Why is there so much criticism? This video is just showing how much magic find he is not saying it’s good. Stuff like this is awesome and things we’ve all wanted to try for fun. Good job man ignore these idiots
Magic find actually has diminishing returns. I only worry about 200+ ish and it is more High runes that matter and not Uniques with the exception to shakos griffins etc. Not to mention he cant pick items up this is entirely idiotic.
@@drakthorzodin-son3643 Its been a year since I made my comment so i may not understand the context anymore, however I think what this videos purpose was to push something to the absolute most extreme in a game we all love for the sake of experimentation. I would personally never ever do this experiment, but i am intrigued that someone did. Therefore i am glad he made the video for my entertainment at his expense. I don't think he is suggesting to anyone that this is an optimal magic finding setup, in fact im sure he even recommends you DO NOT do this. I don't understand why anyone would criticize this experiment unless they are trying to take this opportunity to flex their ego and knowledge of Diablo 2.
@@x1PMac1x Yes, it makes her always drop quest drops, which are much better than regular drops. You kill her, then don't do ANYTHING ELSE: grab loot if needed, go into the portal that opens, talk to the NPC and go to act 2. Done. She's glitched forever for that character and will always drop her quest drops. I always save & quit after I get to act 2, but I've read before that it isn't necessary.
Unique items can be upgraded to their exceptional/elite versions. This is especially useful for Goldwrap as it gets one more item row while still matching your strength. The recipe is Tal + Shael + PDiamond + normal Goldwrap (base item 'heavy belt') --> upgraded Goldwrap (base item 'battle belt')
The incredible depth in detail got me stunned. I first played back in 2000, when I was 12. I’m 31 now and recently picked this back up with an old time friend. We’re having so much damn fun. I feel like a freaking kid again.
You can upgrade the gold wrap to exceptional for more belt slots to store more potion and tp scrolls and you should be able to wear it with the star you had
I had a bug in d2 once in a LAN game a year or two ago. I don't know what exactly happened but me as barbarian and my brother as sorceress bugged item drop somehow, and every item from every monster even usual weak white ones was a unique. No blue, yellow or green items. Only damn uniques with no repeats. We got every item in the game which the Nightmare difficulty could offer, it was awesome. I still have that character save btw.
29.9.2020: The day when my almost entire life has been ruined.... TP scrolls in belt... And as many in the comment section, too have been playing this game since it came out....
Wasn't 1.09 so much fun Mike? Occy rings, Constriction rings, White gloves, White rings, 6 socket Grandfather's, 6 socket Windforce's, Ith items, Zephyr bows, Quark's items, 4 socket Valors, 4 socket Gladiator's Bane, Strength gloves, Wizard Spike gloves, Hexing Small Charm of Immolation Arrow that had 90 Str, 90 Dex & 90 Vita. And then there were the unreal jewels like King Jewels.
This game is where the addiction all started. Played this game STEADY from 8-18 yrs old. 10 best gaming years of my life! diablo 3 is where my faith in blizz was stripped away. Anyways good video
Bro this was insanely cool to watch! me and my friend when we were young and dumb used to wonder what the max magic find was and what it would look like! 11 year old me would have pissed himself if he saw what you have done here today! GG Xtimus
Still amazed after all these years how they decided to actually put a naked female demon with boob physics in the game just after the 90s. What a time to be alive! The game mechanics on top of all the attention to detail created WAAAAAAAY to much nostalgia for this game. I still play it, though I try not to bounce my eyes along to act 1 as much as when I was younger. XD
I feel like the amount time spend waiting for your merc would allow to complete at least a few extra Mephisto runs. I get that this is just a demonstration, but that took a long time for the the merc to kill meph.
@@hansgerber8654 How much MF you should get will always be a balancing act between kill speed and MF. You are right that up to 360% MF it makes sense to be more willing to sacrifice kill speed. But higher MF is almost always better as long as you aren't sacrificing kill speed to get it.
I always enjoyed my MF barb. Just slap some good main dps weapons on him, and have him duel wield 2x baba with ist socketed. Grab some gear that has MF on it but doesnt nerf you too much. Then go on a trip around the world: Eldritch > Shenk > Pindleskin > Council > Countess. Not ideal for the greatest drops but they all have mobs around them with pretty good item drops, a load of gold drops too, and none of them are too difficult to kill (council being exception based on their auras). Not the most effective farming (I think I got around 300mf), but its fast, relatively safe, and very easy. Ideal to find some stuff for trading or to give to toons or friends.
