Great video Cooley. A lot of people don't know about these end-game items and don't realize just how far the depth goes into building the perfect character. A lot of videos on TH-cam simply delve into minimally rare stuff - glad this is out there.
For me u are just the best diablo 2 content creator out there. Nothing against mr lhama, he's awesome as well, but u make ur content in a so passioned way that for me, a veteran diablo 2 fan, is just gold to watch. Grats for ur work, man. I'm really glad we have you.
I played for 3 years when Diablo 2 dropped. I never had a SoJ drop for me. My friend and I were waiting close to Diablos lair for the rest of our party to catch up. He kicks a pile of rocks and gets an SoJ to drop. Crazy RnG!
@@General-Gauder I suppose it can be useful but for an endgame item it's pretty mediocre and if you just want the aura, lawbringer is a much easier solution. But I don't remember Nihlathak being that hard ;-)
@@talictdf4757 Of corse it's bad for an endgame item, nearly every Unique is bad because of the OP Runewords. By the way Tyraels has no Aura, it's good for the Merce because of cnbf, res and some Dmg to Demons on it + you can soc it.
@@GipfeldesArreat Maybe, but not everyone meta games. I play D2 for the fun of it not to create the most powerful build i can so i never really bothered to look into items like these.
@@Enigmatic.. ironically, these items aren't usually part of the meta, because of how rare they are. Even a casual pvm player who has played for 20 years (and actually learned the game) should know the value of these items.
@@StrangeMachines1 to add to this: 1. Learn what base types are most valuable. Stuff like Archon plate for rune words (relatively high base defense for the amount of strength required), crystal swords (fastest 1 handed weapon, perfect for grief), etc. 2. Learn what stats are valuable in general, and which stats are extremely valuable for niche builds. +Fire skills might sound like it's only useful for sorcs to a newer player, but unless it explicitly states sorc, that +fire will work for fire traps on an assassin, fire spells for druid, even fire auras for paladin. This is why the Leaf rune word is incredibly powerful for early level sorcs/druids/assassins. Stats like dual leech on a ring will be valuable regardless, and life+res is useful for everyone and makes for a solid item. 3. Learn the crafting recipes. You can make more bis items than you expect. From crafting specific items with guaranteed stats, to upgrading uniques, to rerolling charms to make skillers, crafting is a huge shortcut for building your character.
Cool vid. Now, seeing as I mostly play SP, there's a couple of things I'd like to see in patch 1.15 prior to D2R release: 1. ladder runewords in SP 2. ubers in SP 3. dclone in SP, with a "normal" way of summoning - maybe triggered off any uniques sold, not just SoJ (as it was originally meant as an incentive to dump all those duped SoJs). 4. killing Baal to reset the ability to make the cow level portal (so you don't permanently lock yourself out of it). 5. SP drop rates adjusted (drop rates were set with trading in mind, and I wouldn't say no to a bump in SP to compensate for the fact that you play solo). I know you can use mods like plugy to use ladder runewords, and uber tristram in SP, but i'd like that as an official option, not via a mod.
@@MichaelPohoreski the point was to have it supported in the unmodded version - it's silly that sp players have to resort to mods to solve that. Also, /players x does bump it up a bit, but that's still not the same as being able to trade for items you need. Especially if you're looking for something very specific, like eth lacerator, stormlash, etc.
@@jakubfabisiak9810 Agreed, which is why I said: _native support would be nice._ I also agree that it is ridiculous that in 2021 Blizzard _still_ shafts D2 SP. Hopefully VV will fix this in D2:R but I have my doubts. Honestly, without the equivalent PlugY functionality I'm not sure how long D2:R will keep my interest? Sure, the high res support and 60 FPS will be nice but I'm not about to toss out all the years of collecting my PlugY stashes just to go back to making mules, along with all the PlugY QoL and functionality it provides.
Ive played this game my entire life, but ive never actually looked into how youre supposed to play it until like a year ago. This shit is so much more in depth than i could have ever imagined. Anytime i ever got an amulet or ring with any fcr or resistance or whatever i just threw it away because i didnt even know what it even ment.
The ghost sin claws are no joke. I had amazing ones on my sin. I took a break from d2 for a short time and my son got marked inactive and all my items removed. At that point, I quit d2 and just barely came back 13 years later.
Casual players will never understand the grind to find items like these. I played 10+ hours a day, long before ladder seasons were created and long after their release... D2 was the first true grinder. I loved every second of it.
I'm kinda casual and hunted rathalos in monster hunter 600 + times to get a single item, each hunt took like 20 to 30 minutes. Id say i understand what grinding is
@Brot brotsen If you killed Rathalos 600+ times, you're not casual. I didn't have to kill anything in Monster Hunter more than 40 - 50 times to get everything I needed. I made pretty much every single piece of gear you could make.
The best thing about this game is the rare item drops that can be better than uniques. I haven’t touched this game for over a decade but seeing some of the rare diadems and amys gave me chills like a nerd
This is a helpful video for people who are gonna be getting into this for the first time cuz it took me years to realize that some of the rare/craftable jewelry is OP
Hey Coooley! Have you considered +5 summon skeleton necro wands? They have to be a high qlvl wand, like unearthed wand, and rerolled down to a very low item level, then continuously rerolled until you get good stats. Something like +2 necro, +3 skeleton mastery, +3 raise skeleton is possible. Theses are tier 1 staffmods that only spawn on low item level wands, BUT because of the high qlvl of the unearthed wand, you are allowed to roll affixes like +2 necro skills! Impossible to drop ingame, but completely possible to craft! (warning: many pskulls are required)
I don't remember all the stuff i found in the game, last time i played it was uh.... 8-10 years ago. Resurrected will dominate my life as D2 once did. I dimly recall finding some extraordinary items, not so odd when the game was on every day for years. I was just about to start playing it again when i heard of the new release, and decided to wait. With this absence from the game it will probably feel like new old/new. I forgotten so much about combining items and runes that i will be back on noob level 😂
In the golden age of D2, i was a mad magic finder player, just obsessed for good stuff. I found the majority of unique and set itens, but never Stormspire, steelhands and Tyrraels might. About rare itens, my winners was two dual leech rings with magic find, and another mods i just don't remember.
