How I Farmed Diablo 2's Most Wanted Item From Scratch

Enigma is arguably the most powerful item in the entire game because it completely opens up the end game by allowing every Clause to use the skill teleport and the other stats aren't so bad either this Rune word requires some extremely rare runes though which usually requires you to trade in your rare loot a big chunk of luck or an insane amount of grinding I recently did a challenge with this Paladin where I beat the entire game without any gear so here he was completely gearless at the start of the end game so I thought I might as well try and farm the runes for enigma as soon as possible it would be a huge upgrade for the character and I thought it would be an interesting experiment to see how long it took and it took way longer than I expected I should really have crunched some numbers before attempting this I'm doing this in single player on a completely cellone character so obviously no trading or multiplayer but also no starting gear or other help from any of my other characters via the shared stash before I started the hunt for high rules I needed some basic care I had initially planned for this to be a separate video but it turned out to be kind of boring what me do 10-minute CEST runs with a naked character so instead here's a recap of the initial gearing process the most reliably farmed starting gear is rward so I began by farming the counts in hell with a holy bolt Paladin the runs weren't fast but it was quite safe and easy even without any gear since every enemy in the Forgotten Tower is either demon or Undead and the narrow corridors and doorways makes it so that you're usually only attacked from One Direction I found the runes for Spirit Insight lore and stealth as well as some other magic iCal and rare items to fill all of my gear slots I then Respec to a hammer in and began farming normal and Nightmare cows for base items to make spirit here I didn't want to waste a socketing quest on a Crystal Sword so finding the basis for Spirit took longer than I hoped for several hours of grinding but I did eventually find both a broadword and a decent Paladin shield with four sockets I also tried my luck with some magic find rounds in the pits kven call and some Terror zones including terrorized andario I did find some decent starter gear but my magic find was really low and my clear speed mediocre so it felt like a lot of work but not much to show for it the most notable find was a single am Ru I ended up spending almost 10 hours in preparation before I even started the Run hunt that was a bit more than I had planned mostly thanks to it taking so long to find the spirit bases but I did manage to put together some decent starting air nothing to brag about on the internet but it was enough to get a hammer in going I was wearing a spirit sword together with a spirit Shield which was the foundation for this character and those two items together was probably more powerful than the rest of my gear combined I also wore a l Helm and a magical amulet with some skills a b the armor socketed with some runes for resistances though I would eventually replace this with a stealth rir for the fostter cost rate and run speed gloves with resistances a rare fcr ring a crafted Coster belt a dwarf star and some boots with faster run walk to be able to make the Enigma I would need a jarun and a bar run or three bar runes or six sir runes or 12 low runes or 24 ohm runes or I found it best not to think about how many runes I would need to cube or find but instead got straight into farming and I started out in lower cross opening super chests with a player settings of seven this is as far as I know the most efficient way to farm Enigma even though you can't find a JY room from the chests this was a good place to start since it didn't require me to kill monsters just run as fast as I could avoid damage and open chests though even with very limited gear the hammering could slowly handle monsters even on player seven if needed before I even started the Run counter while looking for a good map I found a paladin shield with four open sockets and 44 to all resistances which makes for a great spirit base quite a bit better than the one I was currently wearing I did not have the runes to make another Spirit right away but I got around to upgrading it eventually the Rune hunt had officially started and 17 runs in the drops were kicked off by my first humble little em run it was unlikely that this was going to be cubed all the way up to be included in the Enigma but it is the lowest room which I personally qualify as an interesting find at least on a new character so for the sake of this video I will only mention run drops of LM or higher on round 41 I found a really nice small charm a fine small charm of va with the important three to Max damage and decent roles on the other stats this would have been really nice for another character focusing on physical damage there are also a lot of charms to be found in lower crost but since my focus is on runes I will only mention the really good charms I find and then I will try to do some kind of of recap at the end then I unfortunately had a dry streak of 200 runs it sounds like a lot and it was but it is to be expected of Diablo 2 and lower coros in particular the streak was broken by a gull run which isn't that exciting on its own but it is half a Vex Rune which could mean a big upgrade in the form of the heart of the oak rumored I then found a palun on run 290 and another lamb on run 361 I was very focused on opening the chest as fast as possible skipping almost everything else to get the run time shorter my average run time was a little bit over 45 seconds including load times and managing my inventory and stash which I thought was pretty decent I like it when runs are under a minute because then it feels like the Run counter is ticking up fairly fast but this is a lot slower than what a sorceress with teleport and telekinesis can do and then on round 364 I found my first High run a low Rune not exactly what I was looking for for this character