If you ever get bored, load up Hero Editor. Easily craft items with 1700, 5000, 100,000 magic find. You will find out that it doesnt make much difference if at all with actually dropping rarer items.
Damn I can't find any of my posts, my ebay profile no longer has the description, and my memory is shoddy - but this isn't the experience I recall with my MF Merc Barb. First of all, it was always the act II Merc (jab/Polearm) and killing stuff was not this difficult. I used it long before I was level 99. I don't see anything in this guide about using Necro wands to boost power and make the merc basically invincible (I guess it's totally different with a spellcaster). I am going to have to troll google until I can find my posts or gamefaqs on the matter because to disagree with my Mandalorian friend this is NOT the way. I played D2 for like... a decade. All that aside - nice video :D Just passing by because I'm totally stoked for the remaster of D2 :D
Yea, in the time he waits till his low merc kills the boss, you would kill him 10 times with other builds.. Not to mention how often he obviously died. He can't tell me Meph didn't land at least 1 time a hit while he struggles that hard with his life.
Im going to explain it in a short way - As much MF as you can, without losing on kilspeed, is the correct answer. In first instance, game checks for: unique --> set --> rare --> and finally magic. On EACH stage, the whole MF is being checked, that means game check your MF 4 times - for unique, set, rare and magic quality. Furthermore, the best strategy for MF is to hunt champions / elite packs / superuniques in areas of lvl 82, 83, 84 ad 85 over and over again on players 1, because they will always drop 1-2 items, no matter what player count is. That being said, you need minimum damage, you are keeping your killspeed, and finally, you are maximizing ur chances with high MF. Thats why zerker barbs and sorcs are the best chars to MF, because they can stack over 700mf with good killspeed. There is also 2 very important factors - each item has its own rarity ( for example, tc87 items in higher lvl areas ( 82, 83, 84 and 85 ) such as archon staffs, sacred armos etc - they have a chance to drop from around 1:1k to 1:4k in MAGIC quality from elite monster) and UNIQUE quality of an item is the rarest, so most of the time its RNG and being lucky, but high MF always helps in a long run. The best way to check the rarity of an item is to use silospen calculator - dropcalc.silospen.com/item.php . I finished my holy grail in less than a year and my main char was sorc with MF from 600 to 820, depending if I wanted go lighting, blizz or fire ball.
Hey @@fatty180 :) Its kordipl from twitch. I found it in Ancient Tunnels, I had 820mf www.twitch.tv/kordipl/clip/ArtisticSingleFriseeDBstyle Took me few thousand AT runs, but if we count all my runs doing chaos, pits, AT, drifter cavern, Nithalak, WSK etc - probably 50k++ ? Theres no way to count it, but I can guess it was 50k+ since I started playing plugy ( January 18th 2018, finished grail on November 22nd 2018, had a few breaks meanwhile ) Tyraels was my 500th item, and I found my last 3 items within 48hours :)
Wow, if you did 50k runs in that time your life must be quite empty, or math is taking a hit. Out of the amount of hours passed since january 18 you'd have had to do 9,08 runs every waking hour of the year, assuming that you sleep eat and shit 8/24 hours of the day. Now the time is not impossible, since it gives you roughly 6 mins pr run. But if you have a job you'd have 3 mins pr run assuming you work 8 hours a day including travel time. Assuming a spouse takes on average 4 hours each day (atleast because he/she would get annoyed with the 24/7 gaming and sleeping) you'd have roughly 5 mins pr run. Work and girlfriend 1,3 mins pr run. This is all assuming that the only thing you do aside from these things is playing diablo. If you take a day off (16 hours), You have to make up 1,15 seconds on each of the 50k runs. It is possible but damn man, that is a tough life. @@kc96pl
@@Protagonistish I was playing nearly on all my days off work, so yeah, quite a bit ;) I took this challenge and Im happy I finished it. PS. I started focusing on my Grail more at the end of the May. Before that, I was casually / occassionally playing. Usually, my runs were taking about 1-2 minutes. You can do the maths now :D
portal scrolls in the belt.... now it changes everything. When you put your portal on the last square, you are putting a safe to you come back town. nice, awesome.
