The most incredible part of this discovery is that there is a person/group of people who coded this, and knew about it the past 20 years, and kept it a secret this entire time.
hardcore modders have known about it for years. As usual; no credits or such were given or explained heh Well to clarify, the best estimate on the mechanic is that it illustrates 7 symbols. "D-E-M" then a demon symbol, followed by "R-P-S". It's suspected this is to shoutout some of the Blizzard North team: David Brevik (Founder) Erich Schaefer (Founder) Max Schaefer (Founder) Demon Symbol - Signifies the end of the 3 founders Richard Seis (Programmer) Phil Shenk (Art Director) Stieg Hedlund (Designer) Source: D2RModding
@@mitchellfriars8529 you are just too software to be associated with the people that knew you never even went to their forums - its you that denied you of the info
@@whatthetech7647 ahh OK I was under the impression that all they updated was graphics and some different builds along with runewords and terror zones. I thought Llama said this was in the 1.07 patch back in the day. I'll have to some testing when I get some time.
@@whatthetech7647 Phrozen Keep modders looked at the compiled code, it's been in the game since 1.04 of original D2, before Lord of Destruction released.
He sounds so excited to show us this easter egg. You can clearly hear how loud he is and the amount of dopamine is rushing through his body. Jokes aside, this is actually a very cool easter egg. Would never ever have found out.
You class act sir, I was skeptical too, and you listened. Not only is it awesome of you to say: "hey, I made a whoops" but then you made it right! Love it!
i personally find it ironic how many people are willing to accept the souls thing as real but he throws something else in there with the mf and all of the sudden many of those same people are convinced that it cant be true and llama is a liar lmao
If this easter egg has been existing since pre-Expansion, someone should try it in 1.07 and 1.08. Diminishing return was only introduced in patch 1.09, so having infinite MF in earlier patches would be a huge game changer: rare and unique drops from every mob.
you would propably have so much MF that you only get blues and no other drops when there is no cap, because the chance you get a blue will be so high that rare and unique drops should not be possible anymore.
@@Vittrich The game engine picks rarity in order, starting from Unique, then going down. So the game performs a RNG check for unique; if it's not unique, it checks for set; if not set, it checks for rare, and so on. Without diminishing returns set on top of magic find, the RNG check for unique would often result in a success, skipping the need to go down the list.
This is beyond insane. That such an Easter Egg existed for 22 Years and we only found out about it recently. 1.07 started with LOD and LOD came out in 2001. Props to the users who found this out and were able to do it. Makes me wonder if the devs behind PD2 know about this Easter Egg.
It was the first expansion patch so it was added with the expansion. However, I can see how it wasn't found. They don't do it 90% of the time and you have to work them into doing it. It would have been found if 4 of them did it immediately without fail, but they don't. You know the funny part is I think I did this once a long time ago while playing while afk and coming back to them doing it. I probably thought it was just coincidence because if you don't sit there and watch them it just kinda looks like they still trying to shoot you.
So this is really beneficial for builds that stack a lot of damage/Survivability and little MF. You go through this ritual and voila you have the best of all worlds
This could have some actually useful applications on targeting MF for Stone of Jordan. Full clear, Act 5-Act 1 backwards, to try and push as many unique rings as possible in one game - by the time you get to act 1, if manald and nagel have dropped in the game, the only unique left in the pool for that qlvl is the stone.
I have no idea what this means, having a nagel drop does not eliminate it from the drop pool you'll just end up with 40 unique rings 37 being manald 3 being nagels?
@@Lones555 In a single game, once a unique drops, it can't drop again. Because of this, you can take advantage of this to narrow down the pool of Not-SOJ rings. You can also do the same with gambling - keep a single game open, with a gambling character, feed it gold from other characters over and over, and you WILL pull the targeted unique eventually. The key is that it has to be in A SINGLE GAME.
@@andrewspencer7804 what happens once every unique ring that could drop has? like what if by the time u get there u alrdy found all of that qlvl what happens then? what drops when the game tells it to be unique ring?
@@danielfreer8487 Standard fallback; if the game attempts to generate a unique that doesn't exist (already dropped, or simply no option), it'll generate a rare item instead - normally this would be triple durability, but in this case, no durability either, so it'd just appear as a standard rare ring. As an aside, this means the ACTUAL rarest item in the game is a qlvl >= 87 triple durability ethereal Sacred Armor. Good luck on that one for a holy grail.
@@andrewspencer7804 makes sense. so ur only gonna find 1 soj per game doing that and each game will likely take a long ass time so yeah, not that op anyways but still nifty
If you're skeptical, yes, a d2 champion wants to risk his reputation all to play a little trick on you. He's been helpful up until now, but he's just been waiting to toy with you.
No way, he's definitely trying to use this as propaganda to show that Diablo 2 is still new and exciting and that Diablo 4 needs to learn a lesson and convert itself into the Diablo 2 sequel it was supposed to be!
