How to reach level 99 in 400 hours (250 hours once /playerX is added)

[NathanielJohn 3,651]

Edit: this method, as of February 15, 2023, is completely obsolete. Now that Terror Zones have been added to the game, those are by far the fastest way to grind to level 99.

 

I held off on posting this thread, since this method is mainly due to @Vextens and I didn't want to step on their toes. However, now that they have platinumed the game (and are the first person to do so legit -- everyone reaching level 99 before them should be flagged), I wanted to post this to set the record straight since there's so much misinformation out there about how long it takes to grind to level 99 and platinum this game.

 

By far the fastest and easiest way to get the two "level 99" trophies is to play offline hardcore. If you prefer to try to get these trophies online while playing in a group, since that's more fun for you -- that's fine. But if anyone says it's *faster* or *easier* online, they're flat-out wrong. The method described here only works offline.

 

Preparation Steps:

Step 1: Get to hell difficulty with a paladin. Other classes may work, but paladin will be easiest and what this guide is based on. Do NOT beat hell difficulty -- in particular, do not kill the Ancients in Act 5 in Hell difficulty!

Step 2: Duplicate runes in your shared stash (by backing up your shared stash save file separately from your character save file) so that you can make whatever runewords you like. Enigma and Last Wish will be particularly useful for what we're going to do, but you can also make a Spirit shield and whatever other goodies you like.

Step 3: Farm Nightmare Andariel until you find a Stone of Jordan. Use an Enigma to make this faster (with the Enigma, you can teleport through walls etc, so you should be able to get to her and kill her within 40 seconds or less). Expect on average to spend about 10 - 15 hours killing her before you find one, but this can vary a lot.

Step 4: Duplicate the Stone of Jordan via the same shared stash trick mentioned in Step 2 above. Duplicate it a lot. You're going to need about 22,000 of them. I'm not joking. You don't need to dupe them *all* right now, but make a good stack of them, and then dupe some more whenever you get low. Fortunately you can dupe a ton at once, once you get a good stockpile of them.

Step 5: Go to the Stony Fields in Act 1 in Hell difficulty and find the stones where Rakanishu spawns. Are there any shrines nearby? You want at least 4 shrines (health/mana pools and wells do not count -- you want at least 4 shrines like XP/monster/gem/combat/etc) that can easily be found between the waypoint and the Rakanishu stones. If there are not that many easily-accessible shrines then re-roll the map (by changing difficulty to Normal or Nightmare and then changing it back to Hell) until you get a good number of shrines.

Step 6: Re-spec your Paladin into a "Smiter" build. Use Google to find what that means and what skill points etc you should be using. Fortunately, it doesn't matter too much how good your equipment is, as long as you have Enigma from Last Wish from Step 2.

 

Actual XP grinding steps:

Step 7: Load Act 1. Sell a single Stone of Jordan to a merchant (Akara or Charsi). This will spawn a "Diablo Clone" at the Rakanishu stones. Use the waypoint to go to the Stony Fields. Check the shrines in the area -- if any of them are an XP shrine, use it, and then go to to the Rakanishu stones and smite the Diablo Clone to death. He is one of only a handful of monsters in the game that continues to give XP all the way up to level 99.

Step 8: Repeat roughly 16,000 times by which point you will be level 98. If you have a good Stony Field layout, you should be able to do a complete run (sell SoJ, check for shrines, kill DClone) in about 55 seconds (edit: 55 seconds on PS5... load times are lower on PS4, so roughly 1 minutes 24 seconds there, which makes a huge difference over the course of several thousand runs). Let's say 1 minute, to account for the extra time we'll have to spend duping SoJ's every now and then. Repair your equipment at Charsi, and heal at Akara as necessary.

Step 9: Once you're at level 98, go kill the Hell Ancients. This gives a flat amount of XP that is not affected by the high-level XP penalty, which is why you want to save it for now.

Step 10: Continue killing the Diablo Clone another 6,500 times. Then you'll be level 99 and finally done.