You can actually open up your inventory then while you're dragging the item to put it into your inventory, the item is actually on your cursor, so you can exit a game with the item still on your cursor. When you join a new game, it will still be on your cursor and you'd be in town, so you can move it to stash then. Or just tp, then clear your inventory temporarily so you can pick stuff up. Makes much more sense to dedicate some space for picking stuff up though... Personally I'd go around with identifying scrolls, either in the belt, or a book of such scrolls. This way you can figure out if it's even worth the inventory space for an item. If not, simply drop it back on the ground and look at the next item.
@@MultiUltimater Just dedicate four spots for your cube and just put the items you wanna pick up in the cube. Only losing 28% mf. But this video is just a demonstration for a max mf build and isn't supposed to be efficient.
I know this was just a concept build, but with the diminishing returns on MF wouldn't it be easier and less tedious to just kill the shit with your barb? if your merc gets the kill then cool but that shouldn't be the objective, matter of factly an act 2 merc that was decked out would allow for quicker kills
"Optimal" according to what metrics? You want to have as much magic find as possible while still being able to clear enemies quickly without dying. You get quite a bit more set/unique drops going from 300 to 600 magic find. The idea is that you gain more magic find going from 0 to 250 than you do going from 250 to 500, so you get the biggest bang for your buck the first 2 or 3 hundred magic find. It's still optimal to juice the numbers up to 600 if it doesn't affect your clearing speed / survivability.
Cool video man I’ll definitely try out an MF barb at some point. Probably won’t be using the last wish though, 5 high runes is a bit too pricy right now lol. Also it’s funny that an MF video has a thumbnail of a bunch of high runes on the floor (since mf doesn’t affect their drop chance).
Mercenaries cannot get to level 99 FYI. Also this is completely untested but if you got charms with poison damage can it get the killing blow on monsters? I know it cannot in PvP but I am not as versed in PvM. If it cant then you could get all 7% MF Small Charms with Poison damage and it would get the enemy to 1 health really quickly?
Couldn't a barb merc have two 6 socket axes? Also I can't believe that you didn't use antidote potions. They don't just cure youthey also give 50 or 100% (can't remember how much off hand) resistance for a few minutes.
I played ladder because many items were only findable there. But the constant seasons resets killed it for me... it takes sooo much time to grind some good stuff then reset... instead of solving the bots problem, they just gave more value to bots, not like blizz ever cared anyway
I need a little advice. I'm a returning player after a two year absence. I usually always play only as a Barbarian, sometimes summoning Necro. But this time I decided for my first time ever I would roll a Hammerdin. My question is, what gear is the best MF gear for an Act 2 Merc? Thank you
When doing an actual magic-find build, the main component is having a solid 300-600% magic find with fast clearing speed. It'll only slow you down to invest in magic find on your mercenary, waiting for him to last hit every monster. Keep in mind that mercenary magic find only comes into play if they get the last hit in which case the magic find used is the sum of theirs and yours. Otherwise, only your magic find is used. In the video, he invested so many resources into his mercenary, because he was trying to figure out the maximum magic find possible - not to be a useful magic find build.
Diablo 2's loot really triggered that reward centre in the brain. JUST rare enough that you want to keep trying. Diablo 3 kind of made them drop too often I think.
xtimus im a fan of diablo 2 and i saw Almost all of your content and i know what you're been through, dont worry your still a cool guy, don't stop your diablo2 content just ignore the negativity around you,just do what you do best. what matters is not all of the people are the same, their are still a fan of you, im a fan of yours too. what im saying is don't get overwhelmed on what others says negative about you, just ignored them and you'll be fine. i still think you're a great guy xtimus. keep up the good work!. 😊😉👍❤❤❤❤
Why is there so much criticism? This video is just showing how much magic find he is not saying it’s good. Stuff like this is awesome and things we’ve all wanted to try for fun. Good job man ignore these idiots
Magic find actually has diminishing returns. I only worry about 200+ ish and it is more High runes that matter and not Uniques with the exception to shakos griffins etc. Not to mention he cant pick items up this is entirely idiotic.
@@drakthorzodin-son3643 Its been a year since I made my comment so i may not understand the context anymore, however I think what this videos purpose was to push something to the absolute most extreme in a game we all love for the sake of experimentation. I would personally never ever do this experiment, but i am intrigued that someone did. Therefore i am glad he made the video for my entertainment at his expense. I don't think he is suggesting to anyone that this is an optimal magic finding setup, in fact im sure he even recommends you DO NOT do this. I don't understand why anyone would criticize this experiment unless they are trying to take this opportunity to flex their ego and knowledge of Diablo 2.