Love your content Coooley, real informative, even with like 20 years of experience in this game, I'm still learning new things, and the way you present them makes it really fun to watch! As for these super rare fantastic items, there's a certain love I have for my 20/20/3 sc.
i have a werebear sorc and i was talking to a friend ingame recently and telling him yeah if i can find better versions of my gear ill be just that much stronger. he pointed out one of my gear pieces was perfect. and thats one i wanted better of. what a fool we all are sometimes. but it is nice getting a random lucky find. i felt that for sure.
Sweet! Rolled a perfect Death Colossus Blade in SP a while back... good times. Also found a perfect superior Dusk Shroud on realm - and yes, non sup eth is "better", but it still feels great getting that perfect defense roll.
Rares and crafted are the Picasso items the super rich and long time Diablo 2 players chase at end game. And then followed by perfect unique especially ethereal. I have mule account with 31 SOJs and about 25 Maras and over 30 High runes collected and traded for in 20 years of playing... All currency to trade for elite Rares and crafted gear. And of course every ladder season my aim is to find a Tyrael. In over 12 years of Ladder playing I've found 4 Tyraels.. All muled.
I had one still in1.14 but they finnally got me on inactivity. I also had a viper whorl. Gonna speak on another topic but it took me 10 years to farm a whole set of xx/xx/x smallcharms. The memories.
I've never had good luck with drops. But last week, within 2 days I found back to back sur runes. Same game. Cows and straight to trav. Next morning I found Griffins eye off a random unique in trav. Best 2 days of D2 I've ever had since playing the game as a teenager
feel you on the jewelry! been farming alot of stuff on pd2 season2, and never identified a ring that worth noting yet, and i identified ALOT of rings! :D
You're my favorite D2 creator to follow so far on youtube. I was a d2jsp member and avid player in the 2000's, part of ReV-Clan (Mostly a BM team dueling clan.) People used to be pretty pumped to get a picture of one of us dying and post it to JSP. I've been binging on your stuff in preparation for D2 Resurrected. Can't wait to see what this community is going to look like in this modern age. Keep up the great work my man.
i'm on my way to complete my holy grail list, whats funny is that in january i have found a zod Rune, while i was doing cow runs with my javazon. And 1 month later i found another zod with my trapsin during baal runs in a random cave. but my Highlight is that i have found tyraels might last sunday with my blizz sorc, and that before templars might and blinkbats form, confirming it to be the 3rd rarest unique armor in the game :D i still have 13 itmes on my grail list, hope to find them soon
Forget the charges...never could afford Enigma, which would have (back then, I've not actively played D2 in a while!) completed (or at least buffed a lot) most of my characters (except the sorc, which can of course teleport herself)...never found all the runes for Enigma either :(
@@dreamingflurry2729 couldnt afford enigma lol? its only two high runes. I did this dozens of times over as a 12 year old child. Trade, interact with friends and your community. Thats what the game is about.
as a new player to D2 this list reminds me of hybrid weapons from borderlands 1, items you may have found but probably not but either way you had no clue their rarity.
Years ago I found a 2 necro/30 frw/20 fcr/57 life/9 all res/2os coronet off Pindle. In almost 20 years of constant play, it stands alone as my greatest find. I have a screenshot of it on my desktop.
During my college days I had two roommates that were botters and wrote actual papers on D2/LOD back then. The amount of data they had was amazing. The shear amount of accounts running 24/7 was mind blowing. These were the days where playing on a Dell Inspiron was the shit. From knowing what diminishing returns yielded the best actual MF% for uniques; and here’s one I remember, knowing that for instance if averaged 19 per run on Pindleskin which their MF% at the correct number he would drop uniques at the top TC to get the higher stuff like Windy and others was on average 2 times a day with a wild 3rd once in awhile. This wasn’t the overall unique drop number but rather the uniques in the TC’s they were targeting. If I recall, i remember asking why not just max MF% and call it good. Their data showed that there is a threshold where if u go higher than their number u get diminishing returns on uniques while the scaling for blues/yellows keeps going so it hurts the chance for your MF to turn whatever drops into a unique. They were really into this stuff. They even got texts on their phone when something they wanted dropped and back then that was pretty wild. This back in I think 01’ish. But they would also run Meph since, again if I recall what they said.... Meph could drop up to TC84 but not higher. So while some things were off the table Meph could drop up to 6 items if I recall. So your MF % could by chance turn those unique. I was into D2 so naturally I would be stoked to see Shako’s, mesh armors and vamp gazes etc. I don’t remember them running countess for data but I imagine they did that too. I remember them discussing cow runs... while each has a very low chance the shear numbers can make up for that... this was to be another data point they wanted to gather. I saw laquered plate (Tals) and a few high end runes... this was before the color change for runes so they were so hard to see back then. I did see an Ohm though. I won’t give out the elusive magic number for the MF% since that wasn’t turn-key meaning they explained that kill speed is important as well so that number can change a little bit depending on what they are killing. I really miss the whole MF driven thing. I really enjoyed MF. I really want a game to bring that back. With consequences of course... naturally if ur wearing all MF u can’t do certain types of content until u find the right stuff. Then there’s progression tied to it. I think if dine right MF can be a good staple mechanic for an AARPG.
Amazing video! To add, Zealer Viso's are extremely rare (especially ones with high defence) and the jewels that are necessary to place in are equally as rare. All the items you listed are indeed very rare items but pretty much any Eth-rep Cruel (Anything with 450 Enhanced Damage, 250 ATR, 20 Minimum Damage, or 40% IAS) are equally/if not more rare then the items shown in this video. It's also noteworthy to mention that E-rep seraph rods exist which are almost unheard of to have "The right stats listed" for zealer pvp. An example of one is 450% ED,250 ATR, Eth Rep, 40 IAS, 2 Paladin Skills, 3 Fana Base, 3 Zeal Base, 3 Defiance (Or holy shield). As a zealer the main goal is to reach maximum damage/ AR/ DEF/ and appropriate 5/5/5/5/8 frame rates in order to excell in GM Zeal. But Still, this is amazing content. Agree with all of your videos Please do a video on the dynamics of GM zealers!