 

Below is a precise breakdown of how many runs are needed to reach each level using this method. Each run takes about a minute, so it's easy to figure out how long each level up takes. I used this method to get from level 89 to 94, and the values were pretty much spot-on:

 

Dclone raw XP	Player Level	Dclone final XP	EXP next level	Runs to next level
5539200	89	469717	134011418	285
	90	357898	146072446	408
	91	272620	159218965	584
	92	209935	173548673	827
	93	157611	189168053	1200
Avg XP bonus	94	122302	206193177	1686
(Anni, shrines)	95	92544	224750564	2429
32.5%	96	68537	244978115	3574
	97	50482	267026144	5290
	98	38579	251058498	6508
Save Hell Ancients?
1				TOTAL RUNS:
				22791
				TOTAL TIME (hours):
				380

 

Once they add /playersX to console (which has been confirmed), this time will go down even further, to about 251 hours (plus time needed for the preparation steps) instead of 380.

Edited February 16 by NathanielJohn

[Vextens 119]

Thanks for writing this up, @NathanielJohn! You covered one of the biggest tips I had which was doing this in the Stony Field. I know there were a lot of recommendations to spawn DClone in place of Eldritch in Act 5 since he's closer to the waypoint but I figured the experience shrines in the Stony Field were absolutely a must have. I got lucky enough to roll a map that had four shrines relatively close to the waypoint as well as DClone.

 

I began farming DClone using this exact method on October 13th. I was level 91 with 1,836,590,691 exp. It took me 22,155 DClone runs to get to level 99. In the end I calculate I found an exp shrine on 53.79% of my runs. Unfortunately, I had already beaten the ancients by the time I began this farm. To anyone else who already killed the ancients don't worry too much. While it does account for 13% of the exp to get from 98 to 99 which is huge, the approximately 1k runs it saves you is still a small fraction of the 22k runs you'll have done anyway.

 

My gear for this grind was:

 

Helm - Guillaume's Face socketed with an Um rune (for crushing blow as well as extra res from Um)

Amulet - Saracen's Chance (extra stats and res)

Body Armor - Enigma Breast Plate (for teleport and 45% Faster Run/Walk)

Belt - Thundergod's Vigor (this belt was mostly used for the lightning absorb when I was farming the Ubers for my paladin torch but I never switched to something else for DClone)

Gloves - Dracul's Grasp/Magnus' Skin (I primarily used the Dracs for the Life Tap proc but near the end I switched to Magnus for the +20% IAS as it's been indicated the IAS frames are kinda busted in D2R for melee characters and I wanted to try it)

Boots - Goblin Toe (for crushing blow)

Rings - Raven Frost/Stone of Jordan (RF for the Cannot be Frozen and Stone of Jordan for the +1 to skills)

Primary Weapon/Shield - Grief Phase Blade/Exile Zakarum Shield (I chose to go with the Grief runeword over Last Wish as I found the raw damage increase helped kill off the last bit of DClone's health was more useful than the additional Crushing Blow from Last Wish, Exile was used for another source of Life Tap as well as a Defiance aura, any elite paladin shield with + to all resistances should be a good base for Exile)

Offhand Weapon/Shield - Heart of the Oak Flail/Spirit Rondache (I point at my offhand gear as this was what I used when teleporting as HOTO and Spirit allowed me to hit the 75 Faster Cast Rate breakpoint and teleport around the Stony Field faster)

 

An additional tip I'd like to give is that I had my offhand weapon/shield equipped at all times when I wasn't fighting DClone. I had the Vigor aura equipped to my offhand gear. This let me run around town faster since you can't teleport in town and let me run around faster in the Stony Field when I wasn't teleporting.

 

My stat allocation consisted of no investment to strength as the annihilus, torch, and Enigma should give you more than enough strength to equip whatever you need, enough dexterity to equip the phase blade as well as max out block chance when you have Holy Shield activated, and the rest of the points went into vitality. At level 99, my base stats are 25 strength, 102 dexterity, 448 vitality, and 15 energy.

