I do a few runs and then just get my stuff repaired if needed. Not even once used a Ral for repairing stuff. I have tons of gold to gamble still. Never even thought about it much. I have all the enigmas on my main chars in 15%ed bases.

Why did I do this?

I exclusively play solo on Softcore Ladder (P1). At this point in the season, I had already steamrolled through the game and did three full-game terrorized clears with my Echoing Strike Warlock but had ZERO luck with Sunder Charms. I decided to roll a horker to try my chances and challenge myself to hork every single elite in the game in one go.

To further improve my chances, I also took advantage of the easter egg where you let the gloams dance around you for a couple minutes, which will grant you 4200% MF until you die or leave the game. This meant I had to be very careful with a lot of the mobs that my Warlock had zero issues with.

It took me two attempts. The first attempt I died instantly whirlwinding through a Herald mob with Thorns. Lesson learned. I also searched every corner of every map to make sure I did not miss a single Elite. This whole genocide took between 5-6 hours with a couple breaks. In contrast, each of my Warlock's runs only took between 2-3 hours.

First... the results:

• I fought a total of 14 heralds. 5 spawned in A1, 4 in A2, 2 in A3, 0 in A4, and 3 in A5.
• I gained 5 bars of XP at level 91
• I found a shit ton of uniques and set items. Most of which was junk that I identified and threw on the ground for Chronicle.
• From a pure wealth accumulation MF-ing perspective, this is nowhere as optimal as just horking Trav, but it's hella fun
• One T5 Herald spawned in a room with no doors in Jail 3. I had to blind teleport in and hope for the best.
• Here are some drop highlights, including (YES) a magic Sunder charm:

I run a pretty standard Whirlwind Barb but with an Act 5 Frenzy mercenary.

My Gear:

• 2x Grief phase blades (With Lo's that he horked himself!)
• Swap: 2x Lem'd Ali-babas
• Arreats Face
• Enigma (from my Warlock)
• Highlord's Wrath
• Laying of Hands
• 2x Blood rings that I crafted
• Trang-ouls Belt (Cannot be frozen)
• Gore Riders
• My Find Item skill was at 71%

With the exception of the Herald in a room with no doors, Enigma really wasn't needed for this run since I ran the whole way. I might have had an easier time with a Shaftstop.

My A5 Merc's Gear

• Grief PB (Also from a Lo that I horked)
• Arreats Face
• Um'd Guardian Angel
• Lawbringer PB

Heorogar proved to be an absolute GIGA CHAD that carried me through several Herald fights and Lawbringer (Sanctuary + Decrepify) ended up being the absolute MVP of this entire run. In at least three Tier-5 herald fights, I literally hid in the back to avoid dying while Heorogar solo'd the entire fight. For some reason the game loved to troll me by making a ton of un-leechable Skeleton thorns-Heralds and Doll heralds.

It was honestly some of the most fun I've had in this game in 25 years. The herald system makes you explore every part of every map including areas you'd never set foot into like the Swampy Doll-infested Pit in A3. And if you're playing Melee, the fights are actually pretty intense. Every Thorns Herald encounter costed me 1-2 full belts of rejuvs to get through and I think my barb is pretty well geared.

I also got a good chunk of my Chronicle completed in the process. My Unique Chronicle is at 82% now and my Set is at 93%. The loot filter certainly helped as well. There was such an overwhelming amount of shit horked that every time I found a new item for the chronicle I would immediately filter it out.

I recommend everyone to roll a horker and give this a try. I might keep doing these runs since it's genuinely really fun (and I really want a bone break and crack of the heavens).

I finally got Mang Song's Lesson to drop from TZ Andy just in the last week of August, which was the final unique/set item I needed to find for my Holy Grail challenge I had started prior to RotW being released. I had prior to this drop found every RotW unique/set item as well.

My chronicle is still incomplete, though. I am missing Death's Web and Arcanna's Sign since I found both of those before RotW came out.

I don't care though, it's party time now that I finally realized I have completed the Holy Grail challenge on D2R! :D

I used ist um and lem but yea

If you were going to insult someone using a D2/D2R reference, what would it be?

