One, Two, Buckle my Shoe - Item Find Thread - Mar 2021

[Helvete]

You ran your hammerdin like a make-shift smiter, right?

I'm thinking about making a smiter soon so I can run ubers, but if you found that a hammerdin can double as a smiter....

That's what I did, yes. Shopped a life tap wand, and swapped out a little gear for the small ones and a LOT of gear for the big party. No dracs or gg weapon, which made it a bit scary.

EDIT: Guess I *could* elaborate a bit....

Normal hammerdin gear, including enigma, except that I have found no skill rings and no arach or mara's. Subbing Seraph's Hymn for the missing maras, raven and some random rare for skill rings, and Credendum for arach when playing as hammerdin.

For the mini-ubers I swapped to LoH (no draculs yet), Highlord's, blood crafted belt, Gore Riders, Gface. Prebuff fade from Treachery. I forgot to mule over a weapon.... so had to shop for something. Ended up with a "Blade of Swiftness".

For the big ones, I certainly remembered to mule a "Black" RW flail back on, and I crafted a better belt and some 10CB/20IAS blood gloves. I also muled on Griswold shield and 3 pdiamonds, and a shield to make "sanctuary". Ended up using the sanctuary. Considered for a while using shael wiz spike, but noticed that I would reach 100%CB with black, so I decided against it. Also, filled my inventory with as much life and light res charms as would fit, or I had at the time.

Engaging them one by one is probably essential; that's what I did at least.

 

[snickersnack]

I was going to post this later, once I had a bigger haul, but since @NorthDakota was kind enough to smack me upside my dumb head, I'll be doing 1.07 for a few days (or maybe more).

I swapped out gear (for 0% mf) and starting running the Pit at /p3 for a thresher, and this drops on run ... 4, I think?



If I get any sweet items in 1.07, I'll post them, but there probably won't be anything until I get a thresher rack. I may try some crafting, though. I have a MPK ring in 1.07, but if I can craft another one, that'd be mighty useful for my D2R sorc since she won't have Insight anymore.

I was pretty set on doing only self-found in D2R, but forwarding a nice thresher is pretty mild since it's not like I couldn't get one in D2R, I'll just have a stronger merc. If I do get another MPK ring, I'll have to weight whether it'd tarnish my present untwinkedness too much for my liking. Most likely, I'll have to judge that after I make the Infinity Thresher. I may find that the lack of Insight is a hassle.

 

[DaveWThe2nd]

A gul is a letdown?

 

[bill_n_opus]

Well, first post in an item find thread in maybe 9-10 years ... But just recently bought d2r, started self found single player again.

My usual char for self found starting is a fishymancer and it's been slowish as usual.

The cool thing is that this time around I can take advantage of runewords like insight which has made life easier not having to chug blue potions like mad all the time ... just CE non stop, take a breather looking at items and the bulb fills up in no time.

Made it to act v nightmare and running pindle/shenk/eldritch to level plus any drops and eldritch pops an ...

Eth.hone Sundan.

One of the best Merc weapons for a fishy that I can remember because of the crushing blow and sockets.

At this point I'm running absolutely no life leech at all on Merc. Haven't found any helm at all and haven't gotten around to crafting one. The insight polearm he's using that I scrounged the runes for is too good to pass up even though it's a regular scythe doing crap dmg.

The hone is going to carry me a little further until I find or make something better. Or up it.

Very low Ed of 166% but I'll take it. No pics, sorry, this is my phone lol.

 

[saracen85]

Big D dropped this, my 4th.

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Notable Rares.

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A couple of 2/20 Jav gloves with MF that *might* be enough to sway away from 3/20s:





No leech, no FCR, mediocre resists, yet somehow I'm still intrigued by this:

Been picking up blue jewelry as well, hoping for some diamonds in the rough. Here are some of the more decent ones:

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A bit meh. But something I still find useful.




100+ mana with stats. Could be higher, but it is what it is.



Finding another 100+/10fcr would be nice, but it's not to be.

Then, this made it worthwhile, I suppose.

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[saracen85]

Woot! Finally, a proper +5 Nado helm that's not ethereal.



Barebones staffmods & useless suffix.

But a green goat head!!!

 

[d2lover]

@saracen85 I'm jelly on your eth Reapers

 

[snickersnack]

I just completed Act 1 Hell in 1.07. Only one notable drop today:

Prefix 956 Ring of Fortune
Required Level: 31
Item Version: Expansion
Item Level: 80
Fingerprint: 0x4104f2b5
29% Better Chance of Getting Magic Items

That'll help with eventually farming uniques.

 

[PhineasB]

@saracen85 I'm jelly on your eth Reapers

I just picked up another non-eth one with my 99er Druid. Now at 83 Reaper's found without eth on this restart. So, like, @d2lover I am also jelly @saracen85

 

[snickersnack]

A couple of finds in Act 2:

Prefix 857 Small Charm
Keep in Inventory to Gain Bonus
Item Version: Expansion
Item Level: 84
Fingerprint: 0x768071f7
+6 to Maximum Damage

Large Charm of Quality
Keep in Inventory to Gain Bonus
Required Level: 30
Item Version: Expansion
Item Level: 83
Fingerprint: 0x637d6174
+8 to Maximum Damage

I'll be in LK pretty soon, and then it's time to get racking.

Edit: First interesting find in LK:

Twitchthroe
Studded Leather
Defense: 57
Durability: 20 of 32
Required Strength: 27
Required Level: 16
Item Version: Expansion
Item Level: 88
Fingerprint: 0x59a4b652
+10 to Strength
+10 to Dexterity
+25% Increased Chance of Blocking
+25 Defense
10% Increased Attack Speed

My current map has all of the racks very close to the WP, but I haven't yet tried out multiple angles to see what's stable.

