1000 Andariel Runs to Gear a New Character in Diablo 2 Resurrected

[@zarfen]

I made a mistake at 0:12 - Diablo can not drop every item in the game.

[@blizbiggy]

But close!

[@kosterix123]

Mausoleum and Crypt are the earliest all-item areas but very low monster density. Next up is the Pit, I believe, but enemies in overland are pretty dangerous.

[@barneybetsington7501]

You FOOL! What kind of loot goblin are you? A stinky widdle liar? For shame...

[@Potent_Techmology]

@@kosterix123 Pit archers are dangerous in HC bc of might

[@bolivar4537]

What can't he drop?

[@_amon_amarth_8764]

You can kite her to the bottom corner of her room, cast hydra then teleport over the wall to the stairs, the hydra will keep hitting her and she won't move, then just teleport back over, reset hydras and go back to the stairs, repeat until she's dead, don't need all that poison res and can stack extra mf on rings

[@Mechtroop]

Does this mostly avoid having to kill her minions too? That’s what takes the most time.

[@PumpingIron247]

You can also just lure her to the door, then cast hydras on the door, half will spawn on the other side of the door. Works with blizzard as well :)

[@joefrayling9263]

​@@PumpingIron247can't speak for the sorc because I haven't played her in years but on my necro it's golem - bone prison - iron maiden stand back while she kills herself 👍

[@KM-us1nc]

I know everyone has their own skill levels, but you really should be able to handle her with a hybrid build, or a focused built without much trouble. If you struggle with skill (I still do when I come back to the came), here's a few tips: -A couple bonus points in static will help you immediately reduce her health. -Clear out the front of her room before engaging (not the middle room. never go in there) -If your merc dies instantly, spending more time farming some runewords for him is well worth the trouble. Stack your belt with more health pots than mana pots to make sure you both stay alive! -Level up! If you aren't as good as you want to be, hit 90. Get some extra life and merc life. There's a potential you find some good loot while leveling too! The one thing I would NEVER suggest is trying to slowly grind a boss down. Hydras are terrible for quick boss kills until you're geared. (I'll admit, maybe I'm outdated here. But Hydras have never been good for high DPS with non-godly gear) Damn, makes me want to play D2 again.

[@RhebelGaming]

Trevlig video! Jag har precis börjat köra D2 igen efter 20 år =)

[@zarfen]

Tack 🙂 Nice! Hoppas spelet välkomnar dig tillbaka med bra loot.

[@jukeswolfy2593]

dont forget to mention terror zone andy is probably one of the best terror zones in the game

[@zarfen]

A lot of people says that! I haven’t done too many terror zone runs myself yet, but I did take a short detour to terrorized Andy in my last 1000 pindle runs video and she dropped nicely then so I believe it 😅

[@punisher467]

Man, when this game first came up about 25 years ago, i blew up one disc 2 on the drive due to overheat 😂

[@iiMAGINExThis]

That’s actually a decent lld trap ammy lol

[@zarfen]

Didn’t even think of that! Unfortunately this was in single player so it will be a leveling ammy at best. Thanks for pointing it out though!

[@Ryandawg911]

Hey, are you playing on single player? Great channel, much approved!

[@zarfen]

Yes it’s single player. I didn’t change the /players setting for these runs but the static map was very helpful. Thank you! That makes me happy to read!

[@thejunior2197]

Can you make a video about running the ubers for torches, and a guide for very, very poor-mans version on how to run it?

[@zarfen]

I was thinking about doing that as a follow-up to my key running video but I haven’t gotten around to it yet. I might still do it but I don’t have such a video planned atm. I’m sure there are plenty of budget Uber videos if you search though.

[@dave-kt7sj]

Andariel only drops rare items or better and can't drop trash like gold, so she's great to farm for sets and uniques. Mephisto is harder to do that with (it's possible, but not in single player).

[@cliburnhernandez8444]

I should try this.. hopefully to get the charm

[@zarfen]

I was surprised to find SO many gheed’s charms

[@cliburnhernandez8444]

@@zarfen why keep only 1? don't they stack buddy?

