diablo 2

[vladgd]

this is a thread about diablo 2, not games related to diablo 2, so don't gay this thread up like you did the last one.

i play single player, and lan with friends when i can, using atma to muel.

my mf character is a hammerdin pictured below



his gear is as follows

wizardspike socketed with ist rune
shako socketed with ptopaz
skin of the vampiremagi socketed with ptopaz
magefist gloves
arachnid mesh belt
herald of zakarum shield socketed with um rune
silkweave boots
nagelring
raven frost
amulet of teleportation (level 1 teleport 22/22 charges)

1300 life
535 mana

75 resistance to all in hell (image was taken in hell difficulty, of course)

120% faster cast rate

charms vary from life to resists, to mf, filling in anything that i may need.

for single player only, id say i geared this toon up pretty well, i just need some skiller charms, a soj, and a mara's kaleidoscope and im as good as done.  maby a heart of the oak, but it isn't manditory.

[Bobbias]

120% cast? damn boih, that there is some mighty fine castin'.

[Ulti]

Why the teleport ammy, doesn't it cost an arm and a leg to repair? : |

[vladgd]

it costs a little bit, but if you pick up any magic/unique items and sell whatever you don't want, i end up maxing out my stash money and blowing it all on gambling multiple times anyway.

also, look what i found.



as to why, well to make my meph runs go faster. 

-enter game
-cast holy shield
-activate vigor
-take wp to durance level 2
-spend 10 seconds running to level 3
-get my teleport spell ready
-teleport to meph
-activate concentrate
-kill meph
-take portal to act 4
-talk to deckard cain
-talk to the woman to heal/buy potions/sell
-talk to the man to repair
-exit game

[Bobbias]

Jesus, how the hell do you get that thing?

[vladgd]

Jesus, how the hell do you get that thing?

kill hell meph over 3000 times, its bound to drop eventually.

and i reckon nightmare meph drops it too, my friend got one around a year ago farming nm meph.

[Bobbias]

Jesus. I'll never have one then, lol. I don't have patience for sitting there and doing the same thing over and over again like that :/

Unless someone's paying me.

[Ulti]

Haha, I probably did 100,000 meph runs at least. I never managed to find anything better than a couple Shakos : |

But this was all in 1.09.

[vladgd]

im still farming for gear.  things i really want are the unique rings/ammys that don't suck.  i swear if i identify another unique ring hoping for a raven frost or a stone of jordan only to get another menald heal im going to snap.  that, and i could use some rare runes, an azurewrath, i guess i haven't scratched the surface because of all of the new characters i can gear up.

but i found this axe, the non ethereal form is decent.  but this ethereal form, on a high level (pictured on my level 85) looks good enough to put a zod in, if the planets align and i manage to find one and for some reason i don't use it for an ebotd warpike.



also, notice, i don't have money problems ;o

[Ulti]

Yeah, srs. Hellslayer's fairly good, yeah. But the odds of you getting a zod are practically nil.

[vladgd]

i will update with notable finds through this marathon as its something for yall to read.

i am determined to getting at least one soj, and one mara's kaleidoscope.  therefore, i took off the vampiremagi for skullders ire with a ptopaz.  i net 107% more magic find.  and i will do 1000 hell mephisto runs, and mark them down to keep track.  lets hope i can get at least a single soj with around 250% magic find in 1000 runs. 

i got one ring in 20 runs so far, another menald heal, sold that pos instantly for getting my hopes up.

-run 28, another hellrack
-run 30, what do you know, i found myself a second stormshield

[NewF]

The most i've ever gotten from a meph run was a +2 valor. Everything else was basically garbage. The valor came to me after like 10 runs or so. Guess I had a horseshoe up my ass, considering I had ZERO MF.

[vladgd]

if you wish to gain much from meph, i would recommend a minimum of 100 mf and you have to run him A LOT.

i see around 5,000 hell meph runs should give you most of anything you should need.

its not for everyone, but i find it addicting, its actually hard for me to stop doing runs.  i get into the "ohh but maby said item will drop next run" mentality.

[NewF]

LoL, yeah, I found myself getting really bored of it after a while.
Also, do you have a MH for it? Makes it much faster and easier to find the stairs to the 3rd level for Meph.

[vladgd]

well, i play single player exclusively.  therefore, i never lose my map even when i muel off my character, since i do it with atma.



as you can see, the run isn't longer than 10 seconds, and the teleport to meph isn't long either.

my runs average around 45 seconds from getting into the game to exiting in town after selling/repairing.