Friday the 13th strikes again - Item Find Thread - Mar 2020

[ffs]

I use Hellmouth on Trav Sorc but form the top of my head I can only remember only used Rising Sun on 99er Paladin. Absorb from Hellmouth is indeed a bit low for CS. Not sure if I tried them in conjunction +max FR stuff, could see that might work...

For me the standard Hammerdin uses a 2/10 amulet. Those aren't super hard to come by – even though my 99er Pally never got one in >300 tries. He was really unlucky in that regard though. I'd only use Mara's if a player doesn't care to craft at all (why though?) or has no resist charms after a restart or something. Rising Sun is fun for a while, but it lacks skills and more importantly, you do eventually want FCR from amulet, so it's rather a gimmick IMO. As for 2/20 amulets, I did get one for Pally some time ago, and used this setup for CS runs (including de Seis) with a twinked Hdin:

Spoiler

Shako
Enigma
Hoto
35 Spirit ST
2/20 craft amulet
Magefist
Verdungo's
BKWB
FCR/res/life/mana rare ring
Hotspur

For 2 seal runs I used Arach and second +1 skill ring for 2 extrra skills, but I liked the stats from Verdungo's against de Seis, and with plenty of skillers in inventory his clear speed didn't really suffer in comparison.

But that was the only scenario where a 2/20 amulet offered something for Hammeridn that a 2/10 couldn't.

 

[Luhkoh]

@ffs nice, the 2/10 is certainly common and deserved a mention. I could never get it to work ok though. You lose something like 50 fire res from replacing maras and your fcr ring. Do you have a setup you like with one? Haha guess I completely made up you using hellmouth on Lucid at some point. Not sure why I thought that. And so yeah I think hellmouth makes running 75 fire res with little to no overstack tolerable. So I might even consider running hellmouth and 2 fcr rings with a 2/10 amulet to get 1 extra skill compared to rising sun. But dont see a way I would enjoy running a 2/10 with magefist and 2 skill rings without just packing my inventory with fire res scs. Though I guess dropping 2 skillers for 50 fire res in charms plus some life or mf still gains you plenty of dmg, so I should probably try it more

 

[ffs]

With Waterwalk or Hotspur along with life/FR charms, it's not super hard to get to 75 FR. No overstack to tank Conviction Infector per se but I never found that to be crucial. Sure it was fun to pretty much laugh at that spawn with Rising Sun, but it's not that big of a deal to pay attention to that Conviction and in such case just position a bit more safely, throwing hammers from the edge instead of the middle.

 

[PhineasB]

My 99er Paladin had one death in CS, and it was when his FR was substantially below 75 due to dropping Aldurs and to a convicted Infector when tired that happened to spawn right on top of him (ie, very dumb). There were also a couple S&Es when I’d not spotted conviction right away but they were few and far between.

So I agree that a little care + fire resists maxed works just fine without need for big overstack or major absorb. And higher damage from hammers helps survivability Phaedrus would have worn hotspur if he had found it, but Aldurs worked just fine for him.

 

[Friiser]

Thanks to the invite from both Grisu and Luhkoh I "found" myself in this new forum . Registered and bookmarked! Happy hunting! I'll post my SUR find from a few days ago (finally got D2 up and running on my Win10 machine).

 

[art_vandelay]

After round one of RFL I visited Mephisto for a bit. Got a bunch of eth grailers, another Tal's Amu, a +5 Hurricane rare (with crappy stats), a +4 Fire Claws rare (lvl req 30!!!), an Ormus (Fire Bolt), my first 35@ Vipermagi (but only 9 MDR), another Shako and five facets total: -3/+5, -5/+3 Poison ; -4/+4 Lightning ; -5/+4 Fire ; -5/+3 Cold.

But non of that matters...

War Traveler
Battle Boots
Defense: 137
Durability: 17 of 48
Required Level: 42
Required Strength: 95
Fingerprint: 0x95a9a42
Item Level: 87
Version: Expansion 1.10+
Unidentified
+25% Faster Run/Walk
Adds 15 - 25 Damage
+186% Enhanced Defense
+10 to Strength
+10 to Vitality
40% Slower Stamina Drain
Attacker Takes Damage of 9
50% Better Chance of Getting Magic Items
+30 Maximum Durability

Finally!

 

[Neck Romancer]

I never get skillers with Vita, so this was nice. However necro is my last planned build, so it wont get use for a while.

Hexing Grand Charm of Vita
Keep in Inventory to Gain Bonus
Required Level: 69
Item Version: 1.10+ Expansion
Item Level: 88
Fingerprint: 0x5f45c1
+38 to Life
+1 to Curses (Necromancer Only)

Found during my 8k AT run project. Never knew fingerprints could be six digits/letters long.

 

[Babyhell]

I never get skillers with Vita, so this was nice. However necro is my last planned build, so it wont get use for a while.

Hexing Grand Charm of Vita
Keep in Inventory to Gain Bonus
Required Level: 69
Item Version: 1.10+ Expansion
Item Level: 88
Fingerprint: 0x5f45c1
+38 to Life
+1 to Curses (Necromancer Only)

Found during my 8k AT run project. Never knew fingerprints could be six digits/letters long.

