georgegrozev
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Best places to find ethereal items?
If they're superior that's a plus.
If they're superior that's a plus.
Best places to find ethereal items?
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lionheartthebrave
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Re: Best places to find ethereal items?
Where you find normal items
ethereal is a modifier applied to 5% (iirc) of everything generated, so keep killing lots of monsters and eventually they will drop
Where you find normal items
ethereal is a modifier applied to 5% (iirc) of everything generated, so keep killing lots of monsters and eventually they will drop
georgegrozev
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Re: Best places to find ethereal items?
Yep, but this is SP so not really big access to hell cows.
Other than them, what would be the best places if I wanted to find a) Superior Berserker Axe b) Superior Ethereal Berserker Axe c) Superior Ethereal Thunder Maul d) Superior Caduceus
Yep, but this is SP so not really big access to hell cows.
Other than them, what would be the best places if I wanted to find a) Superior Berserker Axe b) Superior Ethereal Berserker Axe c) Superior Ethereal Thunder Maul d) Superior Caduceus
krischan
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Re: Best places to find ethereal items?
As said, nothing increases the chance for etherealness (except the influence on the drop chances of set items which cannot be ethereal at all), so the best places are those with the most nonmagical items. The mentioned items are from the highest treasure classes, so L85 areas would be best, like Pits, Tunnels, CS, WSK and others. A full list of area levels is found in the Strategy Compendium, the link is in my sig.
Regarding the best amount of MF, any number up to 100% is OK IMO. That won't decrease the number of nonmagical items from regular monsters too much, but bosses don't drop nonmagical items anyway if they can be magical instead and a bit MF will do more good than it will spoil with respect to regular monsters.
As said, nothing increases the chance for etherealness (except the influence on the drop chances of set items which cannot be ethereal at all), so the best places are those with the most nonmagical items. The mentioned items are from the highest treasure classes, so L85 areas would be best, like Pits, Tunnels, CS, WSK and others. A full list of area levels is found in the Strategy Compendium, the link is in my sig.
Regarding the best amount of MF, any number up to 100% is OK IMO. That won't decrease the number of nonmagical items from regular monsters too much, but bosses don't drop nonmagical items anyway if they can be magical instead and a bit MF will do more good than it will spoil with respect to regular monsters.
SnickerSnack
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Re: Best places to find ethereal items?
Since, you're on SP, you should look into racking. There are numerous threads describing it in either the SP forum or the Statistics forum. The basic idea is that you find a rack that drops the item type that you want, and then run that rack until you get the exact kind you want. I ran a rack that dropped monarchs until I had 4 4os ones and 2 stormshields.
Just pointing out that you can't cube socket superior items, so keep that in mind. Though I suppose if you have a zod, then you might be interested in making a BotD.
Since, you're on SP, you should look into racking. There are numerous threads describing it in either the SP forum or the Statistics forum. The basic idea is that you find a rack that drops the item type that you want, and then run that rack until you get the exact kind you want. I ran a rack that dropped monarchs until I had 4 4os ones and 2 stormshields.
georgegrozev
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Re: Best places to find ethereal items?
Thanks for the info everyone.
I was thinking Larzuk.
Thanks for the info everyone.
SnickerSnack
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Re: Best places to find ethereal items?
Out of curiosity, what are you going to do with them?
Out of curiosity, what are you going to do with them?
SnickerSnack
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Re: Best places to find ethereal items?
Yeah, but he's on SP, and Zods are pretty rare. Otherwise, sup eth weapons won't help unless they drop with the right number of sockets, so it will take a looooong time. And according to the AS, Oath won't work in a Caduceus.
Yeah, but he's on SP, and Zods are pretty rare. Otherwise, sup eth weapons won't help unless they drop with the right number of sockets, so it will take a looooong time. And according to the AS, Oath won't work in a Caduceus.
georgegrozev
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Re: Best places to find ethereal items?
I was thinking Rift for the Caduceaus, and I'll be able to socket the eth sup items thanks to Larzuk. BotD for the thunder maul and berserker axe, and Grief for the non-eth BA (not really gonna use it, kind of thinking of keeping it in my collection).
I was thinking Rift for the Caduceaus, and I'll be able to socket the eth sup items thanks to Larzuk. BotD for the thunder maul and berserker axe, and Grief for the non-eth BA (not really gonna use it, kind of thinking of keeping it in my collection).