Mausoleum and Crypt are the earliest all-item areas but very low monster density. Next up is the Pit, I believe, but enemies in overland are pretty dangerous.
You can kite her to the bottom corner of her room, cast hydra then teleport over the wall to the stairs, the hydra will keep hitting her and she won't move, then just teleport back over, reset hydras and go back to the stairs, repeat until she's dead, don't need all that poison res and can stack extra mf on rings
@@TeslaCampAdventurescan't speak for the sorc because I haven't played her in years but on my necro it's golem - bone prison - iron maiden stand back while she kills herself 👍
I know everyone has their own skill levels, but you really should be able to handle her with a hybrid build, or a focused built without much trouble. If you struggle with skill (I still do when I come back to the came), here's a few tips: -A couple bonus points in static will help you immediately reduce her health. -Clear out the front of her room before engaging (not the middle room. never go in there) -If your merc dies instantly, spending more time farming some runewords for him is well worth the trouble. Stack your belt with more health pots than mana pots to make sure you both stay alive! -Level up! If you aren't as good as you want to be, hit 90. Get some extra life and merc life. There's a potential you find some good loot while leveling too! The one thing I would NEVER suggest is trying to slowly grind a boss down. Hydras are terrible for quick boss kills until you're geared. (I'll admit, maybe I'm outdated here. But Hydras have never been good for high DPS with non-godly gear) Damn, makes me want to play D2 again.
I remember I would farm NM Andy thousands of times for soj and it never dropped...my bro was like just do hell you'll at least have chances of getting other good items... first hell run in dropped soj lol... let's just say I don't run NM Andy anymore
My first character in DR2 Resurrected is a Javazon. Easy character to build since she is a missile-type player. After leveling her up to over 90lvl, she switched to Magic Finding. She ended up finding enough items to make a Fist of Heavens Paladin. She found an Soj and traded to get an Soj. Gave both to the Paladin. He now is over 90lvl, and hits Andariel 2 times and she dies
I'd be happy with these runs. Went from super budget to pretty much end-game gear, minus one or two items. Not GG ofc, but you'll be comfortable to run a lot of things. Fun stuff!
Meh, it's fake. The drops, he edits them to drop, uses drop rate calculator online to decide which drops to edit in over the course of "1000" runs, then splices together a bunch of clips with the edited drops.
Honestly i wish instead of Diablo 4, just make a new game where mechanics are the same but new maps, bosses, quests, gear and classes. My issue with D3 was the feel of the game was way different. D2 was all about the loot and how hard it was to get it. I could not even tell you a single name of an item in D3 because 70% of the time you would find something better the next day
@@Hallowsaw you don't remember because you never looked up a powerful build and then farmed to get those items, you never had the top tier stuff. I can tell you everything about my frenzy barb off the top of my head, even then 3 perks I have in Kanai's Cube, because it's built for a purpose.
@@ryanmiskin8925 my point was even in the begining of D2 you had to farm. Had to farm rakinishu fof low sets, gull dagger. Had to farm andareal to get gear for mephisto. Then you had to farm mephisto and diablo normal to get gear for nm. Then cows for socketables. Like you were constantly going to different places and sometimes even backtracking to nm once in hell to more efficiently faem meph and diablo for the exceptional uniques that were hard to find. Idk i thoroughly enjoyed d2 and playing on single player was very enjoyable because when you found something good it was so rewarding since you didnt trade foe it. Like linding a Lo rune in single player is dang near impossible but i found one.
I've gotten multiple occys and shakos from Andy. as an soj and mid runes. Andy is always a good choice and with a sorce I'd run Andy and methodical until I've got good enough gear to incorporate diablo then do all 3 bosses per game. Now I have some of the strongest versions of every class fully geared
Having only recently gotten into D2 (having known of it and casually played for 20 years), I am also in favor of that Valk Wing helm :P Any good gear for Zon is an insta-favourite since she scales with enemy count. I just love it XD good vid btw Edit: Showing the roll ranges is a great edit!
Much easier to obtain for a javazon than that diadem or whatever people are using, throw a socket into it and a perfect lightning facet and you should be good. I also have that elite javelin with lightning pierce, plus a conviction aura on my hireling and a wand with lower resist charges pretty much deals with every lightning immune i find. My entire gear combined is worth less than that diadem, still completed Hell players 8 solo, so who cares about it.
Yes! Thank you! A new release! I could only watch the other vids on repeat for so long! This is the inspiration I need to sit down and do another boss grind fest with D2R on my switch on my couch!
Thank you so much Tim, your support is truly and greatly appreciated! I love D2R on the switch! It’s just too bad you can’t sync offline characters between that and pc. Haven’t touched the switch since I started making these videos.
Sorc probably the best character to stack Magic Find because of the spell reliance so it's good for a starter character dropped in the desert to claw up and gear the other characters in their arsenal, at least how I'm looking at it from here
Been so long since I’ve played d2 thinking about getting it again. Currently playing d4 and loving it. But this brings back memories. I find these videos so interesting bc I remember doing Baal runs back in the day.
I love running andy. I always prefered her over mephisto. The dolls in Durance alone are so damn annoying that I usually ran Andy until I have ocu-viper-shako-lidless-magefist-goldwrap and then i swapped to TC85 for Tal armor/amu/DF. When I can't even run andy at the start of a ladder, I usually went for meph only on NM, because NM andy drops basically nothing (except for statistically SoJ, but in like 15k andy-runs in my life, I have not once found one there.)
I’m usually a meph guy, but after these runs I’m not sure which I like more for new characters. Catacombs is such a nice place compared to durance, that’s for sure!
@zarfen especially since the drops are so similar. Andy is TC69 and meph is TC78, and the only items that could be considered important that meph drops, but andy doesn't is reapers toll(TC71) and (ironically) andariels Visage(TC75). If you're going for a grail, sure, meph can drop more items, but basically, any gear that's actually useful can drop from Andy.