Let me guess, it doesnt last for 19 hours, it last for 18:12 .... If that's the case then the reason why its so long is probably because buff timer only have 2 bytes worth of time, and it lowers the time by 1 every second, and the max value 2 bytes can be is 65,535 which roughly translate to , in hours that's 18 hours and 12 minutes, give or take a few seconds
I kind of like that Easter egg - I know people work hard to get MF on there characters and it can come at a great sacrifice to other important things like resistance, but I've definitely gotten stuck where my character needs one of a few uniques to move on and running Meph endlessly can get pretty old...
I would love to see a consistent setup for the Easter egg. It's really cool, and has potential to boost Mf for a full game run, which sounds super cool. But in Hell, I find the Burning Souls deal way too much damage to my characters to risk letting them shoot me until they sync up.
Since so much MF is gained from the trick, you probably would be fine with having a hammerdin throw 20 points into resist lightning for the 20% max lightning resist and run a Ground runeword helmet for the duration of the trick. With a perf 20% roll, you're taking 60% of 5% damage, for an effective 3% damage taken. Add in Wisp Protector rings during the setup and hit the cap of 40% absorb so you are taking 1% of the original damage.
I would expect this was a playtesting tool built into the game. As it’s not in the text files, the devs didn’t expect players to discover it. And we didn’t. For 20 years. Most games include development tools for testing. Sacred 2 had an area out of bounds that tested the item drop mechanic of quests. Every 7 quests dropped an item. Which could include any tier of item. If you could get a character out of bounds, you could navigate to the quest test area. Someone figured out he could get a character to perch on houses... which eventually morphed into him finding huge swaths of out of bounds areas... which contained the quest testing area. If I recall correctly, age of empires 1 had chat commands that could summon existing game units, and some Easter egg ones like rocket launchers. Some were for testing, and some were to amuse the devs.
why would the devs want to wait that long to stack up mf just to test when they have the tools to just grant them that much mf through items with significantly less effort and significantly less time spent
@@tarrantwalter524 It’s a smug way to feel superior. These folks were geniuses. Look at what they did, and when they did it. They revolutionized fantasy games. Took turn based games and made them interactive. It was cutting edge stuff at the time. The idea of super rare loot. The better graphics (at the time). So many great ideas. And they rode the tiger of massive sales. That will swell you’re head. It came out at 1.07, so years after release. So they could cook in their success a bit.
@@tarrantwalter524 because this guy thinks he is onto something interesting with it being a "playtesting tool" - because he thinks that is and would be cool 8)
Ok now we need to test the ultimate secret easter egg theories, what if you activate the perfect chat gem, get the souls to spell the letters, then go do something with the Stained glass things, I dont know maybe also clear the cow level or something, maybe then it gives us the way to know which way is the summoner XD maybe theres something more to this we didnt discover yet and that is so crazy to think about.
I had a older friend one ladder named Kel who used to full clear the game on their zon.. i wonder if they utilized this cause i never understood how they found things that they gave to me all the time. Gosh it was so long ago. I hope you're doing well Kel!
Thanks Llama for this! I tried it and after a while standing and moving a little bit the souls started to do the letters. It took a little time but worked. It was on nightmare dif. Then I cleared all the decent zones in the game and get some really good stuff. Thanks!!!
There must be another poart to the equation; I've gone through a tone of healing pots and they're still not forming any letters. Closest I've gotten was them making a star with me in the middle.
Some test results: - Got letters on ladder hell souls - Went act 1 stony/cold plains, cleared with MF27. Result: 1 unique, 2 rares, some magics. Mostly damaged/eth/regular/superior whites. - Cleared normal cows with MF 27. Result: 0 uniques, 1 rare, some magics (cow king dropped 1). Mostly damaged/eth/regular/superior whites. Results currently not conclusive to say if it worked or not. Will have to do more runs. But for people who think that after this they will be showered with rares/uniques/sets - it won't happen.
I went and reproduced this easter egg with my javazon with around 100mf, then went around clearing all lev 85 areas and all act bosses. Honestly it didn't feel like I had any MF bump at all. (online non-ladder). Maybe I just wasn't too lucky. Very cool find nonetheless!!
mf is not that useful. people greatly overestimate how useful mf is. the cap for effective mf is 250 for uniques. once you reach like 300-400ish mf (would have to double check the math, going off memory), youre sitting at around 230 effective mf towards uniques. its gonna take hundreds and thousands of mf after that to get any more effective mf
@@tarrantwalter524 your numbers are off. First of all, there is not a "cap" sins its a curve. And 300-400 mf, will not bring you 230 effective MF towards uniqes. The formula is (MF*250)/(MF+250), always rounded down. Example : 792mf translates to 190 effective MF towards uniqes, 810 -> 191, 828-> 192, etc. In perspective going from 700 to 800 mf, will increase your effective MF towards uniques with only 5%. I don't think mf is overrated. It's an amazing stat, but IF, and only IF, it doesn't slows your gameplay. The number 200-300 mf is mentioned alot, because most builds can reach that number, without sacrificing too much of their other gear and thus slowing their kill speed. With that been said - most players will not need crazy high MF, unless, their goal, is for example to collect every single unique item ingame (something called the "holly grail"), in which case your are trying to optimize every aspect of your build, to help find those one-in-a-million unique items. Keep in mind - while extremely rare, most of those items are not as usefull, so not alot of players are looking for them, brining us back to why most players don't need to overstack MF.