 

As far as skills go, I invested 1 point into Vigor and Salvation and maxed out Lightning Resist from the Defensive Aura skill tree, maxed out Fanaticism from the Offensive aura skill tree which is what I used when fighting Dclone, maxed out Smite and Holy Shield and was working on maxing Zeal in the Combat Skills skill tree.

 

While moderately unimportant, my mercenary had an Infinity War Scythe for the Conviction aura, Andariel's Visage for the life steal, and Fortitude Embossed Plate for Enhanced Damage. I'm actually not sure if Conviction helps with physical damage but it seemed better than the other options I had so I used it.

 

Unfortunately, the runs times will be worse on PS4 due to longer load screens. I was lucky enough to get a PS5 at the end of October and can confirm that on PS5 each run did take approximately 55 seconds to do but on PS4 it was around 1 minute 24 seconds which is unfortunately a huge difference when we're talking about 22k runs. Without the PS5, I still would not be done with this grind.

 

I know I've rambled a lot but I hope this was helpful to everyone and if anyone needs any advice or if I can clarify anything I've mentioned please let me know. Thanks!

Edited November 29, 2021 by Vextens

[Coexistant 86]

1 hour ago, Vextens said:

Thanks for writing this up, @NathanielJohn! You covered one of the biggest tips I had which was doing this in the Stony Field. I know there were a lot of recommendations to spawn DClone in place of Eldritch in Act 5 since he's closer to the waypoint but I figured the experience shrines in the Stony Field were absolutely a must have. I got lucky enough to roll a map that had four shrines relatively close to the waypoint as well as DClone.

 

I began farming DClone using this exact method on October 13th. I was level 91 with 1,836,590,691 exp. It took me 22,155 DClone runs to get to level 99. In the end I calculate I found an exp shrine on 53.79% of my runs. Unfortunately, I had already beaten the ancients by the time I began this farm. To anyone else who already killed the ancients don't worry too much. While it does account for 13% of the exp to get from 98 to 99 which is huge, the approximately 1k runs it saves you is still a small fraction of the 22k runs you'll have done anyway.

 

My gear for this grind was:

 

Helm - Guillaume's Face socketed with an Um rune (for crushing blow as well as extra res from Um)

Amulet - Saracen's Chance (extra stats and res)

Body Armor - Enigma Breast Plate (for teleport and 45% Faster Run/Walk)

Belt - Thundergod's Vigor (this belt was mostly used for the lightning absorb when I was farming the Ubers for my paladin torch but I never switched to something else for DClone)

Gloves - Dracul's Grasp/Magnus' Skin (I primarily used the Dracs for the Life Tap proc but near the end I switched to Magnus for the +20% IAS as it's been indicated the IAS frames are kinda busted in D2R for melee characters and I wanted to try it)

Boots - Goblin Toe (for crushing blow)

Rings - Raven Frost/Stone of Jordan (RF for the Cannot be Frozen and Stone of Jordan for the +1 to skills)

Primary Weapon/Shield - Grief Phase Blade/Exile Zakarum Shield (I chose to go with the Grief runeword over Last Wish as I found the raw damage increase helped kill off the last bit of DClone's health was more useful than the additional Crushing Blow from Last Wish, Exile was used for another source of Life Tap as well as a Defiance aura, any elite paladin shield with + to all resistances should be a good base for Exile)

Offhand Weapon/Shield - Heart of the Oak Flail/Spirit Rondache (I point at my offhand gear as this was what I used when teleporting as HOTO and Spirit allowed me to hit the 75 Faster Cast Rate breakpoint and teleport around the Stony Field faster)

 

An additional tip I'd like to give is that I had my offhand weapon/shield equipped at all times when I wasn't fighting DClone. I had the Vigor aura equipped to my offhand gear. This let me run around town faster since you can't teleport in town and let me run around faster in the Stony Field when I wasn't teleporting.

 

My stat allocation consisted of no investment to strength as the annihilus, torch, and Enigma should give you more than enough strength to equip whatever you need, enough dexterity to equip the phase blade as well as max out block chance when you have Holy Shield activated, and the rest of the points went into vitality. At level 99, my base stats are 25 strength, 102 dexterity, 448 vitality, and 15 energy.

