Is there a Stone of Jordan amongst this collection of unique rings? Dare I wonder, perhaps even more than just one? The excitement is unbearable! Can you see my hand tremble towards the end? Note - this is Single Player, patch 1.14d.
Funny how awesome SOJ's are, but I never ever use them. I prefer a rare 10% fcr with res for dmg/survivability, or even a 30% nagel ring. Even a blue fcr with a large chunk of mana on it. I have a 10%fcr with 115 mana on it. Its so dope.
Thunder take you! Thank you for watching and commenting! I estimate based on the experience I got that it took around 800 runs to get 48 rings from NM Andariel for me. Basically you can expect to see a unique ring every 17-18 runs (I ran around 450 MF) and in /players 8 a run took me about 11-12 seconds. Mind that a lot of the rings she drops are going to be useless set rings (Cathan's and Angelic). Honestly if those rings wouldn't compete with the SoJ I think we would see many more SoJs per set of 48... I have another set of 48 rings on my channel if you want to see more identifying. Also, good luck with your SoJ hunting, let me know how it went!
Thanks for the reply. Yes, I've already seen your second ID video, too bad you got only one SOJ then. For now i have 7 unique rings from nm Andy, but none of them are SOJ. It didn't take much time to get those rings, and I expect to find SOJ in this week. I'll let you know if I get one. P.S. English is not my native language, so forgive me if I made some mistakes.
Got it! It took me far longer than I expected to get SOJ (it was my 60th unique ring from nm Andy), but now I finally have it. Thank you for your advices!
Thanks for getting back to me, congratulations on the SOJ! Statistically you should be seeing more than 1/60 but I can imagine you must be tired of running NM Andariel by this point. But even 1 SOJ makes a huge difference in SP and it's a great feeling when you know you've found it yourself. Happy MFing in the future, best of luck!
Yes, it was a challenge, I guess I made about 1500-2000 runs, and I don't think i'll do something like that in next few months. I guess farming big areas (Pit, Chaos Sanctuary) is much less dull than killing the same boss over and over and over again, so if I will be MFing in the near future, I'll be doing it there. Thank you again for your help!
kalixta :) Did you ever farm for them though like I did here? I've only found 1 SoJ from one of the chests in Durance of Hate near Mephisto - that was not expected. I think because of the lowish item level of the SoJ they are really (really) rare in hell.
Ruslakall It took me 56 nm Andy runs to get my first SoJ. Total luck as everyone I've told that to says I should be in the 100's. Best of luck man! The grind never ends.
when i played this game 15 years ago my first unique ring was soj stopped playing because it was destroying my life. account expired soj gone with all my 40+ hrs good times...
So hilarious, I was like what are these? Then I said around ring 15 or so... these are NM andarial rings... then I looked down. Just shows my level of knowledge, ego smile. :)
As written in the description, this is Single Player, 1.14d (with insight from 1.13 plugy since ladder rune words are for some inexplicable reason not permitted in single player by default). No temporary bans in Single Player :) - can run it however fast you want!
Actually Nightmare Andariel cannot drop Ravenfrost! The unique rings that she drops are Manald Heal, Nagelring, and the Stone of Jordan. (And of course the set rings but those are really just diluting the pool). In my second attempt doing this (see link in description) I got really scared because I didn't see anything at all... I thought. Thanks for watching and commenting nevertheless.
If you want Ravenfrost, the best chance to get one is by running Bremm Sparkfist and the other superuniques near Mephisto. I think I even got a ravenfrost or two from Mephisto himself.
+Audeamus-Gaming If you roll a set item, but the monster can't drop a set item of that category, you get a blue item. So Andariel being able to drop set rings is not lowering your odds of a unique.
Yes, totally agree. When recording Diablo 2 there is this delay though that made my typing look slower than it actually was. I'll improve till next time though. Thank you for the feedback!
jay lay NM Andariel has the highest drop chance in the game for the Stone of Jordan. Unlike her Hell counterpart, the only unique rings she can drop in NM are Manald Heal, Nagelring, and the Stone of Jordan. Also, check a drop calculator for the actual chance percentage but it is the highest out of any monster in any difficulty for a Stone of Jordan. I'm not the first to point this out, this was just a fun experiment to see how many Stones of Jordan I can get legitimately for my Single Player characters.
I hope you know to not farm nightmare Andy for sojs in multiplayer. When botting I used to run nightmare Andy, mephisto, travincal and Baal. Best chance at lower level good unique like magefist,chances, sojs, etc In he'll you can get sojs too so just run he'll if possible. Single player make sure to bug the Andy quest
