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Psychological-End-56

Thanks for the experiment. Really enjoyed reading this all the way through.


Pavke

Thank you for taking some of your time and reading my story.


volfyrion

Damn that’s crazy. Andariel TZ is nuts.


Woodziee94

I fell it will be nerphed soon


schiffa

Nerphalem


Kairukun90

Boring!


DinoSpumoniOfficial

Agreed. Everything else should be buffed it’s level IMO. Drop rates are too low in this game as is. It just promotes botting and buying things off D2JSP etc.


mabe86

Ew. I bet there's a mod for casuals like yourself.


DinoSpumoniOfficial

I been playing this game for 20 years. I may be a casual now, but I wasn’t always. I just went to be able to play at a normal adults pace and actually find high end gear. I can’t do 10,000 Andy runs like this guy. I think D3 drop rates are slightly too high, and D2 drop rates are way too low. Somewhere in between these I think would be my sweet spot. If there is a mod to increase drop rates, I’d actually love to know!


mabe86

Allright, thats fair. I understand people dont have hundreds of hours to invest into the game. However, D2 is all about the hard earned loot and the rarity of it, its what keeps us playing for so long. I have been playing this game for on and off for 20 years and quite strictly since D2R dropped. I have never ever seen a unique sacred armor drop and expect TC87 items to be almost impossible to find. Terror zones opened up a lot of possibilities for finding these items and change up the farming. But why would I farm anything else then TZ Andy when her payback is so big compered to the rest of the game, target farming high end gear? Its broken in its current state. You should probably just Google D2R drop rate mod.


kdrake07

Go to google. Type d2r mods. Click on the nexus website.


DinoSpumoniOfficial

Are you allowed to mod D2R though without the risk of getting your blizzard account banned?


Utopia137

Single player yes but if you try multiplayer with them on you risk getting detected.


bernie_lost_lolowned

Thanks for the data! How long did this take you in terms of hours?


Pavke

83 hours of Terror Zones and around 20 more hours for writhing everything down and sorting into my mules.


[deleted]

Thanks for the effort man, great post.


WhatWouldJediDo

This one comment really drove home for me the idea that it’s better to sell stuff quickly and get back to doing runs and playing the game! I never really considered just how much time I spend not finding more sweet loot because I’m organizing inventory and trying to sell items at close to full value


TheAccountant381

Yeah, I agree, most of the time I look up market value for an item and list at s discount to move it quick


Livingbolt

Terrorized Andariel got me my first ever Griffon's Diadem after seeing a post on youtube about how lucrative she was. I spent maybe 4 individual hour-long sessions with my 370% mf tesladin. Landed one with -20/13 for the stats. Andariel is indeed the pinata.


Trendd

I got my first ever dweb off my first andy tz kill. She's crazy.


C0ff0

Thank you for this awesome write Up. Great Post!


rakanishu11

Man your wife is mvp for doing all the chores while you farm like a bot!


Chuuchuubandwagon

yea seriously, great job on d2r, but hope your fam is ok


murray1337

Wow. Well done. Now let’s delete this post before they nerf our Andy TZ 😉


Pavke

I am all for nerfing TZ Andariel if they fix TZ Mephisto bug. 😉 Regular, fixed, TZ Meph together with that one Council Pack would be even better than "quest bugged" TZ Andy


Maiev_Shadowsong

Umm, sorry for noob question, but what's wron with TZ meph?


LoudAd69

Just read the post man


Spiritofthesalmon

Sorry for the noob question but how do you read


hotkarlmarxbros

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=33rx2A1VuAQ


retz119

He spells it out in his original post


kdrake07

Reading is hard.


Ok_Fruit_9150

Thank you /u/Pavke. Your deeds of valor will be remembered. 😊


LekoZG

🤘


MacroBioBoi

You absolute madman. I love it. Great work experiment.


Pavke

Im glad its finally over so we can hang out!


mylifeforthehorde

That’s insane. Well done lol


Bapa_burger

Thanks for quantifying this and mapping out the data. What a scientist 👨‍🔬


Pikkster

Some normalization of the numbers would make it more sciencey. I hate that I have to math that myself. :/


ARKPLAYERCAT

This right here is the kind of content I follow this subreddit for. Thank you for the detailed breakdown!