@@Eld1abl0n3gr0 I believe there is a weird interaction, where if you have too much mf some items have less chance to drop than if you would have fe. a 50 less mf. I believe I remember it from Andariel when I was farming for tal rasha's amulet.
So last night I did this with 4 souls and definitely worked. I just got on tonight and accidentally killed the 4th soul . I proc'd confuse on the other 3 souls and all three went into the letters routine. I am pretty sure they were different letters
Hey as I am playing pretty much Offline SSF right now I might have discovered something regarding this Easter Egg. I am 99% sure that it works in offline game even after "Save and Exit" the game. Severel times now I started over again and just for the funs started using this Easter Egg even in Normal. After switching to Nightmare the increased MF still exists. I didn't play around with a MODE with -%MF so no proof or something, but maybe worth testing.
Going to town, then coming back after 4 were shooting me for a minute caused them to immediately perform the ritual once i entered back into Plains of Despair!!!
Hello mr Lama, I was wondering something. Since we found that secret after all these years. I know this sounds tough but do you think if you get a game with the other easter egg the stained glass and then lure them to near that? Do you think that might have some sort of interaction as well???
It does a similar thing with 5 souls on the screen, drawing a star pattern. Not sure what kind of buff that gives. Maybe more exp? th-cam.com/video/eG5tTpgmimw/w-d-xo.html
So this is bound to game and all players that join the server will also benefit from extra mf? Plus it's ~19h per game meaning a single session or until I close D2R game?
Hey did u ever try to do with 5 burning souls...i took 5 by accident and the shape they did was a star (like the one diablo stands on). Mind testing that to see what it does?
Here's Take 2. Waiting for a Take 3 after people are still skeptical and asking for a specific setup to show numerical proof and or whatever else conditions.
What did you mean by "it stacks per letter."? The Souls create like 5 letters per sequence, so 150% MF x5 for 19 hours? Or is it 150% MF per Sequence and not per letter? Does the sequence reset and if so, how? Do I need tp back to town then back to the soul pack to get em to do the sequence again?
for the ppl who didn't believe it, you just have to see how btdiablo works (how negative mf works) and it gives you shitty drop when you have negative mf, and if you think you will start dropping uniques likes crazy, it will also not happening, because diminishing return on high MF, basically your MF find for uniques will just be at 250ish number, while your "magic items" (blue) will shoot thru the roof and makes you almost always find blues, which is shown properly here too, proving that the easter egg does put you in very high MF.
That and/or lightning absorb. And/or a lot of magic damage reduction (like "magic damage reduced by 7" - that includes all elemental damage). And/or a really high level of prayer with replenish life ? Anyway, 75% resistance is clearly a must, but 95% should be much better and not THAT hard to get.
Lightsabre, Wisp Projector for 40% ligtning absorb. Blackhorn's Face and Stormchaser for lightning resist. As amazon I also had Thundergod Vigor belt, Fortitude and Highlord. This gives you 90% light res and 40% absorb. I am surviving on 650 health, no problem.
This is seriously great for end game, since the ghost spawn at act 4. But I can't seem to understand the meaning of beating the previous bosses and quests with it, since it last only until you beat the game. does that not mean that you have to do it all over again to have it? like, I do this trick, I beat diablo or mephisto and finish the game, then the bonus reset and can't be passed to other character, right? so what gives?
Such a cool discovery. Just do this with your nova Sorc, singer barb or Bowszon (any character that naturally lacks MF) then farm the game , TZ, bosses, AL85’s and repeat. Gonna make the game very fun to play those type of builds and not be stuck on Blizzard Sorc and Hdin just to gear up the lesser played characters. I thinks it’s asome !
I have been doing every run with Easter egg I have notice that with 5 souls it don’t give you magic find I think it gives you bonus exp I say this because I noticed that my exp bar moved up in the chaos sanctuary but I don’t know how to prove it. How should I check this can I get some ideas ?
3:34 Old School Diablo? ... Diablo 1 has items with negative modifiers. There's a thing called the Naked Sorc Run ... and there's a thing called the Beyond Naked Sorc Run where you would equip all the negative modifier equipment that you find.
This is Crazy cool. I just did it but already having 500+ MF I'm not sure how much it really helps. I wonder how long this has been in game and who the hell found it. Still another reason D2r is a top 5 forever game for me.
Is this in a OLD video? I found you at around d2r launch and never once have I seen any video talking about this? Also, way back when, did the devs tell the community about this easter egg? How could anyone accidentally find this? Lol
I was asking myself the same thing, but I think they did it pretty well. It's quite inconvenient to set it up. The time lost can be used to simply kill more monster / do more runs, so it is a bit balanced. Unless you happen to only have somehow very high LR, but no MF, then I guess this would be very useful.
But does your bowzon have the light res to survive getting the Easter egg done? I will try this on my Mosaic sin, since she got 75 light res with fade on in hell.
Lightsabre, Wisp Projector for 40% ligtning absorb. Blackhorn's Face and Stormchaser for lightning resist. Thundergod Vigor belt, Fortitude and Highlord you should already have as amazon. This gives you 90% light res and 40% absorb. I am surviving on 650 health, no problem.
