How do you guys get those Enigmas and other High-end Runewords?

Sounds promissing. Just started Chaos runs with my blizz sorc too. It's pretty smooth, unless these cold immunes. How do you guys deal with it, just leave them be orwaiting for the merc to kill them... ?

Fen wrote: 3 years ago

Sounds promissing. Just started Chaos runs with my blizz sorc too. It's pretty smooth, unless these cold immunes. How do you guys deal with it, just leave them be orwaiting for the merc to kill them... ?

you either skip them or have your merc kill them if he can do it fast enough. some of the guys are kinda annoying so you gotta keep telestomping them so your merc can get a hit in.

jbmc wrote: 3 years ago

Fen wrote: 3 years ago

Sounds promissing. Just started Chaos runs with my blizz sorc too. It's pretty smooth, unless these cold immunes. How do you guys deal with it, just leave them be orwaiting for the merc to kill them... ?

you either skip them or have your merc kill them if he can do it fast enough. some of the guys are kinda annoying so you gotta keep telestomping them so your merc can get a hit in.

Yea, that's what I'm doing right now. Skip if I can or tele stomp. It's time consuming but well... it works after all

Only recently been finding high runes but in the beginning it was all about rushing mules. In 1 hour I could make

Holy Fire pally lvl1-20 then sell my

Larzuk Q for an

Ist and Bump into NM for an

Ist. So a

Gul every hour, 2

Vex (4gul) every 4 hours or 1

Ohm. 4 hours a day be a

Lo every 2 days or a

Ber every 8 not to mention normal game play and drops. Now if I had a friend g rushing we'd

Charge x2

Ist for norm NM and he'll rush w bumps. So x6

Ist each then turn new NM bumps to 40 rinse and repeat. But don't farm a couple areas, walk through the game on hell. Best things I've found have been like that, Death Fathom in countess tower, Deaths Web in sewers,

Vex in

Black Marsh and

Arreat Plateau,

Lo from random mob in Durance and

City of the Damned.

For me it's just farming and trading to get the Enigma. My goal at the start of the game was to get an Enigma. To do so, I built a sorc that could farm fast. I had to get all the gear necessary for a sorc (occy/

Shako) and start farming. Don't get the most expensive CTA/Storch. I got my 11/14 Storch for a

Vex and 6/1 CTA for like

Gul

Ist

Pul. Took about a month of farming to get a

Jah/

Ber from cows. I remember I had farmed

Windforce/CoA/Perf Arachnids/4S Ethresher and used those to outfit my Pally.

After the Enigma was completed, I had to set another goal and that was Infinity. That took about a month or so of farming/trading.

Now the trade off is I didn't have much time to play other classes. So I haven't built a kicksin/windy druid/poison necro. I'll get to them if I had time. I did make a horker and he's like lvl 76 now and rocking a Sin Torch.

If Barb just farm Eldtritch/Shenk/Pindle/Trav and hork.

If Sorc, farm Barb spots (except trav unless you are tanky)/Chaos/Cows/Meph/Andy/Countess/Summoner/Pits/

Ancient Tunnels

If Hammerdin=> farm everywhere except

Ancient Tunnels.

Well the Economic change within a Ladder or now couple months after release

Early on you can do good old Blizzard Sorc and do Mephi/Pindle/ and w/e else Runs with 200+MF
You can do a budget Trapsin and Farm Keys and trade them too


What also works is a Cow Java, Full Gear is extremely cheap and can run on 0mf and Minus Resistances
Good for Basehunting and Runes, also even with 0mf some possibly nice Uniques though most are pretty much worthless at this stage

Trav Barb needs 1 Grief to be reliable but the rest is Cheap and is most likely the best Solo Farmer for Runes, Charms etc

If you have a Char that is Lvl93+ you can Craft Caster Amulets by shopping Amulets with the Char(needs lv93 or higher) and hope for good Rolls which can be worth anything between

Vex to Multiple Bers
Blood Belts, Gloves and even Rings have potential to be good. Just look into what is needed for each to have decent value and what's needed for the Cubing Recipe

Using Trash Pgems to Reroll Baalcharms for good Skillers or MAX/AR/Life Are good way too


Other than that all you wanna do is find good deals and make good trades. Even if you make like 1-2

Ist Profit each time when Buying and Reselling.
Over time while also selling your Selffound Items you will be able to get Better gear soon =)

You can also slowly build up Wealth over time by selling gold or Pgems.

Heard it's like 10M gold (used to be like 2.5M) for an

Ist. => great for a GF barb

20 Pamethysts for an

Ist

40 Pgems for

Mal

Etc.

Reroll using Pgems, Monarchs for the JMOD 15-16

Ber shield
+6 Javs with 40IAS

Yea but Rerolling for Jmod or Javas would be a waste. Baalcharms have the best odds afaik

My advice (which will sound cynical but is literally the truest I can give) is play a lot, and kill a lot of stuff. Between D2R launch and mid-Nov., so a few months, I had 2 x

Jah, 1 x

Ber, and a 3os Superior

Archon Plate. All solo on bnet. Probably 30 hours of play time a week. Play a lot and be a little patient, you can solo your way to any runeword.