[@zarfen]

@@cliburnhernandez8444 you can only carry one on each character. You can’t even pick up a second. But I did save the best ones I didn’t use in the shared stash

[@cliburnhernandez8444]

@Zarfen the Loot Goblin I tried around 300 to 500 rounds and didn't get any 😅🤣 maybe in He'll difficulty I would.. did it in nightmare with necro and 157 magic find 😂😂

[@zarfen]

@@cliburnhernandez8444 yeah I’m pretty sure nightmare Andariel can’t even drop gheeds so you have to go for hell Andy unfortunately

[@justicelaw4498]

U make me wana play this game... Too bad I have zero knowledge in this

[@zarfen]

The game is great. I already answered your other comment about a starter build before I saw this. But if you’re completely new I think you should just go in and play the game “blindly”. It’s very “hard” and unforgiving compared to a lot of modern games if you don’t know what you’re doing, but I think that’s part of the fun. Otherwise you can follow the tips in my other reply! I hope you will enjoy Diablo 2!

[@frankstone8930]

I'm glad you are doing it. So I don't have to. 🤓

[@zarfen]

Haha happy to help! 🫡 😁

[@TreeFrogOnATree]

At least you're insane in the D2 way and not the mass murdering type of way

[@Xerpadon]

Andy's loot pool is too big on Hell, narrowing down to nightmare would be better target farming. 1 in 2721 on Hell vs 1 in 1617 on Nightmare. Sure you miss out on other gear but thats not that important. Usually on new characters/seasons i pretty much grind andy on nightmare asap until i get 2 Sojs, You still get levels, its easy to farm with teleport don't really require gear for it and you will start to out level the rest of the content pretty quickly while doing this. the average is about 1 ring a day of farming but sometimes i've had 2 rings before even 1000 runs but then again i've also experienced 4000+ runs without a single Soj. mind you that 1 run takes about 30 second with good gear, and with no gear 1 minute per run ~ on average. so 1000 runs into minutes is about 16 hours of actual torture grinding.

[@zarfen]

Not sure I agree that it’s worth it to miss out on all that other potential good loot on a new character just for better chance of a soj. The runs were pretty hard before I got some decent gear though, so it might be worth it just to have more chill runs when gearing from start 😄

[@charden2016]

I've watched a few of your MF project videos and have always wondered what player setting you play on. I see you get so many good drops but then get discouraged when my SP hammerdin gets smashed on p7 Andy. 😭

[@zarfen]

This was players 1 setting. I do almost all my MFing on /players 1. I don’t think my budget character could have handled any higher. Additionally I don’t think it’s worth increasing even with better gear since the increased boss HP will increase run times(unless you have really good gear and clear her in seconds anyway). Running on players 1 I did have some runs where she literally dropped a single flawless gem and nothing else, but over time I believe it’s the most efficient.

[@charden2016]

@@zarfen thanks so much for the reply! I have renewed faith in doing Andy/Meph runs!

[@phixidelta]

Really appreciate showing the roll variables

[@NinjaNerosis]

I remember I would farm NM Andy thousands of times for soj and it never dropped...my bro was like just do hell you'll at least have chances of getting other good items... first hell run in dropped soj lol... let's just say I don't run NM Andy anymore

[@elijahskywalker611]

I can't get my character beefy enough for hell though

[@zarfen]

@@elijahskywalker611 I recommend running nm mephisto until you’re beefy enough for hell. He can actually drop some really good end game loot.

[@NinjaNerosis]

@Elijah Skywalker what platform you play on?

[@elijahskywalker611]

@@NinjaNerosis I'm on pc Americas

[@elijahskywalker611]

@@zarfen thanks for the advice, great channel btw

[@frankenstein3163]

Love that you emulated a new hell sorc by starting with starter gear.

[@WilliamAndrews0]

I love running andy. I always prefered her over mephisto. The dolls in Durance alone are so damn annoying that I usually ran Andy until I have ocu-viper-shako-lidless-magefist-goldwrap and then i swapped to TC85 for Tal armor/amu/DF. When I can't even run andy at the start of a ladder, I usually went for meph only on NM, because NM andy drops basically nothing (except for statistically SoJ, but in like 15k andy-runs in my life, I have not once found one there.)

