The Pindle run (Done)

I have decided to run Pindle for awhile, and will be posting the "best" loot for every 250 runs. I am using a lvl 95 Orb/ball sorc with 438 mf on b-net.

12.082 runs and finally done !!

1) 250 runs :
1

Fal rune
1

Wolfhowl
1

Nightwing's Veil
1

Eth.

Guardian Angel

2) 250 runs :
1

Eth

Berserker Axe 0 os
1

Immortal King's Detail
1

Bartuc's Cut-Throat
1

Trang-Oul's Guise

3) 250 runs :
1

Pul rune
1

Stone Crusher
1 Shimmering Small Charm
1

Harlequin Crest
1

Goldwrap

4) 250 runs :
1

Tal Rasha's Horadric Crest
1

Immortal King's Detail
1

Goblin Toe
1

Silkweave
1

Stormeye
1

M'avina's Tenet
1

Shadow Killer

5) 250 runs :
1

Gut Siphon
1

Frostwind
1

Aldur's Rhythm
1

Gheed's Fortune
1

Blade Of Ali Baba
1

Ribcracker
1

Immortal King's Forge

6) 250 runs :
2

Fal runes
1

Arkaine's Valor
1

Lidless Wall
1

Windforce
1

Ravenlore
1

Cerebus' Bite
1

Verdungo's Hearty Cord
1 Fire Skiller

7) 250 runs :
1

Natalya's Shadow
1

Griswold's Valor

8) 250 runs :
1

Fal
1

Lem
1

Mal
1

Todesfaelle Flamme
1

Tal Rasha's Horadric Crest
1

Monarch Sup. 12 ed 4os
1

Blood Raven's Charge
1

Wizardspike
1

Demon's Arch

9) 250 runs :
1

Natalya's Shadow
1

Sandstorm Trek
1

Bul-Kathos' Tribal Guardian
1

Archon Plate 4os
1

Homunculus

10) 250 runs :
1

Fal
1

Um
1

Natalya's Soul
1

M'avina's Icy Clutch
1

Bul-Kathos' Tribal Guardian
1

Griswold's Redemption
1

Eth.

Thresher 0os
1

Skin of the Vipermagi

11) 250 runs :
1

Earthshaker
1

Dracul's Grasp
1

Bloodfist
1

Wall of the Eyeless

12) 250 runs :
1

Um
1

Medusa's Gaze
1

Ghoulhide

13) 250 runs :
1

Stone Crusher
1

Wizardspike
1

Naj's Puzzler
1

Boneflame

14) 250 runs :
1

Aldur's Rhythm
1

Baranar's Star
1

The Atlantean
1

Immortal King's Detail
1

Eth.

Messerschmidt's Reaver

15) 250 runs :
1

Ist
1

Skin of the Flayed One
1

Tal Rasha's Fine-Spun Cloth
1

Gheed's Fortune
1

The Gladiator's Bane
1

Tal Rasha's Guardianship

16) 250 runs :
1

Spire of Lazarus
1

Goblin Toe
1

Spike Thorn
1

Ume's Lament
1

Death's Fathom
1

Titan's Revenge
1

Griswold's Valor
1

Nightwing's Veil

17) 250 runs :
1

Atma's Wail
1

Visceratuant
1

Eth.

Herald Of Zakarum
1

Titan's Revenge
1

Baranar's Star

18) 250 runs :
1

Vex
1

Spike Thorn
1

Deathbit
1

Valkyrie Wing
1

M'avina's Caster
1

Lightsabre

19) 250 runs :
1

Um
1 Rainbow Facet 5/5 cold
1

Harlequin Crest
1 Barb skiller masteries
1

Natalya's Totem
1

Crainte Vomir
1

Boneshade

20) 250 runs :
1

Tomb Reaver
1

Cranebeak
1

Ondal's Wisdom
1

Nord's Tenderizer
1

Natalya's Mark

21) 250 runs :
1

Ghostflame
1

Tomb Reaver
1

Visceratuant
1

Lance Guard
1 Assasin skiller Martial arts

22) 250 runs :
1

The Iron Jang Bong
1

Frostwind
1

Zakarum's Hand

23) 250 runs :
1

Tomb Reaver
1

Aldur's Rhythm
1

Steelrend
1

M'avina's True Sight
1

Fleshripper

24) 250 runs :
1

Buriza-Do Kyanon
1

Eth.