Sontaine69 wrote: 2 years ago

Yea but Rerolling for Jmod or Javas would be a waste. Baalcharms have the best odds afaik

It's like the lottery. Once you get one you are set.

Or they could gamble on rings/circlets.

I think that - much like a real budget in $ - it's all about earning/spending...

The first step, is you have to earn a lot. Run stuff, find runes/currencies/items, and trade stuff.

The second step, is not to spend it.

Say:

kaikossades wrote: 3 years ago

Max rune I got by today is

Sur, which back in the days I exchanged for a Sorc Torch

I would never ever ever trade a

Sur rune for a torch, if I struggle for Wealth. If you run ubers, you'll eventually find a sorc torch 'for free', and you saved a

Sur rune.

Now, for the

Sur rune you might've got a decent torch, but the different between a good and a bad sorc torch are nearly meaningless.
+10 all stats and +10 all res will not make your character significantly better at farming/not dying.

Any torch you find would be good enough.

Sur rune is 1/4 the way to Enigma. So basically, you traded 1/4 of an Enigma for a few stat/res, vs waiting to find your own sorc torch.

But other than that, it's just about finding more runes... Run cows, run L85 instances, run trav, etc...
Or if you run keys, you can sell keysets. Sure they take a long time to farm, but Enigma takes a long time to farm for everyone (unless you luck out and find

Jah/

Ber).

I got super lucky and farmed Trav with my Hammerdin a ton which resulted in 2

Jah runes. Traded

Jah +

Vex to get a

Ber.

Trav has been good to me. Got a

Lo this week and a

Sur a few weeks ago. Getting bored of it though and switching up to Chaos runs. I’ve never got a decent rune from Chaos, but I haven’t done nearly enough runs though compared to Trav. I’m mainly farming Chaos for better item drops.

kaikossades wrote: 3 years ago

I am genuinely curious. Long-story short, I played d2 before beating Normal(and I thought it's the end of the game:). I started d2r maybe a month or two after the release playing casually few hours after work.

Max rune I got by today is

Sur, which back in the days I exchanged for a Sorc Torch, that was my first experience in trading on this forum. My achievements are a Spirit,

Shako, Occi, which I later switched to full

Tal Rasha. Then I made a Smiter with Treachery and can do ubers alone. Currently I am sitting at maybe 10

Ist max. I only Dream about Fortitude, Call To Arms, Grief and god forbid Enigma, Chains of Honor or Infinity.

At the same time each day I read topics like the one where a Necro-guy complains that he did Enigma in 2 weeks and hates it because he put it into a

Dusk Shroud and looks like a bum. Like really, 2 weeks man? Even if it was a month, how?

PS: I do keysets. One is worth like

Ist to sell and takes hours to grind. Or I can do ubers and get an assassin 10-13 torch and go cry in the corner, doesn't look like a reliable source of getting rich, but what are the others, please share

Long story short?

If you get strong enough to run Chaos over and over semi-effectively you can get a character to end game items.

I’ve found

Ohm,

Zod,

Ber, Death’s Fathom and countless other valuable items just from Chaos mobs.

I wouldn’t bother with

Key sets tbh.

Running torches is a great way to make Wealth, regardless of what others say. Ya, 5/7 torches may be trash, but those that are sorc/pally that roll well will be worth multiple times what a

Key set is. Just have to stick with it. Also helps to hork a

Jah rune.

save up and trade up everything to get Enigma and then the game comes to you.

Everything is a grind until you have it. I cowed non stop till i had one.

Brutal but effective.

Lucky here!

Jah in cows and

Ber in Chaos!

My economy is based on keys, ubers and torches

I just found 1 great CoA and sold it for 3

Ber and some assorted other high runes :shrug:

Best I found on my own was an

Ohm

I will say that getting my Enigma kind of killed my desire to farm more, so be careful what you wish for and so on.

Persistence is

Key! Months of playing every night for 3-4 hours. After my first 2-3 months, I was finally able to make an Enigma. And it was well worth all the time spent!

TC, ty for making this thread. I'm in the same boat as you, but I have less to complain about, as I only played this game about a month or so after release, but then took a really long break from it. So, in a way, I've only been playing for maybe 4-5 weeks in total.

I'm nowhere close to getting an Infinity. I only play sorc and I just want to get the gear I need to make a pure light immune breaking sorc.

Also, I feel your pain on making that bad trade. The only high rune I've found so far was

Sur, and I traded it for a 17/17

Annihilus charm. That was 1/4 of my Infinity *sigh*. No idea what I was thinking.

Also, selling seems... difficult? I feel like I've bought way more than I've sold on this website. Whenever I list something, I see a ton of other sellers listing the same thing, and most of them have no comments/interested buyers.

I do agree that if it starts to feel like a chore or job, take a break. Only play to have fun, cycle your content, and the loot will come (er, maybe). That one

Sur rune I found was completely out of nowhere and I was just messing about in the Mauseleum, not even farming for HRs in particular.

I might end up playing a lot less of this game for a while (just downloaded Torchlight! Plan on playing TL2 after! Maybe Grim Dawn next...). At least until 2.4 comes out.