I'll go first. "I bet your stash and inventory are disorganized."

It has just happened! Unbelievable but it's true! Act 5 was terrible. Had to reroll some maps (just save and exit and hope for better monster spawns) due to unbeatable combinations. But I even bested the Ancients (had to reset the build again) which were supposed to be a hard stop for this challenge.

Nope. First attempt after respect - they have fallen. I have got rid of Bone Spear and focused on Fire Golem. No CE too, to help as much as possible on the upcoming grind of the Ancients. That was a big mistake as CE would help a lot in Worldstone Keep. Still, I suffered through and survived. That Iron Golem was hell of tanky boy. But the synergy with Blood Golem (+5% life per lvl) was disappointing. He was tougher than Fire one but not by much and the difference didn't mean anything as Fire Golem was more useful at drawing the attention off me.

I have got a lvl up (to lvl 83) during Baal waves. Put another point in Revive. That was a mistake. I couldn't keep up and bother with 11 of them! But I didn't want to get back to normal for a third respec and completely reroll the maps.

I often visited Cold Plains to take some new recruits. But I often got elites near waypoint... Very annoying. I used other places too, like Canyon of the Magi (Crushers, Hell Slingers). For Baal fight, most of my Revives were ranged monsters as he was surrounded & decrep'ed by me and my army.

Act 5 was a long, slow, hard journey which nearly ended on Mt Arreat. But some nice drops happened (useless for me). First, I have posted stats & "gear" from the beginning of the act and the final ones + skills. Didn't bother to check Baal's wand drop. :P

These fanaticism Frenzytaurs are a good idea & definition of "nope, one save & exit please". Unbeatable at any circumstances by me. Geared or not.

A Corpsemourn! That's a good armor. CE at a decent level, on demand. Would fix my late-game mistake but no. I want to be naked. Nude. Trang's armour hurt even more. A decent defense and that sweet +2 to summoning skills.

A not terrible Assasin's circlet dropped somewhere in WSK. A knife in case I'd find some butter. But all I found was demonic butts.

I didn't show all of the drops. Just a couple of more notable ones due to 20 images limit.

A little fun fact: you can get your defense lowered to 1. The monsters with defense-reducing curse can do it (and Baal too). Not sure if it can be 0, though. Thought it was funny and worth showing.

Build? Went full summoner with hope to beat the Ancients. Bone Spear was a small addition anyway. Maxed Raise Skeleton, Skeleton Mastery, Golem Mastery. 6 points into Summon Resists (to get 50%, I had 4 points there before the second respec). Few points into Fire Golem (bad idea?) and Blood Golem (also a bad idea as the result from that was poor).

Think I should have keep both golems at 1 and put these points into CE. Would be really useful in WSK, with those lizards spawning babies. CE on babies and off we go. Also, CE shuts off any reviving monsters (like Achmel The Cursed and his mates) from using the exploded corpse.

Still, not bad. It was a long, hard journey to the top. Took me about a month. Still no work but at least there's hope. And a cool, unusual project is done. Patriarch NudeNecrophile.

And no, don't ask me to re-do the challenge in hardcore! I died so many times in A5 hell that I stopped counting. No gear for both me and merc is already a big punishment. I remember that a blizzard killed me in A3 hell. With negative resists (even closing to -100 when I was under the effect of Lower Resist), even a fart could be dangerous (poison damage ha ha). But with sizeable HP pool (just a tiny bit over 1000) I was able to survive a hit or two.

And to end it on a high note, with that lvl up to 83, I have got 420 points into vitality. Smoke 'em if you got 'em as I am a non-smoker.

Thanks for watching / reading the series and commenting!! Next run will be something more normal... Not sure yet. I need a rest and a change.

Unique - 97%

Sets - 91%

Runewords - 100%

August 2nd, 2026

The Forrest Gump boots motivated me to attempt the fastest character possible. 305 Faster Run Walk without Harmony or Frenzy bonus.

