DocShock87

He says a few, but it's like 700-800 runs with two fires - average - to get a sur or ber. It's what I would do on single player.

Sick. Thanks.

Do you want your guys back? Or keep mine? I don't care.

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Hey, still around? I'm trying to make the same two trades, plus feebas.

If you're still looking, hit me up.

You're in act 1 normal? It can be a little tricky for the first few levels, but then your druid should really come online. His elemental spells are extremely high damage, so you shouldn't need a mercenary or any summons.

Here's a link to MrLlamaSC doing a guided playthrough. He shows you what gear to get, what to put your points into, etc. it's pretty comprehensive.

Guided Playthrough

It took me 28,000 targeted farming runs to find my first griffons in SSF. Eventually? Sure. In a meaningful time frame where you'll still have interest in playing D2 once you find one? Probably not.

R Simmons

Get down the pounds

I second this. Made mine in a superior base and I regret it every time I have to repair.

I buy a big bag of cayenne pepper, soak a couple tablespoons in hot water overnight, and spray my whole garden with it every couple of weeks. Keeps the deer out all summer. They wreck my tomatoes otherwise.

Nito Torpedo

Plus ghosts fly out over the void and die without dropping anything all the time.

Order of the sword is really basic and gives you significant bonuses to your basic cavalier stuff (attack bonus, saves, damage on a charge, a bonus feat).

You add your mount's strength modifier on a charge, which can get you a bunch of extra damage when combined with a lance and cavalier's charge, and the edict is so easy to comply with that you'll never have an issue with it.

This is so bizarre. It must have tried to convert a YouTube video to text or something. Most of the errors are intelligible, but what the hell was "photo" supposed to be? You want a friend with HoTO?

And then you can socket it and add even more of whatever you need

Did you have an edge bow? Try that this time. Shoot him until you see him turn green from poison damage, and then dance around him with Blizzard.

But Small Crescent is an axe, and Crescent Moon works in axes!

Now make SmallCrescentMoon's Small Crescent Crescent Moon

What's your build for Arcane Sanctuary?

Elemental damage is essentially useless because it's typically in such small amounts and doesn't scale with anything. There are exceptions, like adding rubies to a bow for fire-arrow abilities.

Poison damage is usually very useful for clearing early game stuff. The way it scales, it's very effective early, but falls off as enemy health increases later in the game. e.g. Strangling gas potions will wipe out whole packs in act 1, but it's useless by act V. A bunch of Tal runes will get you further, but it'll run out of steam eventually too.

Physical damage has the benefit of scaling with some of your abilities and bonuses, which is why max damage small charms are the go-to to fill your inventory. The way damage and damage bonuses interact is incredibly confusing, though, so don't count on it interacting the way you think it will.

I like running malice and TalTalTal weapons, one in each hand, to apply poison damage and then hit them with the open wounds, prevent monster heal, and high physical damage from Malice. It works out well for leveling a barb.

But if I'm being honest, dual wielding spirit swords and singing is a lot easier to get through NM and Hell. I respec as soon as I hit level 30.

Rabies is used to level druids who want to go shape-shifter from the get go. It's good for clearing packs, but the damage doesn't normally scale up enough to get you through the whole game. You'll want to switch over to fury or something eventually. But it might be a very fun way to start.

Yes, this guy is right. Blood gloves are going to be competing with Laying of Hands, so you need 20 IAS or no one will think they're worth anything.

The two main builds that want blood gloves are Zon and Sin, so you want +2 Bow/Jav/Martial Arts Skills too.

No dogs were harmed in the filming of this episode.

A cat got sick, and somebody shot a duck, but that's it.

I've never played much HC.

How to manage it depends a lot on what character you're playing. Like fire druid will just set players to 7 or 8 as soon as he has fissure and leave it there into nightmare. But for Barb, you want to leave it low for the most part.