[@zarfen]

I’m usually a meph guy, but after these runs I’m not sure which I like more for new characters. Catacombs is such a nice place compared to durance, that’s for sure!

[@WilliamAndrews0]

@zarfen especially since the drops are so similar. Andy is TC69 and meph is TC78, and the only items that could be considered important that meph drops, but andy doesn't is reapers toll(TC71) and (ironically) andariels Visage(TC75). If you're going for a grail, sure, meph can drop more items, but basically, any gear that's actually useful can drop from Andy.

[@TreeFrogOnATree]

Having only recently gotten into D2 (having known of it and casually played for 20 years), I am also in favor of that Valk Wing helm :P Any good gear for Zon is an insta-favourite since she scales with enemy count. I just love it XD good vid btw Edit: Showing the roll ranges is a great edit!

[@zarfen]

Yeah I don’t know what it is with valk wing… I think you’re right, I have an affinity for many zon items too :P Thanks! :)

[@Patrick_The_Pure]

Much easier to obtain for a javazon than that diadem or whatever people are using, throw a socket into it and a perfect lightning facet and you should be good. I also have that elite javelin with lightning pierce, plus a conviction aura on my hireling and a wand with lower resist charges pretty much deals with every lightning immune i find. My entire gear combined is worth less than that diadem, still completed Hell players 8 solo, so who cares about it.

[@cIeetz]

I just looted one today . ofc its +1 to skills -_- fuc. I almost had something I could trade

[@zarfen]

@cleetz 😞unfortunate! I’m not a fan on there being roll ranges for super important things like +skills. Rolling low on +skills feels so bad!

[@sergiolandz6056]

i dont get it, i did many runs with 350% mf and i dont even get close to the items you had in your first 60.. what the heck !

[@Johan-wg8pk]

Make sure andariel is quest bugged 👍

[@streetstroller]

1,000 runs of anything doesn't seem worth it.

[@NeoN-PeoN]

I haven't played this game since before the skills even had synergies. All my life I thought that Bald of Ali Baba was a RUNEWORD, cause I only ever saw them with IST, IST in them. I even owned 2 that I traded for. I was even trying to make my own for a while but I never, EVER found even 1 IST rune. I can't believe I never knew they are just regular uniques.

[@420Crush]

and poeople complain about running dungeons in d4... but they will do 1000s runs on d2 bosses

[@lenelie3051]

Well if I do 100 runs in D4 I would have every part of my gear. In D2 I could do thousands. Why is that better? Because in same 100 D4 runs I could gear any char. In D2 it will always much more rewarding to find a drop due to the ecoort required. D3/4 basically plays like this: Login Play 5 hours Gear done Logout. "How boring and small."

[@NeoN-PeoN]

Does only 1 Gheed's work at a time or something?

[@zarfen]

Correct. You can’t even carry 2 at the same time

[@Narago.]

Love your channel. Thanks for showing me what I miss out because of so much work 😢😂

[@zarfen]

Thank you so much, Narago! Hehe im happy to help with that 😁

[@Jaryism]

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[@SakuragiLastname9]

Love your videos man. Your voice, editing style, and everything makes for such a good experience. Thank you!

[@zarfen]

Thank you! That makes me super happy to read.

[@itzzzsss]

My first character in DR2 Resurrected is a Javazon. Easy character to build since she is a missile-type player. After leveling her up to over 90lvl, she switched to Magic Finding. She ended up finding enough items to make a Fist of Heavens Paladin. She found an Soj and traded to get an Soj. Gave both to the Paladin. He now is over 90lvl, and hits Andariel 2 times and she dies

[@JamesMichaelDoyle]

perfect bonesnap isnt useless, cube it up a tier and its absolutely godly twink weapon.

[@Mechtroop]

Until IK Maul that is.

[@fuevue2913]

I'd be happy with these runs. Went from super budget to pretty much end-game gear, minus one or two items. Not GG ofc, but you'll be comfortable to run a lot of things. Fun stuff!

