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Love the game. It's my most played by far.

Say what you will about cookie-cutter builds, but there are still plenty that can get you through the game and that fulfil their own niches. Experimenting with all the different options is a great deal of fun. The ones that revolve around certain items are especially interesting, e.g. Whirlwind Assassins (my favorite), Auradins, Enchantresses, etc.

(Normal mode) Duriel is a bastard for most builds. I find myself loading up on potions (Mana if I have a powerful attack that can shorten the battle or Health if I need to try and tough it out) and/or portaling in and out like a chicken. Usually both. It takes a while, but I get there in the end.

Another good tip is that it's often better to walk / stand still than run around like a headless chicken. Running reduces your Defense and block rate (to 0% and by 2/3 respectively), so if your character is good in those regards, walk.

Black_Crusher posted...

I'm with you here. Ten plus years playing the game and I got exactly one Lo rune and one Gul rune ever. THAT'S IT.

Never got an SoJ, almost had an Anni charm but some asshat used a program to pick it up off the ground from the other side of the screen and exited the game. I was so pissed haha.

I didn't find anything above a Vex Rune for years (and even that took me ages to find). A recentish patch (one of the 1.13s I think) upped the High Rune drop rate a good bit, and I've found loads since then. Mostly Ohms and Los, but also 2 Bers, a Sur, a Cham and maybe others. Most in Single Player. So I have a completely legit SP Grief, Infinity and Call to Arms. :)

SoJs... I've found 3 or 4 I think. A couple randomly, and one or two when I specifically farmed Nightmare Andy for them. She's your best bet for finding one.

I also did some Dclone hunting back in the day, which was pretty tedious. There was a website which told you the IP addresses of "hot" servers. I'd then join a bunch of games, checking the server IP with the "netstat -n" command, until I found the right server. Then I'd just wait until the "Dclone walks the earth message" would appear and kill him.

Zod Rune and Death's Fathom are now top of my list of items I've yet to find.

Given how much I've played the game, yep, the drop rates are crazy.