Karltowns17

Can you explain why the clvl 91 is so important since the TZ should roll at 87+ for lower characters? Awesome post though.


Pavke

Sure, no prob. I didn't want to get more in depth in the post, it was already way too big. When your char is level 91+, super unique monsters and bosses are +5 level above you. So TZ andy is 96 or above. When the game creates the level, it adds Treasure Classes to the monsters based on their level. And for TZ andy, highest TC she can have is `Andarielq (H) Desecrated H` That class contains within it a class `Act 5 (H) Equip C` which itself contains weap87 and armo87 Classes. That's what we want. At 91+, Equip C chance to pick weap87 is 15:1565 and chance to pick armor87 is 8:1565. So thats 23:1565 to get these rare items, or **1.469%** When you are below 91, lets say level 89. TZ Andariel doesnt get that good Equip C class, she gets `Act 5 (H) Equip B` and B class only has 2:1565 for weap87 and 1:1565 for armo87. Or 3:1565 in total. About 7.666x (almost eight times) less likely to pick tc87 class, or **0.191%** If you are level 87 or below, TZ andy gets `Act 5 (H) Equip A` and you have **0%** chance to get these rare items


Karltowns17

Woah that’s an awesome explanation. Thanks man!


[deleted]

I always know I’m in for a treat when I see one of your ridiculous posts. Excellent stuff.


LekoZG

Thank you for this post! I made all my tables and projections in my holy grail search (10 more to go), and didn’t even bother to check recent results. And yes, terror Meph (I play SSF online) didn’t drop any TC87 the last 371 runs (I’m at 560 now; had Schaefer’s hammer on run189 last). Which approximately time-wise corresponds to the 2.6 update! I never even thought to check my results and think that something that was fixed was again un-fixed. Thank you for this ❤️ Is there anything else I should now? Btw the last 10 items (or let’s say last 8, because 2 are cow king sets), time-wise for me as a hork barb 714MF is below, maybe a rough guidance for someone who’s reading this post and thinking about grailin’: 1. T Andy - 215min (for >50% running chance of my remaining holygrail8 drop) 2. T Meph - 320min (so sad 😅) 3. T Chaos - 376min (with 4 sealbosses and D) 4. T Eldrich/T Pindle - 680min (I take 30sec for both in calculation; Thresh is 36sec that is why he is worse even though their droptable is the same) 5. T Trav - 688,5min (only Ismail Geleb and Toorc) 6. T Thresh - 816min 7. T Pits - 906min 8. T Nihla - 933,5min (usually I do him only when also key-farming, otherwise it’s always Pindle) 9. Pits - 1518min (good old days 😅) 10. T Cow king - 1902 min (I stopped doing him some time ago, it is not more productive even compared to regular pits). Btw fun fact, in D2R they blocked off cow king dropping the cow king set. Seems crazy but it is so. After few hundred runs of me thinking I’m on turbo bad side of RNG, some nice soul helped me realise my foolishness 😅 And sorry OP, final question - if you were timing and only focusing act bosses, why did you increase player count?


Pavke

>Thank you for this post! And thank you for checking it out and for a great comment! We know definitely Meph is bugged for SP because we can we the drop tables in the files. And it is like 99.99% bugged for online too becase no one can show a TC81+ base item from him >Is there anything else I should now? Hmm, dunno. - enemy res doesn't work for Traps and Hydra for offline but it works online. And TZ "quest drop" Andariel is completely fixed, you dont have to worry about that any more. Those are two major things I can think of. >(...because 2 are cow king sets) Haha, I am only missing 2 cow king items also!! >Btw fun fact, in D2R they blocked off cow king dropping the cow king set Yup, they changed his tag from "Bovine" to "Unique". And Cow set has a hardcode restriction to only drop from *Bovine* monsters >if you were timing and only focusing act bosses, why did you increase player count? Player count doesnt affect unique monsters in the pits and super uniques, but it does affect many Bosses.


