were leveling me really quickly and did a bunch of those, to about 50, and then did ancients which put me up to 53. Killed baal and called it quits for progressing for the day.

The rest of the day I spent doing NM LK, Trav, and tested out drops from a variety of other targets and tried various levels of MF on my gear which basically at this point is some magic boots and gloves, and armor with 4 ptopazes. I found the infamous 1.07 "Shae" rune which was neat. Finding lots of different things and IDing a ton of magic items, and it's cool seeing the differences from 1.13.

Future plans (probably this week): Teleport through hell, do some hell cows, and start racking. Also on the list is finding a ravenclaw, so I'll have to figure out mf equipment, I hear they're pretty easy to get.

Personally, I hate this patch. I don't know why anyone would play this patch, no offense @pharphis. It feels like I got my grocery list, I'm doin my chores. The worst part is, I know I'm in for the long haul before I have what I need. Although I'm accustomed to LK runs, I just want to get my junk and get back now. I am seriously missing 1.13 and the comfy easiness. Maybe I'll feel differently after a while, but I dunno. I know I'm not going to stop now though, no matter how much I'm disliking it. I know the payout will be there eventually. What's worse is that I know that so many other people have played this patch extensively so I feel like a bit of a whiner.

The first thing I'm going to do when I get back to 1.14 is an untwinked playthrough and I'm just going savor each and every drop so much. The fast leveling in act V at 25 - and players settings. Oh the players settings! I am going to use them. I miss them so much.

Maybe this post should go in the 1.07 thread. I dunno, someone yell at me if I'm doing it wrong.
 
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@NorthDakota haha! That's pretty much how I feel when I play 1.07.

Side note: I'm running 1.13c River of Flame on /players 5. The superchest on the right has dropped the exact same rares twice now. I think it's been a couple hundred runs between them. Rare Tulwar, Rare Ring, and Rare something else. I didn't s/s it but I'll probably crank out another 500 runs tonight. If it's going to drop the same it will probably happen within that 500 spurt. Anyone have any info on that?
 
@NorthDakota 1.07 is very easy once you have max res, some life and some mdr (15 is ok, more is amazing). The only super hard parts are questing, keeping your merc alive, and duri/meph/council/cs/baal but those mostly fall under questing anyway. Cows can hurt a lot as well (especially to mercs) but honestly the rest of the game is very safe. Nihl is probably frightening but I have no idea.

@MizzouFTW Well rares are 1/20 chance iirc and there is probably 1-2 patterns of exactly those items so it's not unreasonable for you to see it twice from the same chest or within a short period of time. Fairly unlikely but so are most things that happen in D2 :p
 
Thanks Pharis.

I'm seeming to get a lot of Magic balrog blades from RoF superchests. Would it be safe to assume that River of Flame / Chaos would be the optimum area to farm for white balrog blades?
 
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