Xan's Xmas Season Walk HCNL Version 2.0

Xan's Xmas Season HCNL Dclone Walk Take #2!


Hello fellow HC Players! Like last year I will be hosting xmas season walks for HC NL servers! For this round there will be 4 of these 2 for America servers and 2 for Europe servers!


Timeframes: (Note these may be subject to change if my work schedule gets altered, if that is the case I will update here)

Walk #1 Americas Server:

2024-12-07T19:30:00   This timestamp has been automatically converted to your local date/time for convenience. The format is DD/MMM/YYYY, HH:MM am/pm. This is based off your browser time.

Walk #2 Europe Server:

2024-12-07T20:30:00   This timestamp has been automatically converted to your local date/time for convenience. The format is DD/MMM/YYYY, HH:MM am/pm. This is based off your browser time.

Walk #3 Americas Server:

2024-12-21T19:30:00   This timestamp has been automatically converted to your local date/time for convenience. The format is DD/MMM/YYYY, HH:MM am/pm. This is based off your browser time.

Walk #4 Europe Server:

2024-12-21T20:30:00   This timestamp has been automatically converted to your local date/time for convenience. The format is DD/MMM/YYYY, HH:MM am/pm. This is based off your browser time.

Wow, this is so amazing! Thank you Xan, you are a legend! This is so kind of you!

You said you will probably do one around Christmas but I didn't expect 4 walks. That's very generous of you.
The times are also very good for Europe. So thanks for that too.

This is incredible! The HCNL community is extremely starved for walks (when was even the last one?! was it your event last year?).

ShadowHeart wrote: 3 weeks ago

This is incredible! The HCNL community is extremely starved for walks (when was even the last one?! was it your event last year?).

Yes probably. I also wanted to note that the time frames listed here are approximations, due to me not knowing the exact quantity needed for a particular walk to spawn, it is possible that it may occur slightly before or after the stated time. If people get their characters into a game about 10 minutes before the stated time you should not miss the event. (Just wanted to put that out there for anyone who is new/unfamiliar to this.)

Cool.. cant wait!

Just bumping this for visibility. First set of walks in 4 days

Hi! How does this work? Do we join a specific server couple minutes before the time and wait for you to

Bash dclone?

dyingHCchar wrote: 1 day ago

Hi! How does this work? Do we join a specific server couple minutes before the time and wait for you to

Bash dclone?

You create a hell game on the indicated region ahead of time and then wait in town for the walk to happen (it will say "Diablo has Invaded Sanctuary" in the chat log and the screen will shake).

You can then choose to try to kill him yourself (risky on HC if you're not sure your character can handle it), or ask for help.

We have a dclone help request thread here:
forums/trusted-dclone-killers-t955189.html

Just be sure to clarify that it's HCNL when you post in there (nearly all of the requests in there are SC, so that is what people will assume unless you specify otherwise).

I am curious how one gets that much SOJs (ca. 400?) to initiate 4 walks. Are they donated by the community? I'm certainly not an intense player, but in six month playing this game I've only found one myself so far

I've heard from some other users that some players use bots

oOKIWIOo wrote: 1 day ago

I am curious how one gets that much SOJs (ca. 400?) to initiate 4 walks. Are they donated by the community? I'm certainly not an intense player, but in six month playing this game I've only found one myself so far

oOKIWIOo wrote: 1 day ago

I am curious how one gets that much SOJs (ca. 400?) to initiate 4 walks. Are they donated by the community? I'm certainly not an intense player, but in six month playing this game I've only found one myself so far

Buying for cash, botting, community donations, trading for and/or (just to have it listed, unlikely as it is:) active self-finding.



Trading and/or self-finding tend to be fairly rare ways to a walk.

Community donations were around a few times especially earlier on. Not so much nowadays.

Botting is obviously all over the place and seems to be auto-selling to trigger the various fairly common random slow walks.

Buying mass SoJs for cash tends to be the most common route and is what most (probably all by now) streamers do. Though some still pretend otherwise until caught. Since they're typically bought off of bot farms, this is really just a variation of botting again.



That said, no idea where Xan specifically got his from.