but I couldn't complain this could perhaps come in useful later as either a grief for smiting the Ubers or a fortitude for my mercenary my first decent drop from something else than a super chest came around 412 when a log gave me a LM run I had a stuff with teleport charges on my weapon switch but I only used it to teleport from the Waypoint into the first Hut to save a little bit of time using it too much would mean I have to repair it too often costing both time and gold on around 460 I teleported off the Waypoint and found a maloon in the very first chest that's Was Then followed by a pal run 30 runs later and another 30 runs later I found the highest Rune so far a surun nice that's half of a bar run and while I was of course hoping for an actual bar run to drop at least the runes had been dropping fairly consistently but little did I know that that was about to change for the next 250 rounds I found absolutely nothing I can't stress this enough if you're going to farm lower coros set up a TV or a second monitor with something to watch while you around because grinding lower cross is really boring and farming for hours with nothing to show for it can be very demotivating the dry streak was eventually broken around 767 when I found another Gull run I should maybe have saved all of the runes towards the Enigma but I took the other Gull and AAL out of the stash cubed the two Gull runes to make a Vex and made the heart of the oak rward which is going to be the endgame weapon for this character it rolled a 37 to all resist which is a good roll that I was happy with I unfortunately did not have enough stat Point saved to get the required decks right away but that time turned out to be an opportunity for a well-deserved break from the room grind I was pretty close to a level up so it shouldn't take too long anyway and while doing so I found a unique Grand charm this character's very first kids fortune and a decent roll too magic fine doesn't help with the drops from Super chest in lower Koss but it was surely going to be useful later I got the level up equipped my shiny new weapon and went back to the Grind not even 20 runs later I found an actual Vex room now I was suddenly really hoping that I wouldn't end up being exact one Vex run short from cubing a bear later on and regret making the [Music] hoto then I only found a Mal run around 960 as well as a pal run on 977 before I hit the Milestone of 1,000 runs after 1,000 runs done which took just under 14 hours of playtime I had found a little less than one barro worth of runes in total and for clarity when I talk about room values in this video I always mean in terms of what I can make in the cube not trade value online this result was decent progress towards the goal or a big waste of time depending on how you look at it the only Sharm I mentioned was the fine small Sharm of va but I had found a decent pile of charms in total that I saved in the stash unfortunately no Paladin combat skillers or any really good skillers at all to be honest and of course a lot of crafting ingredients and mid-level runes but eventually stopped picking up most of these because the stash tabs were filling up really quickly to break up the grinding I decided to try my luck at traven call with a player setting of three the council member have a good chance to drop High runes all the way up to Cham including the J run I needed but make no mistake when I say good drop chance I mean compared to other monsters the chance is still incredibly low in addition I was also way more likely to find other good items like uniques from trenle than from lower cross and on the very first run I found a unique ring which turned out to be a raven frost a good omen perhaps well not really I found praven to currently bit too hard for my character the runs took a bit too long and were a bit too dangerous so after completing 20 RS and deciding that they were currently not worth it I crawled back to lower coros for round two but I will come back to traving later for many more rounds once lower Kos has really broken my spirit my return to lower coros started off rather slow with nothing in the first 150 runs and then a pal run on run 1,158 followed by two Lem runes on runs 1170 and 1205 then I found perhaps the best small charm I have ever found or at least very close to it around 1,320 I found a sh ing small charm of va unfortunately neither of the roles were perfect but still quite good this will likely be used on many of my characters to come 200 runs later I finished run number 1, 1523 which was exactly 1,000 runs since I found the last good Rune with theer though this Milestone was really not a cause for celebration around 1640 Mother Nature felt sorry for my string of bad drops and hid a unique pair of javelins in a l these were Titans Revenge which are absolutely great on the Javon but while it's not most important for this item the ru was pretty bad while I did watch things in the background while doing these runs I could not stop paying attention see if you can spot the orange flash when I open this chest on R 1,696 before it goes away absolute Insanity we need some kind of loot filter in this game and we need it now but at least this was finally another good run drop unfortunately it wasn't a bear this time either but this Sur meant that it had at least acquired a bear required for enigma or should I say the first bear anyway it was just so nice to make some progress towards the Enigma and break up the streak of bad luck I was facing though after that sir I only found a single Lem run around 1,819 before I hit 2,000 runs wow the second half of those runs were really terrible compared to the first not only the qual of drops but also the quantity I had now spent over 26 hours in lower coros in total this was of course spread out over several days but what a grind and the bad luck in the second half was not good for my motivation to push on I was expecting to have to do a few thousand of these rounds for the Enigma but I was really hoping to have found more runes at this point sitting only at a single Baron and some