just found the Naj Puzzler staff.... thinking it would be fun to try to get an all-Naj set.
I've been trying to find a grandfather or windforce for days, but imagine my surprise when last night after years and years of playing, I found a PERFECT obsidian ring of the zodiac! Put that baby on right away!
Definitely worth more than a grandfather or windforce, congrats!
For sure. I would gladly give away my windforce and my eaglehorn for that ring (and maybe even the royal circlet I found the other day). I've been looking for resist gear for my warrior for ages now, but the best I've found so far is an 19% all resists ring.Originally Posted by Lanthanide
The game is getting very hard now on hell mode, because my AC is around 200 (kinda on the low side, no?) and I have next to no resists. I wish I found at least one obs ring (doesnt even need to be zod) as that would help a lot. Wirt for some reason is refusing to sell awesome full plate mails or anything resembling a high defense item. and so is grisworld, which makes my diablo sessions kinda like:trying hell, getting frustrated, trying shopping run, getting frustrated, quit to try again tomorrow.
I'm not sure that Wirt can offer Awesome FPM, and I know that Gris certainly can't.
The best way to find general items is to do Normal diff Laz runs, because dlvl 15 can drop FPM and the other high end ilvl items, as well as the high qlvl affixes. Make sure you kill Bloodlust, and I'd also usually take a quick trip down (with a sorc) to dlvl 16 and kill Gorash too, because they're both mlvl 35 and can drop Holy/Emerald prefixes. Doing this on Normal difficulty is a breeze, although you don't get much exp from it.
Didn't you mention you were playing Hellfire? They can sell Awesome Plates in Hellfire with suffixes (best imo is lion +60 hp - with perfect Awesome will cost 186000) and if I'm not mistaken they can sell awesome plates in Diablo also but either without a suffix or only a couple crappier ones. Don't give up!
As for hell, are you using a sword (king's or + to hit and damage) of haste/speed? That makes a huge difference. It's also important to engage only 1 or 2 enemies at a time which involves crafty use of walls. Though without resists you may want to skip floors with 2 types of casters. Are you playing single player? If so, grab the Veil of Steel from the Lachdanan quest. It's got 50% resist all. Oh and that reminds me...
If you are in single player here's an idea for some runs you could do....For levels 13 and 14 the game chooses either the Warlord of Blood Quest or the Lachdanan quest...never both. And if you get the Warlord of Blood Quest there are at least 2 armor racks for you to forage while on 13, plus 1 of the monsters on the floor is going to be Steel Lords which give great experience (singleplayer), but in any case should cause you less trouble than casters. If you don't see steel lords on 13, on 14 you are guaranteed Blood Knights! Best xp you could hope for - just don't let them hit you. And since you didn't have the Warlord Quest on 13, Lachdanan will be on 14. So then you clear 14 and you can check to see what spawned on 15.
2x melee? = bonus floor + lazarus
1x melee, 1x caster = up to you if its worth it
2x casters = new game!
I would skip 16 until you have max fire resist, lots of hp, a sword of haste and salsa dancing lessons to dodge the fireballs or the advocates are gonna make you uninstall.
Didn't you mention you were playing Hellfire? They can sell Awesome Plates in Hellfire with suffixes (best imo is lion +60 hp - with perfect Awesome will cost 186000) and if I'm not mistaken they can sell awesome plates in Diablo also but either without a suffix or only a couple crappier ones. Don't give up!
As for hell, are you using a sword (king's or + to hit and damage) of haste/speed? That makes a huge difference. It's also important to engage only 1 or 2 enemies at a time which involves crafty use of walls. Though without resists you may want to skip floors with 2 types of casters. Are you playing single player? If so, grab the Veil of Steel from the Lachdanan quest. It's got 50% resist all. Oh and that reminds me...
If you are in single player here's an idea for some runs you could do....For levels 13 and 14 the game chooses either the Warlord of Blood Quest or the Lachdanan quest...never both. And if you get the Warlord of Blood Quest there are at least 2 armor racks for you to forage while on 13, plus 1 of the monsters on the floor is going to be Steel Lords which give great experience (singleplayer), but in any case should cause you less trouble than casters. If you don't see steel lords on 13, on 14 you are guaranteed Blood Knights! Best xp you could hope for - just don't let them hit you. And since you didn't have the Warlord Quest on 13, Lachdanan will be on 14. So then you clear 14 and you can check to see what spawned on 15.