Here's a good thought on Auradins. The best compromise between "its too easy" and "I want it my way" is this. Balance the damage offensive elemental auras provide so that new items can be introduced that allow players to use them for supplemental AOE damage without having a viable option to go 100% Aura damage o overly rely on them. Basically, new items designed around using active skills with elemental aura AOE support damage over time. Aura damage should be increased from 2.3 but not be as high as what we've seen PTR 2.4 . PS just subscribed homie!
MLD bows. 20 ias CTC amp cruel/GM 2 sockets - factor in it needs to spawn on an elite base because upgrading will ruin the level requirement. Same with top tier amp javs - all of the CF ones are level 48 req.
Many moons ago, I snagged a 7 defence from *perfect* Crown of Ages in a public Baal run. Stuffed a self found Ber and a sweet resist/- requirements/fhr jewel a mate tossed me into it and used it on a pvp HoZ smiter. Sadly, I never found the godly awesome ghost claw my heart desired and *settled* for a cruel, fools, 10ias, greater talon I up'd you a runic. It worked ok, but I missed the last ias breakpoint for trap laying :( (All of this is sadly long gone).
I completed a holy grail in just five months, playing just a few hours each night, and skipping nights occasionally. It is a bit of a boring method but it works best in terms of time spent grinding. I leveled up a Blizzard Sorc and ran the Ancient Tunnels around thirty to thirty five thousand times (estimate based on average clear time and average number of hours played per night) until Azurewrath (I actually got two of this) and Tyraels dropped, then I spent some time running cows for the Cow Kings set, Trav a little for facets, then I finished up at Pindle and Thresh Socket. Oddly, the final item for me was Death Cleaver, sadly when I was down to just that damn item it took a couple of weeks for it to drop. I was so burned out and frustrated, yet sometimes you might get trolled in this way. RNG, got to love it! But, I did get a number of awesome rares, and a few great/perfect/eth roll uniques. A perfect Griffons Eye, an eth Deaths Web, to name just a couple. Unfortunately each of the three Deaths Fathom that I got rolled low stats. The only uniques that I got only one of were Tyraels, Crown of Ages, Mang Songs, Metalgrid, and the troll Death Cleaver. The dang COA had only one socket. I got four Stone of Jordan, a number of high runes of course, well a vast majority of the high runes I obtained while grinding LK for leveling up the Sorc, but I did get two Zod runes in the Tunnels, two Jah, yet only one Cham. My first Zod came off of a regular zombie, and I nearly left it behind, I dont know what the odds of getting a Zod off of a regular zombie are, but I suspect that was the most rare event I experienced throughout the whole grail. The second Zod I accidentally put into a socketed weapon in my stash. So that was an amusing moment. Oh and it was my birthday when I did that.. I had an exceptionally productive day on that occasion, I will never forget how strange it felt to be getting great drops on my birthday. Almost like the game was giving me birthday gifts, I got my first Astreons that day, my only Metalgrid, the wasted Zod, and a couple of other TC 87 items. It was insane. I wrote all that to basically say, it is not as hard to run a holy grail as it might seem. And it is an amazing experience, too. Surely if you give it a go you will have some awesome and memorable experiences. Also you will accumulate enough gear to level and equip many different types of chars. Of course, it can be done quicker. I learned this strategy from the Twitch streamer Enpherno, he has the world record for the quickest grails, heck he did a hardcore grail (streamed all of it) in under a month! He used more or less the method I outlined above. He also has a decent TH-cam channel with plenty of good videos to check out. :D
Back when I played ( I’m coming back to resurrected ) I was super obsessed with making a Werewolf as good of a dueler and monster killer as possible. The one item I never had was a four frame fury one-handed rare that would be worth using over a BotD Axe in a duel. In most cases I’d use the ethereal tomb reaver which is an insane weapon but not good vs melee characters. I think what I wanted was a 2 socket ethereal rare Fanged Knife with Max ED, Max IAS, Fools, and repairs itself. Maybe I’ll finally get it when I play resurrected..
First and only perfect item I've found was a 211 defense eth Shako. Had very mixed emotions, cause I needed a shako lol. Traded it for a decent Griffons for my javazon, so ended up a useful find in the end outside of finding a collector's piece
Jstods and jstoc could probably be in this list as well. Great list though, was heavy into pvp for a lot of years and am excited to get back into it with d2r.
JMOD or jewelers diadem of speed with perfect defense oughtta be worth a few coins. also upgraded perfect uniques. getting a 35/13 vipern to roll with 1034 defense can take quite a while!
Theoretically it's possible to find a 2 socketed Necro Wand with +3 to Necro skills, +3 to Teeth, +3 to Bone Spear, and +3 to Bone Spirit said wand could then be turned into a White Wand stacking even more + to skills on top of that.
Or similarly for Poison spells like Poison Nova, Poison Dagger, etc. The strength of just a +2 to skills is so great that getting a socketed item of this type for exactly the skills your character uses that can be combined with a rune word that increases them further would be epic for just about any class, the incredibly low drop rate of wands in general would make me even more excited to find something like this.
Not the rarest of items as I've found it twice but it was really hard to find the second time is Blood Cresent Simitar. When I first found it I had a lvl 12 paladin just out in a cave just out side of the monastery in act 1, I was still using it at lvl 60 to some effect. I gave it all 3 sockets I was allowed to while completing the game and had it set up with perfect gems to make sure it did maximum damage, it had fire, poison, and ice damage.
nice list, also the gg eth weapons that some people use like phase blades etc. i've also seen some BiS hammerdin warsceptres with 3 hammers 2 or 3 combat skills, fcr, and because you dont get damage from points in multiplyers these serve as best in slot for hammerdin damage.
