Looking for single player advice and what would you do next?

Hello,
i hadn't played d2 in a while, but i recently had stomach surgery and have been basically living in a recliner for a couple of weeks. last week i decided to give offline SSF sc a try and i've had pretty good luck so far. I have been playing assassin and sorceress.
i've been able to make 2 Mosaic, 1 Heart of the Oak, a Call To Arms, found a few

Tal Rasha pieces and last night i found a

Griffon's Eye luckily doing some TZ.

So here is my question - should I respec my sorc from blizzard to some sort of lightning sorc? I'm nowhere near an Infinity. right now i have approximately a

Lo worth of runes sitting in stash, so still far away. I can make a Crescent Moon Runeword and use the

Griffon's Eye. Would that work for some sort of

Nova or

Chain Lightning sorceress? Or would I be better sticking with blizz/orb?

also - it's SUPER easy to farm keys offline since

Nihlathak and

The Summoner are always in the same place - i've done ubers on my assassin online, but she's mega geared out and still had issues sometimes. Should I level a paladin next? apparently you can do ubers pretty cheaply with Black, Treachery, etc. I can make Duress - but i don't have guillame's face or any crushing blow

Boots like

Gore Rider's or

Goblin Toe yet.

I'm not worried about farming an anni - i've literally never seen a SOJ drop my entire life and i don't want to give up my hell map to farm NM andy, but i'd like to focus toward torches next.

Thanks in advance! the meds i'm on make it hard for me to focus and give me some brain fog so I'm reaching back out to the experts here

i could use the

Griffon's Eye on my assassin, but i'm playing

Dragon Tail and not using

Phoenix Strike because it's so offensive on my eyes after like 15 minutes lol

If you have HOTO and

Griffon's Eye and Crescent Moon Runeword I would farm TZs until getting a Lightning Sunder Charm and then go with some lightning variant. I have a Lightning/

Chain Lightning that doesn't have

Griffon's Eye or

Crescent Moon and she clears most areas with ease.

Once you can afford Infinity, then

Nova sorc is one of the best for farming just about anything but act bosses.

Spectie wrote: 3 weeks ago

I'm not worried about farming an anni - i've literally never seen a SOJ drop my entire life and i don't want to give up my hell map to farm NM andy, but i'd like to focus toward torches next.

Use this to find what map seed you're using.
https://noobient.com/2025/11/21/finding ... surrected/

There are places out there where people post good map seeds. You can use "-seed xxxx" command from the shortcut once you know what seed you want.

Spectie wrote: 3 weeks ago

I'm not worried about farming an anni - i've literally never seen a SOJ drop my entire life and i don't want to give up my hell map to farm NM andy, but i'd like to focus toward torches next.

That's smart and very reasonable. I've never seen a drop of SoJ in NM difficulty, so all the drops of it I've had in hell difficulty, whether it's online, or offline game. For offline game short path to

Andariel,

Mephisto and

Baal is worth a lot for efficient farming. My

Frenzy barb got unbelievably lucky with all three.

Mephisto happened to drop an SoJ more often than others for me.

Knappogue wrote: 1 week ago

Spectie wrote: 3 weeks ago

I'm not worried about farming an anni - i've literally never seen a SOJ drop my entire life and i don't want to give up my hell map to farm NM andy, but i'd like to focus toward torches next.

Use this to find what map seed you're using.
https://noobient.com/2025/11/21/finding ... surrected/

There are places out there where people post good map seeds. You can use "-seed xxxx" command from the shortcut once you know what seed you want.

Playing on ps5 so I can't input a seed command or this would be a phenomenal idea

Personally i'd keep the sorc cold until you land Infinity or at least stack more enemy light res. Griffon + CM is okay but not crazy. Blizzard is still one of the best SSF farmers in the game btw.

so far i've found a

Zod, and the rest of my runes have totaled up to about 1.5

Ber.
i ended up rolling a javazon to use the griffons and she is a lot of fun to play and very strong. I also found a

Nightwing's Veil so i stayed cold on my sorc. she is sitting around 400 MF with 3 piece

Tal Rasha, oculus, nagelrings, etc and doing great.

i've been able to farm 2 torches so far with my assassin with just Mosaic and a Flickering Flame (i play

Dragon Tail not

Phoenix Strike

Dragon Talon)

I'm not sure what to level next. I have a

Herald Of Zakarum, a hoto, a

Skin of the Vipermagi and a few pcomb skillers so i could do a hammerdin. I also have a 5 sock

Eth

Colossus Sword and an

Eth

Colossus Blade i could

Larzuk for 6 sockets and make Breath of the Dying and Death and level a barbarian as well. My best chestpieces are still Hustle and

Skin of the Vipermagi so nothing great there yet.

I'm hesitant to use any runes though until i can make an Enigma lol.

Spectie wrote: 1 week ago

so far i've found a

Zod, and the rest of my runes have totaled up to about 1.5

Ber.
i ended up rolling a javazon to use the griffons and she is a lot of fun to play and very strong. I also found a

Nightwing's Veil so i stayed cold on my sorc. she is sitting around 400 MF with 3 piece

Tal Rasha, oculus, nagelrings, etc and doing great.

i've been able to farm 2 torches so far with my assassin with just Mosaic and a Flickering Flame (i play

Dragon Tail not

Phoenix Strike

Dragon Talon)

I'm not sure what to level next. I have a

Herald Of Zakarum, a hoto, a

Skin of the Vipermagi and a few pcomb skillers so i could do a hammerdin. I also have a 5 sock

Eth

Colossus Sword and an

Eth

Colossus Blade i could

Larzuk for 6 sockets and make Breath of the Dying and Death and level a barbarian as well. My best chestpieces are still Hustle and

Skin of the Vipermagi so nothing great there yet.

I'm hesitant to use any runes though until i can make an Enigma lol.

One Enigma in

Archon Plate or

Dusk Shroud is an absolute game changer. You can swap it back and forth between characters on D2R to make like much more convenient.
You can make a hammerdin which is almost OP for farming, but your gear will also allow for a FOH/

Smite hybrid if you want to mix things up. Just make Black for the crushing blow to swap instead of HOTO.

Does PS5 allow for the infinite respec command on single player? If so, it could make choosing one over the other a lot easier since you could just switch it up whenever you felt like it.

it does not, gotta farm

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