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#91
May 23 2020 03:08am




:D yay! Got both cleavers in a really reasonable amount of runs, one at #300 and the other at #516.
Really really decent upgrades.
The racking time itself seems really good, 2.5 - 3 hours for those two is amazing, but the real time sink is just finding the racks to pop them.


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#92
May 23 2020 03:13am






Pre and post Butchers damage, final shot with Gulzar's buff. That's a lotta damage!
Also looks pretty cool with the blue colouring on the gloves too :)
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#93
May 23 2020 09:07am






1. Popped a demonhide sash rack! And again quite close to the waypoint.
Wasn’t all plain sailing though, if you deviated even a wee bit from a certain route it’d chuck out either quilted armour or bucklers, so had to concentrate quite a bit and not just go into full on autopilot for this one.
This route averaged around 19 seconds to run.

2. Some rubbish rares along the way, nowt decent.
Forgot to take screenshot but you can see in the inventory I actually got an Arctic Furs to pop from one of the mis-racks >.< gimme alllll the sets!

3. Then a good three and a half hours after starting and it dropped! Woohoo, run #687 was the golden run.
15% DR will be so good for heading into hell, looks so far like there's no stat variance on unique drops in 1.07 so that's good in some ways. :)
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#94
May 23 2020 09:12am






1. With the SoE and two Butcher’s I decided to give hell another bash. Don’t have any screenshots of the den completion but here’s Bloodraven to make up for it.

2. Bishibosh was a big no no, hit him a couple of times and almost got evaporated by his lightning. Really need to be paying better attention to boss mob buffs. MSLE is awful!

3. Got treehead down eventually. Had to town multiple times as he had mana burn and just annihilated me when I couldn’t leech quickly enough with Frenzy.
One of the few cases where I'd absolutely take some mana pots over full juvs.
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#95
May 23 2020 09:19am






1. Entering Tristram again and the Akara ring. Was real dicey in there so didn’t get any screenshots.
For whatever moronic reasons I decided to continue on and got to black marsh and into the Forgotten Tower.
Mercenary was just constantly dead and I was getting chunked for ¼ of my health way too frequently in there so decided to call it and went back to nightmare racks in the hopes of some upgrades.
Honestly in hindsight I was probably lucky not to have gotten killed by some archer pack in the tower or something.

2. After many many rerolled maps I found a decent Casque dropper! Decided to just run with it and see if I could get one.
Not the best choice of helms to commit to racking but hadn’t seen a single rack drop a Grim Helm or Winged Helm pop out.

However around the #110 run mark I lost this map too :| really wish the keybindings for entering difficulties were in 1.07...

3. Found a winged helm dropper a couple of days later!
Really happy about that as I think Valkyrie Wing gives the most run speed for a helmet so it would be the best for all future rack-running ventures, and Guilles could drop too! Would be a really nice for both merc and myself.

P.S. Sorry for the switching resolutions of the screenshots, having the smaller window when racking is much better for background watching stuff!

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#96
May 23 2020 09:26am






1. Woo, first G-face at run #182 and another for mercenary at #300! Need to grab 3 levels worth of strength before its useable but yeah, happy days.

2/3. So on this map if you took the red path you’d end up with a heavy bracers pop, and the blue path gave the winged helms.
Think I only messed it up 5 or so times and these dropped! No use here obviously but keeping anyways.
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#97
May 23 2020 09:30am
Quote (ewan25 @ May 23 2020 11:26am)
https://i.imgur.com/o3MoM1v.png

https://i.imgur.com/hyIAlqd.png

https://i.imgur.com/3hFnhbp.png

1. Woo, first G-face at run #182 and another for mercenary at #300! Need to grab 3 levels worth of strength before its useable but yeah, happy days.

2/3. So on this map if you took the red path you’d end up with a heavy bracers pop, and the blue path gave the winged helms.
Think I only messed it up 5 or so times and these dropped! No use here obviously but keeping anyways.


does this patterning of walking/running certain ways continue into later patches i.e 1.13 + 1.14?
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#98
May 23 2020 09:35am






1. Ran some Baal and WSK levels for a bit of a break from racking and got a couple of decent items. The more FRW the better!

2. First 3BO Helm found.

3. Highest rune drop so far and a nice Pgem base!!
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#99
May 23 2020 09:38am
Quote (AZ-Brothers @ May 23 2020 04:30pm)
does this patterning of walking/running certain ways continue into later patches i.e 1.13 + 1.14?


I think the last patch you could do it in was 1.08, maybe in 1.09 - but 90% sure you can't in 1.10+.
I'm pretty clueless though in general so googling around a bit might be good :P

E/ Had a quick look -- "Racks are MUCH less stable in 1.13 than in 1.07, so it's not worth doing runs on racks alone. However, with a good superchest map, sometimes a rack will be semi-stable with a good base."
Quote from Helvete -- the guy who's made all the time-travelling guides and stuff. He doesn't mention if the drop chances are different in later patches though so no clue if it'd ever be worth doing much.

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#100
May 23 2020 11:04am






1. Only rare that was even semi-decent, would have been a nice find if I didn't have G-face to use.

2. Stopped counting the number of g-faces after the 13th at run #1139 :S

3. So to give a bit of how I was feeling coming up to this Valk Wing dropping; I'd basically given up all hope that it could drop in LK -there's some weird rarity value for each unqiue item which determines which Act things can drop in, but its quite vague (and doesn't seem to make sense in some cases) in the 1.07 guide that I'd read so wasn't sure if it could actually drop here or not. After 2000 runs I'd basically given up all hope of finding it and decided to quit after 2500 runs.
Alas after 2276 runs, 11 hours and 53 minutes of running, 20+ G-faces and a twitch in my right eye, it finally dropped :) :)
So glad I made the choice to persevere to 2500 runs!!!
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