Back when d2 1st came out, I played for probably 2 years maybe. I want to say early patch maybe 1.02/3/4 till about 1.10, when duping had completely destroyed the bnet market. I literally had everything you could ever want and it drove the desire to play right out of me.. Now to the point, while I had traded with SOJ's many many times... I had only ever looted ONE! Worst off, I was exp grinding in the Cow level, with practically no MF and it dropped from a regular ol hell bolvine.. After I identified, sat there shocked for 2 minutes, I gave it away to a noob that was still in the room. It just didn't feel right sticking that pristine un-duped, untainted ring onto my SOJ mule.
As an old time Diablo player...I kiinda hope they up the drop rates for the super rares just a tiny bit...I've been playing since launch back as a kid(29 now) up to right now and havent found many of the super rare items in the game, including the 5 listed here...Which bugs me because god damn i love this game
From the very begining I was playing Diablo 2 o. Single player, I have like 3 things dropped that shouldnt even exist in the game, I got dropped: 1 amulet " heart of armagedon" +2 all skills, 14lvl meditation aura 26lvl aura Might and 31lvl aura fanatism, 35% increased movement speed, 40%faster attack 63%more damage 11% life stolen per Hit All resistancess +55 2nd is a ring, "the saw of doom" : +15% increased movement speed; +33%increased dmg; +180to attack rate(depends on lvl) +12%life steal per hit +Slows down enemy by 15% +17 to sthrenght +21 to agility +8%max hp + All resistances 11 + Cant be frozen 3rd is a diamond This mdfckr had +7 to all skills +145%increazdd damage +155 %magic droprate, +70 all resistances
Great video Cooley. A lot of people don't know about these end-game items and don't realize just how far the depth goes into building the perfect character. A lot of videos on TH-cam simply delve into minimally rare stuff - glad this is out there.
in 20 years of playing d2 i've never found a zod rune
i have found one in january and one february👀
It took me 15 years
I found 2 on my plugy account which i started 3 years ago
I have only found 1 cham tho xD
I’ve seen one drop in a pub game but didn’t grab it fast enough.
For me u are just the best diablo 2 content creator out there. Nothing against mr lhama, he's awesome as well, but u make ur content in a so passioned way that for me, a veteran diablo 2 fan, is just gold to watch. Grats for ur work, man. I'm really glad we have you.
Thank you so much, Ariel. I appreciate that!
for sure he is the best
Cooley’s makin his way to my top d2 content creator too.
Yeah his content is very nostalgic and entertaining even tho I don’t play d2 anymore.
Keep it coming mate you got a good opportunity for your YT channel now when D2R is coming.
I played for 3 years when Diablo 2 dropped. I never had a SoJ drop for me. My friend and I were waiting close to Diablos lair for the rest of our party to catch up. He kicks a pile of rocks and gets an SoJ to drop. Crazy RnG!
Holy shit at llamas grail reaction 🤣🤣🤣 you got me, I fully expected little to no reaction when you said he didnt get that excited
I was expecting this to be another 'Griffon's Eye', 'Tyrael's Might' kinda vid ... Thumbs up!!
My thoughts exactly. Stoked on this vid. That Andy’s tho.........
At least Griffon's is very useful, Tyrael's might on the other hand is a shiny piece of garbage.
@@talictdf4757 Well it is good for the merc ....
@@General-Gauder I suppose it can be useful but for an endgame item it's pretty mediocre and if you just want the aura, lawbringer is a much easier solution. But I don't remember Nihlathak being that hard ;-)
@@talictdf4757 Of corse it's bad for an endgame item, nearly every Unique is bad because of the OP Runewords. By the way Tyraels has no Aura, it's good for the Merce because of cnbf, res and some Dmg to Demons on it + you can soc it.
It should be called ..... 5 items people have probably found during their 20 years of playing D2 and sold not realising their value.
if you play this game 20 years and don't realize the value, it's just your own fault ^^
@@GipfeldesArreat Maybe, but not everyone meta games. I play D2 for the fun of it not to create the most powerful build i can so i never really bothered to look into items like these.
@@Enigmatic.. ^this
Or more like 5 items you probably did not find even when running 100 bots for 20 years.
@@Enigmatic.. ironically, these items aren't usually part of the meta, because of how rare they are. Even a casual pvm player who has played for 20 years (and actually learned the game) should know the value of these items.
Sometimes i think about all the insane godly rare items that could of just been thrown out by players who didnt know what they had.
I’m one of those lol
Insane godly items you accidentally passed up on the ground
Always check the rares out, my dudes 😂
I can all but guarantee I chucked some just because it was the wrong class.
@@StrangeMachines1 to add to this:
1. Learn what base types are most valuable. Stuff like Archon plate for rune words (relatively high base defense for the amount of strength required), crystal swords (fastest 1 handed weapon, perfect for grief), etc.
2. Learn what stats are valuable in general, and which stats are extremely valuable for niche builds. +Fire skills might sound like it's only useful for sorcs to a newer player, but unless it explicitly states sorc, that +fire will work for fire traps on an assassin, fire spells for druid, even fire auras for paladin. This is why the Leaf rune word is incredibly powerful for early level sorcs/druids/assassins. Stats like dual leech on a ring will be valuable regardless, and life+res is useful for everyone and makes for a solid item.
3. Learn the crafting recipes. You can make more bis items than you expect. From crafting specific items with guaranteed stats, to upgrading uniques, to rerolling charms to make skillers, crafting is a huge shortcut for building your character.
Cool vid. Now, seeing as I mostly play SP, there's a couple of things I'd like to see in patch 1.15 prior to D2R release:
1. ladder runewords in SP
2. ubers in SP
3. dclone in SP, with a "normal" way of summoning - maybe triggered off any uniques sold, not just SoJ (as it was originally meant as an incentive to dump all those duped SoJs).
4. killing Baal to reset the ability to make the cow level portal (so you don't permanently lock yourself out of it).
