Sontdp's Diablo Clone Hunting Guide

Basics of Diablo Clone Hunting, Volume 1

Hello I'm Sontdp owner of the Alchemy guild and long time clone hunter and I'm here to explain how to successfully hunt Diablo Clone or Dclone as he called.

The first step you need to take is to find somewhere that a large group of people are hunting Dclone. This makes it a lot easier because these people might know information on certain servers you don't know or have missed.

How Dclone Spawns, Volume 1, Chapter 1

It takes about 70-130 Stones of Jordan (SoJs) sold to the vendors to get Dclone to spawn on that server. He will spawn in the place of a Super Unique Monster. Ex. Corpsefire in the Den of Evil, Eldritch in the Frigid Highlands. All other rumors besides selling SoJs to vendors are false. When you sell a SoJ it is gone forever.

Note: If you attempt to go to one of these places before he spawns it sometimes does not want to spawn there or you kill the super unique dclone will not spawn there.

There is a complete list of all the Super Unique Monsters at http://www.battle.net/diablo2exp/monsters/super.shtml

Why sell sojs, to who, for what and what kind: Volume 1, Chapter 2

The number one question most people have is why sell sojs when most the time a soj on softcore ladder will cost more then an anni on softcore ladder. Sojs sold on any of the cores wether ladder or non to. And he will also walk in all of these(scnl, scl, hcnl, and hcl in all hell games for the server).

So buy selling an unperm soj on scnl and having a hcl game you spend 5-10 fg per soj and you get about 50 fg per hcl anni (prices vary from realm to realm and change on supply and demand). So if you are a large hunter you can sell let's say 100 sojs to walk a server and have 40 hcl games and double the money you spent to walk the server.

Who do you sell to really which merchant you sell to is your choice personally I do one of the ones in act 1 because mules I use to sell on are not rushed and I don't play on them because my sojs are generally unpermed. Merchant is just defined as a non playable character(npc) that you can trade with either buying or selling goods or both.

What kind of sojs do you sell you ask? Unperm SCNL why ? because there cheap and serve no other purpose it is a very wide spread rumor that Diablo clone was put into the game simply to get rid of the masses of sojs that had been duped back in the olden days. You can sell on scl, hcnl, hcl or even perm sojs but it doesn't really matter generally if your going to buy them unperm scnl will be your cheapest to get.

How To Get On The Correct Server, Volume 1, Chapter 3

ALL GAMES NEED TO BE IN HELL DIFFICULTY.

Manual Way to out find out the IP that your own. First, create a game on Diablo II. Then go to your desktop. Choose Start. Go to Run. Type in cmd in the run box. from there another box will appear this is your cmd box. In your cmd box you will type in netstat -n. From here you will be looking for the numbers at the end that match .4000 the 2 or 3 numbers in front of this will the current ip your on. Also you can use -netstat n | find "4000". That will only find the info of games on b.net I find this little bit more confusing and work.



Now you know how to get on a certain server you have to know which server you want to get on.

How to find out what Ips are hot:



Almost the only way to find out hot ips before they are either camped to death and you usually realmdown or get temp banned before you find one is to use outside links which we can not explain and this is a site wide rule so to my understand it applies to pms also so I will not pm you these websites.

But as far as d2jsp concerned there is usually a sticky in the sticky section that is labeled post hot ips here and they will be posted or people will just post them here in the dclone forums http://forums.d2jsp.org/index.php?showforum=240.

How to Know Dclone Spawned: Volume 1, Chapter 4

Dclone will only spawn are one place below is an example of a walk I was recently involved in. If you come in a game and see that it says Diablo Walks The Earth unless you just made the game and your the only person in it then I would go seriously looking for him. It very difficult to get the anni from the kill in public games due to leechers and people with there killer already in your game.



Killing Dclone, Volume 1, Chapter 5


Dclone will drop one and only one Unidentified Annihilus charm(ANNI) no matter how many people are in the game. Dclone will spawn only once per game and will spawn on every server on the realm including any classic games but charms do not exist, so no anni. LIMIT 1 ANNI PER CHARACTER.