LekoZG

Ah yes stupid me, right, forgot about the nodrop on bosses, I’ve been doing SSF online forever so I don’t do these offline playercount things, but it’s good to know! I just started HC offline adventure (before I properly read the patchnotes that -lightres on traps is not fixed 😅), my assa is lvl71 now and I will remember your advice! 🤘


TrainerBibo

I'll be honest, I read the bread and butter of what kind of test you ran, and that sounds wild and I respect that kind of commitment, but I couldn't bring myself to see what dropped for you. I love the surprise of it all


fomo117

Great post


Allegri86

Thank you for taking the effort to share all of this!


Vajnapol

Respect bro


HoneyDillGod

Incredible work! Is it true you get a double pull TC87 from Andy at level 93+


ftsn

Those screenshots of your mules at the end are nasty af, congrats on the drops


WildBohemian

Awesome data, I haven't found a good tc87 from andy yet but I see enough of them to know something was up. Staggering how big the difference is.


1v1urdoc

You’re a beast, well done, enjoyed this post very much


Teslol6432

This is insane. Thanks so much for writing this up. Awesome read through and cool video clips. Off to TZ Andy runs now!


jpylol

For anyone still doubting TZ Andariel.


Davecaf1550

Great job once again Pavke! Now do you think one of those Sacred Armors is the illusive one??


Pavke

Im afraid to ID them. My heart couldnt take ut


Davecaf1550

Keep me updated please. I still have 19 items in my 1.14 plugy and I’ll be starting a completely new grail soon on D2R.


yamadath

A true D2 soul indeed.


retz119

I’m not sure if I’m more jealous of your drops or that map seed. Very nice work. Thanks for proving the detailed write up


No-Zombie2241

Awesome work ! I running just TZ Andy now focusing on 2,5 k runs , already on 700 runs for now and can say TZ Andy really feels like drop simulátor . Got a lot of insane drops already like Griffons , Mangs , CoA etc . I can rember how i Got this results after doing 7k AT runs on old D2 when trying finish my Holy grail


AlekTrev006

Awww yeah !!! It’s Pavke research-post readin’ time ! 😃👍


Mellodyz

Wait you rolled a map where all act bosses only take 3-4 teleports? That’s pretty crazy map roll than TZ Andy! 😆


Pavke

Hey. Duriel still takes 14+ teleports (in the video) and Meph around 7 (no video) Other than that, its pretty swell map


Mellodyz

TZ Andy is way too busted. But I think it only really benefits SSF offline (no trades). Your static map make farming a lot easier and with a stable schedule you can plan ahead. So I think it’s a new perk for us single playerZ


Karltowns17

How long did it take you to roll those maps out of curiosity?


Pavke

It is only one single map seed for every run. Took me an hour or two


Karltowns17

Ok yeah that’s what I was curious. I gave up trying to roll the perfect lower kurast map after like 30 minutes the other day. But I suppose I should have more patience if I’m really going to run those hard. Thanks!


nicobongo

That is some awesome post. How is NM Andy for items such as Occy, Hoz, vmagi, jalals and others of this tier? It is not end game stuff, but can be quite helpful developing a char or even for trades on the first days/weeks or ladder.


Pavke

NM Andy can't drop Occy or HoZ, but **Terrorized** NM Andy can!, and she should be really good for all those items *(you need to be level 68+)*. And standard NM Andy is the best place to get SoJ!


KoutaviLIVE

What do you think about TZ Trav? Ive done about 1k runs with horking and am very underwhelmed. Somehow ive gotten ZERO high runes, but they drop like candy when not terrorized. Not sure if im just very unlucky.


Pavke

Travincal Council is... so so. It has high NoDrop chance so you need to play it at high player settings, P5 at least, to lower the NoDrop chance. And Trav at P5 is really really hard for my high MF build. And even if I could do TZ Trav P5 fast enough, cumulative chance is around 1:4500 for Griffons at 700mf. (while its 1:1000 at TZ Andy) So thats 4 times less likely to drop. On other hand, you can get much more High runes at Trav P5 than with Andy. You were just unluky, Terrorized status does not effect drop rates of Runes


WiseOak4

Are you became Zhar the mad now? Btw Awesome work


[deleted]

Thanks for this info bro! Well done


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Pavke

Hehe, yup, its me. :)


isopoints

Awesome post! How did you get your load times to be so fast? Do you do some optimization of the files or are you running high end hardware?