5. SP drop rates adjusted (drop rates were set with trading in mind, and I wouldn't say no to a bump in SP to compensate for the fact that you play solo).
I know you can use mods like plugy to use ladder runewords, and uber tristram in SP, but i'd like that as an official option, not via a mod.
These are probably the best SP suggestions I've ever heard. No more, no less.
Or change it to "Manald's/Cathan's Seals sold to vendors" lol
_PlugY_ solves 1, 2, 3, 4 along with giving you infinite stash tabs but yes, native support would be nice.
You can solve 5 with: /players 8
@@MichaelPohoreski the point was to have it supported in the unmodded version - it's silly that sp players have to resort to mods to solve that. Also, /players x does bump it up a bit, but that's still not the same as being able to trade for items you need. Especially if you're looking for something very specific, like eth lacerator, stormlash, etc.
@@jakubfabisiak9810 Agreed, which is why I said: _native support would be nice._
I also agree that it is ridiculous that in 2021 Blizzard _still_ shafts D2 SP. Hopefully VV will fix this in D2:R but I have my doubts.
Honestly, without the equivalent PlugY functionality I'm not sure how long D2:R will keep my interest? Sure, the high res support and 60 FPS will be nice but I'm not about to toss out all the years of collecting my PlugY stashes just to go back to making mules, along with all the PlugY QoL and functionality it provides.
Ive played this game my entire life, but ive never actually looked into how youre supposed to play it until like a year ago.
This shit is so much more in depth than i could have ever imagined.
Anytime i ever got an amulet or ring with any fcr or resistance or whatever i just threw it away because i didnt even know what it even ment.
🤣 Wtf newb
The ghost sin claws are no joke. I had amazing ones on my sin. I took a break from d2 for a short time and my son got marked inactive and all my items removed. At that point, I quit d2 and just barely came back 13 years later.
When i start playing d2r, i bet i'll find things like these in 2055.
11am eastern the search begins!
Casual players will never understand the grind to find items like these.
I played 10+ hours a day, long before ladder seasons were created and long after their release... D2 was the first true grinder. I loved every second of it.
I'm kinda casual and hunted rathalos in monster hunter 600 + times to get a single item, each hunt took like 20 to 30 minutes. Id say i understand what grinding is
Yeah but who cares.
@Brot brotsen If you killed Rathalos 600+ times, you're not casual. I didn't have to kill anything in Monster Hunter more than 40 - 50 times to get everything I needed. I made pretty much every single piece of gear you could make.
I FOUND A CHAM THIS WEEK TOO! It actually dropped from a random plain ghost *right next* to the Countess, who only dropped a Tal.
The best thing about this game is the rare item drops that can be better than uniques. I haven’t touched this game for over a decade but seeing some of the rare diadems and amys gave me chills like a nerd
I found a zod rune while in a cow game with xtimus and the main ToS guys, I'm actually the guy that picked it up in his zod video.
damn he wasn't joking, really pulled out the GG stuff for this list
My favorite part of pvp is seeing all the insane gear
I love that you made a list-video that was actually informative and had the appropriate length. great stuff!
This is a helpful video for people who are gonna be getting into this for the first time cuz it took me years to realize that some of the rare/craftable jewelry is OP
You're missing the 08 valk.. only legends remember that one 💪
U have too pay thousends of € / $ for a original 08.
Bugged Items around too but they more rare then a living Elvis :/ .
the occy ring, the 06 shako, 08 valk, the bul katho wedding band change
i just found eth skullders, i remember when magic finders in old versions would sell their first children for one lol
Cooley, your videos prove your knowledge is probably the top of any D2 player. Your videos are the only ones I take the time to watch.
Came here after watching you and Sweet Phil team up for a video. Liked the content, glad I stopped in to drool over these items.
Hey Coooley! Have you considered +5 summon skeleton necro wands? They have to be a high qlvl wand, like unearthed wand, and rerolled down to a very low item level, then continuously rerolled until you get good stats. Something like +2 necro, +3 skeleton mastery, +3 raise skeleton is possible. Theses are tier 1 staffmods that only spawn on low item level wands, BUT because of the high qlvl of the unearthed wand, you are allowed to roll affixes like +2 necro skills! Impossible to drop ingame, but completely possible to craft! (warning: many pskulls are required)
loved this vid - from a D2 player those items were mouth-watering
I don't remember all the stuff i found in the game, last time i played it was uh.... 8-10 years ago. Resurrected will dominate my life as D2 once did. I dimly recall finding some extraordinary items, not so odd when the game was on every day for years. I was just about to start playing it again when i heard of the new release, and decided to wait. With this absence from the game it will probably feel like new old/new. I forgotten so much about combining items and runes that i will be back on noob level 😂
Same! 11am eastern the grind begins
@@jackjurphy5020 😁🤘
In the golden age of D2, i was a mad magic finder player, just obsessed for good stuff. I found the majority of unique and set itens, but never Stormspire, steelhands and Tyrraels might. About rare itens, my winners was two dual leech rings with magic find, and another mods i just don't remember.
I started watching D2 vids to refresh my memories of the game... All I have learned is I think I played D2 too much
same lol
Love your content Coooley, real informative, even with like 20 years of experience in this game, I'm still learning new things, and the way you present them makes it really fun to watch!
As for these super rare fantastic items, there's a certain love I have for my 20/20/3 sc.
i have a werebear sorc and i was talking to a friend ingame recently and telling him yeah if i can find better versions of my gear ill be just that much stronger.
he pointed out one of my gear pieces was perfect. and thats one i wanted better of. what a fool we all are sometimes. but it is nice getting a random lucky find. i felt that for sure.
Great vid bro!
Back when I was elementary 600 years ago, I thought I was the luckiest player for finding the Atlantean war sword for my paladin. Lol
I remember finding a +2 skiller ammy that also had a 55 charge teleport on it. It was god.
I thought you said you found that on a grand charm, for some reason, and I was like “hmmm..... 🧐”.