I'm genuinely curious to see their modern ethics behind this do they patch it because its clearly good or do they keep it because its been in the game for decades
Any idea if they've patched this or it doesn't work on certain tilesets because after doing it a few times last week, I haven't been able to get it to work at all the last few days, I've literally scoured all zones in act4 with the only living creatures being these 4 souls and despite pulling them across the zone and using so much gold worth of pots they just won't do it anymore.
Does this work in single player offline on D2R for the switch? If so My PSMA Assassin is going to wreck shop!!! Just need two Guls and two greater talons with one to fade and 2 to MA skills!!!
I bet with cheat engine and looking at hex values on your magic find you can see it go up and down behind the scenes. The MF increase is being written somewhere I'm just not smart enough to find it behind the scenes but I bet a D2 fan with advanced cheatengine knowledge could find it.
Great for single-player! once you do it a few times you can get it in 5-10 min max, then do full game clear in about a hour. You can REALLY see the difference in drop, big time! Also, I know chest dont use MF, BUT: I get alot more set/rares/uniques from chest, maybe its RNG, have been doing it for 1 day now, but sinds its an easter-egg, anything is possible?
I got it done, was working at 1st from what i could tell, but once i swapped back to normal mf gear to stack mf ontop after doing it, it seemed to stop working🤔need more clarification in regards to if anything affects it once done!!!
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The most incredible part of this discovery is that there is a person/group of people who coded this, and knew about it the past 20 years, and kept it a secret this entire time.
Of course of all things it HAD to be souls.
hardcore modders have known about it for years. As usual; no credits or such were given or explained heh
Well to clarify, the best estimate on the mechanic is that it illustrates 7 symbols.
"D-E-M" then a demon symbol, followed by "R-P-S".
It's suspected this is to shoutout some of the Blizzard North team:
David Brevik (Founder)
Erich Schaefer (Founder)
Max Schaefer (Founder)
Demon Symbol - Signifies the end of the 3 founders
Richard Seis (Programmer)
Phil Shenk (Art Director)
Stieg Hedlund (Designer)
Source: D2RModding
During Exilecon 2019 the 3 developers stated that there are still unfounded easter eggs at that time.
@@GreatShinobilet me guess you know the cure for cancer but youre to hardcore to tell anyone.....
@@mitchellfriars8529 you are just too software to be associated with the people that knew you never even went to their forums - its you that denied you of the info
20 years later and still finding new stuff. That's how you make an awesome game. I love this game.
Well, it's not in the original, so it's not been 20 years, really
@@whatthetech7647 ahh OK I was under the impression that all they updated was graphics and some different builds along with runewords and terror zones. I thought Llama said this was in the 1.07 patch back in the day. I'll have to some testing when I get some time.
@@seang9450yeah he said 1.07 so you are correct
@@whatthetech7647 Phrozen Keep modders looked at the compiled code, it's been in the game since 1.04 of original D2, before Lord of Destruction released.
@@whatthetech7647It’s in Diablo 2, not just Diablo 2 Resurrected. So not 20 years, but more like 23 years
He sounds so excited to show us this easter egg. You can clearly hear how loud he is and the amount of dopamine is rushing through his body. Jokes aside, this is actually a very cool easter egg. Would never ever have found out.
He seems always happier with d2 but that understandable
@@EwigerPaul Nostalgia and passion
My guess is that the 19 hour time comes from 65536 seconds. Its the maximum number that can be achieved with 16 bits and its roughly 19 hours.
I like your theory, 65535 seconds is actually closer to 18 hours, but it does make a lot of sense for it to be that number.
@@Dylan-gy1hp You don't code, do you?
@@Dylan-gy1hp this guy doesn't unsigned int
@@Dylan-gy1hp Like I said, just guessing 😘
@@Dylan-gy1hp - never comment again.
You class act sir, I was skeptical too, and you listened. Not only is it awesome of you to say: "hey, I made a whoops" but then you made it right! Love it!
i personally find it ironic how many people are willing to accept the souls thing as real but he throws something else in there with the mf and all of the sudden many of those same people are convinced that it cant be true and llama is a liar lmao
20 years later and thousands of hours of gameplay, i'm still learning new things about this game, wow.
If this easter egg has been existing since pre-Expansion, someone should try it in 1.07 and 1.08. Diminishing return was only introduced in patch 1.09, so having infinite MF in earlier patches would be a huge game changer: rare and unique drops from every mob.
you would propably have so much MF that you only get blues and no other drops when there is no cap, because the chance you get a blue will be so high that rare and unique drops should not be possible anymore.
@@Vittrich not if there is no diminishing return. This is why I suggest to try this feature in 1.07 or 1.08.
@vitti2801 it rolls for unique first, then set, then rare, then blue
@@Thegiggleofsteel This, you would only get uniques, sets, and few rares of left over unused bases (example: Shadow Bow)
@@Vittrich The game engine picks rarity in order, starting from Unique, then going down. So the game performs a RNG check for unique; if it's not unique, it checks for set; if not set, it checks for rare, and so on. Without diminishing returns set on top of magic find, the RNG check for unique would often result in a success, skipping the need to go down the list.