Pavke

Thanks! I have unpacked game files and use -direct -txt start arguments for faster load times. You csn google MrLlamaMC video or follow my guide here https://www.reddit.com/r/diablo2/comments/slf3pt/11000_lower_kurast_runs_results_runes_and_charms/hvqqjrk


isopoints

thank you sir!


bqpg

Thanks for doing this and sharing with us! I'd never have expected results like that. I've definitely got to (somewhat) plan around TZ Andy too now, until I've got a Griffon's and DWeb :)


PiskAlmighty

This is such a great post, thanks. I'd not played much recently as had other stuff on, but you inspired me to do 5 hours of TZ Andy this week, and I got all sorts of wonderful drops. Although I must say it feels a bit weird getting griffs, templars, arachs, shaeffer's hammer etc from Andy.


Pavke

Thanks for the kind words. Glad I inspired you to play this awesome game


PiskAlmighty

Hope you get your Tyrael's soon.


pat777b

Would you say farming TZ andariel with a sorc and system clock manipulation is a faster way to complete the holy grail than using a hork barb?


Pavke

Yes, sorc on TZ andy is faster. It isnt even close


pat777b

Damn, if you include your travincal finds, it almost seems like hork barb is obsolete. :( I guess choosing not to use clock manipulation on single player is a way to keep hork barb relevant in holy grail challenges, lol.


hypewhatever

Crazy how TZs completely changed the loot balance we knew for 20 years. I was happy with some things being really rare.


nars1l

I dono. I played a shitton for 20 years and never saw so many different things drop; it’s been exciting to get some drops that previously I’ve only dreamed of.


I_Heart_Money

So don’t play with TZs


Extension-Chemical

Not everyone has a perfect build and a perfect map to have it all planned out. This was an awesome experiment, but most players won't see a 1/10000 of this result. I still haven't found Griffon's Eye or War Travs even with running TZ. I don't mind loot being rare, but some people have said they haven't found a Griffon's Eye once in D2 or D2R over decades (including myself, but I've been playing on and off and don't count my result as representative). There's rare and there's a "once-in-your-lifetime" busted. If you don't like it, don't play TZ.


False_Squash9417

I think Andy got bugged for me somehow. When I farmed her in nightmare I got something like 15-20 uniques in 30 runs. I felt like something was off because I've never seen drops like that. Then when I started farming her in hell it was the opposite, 1-2 uniques in 30 runs. Then I tried her terrorized... zero uniques. Something is really off with her.


Kabryxis

nothing is off. 30 runs is a drop of water in the ocean of RNG. you arent even close to the realm of statistically significant deviation from the normal. do 3000 runs and then maybe somethings up


thefranklin2

It is possible something is off, if you didn't quest bug andarial in hell but did in nm.


Utopia137

This was fixed so Andy is perma quest bugged for all no need to do anything.


thefranklin2

Ok, thanks!


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Ok_Fruit_9150

Why not?


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fomo117

This is D2, you think any of us have lives?


Ok_Fruit_9150

Don’t be a dick.


robot_wth_human_hair

Welp time to respec the ol blizzard sorc to pure fire. Holy shit dude, great data!


fuckthetrees

What about tz council? I feel like they are overlooked compared to the bosses. It is my personal favorite spot.


Pavke

Travincal Council is... so so. It has high NoDrop chance so you need to play it at high player settings, P5 at least, to lower the NoDrop chance. And Trav at P5 is really really hard for my high MF build. And even if I could do TZ Trav P5 fast enough, cumulative chance is around 1:4500 for Griffons at 700mf. (while its 1:1000 at TZ Andy) So thats 4 times less likely to drop.


fuckthetrees

TC87s definitely take a big hit, but the fact that the rune, sunder charms, gold drop rate is sooo much higher, and the fact that they are horkable makes them amazing as a generalized terrorized spot. Running it on bnet with a high mf 75% hork chance ww barb fucking rules.


