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Many viewers cannot take part in the live streams so these drop videos fill the gap. September 2023 is one of the better monthly videos, if you like this format. I will probably start including HC grail items in the monthly videos, even if they are otherwise trivial. Thanks for your support.

Good to hear from you again! It was Zhivko's idea and though it was a rushed effort I realized as I looked for drops what a good year it had been.

Still going after all these years! Happy New Year to you!

One of those years where I looked back and thought it wasn't so bad. I have established a hardcore character for a new grail though I still need a Zod rune. Happy New Year!

Oddly enough, no Wizardspike for the first time in many months. Thank you for your support and a Happy New Year!

Thanks for your support and a Happy New Year to you.

This video is out of date so thank you for looking. It is out of date because a later update to OBS fixed the problem of black screens. I assume you mean Diablo 2 LoD and not D2R because I had a later problem with LoD. I have recently reinstalled my Windows 11 desktop because LoD use to crash all the time. It now plays properly after the reinstallation but I had to do a few things to get it to record properly in OBS. I still cannot get LoD to record in OBS in full screen mode but I can get it to record in windowed mode. To do this, run LoD in window mode by adding -w to a shortcut. In OBS, add a window capture for LoD and go to the properties. The important step for me was to change the Capture Method to Windows 10(1903 and up). This showed the game in the OBS window and I could then record the game. Some other factors that I use are that I have multiple monitors and I use the bolrog D2DX glide wrapper (github.com/bolrog/d2dx) that runs the game in widescreen and improves the graphics. I have had to use the window capture mode on both my desktop and notebook. On my notebook, this does result in some clipping of the game within OBS but at least it shows. I hope this helps. It meant a great deal to me to have LoD running again on my desktop so I could include it as part of my streams.

Good to hear from you! From now on, Fetid will be picking up wands and necromancer heads to look for desirable skills. It looks as if skills beyond level 18 have to be found and not purchased.

Thank you for your suggestion. Players must put a skill point into Feral Rage on the way to Fireclaw and it has improved the way the character plays considerably. Lupin is well on the way to level 94 and I will then give him the best gear I can find.

My apologies for not replying earlier. Lupin has advanced three levels using this build and I am wondering if I should play this build until level 94. I have never used the Aldur's set before and when I play a character I often use the high level set after completing the game solo self found. I then give the character the best gear I can find. It is not a strong build but it is better than I thought it would be.

My apologies for not replying earlier. The breakpoint for Act 2 mercs is 72 and this can be achieved with a Shael rune in a Reaper's Toll with Hustle or an ias jewel in the Reaper's Toll with Treachery if you then add the ias jewel in the helm as you suggest. I prefer Hustle at high levels for the increased run walk speed so the mercenary gets into the battle quickly. Treachery seems to be a safer option in more dangerous areas.

My apologies for not replying earlier. This is clearly Xtimus' build for which I have a couple of excellent crafted items that I have added. I am aware of your content and I have looked at a few of your videos and I may get to Off-Meta builds some day.

This is single player. The TCP/IP option that was present in LoD was removed so D2R no longer supports private servers.

Halloween does not have the significance in Australia it seems to have in the Unites States but thanks for the sentiment and your support down the years.

I just had a look at my Cham videos. My first one dropped in 2018 after about 10 years of playing. I hope you find one and at least (if you are playing D2R) there are additional runewords that use a Cham rune. My first one went towards the runeword Doom.

Good to hear from you again! I am fine but a little perturbed about my user name coming to you in a dream. Please join the streams if you can.

@@jujjmentoz definitely will! see you in chat

I have never got around to mods or other gems but perhaps one day.

Please join in when you can. I realise not every body can catch the streams live, hence the TH-cam uploads.

I keep perfect gems that cannot be used for crafting just to roll charms and every now and again you get a good one. I had set aside 8 tries just to empty space.

One character I would like to create is the self wielding infinity sorceress. I still have some perfect lighting facet jewels to put in the Griffon's Eye.

The emphasis has changed since I found Tyrael's Might to level 99 characters and clearing speed to find a Zod rune. I still thought it was a decent month for magic find.

I do a Hellfire torch run usually on the Saturday daytime stream so more results will be coming and I will upload the next smiter build in due course.

The Ohm rune was a pleasant surprise along with the Ber rune. As I showed in the video, finding Tyrael's Might from terrorized Andariel now has relatively favorable odds but it still has to happen. I wish you luck in finding one in another place!

The runes were a surprise. I have a level 90 druid named Lupin, whom I played through the game as a wind druid. The name implies a wolf druid and I will eventually respec him accordingly. I like to try gear combinations that are unusual. My throw barb uses three partial set combinations (IK, M'avina, Tal Rasha) and I will put up a video in the future comparing the three sets. I also have a perfect eth Ribracker which I could up, socket and use my one Zod rune brought in from LoD. I wonder if this would be a good choice for Lupin.

The Ohm rune shows the benefit of playing in terror zones. I suppose it is now possible to drop a Zod rune in Nightmare level, which the item I really want. As I showed in the video, a Tyrael's Might from terrorized Andariel is not quite the achievement it once might have been.

I had the runes and a suitable base and the the intention is for it to go towards a high end smiter for Uber Tristram or Lupin the druid, who will have to appear again in the future. I tried it with an Act 5 mercenary with Grief in the other hand but I thought the Reaper's Toll with an Act 2 mercenary was better.