Loricated Mail 0 os

25) 250 runs :
1 Fire skiller
1

The Oculus
1

Skin of the Vipermagi
1

Soul Drainer
1

Ghostflame
1

Blood Raven's Charge

26) 250 runs :
2

Fal
1

Bul-Kathos' Sacred Charge
1

Ormus' Robes
1

Tal Rasha's Lidless Eye
1

Head Hunter's Glory
1

Nature's Peace

27) 250 runs :
1

Immortal King's Forge
1

Lava Gout
1

Lightsabre
1

Aldur's Stony Gaze
1

Earth Shifter
1

Highlord's Wrath
1

Razortail

28) 250 runs :
1

Griswold's Valor
1

Waterwalk
1

Fleshripper
1

Eth.

Nord's Tenderizer
1

Lacerator

29) 250 runs :
1

Immortal King's Detail
1

Baranar's Star
1

Razortail
1

Stormlash

30) 250 runs :
1

Lem
1

Pul
1

Lacerator
1

Aldur's Advance
1

Aldur's Deception

31) 250 runs :
1

Tal Rasha's Horadric Crest
1 Druid skiller shape shifting
1

Kuko Shakaku
1

Steelrend
1

Eth.

Loricated Mail 0 os

32) 250 runs :
1

Lycander's Flank
1

Giant Skull
1

Immortal King's Soul Cage
1

M'avina's Tenet
1 Rainbow Facet 4/3 poison die
1 Rainbow Facet 4/3 lightning die

33) 250 runs :
2

Goldwrap
1

Immortal King's Pillar
1

Eth.

Husoldal Evo
1

The Scalper
1

Gargoyle's Bite
1

Trang-Oul's Scales
1

Waterwalk
1

Rune Master
1

Executioner's Justice

34) 250 runs :
1 sup

Archon Plate 0 os
1

Que-Hegan's Wisdom
1

Trang-Oul's Guise
1

Jalal's Mane
1

Trang-Oul's Girth
1

Death Cleaver
1

Immortal King's Will

35) 250 runs :
1

Kira's Guardian
1 Rainbow Facet 5/4 fire die
1

Aldur's Deception
1

Immortal King's Will
1

Tarnhelm

36) 250 runs :
1

Immortal King's Detail
1

Lycander's Flank
1

Aldur's Rhythm

37) 250 runs :
1

The Scalper
1

Steel Pillar
1

Natalya's Soul
1

Thunderstroke

38) 250 runs :
1

Gheed's Fortune
1

Hexfire
1

Immortal King's Detail
1 Jewel +15 ias +15 max dmg
1

Gore Rider
1

War Traveler

39) 250 runs :
1

Um
1

M'avina's Embrace
1

M'avina's Tenet
1

Stone Crusher
1

Horizon's Tornado
1 Small charm 100 poison 2 strenght

40) 250 runs :
1

Shadow Killer
1

Nord's Tenderizer
1

Eth.

Cryptic Axe 0 os
1

Eth.

Thresher 0 os
1

Stormshield
1 Rainbow facet 3/4 cold lvl up

41) 250 runs :
1

Gul
1

The Reaper's Toll
1

Steelrend
1

Immortal King's Detail
1

Jade Talon

42) 250 runs :
1

Frostwind
1

Death Cleaver
1

Eth laquered plate
1

Titan's Revenge
1

Goldwrap
1

String of Ears
1

Telling of Beads
1

Chance Guards

43) 250 runs :
1

Horizon's Tornado
1

Immortal King's Detail
1

Aldur's Rhythm
1

Trang-Oul's Guise
1

Spirit Keeper

44) 250 runs :
1

Aldur's Stony Gaze
1

Aldur's Rhythm
1

The Eye of Etlich
1

Spirit Keeper
1

Natalya's Soul

45) 250 runs :
1

Flamebellow
1

Boneshade
1

Lycander's Aim
1

Nagelring
1

Dracul's Grasp

46) 250 runs :
1

Aldur's Stony Gaze
1

Nosferatu's Coil
1

Frostwind
1

Natalya's Shadow
1

Trang-Oul's Claws

47) 250 runs :
1

Magefist
1

Immortal King's Will
1

Lacquered Plate 4os
1

Stormrider
1

The Atlantean
1

Jade Talon

48) 250 runs :
1

Natalya's Soul
1

Stormeye

49) 82 runs :
1

Duriel's Shell
1

Venom Grip
1

Crown of Thieves
1

Windhammer
1

Ber
1

Steelclash
1

Hellplague
1

Griffon's Eye !!!!!!!!!