I swear people are so special these days. Good luck toolbagging for him.
Drakthorz Odin-son figures you don’t understand anything that I said. You must be confused and lost in life, good luck out there kid
Drakthorz Odin-son literally he says in the beginning this is for research.
Portal scrolls in belt.
MIND.BLOWN.
its like my entire life is a lie
easier to hotkey TP. belt spaces are precious.
Not the belt... The Bell... 😂😂
Ryan Berg hes maxing out his mf % sc inventory space.
@@moguldamongrel3054 oh right didnt even think of that.
Killing Mephisto is like installing some software back in 90's . 99% goes in no time and then you wait 5 minutes for that 1%.
Lol was thinking the same
Especially if you're using an act 2 merc. I would run out of gold doing mf runs bc he kept getting psn and dying walking away from mephisto
And why does he do that ?, at first thought it was to invite other players to finish him off but made zero sense :P
Mana shield
@@jordansmith1790 act 3... not 2.
2 is awesome
7:44 that moment of silence...
Isn't there a trick to always have her drop with improved loot chances?
we all been there
@@x1PMac1x yes there is
@@x1PMac1x Yes, it makes her always drop quest drops, which are much better than regular drops. You kill her, then don't do ANYTHING ELSE: grab loot if needed, go into the portal that opens, talk to the NPC and go to act 2. Done. She's glitched forever for that character and will always drop her quest drops. I always save & quit after I get to act 2, but I've read before that it isn't necessary.
normal andy drops
The Best Game of all Times...
remastered is coming soon too.
@@NoDramaJustALlama dont worry all diablo fans know that
@@NoDramaJustALlama Diablo 2 Resurrected
Needs more likes!
100% agree. Cant wait for D2R!! Gonna instantly make a magic find sorcerer to get gear for my Paladin
Unique items can be upgraded to their exceptional/elite versions. This is especially useful for Goldwrap as it gets one more item row while still matching your strength. The recipe is Tal + Shael + PDiamond + normal Goldwrap (base item 'heavy belt') --> upgraded Goldwrap (base item 'battle belt')
The incredible depth in detail got me stunned. I first played back in 2000, when I was 12. I’m 31 now and recently picked this back up with an old time friend. We’re having so much damn fun. I feel like a freaking kid again.
I started playing past week and a half. Haven't played since 1.03. I love this game lol. Rebought it due to the rona lockdown
Just curious, how active is the game?
Chief J I’d say it’s been poppin lately. Corona reunited us
Ladder reset on the 5th so it is always popping for a month after reset imo.
Dear GOD! Just played through the game again with a fresh Necro the other day and got about 65% magic find. Felt like I hit the dang lottery. LoL :)
You can upgrade the gold wrap to exceptional for more belt slots to store more potion and tp scrolls and you should be able to wear it with the star you had
Good tip right there.
yea and trow in a potion in belt slot to remove poison on merc dooing anderial.. back in the day i had a find item barb much like this one..
Wow...thanks bud I nvr thought of that
Nice
Wait, I thought everyone knew the scrolls could go in the belt?!?
Never really used it because I always just had the book. cool to know, though
5:17 Lol
You can use battle cry and reduce the damage you take by 20% +.
The time it takes for the merc to merc those bosses.... Hell naw.
I had a bug in d2 once in a LAN game a year or two ago. I don't know what exactly happened but me as barbarian and my brother as sorceress bugged item drop somehow, and every item from every monster even usual weak white ones was a unique. No blue, yellow or green items. Only damn uniques with no repeats. We got every item in the game which the Nightmare difficulty could offer, it was awesome. I still have that character save btw.
Could you share that save…
Sure, give me your discord or smth
im pretty sure ur friend used cheats ;)
29.9.2020: The day when my almost entire life has been ruined.... TP scrolls in belt... And as many in the comment section, too have been playing this game since it came out....
when hes like a hit away from killing Mephisto and he covers the screen with a 1999 GIF of items pocketed with ist runes
Andy isn’t quest locked she is dropping gold my friend
I had a sorc that was like 1200% back in the day but she was using occy rings and some other questionable items lol
occy is a wand.
you must be thinking of "Nagel ring"
@@416wc >being this new
@@MillennialPosterChild name checks out
Wasn't 1.09 so much fun Mike? Occy rings, Constriction rings, White gloves, White rings, 6 socket Grandfather's, 6 socket Windforce's, Ith items, Zephyr bows, Quark's items, 4 socket Valors, 4 socket Gladiator's Bane, Strength gloves, Wizard Spike gloves, Hexing Small Charm of Immolation Arrow that had 90 Str, 90 Dex & 90 Vita. And then there were the unreal jewels like King Jewels.
