There it is! The end is here!

Three Bers - ALL DONE IN LK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


Stats with LK upgrades in Meph gear. I guess I should have kept 1-2x extra LR scs Hope it's enough.

Caw cawwwww

~Reflections on LK~

I'm surprised that it went this way, because my plan was to grind Meph, then Pindle, then get my Bers once I had the IK set completed. I didn't think I'd have all 3 bers before Meph! I guess I didn't expect Meph to give me as much trouble as he did. Once I started in LK to get the charm upgrades, I figured that I may as well just keep it going and get that portion of the grind out of the way. And am I ever glad that it's out of the way! I dislike running LK more than any other area. This is because since there is so much item-clutter in those little huts, often you can't see everything that's actually on the ground so it's easy to miss charm/rune drops. For this reason, when I do LK runs, I only do them with noise cancelling headphones on and the volume turned way up (with d2 music at zero but d2 sound effects at max). This makes for VERY boring runs. I sometimes have trouble with motivation, and when I do, the thing that helps me most is doing "themed" runs. Such as listening to an entire album while I do my runs, or watching a movie in the background and including quotes from the movie in the runs. It's just more fun and if I sit down with a movie it's a lot easier to grind than it is when just sitting there in silence with noise cancelling headphones on haha! So yeah... Good riddance LK!

As for the drops, I feel that I had average, maybe slightly above average luck when it came to rune drops. I believe that Hobbes spent more time grinding out just 2 bers than the amount of time it took Fezzik to get 3 bers. However, Fezzik's charm luck was fairly underwhelming. Quite a few vita charms dropped, but most were plain 17 lifers. NO good max/ar GCs dropped at all. The one and only "good" charm Fezzik took from LK was the Warcries/FRW GC. By the time Hobbes was finished in LK, he had mostly 20 lifers with mods, some nice res charms, he even found a few max/ar/lifer GCs. He also had 2x ED/IAS jewels from LK including a 35/15! So I guess you could say that Fezzik was luckier with runes, but Hobbes was luckier with charms/jewels.

Here is what Fezzik kept from LK:

-3x Bers
-1x Vex
-3x Ist (doesn't have enough dex to use Ali Babas, so the first one will need Hel/Ist, then the dex from that one will allow his second one to be Ist/Ist)
-3x 20 lifer scs
-3x 19 lifer scs
-3x 18 lifer scs
-7x 17 lifer scs
-1x 1max/16ar/16 life sc
-2x 10-11% resist sc for each element
-2x res all scs (5% and 4%)
-5x 7% MF sc
-2x Warcries gcs (one with 7% frw)
-2x life/mana gcs solely for Meph runs (since you can't leech from him)
-40%ed/5 str jewel for merc helm (until I can find a Cham for it)
-1 max dmg/90 attack rating/10% life leech/2 strength/48 life ring (best ring I have for full IK setup so far)
-7% life leech/19% MF ring (will use this during Pindle runs)

Now let's see if Meph is any easier! LR is still a little low

I've now done about 5 Meph runs and I can say that I don't really see any improvement in safety at all. I'm not sure what the problem is, but he is absolutely owning me. I have to go to town1-2 times per fight to get more potions, and I spent atleast half the fight running in circles around him while my healing pots struggle to keep up. It seems like I have plenty of life and enough resistances, defense is plenty high also. The only places I feel like I am slightly slacking would be LR and then of course DR%. Guess I could try SoE over Gwrap and see how it goes. But for now I'm really dumbfounded as to why I'm having so much trouble. Maybe I need to level up in Flayer Jungle a bit to gain some levels for a better chance to hit %.

I don't know if you are using ww against Meph, too, but your dmg seems very low to me.

Very nice LK grind for that 3 Bers. GZ

Have you tried Meph with other sk than WW? Maybe 1pt Bers? And i would put SoE over Goldwrap for sure

only lvl 83 after thousands of LK runs ? dang bro
just so you know, my 94 zon has around 69% chance to hit meph with 6,5k ar or so

Opening chests doesn’t give you experience lol. I think I did about 2k runs, maybe 2500.

I’m at 64% cth with 5200 ar.



I think they are doable with SoE on, just need to be careful and find some upgrades! I tried conc a bit but it wasn’t as good, I’ll try zerk also.

Yeah I tend to forget that not everyone runs LK like I do, I often stop to kill vultures packs since they have a good chance of HR drops

I think berserk does not carry CB from your IK maul btw meph is really a bich .. need high AR and without decrep/amp it's long as ww barb to down him