This is beyond insane. That such an Easter Egg existed for 22 Years and we only found out about it recently. 1.07 started with LOD and LOD came out in 2001. Props to the users who found this out and were able to do it. Makes me wonder if the devs behind PD2 know about this Easter Egg.
It was the first expansion patch so it was added with the expansion. However, I can see how it wasn't found. They don't do it 90% of the time and you have to work them into doing it. It would have been found if 4 of them did it immediately without fail, but they don't. You know the funny part is I think I did this once a long time ago while playing while afk and coming back to them doing it.
I probably thought it was just coincidence because if you don't sit there and watch them it just kinda looks like they still trying to shoot you.
So this is really beneficial for builds that stack a lot of damage/Survivability and little MF. You go through this ritual and voila you have the best of all worlds
This could have some actually useful applications on targeting MF for Stone of Jordan. Full clear, Act 5-Act 1 backwards, to try and push as many unique rings as possible in one game - by the time you get to act 1, if manald and nagel have dropped in the game, the only unique left in the pool for that qlvl is the stone.
I have no idea what this means, having a nagel drop does not eliminate it from the drop pool you'll just end up with 40 unique rings 37 being manald 3 being nagels?
@@Lones555 In a single game, once a unique drops, it can't drop again. Because of this, you can take advantage of this to narrow down the pool of Not-SOJ rings.
You can also do the same with gambling - keep a single game open, with a gambling character, feed it gold from other characters over and over, and you WILL pull the targeted unique eventually.
The key is that it has to be in A SINGLE GAME.
@@andrewspencer7804 what happens once every unique ring that could drop has? like what if by the time u get there u alrdy found all of that qlvl what happens then? what drops when the game tells it to be unique ring?
@@danielfreer8487 Standard fallback; if the game attempts to generate a unique that doesn't exist (already dropped, or simply no option), it'll generate a rare item instead - normally this would be triple durability, but in this case, no durability either, so it'd just appear as a standard rare ring.
As an aside, this means the ACTUAL rarest item in the game is a qlvl >= 87 triple durability ethereal Sacred Armor.
Good luck on that one for a holy grail.
@@andrewspencer7804 makes sense. so ur only gonna find 1 soj per game doing that and each game will likely take a long ass time so yeah, not that op anyways but still nifty
If you're skeptical, yes, a d2 champion wants to risk his reputation all to play a little trick on you. He's been helpful up until now, but he's just been waiting to toy with you.
Now Llama walks on the path of Diablo Inmortal. 😢😢😢
😂😂😂😂😂
I knew it
No way, he's definitely trying to use this as propaganda to show that Diablo 2 is still new and exciting and that Diablo 4 needs to learn a lesson and convert itself into the Diablo 2 sequel it was supposed to be!
@@TraxisOnTheLines anything after diablo 2 doesn't exist
thoughts?
@@DamianPereyraHs If the tricking above is involved, then, I guess, you misspelled 'Immoral'
this is such an amazing find man. it's impressive how depth this game is.
And no one found the cow level in d4 yet :(
can someone tell me how to get the souls? i cleared all of plains of despair and nothing
Let me guess, it doesnt last for 19 hours, it last for 18:12 ....
If that's the case then the reason why its so long is probably because buff timer only have 2 bytes worth of time, and it lowers the time by 1 every second, and the max value 2 bytes can be is 65,535 which roughly translate to , in hours that's 18 hours and 12 minutes, give or take a few seconds
Thank you for your videos, didnt play Diablo for like 18-19 years and with a sale on the switch I am back into it❤❤❤
I kind of like that Easter egg - I know people work hard to get MF on there characters and it can come at a great sacrifice to other important things like resistance, but I've definitely gotten stuck where my character needs one of a few uniques to move on and running Meph endlessly can get pretty old...
I would love to see a consistent setup for the Easter egg.
It's really cool, and has potential to boost Mf for a full game run, which sounds super cool.
But in Hell, I find the Burning Souls deal way too much damage to my characters to risk letting them shoot me until they sync up.
only works in hell? or normal just fine?
Since so much MF is gained from the trick, you probably would be fine with having a hammerdin throw 20 points into resist lightning for the 20% max lightning resist and run a Ground runeword helmet for the duration of the trick. With a perf 20% roll, you're taking 60% of 5% damage, for an effective 3% damage taken. Add in Wisp Protector rings during the setup and hit the cap of 40% absorb so you are taking 1% of the original damage.
I mean, just swap gear and stack lightning res just for the time you do this, put on a Thundergods belt and everything and you should be fine.
try great marsh in act3
they don’t hurt much when you max your light res
This will Change Endgame Farming and Magic Find on Items and Charms so much for me on Single Player 🤯 Thx!!!
I would expect this was a playtesting tool built into the game. As it’s not in the text files, the devs didn’t expect players to discover it. And we didn’t. For 20 years.
Most games include development tools for testing. Sacred 2 had an area out of bounds that tested the item drop mechanic of quests. Every 7 quests dropped an item. Which could include any tier of item. If you could get a character out of bounds, you could navigate to the quest test area. Someone figured out he could get a character to perch on houses... which eventually morphed into him finding huge swaths of out of bounds areas... which contained the quest testing area.