Buriza Armor, Steelclash gloves, Atma's boots.. I could go on for days.
This game is where the addiction all started. Played this game STEADY from 8-18 yrs old. 10 best gaming years of my life! diablo 3 is where my faith in blizz was stripped away. Anyways good video
Bro this was insanely cool to watch! me and my friend when we were young and dumb used to wonder what the max magic find was and what it would look like! 11 year old me would have pissed himself if he saw what you have done here today! GG Xtimus
I made a build with 20,000% magic find. And Mephisto dropped enigmas and perfect griefs.
hahaha
lmfao
For sure one of those runs the boss died to Thorns, the merc spell wasn't even close
Before going to the boss, drink 4 antidote potions from the shop that last for 2 minutes and get you a lot of poison resistance
2:20 But lvl 99 merc is illegal.
You should hire a normal iron wolf, not hell iron wolf. I believe normal iron wolf with lvl 98 has the enough strength for an eth monarch.
@@user-xs9oo9gc7ui guess he meant, mercs cant go up to 99, because they are always 1 lvl behind you (99-1 = 98)
Not true, mercs can reach player level.
@@li-la.de. Mercs can reach player level, but max merc level is 98.
Thats a good point max is 98
fun build but next time up the Goldwrap so you can hold the 4th potion in each slot
probably doesnt have 2nd mods on charms either..
Still amazed after all these years how they decided to actually put a naked female demon with boob physics in the game just after the 90s. What a time to be alive! The game mechanics on top of all the attention to detail created WAAAAAAAY to much nostalgia for this game. I still play it, though I try not to bounce my eyes along to act 1 as much as when I was younger. XD
No she doesn’t. After checking she s merely animated.
Hey X, happy New Year!
Проорал с мега пафасной заставки, как будто игру престолов включил😂
You didn’t quest bug Andy. She shouldn’t drop coins.
I feel like the amount time spend waiting for your merc would allow to complete at least a few extra Mephisto runs. I get that this is just a demonstration, but that took a long time for the the merc to kill meph.
God it took that merc forever to do like 100 damage lmao
I didn't quite catch why the merc needs to make the kill - does the full mf stack get applied when the merc kills meph? Thanks in advance
If you kill it it's only your mf. if merc kills it's his mf plus yours
300-400 mf is perfect for drops cos kill speed wont reduce so more kills more drops :)
the mf increase curve drops at around 360 ... so i'd go for at least that amount for optimal mf ... but also not much beyond that
not to mention 1700mf is a waste of so many runes etc.
yes its a wast cuz wont count over 360 and u gonna get weaker like hell
@@hansgerber8654 How much MF you should get will always be a balancing act between kill speed and MF.
You are right that up to 360% MF it makes sense to be more willing to sacrifice kill speed. But higher MF is almost always better as long as you aren't sacrificing kill speed to get it.
@@tiagohayashi9780 lol'd @ this comment
I always enjoyed my MF barb. Just slap some good main dps weapons on him, and have him duel wield 2x baba with ist socketed. Grab some gear that has MF on it but doesnt nerf you too much. Then go on a trip around the world: Eldritch > Shenk > Pindleskin > Council > Countess. Not ideal for the greatest drops but they all have mobs around them with pretty good item drops, a load of gold drops too, and none of them are too difficult to kill (council being exception based on their auras). Not the most effective farming (I think I got around 300mf), but its fast, relatively safe, and very easy. Ideal to find some stuff for trading or to give to toons or friends.
Leap has a stun / knockback effect that I KNOW works on council, which gives the merc plenty of time to clean house
If you ever get bored, load up Hero Editor. Easily craft items with 1700, 5000, 100,000 magic find. You will find out that it doesnt make much difference if at all with actually dropping rarer items.
Mephisto: why you turn your back on me and let that funny mage cast strange spells on me? Ah you want my gears.
MUCH BETTER quality of D2 videos!