500 runs in

u playing singleplayer? The reason I'm asking this is because I think that running only pindle on bnet doesn't work because of the game time limitations

crowoverhoe wrote: 2 years ago

u playing singleplayer? The reason I'm asking this is because I think that running only pindle on bnet doesn't work because of the game time limitations

Actually, the creation-delay has gone down significantly by now (though I believe it changes with current load?). So even on b.net, it works fairly well again.

Yup 0 off time, pretty effective atm.

Interesting finds.

I'm at 150 Pindle Runs at 244 MF. I've only found one item of value at

Ist+, and that's Mara's but only 21 res, sadly.

Edit: 245 MF, not 244, my bad. And that makes a BIG difference !

Edit2: 250 more Pindle Runs, and I did manage to swing (almost) perfect Dracul's Gloves, at 10LL/14S. Not too shabby, but holy crap the repetition is rough, despite listening to MrBallen videos in the background. Also, TC, let me know if you would rather I not add my results in, it will be no offense taken.

I did many thousands of 8ppl pindle runs back in 1.13. Mostly with blizzard sorc, also with Fury druid and phys bowa. Not a single

Ist - not to mention a higher rune. High mf (300% and more) results only in tons of yellow crap, and almost no gg uniques. But for fast leveling up to 92-93 - pindle pack proves good.
You'll find much more if you hunt Nihlatak and sweepin mobs on your way to him.

there is no difference in pindle loot drop no matter the player count, right? i.e. pl 1 vs pl 8 loot would be the same, though the xp will be more?

Ossuarium wrote: 2 years ago

there is no difference in pindle loot drop no matter the player count, right? i.e. pl 1 vs pl 8 loot would be the same, though the xp will be more?

Correct.

Snape75 wrote: 2 years ago

Interesting finds.

I'm at 150 Pindle Runs at 244 MF. I've only found one item of value at

Ist+, and that's Mara's but only 21 res, sadly.

Edit: 245 MF, not 244, my bad. And that makes a BIG difference !

Edit2: 250 more Pindle Runs, and I did manage to swing (almost) perfect Dracul's Gloves, at 10LL/14S. Not too shabby, but holy crap the repetition is rough, despite listening to MrBallen videos in the background. Also, TC, let me know if you would rather I not add my results in, it will be no offense taken.

Pls do, it's only interesting to see what he drops with your setup vs. mine.

750 runs in

1000 runs in

Great, we can't get banned for this though, can we? I thought I read about a Blizzard policy somewhere that was against logging in and out of the game too many times, too quickly.

Snape75 wrote: 2 years ago

Great, we can't get banned for this though, can we? I thought I read about a Blizzard policy somewhere that was against logging in and out of the game too many times, too quickly.

No, we can't. There used to be a thing in old D2 where joining games too often timed you out for like half an hour. In D2R, initially, there was no timer. Then they added a 90-second one. Then reduced it to 60, then to 30. Last time I saw a 10-second timer, but this was several days ago. Over the last couple of days, after logging in with the wrong mule and immediately logging out, I haven't seen this timer at all. It now probably works the way they promised — server load dependent. Basically, Pindle can be run even more efficiently now than in D2. If you have an M2 hard drive that is, 'cause boy of boy,

Harrogath is one thicc stack of data to load every time.

Awesome, thanks.

iamergo wrote: 2 years ago

No, we can't. There used to be a thing in old D2 where joining games too often timed you out for like half an hour. In D2R, initially, there was no timer. Then they added a 90-second one. Then reduced it to 60, then to 30. Last time I saw a 10-second timer, but this was several days ago. Over the last couple of days, after logging in with the wrong mule and immediately logging out, I haven't seen this timer at all. It now probably works the way they promised — server load dependent. Basically, Pindle can be run even more efficiently now than in D2. If you have an M2 hard drive that is, 'cause boy of boy,

Harrogath is one thicc stack of data to load every time.

