Wondering if anyone has setup an access tier for CSE using a linux server. Have you found anything quick, or easy to setup? Were looking to try it, but we aren't sure the best way to deploy it on site. Wondering if a raspberry Pi would have enough power to handle the connections, or if deploying it as a VM would work as well. Anyone had a chance to deploy it yet and found any issues?
Which of these 2 bases would you put Exile into? The royal seems better with the +5 res, but the Exile provides around 200-250 more defense when I use a calculator, and with the defiant it adds around 700-800 defense. It's for a zealer. Ubers will be smited, but with Grief I don't think the actual smite damage matters all that much.
Just created my first Enigma of the season, so I thought I'de break down the journey since it's basically the end game stepping stone to see how it compares with others.
The initial goal was a Trav Barb. I've heard they were good, but I felt early game would be too unbearable, and I'm not a sorc fan so I went with a hammerdin using maxroll's guide.
I used the leveling guide through max roll https://maxroll.gg/d2/guides/paladin-leveling
No real issues leveling with the hammerdin, I got lucky on some countess runs early and made 2 spirits. I found a superior Heraldric Shield that had +42 all res and it lasted me until the very end of this Journey. I messed up Laz quest and socketed a low ilvl crystal sword and only got 3 sockets. I had another I knew I got from cows and luckily rolled it in the cube to 4os(seriously lucky or this would have been way longer).
Main drops that stayed through everything found during leveling were a pair of Chance guards, and a 24 res amulet(+2 curses lol), a goldwrap I upped, and a Raven Frost ring.
From here I made the switch to Fohdin. Read some guides on builds and didn't like the Tri-build or the full conviction aura. I found the Foh/Smite build with Fanaticism useful so I rolled into it at 75.
Ran Countess > Pits > Pindle > Chaos for around 100 runs.
Ran into a mistake at this point. I thought Fohdin was slower than hammers and I didn't like that I couldn't do all the content, so I used my last respec to go back hammerdin. Come to find out, Foh is wayyyyy better than hammers with starting gear. I ran Baal runs(Highly don't recommend, 2nd wave is terrible having to smite enemies out of the arena) hoping to get an essense drop as I had the other 4 by luck(meph dropped his first hell run). Ended up using my Um I got from my Hellforge to pay for a token.
Once back to Fohdin, my speed picked back up. Less dying means more runs since it did more damage and cast from afar. I also stopped concentrating on Countess, Pindle, and Pits. Focusing exclusively on Chaos. I equipped my A2 merc with a Treachery, VGaze, and Insight.
It was at around this time I realized that regardless of what I put on my merc, he would perfectly emulate the motor skills of a suicidal guinea pig. That even with fanat aura maxed, he could never survive chaos uniques. I then found the extremely helpful Redemption aura which I now wished I would have fully specced into because it was the best aura throughout these runs.
Chaos Exclusive 100-150~ runs
Found a wizspike(shout out to best bro), Duriel's shell, and Guardian Angel. Kept low level gear I found incase I needed some if I switched characters. Sold 10 diablo statues for Mal and an ist(pretty sure I got ripped off, but I wanted the currency and I don't know how much they are worth). Bought a hand of blessed light for 2 P Ammys, but wizbro was still better for mana and res. Found a crown of ages I tried to sell for Ohm, ended up with 4 ists.
At around this time, a Lo dropped from a random enemy in Chaos. Since I wanted to do a Trav Barb, this was the time to do it. I broke down 3 of the ists through trading to Mal+Ums
I used the Mals and Ums to outfit a Trav barb. I was able to get the phase blade for the Grief, Arreats, highlord's, eth colossus oath, and Goreriders. Used some P ammy's to buy 2 ali babas(nothing to socket). I used a self found carrion feeder ring, the Goldwrap from my paladin, and the Duriel's Shell. I bought a barb torch and a cheap anni for a mal each. To outfit my merc, I used the guardian angel, and purchased a reapers toll and Kira's helm. At this point, I had literally no high or mid runes left. Not even a Pul. It was now time to make my Barb and get him through Hell.