Lol this is Xtimus's alt
Damn I can't find any of my posts, my ebay profile no longer has the description, and my memory is shoddy - but this isn't the experience I recall with my MF Merc Barb. First of all, it was always the act II Merc (jab/Polearm) and killing stuff was not this difficult. I used it long before I was level 99. I don't see anything in this guide about using Necro wands to boost power and make the merc basically invincible (I guess it's totally different with a spellcaster).
I am going to have to troll google until I can find my posts or gamefaqs on the matter because to disagree with my Mandalorian friend this is NOT the way. I played D2 for like... a decade.
All that aside - nice video :D Just passing by because I'm totally stoked for the remaster of D2 :D
This was an example of absolute max. Act3 merc holds a shield, so it gets more MF
I didn't even know you could portal scroll in the belt...
@Eviscerate Been playing for 20 years, still didn't know lol.
U can up the goldwrap to have additional pot spaces
This is painful to watch...
Yea, in the time he waits till his low merc kills the boss, you would kill him 10 times with other builds..
Not to mention how often he obviously died. He can't tell me Meph didn't land at least 1 time a hit while he struggles that hard with his life.
@@kenmasters5509 nub doesn't even know how to use antidote pots...lmao
@@kenmasters5509 yes obviously dude that's why at the beginning he said this build IS NOT optimal
Are you people infants? I noticed right away the video was just about maxing out MF for Fun/Experimentation.
@@kenmasters5509 Nobody asked.
Im going to explain it in a short way - As much MF as you can, without losing on kilspeed, is the correct answer. In first instance, game checks for: unique --> set --> rare --> and finally magic. On EACH stage, the whole MF is being checked, that means game check your MF 4 times - for unique, set, rare and magic quality. Furthermore, the best strategy for MF is to hunt champions / elite packs / superuniques in areas of lvl 82, 83, 84 ad 85 over and over again on players 1, because they will always drop 1-2 items, no matter what player count is. That being said, you need minimum damage, you are keeping your killspeed, and finally, you are maximizing ur chances with high MF. Thats why zerker barbs and sorcs are the best chars to MF, because they can stack over 700mf with good killspeed. There is also 2 very important factors - each item has its own rarity ( for example, tc87 items in higher lvl areas ( 82, 83, 84 and 85 ) such as archon staffs, sacred armos etc - they have a chance to drop from around 1:1k to 1:4k in MAGIC quality from elite monster) and UNIQUE quality of an item is the rarest, so most of the time its RNG and being lucky, but high MF always helps in a long run. The best way to check the rarity of an item is to use silospen calculator - dropcalc.silospen.com/item.php . I finished my holy grail in less than a year and my main char was sorc with MF from 600 to 820, depending if I wanted go lighting, blizz or fire ball.
Kordian Czajkowski hello where place did u found tyraels might, with which character, how much magic find,how many runs u did?
Hey @@fatty180 :) Its kordipl from twitch. I found it in Ancient Tunnels, I had 820mf www.twitch.tv/kordipl/clip/ArtisticSingleFriseeDBstyle Took me few thousand AT runs, but if we count all my runs doing chaos, pits, AT, drifter cavern, Nithalak, WSK etc - probably 50k++ ? Theres no way to count it, but I can guess it was 50k+ since I started playing plugy ( January 18th 2018, finished grail on November 22nd 2018, had a few breaks meanwhile ) Tyraels was my 500th item, and I found my last 3 items within 48hours :)
Wow, if you did 50k runs in that time your life must be quite empty, or math is taking a hit. Out of the amount of hours passed since january 18 you'd have had to do 9,08 runs every waking hour of the year, assuming that you sleep eat and shit 8/24 hours of the day. Now the time is not impossible, since it gives you roughly 6 mins pr run. But if you have a job you'd have 3 mins pr run assuming you work 8 hours a day including travel time.
Assuming a spouse takes on average 4 hours each day (atleast because he/she would get annoyed with the 24/7 gaming and sleeping) you'd have roughly 5 mins pr run. Work and girlfriend 1,3 mins pr run.
This is all assuming that the only thing you do aside from these things is playing diablo. If you take a day off (16 hours), You have to make up 1,15 seconds on each of the 50k runs.
It is possible but damn man, that is a tough life. @@kc96pl
Necro is still better for it.
@@Protagonistish I was playing nearly on all my days off work, so yeah, quite a bit ;) I took this challenge and Im happy I finished it.