I rolled a perfect ebotdz a year ago. Just about pooped myself. Great vid man as always!
0:25 this reaction haha nice i never got this unique staff lol
Sweet!
Rolled a perfect Death Colossus Blade in SP a while back... good times.
Also found a perfect superior Dusk Shroud on realm - and yes, non sup eth is "better", but it still feels great getting that perfect defense roll.
omg.. THOSE WARFISTS!!!!! BRUH IM DEAD!!!
SOOO GOOD lol... Never found anything close in my life lol
@@Coooley i've been all over d2jsp lately trying to find something even close. a temp. anything !! lol!
This guys sincerity and delivery are great 👍🏻
Rares and crafted are the Picasso items the super rich and long time Diablo 2 players chase at end game.
And then followed by perfect unique especially ethereal.
I have mule account with 31 SOJs and about 25 Maras and over 30 High runes collected and traded for in 20 years of playing... All currency to trade for elite Rares and crafted gear. And of course every ladder season my aim is to find a Tyrael. In over 12 years of Ladder playing I've found 4 Tyraels.. All muled.
I know I’m going to show my age here but anyone remember Corruption Grip Rings? Godly
The occy ring was way more OP. lol
I had one still in1.14 but they finnally got me on inactivity. I also had a viper whorl. Gonna speak on another topic but it took me 10 years to farm a whole set of xx/xx/x smallcharms. The memories.
@@liamengram6326 soj smallcharms? :D
I wonder if anyone in the world has ever found a 100% perfect tyraels might. That must be crazy rare
If there was
Bro that opener was fire lol "i dont think he celebrated enough" hahaha good shit man
I've never had good luck with drops. But last week, within 2 days I found back to back sur runes. Same game. Cows and straight to trav. Next morning I found Griffins eye off a random unique in trav. Best 2 days of D2 I've ever had since playing the game as a teenager
feel you on the jewelry! been farming alot of stuff on pd2 season2, and never identified a ring that worth noting yet, and i identified ALOT of rings! :D
Pd2 has increased drop rate due to base players 5. Its harder to legitimately find GG items on bnet.
Just Tosted @ jsp dropping his like and comment. Keep it up brother!
thank you for you video just before d2 res
You're my favorite D2 creator to follow so far on youtube. I was a d2jsp member and avid player in the 2000's, part of ReV-Clan (Mostly a BM team dueling clan.) People used to be pretty pumped to get a picture of one of us dying and post it to JSP. I've been binging on your stuff in preparation for D2 Resurrected. Can't wait to see what this community is going to look like in this modern age. Keep up the great work my man.
i'm on my way to complete my holy grail list, whats funny is that in january i have found a zod Rune, while i was doing cow runs with my javazon. And 1 month later i found another zod with my trapsin during baal runs in a random cave. but my Highlight is that i have found tyraels might last sunday with my blizz sorc, and that before templars might and blinkbats form, confirming it to be the 3rd rarest unique armor in the game :D
i still have 13 itmes on my grail list, hope to find them soon
I think i'm at 20 left. Good luck dude your close. Don't think i'm gonna find tyrael's might tho. If I do, my neighbours will notice... lol
@@vb6427 same dude, never thought i would find it and there it droped lmao, wasn't literally expacting that
Congratulations, man! haha Those are some GG finds.
@@Coooley oh yes, they are :D
These items were straight up making me drool.
And can we just talk about that godly Joby-esque tele charge ammy 🤤
hahaha
Forget the charges...never could afford Enigma, which would have (back then, I've not actively played D2 in a while!) completed (or at least buffed a lot) most of my characters (except the sorc, which can of course teleport herself)...never found all the runes for Enigma either :(
@@dreamingflurry2729 couldnt afford enigma lol? its only two high runes. I did this dozens of times over as a 12 year old child. Trade, interact with friends and your community. Thats what the game is about.
as a new player to D2 this list reminds me of hybrid weapons from borderlands 1, items you may have found but probably not but either way you had no clue their rarity.
Years ago I found a 2 necro/30 frw/20 fcr/57 life/9 all res/2os coronet off Pindle. In almost 20 years of constant play, it stands alone as my greatest find. I have a screenshot of it on my desktop.
I remember had zod rune a twice times in my life XD
I have still yet to see an SOJ drop and I’ve found Gull twice.
I've found 2 soj in the last 7 year run plus 2-3 hrs.
Thank you for putting the claws on the list. If they didn't make it I was gunna flip a table.
Those Doom Mark and Raven Talisman amulets at 2:49 are nasty.
Great list! What about those perfect sc and jewels? 40/15, 3/20/20, 20/5
Oh, yes. Good addition
Just commented this myself, and as i scroll down, i see were not alone lol.
Meant to include pics of 3/20/20's in the perfect item section! Will put this as a note on the list! GG, my friend.
This is one thing I love about D2 over D3. You can't have stats on an item in D3 unless it's modded
During my college days I had two roommates that were botters and wrote actual papers on D2/LOD back then. The amount of data they had was amazing. The shear amount of accounts running 24/7 was mind blowing. These were the days where playing on a Dell Inspiron was the shit. From knowing what diminishing returns yielded the best actual MF% for uniques; and here’s one I remember, knowing that for instance if averaged 19 per run on Pindleskin which their MF% at the correct number he would drop uniques at the top TC to get the higher stuff like Windy and others was on average 2 times a day with a wild 3rd once in awhile. This wasn’t the overall unique drop number but rather the uniques in the TC’s they were targeting.
If I recall, i remember asking why not just max MF% and call it good. Their data showed that there is a threshold where if u go higher than their number u get diminishing returns on uniques while the scaling for blues/yellows keeps going so it hurts the chance for your MF to turn whatever drops into a unique.
They were really into this stuff. They even got texts on their phone when something they wanted dropped and back then that was pretty wild. This back in I think 01’ish.
But they would also run Meph since, again if I recall what they said.... Meph could drop up to TC84 but not higher. So while some things were off the table Meph could drop up to 6 items if I recall. So your MF % could by chance turn those unique. I was into D2 so naturally I would be stoked to see Shako’s, mesh armors and vamp gazes etc.