[@bradcallahan3546]

Just didn’t have a life

[@boozalm3715]

HAHAH END GAME GEAR! There is no end game.

[@Gdizzy101]

I've gotten multiple occys and shakos from Andy. as an soj and mid runes. Andy is always a good choice and with a sorce I'd run Andy and methodical until I've got good enough gear to incorporate diablo then do all 3 bosses per game. Now I have some of the strongest versions of every class fully geared

[@boozalm3715]

You're a virgin

[@yarpyarpyarp3]

2:15 this game has been out for almost 2 years and i still marvel at the great job the team did on the graphics

[@zarfen]

Haha 😂 agreed!

[@Hallowsaw]

Honestly i wish instead of Diablo 4, just make a new game where mechanics are the same but new maps, bosses, quests, gear and classes. My issue with D3 was the feel of the game was way different. D2 was all about the loot and how hard it was to get it. I could not even tell you a single name of an item in D3 because 70% of the time you would find something better the next day

[@ryanmiskin8925]

@@Hallowsaw you don't remember because you never looked up a powerful build and then farmed to get those items, you never had the top tier stuff. I can tell you everything about my frenzy barb off the top of my head, even then 3 perks I have in Kanai's Cube, because it's built for a purpose.

[@Hallowsaw]

@@ryanmiskin8925 my point was even in the begining of D2 you had to farm. Had to farm rakinishu fof low sets, gull dagger. Had to farm andareal to get gear for mephisto. Then you had to farm mephisto and diablo normal to get gear for nm. Then cows for socketables. Like you were constantly going to different places and sometimes even backtracking to nm once in hell to more efficiently faem meph and diablo for the exceptional uniques that were hard to find. Idk i thoroughly enjoyed d2 and playing on single player was very enjoyable because when you found something good it was so rewarding since you didnt trade foe it. Like linding a Lo rune in single player is dang near impossible but i found one.

[@Piqcked]

LMAO, 2 years ? Woaw that's a very long time for video game... 2 whole years ?

[@Deadknight67]

I love farming Andarielle, she's easy to find the fight isn't hard and I got Tal Amulet, the Oculus, mage fist, 2 shakos and more. I hate Mephisto because of his dungeon and dumb exploding dolls.

[@zarfen]

I agree 🤝

[@TFreed]

I saw your last 1000 run vids and been waiting for another one! Glad its here. Gonna need more from you :P

[@zarfen]

Thank you TJ! I’ll make more for sure :)

[@duncanedgin9433]

Meh, it's fake. The drops, he edits them to drop, uses drop rate calculator online to decide which drops to edit in over the course of "1000" runs, then splices together a bunch of clips with the edited drops.

[@taprick]

i thought i was the only one not getting any soj from andariel haha nice run tho. 👍

[@zarfen]

Not a single soj in sight! 😔 will I have to resort to running nm Andariel? Plz no… Thanks! 🙂

[@taprick]

@@zarfen they do say its in NM, I tried with 500 runs around 300 mf, nothing but manald hahaha! but the ring drops was a lot more compared to hell, i guess luck was not on my side haha

[@zarfen]

@@taprick damn! It’ll come eventually :)

[@ДмитрийВикторович-д3й]

Got a soj on the way to Andy once, but directly from her never😂

[@MrSkeazy]

Zarfen I really enjoy your video style, nice runs!

[@zarfen]

Thank you! That makes me really happy to read!

[@MrStensnask]

I've played on and off since D2 original release. Thousands upon thousands of hours and thousands upon thousands of boss and area runs with 2-300 % MF. Never dropped a SoJ. Still love it though.

[@RetiringvirusReacts]

you said that when you found the tals helm it was your third item? but when you identified the tals ammy... you can clearly see that you have the whole set? so was this unintentional?

[@Patrick_The_Pure]

Perfect Bonesnap is nice, upgrade it into an exceptional, put a socket into it, sheal rune, and you having something that can easily last you till the end of nightmare. All that damage potential for lvl 34.

[@zarfen]

Yeah it kind of deserves to be put to use doesn’t it!

