Only One Orb Left to Find - Item Find Thread (12 Apr 12) der=0>

[TheWorkingBoor]

I hope ~3 months and ~50 pages is enough to justify a new Item Find Thread, but here's the link to the old one anyways.


I have probably picked up roughly 5000 magic sorceress orbs in my D2 career in the search for 2 specific mods together. You wouldn't think that "only" 2 mods would prove that elusive of a combo, but I've found 6 SoJ's, 3 Stormlashes and even a Tyrael's Might while ID'ing almost every ilvl 60+ magic orb along the way searching for this.

Finally though, while bouncing through LK and watching a hockey game (i.e. mindless rune-runs), my orb dropped. My twinked characters will never have to pick up a single blue orb again. The only orb left to find, of course, is Death's Fathom. Grail-4, and that's one of 'em. Honestly though, because blue-colored sorceress orbs are exponentially more frequent drops than gold-colored Diminsional Shards, this feels like something more of a victory considering the time it'll save me going forward.

So without further ado:

Volcanic Smoked Sphere
One-Hand Damage: 6 to 15
Durability: 18 of 18
(Sorceress Only)
Required Level: 45
Orb Class - Normal Attack Speed
Item Version 1.10+ Expansion
Item Level: 80
Fingerprint: 0x190fe5e7
+39 to Life
+1 to Thunder Storm (Sorceress Only)
+2 to Frozen Orb (Sorceress Only)
+3 to Enchant (Sorceress Only)
+3 to Fire Skills (Sorceress Only)
Ethereal (Cannot be Repaired), Socketed (2: 0 used)

Apologies if there's typo's in the ATMA readout - my "good" laptop still needs a new HD so I can retire my old non-networking-but-still-D2-capable laptop, which means I had to hand-type this readout.


Thanks to Larzuk for the two sockets. I don't have a couple of +5% Damage Fire Facets to stick in it at the moment, nor a perfect +Fire Damage Ormus Robes, nor a couple of +2 beta-BKWB rings (nor do I use hacks that could give me Hellfire Torch/Annihulis)... but otherwise my Enchantress' prebuff gear has progressed as far as it can: 10xskillers + Enchant Ormus + Magefists +2xSoJ +Arachnid's Mesh + Spirit + +6Orb + Volcanic Amulet & Circlet + Call To Arms switch = Level 52 Enchant providing 5k average damage with 1344 second duration...

... the irony is that I'm definitely staying retired from HF-rushing or self-MP (and never bothered with MP or trade and won't start), so this orb doesn't provide any practical benefit at all anymore. But the search itself had become such a habit that I wasn't willing to give it up until I got my orb. Finally, I did.

PS. I guess I could keep searching for a Volcanic +3 Enchant +3 Fire Mastery orb though.

[nulio]

A 3FB 3FM 3Fire Skills 2os one would be even better ^^

[Kitteh]

A 3FB 3FM 3Fire Skills 2os one would be even better ^^

That would be epic!

[pharphis]

Regardless, this is very impressive. Great find! Don't give up on the blue orbs yet! There are too many other potential goodies :P

[nulio]

I was gambling a bit the other day, almost got something awesome:

Storm Cowl
Circlet
Defense: 54
Durability: 35 of 35
Required Level: 65
Fingerprint: 0x24edc00a
Item Level: 95
Version: Expansion 1.10+
+2 to Curses (Necromancer only)
+20% Faster Cast Rate
8% Life stolen per hit
+77% Enhanced Defense
+25 to Strength
All Resistances +15

[darkstarhub]

Last night I was getting everything together for my FB/Nova sorc. I had finally got her to lvl 80 to equip everything and start Hell. I have always played self found, no hacks, no trading, no duping, etc. So the runes to make Infinity and Call to Arms are pretty special, at least to me anyway. I made the Infinity first, in an ethereal thresher, and got a damn +256% ED roll. It's going on a merc, so the -ELR was not a big deal at -49%. I made the CTA next, in hopes of better results. I was not in the stars last night as I got a +2 battle orders roll.
I understand that variable rolls are what makes certain items so special. But, I can understand now why some people dupe runes to get better roles on multiple attempts. I should have just left the Insight on the merc and took one of the Ber runes and made a CoH for him. Nova drains the mana bulb so fast that I should have know better to make an Infinity for this character.

[Tupsi]

Grats on the find, Boor! I'll keep id'ing my blue orbs
Nothing for me this time, just OT.

[Grisu]

Grats on the find, Boor! I'll keep id'ing my blue orbs
Nothing for me this time, just OT.

This. :-)

10 chars.

[CorruptedMollusk]

Ok, the Vex and Mara's are nice, but the jewel is ridiculous.

 Mara's KaleidoscopeAmulet
Required Level: 67
Fingerprint: 0x29250d08
Item Level: 85
Version: Expansion 1.10+
+2 to All Skills
All Stats +5
All Resistances +23


Vex Rune
Required Level: 55
Version: Expansion 1.10+
Weapons: 7% Mana stolen per hit
Armor: +5% to Maximum Fire Resist
Shields: +5% to Maximum Fire Resist


Bitter Gyre
Jewel
Required Level: 42
Fingerprint: 0xcce2221
Item Level: 85
Version: Expansion 1.10+
29% Enhanced Damage
+3 to Minimum Damage
+7 to Strength
Cold Resist +7%
Lightning Resist +7%
Fire Resist +7%
Poison Resist +7%

Now what to do with it.....

[zaphodbrx]

Random weird item found. Blizzard's like. Yeah! Let's make an item that gives +to 1 resistance, +max to another, integer absorb to another and % absorb to another. And let's also make it suck completely compared to Jalal's mane but make it harder to find. Yeah yeah!

Spirit Keeper
Earth Spirit
Defense: 443
Durability: 15 of 20
(Druid Only)
Required Strength: 104
Required Level: 67
Item Version: 1.10+ Expansion
Item Level: 99
Fingerprint: 0xc00574bd
+190% Enhanced Defense
Fire Resist +31%
+10% to Maximum Poison Resist
+2 to Druid Skill Levels
20% Faster Hit Recovery
+13 Lightning Absorb
24% Cold Absorb