I haven't played this game since before the skills even had synergies. All my life I thought that Bald of Ali Baba was a RUNEWORD, cause I only ever saw them with IST, IST in them. I even owned 2 that I traded for. I was even trying to make my own for a while but I never, EVER found even 1 IST rune. I can't believe I never knew they are just regular uniques.
Perfect Bonesnap is nice, upgrade it into an exceptional, put a socket into it, sheal rune, and you having something that can easily last you till the end of nightmare. All that damage potential for lvl 34.
I don't play D2R but still love these videos. I will grind D4 though, and looking forward to lots of videos from that game from you! You have a great thing going here and if you do D4 loot videos consistently from release, I bet this channel could grow A LOT. Ha det bra!
Thank you so much for your comment! I’m definitely going to play D4. If I’ll make videos for D4 or not depends entirely on what the end game loot grind is like. In the beta the gameplay was fun but loot felt only okay imo. It was just a beta though so I’m hopeful! Tack detsamma, glad påsk 😁
@@ИльяМакаренко-я8е I enjoyed it a lot during the beta weekends, but then when I played it after release I got bored very quickly. I don’t even know exactly why but doing quests, dungeons and finding new items just didn’t feel exciting to me.
that ruby jewel of fervor drop is huge!! I was surprised you didn't make a hoto for the character with the vex (even before the pul) or start with a spirit monarch flickering flame is quite nice for farming andariel, though
Yeah it was sweet! I wonder if I will use it or if I get “too good to use”-syndrome, always waiting for a better item to use the jewel on. I’m planning on making a pure fire sorc with sundering charm for terror zones in the near future, that was also a partial reason I made flickering flame with the vex.
@@zarfen they do say its in NM, I tried with 500 runs around 300 mf, nothing but manald hahaha! but the ring drops was a lot more compared to hell, i guess luck was not on my side haha
Thank you! Somewhere between 15-16 hours. But once I had some decent gear and got into the flow of the runs I was doing a run in 30-45 seconds, while early on a run could take 2 minutes if there were a lot of monsters around Andariel.
you said that when you found the tals helm it was your third item? but when you identified the tals ammy... you can clearly see that you have the whole set? so was this unintentional?
Thank you! It took me between 15-16 hours of play time (including load times and character select screen) Runs were much faster once I got a little bit of gear and learned how to lure her where I wanted her to go so it depends on your starting point.
Do you pick up the unique claws and barb helms? I noticed you skipped over them but that might just be lost in editing. Some of those claws can be very good with the right skills/IAS rolls.
I do! But this time none of them were anything noteworthy. I think the best claw was a +3 to LS and as for barb helms I don’t even remember any decent ones dropping 😅 Andariel did drop A LOT of assassin claws though, wonder if that is RNG or if she drops them this often but I haven’t noticed before. I’m sure I missed ID’ing some of them though while focusing on the recording.
I don’t know, probably about the same. Andariel has 2 levels, but durance is much bigger than the catacombs so if you don’t find the entrance right away you can be looking for longer at meph. Maybe Andy is a little faster on average. There are not rules but “guides”. By looking at the layout of the map tile the wp is on is facing, you know which way the stairs down map tile is facing. That gives you good odds of it being in a certain direction, but not a guarantee. Catacombs lvl3 has no hints or guides
Partially because I started without one and I was a bit lazy to get one later, but also because kiting Andariel away from monsters became a big part of my strategy and a merc would have messed with that. If I were to go back now I’d use one though for sure
Thank you! The runs took about 15-16 hours. Andariel runs can be pretty fast and I do try to be efficient when doing these or it would take much longer.
@@zarfen Wow, yeah you have that down to under a minute per a run! That is quite a bit faster than I could manage. I get very distracted by random loot. I am itching to play the game again, but it really does suck up way too much time for me 😂
@@fredrichardson9761 when I don’t have a clear goal (like doing 1000 runs for a video) I also pick up WAY too much random loot and play quite slow in general 😁
I grinded this game 25 years ago as a kid, for a few years, and let it go. Your video just made me want to play again. However, please, there are people with OCD here, and the fact that you let poison almost kill you everytime is a fearsome thing for people like us while watching 😅 (I'd like to smash the potion button every time I saw it on this video)
Yeah you can farm her as soon as you get to her, as much as you want. That was kind of what I tried simulating in this video. Though to be clear this was in hell difficulty so you need to beat normal and nightmare first. In normal difficulty I would not farm Andariel personally
I’m thinking about buying d2r to play on my parents toaster computer (basically a glorified tablet) I am able to play d2 classic and heroes of the storm on it for references ..will D2R work?
I always play D2 casually until recently one of my newly created character found 3 pieces of Tal Ra Sha on first run in hell difficulty. Now I'm farming like crazy to get the other pieces. It's a torment to say the least...
The armor and the amulet can be so hard to find… good luck, the set is awesome! I finally finished the set with the amu I found during this video, but haven’t tried it out yet in D2R
Tal armor is a pain in the a.. I have played diablo 2 as teen regularly for several years. Had dozens of lv 90 chars. Bought resurrected and played some month a sorc. I found first time in my life the armor in the act 2 tomb in the first region which now has high lv mobs. Insane drop rates did this game have.
Haha! A few times ;) Poison doesn’t ever kill you, it can only take you down to 1hp. But it did happen a few times that I didn’t notice an enemy sneaking up to me while at 1hp and busy identifying loot.
