I went through the levels.txt and compared the monsters listed to the monsters I encountered during numerous runs through every area in a5. The data I posted earlier in this thread is the result. I dont know what else could be tested or found...
New 1.07/1.08 Magic Find Meta?
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Feel free to join the funDropping by to say that after randomly learning about this discovery I immediately came to the forums to see it properly utilized
Really enjoyed reading through the thread and wish you luck in completing the previously theoretical 1.08 grail!
Na ive had both of those. War Pike was one of my first
Oh my god. I'm still going through the thread reading all the posts.. what a wild find. And it makes me mad, because I vividly remember bumping into "weird AI code" specific to these Souls-type monsters, that somehow involved the Magic Find stat. (This was years ago, still on the old forum!) I didn't investigate further because it just seemed non-sensical and I assumed that I was mistaken about what I read. I'm fairly sure it was 1.00 where I found it, so this stuff may very well have been in the game since the CD release.
The screenshots are hilarious. Having a blast just going over these posts. :')
The screenshots are hilarious. Having a blast just going over these posts. :')
DarkMaster
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It was right there under your nose hehe!
It is indeed in 1.00 and has the magic find bonus as well, I think there was one or two people here that have been doing 1.00 "ritual MF runs" to decent effect. Welcome back by the way!It's been known to people at Phrozen Keep for a long time, a public discussion about it in their Discord in 2021 was eventually brought to MrLlama's attention in 2023 or so and after he made a video of it that's when the info disseminated to the general D2 populace.
Luhkoh said hi to me on Discord and asked something about the ol' "pattern generator" ;D
It made me look around to see what's up nowadays, and it's awesome to see this place still alive and healthy. Decided to make a little contribution even, considering I've had so much fun here in the past! Kinda crazy that we're still bumping into new D2-info things after so many years. :>
How come their knowledge about this didn't spread at that time though?
Could this game hold some other secrets as well? I wonder..
Phrozen Keep has always been one level above the rest, but considering how super technical it gets there I'm not really surprised it got kept low.
Do we know how much magic find is there per ritual?
Do we know how much magic find is there per ritual?
The mf boost is per 'letter' (tested in 1.08 in order to force sets without rares for naj's puzzler). Id have to check my spreadsheet to see how much it was per letter, but i know that information is buried here somewhere. Each letter is shot 3 times by the gloams but [it seems like] only the first one needs to 'fire' for that letter's bonus - needs to be verified as well as whether or not each willow-wisp contributes a portion of the total bonus.
'Cursed ritual' just sounds like a misunderstanding of the willow-wisp event making a pentagram instead of the first letters of the programmers' names.
Off the top of my head, i believe it took 28 rituals in 1.08 to force uniques from normal monsters and 4.33-ish to force sets...
edit: also discussed here
@Pavke posted relatively recently about the duration as well in terms of number of frames and when that was changed.
Edit: here is @Pavke 's post about duration. No info on which patch it changed
Edit: seems I reported finding a Dream Spirit around aug/sept 2023 @frozzzen
'Cursed ritual' just sounds like a misunderstanding of the willow-wisp event making a pentagram instead of the first letters of the programmers' names.
Off the top of my head, i believe it took 28 rituals in 1.08 to force uniques from normal monsters and 4.33-ish to force sets...
edit: also discussed here
@Pavke posted relatively recently about the duration as well in terms of number of frames and when that was changed.
Edit: here is @Pavke 's post about duration. No info on which patch it changed
Edit: seems I reported finding a Dream Spirit around aug/sept 2023 @frozzzen
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Small correction, the buff is: 4 (Souls) x 7 (Letters) x 50/100/150 (N/NM/H) magic find per event, up to 4200 MF in Hell.
Events are stackable with 72 sec cooldown between events.
(link is dead for me) It was 108000 frames in 1.00. It was leter changed to 864000 frames and finally it was 1728000 frames in 1.10
I dont have any information if the MF amount has changed, but I dont belive so. The PK guys believe the buff was suppose to be one time thing of 50/100/150 MF boost
Events are stackable with 72 sec cooldown between events.
(link is dead for me) It was 108000 frames in 1.00. It was leter changed to 864000 frames and finally it was 1728000 frames in 1.10
I dont have any information if the MF amount has changed, but I dont belive so. The PK guys believe the buff was suppose to be one time thing of 50/100/150 MF boost
There is one other big thing that was discovred few months ago that kinda went unnoticed: Monster Life Regeneration is delayed by 8 frames after taking damage in Online games, compared to 1 frame for Offline. But thats a story for another thread
So, kinda update, I checked my stashes and it turns out I have 17 TC90 weapons. Some armors too but we're not counting those.
Total is:
War Pike x 4
Giant Thresher x 4
Glorious Axe x 3
Mythical Sword x 2
Legend Spike x 2
Caduceus x 2
It was 1:18 for Archon Staff, so we all know what next one will be right? STATISTICS DO WORK THAT WAY RIGHT?
Total is:
War Pike x 4
Giant Thresher x 4
Glorious Axe x 3
Mythical Sword x 2
Legend Spike x 2
Caduceus x 2
It was 1:18 for Archon Staff, so we all know what next one will be right? STATISTICS DO WORK THAT WAY RIGHT?
jimsfriend
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Well if I learned anything with my rings project, a lot is not a lot! Hopefully you learn a different lesson 
