there is a video of that d brunsky guy where he does iirc 1k nm andy runs or something similar to see how many soj's he could get... i don't remember if he said how much time it took or how many sojs he got, but here is the link if you feel like watching it...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CcvdAGXmaW4

For as long as I can remember, I have not farmed. What I do is just horde whatever falls while levelling or while doing the poppable in the three Kurast areas. Then, and when I take a break from levelling, I'll just identify whatever I horded.

So, I do not have any real strategy. Luck plays a huge role when something good appears as an item is being identified. Good luck!

I am watching the vid that you shared. Man. I know that I am so addicted to d2 when I get far too excited at watching for the outcome of id'ing an unid item. I need to talk to my therapist about this.

i run a lot of automated "stuff" it takes depends how many chars you have running example 16 chars: expect one soj per 36 hours of logged in mfing. sometimes you can get an soj one run then another soj another run then do 36+ hours of no soj drops.

they dont drop a lot so you will need to have a very large team to offset low drop odds.

I got one y'all! 400 ish MF, runs took about 1.5 min. I would estimate about 15ish hours of dedicated grinding.

Learn the pattern from the WP on level 2 (level 3 is 100% random) and you will do 1m run if there is a 45s coldown (you will hit the coldown 75% of the time) and around 45-50s per run if there is a 30s coldown.

A tip, starting from the wp room, see where the exit of that run is, and teleport to the right.

Awesome! Finding one on your own feels so good. Self-found is what makes this game so good and addictive. Hope ya find more great items.