PS. I started focusing on my Grail more at the end of the May. Before that, I was casually / occassionally playing. Usually, my runs were taking about 1-2 minutes. You can do the maths now :D
portal scrolls in the belt.... now it changes everything.
When you put your portal on the last square, you are putting a safe to you come back town.
nice, awesome.
They wonder why people bot and buy items, ain't nobody got time for that.
@randomguy8196 what's an inventory hack? What would that have to do with this?
@randomguy8196 I wasnt even going to respond.. but I wanted to tell you "that's stupid!"
@randomguy8196 why would you play anywhere other than ladder, you loser...
Then your inventory is full of charms so you cant pick anything up
You can actually open up your inventory then while you're dragging the item to put it into your inventory, the item is actually on your cursor, so you can exit a game with the item still on your cursor. When you join a new game, it will still be on your cursor and you'd be in town, so you can move it to stash then.
Or just tp, then clear your inventory temporarily so you can pick stuff up.
Makes much more sense to dedicate some space for picking stuff up though...
Personally I'd go around with identifying scrolls, either in the belt, or a book of such scrolls.
This way you can figure out if it's even worth the inventory space for an item.
If not, simply drop it back on the ground and look at the next item.
@@MultiUltimater Just dedicate four spots for your cube and just put the items you wanna pick up in the cube. Only losing 28% mf. But this video is just a demonstration for a max mf build and isn't supposed to be efficient.
@@Jsphserna I agree as per "Makes much more sense to dedicate some space for picking stuff up though... "
nicely done Xtimus! Still going strong in 2019!
Hi Xtimus
What is your strength, dexterity and Vitality requirement for Frenzy barb build for Acts 1, Acts 2 and Act 3 - Act 5?
Nice drops, thank you for posting.
Yeah. Very nice drops 😂
Nice 😄 next try to do same but with extra gold, must see how crazy stacks will drop 😄
Just found out that you have already done extra gold video, fun stuff
crispy fried onions how do I upgrade the belt ?
Roberto Nuno you need to find a specific rune and use the cube to upgrade it to its exceptional/elite version.
I used have a warcry gf baba and rip trav runs
Roberto Nuno Go to the website "ArreatSummit", bookmark that shit. Its the best informative D2 site out there I believe
I didnt get why the merc should kill him?
I wonder, would it be better to have lightning or fire merc? Or is damage pathetic anyway so does not matter much?
I know this was just a concept build, but with the diminishing returns on MF wouldn't it be easier and less tedious to just kill the shit with your barb? if your merc gets the kill then cool but that shouldn't be the objective, matter of factly an act 2 merc that was decked out would allow for quicker kills
Yes and the player could do more runs in a shorter amount of time which would make up for the %mf loss.
Both of you didn't listen to or read the disclaimer at the beginning of the video
Damn I want to get back into diablo 2 but I haven't played since 2003. I wouldn't know where to start.
i made tacos last night New ladder season just reset so everyone is starting fresh!
beside item drop, and magic find, there are also mod rolls. we notice these controllers variables back in old days and now they are all shown in poe
Cant believe your not playing pd2. Literally star struck. Pd2 is everything we have been asking for and more.
Except for stable servers!!
whats pd2?
Looks like ~300%mf is a good optimal and easily obtainable number to be at for unique items according to that chart.
"Optimal" according to what metrics? You want to have as much magic find as possible while still being able to clear enemies quickly without dying. You get quite a bit more set/unique drops going from 300 to 600 magic find. The idea is that you gain more magic find going from 0 to 250 than you do going from 250 to 500, so you get the biggest bang for your buck the first 2 or 3 hundred magic find. It's still optimal to juice the numbers up to 600 if it doesn't affect your clearing speed / survivability.
BRUTAL DUDE!! way to power thru it haha, gotta be a pain to not finish em off while ur merc paws at em!
But can u kill andy with 1 skeleton
You have thorns damage affecting enemies when they hit you. There’s a chance you are getting the last hit FYI
Hah, I knew about belt scrolls Day one! mostly because I do this annoying little thing called Reading the manual.
Is it possible to find a jewelers armor or monarch of luck?
Hi Xtimus
What is the players setting playing for 1700 Magic Find?
u forgot to switch weapons on mephs death
Hi! Isn't using a cold merc a bad idea? Less bodies to use Item Find.