Never knew either...weird. Maybe yours is cursed

 

[Aldo]

Not convinced this is actually particularly good, but it is definitely incredibly cool...

 

[ffs]

Really cool orb. The same thing but with +5 Nova is something I'd give an arm and a leg for, and it's why I pick up rare/magic orbs whenever I can. But this one is great too. Basically same damage as low roll Fathom, with FCR, plus life and MPK – very nice.

 

[D2DC]

@Aldo if you're not going to use it, head over to the SPTF!

 

[Babyhell]

@Aldo if you're not going to use it, head over to the SPTF!

Someone is preparing an offer there it seems... #KeepSPTFAlive

 

[Aldo]

@Aldo if you're not going to use it, head over to the SPTF!

I only have a trade profile because I had to for MFO, much prefer being self-found only!

Regardless, I will definitely use it for the style points alone!

After turning my AT Blizzard Sorc into an ES/Nova Sorc for Cows, I need to remake my Blizzard Sorc anyway so I'll put this on her I reckon! Will need to mess about with some gear choices to reach 105 FCR, but it'll be fine!

 

[Babyhell]

Best find while leveling at Baal in HC Normal with AlreadyDead:

Ribcracker
Quarterstaff
Two Hand Damage: 58 - 156
Durability: 15 of 130
Required Level: 31
Required Strength: 25
Fingerprint: 0x6d67289b
Item Level: 60
Version: Expansion 1.10+
Unidentified
+50% Increased Attack Speed
+50% Faster Hit Recovery
250% Enhanced Damage
Adds 30 - 65 Damage
50% Chance of Crushing Blow
+100% Enhanced Defense
+100 Defense
+15 to Dexterity
+100 Maximum Durability

Will help for the druid building i guess!

 

[pharphis]

So when you reroll a lvl 1 rare jewel with a lvl 1 character (using 6 PSkulls) you have a 1 in 10 chance at getting -req AND poison damage. I knew this for a while but tried it for the first time now:
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That's a sweet jewel now, even the Stamina is useful! I will probably use my PSkulls for this until I have a super light weight Long Battle Bow with a bunch of these in it.

the stamina is arguably the most important mod there LOL

@b1ur why not 1.07 rising sun?
gives 1 fire sorb per lvl

The Rising Sun
Amulet
Required Level: 65
Item Version: Expansion
Item Level: 90
Fingerprint: 0x5db5977b
Adds 24-48 fire damage
+4 to Light Radius
2% Chance to cast Level 7 Meteor when struck
+1 to Fire Absorb (1 per Character Level)

 

[Babyhell]

Decided to get a Grief for my HC Zealer ThouShallNotDie, instead of a Fortitude for merc (only have a 955 ebug armor for now anyway). So after some phase blade crafting, here's the result!

Spoiler: Dump

Well... sadly only the IAS roll is great :-(

Grief
Phase Blade
EthTirLoMalRal
One Hand Damage: 31 - 35
Indestructible
Required Level: 59
Required Strength: 25
Required Dexterity: 136
Fingerprint: 0xca827fa5
Item Level: 81
Version: Expansion 1.10+
35% Chance to cast level 15 Venom on striking
+40% Increased Attack Speed
Damage +356
Ignore Target's Defense
-25% Target Defense
+161% Damage to Demons (Based on Character Level)
Adds 5 - 30 Fire Damage
-21% to Enemy Poison Resistance
20% Deadly Strike
Prevent Monster Heal
+2 to Mana after each Kill
+15 Life after each Kill
5 Sockets (5 used)
Socketed: Eth Rune
Socketed: Tir Rune
Socketed: Lo Rune
Socketed: Mal Rune
Socketed: Ral Rune

 

[WoRG]

After failing to get Cow King's Boots in 1.07 despite a looooong history of running Hell Cows there, most recently 40 hours for RFL round1, I decided to run NM cows and see if I could score a pair....took about 2½hrs, though I got 4 more Sander's Ripraps first (you'd think that in the cow level, the CK boots would drop at least as much as Sander's!)

That was the last normal or exceptional set item I needed for the 1.07 grail, now I need a Naj's Puzzler (which can't be racked, and can only drop from RoF/CS, Glacial Trail on in ActV, or Cows in Hell in 1.07)

WoRG

 

[Babyhell]

@WoRG keep cowing

 

[b1ur]

the stamina is arguably the most important mod there LOL

@b1ur why not 1.07 rising sun?
gives 1 fire sorb per lvl

The Rising Sun
Amulet
Required Level: 65
Item Version: Expansion
Item Level: 90
Fingerprint: 0x5db5977b
Adds 24-48 fire damage
+4 to Light Radius
2% Chance to cast Level 7 Meteor when struck
+1 to Fire Absorb (1 per Character Level)

Like at .75 isn't OP anyway

 

[b1ur]

Doing some practice runs for round 2. I'm liking sorc so far. I taught it'll be much more dangerous.

Gheed's Fortune 
Grand Charm 
Required Level: 62 
Fingerprint: 0xd7428eb 
Item Level: 85 
Version: Expansion 1.10+ 
133% Extra Gold from Monsters 
Reduces all Vendor Prices 12% 
40% Better Chance of Getting Magic Items

I hope I don't deplete all of my luck before the RFL actually starts