A few things

[KingOfPain]

Currently HC Ladder KingOfPain1 and KingOfPain11
Mules are KingOfPain-([dash]1-6 so far) same pw as rb accounts. Help yourselves. There are a couple more mules of rarer/more useful/endgame stuff such as Vampire Gaze, Arreat Face, Stormshield, Guardian Angel, on KingOfPain accounts if you are looking for specific items. I keep them there so its easier to keep active and preserve when we are less active.

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[KingOfPain]

cowardly comment from our most popular LowRent chick, my arty necro AliceCooper (made on Thursday, now lvl 79) just had to grab this





Even tho it's 3:30 in the morning

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[KingOfPain]

Yes, I know sorcies having 95 dex is not too uncommon, Doc. I was trying to figure out how and if I should use items instead of stat points to meet the requirement for HotBowBabe. CY reminded me of the screenies I have on how a proper sorcy should be built (talked about in the posts above).

The first one with the name and class masked, and no one guessed it was a Sorc.



This one shows the switch setup. Note still 50 points saved. Got to love a sorcy who can tank cows, mf hell meph in under a minute, and can wear anything in the game (unlike those sissy baba)



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I have setup ForgeRunner on KingOfPain-5 as a BO barb. If you are able to run 2 accounts, feel free to use him for a boost of HP/Mana, add Exp and a Hell-able mule (He is prolly half full with various stuff most of the time, so mind keeping him clutter free). I can't find my spare +3 WarCries Knives yet, but he is doing alright with 134% boost to hp and mana with a 370 sec duration.

Hehe, just don't kill him off like I killed off GPoW - Left at a wp and wasn't paying attention to him since there were no monsters in sight, then 2 boss pack show up (after 10 minutes sitting there).

I have a wild theory that Confuse has something to do with it, even tho I was using Confuse in the Tomb while he was sitting at the Canyon WP. I know what you are thinking, but I am telling ya....

EDIT: ForgeRunner BO is now at lvl 36+1 with 400sec duration and 143% boost

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[KingOfPain]

Shishak, there's a new shipment of ele throws. You might want to consider pairing the Flaming balanced knife with 40% ias if that would take you to the next speed break point (or 2). That can give you ~20% more DoT for you whole setup.

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[KingOfPain]

Lost and found Mace Windu's LightSabre





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[KingOfPain]

*Smacks CB-13* with an iron trout

For not staying in game to get looted. But you probably don't have any idea what a Raven Claw is worth on Ladder HC

I traded one for an ist, and refused to trade my last one when offered a ber...


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[cb-13]

Would have stayed ......if I were 15 and using the claw...died pryor to being able to equip it > so was unless you could loot my stash .....

Will make it up to you

CB-13

[Dr.Disaster]

I traded one for an ist, and refused to trade my last one when offered a ber...

.. and that was for sure duped
Prolly even the Ist is duped. Just keep on jumping in and out of public games with the runes in inventory and you'll find out soon enough when they poof.

During last summer i looked for some nice thingies like Mara's/Torch/Anni for a fun-char in non-ladder softcore. Trading there is almost only done in high runes or SoJ's so i worried how I'd ever get the needed fonds together to trade me those thingies.
BUT once i noticed that several items you can simply shop(!) are traded for multiple high runes it was easy to collect the needed fonds together. Within a few days about 30 high runes got traded in for my shopped stuff. More then actually needed but during this short time at least 5 runes poofed.
Since then i can say that public rune trades of Ist upward are most likely trades for dupes.

Dr. Disaster

[KingOfPain]

No big deal, I just thought you went not knowing ;p

Doc, does the rune's id change once it's socket, or would it render the rune word useless once it meets its original match? Or, is it Ruststorm you are talking about?

(that rune had traveled with me a few pubbic games and still there, but who knows)

According to this...

Active Ruststorm is the one that is run RARELY and here is what Blizzard has said it will destroy:

duped runes
runes cubed from duped runes
items socketed with duped runes
items socketed with runes cubed from duped runes
runewords made with duped runes
runewords made with runes cubed from duped runes

Sounds like it destroys not only the rune but the item

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[Dr.Disaster]

No big deal, I just thought you went not knowing ;p

Doc, does the rune's id change once it's socket, or would it render the rune word useless once it meets its original match? Or, is it Ruststorm you are talking about?

(that rune had traveled with me a few pubbic games and still there, but who knows)

AFAIN the rune id does not change. Once the rune is socketed it becomes part of another item and from now on the game does not check the rune's id anymore. The only thing that can destroy a socketed duped rune/gem/jewel is a full serverside Ruststorm but that has not been run in years.

I was refering to usual traveling in public games. If in a game any player holds a duplicate of one of your runes the duplicate on the player first leaving is destoyed. ONLY when you leave the game very fast from within the trade dialog duplicates may not be destroyed.

Dr. Disaster

EDIT: I don't believe that Ruststorm can delete a rune cubed from duped runes. Since the cubed rune is a generated item it should get a new id. Also the deletion of the whole socketed item is something i doubt. AFAIN only the duped rune itself is destroyed but that could have changed.