I don’t remember them running countess for data but I imagine they did that too.
I remember them discussing cow runs... while each has a very low chance the shear numbers can make up for that... this was to be another data point they wanted to gather. I saw laquered plate (Tals) and a few high end runes... this was before the color change for runes so they were so hard to see back then. I did see an Ohm though.
I won’t give out the elusive magic number for the MF% since that wasn’t turn-key meaning they explained that kill speed is important as well so that number can change a little bit depending on what they are killing.
I really miss the whole MF driven thing. I really enjoyed MF. I really want a game to bring that back. With consequences of course... naturally if ur wearing all MF u can’t do certain types of content until u find the right stuff. Then there’s progression tied to it. I think if dine right MF can be a good staple mechanic for an AARPG.
hahaha iso copy of that work.
But who cares about unique items drops?? Rare and Magic items are where it's at. Honestly, I id everythying.
Keep it up Cooley! I reckon ur channel might blow up when D2R is releasing. You have one of the best contents for D2 easily!
I appreciate that, man! Thank you
GG video dude!
Thank you, brother!!
Lama actually found his holy grail ?!
CONGRATULATIONS !!!!
You ever get that feeling when you pick up a perfect magefist from hell mephisto. Ah so satisfying.
Wow I have never been excited about anything in my life like that. I'm pretty envious.
Great video! I remember how happy I got back in the days when I crafted my 2 20 dex life res amulet for my hammer.
Amazing video! To add, Zealer Viso's are extremely rare (especially ones with high defence) and the jewels that are necessary to place in are equally as rare. All the items you listed are indeed very rare items but pretty much any Eth-rep Cruel (Anything with 450 Enhanced Damage, 250 ATR, 20 Minimum Damage, or 40% IAS) are equally/if not more rare then the items shown in this video. It's also noteworthy to mention that E-rep seraph rods exist which are almost unheard of to have "The right stats listed" for zealer pvp. An example of one is 450% ED,250 ATR, Eth Rep, 40 IAS, 2 Paladin Skills, 3 Fana Base, 3 Zeal Base, 3 Defiance (Or holy shield). As a zealer the main goal is to reach maximum damage/ AR/ DEF/ and appropriate 5/5/5/5/8 frame rates in order to excell in GM Zeal. But Still, this is amazing content. Agree with all of your videos Please do a video on the dynamics of GM zealers!
😂😂🤣 Mr lama is the best both you guys are amazing lol
Here's a good thought on Auradins. The best compromise between "its too easy" and "I want it my way" is this. Balance the damage offensive elemental auras provide so that new items can be introduced that allow players to use them for supplemental AOE damage without having a viable option to go 100% Aura damage o overly rely on them. Basically, new items designed around using active skills with elemental aura AOE support damage over time. Aura damage should be increased from 2.3 but not be as high as what we've seen PTR 2.4 . PS just subscribed homie!
"... but oddly enough, I really don't think he was that excited for it..." ahahahahaha
MLD bows. 20 ias CTC amp cruel/GM 2 sockets - factor in it needs to spawn on an elite base because upgrading will ruin the level requirement. Same with top tier amp javs - all of the CF ones are level 48 req.
Many moons ago, I snagged a 7 defence from *perfect* Crown of Ages in a public Baal run. Stuffed a self found Ber and a sweet resist/- requirements/fhr jewel a mate tossed me into it and used it on a pvp HoZ smiter.
Sadly, I never found the godly awesome ghost claw my heart desired and *settled* for a cruel, fools, 10ias, greater talon I up'd you a runic. It worked ok, but I missed the last ias breakpoint for trap laying :(
(All of this is sadly long gone).
The Ethereal Zoded Hellslayer axe was my pride and joy.
Rares the the main reason I still MF this game...20 years later. Perfect rolled magic items and gg rares are my only grail.
I completed a holy grail in just five months, playing just a few hours each night, and skipping nights occasionally. It is a bit of a boring method but it works best in terms of time spent grinding. I leveled up a Blizzard Sorc and ran the Ancient Tunnels around thirty to thirty five thousand times (estimate based on average clear time and average number of hours played per night) until Azurewrath (I actually got two of this) and Tyraels dropped, then I spent some time running cows for the Cow Kings set, Trav a little for facets, then I finished up at Pindle and Thresh Socket. Oddly, the final item for me was Death Cleaver, sadly when I was down to just that damn item it took a couple of weeks for it to drop. I was so burned out and frustrated, yet sometimes you might get trolled in this way. RNG, got to love it! But, I did get a number of awesome rares, and a few great/perfect/eth roll uniques. A perfect Griffons Eye, an eth Deaths Web, to name just a couple. Unfortunately each of the three Deaths Fathom that I got rolled low stats.
The only uniques that I got only one of were Tyraels, Crown of Ages, Mang Songs, Metalgrid, and the troll Death Cleaver. The dang COA had only one socket. I got four Stone of Jordan, a number of high runes of course, well a vast majority of the high runes I obtained while grinding LK for leveling up the Sorc, but I did get two Zod runes in the Tunnels, two Jah, yet only one Cham. My first Zod came off of a regular zombie, and I nearly left it behind, I dont know what the odds of getting a Zod off of a regular zombie are, but I suspect that was the most rare event I experienced throughout the whole grail. The second Zod I accidentally put into a socketed weapon in my stash. So that was an amusing moment. Oh and it was my birthday when I did that.. I had an exceptionally productive day on that occasion, I will never forget how strange it felt to be getting great drops on my birthday. Almost like the game was giving me birthday gifts, I got my first Astreons that day, my only Metalgrid, the wasted Zod, and a couple of other TC 87 items. It was insane.