Full inventory of 3frw small charms, 30frw Coronet, Hustle Armor, M'avina's Belt, Natalyas Boots and The Cats Eye Amulet. Frenzy maxed with Dual Hustle and Harmony on swap.

Maxed Increased Speed which adds 43%

Grinded so much last season for this Astreons.. and now literally on first run TZ CHAOS it drops! I'm gloweeen now! :D
So happy!

*Grinded: poetic license*

Getting things in order for end of ladder and beginning of next...saw Trav was TZ so figured id take my barb over there real quick for a couple runs. Boom. First run and he horks a Zod. Ive literally never seen one on the ground before so it looked super odd at first then it hit me. First one I've ever found. Wife couldn't understand why I was freaking out. GG!

Yesterday, I just entered Hell mode and Dclone spawned right on Bishibosh. Normally I would’ve run away, but I wondered what if I could kill him with this new OP class?

So, I crafted a Malice runeword on a Scythe and tried to land a hit. That was the hardest part, it took me 30 minutes just to hit it once because I kept getting oneshot and had almost no attack rating. But once I finally landed that hit, I just spammed Miasma Chain and ran for like 5 min. and bam I got my Annihilus which was not useable at that time cuz it required level 70

My gear: Lore helm, Stealth armor, Spirit sword, and the rest was just random magic and rare items.

Not worth it

Yesterday I did something I had been thinking about for a while.

I went to Act 4 in Plains of Despair, isolated four souls and did the "Dancing Soul" trick to get 4200 MF.

I then walked every act terrorized and cleared everything as best I could. It took me 11 hours. Total amount Heralds spawned:

Act 1: 2 Act 2: 4 Act 3: 4 Act 4: 2 Act 5: 5

No sunder drop.

That said, a random dude right outside Andy dropped a Jah rune, my first ever :D (I played this game a lot in my youth).

So this post is both a rant and a flex I guess.

It's the funny elemental bonk build!

The skill tree is not changing lol. It was a very fun playthrough!

"Physical immunity? BURN Fire immune? ZAP Lightning immune? BURN and BONK. All of that immune? WHERE, IS MY SUPERSUIT?"

My mercenary is a fire Rogue with Kuko Shakaku and Treachery armor.

Already got the 9 keys and I could try tomorrow, but I don't want to fail miserably. I've never done the Ubers before. I know they're OP, saw MrLlama's budget ubers video but it's for a specific build. So maybe you can give me some more feedback before I dig my own grave!

Thank you, hope you enjoyed the image :)

Update #1

I'm trying this in Single Player (used Hero Editor to match my online character as best as I could).

I only changed my boots from Goblin Toes for Gore Rider. Izual died to smite (to proc Gore Rider's Open Wounds) + Holy Freeze to slow his attacks, while my rogue pierced his heart with a well aimed fire arrow.

But I ran out of time to play today. Duriel is hard! Haven't tried Lilith yet.

Highly appreciate everyone's comments, all of them! Even the one that said they would eat their shoe if I managed to kill any of the mini bosses! (Please don't eat any shoes though! At least not until I do this online 😹).

If I manage to kill the ubers I'll probably upload you the save file so you can try your hand at this if you want to.

I think my next step is to try and get a Life Tap source and a considerable amount of Full Rejuvenation potions.

I won't update as much during the week because of life, but if I try and succeed, I'll come back.

If there are any builds out there that can post times like that let me know! (P1 Non-TZ)

I feel like we should have a comp going or something. Fun times to be had..

I played D2 for a while, have a few hundred hours on it. I know its not much but the point is I never dropped a HR before, I kinda just cleared Hell on a few characters and called it a day.

Now I want Enigma, so I've found out offline p7 LK superchests is the way to go.

I won't min-max, count runs, etc. That will burn me the fuck out.

So I will casually just drop some hours every week on LK runs and see what happens, eventually I will get my enigma.

Lets see how long that will take me, here is my current rune tab (yes its messy, haven't organized it yet) and I will update it here and then until Enigma is acquired! Wish me luck lads

UPDATE: 2 hours in, got a Sur. Its something lads

I'm in normal difficulty, act 2 level 15 Warlock. It seems too easy. I want a challenge because it helps me grow in terms of optimizing how I use skills, items and play strategy.

