any silly rituals / mini games you play?

NaglFarfar wrote: 1 day ago

ShadowHeart wrote: 1 day ago

NaglFarfar wrote: 1 day ago

However, the actual bug was never fixed, which became a problem with

Terror Zones - if you do the above you would get the normal (quest) drops also from TZ'ed Andy, instead of the improved TZ drops. So in D2R quest bugging her had the only effect that it sabotaged TZs.

There are multiple sources claiming this was fixed in patch 2.6 (season 3). TZs were introduced in patch 2.5 (season 2), so it was only a problem for one season. Since 2.6 you shouldn't need to worry about how you go about it when you complete act 1. But it's not like I have personally done 10,000 runs to verify it

(it wasn't mentioned in the official patch notes though, just something that the community discovered on their own after patch 2.6 dropped)

Aha, thanks for informing! I had totally missed that. Then @Trang Oul 's ritual really fits the thread's concept (rituals with no effects beyond placebo).

vued wrote: 1 day ago

All my mules are barbs. Because they look like they can carry a lot of stuff.
...

There is actually a deeper truth in this, barbs have 30 base strength while most (all?) classes have less. Meaning that a lvl1 barb mule can equip those perfect socketed

Breast Plate s that did not fit in the inventory (my silly ritual is probably the act of keeping those items in the first place...).

There was even a time when I dressed my mules. Some characters can look really cool with gemmed crap items.
Lvl 3-5 is usually sufficient for the dress show.

I like upgrading the valk to lvl 53 on my zons by shuffling 7 charms, arachnid's mesh, an soj, a Heart of the Oak, +3 gloves,

Tiara and amulet as soon as i find a skiller shrine. the valk must be

Ruby red and helps a lot with

Herald hunting!

often a sisyphean task, as "your connection has been interrupted" can follow soon after

I watched this streamer once (not me!) who did this small Ritual of hovering a few small circles with his mouse cursor above every unidentified unique before identifying it - for good fortune and a good roll! It took only a second and a half or so but man, thinking on how many uniques you identify, he must have lost YEARS of his life hovering circles )

I copied his behavior only for identifying unique phase blades, still hoping that one day it will finally turn into an

Azurewrath instead of another hellish

Lightsabre.

Everytime before i open the red portal for the cow level im searching for the right place in the camp to bring me luck and "trying to control" where the portal in the cow level opens. The right places are like one of the four corners, or in front of

Charsi or right next to a cow or whereever i havent placed it before in the last games.

vued wrote: 1 day ago

NaglFarfar wrote: 1 day ago

ShadowHeart wrote: 1 day ago

There are multiple sources claiming this was fixed in patch 2.6 (season 3). TZs were introduced in patch 2.5 (season 2), so it was only a problem for one season. Since 2.6 you shouldn't need to worry about how you go about it when you complete act 1. But it's not like I have personally done 10,000 runs to verify it

(it wasn't mentioned in the official patch notes though, just something that the community discovered on their own after patch 2.6 dropped)

Aha, thanks for informing! I had totally missed that. Then @Trang Oul 's ritual really fits the thread's concept (rituals with no effects beyond placebo).

vued wrote: 1 day ago

All my mules are barbs. Because they look like they can carry a lot of stuff.
...

There is actually a deeper truth in this, barbs have 30 base strength while most (all?) classes have less. Meaning that a lvl1 barb mule can equip those perfect socketed

Breast Plate s that did not fit in the inventory (my silly ritual is probably the act of keeping those items in the first place...).

There was even a time when I dressed my mules. Some characters can look really cool with gemmed crap items.
Lvl 3-5 is usually sufficient for the dress show.

I rush all my mules to Act 5 for a free socket quest. I'll also give them a few levels and the cube for extra space.

Greys_Prey wrote: 22 hours ago

Everytime before i open the red portal for the cow level im searching for the right place in the camp to bring me luck and "trying to control" where the portal in the cow level opens. The right places are like one of the four corners, or in front of

Charsi or right next to a cow or whereever i havent placed it before in the last games.

I always open the cow portal behind the cow at

Akara's.

When I open (the blue) Town Portal near a red portal (say, in

Tristram during tristruns), I try to do it as close as possible to the red one. At least in legacy D2 the two portals could overlap into a single beautiful purple portal (of course, only visually).
I wasn't able to replicate this in D2R, though. Maybe it was fixed, or I didn't try hard enough?
And, if it's still possible, I wonder how would the red portal look if overlapped with the golden one from the Chronicle.

NomadMoon wrote: 22 hours ago

I watched this streamer once (not me!) who did this small Ritual of hovering a few small circles with his mouse cursor above every unidentified unique before identifying it - for good fortune and a good roll! It took only a second and a half or so but man, thinking on how many uniques you identify, he must have lost YEARS of his life hovering circles )

I copied his behavior only for identifying unique phase blades, still hoping that one day it will finally turn into an

Azurewrath instead of another hellish

Lightsabre.