[@primo8825]

Great video! How long did it take you to complete the 1000 rounds ? Cheers.

[@zarfen]

Thank you! Somewhere between 15-16 hours. But once I had some decent gear and got into the flow of the runs I was doing a run in 30-45 seconds, while early on a run could take 2 minutes if there were a lot of monsters around Andariel.

[@filipkalmus7930]

12 second triggered the fk out of me.... diablo is t84 treasure monster in 85 lvl zone, so he can't drop all items. Apart of that, good vid as usually.

[@zarfen]

Diablo is a lvl 94 monster in a level 85 area but his TC is only 84? I did honestly not know that and I guess I still have things to learn about d2 loot “under the hood”. Thanks for pointing it out, too bad it’s printed in the video... 😬

[@MartinGregus-hz5sd]

Hh, D2 Lod 1.14d must have much different drop rates...not such a drops possible in multiple farming spots.

[@michaellang9154]

I wa so tired of running lower Kurast for high runes (never got anything higher than OHM). Then I misclicked ans was on NM instead of Hell. My very good LK patern was destroyed. So I went for NM Andariel. After 7 runs I had a Stone of Jordan. No luck with LK but a lot of luck with NM Andariel :-).

[@GraveUypo]

wow. you couldn't pay me to do this. i mean you could but i'd charge like 5 bucks for each run. holy shit

[@JaveMcManus]

Ive watched this all the way through 3 times now, and every time I feel anxiety from watching his health drop over and over from the poison damage. Haha

[@zarfen]

Haha 😁 to be honest I did die a few times after letting my health drop really low and not noticing a left-over enemy sneaking up on me while identifying loot

[@MasterofLupanars]

Try watching 1000 times and tell us what will drop.

[@MrRussian187]

then you make toon on ladder and dont get any drop even close in 1000 runs i found nothing all trash

[@norbertnowak7118]

i d k what mod u guys use... my 504%mf sorc find absoluty nothing... only lowlvl items... the game and all these videos r crap and wrong!!!

[@galooo]

it only takes 1000 runs with a severly optimised gear that you won't get unless you already ran 1000 runs with shit gear, to realise the geargrind is garbage in this game.

[@tpotshax8703]

I run her because it's a chance for fire builds to feel like a god.

[@abrahamovicovski]

No wizzy in 1000 runs? Wow unlucky.

[@hyenahun]

Funny... today ive just got 2 tal amu and i dont need it. I love D2...but first enigma! 😊

[@dainiusburba9427]

how can u not handle H Mefisto with sorceress? as soon as u get teleport and firewall, u're done.

[@shakadelapucelle5771]

I would know if all of these runs is in same games or in several attemps " my english is bad i know but im frensh"

[@thomasgrabowski2202]

NO WAY!!! GG!!! :D !!! (specially on the tals amulet that's unreal!!!)

[@Annihilatrix]

wasted time , 1000 runs and this were the highlights ? the only good thing was the ias /fire resist juwel

[@peb475]

I don't play D2R but still love these videos. I will grind D4 though, and looking forward to lots of videos from that game from you! You have a great thing going here and if you do D4 loot videos consistently from release, I bet this channel could grow A LOT. Ha det bra!

[@zarfen]

Thank you so much for your comment! I’m definitely going to play D4. If I’ll make videos for D4 or not depends entirely on what the end game loot grind is like. In the beta the gameplay was fun but loot felt only okay imo. It was just a beta though so I’m hopeful! Tack detsamma, glad påsk 😁

[@ИльяМакаренко-я8е]

@@zarfen What your opinion about D4 now?

[@zarfen]

@@ИльяМакаренко-я8е I enjoyed it a lot during the beta weekends, but then when I played it after release I got bored very quickly. I don’t even know exactly why but doing quests, dungeons and finding new items just didn’t feel exciting to me.

[@ИльяМакаренко-я8е]

@@zarfen I am old diablo fan but 4 looks boring even on videos.