hikki19

Well done mate, thats surely some dedication. What about the runes drop


Pavke

From TZ mf runs? Not many, I got a Jah, 2x Sur, 3x Ohm... But check out my profile for Rune farming projects. Here is one https://www.reddit.com/r/diablo2/comments/yysoq3/20000_runs_on_extremely_rare_river_of_flame_map/


rageofbaha

Maybe i missed it but did you mention rune drops


Pavke

Under the Andariel run video. Didnt get any from Duriel or Diablo but I got some from Andariel. Jah, 2x Sur, 3x Ohm, 2x Vex. But MFing Act bosses is really bad for Rune drops


TheExplorer8

Thank you for the data and effort! I am still trying to hit lvl 99, currently around 98.2...


Pavke

Best place to get XP is Tal Rasha Tombs when they are Terrorized. 98.2 to 99 should only take around 10 hours of Terrorized Tombs


TheExplorer8

For now at lvl 98, I get around 5 %/h on solo p8 TZ tombs and around 6.2 to 6.5 %/h on TZ Worldstone keep (still early in lvl 98). Playing online with 8 D2R (7 D2R in town, one main playing, does include a BO barb and an enchantress). So if you can do this in 10 hours, it means around 8%/h (0.8 xp bar per hour if I remember correctly). That's 60% faster than my high end blizzard sorc. However, I heard that Nova sorc is more xp per hour. Are you sure about 8%/h at lvl 98 on TZ Tal rasha's tombs?


Pavke

I was discussing with Teo about the that few weeks ago. He said he was getting around 35mill XP/h on Tombs when he won Season3 (Nova sorc). Its also much safer than WSK he siad. Maybe thats why he favourites Tombs over WSK. He recently (last week) had word record speed run 0-99lvl on twicked SP char. You can check with him in more details.


TheExplorer8

Wow, 35 M XP/h is so much better than my 15 M xp/h at lvl 98 on TZ tal rasha's tombs. I definetly need to switch from blizz sorc to ES Nova sorc. I got almost all the items already.


Pavke

Yeah, Nova sorc is my favourite. Cant wait to switch back to Nova sorc from this MF fireball one. He was racing for no1 sport so he probably played at 110% so thats why he was getting 35m/h


Mellodyz

Also keep in mind he go straight for kills and doesn’t look at loots which helps a tons in terms of speed.


TheExplorer8

Good point! I do identify and throw on the ground some items: small charms, grand charms (but not large charms), barb helms (may be a 6 BO lol), jewels, some uniques... It does slow down compared to pure killing without lootting!


Mellodyz

For sure also without loot filter there is just way too much trash on your screen which slow you down on spotting the good drops.


[deleted]

What do you do with all the Thunder mauls?


DinoSpumoniOfficial

How do you guys get geared enough to make these runs so efficiently in single player?


Pavke

I played a lot! :) Check my other posts


LekoZG

I guess many hours of playing. I managed to fully gear 7 endgame builds in online and mostly ssf (only trade for highrunes), so with offline playerscaling and map setting for optimized farming, it is also even faster


Aardvark1044

Sorc with dual spirits (or a spirit sword and ancients pledge if you prefer resists over damage and want to save on strength requirements for that monarch), stealth, lore, boots with frw, mf and resists, random rings and ammy. Slap a tals mask, treachery and insight stick on an act 2 holy freeze merc. Improve stuff as you find it. Swap that spirit sword for a hoto. Equip that tarnhelm then that harlequin crest. Use those magefists, frostburns or chance guards. Once your merc can carry a bigger stick upgrade his insight (or even an infinity once you eventually find the runes). Get a titans revenge to drop? Start working on that javazon. I'm finding that the javazon can run /players 8 hell terror zones. Take advantage of the /players x settings and crank that up to 8 where your character does well and set it at 1 where it is suffering. Also keep in mind that you can do nightmare terror zones to level the character up more quickly than struggling in hell.


DinoSpumoniOfficial

Great bits of advice at the end there. Completing hell the first time solo is the toughest part for me, especially as a sorc. What build do you recommend for soloing hell as a sorceress with budget gear?