 

As far as skills go, I invested 1 point into Vigor and Salvation and maxed out Lightning Resist from the Defensive Aura skill tree, maxed out Fanaticism from the Offensive aura skill tree which is what I used when fighting Dclone, maxed out Smite and Holy Shield and was working on maxing Zeal in the Combat Skills skill tree.

 

While moderately unimportant, my mercenary had an Infinity War Scythe for the Conviction aura, Andariel's Visage for the life steal, and Fortitude Embossed Plate for Enhanced Damage. I'm actually not sure if Conviction helps with physical damage but it seemed better than the other options I had so I used it.

 

Unfortunately, the runs times will be worse on PS4 due to longer load screens. I was lucky enough to get a PS5 at the end of October and can confirm that on PS5 each run did take approximately 55 seconds to do but on PS4 it was around 1 minute 24 seconds which is unfortunately a huge difference when we're talking about 22k runs. Without the PS5, I still would not be done with this grind.

 

I know I've rambled a lot but I hope this was helpful to everyone and if anyone needs any advice or if I can clarify anything I've mentioned please let me know. Thanks!

 

Too give some people some more tips for killing Ubers with a Paladin smiter:

 

• Amulet - Saracen's Chance (extra stats and res) [Replace with Highlord's Wrath if you have it. It has Increased Attack Speed (IAS) and Deadly strike]
• Belt - Thundergod's Vigor (this belt was mostly used for the lightning absorb when I was farming the Ubers for my paladin torch but I never switched to something else for DClone) [Replace with Verdungo's as it gives vitality (health) and Damage Reduced]
• Boots - Goblin Toe (for crushing blow) [Replace with Gore Riders for Crushing Blow, Deadly Strike, and Chance of Open Wounds]

Nice little guide and I am still waiting to find my SoJ so I can start doing the method... Single Player has not been nice to me.

[Vextens 119]

3 minutes ago, Coexistant said:

 

Too give some people some more tips for killing Ubers with a Paladin smiter:

 

• Amulet - Saracen's Chance (extra stats and res) [Replace with Highlord's Wrath if you have it. It has Increased Attack Speed (IAS) and Deadly strike]
• Belt - Thundergod's Vigor (this belt was mostly used for the lightning absorb when I was farming the Ubers for my paladin torch but I never switched to something else for DClone) [Replace with Verdungo's as it gives vitality (health) and Damage Reduced]
• Boots - Goblin Toe (for crushing blow) [Replace with Gore Riders for Crushing Blow, Deadly Strike, and Chance of Open Wounds]

Nice little guide and I am still waiting to find my SoJ so I can start doing the method... Single Player has not been nice to me.

 

Good luck to you! Getting the SoJ to drop in the first place was a nightmare in and of itself. I'm sure you know but it's best to just bite the bullet and farm Andy in NM for the SoJ despite not getting any experience for it. I farmed Hell CS for a while but it never dropped. Eventually decided that it just made more sense to farm Andy. I was nervous for a while that drop chances changed for consoles but I can confirm that she does drop an SoJ in NM.

[NathanielJohn 3,651]

10 minutes ago, Vextens said:

I'm sure you know but it's best to just bite the bullet and farm Andy in NM for the SoJ despite not getting any experience for it. I farmed Hell CS for a while but it never dropped. Eventually decided that it just made more sense to farm Andy. I was nervous for a while that drop chances changed for consoles but I can confirm that she does drop an SoJ in NM.

 

I did the exact same. I started by farming Hell Andy when I was still low-level enough to get XP there. Then I tried Hell CS. Then I just gave up and did Nightmare Andy. The runs against Nightmare Andy are so quick that I didn't find it *too* painful, but yeah the RNG factor makes it hurt.