I use a run counter app. When I save and exit on every run I press a keyboard command which adds a run to the total count. Don’t remember what it’s called and I’m not at my computer atm. If you search Diablo 2 run counter on TH-cam you should find a guide by Sweet Phil that I followed to set mine up
Ive watched this all the way through 3 times now, and every time I feel anxiety from watching his health drop over and over from the poison damage. Haha
Haha 😁 to be honest I did die a few times after letting my health drop really low and not noticing a left-over enemy sneaking up on me while identifying loot
Yeah gull is nice! Very rare though, especially in the late game. I don’t know the in and outs of the drop rng but as far as I understand it’s “too low level” that most bosses in hell have a super small chance for it.
I was thinking about doing that as a follow-up to my key running video but I haven’t gotten around to it yet. I might still do it but I don’t have such a video planned atm. I’m sure there are plenty of budget Uber videos if you search though.
How long did the 1000 runs take, I would scroll through "all" the comments but I am on my phone currently and it won't load them, I apologize if it was already asked and answered. Thank you..............Matthew from the U.S.
Back in the day it took me an embarrassing amount of time to realize what people were talking about when they said were doing an Andy run. I just assumed that Andy was a hidden male npc I didnt know about
I’m not, but now I gotta go listen to him. Maybe I can steal some commentary ideas! Jokes aside, I don’t have another TH-cam channel or other “media content”, must just be similar voices.
I like your positive attitude. Most of the time when I find many of the things you mentioned, I am disappointed. But maybe I should value the stuff more. Thank you for the motivation. I would still be interested to know how many hours it needed you about to do those 1000 runs, if I may ask.
Thank you, Philip! I appreciate your comment. I found that I’m much happier about the drops in general when I’m playing a budget/self found character so that more items are upgrades. I think I might start doing that much more. These runs took about 15-16 hours. I did 1000 mephisto runs (also budget gear) and that took a bit over 16 hours. 1000 pindle runs(mid geared character) took~12 hours IIRC. I dread the day I decide to do 1000 Diablo or Baal, that’s gonna take A LOT longer
I've watched a few of your MF project videos and have always wondered what player setting you play on. I see you get so many good drops but then get discouraged when my SP hammerdin gets smashed on p7 Andy. 😭
This was players 1 setting. I do almost all my MFing on /players 1. I don’t think my budget character could have handled any higher. Additionally I don’t think it’s worth increasing even with better gear since the increased boss HP will increase run times(unless you have really good gear and clear her in seconds anyway). Running on players 1 I did have some runs where she literally dropped a single flawless gem and nothing else, but over time I believe it’s the most efficient.
The runs were very slow before I got a little bit of gear and levels from the starting point so it’s a bit longer than it could be, but. My run counter says 15 hours and 45 minutes. Those hours were spread out over almost two weeks
@@WitOlszewski yeah both meph and Andy are fast to run so you can do a lot of runs in. Ofc it helps I’m offline for these runs so the map is the same between games. If I wasn’t recording for a video I would probably mix it up a little though and not grind a 1000 of the same in a row :)
I usually do andy to gear the sorc, and then meph to gear other chars until I can come into Chaos Sanctuary. or go javazon if you get plvl'd and just do cowz
I watch these d2r vids and contemplate return but they remind me of time invested....It was always said Andy has higher soj drop, but I only ever saw 3 in countless runs in my days. Which was years ago. I like the changes in resurrected, especially more hr drops.
Yes it’s single player. I didn’t change the /players setting for these runs but the static map was very helpful. Thank you! That makes me happy to read!
In Diablo 2, a tricky way of shopping solves most problems of the character’s weakness. The best aim is to regularly try to buy items from all in the rouge encampment. Then you can check on magical items for your character, and those you hire. Later, you can buy socketed items, leaving the sockets empty. When you repeatedly complete some quests, your gem stones can be imbued to the biggest size, then your socketed items will become the most powerful. That’s for Barbarian.
These videos are great man! Thank you doing this with budget builds and showing how to properly upgrade with game progression. Can't wait to see the next one! P.S. I cringed hard at your health at 13:00 Why let it get that low?!
Thank you so much! I’m glad you like that because I’m having a lot of fun making these “budget gearing” videos. How awesome is it to be able to get excited for a Tarnhelm in 2023 😁 Hehe once my poison resist went so low that health potions barely out-healed andariels poison I stopped healing after she was dead to make fewer potion trips to Akara. (I did die a few times while identifying loot though 😅)
I wa so tired of running lower Kurast for high runes (never got anything higher than OHM). Then I misclicked ans was on NM instead of Hell. My very good LK patern was destroyed. So I went for NM Andariel. After 7 runs I had a Stone of Jordan. No luck with LK but a lot of luck with NM Andariel :-).
Andy has always been a breeze for my fire/fury werewolf druid on high party member setting its the act 2 boss and diablo that gave me issues on my first runs. Idk why peeps hate on the fury werewolf. I'm flying through everything except those couple of bosses.
Yeah if your gearing a new char on ladder then Andariel is pretty decent but in any other case I don't ever farm her. I am more interested in the lvl 85 areas
I love farming Andarielle, she's easy to find the fight isn't hard and I got Tal Amulet, the Oculus, mage fist, 2 shakos and more. I hate Mephisto because of his dungeon and dumb exploding dolls.
The merc dies so quickly at low levels with no gear. I could have tried again once I leveled a bit and got some decent gear, but I didn’t want him to mess up my kiting of Andariel. If I were to go back with the fully geared sorc now, I would get a merc though.
@@zarfen Was about to make a Hydra Sorc this season (2 or 3 weeks after season start) and tested it offline before. Sunder Charm worked but -30 fire res from faceted wep had no effect.
Ok thanks for clarifying. I thought that was a bug and they fixed it, but I might be mistaken and it was only traps that they fixed. I should test this, even though I’m gonna respec her to fireball now that the runs are done.
You can kill Andariel behind the door if you never open it. You can lure her with teleport to the door and cast spells that fall behind the door and kill her
Yeah I saw a video of that. Cool tactic but it seems like it would take a lot of time to lure her? I didn’t try it though so maybe it would have been a good strat!