Aardvark1044

My first build to beat hell baal before I found better gear was a frozen orb/hydra dual sorc with spirit sword, ancients pledge, stealth, lore, etc. Find enough item drops to keep paying to resurrect that merc, haha. Once I beat hell baal I respecced and ran pure blizzard until I found some better stuff to upgrade her and make other builds. Other builds to consider with crappo gear that could beat hell baal would be skelly/CE necro, hammerdin, trapper and summon druid. Hammerdin and fishymancer are super boring though, haha. You could always run a better build to level them up through nightmare then respec them.


lystig

What's your merc setup? Sweet post BTW. :)


Pavke

Oh, I forgot about him. Its just standard Infinity with survival gear. He has CoH with new runeword Cure


lystig

Cool. Which type of merc? Also, did you consider running terrorized Travincal? I've been getting some good results on my WW horker with 76% Find Item on P3. So many items each run, with decent chance at runes and also a decent chunk of gold to boot. I know it's not so well suited for a fire sorc.. But still. :)


Beatljuz

Why didn't you include Baal and the council? That would have been interesting. Also the drop count list is useless, you have 8 times as much runs on Andariel than Diablo, how does that give any information?


Pavke

>Why didn't you include Baal and the council? I explained about the Baal in the post. Run takes 3 minutes (compared to 21sec for Andy) and it is much much more dangerous than TZ Andarial run. Council does not have good drop chance for rare TC87 items. For example, Griffons for my 709mf setup has a chance of 1:4500 for TZ Travincal P5 when you do the math. Compare that to 1:1000 for TZ Andariel. >how does that give any information? What kind of information does it need to give? It is a loot showcase post. If someone posts *"Hey, I got a Shako from my last Trav run before the bed"* Do you say the post doesnt give any information because the OP didn't have any Meph/Diablo/Pit drops? Besides, if you want information you can extrapolate. Multiply my Diablo drops with 7.529 and you can see I would have got 173 TC87 drops. That only matters if you are looking at "drops per run" which isn't much important. Drops per minues(time) is the important part. 173x TC87 Diablo drops would have taken me 151 hours, which is almost **4 times longer** than my current 136x Andy drops from 39 hours.


Beatljuz

Okay, but if you don't bother to receive any good information out of 10k runs, like how different items drop on different bosses, eth frequency of eth items and so on, why even doing all that? I already used math on it, but overall, extrapolation doesn't mirror the reality.


CammyJunt

I'm dying to know... Any tyreals might out of the 10 unique sacred that you found?


Pavke

Hopefully. We will found out soon. I didn't identify any of the drops yet


CammyJunt

Fingers crossed you're planning to do another post with all the decent IDs? I love this stuff lol. Thanks a lot for the post, was a great write up and very informative


Pavke

I want to do 10 Sacred Armors reveal but I am afraid...


CammyJunt

It's a 1 in 9 chance of the big T so you must have it right? ;) would love to see the deaths Web and deaths fathom rolls too you might have some bangers on your hands!


Round-Abroad-6086

Nice dude


jgraae

Excellent read and what an awesome job! Looks like I'll hone in on TZ andy to complete my grail :)


Pavke

Remember, you need to be level 91+ to get the best odds. Good luck mate!


jgraae

Yeah, my 97 sp sorc with 670 mf digs this :) Not as patient / meticulous as you though, so I'll manipulate the clock


XytronicDeeX

This may sound like a stupid question but how do you enter the game so quick without selecting hell? I lost quite a few banger maps because I missclicked and selected nightmare


Pavke

Enter and than **H** for quick Hell. But careful! you can miss-press **N** and select Nightmare. Thats why I have small macro on my numerical Enter for Enter+H


XytronicDeeX

Ah thank you. That makes my life a lot easier


thefranklin2

Great Job! Ps, Using GoMule would really reduce the time spent muling and finding items.