[@widget-og3ix]

In general blizzard works rly good to run andy because of all the immunes

[@zachb8012]

Good grief, what a waste of time. Play Project Diablo 2. You can run maps, DClone, Ubers, and other late game bosses for really cool loot. D2R is pretty and worth a few laps around the track, but it's an objectively bad game compared to PD2. The end game of D2R consists of do this boring thing 1000x.

[@zarfen]

I disagree with “objectively bad” but I’ve played PD2 before and it’s a lot of fun and have some really nice ideas. Good mod!

[@SuperSilviaS15]

How long did the 1000 runs take, I would scroll through "all" the comments but I am on my phone currently and it won't load them, I apologize if it was already asked and answered. Thank you..............Matthew from the U.S.

[@zarfen]

No problem Matthew. These runs took 15-16 hours. The runs were quite a bit slower at the beginning compared to the end.

[@macrotransaction2383]

I always play D2 casually until recently one of my newly created character found 3 pieces of Tal Ra Sha on first run in hell difficulty. Now I'm farming like crazy to get the other pieces. It's a torment to say the least...

[@zarfen]

The armor and the amulet can be so hard to find… good luck, the set is awesome! I finally finished the set with the amu I found during this video, but haven’t tried it out yet in D2R

[@HDGameTestChannel]

Tal armor is a pain in the a.. I have played diablo 2 as teen regularly for several years. Had dozens of lv 90 chars. Bought resurrected and played some month a sorc. I found first time in my life the armor in the act 2 tomb in the first region which now has high lv mobs. Insane drop rates did this game have.

[@donaldmack2307]

Imho a pure blizz sorc > fire sorc for Andy. She has low fire res yes. But everyone in her room is immune to fire. Pure blizz kills then all aside from the rare cold immune uniqe mob.

[@zarfen]

That’s exactly how I feel after doing this, well put.

[@th3orist]

to many people it seems a lunatic thing to do but the fact that you can't do something like this in D4 is to me a major L for the game. itemisation and character progression are the core strengths of D2(R). no other arpg (not even poe) makes the item hunt as satisfying as D2(R).

[@zarfen]

There’s something special about the d2 grind for sure

[@xzxxx-km4vy]

Can you imagine if they added dungeon maps like POE ? and new creatures ? After running the same content over and over again and knowing that is all you gonna see in the game makes me want to stop playing. Diablo 2 consists of killing the same thing over and over and that is it.

[@zarfen]

New content would be sick! But I also don’t mind doing the same Diablo 2 over again for the 100th time 😁

[@melvinISmischievous]

I'm at 250MF and I still can't find anything good. I'm about 600 runs deep and so far only kept items for other characters.

[@zarfen]

Finding good items for the wrong character is cruel d2 rng :/

[@ccxfrank109]

i came here to say YOU BLOCKED HER BOOBIES?!?!

[@leganneb]

Cool video! About how long does it take you to complete these 1000 run videos?

[@zarfen]

Thanks! The runs took 15-16 hours. Early on a run took upwards of 2 minutes but in the end a run could be as short as 35-40 seconds.

[@ChikoWhat]

wow vamp gaze, eth ga AND a freaking 15ias/26fire res?! haha your merc would've been excited

[@zarfen]

Haha true! And I probably could have kept him alive with that gear but I didn’t think of that

[@josephwillard6461]

so you can only do this if you beat the game already? or can i just keep killing her and almost dying when i first get to her just starting out?

[@zarfen]

Yeah you can farm her as soon as you get to her, as much as you want. That was kind of what I tried simulating in this video. Though to be clear this was in hell difficulty so you need to beat normal and nightmare first. In normal difficulty I would not farm Andariel personally

[@alfaphire1947]

I don't get how people get these items, my sorc has just under 300% MF and I have run Andy in hell and NM well over 400 times in the last week and the best item I got from her was some yellow boots that give 23%mf a blue orb that does +3 cold +3 cold mastery and some other stuff, and a Manald heal.... I love doing MF runs but my luck is the worst. I have been playing D2 pretty regularly for 17 years and The highest rune that has ever dropped for me is Mal and the best item I have ever found was HOZ 😢.

[@nunyabeezwax6758]

Why is it so hard to get decent nightmare level drops even in late nightmare?