 

[NorthDakota]

Been playing a lot of bowazon since it's so fun on a controller. Decided to use a special jewel in my windforce



Was it a bad idea? I still hit breakpoints even with the 5 less ias so I dunno. Just thought windforce would be a cool item to put it in, I've had this one since forever so why not?!

 

[snickersnack]

Been playing a lot of bowazon since it's so fun on a controller. Decided to use a special jewel in my windforce

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Was it a bad idea? I still hit breakpoints even with the 5 less ias so I dunno. Just thought windforce would be a cool item to put it in, I've had this one since forever so why not?!

I'd imagine that it's a decent use of the jewel, but I'll note that a lot of the damage from Windforce comes from the +max, so I'd have used a shael or a less than perfect ias jewel instead. Just my two cents.

OTOH, I've never found a jewel that good, so......

 

[d2lover]

If it where legacy bnet I wouldn't mind, because those are so cheap, even on ladder.

SP tho, I would wait for another, a Zod and Tr

 

[NorthDakota]

I'd imagine that it's a decent use of the jewel, but I'll note that a lot of the damage from Windforce comes from the +max, so I'd have used a shael or a less than perfect ias jewel instead. Just my two cents.

OTOH, I've never found a jewel that good, so......

Eh I just couldn't imagine using it in anything else. Like a helmet sure fine, coulda done that, but I got every version of every physical helm with a less than perfect version anyways and I'm not likely to make anything super insane that requires like 3 or 4 of them, and I don't really care about reapers (don't got an eth one either yet don't @ me @PhineasB)and I don't have a godly tomb reaver. There's only so long it can sit in your stash before you just go for it ya know?

 

[saracen85]

@PhineasB 83? That's a huge white whale...

@NorthDakota 6ml WF? WHY?!! That's as blasphemous as an Ist in a non-141 Shako. Tbh, I think it's fine. A Faith/WF combo build deserves such bling.

 

[snickersnack]

Eh I just couldn't imagine using it in anything else. Like a helmet sure fine, coulda done that, but I got every version of every physical helm with a less than perfect version anyways and I'm not likely to make anything super insane that requires like 3 or 4 of them, and I don't really care about reapers (don't got an eth one either yet don't @ me @PhineasB)and I don't have a godly tomb reaver. There's only so long it can sit in your stash before you just go for it ya know?

Sure, but I'm the kind of player that'll save resources for "something" and then never use them. For a laugh, I should go fire up Skyrim and check out my cloud saves. I'd bet money that there's ~1000 raw chicken breasts in a basket somewhere.

 

[NorthDakota]

6ml WF? WHY?!!

DO YOU THINK WF'S FALL OUT OF THE SKY. No they do not. You think I got windforces just layin around?! You think I got tons of windforces?! Do you have tons of windforces? I am sorry my guy but although being close to the holy grail and literally BILLIONS of hours played I just have my one windforce okay? I leech fine thank you very much I have full mana at all times it's FINE.

Sure, but I'm the kind of player that'll save resources for "something" and then never use them. For a laugh, I should go fire up Skyrim and check out my cloud saves. I'd bet money that there's ~1000 raw chicken breasts in a basket somewhere.

Yo snack this is so funny because I'm certain that basically everyone here does it a ton with nearly everything. I also do this, I especially do this in skyrim XD I'm just all out of f*cks to give about this game since I feel like possibly I've done about all you can possibly do, lately I've been on a tear using up stuff I've had forever but just never used, because why save them. I just built another enigma I never even posted about because I didn't like the way breastplate looked despite being completely fine with how it functioned in the practical sense. I made that ice rw and I'm never going to use it because faith functions better on the build with my mf setup. I waste shit all the time and why shouldn't I. What would I wait for? I already got the most powerful builds in all the different ways. I could save them up for the best possible case but like.. best case on a non-broken build is still like putting a bowtie on a pig. It's whatever. It'll still be fun even if I don't put that 40/15 in a ribcracker or something because I'm not going to go super hard on a less than stellar build.

Snack I been browsing around a lot of super old threads lately and I see you popping up all the time from like way back. I saw you in a thread just when I was searching for that block thing by nightfish. You been around forever my guy

 

[PhineasB]

@PhineasB 83? That's a huge white whale...

@NorthDakota 6ml WF? WHY?!! That's as blasphemous as an Ist in a non-141 Shako. Tbh, I think it's fine. A Faith/WF combo build deserves such bling.

Just found another one, non-eth :\ It will be glorious when it drops, and surely lowest possible ED roll

Edit: not sure if we're getting into Phar-blade territory?

 

[Jpy]

@PhineasB Make a “Hunt for Eth Reaper’s” thread so we can all get ours and laugh at you

 

[snickersnack]

Snack I been browsing around a lot of super old threads lately and I see you popping up all the time from like way back. I saw you in a thread just when I was searching for that block thing by nightfish. You been around forever my guy

Yeah, I posted a lot around 2008/2009. I got a little bit deep on some stats in some of those threads. I was working on a math degree at the time, so everything that seemed computational read like "challenge accepted" to me. Now, I'm a bit lazier on min-maxing.

I got this today:

Superior Great Poleaxe
Two-Hand Damage: 28 to 240
Durability: 28 of 31
Required Dexterity: 89
Required Strength: 169
Required Level: 73
Polearm Class - Normal Attack Speed
Item Version: Expansion
Item Level: 87
Fingerprint: 0x3e4a2172
Increase Maximum Durability 12%
Ethereal (Cannot be Repaired)

I could Larzuk it and get my Infinity now, but I'm still interested in a Thresher map. Sigh. I know that I saw a breakdown of elite polearms recently and it showed how these different bases worked well/poorly, but now I can't seem to find it. Does anyone remember that post or can find it?

Edit: I found that breakdown, it's here.