A lot of people says that! I haven’t done too many terror zone runs myself yet, but I did take a short detour to terrorized Andy in my last 1000 pindle runs video and she dropped nicely then so I believe it 😅
This was all on /players 1. I think I couldn’t have handled players 8 when starting out, and even when I had some decent gear I valued faster runs higher
@@zarfen Thanks for the answer! I am running players 8 right now but I do not see any value. Pretty much similar gear is dropping on both p1 and p8 and I think imma revert to p1.
@@woochitelj higher player settings only increases the amount of items that drops. It doesn’t give more MF or guarantee better items. Of course more items means better items over the long run, but doing runs faster means more runs which also means more drops so I usually stay at players 1 when MFing
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I made a mistake at 0:12 - Diablo can not drop every item in the game.
But close!
Mausoleum and Crypt are the earliest all-item areas but very low monster density. Next up is the Pit, I believe, but enemies in overland are pretty dangerous.
You FOOL! What kind of loot goblin are you? A stinky widdle liar? For shame...
@@kosterix123 Pit archers are dangerous in HC bc of might
What can't he drop?
Really appreciate showing the roll variables
Love that you emulated a new hell sorc by starting with starter gear.
You can kite her to the bottom corner of her room, cast hydra then teleport over the wall to the stairs, the hydra will keep hitting her and she won't move, then just teleport back over, reset hydras and go back to the stairs, repeat until she's dead, don't need all that poison res and can stack extra mf on rings
Does this mostly avoid having to kill her minions too? That’s what takes the most time.
You can also just lure her to the door, then cast hydras on the door, half will spawn on the other side of the door. Works with blizzard as well :)
@@TeslaCampAdventurescan't speak for the sorc because I haven't played her in years but on my necro it's golem - bone prison - iron maiden stand back while she kills herself 👍
I know everyone has their own skill levels, but you really should be able to handle her with a hybrid build, or a focused built without much trouble.
If you struggle with skill (I still do when I come back to the came), here's a few tips:
-A couple bonus points in static will help you immediately reduce her health.
-Clear out the front of her room before engaging (not the middle room. never go in there)
-If your merc dies instantly, spending more time farming some runewords for him is well worth the trouble. Stack your belt with more health pots than mana pots to make sure you both stay alive!
-Level up! If you aren't as good as you want to be, hit 90. Get some extra life and merc life. There's a potential you find some good loot while leveling too!
The one thing I would NEVER suggest is trying to slowly grind a boss down. Hydras are terrible for quick boss kills until you're geared. (I'll admit, maybe I'm outdated here. But Hydras have never been good for high DPS with non-godly gear)
Damn, makes me want to play D2 again.
I use lower resist on her and attack her with my charge strike 6 times
I remember I would farm NM Andy thousands of times for soj and it never dropped...my bro was like just do hell you'll at least have chances of getting other good items... first hell run in dropped soj lol... let's just say I don't run NM Andy anymore
I can't get my character beefy enough for hell though
@@elijahskywalker611 I recommend running nm mephisto until you’re beefy enough for hell. He can actually drop some really good end game loot.
@Elijah Skywalker what platform you play on?
@@NinjaNerosis I'm on pc Americas
@@zarfen thanks for the advice, great channel btw
Love your videos man. Your voice, editing style, and everything makes for such a good experience. Thank you!
Thank you! That makes me super happy to read.
My first character in DR2 Resurrected is a Javazon. Easy character to build since she is a missile-type player. After leveling her up to over 90lvl, she switched to Magic Finding. She ended up finding enough items to make a Fist of Heavens Paladin. She found an Soj and traded to get an Soj. Gave both to the Paladin. He now is over 90lvl, and hits Andariel 2 times and she dies
Zarfen I really enjoy your video style, nice runs!
Thank you! That makes me really happy to read!
Love your channel. Thanks for showing me what I miss out because of so much work 😢😂
Thank you so much, Narago! Hehe im happy to help with that 😁
I'd be happy with these runs. Went from super budget to pretty much end-game gear, minus one or two items. Not GG ofc, but you'll be comfortable to run a lot of things. Fun stuff!
Just didn’t have a life
HAHAH END GAME GEAR! There is no end game.
I saw your last 1000 run vids and been waiting for another one! Glad its here. Gonna need more from you :P
Thank you TJ! I’ll make more for sure :)
Meh, it's fake. The drops, he edits them to drop, uses drop rate calculator online to decide which drops to edit in over the course of "1000" runs, then splices together a bunch of clips with the edited drops.
2:15 this game has been out for almost 2 years and i still marvel at the great job the team did on the graphics
Haha 😂 agreed!
Honestly i wish instead of Diablo 4, just make a new game where mechanics are the same but new maps, bosses, quests, gear and classes. My issue with D3 was the feel of the game was way different. D2 was all about the loot and how hard it was to get it. I could not even tell you a single name of an item in D3 because 70% of the time you would find something better the next day
@@Hallowsaw you don't remember because you never looked up a powerful build and then farmed to get those items, you never had the top tier stuff. I can tell you everything about my frenzy barb off the top of my head, even then 3 perks I have in Kanai's Cube, because it's built for a purpose.
@@ryanmiskin8925 my point was even in the begining of D2 you had to farm. Had to farm rakinishu fof low sets, gull dagger. Had to farm andareal to get gear for mephisto. Then you had to farm mephisto and diablo normal to get gear for nm. Then cows for socketables. Like you were constantly going to different places and sometimes even backtracking to nm once in hell to more efficiently faem meph and diablo for the exceptional uniques that were hard to find. Idk i thoroughly enjoyed d2 and playing on single player was very enjoyable because when you found something good it was so rewarding since you didnt trade foe it. Like linding a Lo rune in single player is dang near impossible but i found one.