[yoszek 55]

5 hours ago, Vextens said:

 

Good luck to you! Getting the SoJ to drop in the first place was a nightmare in and of itself. I'm sure you know but it's best to just bite the bullet and farm Andy in NM for the SoJ despite not getting any experience for it. I farmed Hell CS for a while but it never dropped. Eventually decided that it just made more sense to farm Andy. I was nervous for a while that drop chances changed for consoles but I can confirm that she does drop an SoJ in NM.

Did you use only Pally to farm everything,even enigma or made sorc for tele and farm with her for quicker runs? Or did you just reroll map till you got really good route to Andy?

[Vextens 119]

20 minutes ago, yoszek said:

Did you use only Pally to farm everything,even enigma or made sorc for tele and farm with her for quicker runs? Or did you just reroll map till you got really good route to Andy?

 

Yeah, my paladin did the bulk of my farming of gear. I got most of the runes on my Necromancer when I first played that character through hell. A paladin with Enigma for teleport is pretty powerful if you spec into a Blessed Hammer build. There aren't many enemies in the game with a natural immunity to magic and Blessed Hammer can get absurdly strong. I did roll maps until I got good ones for Andy. I got the SoJ when I was still on the PS4 so the load times were pretty obnoxious so if I could minimize run times by having better maps I went for it. I didn't spec into a Smiter paladin until I was ready to farm Uber Tristram for the paladin torch and then grind against DClone until I hit 99.

[Geridian 917]

Congratulations for doing this legit.

Also nice write-up.

Too bad that it is the PS4 stack. Well, I am in the same boat :-D. Got my PS5 later after starting the game on PS4.

Appreciate the gear discussion!

 

/edit: You can reroll offline maps on console? Is this done with difficulty switching?

 

 

Edited November 29, 2021 by Geridian
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[MagusCreed 68]

Truly a mindnumbing amount of runs to achieve this plat.

 

Never say never on any platinum.  Super Meat Boy, Wolfenstein, OG Fall Guys are just a few that looked to be "impossible."

 

Well done Vextens.

[Coexistant 86]

3 hours ago, Geridian said:

Congratulations for doing this legit.

Also nice write-up.

Too bad that it is the PS4 stack. Well, I am in the same boat :-D. Got my PS5 later after starting the game on PS4.

Appreciate the gear discussion!

 

/edit: You can reroll offline maps on console? Is this done with difficulty switching?

 

 

Yes.

[t-H-3_d-O-u-G 57]

5 hours ago, Vextens said:

 

Yeah, my paladin did the bulk of my farming of gear. I got most of the runes on my Necromancer when I first played that character through hell. A paladin with Enigma for teleport is pretty powerful if you spec into a Blessed Hammer build. There aren't many enemies in the game with a natural immunity to magic and Blessed Hammer can get absurdly strong. I did roll maps until I got good ones for Andy. I got the SoJ when I was still on the PS4 so the load times were pretty obnoxious so if I could minimize run times by having better maps I went for it. I didn't spec into a Smiter paladin until I was ready to farm Uber Tristram for the paladin torch and then grind against DClone until I hit 99.

Did you target farm specific bosses for the other fairly important gear like boots/belt/gloves/helmet? And what was your MF like when going for the SOJ?

Also, how many times, if at all did you have to rely on your backup save due to deaths out of curiosity?

Edited November 30, 2021 by t-H-3_d-O-u-G

[Vextens 119]

33 minutes ago, t-H-3_d-O-u-G said:

Did you target farm specific bosses for the other fairly important gear like boots/belt/gloves/helmet? And what was your MF like when going for the SOJ?

Also, how many times, if at all did you have to rely on your backup save due to deaths out of curiosity?

 

I believe I got most of my gear when I was trying to farm an SoJ from the Chaos Sanctuary. The runeword bases weren't too bad to find anywhere in the game with the exception of a decent elite paladin shield. I think I only had to recover my backup maybe six or seven times. Only one was because of a death in which I'm guessing I was unlucky enough to not proc Life Tap and DClone killed me without me noticing. All the other recoveries were because I would accidentally load into normal mode instead of hell mode so I lost what I considered a near perfect stony field map and it was worth it for me to revert a few hours of progress to recover that map. 