Schnorki wrote: 1 day ago

oOKIWIOo wrote: 1 day ago

I am curious how one gets that much SOJs (ca. 400?) to initiate 4 walks. Are they donated by the community? I'm certainly not an intense player, but in six month playing this game I've only found one myself so far

Buying for cash, botting, community donations, trading for and/or (just to have it listed, unlikely as it is:) active self-finding.



Trading and/or self-finding tend to be fairly rare ways to a walk.

Community donations were around a few times especially earlier on. Not so much nowadays.

Botting is obviously all over the place and seems to be auto-selling to trigger the various fairly common random slow walks.

Buying mass SoJs for cash tends to be the most common route and is what most (probably all by now) streamers do. Though some still pretend otherwise until caught. Since they're typically bought off of bot farms, this is really just a variation of botting again.



That said, no idea where Xan specifically got his from.

Thanks for the replies. I thought so, too... E.g. on traderie you currently get 140 SOJs for 15

Jah (SCNL).

Btw, I have tracked the "ordinary" walks for some time now and recognized a massive slowdown on asia servers since about a week. There are almost half the walks (3-4 per day) that there were before (6-8). Maybe they shutted down some farms or - what is more unlikely - Blizz has banned some bot accounts.

ShadowHeart wrote: 1 day ago

dyingHCchar wrote: 1 day ago

Hi! How does this work? Do we join a specific server couple minutes before the time and wait for you to

Bash dclone?

You create a hell game on the indicated region ahead of time and then wait in town for the walk to happen (it will say "Diablo has Invaded Sanctuary" in the chat log and the screen will shake).

You can then choose to try to kill him yourself (risky on HC if you're not sure your character can handle it), or ask for help.

We have a dclone help request thread here:
forums/trusted-dclone-killers-t955189.html

Just be sure to clarify that it's HCNL when you post in there (nearly all of the requests in there are SC, so that is what people will assume unless you specify otherwise).

ok so i actually start a server and wait for dclone to spawn (triggered by xan) and then i ask for help and some1 comes and kill dclone for me? thats it? im guessing there is a price for that? Thanks for the info

dyingHCchar wrote: 1 day ago

ok so i actually start a server and wait for dclone to spawn (triggered by xan) and then i ask for help and some1 comes and kill dclone for me? thats it? im guessing there is a price for that? Thanks for the info

Pretty much You launch the game on the correct region (pick region in the B.Net launcher before launching the game), create a new game (preferrably via lobby with a game name & password), and camp in town. The prize is that Dclone always drops one

Annihilus charm. It's the only way to get those. I mean, except trading for one or being given one, obviously.

EDIT: Realized there might be confusion regarding prize/price. The prize is the

Annihilus charm that dclone drops. The price is usually nothing - i.e., the help is free. Depending on who's helping, but it should be easy enough to find someone willing to help for free.

Count me in, thanks again for doing this!

Hi Xan,

first of all: great to see you keeping the HC community alive. You're a legend!

Since I dont want to rely on the forum's calculation. Can you pls tell when in your timezone the run will happen?

So I can calculate myself what time it is in my region.

Thank you very much!

Im Eastern Standard Time United States the First (America) will occur by 2:30 pm,
and EU 1 Hour after that 3:30 pm.

The Next set will follow the same format. (unless I get called in to work then I will reply here to update that of course.)

If someone here wants to volunteer the time zone conversions that would be appreciated. I did enter the information in the UTC format but I'm not sure how reliable it is.

If you get your characters in a game at 2:20pm and 3:20pm from my time respectively you should not miss any event as I plan to begin the selling 1 to 2 minutes after this for precision sake.

For central Europe the times are correctly displayed in the first post. 2:30 pm EST is 8:30 pm CET and the first post shows 8:30 pm for me for the first walk.

The times should be correct for anyone who's PC/browser timezone matches their actual timezone.

That was kind of the point of adding that whole

Conversion feature.

dyingHCchar wrote: 1 day ago

[..]
ok so i actually start a server and wait for dclone to spawn (triggered by xan) and then i ask for help and some1 comes and kill dclone for me? thats it? im guessing there is a price for that? Thanks for the info

Pretty much. There's a centralized dclone helper topic here (forums/trusted-dclone-killers-t955189.html) that you can use to ask for help so we don't end up with everyone making their own topic everytime. As for there being a price for that, not sure if HC is any different in that regard but typically, plenty of folks are happy to help out for free around here.