LMAO, 2 years ?
Woaw that's a very long time for video game... 2 whole years ?
I've gotten multiple occys and shakos from Andy. as an soj and mid runes. Andy is always a good choice and with a sorce I'd run Andy and methodical until I've got good enough gear to incorporate diablo then do all 3 bosses per game. Now I have some of the strongest versions of every class fully geared
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Having only recently gotten into D2 (having known of it and casually played for 20 years), I am also in favor of that Valk Wing helm :P
Any good gear for Zon is an insta-favourite since she scales with enemy count. I just love it XD good vid btw
Edit: Showing the roll ranges is a great edit!
Yeah I don’t know what it is with valk wing… I think you’re right, I have an affinity for many zon items too :P
Thanks! :)
Much easier to obtain for a javazon than that diadem or whatever people are using, throw a socket into it and a perfect lightning facet and you should be good. I also have that elite javelin with lightning pierce, plus a conviction aura on my hireling and a wand with lower resist charges pretty much deals with every lightning immune i find. My entire gear combined is worth less than that diadem, still completed Hell players 8 solo, so who cares about it.
I just looted one today . ofc its +1 to skills -_- fuc. I almost had something I could trade
@cleetz 😞unfortunate! I’m not a fan on there being roll ranges for super important things like +skills. Rolling low on +skills feels so bad!
5:26 curious why all of the tals set items show green here. Shortly after you only have 3 of the items?
Yes! Thank you! A new release! I could only watch the other vids on repeat for so long!
This is the inspiration I need to sit down and do another boss grind fest with D2R on my switch on my couch!
Thank you so much Tim, your support is truly and greatly appreciated!
I love D2R on the switch! It’s just too bad you can’t sync offline characters between that and pc. Haven’t touched the switch since I started making these videos.
Gave you a 👍 for that nice little edit at 2:15
Thanks! 😁 glad you liked it
Sorc probably the best character to stack Magic Find because of the spell reliance so it's good for a starter character dropped in the desert to claw up and gear the other characters in their arsenal, at least how I'm looking at it from here
Been so long since I’ve played d2 thinking about getting it again. Currently playing d4 and loving it. But this brings back memories. I find these videos so interesting bc I remember doing Baal runs back in the day.
NO WAY!!! GG!!! :D !!! (specially on the tals amulet that's unreal!!!)
I love running andy. I always prefered her over mephisto. The dolls in Durance alone are so damn annoying that I usually ran Andy until I have ocu-viper-shako-lidless-magefist-goldwrap and then i swapped to TC85 for Tal armor/amu/DF. When I can't even run andy at the start of a ladder, I usually went for meph only on NM, because NM andy drops basically nothing (except for statistically SoJ, but in like 15k andy-runs in my life, I have not once found one there.)
I’m usually a meph guy, but after these runs I’m not sure which I like more for new characters.
Catacombs is such a nice place compared to durance, that’s for sure!
@zarfen especially since the drops are so similar. Andy is TC69 and meph is TC78, and the only items that could be considered important that meph drops, but andy doesn't is reapers toll(TC71) and (ironically) andariels Visage(TC75). If you're going for a grail, sure, meph can drop more items, but basically, any gear that's actually useful can drop from Andy.
perfect bonesnap isnt useless, cube it up a tier and its absolutely godly twink weapon.
Until IK Maul that is.
I haven't played this game since before the skills even had synergies.
All my life I thought that Bald of Ali Baba was a RUNEWORD, cause I only ever saw them with IST, IST in them. I even owned 2 that I traded for. I was even trying to make my own for a while but I never, EVER found even 1 IST rune.
I can't believe I never knew they are just regular uniques.
Perfect Bonesnap is nice, upgrade it into an exceptional, put a socket into it, sheal rune, and you having something that can easily last you till the end of nightmare. All that damage potential for lvl 34.
Yeah it kind of deserves to be put to use doesn’t it!
I don't play D2R but still love these videos. I will grind D4 though, and looking forward to lots of videos from that game from you! You have a great thing going here and if you do D4 loot videos consistently from release, I bet this channel could grow A LOT. Ha det bra!
Thank you so much for your comment! I’m definitely going to play D4. If I’ll make videos for D4 or not depends entirely on what the end game loot grind is like. In the beta the gameplay was fun but loot felt only okay imo. It was just a beta though so I’m hopeful!
Tack detsamma, glad påsk 😁
@@zarfen What your opinion about D4 now?
@@ИльяМакаренко-я8е I enjoyed it a lot during the beta weekends, but then when I played it after release I got bored very quickly. I don’t even know exactly why but doing quests, dungeons and finding new items just didn’t feel exciting to me.
@@zarfen I am old diablo fan but 4 looks boring even on videos.
that ruby jewel of fervor drop is huge!! I was surprised you didn't make a hoto for the character with the vex (even before the pul) or start with a spirit monarch
flickering flame is quite nice for farming andariel, though
Yeah it was sweet! I wonder if I will use it or if I get “too good to use”-syndrome, always waiting for a better item to use the jewel on.
I’m planning on making a pure fire sorc with sundering charm for terror zones in the near future, that was also a partial reason I made flickering flame with the vex.
@@zarfen ethereal andariel's visage with a good leech roll should be the perfect home for the jewel!
@@87539319 I’ll be on the lookout for one for sure!
@@zarfen lightninng is almost always faster clears
i thought i was the only one not getting any soj from andariel haha nice run tho. 👍
Not a single soj in sight! 😔 will I have to resort to running nm Andariel? Plz no…
Thanks! 🙂
@@zarfen they do say its in NM, I tried with 500 runs around 300 mf, nothing but manald hahaha! but the ring drops was a lot more compared to hell, i guess luck was not on my side haha
@@taprick damn! It’ll come eventually :)
Got a soj on the way to Andy once, but directly from her never😂
Great vid, thanks! Were you on players 1? Or something else pls?