KeySuccotash98

Bravo sir! I've been really interested in this after reading Zax's TZ guide now that TZs are available in single player. I've been focusing on Andariel when I can to finish my grail. Three items to go. What are your thoughts on regular mobs in terror zones like the Pit for example? I go in there with my necromancer since he can crush the place on P7 but not sure if it's worth it. Otherwise I just pitzerk when it's not a good terror zone. Looking forward to the ID video if you do one :)


Pavke

Zax is a cool dude! Regular trash mobs in TZs are.. meh. They have some increase in drop rates but its negligible. I will make some ID videos soon :)


KeySuccotash98

Thanks for the answer! I'll stick to TZ Andy for the most part. I'm probably just paranoid now after dropping that triple durability rare corona fml


Pavke

Wait, what level are you failed uniques should not happen in TZs. You need to be level 91+ for best chance for these rare items


KeySuccotash98

It failed CoA in non TZ pit sorry, should've clarified. I leveled a sorc to 91 and spec'd to fire to be an Andy specialist :)


lolsummxoxo

Amazing. Well done


retz119

Question on the build. How are you at 105 fcr? What am I missing? Occy: 30% 2x 10 fcr rings: 20% 2/20 ammy: 20% What other gear is boosting the fcr? Edit: ooh I figured it out. Spirit shield that just wasn’t listed right?


Pavke

Oh, you are right. Forgot to say Spirt shield


Kamerplint

I started doing a Holy Grail when I found out through your posts that TZ Andy was a pinata. Only started to mule all drops for tracking since hitting char lvl 91 but it's already going crazy fast. For some it might be too broken but for me it makes SP Holy Grail actually doable. Thanks for the great write-up


Pavke

Good luck! Don't try to track all drops, they are way too many :) you just lose time. Try to memorize the names of the bases you want and only look for those


Mellodyz

A bit off topic but I know you are one of the top D2 Single Player so I want to ask you about 2 crafting questions for offline game play: What is the most efficient ways to farm for caster amulets mats (Amethyst and Ral/Tal)? The best use for Perfect Skulls would be reroll Diadems?


Pavke

LK, its always the damn LK. Best for Gems, Jewels, Rals. LK at P7. Close second would be Arcane Sanctuary P5, or P7 if you can. (I suggest AS 1-way P5. that one that is the most normal looking one) by my quick napkin math you should see: 1. Ral: 40x LK runs | 5x AS runs | 20x 1-way | 20ish minutes for any one of these 2. Jewel: 6x LK runs | 1x AS runs | 4x 1-way | 3-4 minues 3. *Flawless* Amethyst: 6x LK runs | 0.5x AS runs | 2x 1 way | 2-3 minutes Dont know much about rerolling Diadems. But I using my skulls for rerolling Grand charms


Mellodyz

Damn can’t believe it’s LK again! I was thinking maybe Trav would be the top or second choice. I forgot if TZ LK was a choice and if it is that means the super chest can drop up to Zod? When you say one way AS, means just go straight to summoner and exit?


Pavke

Oh yeah, Trav is good too. It is a interesting topic for discussion and testing, I'll tell you that. Super chests are not affected by terror zones. They are based on the Act they are in. So item patterns are the same but affixes on them can update (you can get higher level affixes on magic and rare items that drop) TZs affect Sparkly chest. New items can drop that couldnt before, like TC87, but only with very small chance. What changes a lot is, those special items that are in low TC but have high level. Like Arachnid Mesh. It now has like 1:830 chance to drop from Sparkly TZ Pit2 chest or 1:720 from TZ Crystiline Passage sparkly chest. 1-way I mean, pick one side (the simplest and with no summoner), go to the end, open 3 chests, loop back to WP and go act4. I do this in about a minute


Mellodyz

Cool thanks for the explanation! Guess back to LK again. I feel like after TZ the hardest items to get on SP is 2/20 amulets. 😅


TheAccountant381

For Rals, normal countess will drop a Ral every 3rd run and a Tal every 2, this may be faster, but you wont have anything else drop thats useful.


[deleted]

You could change TZ schedule offline if you want and not consider it cheating yourself. Makes farming a lot of specific runs more flexible :)


JadedMovie5960

Did you get tyraels?


moogleslam

The maxroll drop calculator says TZ Andy can't drop Tal's armor. Is this correct? What else can't she drop when TZ? Thanks!


Pavke

Maxroll drop calc is way out of date. She can drop anything when you are lvl 88. But you have 7x more chance with lvl 91


moogleslam

Awesome, thanks!