change after hitting this Milestone two things were on my mind first what was I thinking why did I think this would be a good idea and secondly I needed to switch it up and farm something else even if it meant being less efficient in theory so I swapped my gear around for a bit more survivability and got my fostter cost rate up to the 125% break point and decided to give traven call another try before I started I cubed up most of the runs that I had found so far including making the bar room I cubed every room from Fallon up and afterwards the stash looked a bit empty to be honest going from 75 to 125 fcr made the Travon noticeably quicker than the last time and I also rerolled my map so that all the council members spawned outside of the temple the rounds weren't quite as fast as in lower coros but I felt like the run times were at least decent they were still dangerous though if they spawned with something like curs or the conviction AA but after setting into the flow of runs I could do him pretty safely and consistently the first run drop from the council came on run 78 and it was a m on round 89 I found a unique serpent skin armor this is of course the skin of the Viper Magi and I got a great rooll with just one of perfect on the all resist roll I was of course hoping to replace this with the Enigma as soon as possible but for now this was a nice upgrade for the character over the stealth armor that he was wearing and I actually think this is the best role or maybe TI for that I have found in Diablo 2 resurrected as I know for a fact that I have yet to find a perfect one more good unique loot came on around 110 when I found on dorel's Visage it would have been cool if it was ethereal but even as is my mercenary will eventually find this quite useful I think the first piece of unique jewelry since my return to traving call dropped on run 124 this time it was a nagler ring with one of perfect on the magic F but I have a feeling that this character will have a hard time fitting a ring without the fcr into his gear on round one 140 I found scalers and while it gives a lot of magic find I needed the fcr and the resist of my current armor then I had a string of okay run drop starting with an AM run on 205 a Lem run on 211 and a p on 224 on round 298 I found a unique Das crout for almost Ro while chain lightning isn't a completely unusable skill I don't think I would ever find a use for this armor on round 36 I found another Mal run and then another one 75 runs later on 381 I believe believe Mal was the most common Rune I found during this video if I'm not counting mid runes like real daddies I found another neat little small charm around 397 with 7% magic find coupled with a decent roll of cold resist I have found this once before and while I haven't ever used it on a character yet it's a nice item to find just because it's so rare on round 560 I found a nice rare circlet it was a really good Helm for this Paladin especially since I was running in act 3 so I valued the faster run walk very highly a nice and some what unexpected upgrade for the helm slot on round 578 I had a triple drop of decent items P Russia's weapon myen gloves and a unique amulet now neither of them was anything special at least not for this character but it was cool to find all three in the same [Music] drop and I got another multi- drop on run 650 when I found a set and a unique amulet on the same run unfortunately neither was anything special this time either I then had some minorly interesting drops over the next 50 rounds like a Lem Ron a cat ey a raven Frost and a tal Bel with a terrible Ro Diablo 2 is truly a game of Randomness and something that can happen is that you can get really unlucky for long stretches of time and then really lucky all at once and for the first 700 Trav rounds I felt pretty unlucky finding only a few truly noteworthy items at all but then all of a sudden it completely turned around on round 701 I found another unique ring another Raven Frost but this time it was a really good roll perfect on the dexterity and a pretty high roll on the attack rating too I think this might be the best Raven Frost I have found and on round 720 I found my first rainbow facet this kind of surprised me since the council is supposedly a good place to farm for facets but I guess I was only using 150 or so magic find but still and it red one of perfect fire with the also important minus five to the enemy resist a very decent fight then only four RS later the council dropped their first High room another Sur room this was such a relief since it had now been another 1,000 runs since I last found a good and this also marked the halfway point to the Enigma or slightly past it if I take all the runes into account still a long way to go but this was important for my motivation to keep grinding but the lucky streak was far from over because just a few runs later I found another rainbow fast out and this time it was of the poison variety and it rolled a perfect 55 on the stats an awesome drop but it was still not done because just 10 runs later another surun drop truly nothing for hours up end and then all at once so to recap in a span of less than 20 runs I found two surun or a bear and two good facets I had been spending every Eun I found on craf and Coster belts and in town around 749 I finally managed to craft one with 10% Foster cost rate and this was going to be an important piece of my gear once I finished the Enigma to reach the highest Foster cost break point it is of course out closed by a rnid mesh but crafted Coster belts are a great little piece of budget there for costers that I think people sometimes forget about I then found another facet but this time I was due for a bad rooll and then another P room before good luck would strike again I went to town to spend some of the gold that kept building up from the council since I had a decent circlet now and I was planning to do a lot of amulet crafting once I was a little bit higher level I decided to gamble boots hoping for a nice pair of rares with faster R walking magic find and since the