There are a few particular builds that can kill him extremely fast, such as a Charged Strike Amazon, a character that says Agent can drop Dclone with in 5 seconds. Zealers and Smiters take a little longer but are still extremely effective.

Diablo Clone Stats from Arreat Summit: Volume 1, Chapter 6
Diablo Clone Stats

Cold: +95%
Fire: +95%
Lightning: +95%
Poison: +95%
Magic: +50%
Physical: +50%
Melee Attack 1 has 14043 Attack Rating.
Melee Attack 2 has 13064 Attack Rating.
Defense is about 2940
50% Chance to Block
Monster level of 110
(Note: Based off one player being in game)

Anni Stats: Volume 1 Chapter 6
Required Level: 70
+1 To All Skills
+10-20 To All Attributes (varies)
All Resistances +10-20 (varies)
+5-10% To Experience Gained (varies)
(Only Spawns In Patch 1.10 or later)

How to hold 2 annis on one char: Volume 1, Chapter 7

This only works in Softcore Modes Due to you have to die to do it.

Step one: Go into the wilderness where there are monsters
Step two: Pick the anni up like your going to drop it but DON'T
Step three: Allow the monsters to kill you Note: The anni will automatically drop to your dead body
Step four: Go back to where you died and make sure that your anni didn't drop on the ground
Step five: Go collect the other anni
Step six: If you died any time going to get the anni go back and get all those dead bodies
Step seven: Try and pick up the body with the other anni on it
Note: it should say I can't do this but it will let you get your gear back and leave the anni on the dead body
Step eight: leave and transfer the anni to a mule char collect the other body and your good to go
Note: I'm not responsible for any anni lost and this can be patched at any time

Note: you will not get stats from the anni on the dead body

Myths about Dclone Hunting: Volume 1, Chapter 8

1. If you sell a stone of jordan(soj) you can buy it back.

100% False on closed Battle.net servers once you sell it is gone forever just like if you sell an anni charm or torch to merchants

2. If you kill all the super unquies then Diablo Clone will spawn.

Again 100% False if you took the time to kill all, I think theres like 62, then it would take you a long time to find them all but he wouldl not spawn.

3. If you spawn Diablo Clone at Ancients you can kill him with a tp

You don't really kill him it's kind of like he just teleports away and takes the charm with him :/

4. Dclone spawns in Classic

This is true but he doesn't spawn the charm when you kill him :/

Credits:
Agent.Scat (Some of the Info and stuff I missed)

Simply fixes to this one fixed some coding on it and fixed some grammer/spelling more needs to be done, this is just up for now to get feedback to work probably the final version after 1.13 comes out.

Changes to the guide are welcome to be pmed to me and i will review them and get back with you. Remember Talk is cheap you think you can build a better guide I invite you to raise up and take the challenge.

The add on to the netstat command, "| find "4000"" lists all connections using 4000 anywhere. Should just tell them to use that instead of netstat -n which list all connections. Also that picture showing server info...remove those horrible circles.

redo it for me xet I don't have d2 installed anymore.

sticky this imo

Once Diablo walks the earth, any games you create later on that IP won't have him in it,right? How long does this last, are those IP "burned" for a long period?

I keep wondering why Blizz added this weird feature. To get rid of the duped SoJs? By creating a shitload of legit Annis?

This post was edited by Hoi_Gr on Apr 29 2009 09:26pm

Going into charter

Yes any game on that ip is going to walk granted realms like east and west could both have an ip 169 if east walked west would not because the other 3 octets of the ip are different.

It last for you have to be in the game before it walks for like 1 second I think I've cut it super close less then 30 seconds and still got walk. I might of actually been a second after it was reported walk and theres lag on the report.

Many people say it was to get rid of the massively amount of dupe sojs, granted they probably never expect anni hunting to get as big as it did do to good programmers.


After dclone is there as far as I know he will stay there till he is killed. Granted it will sometimes spawn in random places like if you leave in middle of baal waves he will spawn there even if you go to another super unquie right after walk it's a very common problem.

He also spawns on classic.

s/s or it didnt happen

he does, he just doesn't drop an anni because there are no charms in classic, he's just a pile of exp if you want it