If I recall correctly, age of empires 1 had chat commands that could summon existing game units, and some Easter egg ones like rocket launchers. Some were for testing, and some were to amuse the devs.
I spent the time since this came out looking in the text files for willowisps and found nothing besides a little in-joke calling them Will*OW*isps
why would the devs want to wait that long to stack up mf just to test when they have the tools to just grant them that much mf through items with significantly less effort and significantly less time spent
@@tarrantwalter524 It’s a smug way to feel superior. These folks were geniuses. Look at what they did, and when they did it. They revolutionized fantasy games. Took turn based games and made them interactive. It was cutting edge stuff at the time. The idea of super rare loot. The better graphics (at the time). So many great ideas. And they rode the tiger of massive sales. That will swell you’re head. It came out at 1.07, so years after release. So they could cook in their success a bit.
@@tarrantwalter524 because this guy thinks he is onto something interesting with it being a "playtesting tool" - because he thinks that is and would be cool 8)
@@redelfshotthefood8213 superior how? why? what the hell are you smoking lol
Ok now we need to test the ultimate secret easter egg theories, what if you activate the perfect chat gem, get the souls to spell the letters, then go do something with the Stained glass things, I dont know maybe also clear the cow level or something, maybe then it gives us the way to know which way is the summoner XD maybe theres something more to this we didnt discover yet and that is so crazy to think about.
I had a older friend one ladder named Kel who used to full clear the game on their zon.. i wonder if they utilized this cause i never understood how they found things that they gave to me all the time. Gosh it was so long ago. I hope you're doing well Kel!
Thanks Llama for this! I tried it and after a while standing and moving a little bit the souls started to do the letters. It took a little time but worked. It was on nightmare dif. Then I cleared all the decent zones in the game and get some really good stuff. Thanks!!!
My guess is it’s actually 18hours since that lines up with 2^16 seconds.
There must be another poart to the equation; I've gone through a tone of healing pots and they're still not forming any letters. Closest I've gotten was them making a star with me in the middle.
Gotta be bitter sweet finding this. Can't help but wonder how and if this would have effected holy grails.
Would love to see this effect in a mod that greatly increases monster density! That would really highlight the change.
Some test results:
- Got letters on ladder hell souls
- Went act 1 stony/cold plains, cleared with MF27. Result: 1 unique, 2 rares, some magics. Mostly damaged/eth/regular/superior whites.
- Cleared normal cows with MF 27. Result: 0 uniques, 1 rare, some magics (cow king dropped 1). Mostly damaged/eth/regular/superior whites.
Results currently not conclusive to say if it worked or not. Will have to do more runs. But for people who think that after this they will be showered with rares/uniques/sets - it won't happen.
Good that i did a wind druid. 😅 Just cyclone armor spam until the letters are finished and then get the loot. 😂 Thanks for info !
Neg magic find would be great for finding runeword bases
I went and reproduced this easter egg with my javazon with around 100mf, then went around clearing all lev 85 areas and all act bosses. Honestly it didn't feel like I had any MF bump at all. (online non-ladder). Maybe I just wasn't too lucky. Very cool find nonetheless!!
Rng bro
mf is not that useful. people greatly overestimate how useful mf is. the cap for effective mf is 250 for uniques. once you reach like 300-400ish mf (would have to double check the math, going off memory), youre sitting at around 230 effective mf towards uniques. its gonna take hundreds and thousands of mf after that to get any more effective mf
@@tarrantwalter524 your numbers are off. First of all, there is not a "cap" sins its a curve. And 300-400 mf, will not bring you 230 effective MF towards uniqes. The formula is (MF*250)/(MF+250), always rounded down. Example : 792mf translates to 190 effective MF towards uniqes, 810 -> 191, 828-> 192, etc. In perspective going from 700 to 800 mf, will increase your effective MF towards uniques with only 5%.
I don't think mf is overrated. It's an amazing stat, but IF, and only IF, it doesn't slows your gameplay. The number 200-300 mf is mentioned alot, because most builds can reach that number, without sacrificing too much of their other gear and thus slowing their kill speed.
With that been said - most players will not need crazy high MF, unless, their goal, is for example to collect every single unique item ingame (something called the "holly grail"), in which case your are trying to optimize every aspect of your build, to help find those one-in-a-million unique items. Keep in mind - while extremely rare, most of those items are not as usefull, so not alot of players are looking for them, brining us back to why most players don't need to overstack MF.
@@Eld1abl0n3gr0 I believe there is a weird interaction, where if you have too much mf some items have less chance to drop than if you would have fe. a 50 less mf. I believe I remember it from Andariel when I was farming for tal rasha's amulet.
@@Eld1abl0n3gr0 There is a cap since (MF*250)/(MF+250) < 250 (just multiply and compare).