Glad you liked it! Players 1 for whole video
Nice! A fellow loot goblin :)
Loot goblins unite 🤝
@@zarfen yes ! 🤝
Great video! How long did it take you to complete the 1000 rounds ? Cheers.
Thank you!
Somewhere between 15-16 hours. But once I had some decent gear and got into the flow of the runs I was doing a run in 30-45 seconds, while early on a run could take 2 minutes if there were a lot of monsters around Andariel.
A fellow crown enjoyer for helmet runeword bases I see, now you have my attention.
Crowns are my #1 right now. #2 is probably skull cap because they look funny.
Tiaras/circlets are so mid/late 2000’s 😜
@@zarfen Crowns are my favourite, but the bone helm still holds an edgy place in my heart.
@@TheTamally ah yeah that’s a good one too! Looks sick in resurrected
Cool video! About how long does it take you to complete these 1000 run videos?
Thanks! The runs took 15-16 hours. Early on a run took upwards of 2 minutes but in the end a run could be as short as 35-40 seconds.
This was super fun to watch.
Thank you! That makes me so glad to read.
Trevlig video! Jag har precis börjat köra D2 igen efter 20 år =)
Tack 🙂
Nice! Hoppas spelet välkomnar dig tillbaka med bra loot.
you said that when you found the tals helm it was your third item? but when you identified the tals ammy... you can clearly see that you have the whole set? so was this unintentional?
Awesome video. How lo does it take to run Andy 1000 times ?
Thank you! It took me between 15-16 hours of play time (including load times and character select screen)
Runs were much faster once I got a little bit of gear and learned how to lure her where I wanted her to go so it depends on your starting point.
Do you pick up the unique claws and barb helms? I noticed you skipped over them but that might just be lost in editing. Some of those claws can be very good with the right skills/IAS rolls.
I do! But this time none of them were anything noteworthy. I think the best claw was a +3 to LS and as for barb helms I don’t even remember any decent ones dropping 😅
Andariel did drop A LOT of assassin claws though, wonder if that is RNG or if she drops them this often but I haven’t noticed before.
I’m sure I missed ID’ing some of them though while focusing on the recording.
Good video and commentary . Keep up the good work.
Thank you for the kind comment!
So something I saw in the very beginning, his magic items show up blue on the ground, in my game they do not. I’m on ps4, anything I can do?
I’ve never heard of that problem before, but have you checked so you don’t have some sort of color blind assist setting on or something?
@@zarfen yeah, I even turned on the colorblind to see if it would change it, none of the settings have fixed it.
What is the highest rune catacombs level 4 and Andariel can drop?, yesterday i found a Sur Rune and the zone wasn't terrorized.
Hello, thanks for the video. Does the Andariel bug still exist or is it patched?
As far as I know they have successfully fixed it now. They patched it a while back but did it wrong, but iirc they fixed the failed fix now😅
Quick question: who is a QUICKER run? Mephisto or andariel? There’s no rule on how to find the stairs down right?
I don’t know, probably about the same.
Andariel has 2 levels, but durance is much bigger than the catacombs so if you don’t find the entrance right away you can be looking for longer at meph. Maybe Andy is a little faster on average.
There are not rules but “guides”. By looking at the layout of the map tile the wp is on is facing, you know which way the stairs down map tile is facing. That gives you good odds of it being in a certain direction, but not a guarantee. Catacombs lvl3 has no hints or guides
Why no merc?. An Insight and that VGaze and Guardian Angel wouke be lovely
Partially because I started without one and I was a bit lazy to get one later, but also because kiting Andariel away from monsters became a big part of my strategy and a merc would have messed with that. If I were to go back now I’d use one though for sure
A merc will just die if you do not have the gear for him andy will just rek it in 2 seconds so waste of gold
Enjoyed your vid mate. Is this eternal realm or single player?
Thanks! This was single player so I had a static map which was nice for teleporting in the catacombs but no changes to /players settings
Nice video and great results from those runs. How long did that take you? I think it would take me at least 80 hours of game play...
Thank you! The runs took about 15-16 hours. Andariel runs can be pretty fast and I do try to be efficient when doing these or it would take much longer.
@@zarfen Wow, yeah you have that down to under a minute per a run! That is quite a bit faster than I could manage. I get very distracted by random loot. I am itching to play the game again, but it really does suck up way too much time for me 😂
@@fredrichardson9761 when I don’t have a clear goal (like doing 1000 runs for a video) I also pick up WAY too much random loot and play quite slow in general 😁
I grinded this game 25 years ago as a kid, for a few years, and let it go.
Your video just made me want to play again.
However, please, there are people with OCD here, and the fact that you let poison almost kill you everytime is a fearsome thing for people like us while watching 😅 (I'd like to smash the potion button every time I saw it on this video)
so you can only do this if you beat the game already? or can i just keep killing her and almost dying when i first get to her just starting out?
Yeah you can farm her as soon as you get to her, as much as you want. That was kind of what I tried simulating in this video.
Though to be clear this was in hell difficulty so you need to beat normal and nightmare first. In normal difficulty I would not farm Andariel personally
I’m thinking about buying d2r to play on my parents toaster computer (basically a glorified tablet) I am able to play d2 classic and heroes of the storm on it for references ..will D2R work?
I always play D2 casually until recently one of my newly created character found 3 pieces of Tal Ra Sha on first run in hell difficulty. Now I'm farming like crazy to get the other pieces. It's a torment to say the least...
The armor and the amulet can be so hard to find… good luck, the set is awesome! I finally finished the set with the amu I found during this video, but haven’t tried it out yet in D2R
Tal armor is a pain in the a.. I have played diablo 2 as teen regularly for several years. Had dozens of lv 90 chars. Bought resurrected and played some month a sorc. I found first time in my life the armor in the act 2 tomb in the first region which now has high lv mobs. Insane drop rates did this game have.