I wrote all that to basically say, it is not as hard to run a holy grail as it might seem. And it is an amazing experience, too. Surely if you give it a go you will have some awesome and memorable experiences. Also you will accumulate enough gear to level and equip many different types of chars. Of course, it can be done quicker. I learned this strategy from the Twitch streamer Enpherno, he has the world record for the quickest grails, heck he did a hardcore grail (streamed all of it) in under a month! He used more or less the method I outlined above. He also has a decent TH-cam channel with plenty of good videos to check out.
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Very nice video! I love these gg rares. So useful , also have top tier style points 😁
I was always in the hunt for rare eth crystal swords with good stats that can be upped to PB. 😀
I remember when yellow phaseblades were worth grabing for the +2 pally skills but it was almost impossible to find a good one
The other item I’d add to this list is are rare weapons that are worth using over the standard runeword. Those are crazy rare.
Especially for melee chars/dueling. Insanely rare
Back when I played ( I’m coming back to resurrected ) I was super obsessed with making a Werewolf as good of a dueler and monster killer as possible. The one item I never had was a four frame fury one-handed rare that would be worth using over a BotD Axe in a duel. In most cases I’d use the ethereal tomb reaver which is an insane weapon but not good vs melee characters. I think what I wanted was a 2 socket ethereal rare Fanged Knife with Max ED, Max IAS, Fools, and repairs itself. Maybe I’ll finally get it when I play resurrected..
First and only perfect item I've found was a 211 defense eth Shako. Had very mixed emotions, cause I needed a shako lol. Traded it for a decent Griffons for my javazon, so ended up a useful find in the end outside of finding a collector's piece
Jstods and jstoc could probably be in this list as well. Great list though, was heavy into pvp for a lot of years and am excited to get back into it with d2r.
Agreed. Items like those deserve a whole 'nother list. Stay tuned!
Was playing this game hard in college. Skipped class for Meph runs and got a legit SOJ. Traded that bad boy immediately for 15 dupes.
This is the best new channel I've found
This is first video I watched from this channel and I instantly subscribed. :) Looking forward for another videos and D2Ressurected release
JMOD or jewelers diadem of speed with perfect defense oughtta be worth a few coins.
also upgraded perfect uniques. getting a 35/13 vipern to roll with 1034 defense can take quite a while!
1:29 A set of ghostly, self-repairing claws that shoot lightning and actively teach the Assasin Kung-Fu.
I love diablo 2.
Wow. A perfect eth Andy’s.
And that plague hood circlet, damn!!
it would be nice if the whole video frame is you. We can't have enough of you in your videos lmao.
I thought I would see some 100 life armors, 40/15 jewels or 3/20/20 sc. great video !
3-20-20 is non ladder only.. been that way since 2004
Keep it up coooley! Can't wait to see more content from ya.
And here I am, being proud of my perfect GMB Faith xD
Hey now, that's still pretty sick!
@@Coooley Thank you :D
Theoretically it's possible to find a 2 socketed Necro Wand with
+3 to Necro skills,
+3 to Teeth,
+3 to Bone Spear,
and +3 to Bone Spirit
said wand could then be turned into a White Wand stacking even more + to skills on top of that.
Or similarly for Poison spells like Poison Nova, Poison Dagger, etc. The strength of just a +2 to skills is so great that getting a socketed item of this type for exactly the skills your character uses that can be combined with a rune word that increases them further would be epic for just about any class, the incredibly low drop rate of wands in general would make me even more excited to find something like this.
thanks for taking all my courage to find a good item, now I can go back to being unlucky finding something good (as this is the place I belong hihi)
i found an ethereal archon staff and had no idea what it was lol. i'm still a new player, so these videos are helping a lot! thanks!
Not the rarest of items as I've found it twice but it was really hard to find the second time is Blood Cresent Simitar. When I first found it I had a lvl 12 paladin just out in a cave just out side of the monastery in act 1, I was still using it at lvl 60 to some effect. I gave it all 3 sockets I was allowed to while completing the game and had it set up with perfect gems to make sure it did maximum damage, it had fire, poison, and ice damage.
nice list, also the gg eth weapons that some people use like phase blades etc. i've also seen some BiS hammerdin warsceptres with 3 hammers 2 or 3 combat skills, fcr, and because you dont get damage from points in multiplyers these serve as best in slot for hammerdin damage.
Back when d2 1st came out, I played for probably 2 years maybe. I want to say early patch maybe 1.02/3/4 till about 1.10, when duping had completely destroyed the bnet market. I literally had everything you could ever want and it drove the desire to play right out of me.. Now to the point, while I had traded with SOJ's many many times... I had only ever looted ONE! Worst off, I was exp grinding in the Cow level, with practically no MF and it dropped from a regular ol hell bolvine.. After I identified, sat there shocked for 2 minutes, I gave it away to a noob that was still in the room. It just didn't feel right sticking that pristine un-duped, untainted ring onto my SOJ mule.
As an old time Diablo player...I kiinda hope they up the drop rates for the super rares just a tiny bit...I've been playing since launch back as a kid(29 now) up to right now and havent found many of the super rare items in the game, including the 5 listed here...Which bugs me because god damn i love this game
Once i bought a 3 Socket Blue Diadem with 3 to Sorc Lighting Skills and other good stats on it for only 3 IST that Diadem was Beast! :)
Liking the vibe sir, earned a sub!
Much appreciated!
From the very begining I was playing Diablo 2 o. Single player, I have like 3 things dropped that shouldnt even exist in the game, I got dropped:
1 amulet " heart of armagedon"
+2 all skills,
14lvl meditation aura
26lvl aura Might and
31lvl aura fanatism,
35% increased movement speed,
40%faster attack
63%more damage
11% life stolen per Hit
All resistancess +55
2nd is a ring, "the saw of doom" :
+15% increased movement speed;
+33%increased dmg;
+180to attack rate(depends on lvl)
+12%life steal per hit
+Slows down enemy by 15%
+17 to sthrenght
+21 to agility
+8%max hp
+ All resistances 11
+ Cant be frozen
3rd is a diamond
This mdfckr had
+7 to all skills
+145%increazdd damage
+155 %magic droprate,
+70 all resistances