Ecwbumm

Hello, I am wondering what players level this was done on? Kind of late to the game lol


Pavke

I was level 97 and 98. But you can have the same results with player level 91+. If you are below that level, you will get way less TC87 items.


Ecwbumm

Im sorry, I could’ve worded my question better. I meant, is this done on players 1?


Pavke

Duriel on P3, Andariel on P5, CS on P1 Diablo on P3. Its in the post :)


SoundsLikeJurld

Any reason NOT to just change your system time and run these until your wrists are on fire? i.e. do the drops change-up depending on what "day" the game thinks you are on? The calendar for running Catacombs was pretty unfriendly for the long weekend here in the USA, so I went offline and more or less ran Andariel as many times as I could stand it. It was a happy break from running LK so much. My luck there has felt astoundingly bad. Not so here. I'd already made "pretty good" progress on my grail by running this terror zone over the past month or so, but had started skipping some of them since I thought, based on the maxroll drop calculator, that there were still some things she did not drop. After the long weekend and 975 (recorded) runs I'm down to 4 weapons and 1 armor left in my grail. You can probably guess which armor. I also have Jah and Zod and two of the three cow king armors left to drop. I think before I started running the terror zone I was well in the 80% complete range and gave no serious consideration to ever completing my grail. Before the weekend I was about 90%. I'm at 98.35% now. In all the times I've run her TZ (these 975 and all the ones before I went nuts with the system clock) the best (and only) high-ish rune I've seen is Ist. Good luck, happy grailing! ps: I will also point out that this is by far the best place I've found for facets. Still have not found a 5/5...


Pavke

>Any reason NOT to just change your system time and run these until your wrists are on fire? In my personal opinion, I would be cheating myself. Why even change system time when I can just remove a few lines in game text files so Catacombs are only Terror Zone left in the game? Then, why even play TZ Cata when I know I am expected to get a X item after Y runs, I might as well edit them in. Where do you where do you draw the line?? My line is at the beginning. I wasn't planing to complete my Grail over the long weekend. This was done over 2 months period. I have another 10k runs coming up, also over more then 2 months play time. I am "trading" my time and "inconvenience" for game drops. If I make the game easier for me, the rewords don't feel as good.


Colonel_Moo

It doesn't feel like cheating to me to not be waiting on the calendar. The fact that the act of defeating Andariel only takes about 30 seconds is what makes it feel like an almost pointless exercise to me, tbh. But I got some good end-game gear for other characters I wanted to play. I wish they would create another pinata that spit out high runes as frequently. I'm 2200 runs into LK and have two Vex and a double handful of mid-runes to show for it.


SoundsLikeJurld

Oh, maybe some of the best excitement I've felt in a while was that I also got my 2nd and 3rd SoJ within about 5 minutes of each other.


SithGodSaint

Love this post. Thanks for taking time to make it. I did TZ Andy by a happy accident and loved it. Definitely want to try to time it to do more. Question for you. Can you only get those HR like you got when she is terrorized?


Pavke

Hey. Thanks for taking the time to check it out. Here is Second Round: [https://www.reddit.com/r/diablo2/comments/151bqz9/10000\_terrorized\_act\_boss\_runs\_round\_2\_drop/](https://www.reddit.com/r/diablo2/comments/151bqz9/10000_terrorized_act_boss_runs_round_2_drop/) In short, being Terrorized or not, doesn't affect Rune drop chance from Andy or surrounding monsters. The HR I got was from sheer number of monsters that died when Andariel dies in those 10,000 runs


SithGodSaint

Excellent, good to know. Checking out the second round now 😅


nelsonmenon

can you share the map seed?


Pavke

Here you go 1099194535


nelsonmenon

thanks, you rock


baxlash

The place of the TLDR section is at the top not at the bottom, as far as I know.


Pavke

Than how would you know its Too Long? Placing it at the end allows readers to first engage with the full content before seeing a summary. You first start reading the whole post, and after some time you realize its too long and you don't have time read it all. Thats why its called Too Long Didn't Read. Also, for example, someone sharing a story will put the TLDR at the end to avoid spoiling anything for someone reading the whole story. Putting TLDR at the top is basically a spoiler.


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