Why not do a column of full juvs? Also, couldn’t you use 2 bo sticks, then switch them out for the crystal swords?
I started howling at dw 6 ist swords
Hi Xtimus
Do you have normal to Hell walkthrough for 1700 % Magic Find - Highest Possible Magic Find in Diablo 2?
Did he say the merc must get the killing blow in order for the magic find to work?
In order for the merc MF to apply yes. The merc must get the last hit. The characters mf always applies.
450mf seems to be fine. RNG still reigns supreme.
I also was always running 400-450 MF, seems to be a good spot. But was nice to see 1700% MF as experiment.
7:45 my typical drop
Forgot about putting tps in belt. That’s such a good space saver
Does magic find also help with unique and rare items? Or just blue items? I've always wondered.
Yes it helps with unique, set, and rare items. It does not help with runes though.
Magic find doesn’t affect rune dropping rate… did you find a single high rune?
Assassin is like am I a joke to you. Because they can dual wield claws and Wrist blades and katar. And they can also be socketed.
Best game ever. I love maximising the possibilities of this game in a legit way.
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very cool. Was your andy glich bug'd ? EDIT: nvm I see she was not wen I see the stanima potion drop.
8:24 good baba
During the fight with mephy the auto CC captions it as [Applause] lol
So... a video about using a hero editor, cool
Hello try testing it with baalruns?
Cool video man I’ll definitely try out an MF barb at some point. Probably won’t be using the last wish though, 5 high runes is a bit too pricy right now lol. Also it’s funny that an MF video has a thumbnail of a bunch of high runes on the floor (since mf doesn’t affect their drop chance).
Okay I'll start today and in a year I'll have a level 99 Barb and merc 😆
You got it yet?
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7:45 oof!
All in the name of science! Good video! Keep up the good work!
-Marc A.
Damn right!
-Testo P
How likely is it that there are any uniques left you did not got after you got 20 ITH runes?
Mercenaries cannot get to level 99 FYI. Also this is completely untested but if you got charms with poison damage can it get the killing blow on monsters? I know it cannot in PvP but I am not as versed in PvM. If it cant then you could get all 7% MF Small Charms with Poison damage and it would get the enemy to 1 health really quickly?
was this done on 7 player game?
Couldn't a barb merc have two 6 socket axes?
Also I can't believe that you didn't use antidote potions.
They don't just cure youthey also give 50 or 100% (can't remember how much off hand) resistance for a few minutes.
yes and it helps the effectiveness of all them health pots hes burning, even regular rejuv would be better
does mephy do poison now ?
oh you're running PlugY, that makes sense with the version number hadn't any letters
you should up your goldwrap for 4 slots ?
great d2 vids bro drops coulda been better but its how it goes sometimes
That 1st andariel kill with 2 blues, lol
I played ladder because many items were only findable there. But the constant seasons resets killed it for me... it takes sooo much time to grind some good stuff then reset... instead of solving the bots problem, they just gave more value to bots, not like blizz ever cared anyway
Hi. What mods are u using?
I need a little advice. I'm a returning player after a two year absence. I usually always play only as a Barbarian, sometimes summoning Necro. But this time I decided for my first time ever I would roll a Hammerdin.
My question is, what gear is the best MF gear for an Act 2 Merc?
Thank you
When doing an actual magic-find build, the main component is having a solid 300-600% magic find with fast clearing speed. It'll only slow you down to invest in magic find on your mercenary, waiting for him to last hit every monster. Keep in mind that mercenary magic find only comes into play if they get the last hit in which case the magic find used is the sum of theirs and yours. Otherwise, only your magic find is used. In the video, he invested so many resources into his mercenary, because he was trying to figure out the maximum magic find possible - not to be a useful magic find build.
Diablo 2's loot really triggered that reward centre in the brain. JUST rare enough that you want to keep trying. Diablo 3 kind of made them drop too often I think.
xtimus im a fan of diablo 2 and i saw Almost all of your content and i know what you're been through, dont worry your still a cool guy, don't stop your diablo2 content just ignore the negativity around you,just do what you do best. what matters is not all of the people are the same, their are still a fan of you, im a fan of yours too. what im saying is don't get overwhelmed on what others says negative about you, just ignored them and you'll be fine. i still think you're a great guy xtimus. keep up the good work!. 😊😉👍❤❤❤❤
Don´t forget to questbug Andariel !
link to guide in description please. always link your sources.