Anyone still playing?
Here's way more than any of you want to know about my main characters.
I've done a heck of a lot of farming and trading. Revived my D2JSP account, reset my password, my last activity was June of 2011, so it's been a minute. Bonus I still had 205 forum gold in my account! That was A LOT more back then than it is now, too bad it didn't gain interest. Looking through my transaction history I last bought a Ber rune for 30 FG, they're trending at 2.2K FG at the moment.
Supply and demand right?
I've got a buddy I've been playing with a lot, helping him, and he's been snagging items for me.
Blizz sorc is pretty well sorted now, Viper Magi with a P-topaz, Shako with a P-topaz, Occy, Spirit, upped Goldwrap, SOJ and a Nagelring. I have a 35% Gheeds a bunch of MF, HR, and random res small charms on her too. Still need boots and an ammy to round her out. Using random uniqe MF/res boots, and an ammy with cold skills and quad res. She gets the job done. Merc has an Eth CV Insight, Eth Hellforge Plate Treachery, and a G. Face. I'd rather him knock the hell out of monsters than life leach, hence the G. Face. I just feed him pots as needed, which isn't that often with Fade proc'd.
I haven't found anything really great since that Lo I mentioned before. I had an Ist drop from 2 player Hell Cows. I got a Grand Charm off of Nihlathak, it dropped as junk fire damage, I re-rolled it in the Cube to a 44 Life GC, no other modifiers though.
Between farming, trading, and my buddy, I've about got my Pally ready to Uber.
Spent 45 of my forgotten 205 FG on JSP for a Mal. I'm really turned off by the overwhelming volume of folks on JSP now, you won't have a listing on the front page of the D2R secont for more than 30 seconds. I've tried to trade some stuff, but the handful of folks that comment in my thread or PM me have all flaked. It's like the Facebook Marketplace of Diablo.
I've had a 5Os PB and that Lo in my stash for a while, kept thinking I'd get a Mal off of the Countess, Lower Kurast, Cows, somewhere, no luck. JSP worked out, even got it from someone in the EU, it's cool that you can switch regions now.
With all the parts in hand I finally made a Grief PB. I alt+tabbed between D2 Wiki and the game probably 1/2 dozen times to make sure I had the recipe right. Then I checked again with my phone while I had the game up.
Zeal Pally is coming along nicely now. Had been using a nice 2 socket Heaven's Light with a Shale and lower target defense and + damage to demons jewel in it, probably one of the best unique zeal melee weapons in the game in my opinion. It's no Grief though.
Pally had Duriel's Shell, Heaven's light, Rhyme runeword in a nice high res Kurast shield, G. Face with an Um in it, String of Ears, Gore Riders, and a Raven Frost. He's wearing a random unique quad res ring with poison damage, a unique quad res ammy with teleport charges on it (poor man's Enigma), and a pair of unique life/mana leach, ED, dual res, gloves. Really need a pair of Drac's and Thundergod's.
I made that Grief and went to town, mowing everything down, zeal, fanaticism, and sacrifice are all maxed, he does some damage!
I got a little cocky in the World Stone though. If I can't handle 7x Souls, I'm probably not ready for Uber Mephisto. Don't think I can handle Lilith's poison damage quite yet either.
Since I had farmed 3x Key Sets, and decided I wasn't quite ready to use them yet, I decided to trade them. I had an ill-fated attempt to unload them on JSP, Facebook Marketplace all over again, low ballers and flakes.
I noticed that market price on JSP for 3x Key Sets was roughly the same as a mediocre HoZ, so I figured what the heck. I'm farming anyway, why not make a public game asking to trade. I made "3xKeySets 4 HoZ" and went to farming, I usually work backwards, Act5-1, I'd just found the Countess' Forgotten Tower when someone joined and said, "you still need?"
Zeal Pally now has a HoZ!
It's not great, ED range is 150-200, so it could be better, but it could be worse. I think I've got a socket quest left, it'll be getting a P-Diamond soon. Already tried a Soul infested World Stone again, now with Treachery in a Diamond Mail instead of Duriel's Shell and HoZ instead of Rhyme, still dicey, but doable.
I've got to farm 3 more key sets, so hopefully I'll come across Drac's and T. God's while I'm at it.
How are all of your characters doing? Any amazing drops or item rolls? Am I the only nerd who cares?