The quest for Enigma

Once I got good at my map, I didn't even bother teleporting into the huts sometimes. Just telekinesis through the roof, and hold ALT to look at drops. Saves a bunch of actions, and allows you to avoid mob packs.

I do that as well, but usually just because I mis click my teleports. And I don't know if it affects you at all, but having my show items key as alt makes my thumb super sore. I changed it to space bar and it's so much more comfortable.
 
I do that as well, but usually just because I mis click my teleports. And I don't know if it affects you at all, but having my show items key as alt makes my thumb super sore. I changed it to space bar and it's so much more comfortable.

I have a mouse with like 20 buttons, so I mapped one to ALT. :whistling:
 
Just got my first Sur Rune. Started running it this evening when I came home, for about 3 hours. No idea how many runs I did. But I got tons also of flawless gems, one 19 life sc, and one +5 Res all sc.
 
Sorry for the double post. But tonight I just found a second Sur.

So I gues that means I have a ber now.

The problem is I can't decide what to do with it. I mean, I want to put it into a weapon for my ww trav barb. So does that mean Beast? idk. I don't have any bases. I have a normal 5os Ettin Axe, but won't that be bad for beast? I kind of want a 5os PB
 
Beast isn't a great weapon in the long run. It's damage is not too good, and it keeps breaking.
I did make my beast in a zerker but that was because at that time it was one of the best weapons I had, as I had found the Ber quite early on and paired it up with a Death cleaver. These days I would rather that I made it in a normal base for low reqs, it's seldom used for hitting stuff ( just for aura/stats/transform into bear ).

The best use of a single ber is probably Chains of Honor. Great armor, very versatile.
 
I'd also hold off on Beast, unless you are looking to make a Summoner or don't mind having to repair the weapon all the time (it's quite a bill I might add). Chains of Honor is probably the better bet, or you could sit tight on it for a while until you get a Jah... then you know what to do.

Also you can't make Beast in a Phase Blade. It needs to be in an axe or hammer type weapon. But wouldn't it be sweet if you could...
 
@Smancer
Since you posted in here, I guess you don't have Enigma yet? In that case, my answer to you is this:
You have Ber now, right? In next 2.5-3.5k runs you should be able to make Enigma, or be lucky to complete it sooner. Or unlucky to complete it later. You never know. 1/3640 per run to get Ber from chests, so you can expect one in 3640 runs (you got yours inside 500, so...). 1/992 to get Sur per run, so you could get 4 of them in 4k runs if you don't get Ber. Or be lucky to get Ber and to get 2 Surs from 2k runs (well Daz was very lucky and made whole Enigma in just 2k runs, you already have Ber and can be lucky in similar way to complete it in 1500 runs). You could be either lucky or unlucky, so you decide, but few thousands runs is not hard to do to get most useful and overall best runeword and item in game.

I assume you don't plan to play only with Sorceress, right? You could make CoH, but that will delay Enigma, and Enigma is like 10 times better than CoH for most characters. It's hard to explain how valuable Enigma is because you have to try it to understand. Not everyone wants to make Enigma, but if you want to have efficient characters, that is the way to go, even if it takes 1 month to make it. 1 month to have gg armor for all classes forever. Definitely worth it, I would say. Unless you want to stick with Sorceress or don't care about Enigma. I didn't move from LK until I made my Enigma, after that characters were easy to build, easy to play. Teleport makes your runs much faster, you become godly magicfinder, all equipment is easier to carry (mad strength bonus from Enigma)... Your Diablo life will change a lot after you make Enigma, believe me.

Also in that many runs you will get very nice charms, even godly one. Not to mention other high runes to make CtA, Hoto, maybe Grief...

If you want info about Beast, here I am. I used it for feweral thousands Trav runs, Baal running and now for Chaos Sanctuary running, all with Barb ofc. First of all I always ATMA bug ethereal weapon, Berserker Axe to be more precise, to have indestructible + high damage. If you don't want to, then whatever weapon you are using on ww barb, he is gonna break it fast unless its indestructible.
Beast is great weapon. From my testing, I am 2-3 seconds slower runner than with 2 Griefs, but survivability of my merc is better (this is usable only by inexperienced players, experienced players don't, actually mustn't have survivability problems with merc in Travincal). Well same goes with Baal running, 2 Griefs are just better option, but Beast is also close to that, but offering better survivability for merc. Overall, Beast is great weapon for barb, but not the best. 2 Griefs is just impossible to beat (if you kill demons that is cause of that % damage to Demons. If you kill non-Demons, then Grief+Beast offer stronger damage output, you can calculate it yourself) . So unless you want to use Beast as some kind of novelty weapon on barb or you are planning to come to PvP or have use of it with other classes, then simply don't make it, it would be wasting of Ber rune for nothing you consider useful. Well I could say the same for Chains of Honor to not repeat myself. If you really don't have good use for it, then use Ber on something else, Enigma in the first place. If you do have good use for any of mentioned runewords, then have fun.
 
Thanks guys. Guess I wil try to get two more bers for my nigma.

this morning I found a Fine grand charm of vita. Not a great role but it is 5/43/37
 
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