difference in gold cost between different types of boots is so small at this level I decided to gamble light plated boots just for the tiny chance that I would gamble a pair of War Travelers ridiculous odds I know but on just the fourth gamble I actually got they were Travelers just let me emphasize how insane that is not only is it rare to get a unique item from gambling but it also needed to roll to be upgraded to battle boots instead of light plated boots on the same Gamble and to top it off it was a really good rooll too moments like this still get me to jump out on my chair even after so many years of the abl to after 800 runs I ped to reassess the situation with the two recent Sur runes I had gone from being behind schedule to being pretty close to my goal well still a baring short but I felt a lot closer and as I was no missing a baron rather than a Jun I decided to go back to lower coros since it is in theory faster and 800 runs in traval was a decent break so I felt ready to endure another thousand rounds or so saying this out loud while recording has me wondering am I crazy or Diablo 2 players inherently insane well that's a bit too much introspection less thinking more grinding I continue the runs where I left off and 94 runs in around 294 in total I found my very first and unfortunately only Paladin combat skill it even had a little bit of life on it too even if the rooll was on the low side a very nice find and one that I had been looking forward to for comparison my defensive AA Skiller count was now up to five in total other than that Skiller my return to LK started off slow but not completely fruitless my run St kept on slowly building up with a Mal Rune on around 2210 and then another one on around 2292 on around 2,345 I found a nice little small charm with perfect lightning resist and a decent bit of life though the light roll is far from perfect still small charms with two good stats are always nice to find and very useful then more runes with a M on around 2,464 and I think my brain shut off here because I'm not sure what I was doing while trying to show the room for the video but I ended up trying to some random monsters and then another galloon around 2472 and this was a notable drop because now I had reached the point where if I had not used a Vex room to make my heart of the oak I could have cubed all the way up to another Sur I did want a hoto on this character eventually but now I kind of regretted making it because I just wanted to be done with the Enigma grind and leave lower coros behind though even if I had that sir I would still be another sir short so maybe it wouldn't end up mattering if I could find a bar run I kept on finding decent runes that made me feel like I made some progress but in reality they didn't push me that much closer to my end go like this P run on around 2492 or a Mal run on 2614 or another M on around 2640 seriously what was it with all the Mal runes but I guess I shouldn't complain about M runes because on run 2765 I found a lamb but the pendulum swung the other way next and on run 2786 I found an E I would describe my return to lower KOST as uneventful progress things kept slowly going forward but I was not really excited by any individual drop but that was about to change on round 2,800 I found the first non facet Jewel which I found worth including in the video a Ruby Jewel of feror now anytime this drops I can't not think about how I wish this this was the enhanc damage an attack speed Jewel because that is also called Ruby Jewel of fever but this was still an awesome find I'm probably going to put it in dorel's Visage that I found earlier and make a nice gift for my mercenary ideally I would want to wait for an ethereal one to drop but always waiting for something a little better is also a good way to never use any of your good loot and then around 2,818 I was finally blessed with another H run and it was another surun so it was my fifth suron in total I did feel a little bit unlucky that not a single one of those could have been a bar run to speed up the process but it was what it was the situation where I'm missing the Vex Rune that I put in my hoto had become a reality but that honestly didn't bother me too much I was now so close to the finish line that I just kept on going and about 50 runs later I did my final lower chost Ron another Gallo now it wasn't a bear or a sir but it was enough now here's a fair warning if you're sensitive to seeing Rune value wasted I suggest you look away now because I'm about to cube all of these runes this is truly the dark side of the single player [Music] [Music] [Music] experience [Music] so here I was at last I had finally gotten my j e and be runs for the Enigma now just to make the room word whoops that doesn't go first with a sigh of relief it was finally done I had farmed a celf found Enigma completely from scratch here's a few quick stats about the runs I did a total of 2,866 lower coros runs and 800 travle runs those took 39 hours and 13 hours respectively those times include low times Inventory management identifying and selling loot repairing my gear Etc I did find a lot of decent charms but I only mentioned the best ones during the highlights I found 25 skillers in total and six of them were bow and crossbow skillers for the Amazon and five were defensive skillers for the Paladin I also found 5 7% magic fine small charms as well as several five and 6% ones that I saved in my stash so now that I have the Enigma what Adventures am I off to what Grand Challenge am I going to tackle [Music] next thanks for watching if you want more Rune hunting in lower coros check this video out where I get much more lucky than in this experiment I severely underestimated how much of a grind farming the Enigma would be and I blame the luck I had in this video for warping my expectations if you want to support the channel consider becoming a member for more info click the join button or the link in the description of the video

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Length: 23min 2sec (1382 seconds)

Published: Mon Mar 18 2024