So last night I did this with 4 souls and definitely worked. I just got on tonight and accidentally killed the 4th soul . I proc'd confuse on the other 3 souls and all three went into the letters routine. I am pretty sure they were different letters
Hey as I am playing pretty much Offline SSF right now I might have discovered something regarding this Easter Egg. I am 99% sure that it works in offline game even after "Save and Exit" the game. Severel times now I started over again and just for the funs started using this Easter Egg even in Normal. After switching to Nightmare the increased MF still exists. I didn't play around with a MODE with -%MF so no proof or something, but maybe worth testing.
It works with 3 4 5 souls and the spell different letters
Going to town, then coming back after 4 were shooting me for a minute caused them to immediately perform the ritual once i entered back into Plains of Despair!!!
I vaguely remember a friend had this happen to him around the beginning, we had no idea, and thought it was bugged. Then thought nothing of it.
Will he do a speedrun testing that? Would be fun
Hello mr Lama, I was wondering something. Since we found that secret after all these years. I know this sounds tough but do you think if you get a game with the other easter egg the stained glass and then lure them to near that? Do you think that might have some sort of interaction as well???
Maan, I never thought I could be taught something new in d2. Fun find.
If this test is the proof… which obviously it appears to be, how long does the magic find bonus last. Are you going to run THAT test with this mod?
16bit limit in seconds is around 18 to 19 hours so it makes sense
videos are always 3 times longer than they need to be
It does a similar thing with 5 souls on the screen, drawing a star pattern. Not sure what kind of buff that gives. Maybe more exp? th-cam.com/video/eG5tTpgmimw/w-d-xo.html
Any particular reason why you guess XP boost? Or just theorizing?
@@HanClinto just a super random guess lol just my hopes and dreams... probably just more mf
@@pk_lab just test it by using a normal level character at a consistent enemy until they take more than 1 kill to get any movement in xp
So this is bound to game and all players that join the server will also benefit from extra mf? Plus it's ~19h per game meaning a single session or until I close D2R game?
does it work on d2 lod?
Why is his inventory so big?
Hey did u ever try to do with 5 burning souls...i took 5 by accident and the shape they did was a star (like the one diablo stands on). Mind testing that to see what it does?
:o this needs to be investigated!
Here's Take 2. Waiting for a Take 3 after people are still skeptical and asking for a specific setup to show numerical proof and or whatever else conditions.
Hey Llama just wanted to say as of rn there is no link in the description pointing to the easter egg video :)
What did you mean by "it stacks per letter."? The Souls create like 5 letters per sequence, so 150% MF x5 for 19 hours? Or is it 150% MF per Sequence and not per letter? Does the sequence reset and if so, how? Do I need tp back to town then back to the soul pack to get em to do the sequence again?
It's 150 MF per gloam per letter/barrage, so 150 MF * 4 gloams * 7 letters/barrages = 4200 MF per ritual.
@@darkmaster3411 Thank you!
@11:10 what's a green ANT? Aldur's hat?
that is antidote, the mod has simple item filter.
for the ppl who didn't believe it, you just have to see how btdiablo works (how negative mf works) and it gives you shitty drop when you have negative mf, and if you think you will start dropping uniques likes crazy, it will also not happening, because diminishing return on high MF, basically your MF find for uniques will just be at 250ish number, while your "magic items" (blue) will shoot thru the roof and makes you almost always find blues, which is shown properly here too, proving that the easter egg does put you in very high MF.
the mod that btneanderthal made?
@@BMPK yes this is the mod
@@johant73 he sure has come a long way since pod
This is awesome only thing that sucks is there didn't seem to be any change to my item find
Does this work in D2 original ?
Do we know that it stacks?
He should use a tin foil hat to made this video
You can do this “soul dance” in 1.00 too!!! It’s there from the very begining
So do you basically need to have 95 light rez in order to survive the initial soul barrage before the easter egg kicks in?
That and/or lightning absorb. And/or a lot of magic damage reduction (like "magic damage reduced by 7" - that includes all elemental damage). And/or a really high level of prayer with replenish life ?
Anyway, 75% resistance is clearly a must, but 95% should be much better and not THAT hard to get.
Lightsabre, Wisp Projector for 40% ligtning absorb. Blackhorn's Face and Stormchaser for lightning resist. As amazon I also had Thundergod Vigor belt, Fortitude and Highlord. This gives you 90% light res and 40% absorb. I am surviving on 650 health, no problem.
This is seriously great for end game, since the ghost spawn at act 4. But I can't seem to understand the meaning of beating the previous bosses and quests with it, since it last only until you beat the game. does that not mean that you have to do it all over again to have it? like, I do this trick, I beat diablo or mephisto and finish the game, then the bonus reset and can't be passed to other character, right? so what gives?
Such a cool discovery. Just do this with your nova Sorc, singer barb or Bowszon (any character that naturally lacks MF) then farm the game , TZ, bosses, AL85’s and repeat. Gonna make the game very fun to play those type of builds and not be stuck on Blizzard Sorc and Hdin just to gear up the lesser played characters. I thinks it’s asome !
Does it work in all difficulties, or only hell?
Terror Zones with this buff should be nuts.
would love to see a video in which you clear the entire game. Every. single. mob.
That's rather... easy ? Casual ? Not ... that ... interesting ?
@@Winnetou17 not so easy for a serial skipper...
