So I see everyone bringing up MAEk buggs, and to be honest I have no idea what that is.
although, I started using the sorceress orb that I got in the Norm Anya video that I posted, which has +5 MAEK.
WHAT A DIFFERENCE!!!!

I almost never have to use mana potions now.

I have been doing normal cow runs, and I got myself to level 33.
I also got my act 3 merc back, and he leveled back up to me very quickly.



That amulet ended up being Civerb's, which I usually would think is trash, but it has 40% mana regen on it. Super stoked XD

Notable item finds that i've had since last update:

I am now using a 3 socket gothic shield with 3 pdiamonds (57 all resist)
I scraped togeather El Ral Eth and a 3 socket crown to make "Beauty" rw : faster hit recovery, 15% regenerate mana, 50% magic find, 30% fire resist.
I found a 11% fire res, 15% magic find magic ring.
30% magic find boots shopped from town
a few small charms with resist + life

I also found a magic ring with +1 MAEK. I saved it because from what i'm guessing is that there is a way to bug the rings ? not sure hopefully someone will fill me in

This post was edited by pyropunk on Sep 28 2018 08:37pm

A few more cow runs and I am level 35
Decided to step up and go back to nightmare.

Had many rough battles making it to catacombs, but here we are.
This is what my stats / damage looks like
I currently have 120% magic find



In this video, I will show everyone how to properly glitch your character to get permanent quest kill drops from andariel for that difficulty.
After glitching, you will be able to do andy runs and get good drops every time when you have no magic find.

It's actually better to do it without magic find...
I didn't follow that rule and as you can see my drops are pretty weak. I was just too lazy to take my gear off



I didn't make the video just to show the glitch, I just decided to tell it at the end.
It always seems that expansion players never know about this glitch, but for us classic players it's common knowledge.
I do it on every character I make, for every difficulty.
You can do it for duriel as well but that requires a rusher / different method

Unfortunately permanent quest drops glitch only works from 1.10. Quest drop mechanism was different before.

Regarding the bugged MPK ring, there is a cube formula: cobalt ring, which generates a random ring (magic, rare, set, unique) with additional cold resist (up to 36%). If the ring spawns with mana per kill affix, due to the bug, cold res value will be added to the MPK value (up to 37 mana per kill).

Here is an example:



/E: thx for the donate

This post was edited by -joey- on Sep 29 2018 01:29am

nice! thank you and ShadowFinger for telling me


I made a new character on hero editor and spawned a bumch of sapphires and rings so I could test it and see if I was doing the recipe properly, and sure enough after about 10 rings I hit one with 25MPK.
Now, i'm not going to use any of that of course. I just had to test how to do it before I started wasting my time on my main character.

So, I had literally ONE sapphire (flawless) to use on my main (I now hate myself for selling all my old sapphires)
and....




super stoked :')

Act5 merc takes a while before he is really impressive, but you should just use him and see for yourself on end game
I had the luck to drop bloodletter so I used him straight a5 norm --> a5 hell

btw gz on the maek ring really lucky there

grats on the ring

After progressing through act 2, I took my shot at duriel.
Extremely sketchy. I took a video of my first attempt.
I accidentally clicked off screen and ended the video short, but I ended up having to give up after running out of mana potions, it was a losing battle either way.


I decided to go back and magic find in normal a bit, on diablo / baal / cows.
I also did nightmare, a bunch of andy runs, pit runs, and countess.

The drop rate in this patch is horrible.
I have found less than 10 rare items in total so far since I started this character. I have been running with magic find since level 3.
I have 130% magic find now, and have had it that high for a while now
I still have not found a single unique yet

I have most pieces of sigon's, angelic, and 2 pieces of sanders, and 2 pieces of death's.

That's about it. I barely even have any runes. the only items really worth mentioning after doing at least 30-40 runs between norm and nightmare is a 4 socket gothic plate. lol

So I decided to stock up on potions, slightly modify my gear and give duriel another shot

Yep its broken. Always the same type of items dropping unless you're doing blood raven andy runs with a precise amount of MF which I dont remember.
1.07 is only good for some MAEK and maybe crafts
summons -joey

This post was edited by Melatonina on Sep 30 2018 03:35am

A lot of patience is required for 1.07, but if you like long-term projects and watching movies etc while doing thousands of repetitive runs it can be fun and well-rewarding at the end.

MF is completely useless, I would say. There are certain breakpoints to force uniques and sets, but these values are quite high, for example: 554 MF is requred to force uniques from Hell Act Bosses and 376 or something like that to force sets from Hell uniques and superuniques.
Also keep in mind that Act Bosses can only drop according to their normal TC (nothing above TC33 can be obtained via Act Bosses) and all the other mobs are capped at TC66 (e.g. you can farm Wizzardspike from Hell Council minions, but you will never be able to get Grandfather or Arky from any mob).
The best way to obtain end-game uniques and sets is the so-called rack running. Racks can drop items above TC66, so for example you can farm Shako or Laying of Hands from Hell LK armor racks (the odds are 1:1000 for uniques and 1:120 for sets).

The good thing is, that 1.08 is even more fucked up in terms of item finding, so better to stay in 1.07 to get some nice vintage stuff.

There is only a few item, which can only be obtained in 1.08: Eaglehorn, Windforce M'avina's Caster and Stormspire (archon staff) - you can not find these items in 1.07 since racks can not drop wooden weapons (bows, staves, wands).

Btw: what is your end-game build?

This post was edited by -joey- on Sep 30 2018 09:05am