[@87539319]

that ruby jewel of fervor drop is huge!! I was surprised you didn't make a hoto for the character with the vex (even before the pul) or start with a spirit monarch flickering flame is quite nice for farming andariel, though

[@zarfen]

Yeah it was sweet! I wonder if I will use it or if I get “too good to use”-syndrome, always waiting for a better item to use the jewel on. I’m planning on making a pure fire sorc with sundering charm for terror zones in the near future, that was also a partial reason I made flickering flame with the vex.

[@87539319]

@@zarfen ethereal andariel's visage with a good leech roll should be the perfect home for the jewel!

[@zarfen]

@@87539319 I’ll be on the lookout for one for sure!

[@davidward3451]

​@@zarfen lightninng is almost always faster clears

[@gotMylky]

I hate RNG, I feel like three charms that close together shouldn't happen... you have some crazy luck!

[@zarfen]

I found a crazy amount of Gheeds in this video for sure! D2 really has truly RANDOM loot

[@alwaystheirtocomment]

I feel like you have a modded charm in the shape of a potion..... who gets 6 unique rings and not one is a manald? Fat chance.

[@zarfen]

🤣 If you were to do that, would you remove manald heal or nokozan relic? 🤔

[@Xanaroni]

Andariel has one of the best boss arenas in my opinion love the setting.

[@TheAoalec14]

I’m thinking about buying d2r to play on my parents toaster computer (basically a glorified tablet) I am able to play d2 classic and heroes of the storm on it for references ..will D2R work?

[@scopedbambi2382]

Plus the fact that you can bug her to get her boosted loot drop bonus . . . Not really sure if it's really a bug at this point though. . .

[@zarfen]

That is no longer present in Diablo 2 resurrected. She now always drops her good drop (what used to be her bugged drop)

[@Sacana1977]

how much MF do you have if i may ask? i have 400 and i starting to think i must have the worst bad luck ever

[@zarfen]

I started with ~150 and ended with 300. I did 1000 runs and this video is just some highlights. All of the runs where she dropped a magical skullcap and a light belt did not make the video 🙂 The amount of runs you do will be a much larger factor in the amount of good drops you get compared to having 300vs400 MF

[@frankthetank1741]

0:13 what kind of d2 channel is this??? diablo CAN NOT drop every item in the game when the zone is not terrorized. this information is just not true. so please don't send out misinformations into the world.

[@opws6330]

dont know if your tenacity is admirable or concerning ^^

[@chrisgadbury9204]

A ridiculously tough opponent, not worth the effort

[@anyelomejiaarredondo6602]

What is the highest rune catacombs level 4 and Andariel can drop?, yesterday i found a Sur Rune and the zone wasn't terrorized.

[@frequentsee3815]

I usually do andy to gear the sorc, and then meph to gear other chars until I can come into Chaos Sanctuary. or go javazon if you get plvl'd and just do cowz

[@nerdobject5351]

Awesome video. How lo does it take to run Andy 1000 times ?

[@zarfen]

Thank you! It took me between 15-16 hours of play time (including load times and character select screen) Runs were much faster once I got a little bit of gear and learned how to lure her where I wanted her to go so it depends on your starting point.

[@loretozamoras4459]

I cannot imagine the determination and effort of doing Andariel 1000 runs then there is no SOJ. I am a newbie and I would like to try this one too.

[@besosnotbomb]

how do u get Tal Rasha 4 Part Bonus without the helmet ?

[@danielwillemoes6965]

What a shame he didnt pick up rares.. since they could have more value than any uniqe

[@zarfen]

Any drop in particular you’re talking about? I do pick up a lot of rares on my runs, but 99%+ doesn’t make it to the video because they’re not any good. I do leave potentially “valuable” things like (non barb/Druid) helms and belts on the ground though, since this is single player.

[@WholeEgg290]

I have played D2 religiously for 20 years, and I somehow never knew there was an “advanced stats” tab. Wow.