Any chance we can add this as a database comment on

Pindleskin? Good info.

Teebling wrote: 2 years ago

iamergo wrote: 2 years ago

No, we can't. There used to be a thing in old D2 where joining games too often timed you out for like half an hour. In D2R, initially, there was no timer. Then they added a 90-second one. Then reduced it to 60, then to 30. Last time I saw a 10-second timer, but this was several days ago. Over the last couple of days, after logging in with the wrong mule and immediately logging out, I haven't seen this timer at all. It now probably works the way they promised — server load dependent. Basically, Pindle can be run even more efficiently now than in D2. If you have an M2 hard drive that is, 'cause boy of boy,

Harrogath is one thicc stack of data to load every time.

Any chance we can add this as a database comment on

Pindleskin? Good info.

I'd be honored to!

damn

Pindleskin is dogshit

iamergo wrote: 2 years ago

Snape75 wrote: 2 years ago

Great, we can't get banned for this though, can we? I thought I read about a Blizzard policy somewhere that was against logging in and out of the game too many times, too quickly.

No, we can't. There used to be a thing in old D2 where joining games too often timed you out for like half an hour. In D2R, initially, there was no timer. Then they added a 90-second one. Then reduced it to 60, then to 30. Last time I saw a 10-second timer, but this was several days ago. Over the last couple of days, after logging in with the wrong mule and immediately logging out, I haven't seen this timer at all. It now probably works the way they promised — server load dependent. Basically, Pindle can be run even more efficiently now than in D2. If you have an M2 hard drive that is, 'cause boy of boy,

Harrogath is one thicc stack of data to load every time.

I technically have an M.2, but it's an older one (back when M.2 was new), and proprietary, and... its ok. I think I'm at about 6-8 sec load time to get into

Harrogath. I think I average about 30s per

Pindleskin run, maybe a smidge less.

Anikiri wrote: 2 years ago

damn

Pindleskin is dogshit

You may be right, I don't kow. I can get about 2

Pindleskin runs per minute. So if I put on a 50 minute YT video in the background, that's about 100 runs.

Baal obviously takes much longer per run, but I can also

Teleport straight to the throne room pretty quickly, and then I can take out a series of gold lettered enemies who, as far as I understand, can all drop pretty good loot? Ie, Lister, Achmed, Bartuc, etc?

I'm curious for a teleporting sorc, at players1, which is better,

Baal or

Pindleskin? Also, do the loot drops from gold lettered enemies in the throne room depend on players#?

I had no idea

Pindleskin is NOT affected by players1, that's awesome!

Snape75 wrote: 2 years ago

I'm curious for a teleporting sorc, at players1, which is better,

Baal or

Pindleskin? Also, do the loot drops from gold lettered enemies in the throne room depend on players#?

I had no idea

Pindleskin is NOT affected by players1, that's awesome!

Not just Pindle. Uniques and super uniques in general don't have a no-drop (which is what higher player count reduces). They keep their set number of items to be dropped, regardless of player count (though I believe the extra potions they can drop were variable). The same hence goes for all of

Baal's wave bosses.

The no-drop does exist for their minions however (including

Pindleskin's), meaning their average drop count does go up with more players.

Pindle has the advantage of being able to drop most loot in the game and being extremely quick to run.

Baal on the other hand takes a bit longer but offers access to all of the loot you might be after. Not only because

Baal himself can drop everything (including the cherished top-tier life charms) but because all of the wave bosses along the way can drop even the uniques that Pindle can't.

Baal also comes with the advantage of getting a steady stream of essences which at today's prices add up to quite a few

Ist's worth rather quickly.

Personally, I much prefer

Baal over Pindle (partially also because it is significantly more relaxed than speed Pindling) but I would say that very much boils down to how quickly you can complete a

Baal run. Pindle is very easy to take out in no time, even in lower to mid gear.

Baal on the other hand can of course be beat in lower lvl gear as well but it does typically take a fair bit of gearing up (and the right build) to actually do it quickly.
That having been said, I typically prefer Diablo over both. Given, Dia himself and the seal bosses aren't quite as awesome but the super uniques in CS also have access to all of the top-end loot and the place is extremely quick to clear with the right gear/build.