So how many times do you cut out dying from poision after andariel is dead. ;)
Haha! A few times ;)
Poison doesn’t ever kill you, it can only take you down to 1hp. But it did happen a few times that I didn’t notice an enemy sneaking up to me while at 1hp and busy identifying loot.
Does only 1 Gheed's work at a time or something?
Correct. You can’t even carry 2 at the same time
Really accurate recreation of the first Nagel find
How did you keep track of the runs? Pen and paper?
I use a run counter app. When I save and exit on every run I press a keyboard command which adds a run to the total count. Don’t remember what it’s called and I’m not at my computer atm. If you search Diablo 2 run counter on TH-cam you should find a guide by Sweet Phil that I followed to set mine up
Ive watched this all the way through 3 times now, and every time I feel anxiety from watching his health drop over and over from the poison damage. Haha
Haha 😁 to be honest I did die a few times after letting my health drop really low and not noticing a left-over enemy sneaking up on me while identifying loot
Try watching 1000 times and tell us what will drop.
i like how stupidly you like loot and your accent is very nice. and your videos arent full of cringey filler ty
Haha thanks! I DO love loot 😁
Was this done on quest bugged Andy runs, or regular?
AFAIK they fixed the quest bug and now Andy always drops “good” regardless
how do u get Tal Rasha 4 Part Bonus without the helmet ?
Getting gullwing is nice as well. Not sure if drop rate is better of her or cold crow but that dagger is amazing
Yeah gull is nice! Very rare though, especially in the late game. I don’t know the in and outs of the drop rng but as far as I understand it’s “too low level” that most bosses in hell have a super small chance for it.
Can you make a video about running the ubers for torches, and a guide for very, very poor-mans version on how to run it?
I was thinking about doing that as a follow-up to my key running video but I haven’t gotten around to it yet. I might still do it but I don’t have such a video planned atm. I’m sure there are plenty of budget Uber videos if you search though.
How long did the 1000 runs take, I would scroll through "all" the comments but I am on my phone currently and it won't load them, I apologize if it was already asked and answered. Thank you..............Matthew from the U.S.
No problem Matthew. These runs took 15-16 hours. The runs were quite a bit slower at the beginning compared to the end.
Back in the day it took me an embarrassing amount of time to realize what people were talking about when they said were doing an Andy run. I just assumed that Andy was a hidden male npc I didnt know about
I knew I knew you from somewhere... are you the guy who does Military History Visualized?!
I’m not, but now I gotta go listen to him. Maybe I can steal some commentary ideas!
Jokes aside, I don’t have another TH-cam channel or other “media content”, must just be similar voices.
I like your positive attitude. Most of the time when I find many of the things you mentioned, I am disappointed. But maybe I should value the stuff more. Thank you for the motivation.
I would still be interested to know how many hours it needed you about to do those 1000 runs, if I may ask.
Thank you, Philip! I appreciate your comment. I found that I’m much happier about the drops in general when I’m playing a budget/self found character so that more items are upgrades. I think I might start doing that much more.
These runs took about 15-16 hours. I did 1000 mephisto runs (also budget gear) and that took a bit over 16 hours. 1000 pindle runs(mid geared character) took~12 hours IIRC.
I dread the day I decide to do 1000 Diablo or Baal, that’s gonna take A LOT longer
@@zarfen Thank you so much. That information helps a lot, to see how much time I will have to invest roughly.
NP, good luck with the runs!
I've watched a few of your MF project videos and have always wondered what player setting you play on. I see you get so many good drops but then get discouraged when my SP hammerdin gets smashed on p7 Andy. 😭
This was players 1 setting. I do almost all my MFing on /players 1. I don’t think my budget character could have handled any higher. Additionally I don’t think it’s worth increasing even with better gear since the increased boss HP will increase run times(unless you have really good gear and clear her in seconds anyway). Running on players 1 I did have some runs where she literally dropped a single flawless gem and nothing else, but over time I believe it’s the most efficient.
@@zarfen thanks so much for the reply! I have renewed faith in doing Andy/Meph runs!
Out of curiosity... Was this done on players1 or higher?
Default /players 1
I’m super casual D2R player, so I’m curious, how long does it take to run 1000 Andy runs? Like a week?
The runs were very slow before I got a little bit of gear and levels from the starting point so it’s a bit longer than it could be, but. My run counter says 15 hours and 45 minutes. Those hours were spread out over almost two weeks
@@zarfen that doesn’t sound that bad, I need to try my 1000 Andy runs one day :D
Cheers!
@@WitOlszewski yeah both meph and Andy are fast to run so you can do a lot of runs in. Ofc it helps I’m offline for these runs so the map is the same between games.
If I wasn’t recording for a video I would probably mix it up a little though and not grind a 1000 of the same in a row :)
I usually do andy to gear the sorc, and then meph to gear other chars until I can come into Chaos Sanctuary.
or go javazon if you get plvl'd and just do cowz
Full send on Andy tonight got a Shako so thats pretty nice =D.
Great content, man, so sad there was no SoJ in there :/
Thank you! Yeah a bit of a bummer. I might have to go and farm NM Andariel if one doesn’t drop soon…
If you want soj nm andy is the way to go less loot to compete with
What map hack are you using? I am afraid to get ban
I do not use a map hack.
If you are referring to the map being visible it’s because it’s single player
I watch these d2r vids and contemplate return but they remind me of time invested....It was always said Andy has higher soj drop, but I only ever saw 3 in countless runs in my days. Which was years ago. I like the changes in resurrected, especially more hr drops.
Keep up the great work man! I wish Andy dropped better items but I feel like she's only really useful for target farming specific items or jewelry.