@@JosephMagicFlower LoL
I have been doing every run with Easter egg I have notice that with 5 souls it don’t give you magic find I think it gives you bonus exp I say this because I noticed that my exp bar moved up in the chaos sanctuary but I don’t know how to prove it. How should I check this can I get some ideas ?
Each monster provide a certain amount of xp. If you can identify the monsters, you can calculate if the xp gain is the expected amount of
3:34 Old School Diablo? ... Diablo 1 has items with negative modifiers. There's a thing called the Naked Sorc Run ... and there's a thing called the Beyond Naked Sorc Run where you would equip all the negative modifier equipment that you find.
This is Crazy cool. I just did it but already having 500+ MF I'm not sure how much it really helps. I wonder how long this has been in game and who the hell found it. Still another reason D2r is a top 5 forever game for me.
Is this patched? Does it work on battlenet multiplayer?
Is this in a OLD video? I found you at around d2r launch and never once have I seen any video talking about this? Also, way back when, did the devs tell the community about this easter egg? How could anyone accidentally find this? Lol
Doesnt this change the game quite a bit? You can now just stack dmg and clear speed, do this and then go MF all areas worthwhile in a game.
changes nothing. this takes way too long to stack up
I was asking myself the same thing, but I think they did it pretty well. It's quite inconvenient to set it up. The time lost can be used to simply kill more monster / do more runs, so it is a bit balanced. Unless you happen to only have somehow very high LR, but no MF, then I guess this would be very useful.
But does your bowzon have the light res to survive getting the Easter egg done?
I will try this on my Mosaic sin, since she got 75 light res with fade on in hell.
Lightsabre, Wisp Projector for 40% ligtning absorb. Blackhorn's Face and Stormchaser for lightning resist. Thundergod Vigor belt, Fortitude and Highlord you should already have as amazon. This gives you 90% light res and 40% absorb. I am surviving on 650 health, no problem.
I'm genuinely curious to see their modern ethics behind this
do they patch it because its clearly good
or do they keep it because its been in the game for decades
Hey mr llama! Hope the family is doing well brother. Keep up the great work
Such an amazing find!!
I wounder if it affects the hole party ? I like his mod made the names shorter letting them take up les space for highlighting items.
loot filters are great, just don't use one online you will get banned
I love your presentation but I wanna see the exact number of MF. how much it's up to?
theres no way to see the number without reading things from the game that isnt allowed by blizzard
Is this the Show Item Level mod by Beardly357 he is using also?
mr lama? i can change gear after the soul ritual? or the mf boost gettings removed? greetings
Mrlama why you cant show how mutch this affects when you have like 8-900mf and what happends
Do you have to do it every game???
Any idea if they've patched this or it doesn't work on certain tilesets because after doing it a few times last week, I haven't been able to get it to work at all the last few days, I've literally scoured all zones in act4 with the only living creatures being these 4 souls and despite pulling them across the zone and using so much gold worth of pots they just won't do it anymore.
So this is how TH-camrs and streamers have been having crazy drops. Seems like something that the inside community has known about for awhile now.
Hi , can this ritual be performed on normal difficulty ? or nightmare ?
and where is the best place to do this any ideas how to make it easier every time you create game ?
Does this work on a summoner build cause my skeletons just kinda go around and murder stuff
Did any dev ever confirmed this ?
Tried this on hardcore ladder on two different characters, got the souls to show all letters but magic find was completely unaffected.
But why didnt you do a cow run before and after? Would have been best...
Is this single player only or does this work online?
so people have been doing this on fresh season all along?
This makes me think we need to revisit the chat gem
How was this found out? Did someone decompile the game to find clues or did someone find this legitimately?
I'm curious too. Maybe he said it in the other video clip. Given how old the game is, both are possible :))
as someone who just cant get into d4, glad to see you back at D2!
is this some mod? eq looks different (havent logged D2R for long time, playing D4 now)
how come the item names on the ground are all weird?
We can have a video explaining the full story of this cool Easter Egg? 😊
i think your Mic is clipping ?
what addon is this for the item display
Does this work in single player offline on D2R for the switch?
If so
My PSMA Assassin is going to wreck shop!!!
Just need two Guls and two greater talons with one to fade and 2 to MA skills!!!
Yes it does!
I bet with cheat engine and looking at hex values on your magic find you can see it go up and down behind the scenes. The MF increase is being written somewhere I'm just not smart enough to find it behind the scenes but I bet a D2 fan with advanced cheatengine knowledge could find it.
I just noticed! Where tf is my belt in Diablo 4?!?!
does it go away when you leave the game?
Back on D2 content I love it, can you make a guide with new update on bladesin.
Great for single-player! once you do it a few times you can get it in 5-10 min max, then do full game clear in about a hour. You can REALLY see the difference in drop, big time!
Also, I know chest dont use MF, BUT: I get alot more set/rares/uniques from chest, maybe its RNG, have been doing it for 1 day now, but sinds its an easter-egg, anything is possible?
I got it done, was working at 1st from what i could tell, but once i swapped back to normal mf gear to stack mf ontop after doing it, it seemed to stop working🤔need more clarification in regards to if anything affects it once done!!!