And it was hell.
The difference between the hammerdin level and the trav Barb campaign was enormous. The paladin cruised through everything with no issue solo. Even magic immunity wasn't really an issue and baal died fairly easy by the end of it. Barb on the other hand was having issues getting through Act 1. I'd never made a melee before, and did you know they can miss? They can miss a lot. Also Strength is an actual stat that is used for more than equipment requirements. WTF is an attack rating. even with low level uniques and set items, I was dying constantly.
Around the end of A1. I decided to make open games and label them "Act X Starting". I would then normally progress. After a few minutes, people always joined. I ended up having a really good time working in P8s. a set ring dropped and it was a cathan ring for some early life steal. A sorc picked it up, didn't need it and offered it to me. At the end of the act, I remember my stash of low level uniques. Ended up giving the sorc my old spirit sword and stealth from the hammerdin run(at this time I could make 20+ with my rune stash if I needed it). also gave her my old voulge insight and some 10fcr rings.
Beat Baal and moved onto NM after doing cows.(did you know like, 1-2 cows gets you from 20 to 25?) Did mostly the same through NM. I used Max Roll's warcry barb https://maxroll.gg/d2/guides/barbarian-leveling at the respec point. My low level unqiques weren't cutting it so I was afraid to continue without some guide for fear of this taking even longer. Turns out this was a mistake, cause I had kept 2 Fleshrenders I thought I might use. Those 2 Fleshrenders carried me through NM. I barely used warcry and just ended up attacking at that point. Met a paladin A5 who helped me get through ancients and we walked through most of A5. I gave him the HoBL and the random ""!GUL!"" we found in NM Frozen River(highest NM runes i've ever seen drop, like wat). as well as a +32 res akaran rondache for a spirit base I had lying around.
Hell was the change. Met some nice individuals who would join my games and rush me through. Once I hit Grief level, I respect using https://www.reddit.com/r/Diablo_2_Resurrected/comments/wndwdi/a_definitive_guide_to_trav_horking/
I went with no find potion or item and made basically just a WW barb. The no synergy really made it easy to respect. I found out how much STR and DEX i needed and rolled through the rest of the compaign. Ran some baal runs until level 85. From there, I moved onto Trav only.
This is where the good stuff starts to drop. Given the exp to go from lvl 85 to 89, i did approx 750 runs(more due to some dying) all this over the weekend.
in the first 100 runs my big drops were:
and
a freakin JAH! First self found one I've ever got.
Over the next 600-700 runs I found an absurd number of uniques and set items. Found 2 Tal Amy which I sold 1 for a Vex. Tal armor for Mal. PGems for Ists. Halfway through, during some TZ Chaos I swapped to my Fohdin to run. Found:
Which you apparently can't get from Trav runs. The only other high-ish rune I found was a Gul during my other 650 runs. Somewhere during the 400 mark I dropped:
First SOJ lets gooooo!
Most other drops weren't too note-worthy. Found a mid Gheeds. random skill GC, 3 of which are summoning necro. I ended up saving all the random uniques and sets I got and making freebie games in normal. I gave some aspiring hork barb an IK set missing the chest piece. Gambling didn't produce much, I would expect better results at high level, or by making a boot seller.
After all of the runs, my Opalveil finally sold for a Ber on Traderie. My final Rune stack looked like this:
With only the Ber missing before, I made an enigma using a self found 3os Mage plate. No Laz needed. Ended up low rolling the defense:
That's basically it. With my extra runes I made a Hoto and geared up my paladin. There was a rreeeaall strong urge to roll an Infinite and use the opalvein, arach, and SOJ for a Nova sorc. They even gave me a lightning skill charm, vipermagi and a lightning rainbow facet. I never found a Sunder in a TZ :(
Not too knowledgeable on what makes something GG or pseudo GG. Wondering if this counts, or what it could roll better. Guessing the life could be mana or more resistance? SC Ladder