@@jujjmentoz amazing video, can’t wait to see lupin

Great to hear from you again! I hope that you enjoy playing again as much as I did when I started again about 6 years ago. Are you playing LoD or D2R?

@@jujjmentoz For sure. I'm a bit sad that I lost my save file from two years ago when I has infinity and two griefs, but always fun to start new aswell. I'm playing D2R singleplayer with no plugins.

I thought it was unusual so I put it in to this month's drops thought the IK armor was the one of interest. Thanks once again for your support.

It is a terror zone mechanic - terrorized unique monsters have their level lifted in terror zones. I have found numerous set and unique sacred armors from terrorized Andariel and the possibility exists that one of them will be Tyrael's Might. My apologies for not replying sooner.

@@jujjmentoz I appreciate the response. Do you know if it is possible for terrorized unique monsters in any zone to drop ilvl 87 items as long as the terrorized area is level 87+?

@@HolyBaptiser I don't think that the level needs to be that high. Item level 87 monsters should occur when your character is level 82 because unique monsters are +5 levels above your character level in a terror zone. At level 85 all monsters can drop ilvl 87 items in a terror zone because at this level regular monsters are +2 levels above your character but the odds of a TC87 drop from a regular monster are extremely low.

@@jujjmentoz Okay, that makes sense. Thank you for clearing that up.

There will be more crafted axes to come. I intend to make a video about trying to get weapons for a throw barbarian and compare shopping, crafting, imbuing and rolling axes with perfect gems.

I wondered why you had not joined the streams of late. As for the IK sets, I still have a total of twelve complete sets between D2R and LoD. The streams will be uploaded to TH-cam but the nature of them is changing. With more characters reaching level 99, I am less inclined to play for magic find and more for character development. Chuck the throw barbarian has been enormous fun. I am trying to get LoD to run on my desktop again and I will go back to LoD and try and find Tyrael's Might there if I can get it to run. Thanks for your support down the years.

Most of them I threw away or sold. I kept a number of complete sets when I mistakenly believed they were rare and I still have 6 complete sets in both LoD and D2R. I am trying to find a method of giving items away to other single players by sending people a d2s file. I hope to test this with members of the discord before making a public announcement.

I also had a break but not for that long. D2R is an advance over LoD but I would still like to go back to LoD and try and find Tyrael's Might in the old game. Good luck with your adventures in D2R!

I started playing again after a 7 year break and the ability to record and edit game play gave me a new field of interest. This video is one of a series where I collate my recordings since 2017. The playlist is called "Drop Videos for Twitch" if you wish to look at the others. Thank you for noticing my small corner of TH-cam!

Thank you! I am not certain I ever wanted an eth Templar's Might but surely one would have been enough.

By blues I assume you mean Tyrael's Might. It might show the rarity of that item if you are using bots but have only found two. I have one person on my discord who has found it three times using LoD and Plugy, which would be harder than my find. I would still like to find it in LoD.

Good to hear from you again! I was a bit surprised at the drop but it is difficult at my age to be overly demonstrative about anything. Keep in mind I still have to find a Zod rune.

My apologies for not replying earlier. Thank you for the sub and the content will continue to arrive in the form of the Twitch streams and the monthly drops video. The next off stream video will probably Mara's Kaleidoscope or one about Chuck's adventures in Nightmare level.

Thank you for the sub. I only started recording and streaming and teach myself computer skills when I retired. I wasn't expecting anybody to take any notice. I still have plenty of things to accomplish in D2R and I would still like to find Tyrael's Might in LoD.

@@jujjmentoz is it D2R that you are playing? I haven't tried it yet but i have played a lot of the games which were inspired by it (PoE, Grim Dawn, etc)

@@pingano22 It is D2R for the later armor drops and LoD for the early ones.These are the only computer games I have played to any extent.

@@jujjmentoz thats cool. glad to see you've been enjoying yourself for so long!!

Andy was done on TZ which it can drop there due to the higher monster level. I'd wager that was the reasoning behind the other farm spots too.

This is a video about all of the sacred armors that I have found and you are right - many of them cannot have been Tyrael's Might but in those place I was looking for other items or leveling characters.

@@Michael-hw3vj In most cases you are correct but in the early days I found sacred armors when I was looking for other items. I only found one unidentified sacred armor in LoD that even had the possibility of being Tyrael's Might and I am trying to find a way to go back and look for it. The old game now crashes for some reason after working perfectly.

I can't wait myself but I am still puzzling on a method of finding one. One possibility is to run the Act 5 containers in players 7 mode, where I found a Zod in LoD.

They are formulaic to produce so provided I have suitable material I will continue to make them. This time, I even included some zooms are learning (again) how to do them while making the sacred armors video.

I am looking at running the Act 5 containers in players 7 mode, where I got a Zod rune in LoD. You may wish to look at Alara Shade's Zod rune drop, which can be found at th-cam.com/video/-Z096Nt-Lik/w-d-xo.html

As I said during the video, I cannot decide whether the Tyrael's Might drop was ahead of or behind the statistical likelihood. I should have added a comparison of the number of each sacred armor and compared it to the probabilities. The fact that Tyrael's Might did not drop from terrorized Andariel made it all the more unexpected.

Possibly - I note that MrLlamaSC did not count runes in his own grail, as he got a Zod rune well after the Mang Song's Lesson drop that completed his grail.

Thanks once again for your support down the years. I am still trying to solve the puzzle of how to get LoD to run on my desktop.

I am doing fine but I admit the emphasis of my streaming has changed since the Tyrael's Might drop.