600 runs in search for Stone of Jordan - No luck tho

Hi!
I play single player, P8, a level 97 Fire sorc.
I wanted to get another SOJ for keep and use it. The first I found I sold it to

Charsi for summoning DClone to get the

Annihilus, which I got, a nice one 16, 20, 8.

So I started a campaign on Nightmare

Andariel with my best MF gear, around 640. Chances to get one were 1:765.
Got a good map and if was nothing to loot, it took around 25 - 30 seconds per run.

The uniques rings started to pop-up and I was in hope for the "My precious..." but there were only

Manald Heal and

Nagelring, almost symmetrical numbers. Manald = 12 and

Nagelring = 14.
So, 26 uniques and SOJ were not to be found... very disapointed.
The last one droped on run 595 and I thought: "This must be it! So close to the end and finally Andy gave up!" But no, it was another

Nagelring
Maybe she thought that one SOJ that gave me earlier was enough.

I had a moment during one run when he screen was full of loot and saw a rune on the floor.
Moving the mouse through the pile of things, the labels were moving around due to the sheer number and I thought I saw a

Jah. My hand freezed for a moment in hope for the almighty rune, but eventually were a

Amn. I had a push of adrenaline then.

So... after 600 runs I left her in her Catacombs and walked away empty handed
Time to return to Hell for regular farming, targeting level 99 and some missing gear.
Also for keys 'cause I want to try Ubers with her or with my lvl 92 Zealer.
I put a picture of the list I kept track of runs.

Florian_G wrote: 2 years ago

Hi!
I play single player, P8, a level 97 Fire sorc.
I wanted to get another SOJ for keep and use it. The first I found I sold it to

Charsi for summoning DClone to get the

Annihilus, which I got, a nice one 16, 20, 8.

So I started a campaign on Nightmare

Andariel with my best MF gear, around 640. Chances to get one were 1:765.
Got a good map and if was nothing to loot, it took around 25 - 30 seconds per run.

The uniques rings started to pop-up and I was in hope for the "My precious..." but there were only

Manald Heal and

Nagelring, almost symmetrical numbers. Manald = 12 and

Nagelring = 14.
So, 26 uniques and SOJ were not to be found... very disapointed.
The last one droped on run 595 and I thought: "This must be it! So close to the end and finally Andy gave up!" But no, it was another

Nagelring
Maybe she thought that one SOJ that gave me earlier was enough.

I had a moment during one run when he screen was full of loot and saw a rune on the floor.
Moving the mouse through the pile of things, the labels were moving around due to the sheer number and I thought I saw a

Jah. My hand freezed for a moment in hope for the almighty rune, but eventually were a

Amn. I had a push of adrenaline then.

So... after 600 runs I left her in her Catacombs and walked away empty handed
Time to return to Hell for regular farming, targeting level 99 and some missing gear.
Also for keys 'cause I want to try Ubers with her or with my lvl 92 Zealer.
I put a picture of the list I kept track of runs.

I actually did the same thing on online multiplayer, i even had a list like yours :DDD
I did ~1300 runs. no SOJ. Good Luck to you!

Keep at it, it’ll drop eventually!

I remember when i did it took around 1000 runs, if the catacombs are terrorized normal Andy can drop it too.

Be on the lookout for

Skin of the Vipermagi, perfect res is worth it too, she can also drop tals ammy

Your chance after 600 runs is 54% that is not unusual.

Nate2.0 wrote: 2 years ago

Be on the lookout for

Skin of the Vipermagi, perfect res is worth it too, she can also drop tals ammy

I have already a couple of both of them. Vipermagi drop I guess 5-6 times, left them on the Ground.
I own an upped Vipermagi

Um'ed and a

Tal Rasha's Guardianship for MF, as spare gear.
For the moment I wear the

Tal Rasha's Adjudication and Chains of Honor as armour.

So if you have 6 hours to spare, Llama got one just grinding out nightmare Andy.


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Recently TZ Andy dropped one SOJ for me, just after a few runs. My MF is low, 75% only. It just shows D2 mechanics go from one extreme to another.

Kriss_De_Valnor_ wrote: 2 years ago

Recently TZ Andy dropped one SOJ for me, just after a few runs. My MF is low, 75% only. It just shows D2 mechanics go from one extreme to another.

The first one I also got from her being terrorized.
Sold for Anni and now I'm looking for another SOJ.
But I gave up on her on Nightmare and started to farm on Hell, on error zone if I like them or other places. If it drops, I'll take it. If not, I'm at level 97 and push for 99.