Thanks!
Yeah for general magic finding she has tough competition from Meph.
If a SOJ is what you're after, farm NM Andy. She has a better chance of dropping it than Hell Andy does.
That jewel was a BANGER!
Hey, are you playing on single player? Great channel, much approved!
Yes it’s single player. I didn’t change the /players setting for these runs but the static map was very helpful.
Thank you! That makes me happy to read!
Plus the fact that you can bug her to get her boosted loot drop bonus . . . Not really sure if it's really a bug at this point though. . .
That is no longer present in Diablo 2 resurrected. She now always drops her good drop (what used to be her bugged drop)
In Diablo 2, a tricky way of shopping solves most problems of the character’s weakness. The best aim is to regularly try to buy items from all in the rouge encampment. Then you can check on magical items for your character, and those you hire. Later, you can buy socketed items, leaving the sockets empty. When you repeatedly complete some quests, your gem stones can be imbued to the biggest size, then your socketed items will become the most powerful. That’s for Barbarian.
These videos are great man! Thank you doing this with budget builds and showing how to properly upgrade with game progression. Can't wait to see the next one!
P.S. I cringed hard at your health at 13:00
Why let it get that low?!
Thank you so much! I’m glad you like that because I’m having a lot of fun making these “budget gearing” videos. How awesome is it to be able to get excited for a Tarnhelm in 2023 😁
Hehe once my poison resist went so low that health potions barely out-healed andariels poison I stopped healing after she was dead to make fewer potion trips to Akara.
(I did die a few times while identifying loot though 😅)
Bones snap was my favorite weapon when I was a kid!
I love that they changed the weapon model so it looks like it does on the inventory screen!
Is this on normal or a higher difficulty?
Hell difficulty!
How many hours did it take to do 1000 runs?
About 15 hours, but the early runs with super budget gear took much longer than in the end.
Great video :)
Thank you!
curious as to what player setting?
Players 1 for all runs in this video. I try to always note in the video if I’m using something else
How long did 1000 runs take?
Like 15 hours. Including loading/character selection but excluding transferring items to and organizing the shared stash etc
I wa so tired of running lower Kurast for high runes (never got anything higher than OHM). Then I misclicked ans was on NM instead of Hell. My very good LK patern was destroyed. So I went for NM Andariel. After 7 runs I had a Stone of Jordan. No luck with LK but a lot of luck with NM Andariel :-).
How do you fight the same boss over and over again?
In Diablo 2 every monster and boss re-spawns every time you start a new game
Andy has always been a breeze for my fire/fury werewolf druid on high party member setting its the act 2 boss and diablo that gave me issues on my first runs. Idk why peeps hate on the fury werewolf. I'm flying through everything except those couple of bosses.
Yeah if your gearing a new char on ladder then Andariel is pretty decent but in any other case I don't ever farm her. I am more interested in the lvl 85 areas
Seems like a good plan. Get some basic gear at a boss and then grind areas.
Tackar för underhållningen
I love farming Andarielle, she's easy to find the fight isn't hard and I got Tal Amulet, the Oculus, mage fist, 2 shakos and more. I hate Mephisto because of his dungeon and dumb exploding dolls.
I agree 🤝
Why don't you use a mercenary to help tank the boss and creeps?
The merc dies so quickly at low levels with no gear. I could have tried again once I leveled a bit and got some decent gear, but I didn’t want him to mess up my kiting of Andariel. If I were to go back with the fully geared sorc now, I would get a merc though.
@@zarfen Haha okay, makes sense
cool videos dude
Thank you!
Unfortunately lower fire resist doesn't work with hydras.
Do you have a source on that statement? I’m pretty sure it does, or at least is supposed to.
@@zarfen Was about to make a Hydra Sorc this season (2 or 3 weeks after season start) and tested it offline before. Sunder Charm worked but -30 fire res from faceted wep had no effect.
Ok thanks for clarifying. I thought that was a bug and they fixed it, but I might be mistaken and it was only traps that they fixed.
I should test this, even though I’m gonna respec her to fireball now that the runs are done.
You can kill Andariel behind the door if you never open it. You can lure her with teleport to the door and cast spells that fall behind the door and kill her
Yeah I saw a video of that. Cool tactic but it seems like it would take a lot of time to lure her? I didn’t try it though so maybe it would have been a good strat!
dont forget to mention terror zone andy is probably one of the best terror zones in the game
A lot of people says that! I haven’t done too many terror zone runs myself yet, but I did take a short detour to terrorized Andy in my last 1000 pindle runs video and she dropped nicely then so I believe it 😅
I like the flickering flame but not a fan of the helm .. shoulda used a horn helm or a cap
If I didn’t go for a crown I’d consider a horned helm or maybe a bone helm, but a regular cap? No way! 😜
How long did 1000 andy runs take.
Its been a long time since I did these runs but I think 15 hours total
@@zarfen Thanks
Man, when this game first came up about 25 years ago, i blew up one disc 2 on the drive due to overheat 😂
how can u not handle H Mefisto with sorceress? as soon as u get teleport and firewall, u're done.
Are you running it on players 8?
This was all on /players 1. I think I couldn’t have handled players 8 when starting out, and even when I had some decent gear I valued faster runs higher
@@zarfen Thanks for the answer! I am running players 8 right now but I do not see any value. Pretty much similar gear is dropping on both p1 and p8 and I think imma revert to p1.
@@woochitelj higher player settings only increases the amount of items that drops. It doesn’t give more MF or guarantee better items. Of course more items means better items over the long run, but doing runs faster means more runs which also means more drops so I usually stay at players 1 when MFing
Haven’t played Diablo 2 in ages but don’t bosses stay dead? Is he restarting the game for every run?
They stay dead in the same game, but if you save and exit to the main menu and click back in with your character, all monsters have respawned, including bosses