[Geridian 917]

15 hours ago, NathanielJohn said:

Once they add /playersX to console (which has been confirmed), this time will go down even further, to about 251 hours (plus time needed for the preparation steps) instead of 380.

People, be aware that players command also adjusts the damage done by enemies and enemy pack size and such. 

 

As far as written down on the internet, /players 3 is good for starters. 

 

Also a "Call to arms" runeword weapon helps a lot.

 

On PS5 I would also disable the savegame synchronisation with the PS+ cloud because maybe it uploads a savegame where you lost your character or (in the case of Returnal, where a patch did break some savegames) uploads a not working savegame which overwrites a working one.

 

Edited November 30, 2021 by Geridian
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[NathanielJohn 3,651]

6 hours ago, Geridian said:

As far as written down on the internet, /players 3 is good for starters. 

When doing this method with /playersX, you should only be using /players 3 or maybe even just /players 2 anyway. Higher values won't give you more XP, since there is an XP cap per enemy.

 

DClone XP on /players 1: 5539200

DClone XP on /players 2: 8308800

DClone XP on /players 3 (and higher): 8388608

[Vextens 119]

On 11/29/2021 at 7:24 PM, t-H-3_d-O-u-G said:

Did you target farm specific bosses for the other fairly important gear like boots/belt/gloves/helmet? And what was your MF like when going for the SOJ?

Also, how many times, if at all did you have to rely on your backup save due to deaths out of curiosity?

 

I just realized I never answered you about my mf when farming the SoJ. I want to say I had it around 700. I had a three socketed helm with 3x Ists (75%), the Enigma breast plate which gives mf based on character level (~91%), six socketed crystal sword with all Ists (180%), a four socketed paladin shield with all Ists (100%), Chance Guard gloves (~35%), Goldwrap belt (30%), two perfect mf Nagelrings (60%), some rare mf boots (~25%), and a Gheed's Fortune (~30%). This comes out to 626% so I might be off on some of the items with variable mf and I also had an assortment of mf charms in my inventory. In my offhand I had the HOTO + Spirit to hit the 75 FCR breakpoint and teleport faster to andy. 

 

I only used this gear when I was farming nm andy as it was exceedingly unlikely that she could kill me. I would not recommend this setup to farm anything in hell as it does nothing for your resistances and offers poor survivability. 

[NathanielJohn 3,651]

Also, keep in mind that there are *massive* diminishing returns with MF when it comes to unique items like SoJ. Your first 150 points double your chances of getting an SoJ, and your next 550 points (if you go up to 700 MF like Vextens) don't even double it again.

 

Each unique ring that NM Andy drops has a 1/31 chance of being an SoJ. Period. MF has no effect on that, and there's nothing you can do to alter it.

 

With 0 MF, Andy has a 1/123 chance of dropping a unique ring, so NM Andy has a 1/3813 chance of dropping an SoJ.

With 150 MF, that increases to a 1/64 chance of dropping a unique ring, or a 1/1979 chance of dropping an SoJ.

With 300 MF, it increases to a 1/52 chance of dropping a unique ring, or a 1/1617 chance of dropping an SoJ.

With 700 MF, it increases to a 1/43 chance of dropping a unique ring, or a 1/1345 chance of dropping an SoJ.

[Geridian 917]

@VextensHi, mind sharing your platinum and level 99 screenshots here? Would be awesome to have some evidence that you got the trophies 100% legit

[Vextens 119]

38 minutes ago, Geridian said:

@VextensHi, mind sharing your platinum and level 99 screenshots here? Would be awesome to have some evidence that you got the trophies 100% legit

 

I can do that. Do you know how I can share photos on this website? And is it also possible to share gameplay footage that I took? I have a clip of a DClone run that I took that would probably be worth posting just so folks can see what it looks like. 

[Vextens 119]

I hope imgur links are allowed on PSNP.