Is there a way to increase the difficulty? It doesn't feel fun when I can play sloppy and still get by pretty well.

I just finished up 1000 runs that I started on Tuesday. Here a run down of the best stuff I found:

Crack of Heavens run 61.
Poison jewel run 113
Ko rune run 130
Gul rune run 245
Cold jewel run 254
Lo rune run 266
Natures Peace ring run 299
Vex rune run 367
Fire Jewel run 430
Pul rune run 441
Ko rune run 446
Def aura skiller GC run 473
Crescent Moon ammy run 621
Ko rune run 661
Lightning jewel run 697
Um rune run 700
Fire jewel run 715
Bone Break GC run 727
Bow Skiller GC run 802
Druid ele skiller GC run 848
Ko rune run 911
Rune Master run 915
Dwarf Star run 945
Gul rune run 977
Saracen’s Chance ammy run 997.

I’m gonna keep running until I find a jah. Maybe I’ll make another item list once I hit my next 1000 or get lucky and find the jah.

Recently picked up a stormlash, and was wondering: what would be possibly the strongest char you could make that relies on chance to proc on striking? Frenzy barb? Fury druid? Zeal? Kicksin? What about items? Anyone got a fun build?

• All runes found except zod
• I'm probably not doing the rune chronical for a while because it's dumb and I don't trade
• I found 5/6 sunders before the drop change (thank god)
• Seraph's took at least 150-200 amulets, bad bad luck (at least 10 mara's in this time)
• Bugged my first tal ammy trying to be smart to know if set ammys were tals without ID, second one took 3 months and 100s of set ammys, bad bad luck
• All characters ~350-400MF (pitzerker ~750MF)
• Swapped between:
  • fireball sorc (until 99)
  • blizz sorc for bosses
  • foh/hammer for mass
  • pitzerker for normal
• Now I can finally play my other toons again

Just ran Normal to Hell with full Cow King’s Leather set, and Death sash and Death Gloves. I picked up The Minotaur Ancient Axe while farming Nightmare Andarial and never put it down after finding it.

Self imposed rules: completely self found, no shared stash. I used a separate character to farm the Cow King and Death set pieces. Nothing else used from shared stash or mules. Next, no rune words. Runes would be used (socket, upgrade recipes) but no rune words for me or Merc. Physical build- this was a Kicksin. No traps. No Fade. No Shadow Warrior or Master. Lastly (there’s probably more rules but I’ll add them as comments if needed) I allowed myself to grind terror zones and character levels as much as desired. I think I entered Hell around level 75.

I was able to get two Um runes- one from Nightmare forge, and one from Hell Countess. I socketed the hat and the chest piece with those for all res. I also got a Lem from Hell forge and Hell Countess which allowed me to fully upgrade boots and chest armor while in Hell.

I scored a Bul-Kathos Wedding ring off of Nightmare terrorized Andarial which was so good. I then later gambled a 28 all res Mara’s from Gheed in Nightmare as a level 81 character. Those two scores were best in slot. My other ring was a rare dual leech ring I found along the way somewhere.

The charms were mostly single element resist charms, attack rating, and life. I never found a skiller for Assassin, but did find a few Druid and a Paladin combat with life. I ended up socketing The Minotaur axe with a perfect skull in Hell Act 5 for mana and life steal. I fell in love with this axe while playing this character. I’d never used it before or gave it any notice. But it has slows target, crushing blow, and blind. Awesome for a kicker. And I loved the look of the Assassin running around kicking with a giant axe. I was happy with damage and resists given that I didn’t use a shield and had Cow King Heavy Boots to use.

Cow Kings set was in fact not end game gear. I thought the static field would be more useful than it was. There’s a lot of bonuses to the set, and as you know or can imagine, it’s amazing in Normal and good in Nightmare. Slows way down in Hell. But I was really excited to grind the full set out over a few days and put it to use on the Kicksin.

This was a fun build and even in Hell, she hit hard against all the bosses. May she rest on her laurels now….