Easy come, easy go :(

I'm leveling my offline SSF Fire warlock from scratch and the first unique ring that I found was... you guessed, a

Manald Heal.
But, 30 minutes later, the second one was...

The Stone of Jordan. Incredible luck on Nightmare at level 66 with 200 MF from a Maw Fiend on River of Flames, on route to Diablo.

As @tadkarcz said in another post (post4122404.html#p4122404),

Charsi will have it to try to get the

Annihilus. Thanks for the idea!
So I get that small charm and it was... 10 - 11 - 5, only one number from an anti perfect Anni. Before the battle with

Diablo Clone I was thinking an even 10-10-5 will do, but when I really got that "crap" I feel a bitter/sweet taste.
It's good, but c'mon, 10-11-5? Diablo, you could have done better than that. I promise you, when (if) I'll get another one I'll come back for you!

That's hard, given that this will probably be the only anni you see in a while.

We have a popular threat for fail drops:
forums/biggest-fail-drops-t709636.html

RNG can be really nasty... This is a prime example of how close "luck" and "unluck" can be.

On the bright side (I know, it is easy for me to say that with a stash full of

Annihilus, online NL, of course): Your next

Annihilus will almost certainly be an improvement

I've found A LOT of good stuff on my SSF offline adventurer, but soj still eludes me. I will be happy if/when I find one with whatever anni i get lol. Just to have one again I have around 100 online they were so plentiful...really made me spoiled.

Oh, man. I'm so sorry! Such a terrible roll indeed, there's no saying otherwise... the silver lining is: 10/11/5 is still better than 0/0/0 for one inventory slot!

Btw I did get my

Annihilus too, it rolled 18/15/5 -- to be completely honest, I was sad for a couple of hours because I wanted a better +%xp roll, but soon I came to terms with it (c'est la vie, and the other stats are good enough of course!)... but I think I'll try and get another one , if ever I find a SoJ again.

Anyway thank you for the mention and I'm sorry that my idea/suggestion didn't turn out to be the best! I'd also like to take the opportunity and say that your Holy Grail and Level 99 chars gave me a lot of stimulus to keep grinding until 99 (I'm getting there), I read through your forum topic about a month ago, really enjoyed it.

mikelessar wrote: 9 hours ago

That's hard, given that this will probably be the only anni you see in a while.

We have a popular threat for fail drops:
forums/biggest-fail-drops-t709636.html

On this char, maybe is the first and the last anni, indeed. I have another 7 SoJ on my other chars but I didn't want to tinker him.
I know about the "Unlucky" topic, I posted some of my findings there but I didn't want to hijack it with my story.

oOKIWIOo wrote: 9 hours ago

Your next

Annihilus will almost certainly be an improvement

Tell me about it

tadkarcz wrote: 8 hours ago

Oh, man. I'm so sorry! Such a terrible roll indeed, there's no saying otherwise... the silver lining is: 10/11/5 is still better than 0/0/0 for one inventory slot!
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I'd also like to take the opportunity and say that your Holy Grail and Level 99 chars gave me a lot of stimulus to keep grinding until 99 (I'm getting there), I read through your forum topic about a month ago, really enjoyed it.

Yes. One bad Anni is better than a non existing perfect one. I'm over it now but the first few minutes after getting it were sad, very sad.
I'm glad that you find my stories about Holy Grail and my characters interesting and motivating. Keep it up!