 

The first link is a video of my standard DClone run. It begins and ends at the character select menu. I start by loading into Hell, activate Holy Shield as I make my way to Akara, quickly sell an SoJ, go to the waypoint and go to the Stony Field. I proceed to the right where I first find an unchanging health shrine followed by three miscellaneous shrines. If none of these three shrines are an experience shrine, I retrace my path back and to the north to the fourth shrine. As you can see in this run, none of the shrine were an experience shrine which is a bummer. After either finding an experience shrine or not, I proceed to the north to find the Cairn Stones where DClone has spawned in place of the Superunique monster Rakanishu. Once I get sufficiently close to DClone, I swap my weapons to my Grief and Exile and proceed to smite him to death. Once I see the unique Small Charm drop, I quickly save and exit to start a new run. I took a brief moment in this gameplay capture to pause on my character screen so that everyone saw what my level was and where my experience was at the time of this capture. I took this video on November 16th when I was around 30% of the way from 98 to 99. I mostly took the video to provide evidence that my map at this moment in time would be the same one as when I hit 99 because this was a few days after people began to illegitimately pop the level 99 trophies.

https://imgur.com/a/VqhPsen

The next link is the trophy capture video for when I hit level 99. You'll see that my map is the same as the link above.

https://imgur.com/a/kZ9zhz9

Lastly is the link to my platinum trophy video capture which occurred when I beat Hell mode with my final character class, the druid.

https://imgur.com/a/kXJvADx

 

I hope this satisfies everyone's curiosity and is helpful. Again, if I can help anyone in any way, please let me know!

[Rando-Calrisian- 151]

@NathanielJohn and @Vextens how long did it take for SoJ to drop?

 

 

 

 

Edited December 2, 2021 by Rando-Calrisian-

[Geridian 917]

@VextensThank you very much for sharing the videos. Seeing Diablo having no chances against getting slammed by your Paladin and your merc killing trash mobs for your level 99 trophies was funny to look at 😂. Diablo was not even dead and ping: Level 99 😀. Enigma teleport really was a key component for getting one run done fast.

 

Also thank you very much for understanding the reason why I was asking for screenshots.

Now I also feel a bit sorry. But the stupid save editor opens the way to far too many possibilities.

Clever people can manipulate savegames in a way nobody can detect, in all games they like.

==> So glad that this is not a thing on PS5 savegames, until the console is hacked.

 

You earned the first place! 

Edited December 2, 2021 by Geridian
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[NathanielJohn 3,651]

5 hours ago, Rando-Calrisian- said:

@NathanielJohn and @Vextens how long did it take for SoJ to drop?

For me I had 300 MF and it took about 12 hours. My SoJ was the 16th unique ring that I got from NM Andy.

[Vextens 119]

7 hours ago, Rando-Calrisian- said:

@NathanielJohn and @Vextens how long did it take for SoJ to drop?

 

 

 

 

 

I had a bit of worse luck. I think it took maybe three solid days of farming NM Andy with 700 MF for my SoJ to drop and it was in the 30s or 40s for the amount of unique rings I got from her before it was an SoJ. RNG, am I right?

[Vextens 119]

14 hours ago, Geridian said:

@VextensThank you very much for sharing the videos. Seeing Diablo having no chances against getting slammed by your Paladin and your merc killing trash mobs for your level 99 trophies was funny to look at . Diablo was not even dead and ping: Level 99 . Enigma teleport really was a key component for getting one run done fast.

 

Also thank you very much for understanding the reason why I was asking for screenshots.

Now I also feel a bit sorry. But the stupid save editor opens the way to far too many possibilities.

Clever people can manipulate savegames in a way nobody can detect, in all games they like.

==> So glad that this is not a thing on PS5 savegames, until the console is hacked.

 

You earned the first place! 

 

No worries. I totally understand. I would like to know what derbaeer's strategy was, though. With a Stone of Jordan trophy popped after getting the level 99 trophies, they clearly didn't farm DClone to get to level 99. May have farmed Ubers or just done Diablo, Nihlathak, or Baal runs but those just aren't as time efficient as DClone.

[Eienshi-Ita 7]

GG you are a literal legend @Vextens!!