2x melee? = bonus floor + lazarus
1x melee, 1x caster = up to you if its worth it
2x casters = new game!
I would skip 16 until you have max fire resist, lots of hp, a sword of haste and salsa dancing lessons to dodge the fireballs or the advocates are gonna make you uninstall.
Well i'm playing multiplayer regular diablo (not hellfire) so no veil of steel for me ¬¬
my gear is as follows:
King's bastard sword (+99% to hit, 155% damage, 6-15 base dmg) no suffix
Helm of Spirits (I need to wear the Royal Circlet to have high AC, but on lower levels I find the lifeleech better. besides it took me forever to find that helm so I'm keeping it :P)
Saintly plate of the Lion (128% armor, +60 life, base defense 46)
Blessed Shield of the Tiger (100% armor, +50 life, base defense 14)
Ring of Perfection (+30 dex)
Ring of the Heavens (+12 all attributes)
Ivory Amulet of the stars (resist magic 34%, +9 all attributes)
I also have a royal circlet, a king's mace of the heavens (does less dmg than my king's bastard... should I use it anyway for the attribute boost?), an Obsidian Full Plate mail of sorcery (71 def, 38% all resist, 19 to magic) and an obsidian Shield of the Tiger (17 def, 34% all resist, +42 life)
If the solution to find obsidian jewelry is to do normal lazarus runs, I think i'll equip the full plate mail and the obsidian shield. that paired with the helm of spirits should make me able to survive properly to do the runs
Btw all that gear (except for rings/amulets/uniques) is shopped. I'm currently at clvl 33. at which clvl I have the best odds of getting a king's <whatever> of haste/speed from griswold/wirt? am I too late to get one reliably?
Well congrats on the Helm of Sprits! So no multiplayer for you which rules out most of what I said above. But you do have the advantage of quicker lazarus runs than single player - which is your best bet to improve your gear in regular Diablo. Really you just want to kill as many unique monsters in as short a time as possible, so look for ways to improve your run time. Obviously the biggest improvement you can make is teleport - which if youre a warrior is not overly practical.
Also you can familiarize yourself with where the unique monsters can appear. That is to say if Snow Witches spawn on level 13, you will always find the unique snow witch, "Witchmoon" on that floor. But if they spawn on level 14, you can head straight to the stairs. Let me give you a quick off-the-top-of-my-head list.
Monsters that spawn on 13 which will have a unique:
Maelstroms
Vortex Lords
Slayers
Snow Witches
Doom Guards
On 14:
Steel Lords
Doom Guards
Hell Spawns
Magistrates
On 15:
Hell Spawns
Cabalists
But keep in mind the time you spend searching for these uniques must not outweigh the total run time for killing Lazarus. As for the mace, it shouldn't make a big difference in normal difficulty and marginal in Nightmare and Hell. The main benefits being the extra hit points and the extra armor from Dex boost, should not be overly significant when monsters that do hit you are hitting you with magic or a big ole sword meaning at least 50 hp of damage.
As for the King's Sword of Haste, there is no upper limit to buying that so you just need patience and luck. And there aren't too many other prefixes and suffixes that interfere with the odds of King's and Haste being selected. After level 31 there is no difference in what Griswold or Wirt sells you.
Low Obs/Zod ring a really long time ago. I forget what the exact stats on it were, though. Think I found it in nm/hell around level 40.
Also I found a Helm of Sprits on my first ever boss run in nm/cath. I had a friend who had run it 500+ times and never seen the helm drop, so I traded it to him since I didn't have a warrior.
Can't remember if I bought it or found it, probably found it, but my findiest find on single-player was Saintly full plate of the lion. As far as multiplayer goes, it was probably that Obsidian Ring of the Zodiac. Wasn't a 20 though, but still, nice. There's a reason it was always duped. Well, except this one.
Because Hellfire was more Diablo and Na'Krul was awesome, duh. I'll never forget that guy. Although I'm not seeing the correlation between spending 30 bucks (at the time) for an expansion and duping, really.
Posting Permissions
Reply With Quote
Bookmarks