That's funny, I try to guess which unique ring I picked up whenever I find one. The one time I said, "I think this is a SoJ", I was correct xD

vued wrote: 14 hours ago

I always open the cow portal behind the cow at

Akara's.

I keep my cubes in the stash (a weird suboptimal habit, but whatever), so I always open cow portals at the very Edge of

Telekinesis range.

Aelanwyr wrote: 12 hours ago

That's funny, I try to guess which unique ring I picked up whenever I find one. The one time I said, "I think this is a SoJ", I was correct xD

My guess is always Soj and i still didnt get one.

Bertram The Cursed wrote: 11 hours ago

Aelanwyr wrote: 12 hours ago

That's funny, I try to guess which unique ring I picked up whenever I find one. The one time I said, "I think this is a SoJ", I was correct xD

My guess is always Soj and i still didnt get one.

Same. Haven't found a single one. And god knows I did many Andy runs...

I always try to kill

The Countess on the pentacle in her boss room, it drives me a bit nuts when she sometimes spawns outside her room and refuses to come to the Ritual murder circle… it’s like she knows I’m coming and doesn’t want to give up the good runes. Because the runes are totally better if you kill her in the pentacle, right?

Also, if I ever need to change my merc, I get the list of names to reset until the same name comes up again… it feels bad to totally switch, I’m so dang sentimental about them. I like to imagine that I sent them to go get a training montage off-screen. My original single-player character had an act 5 guy who I SWEAR was named Weohstan, but there was a hard drive crash, managed to recover the character’s pre-expansion data but I could never find that name on the list again… I had to get a new guy, so I pretended that both characters got amnesia and worked the name change/progress reset into their Lore. Never seen that name again, but I’m always on the hunt for proof I didn’t hallucinate it.

EmaTheVampire wrote: 2 hours ago

I always try to kill

The Countess on the pentacle in her boss room, it drives me a bit nuts when she sometimes spawns outside her room and refuses to come to the Ritual murder circle… it’s like she knows I’m coming and doesn’t want to give up the good runes. Because the runes are totally better if you kill her in the pentacle, right?

Also, if I ever need to change my merc, I get the list of names to reset until the same name comes up again… it feels bad to totally switch, I’m so dang sentimental about them. I like to imagine that I sent them to go get a training montage off-screen. My original single-player character had an act 5 guy who I SWEAR was named Weohstan, but there was a hard drive crash, managed to recover the character’s pre-expansion data but I could never find that name on the list again… I had to get a new guy, so I pretended that both characters got amnesia and worked the name change/progress reset into their Lore. Never seen that name again, but I’m always on the hunt for proof I didn’t hallucinate it.

Wheostan is a legit name for A5. Just, there are many more names for A5s than for e.g. A2s.

https://diablo2.diablowiki.net/Mercenaries

So you just have to look a bit longer for your lost companion. He is out there, waiting for you.

vued wrote: 56 minutes ago

EmaTheVampire wrote: 2 hours ago

I always try to kill

The Countess on the pentacle in her boss room, it drives me a bit nuts when she sometimes spawns outside her room and refuses to come to the Ritual murder circle… it’s like she knows I’m coming and doesn’t want to give up the good runes. Because the runes are totally better if you kill her in the pentacle, right?

Also, if I ever need to change my merc, I get the list of names to reset until the same name comes up again… it feels bad to totally switch, I’m so dang sentimental about them. I like to imagine that I sent them to go get a training montage off-screen. My original single-player character had an act 5 guy who I SWEAR was named Weohstan, but there was a hard drive crash, managed to recover the character’s pre-expansion data but I could never find that name on the list again… I had to get a new guy, so I pretended that both characters got amnesia and worked the name change/progress reset into their Lore. Never seen that name again, but I’m always on the hunt for proof I didn’t hallucinate it.

Wheostan is a legit name for A5. Just, there are many more names for A5s than for e.g. A2s.

https://diablo2.diablowiki.net/Mercenaries

So you just have to look a bit longer for your lost companion. He is out there, waiting for you.

oh :’) so he WAS real… Thanks for that. I half believed he was really Wulfstan all along and I just didn’t remember it right. It’s been YEARS of countless refreshes and I’ve literally never seen it come up once in the roster. It legitimately feels almost cursed somehow for me, like he’s actually dead across every copy of the game I’ve ever had.

BUT WAIT… perhaps that’s because the name legitimately did get removed in patch 1.13 of the original D2LoD??? According to the wiki you linked, the name Weohstan was removed and replaced with Klar! Apparently there’s more to this conspiracy! I believe the hard drive crash that reset my character was sometime in 2008. So while I WAS just unlucky in my single player game, there IS a reason I never saw it online either, and after a certain point it wasn’t even bad luck anymore!

this is like. a decade old cold case murder mystery solved for me. incredible.