[@zarfen]

It only exists in D2R! In the original we had to count our own FCR and MF 😅

[@WholeEgg290]

That must be why I never thought to look for it lol

[@PJJ196]

I like the flickering flame but not a fan of the helm .. shoulda used a horn helm or a cap

[@zarfen]

If I didn’t go for a crown I’d consider a horned helm or maybe a bone helm, but a regular cap? No way! 😜

[@Valdore1000]

Why not to run her terrorized? I got 7 Tal armors in 2 hours and 2 tyrael mights in 2 days

[@zarfen]

Nice! Maybe I’ll do that another time. I wanted to run normal Andy this time, for the sake of the video (gearing up as a budget starter)

[@Raito73]

1000 run and still not a single Stone of Jordan. Is the rumor is just a rumor ?

[@zarfen]

I’m starting to wonder!

[@itsmikehayden]

Been running this bitch for a month straight to get a shako. Found an eth shako and two SOJs, but no non-eth shako. I swear I'm cursed...

[@zarfen]

It’s such a pain to look for specific items! I still haven’t found a single SoJ in D2R, despite several 1000s of MF runs.

[@itsmikehayden]

@@zarfen SSF Offline is such a miserable experience. Literally had a run where trash mobs dropped a Ist and Mal on the same run this witch dropped 3 essences. The RNG gods are truly chaotic evil

[@timmymorris91]

Gave you a 👍 for that nice little edit at 2:15

[@zarfen]

Thanks! 😁 glad you liked it

[@tomrotelli1355]

frozen orb melts andarial if you abuse teleport and make her walk with the orb.

[@zarfen]

That’s a smart trick “teleport and make her walk with the orb” - I never thought of that. I haven’t tried running Andy with FOrb but I have ran her with a blizzard sorc and it was very good. Cold mastery is really OP against act bosses.

[@mikeabernathy3013]

Not sure if a level 65 sorc running on hell is considered a 'new' character anymore. Cool video to showcase 1000 andy runs, but you're not gearing a new character at lvl 65 mate.

[@duncanedgin9433]

It's subjective really It's his new end game farming char.😊

[@duncanedgin9433]

Or rather I think the title is implying farming He'll Andy for a new characters gear, like say a barb who's not gonna mf well on his way to hell.

[@arvydasgaming]

Hydra soso? Interesting. Orb sorc should work. She is worth for soj farm. But ur char needs to be pretty low lvl.

[@zarfen]

I’m hindsight a cold sorc would probably have been easier. I got overly focused on Andariels low fire resist, but there’s so many annoying fire immunes that I don’t think fire sorc is worth it unless you have a sunder charm and decent gear. Your character level doesn’t affect Andariels drops (unless terrorized). If you want to farm SoJ, nm Andariel is better because Andy herself is a lower level then

[@arvydasgaming]

Me, as serious D2 player in past, even never considered Hydra build, as it is not powerful enough. Has no good synergies. Normally all beating Andy with orb sorc on Nightmare, if for SOJs (Stones of Jordan). But corresponding CLVL (character level) is needed that she dropped them. If I good remember, something like 40-60 lvl. Character's level influencing your loot also.

[@zarfen]

@arvydasgaming if you mostly played in the past, are you aware that hydra was buffed in D2R? It’s quite strong now (still not the best build but way stronger than OG d2) Regarding CLVL influencing loot drops - that is just not true, I don’t know where you got that info from. The only exception is terror zones since the zone lvl changes with your CLVL

[@g-lix7702]

I think that maps would be a great patch for Diablo 2. but im a player for the journey not the grind

[@ErenisRanitos]

MY ANDARIEL DROPS ME ONLY BLUE AND YELLOW GARBAGE!!!

[@josephtucker8456]

Out of curiosity... Was this done on players1 or higher?

[@zarfen]

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[@satanmanme]

So something I saw in the very beginning, his magic items show up blue on the ground, in my game they do not. I’m on ps4, anything I can do?

[@zarfen]

I’ve never heard of that problem before, but have you checked so you don’t have some sort of color blind assist setting on or something?

[@satanmanme]

@@zarfen yeah, I even turned on the colorblind to see if it would change it, none of the settings have fixed it.