Should You EVER Run Nightmare Andariel? and 1000 Runs Highlights - Diablo 2 Resurrected

[@BrianR146]

Just returned to D2 after a couple years off…love your content! Started a new grail and popped an SOJ off Duriel NM on the quest kill, got super lucky! He dropped it along with a couple TP scrolls lol

[@Luke-tg9jy]

so lucky!

[@RpeteG96]

Quality content Phil. Those “NO!” Cutaways killed me dude. Love to see the channel growth bro!

[@berenthebear1313]

I think making a video about comparing single player vs ladder play would be an interesting video. You could talk about the pros and cons of playing each game mode.

[@o.s.5657]

Would love that!

[@scottbunn1222]

Great idea!

[@harek940]

If you always play alone, better is sp mode. You can set number of players and have a better drop chance

[@dudubassmonster]

Yes to this, i play on the switch offline and currently doing nighmare andy to get better gear (in 7 players mode), but its sloow! Should i rush tru to get in andy hell to farm there?

[@SvarteJack]

@@dudubassmonster If nothing else move ahead to gain some levels. Return for farming if you get stuck or something. And many many times some amazing stuff drops while just questing through the game:) Do what's fun, the drops will show up sooner or later

[@happalula]

for melee classes i enjoy the Butchers Pupil which andy can drop - its a really nice weapon imo

[@anatoliyankov7634]

Few days ago i have returned to D2 for hc experience, after watching D2r videos. Atm 66 lvl Hc Sorc im experimenting with Normal Baal runs on players 8,with 100mf. He gave me Raven Frost at 1st kill. Couple runs later he amazed me more,dropping Titans Revenge.

[@carpetshake]

I got my first soj this year. I’ve played off and on since the release… hell chaos sanctuary unique boss before seals released. Shock is an understatement.

[@rgracon]

Great video, and perfect timing. After taking countless characters through all three difficulties, and thousands of hours of D2/D2R, Single player, I’ve never seen an SOJ. Recently decided to target farm Andy on P8, and I’m about eight hours in with Non so far. I know I’m unlucky, but as far as I’m concerned, the ring, Uber Diablo, and the Ani charm all basically don’t exist on single player.

[@richardgrey3656]

Did you find it in the end?

[@rgracon]

@@richardgrey3656 no, made it to about 11 1/2 hours of farming, before getting bored, and running a few hard-core characters, and then moved to Darktide, instead :-)

[@maitlandbezzina2842]

Nobody talks about hardcore characters in these situations. Playing hardcore is a marathon and you need to play super carefully, especially on single player. I will run normal and nightmare as much as I feel the need to before taking the next difficulty step.

[@borispsalman]

Right? Actually i dont understand why streamers dont play hc more, like arent they supposed to be better at the game than average joe ? :D And this is why its hard to implement their advice on hc because on sc everybody goes full dmg the survivability is not a concern when the worst that can happen is to loose some exp...

[@JosephMagicFlower]

​@@borispsalmanhc is not cool, no one gives you free stuff, and you can die. When Llama tries to he often dies because hc is not a speed race but a long diligent run with constant equipment improvment... you pay with death also the smallest mistake. They can't play without teleporting. They can't play in a tankier way, without skipping content. It's their mindset.

[@AndrewAung1992]

@@JosephMagicFlower Llamsc has several playthroughs on hc mode on hell difficulty. Sounds like you are saying a streamer has to go online for hc mode and this is not the case. Hc mode is not that bad, there are some things you have to watch out for that are not a major issue. Paladin 51 on nightmare hc mode with difficulty scaling at 3 out of 8.

[@strider7198]

​@@borispsalmanbecause HC in any game is terrible when people are trying to play the whole damn game, not reset everytime because some random monster you couldnt predict managed to stunlock and kill you

[@Xenomorphin1]

@@strider7198 the fact that you couldn't predict a monster and it "stunlocks" you, means you're simply bad. There are countless ways to be 100% safe when doing all content in Diablo.

[@tomaszczapiewski3359]

wow. I found 3 soj already since d2r started :) all online, one on cows, one on cs, and one on ladder in travi few days ago. During travi runs in a matter of 2 days and few hundred runs i found ber, sur, few ists, mals, shakos, war travs 46 and in 15 minutes apart bul khatos and soj. That was sick.

[@ilyasnopchenko2886]

Well that was a good drop. String of Ears, Telling of Beads, Tal-Rasha's Adjudication etc., all of that keepers. I remember going back to Normal Andariel when my sorc was in Nightmare and one single run got me the boots I really wanted for my rookie characters, the Hotspur. That was great luck.

[@pokemonfan2630]

I found a tals ammy from NM Andy on my new single player sorc playthrough, second one I've ever found in thousands upon thousands of hours, when I was younger I guess I just didn't have the patience to really get into single player but it's so much more rewarding.

[@d8l835]

I went to single player pretty early because of all the problems the game had online at launch. The ladder interested me enough to go back and honestly i still want to go to single player

[@YewTo0b]

In the beta someone found one in act 2 normal tombs

[@TheBennnyb]

I found 3 tal ammy in 3 days no kidding after 4 months of playing. 2 from nm council member and 1 from nm mephisto

[@wuldntuliktonoptb6861]

Yea it's rare but possible I found tals ammy in normal cows in 1.09 being a nice guy lvling noobs It was worth 2 sojs back then n I needed it I was so pumped I lvled all them to 50 checked silospen on players 8 it was 1 in 1.3 million so I wouldn't count on it

[@monosias]

My first SoJ ever dropped from NM Andariel, about 3 weeks since D2R launch. It was a game-changer.

[@cassiuscarter2832]

My paliden is level 78 and my very first uniqie ring drop was actually a raven frost from terrorized NM Andy which was an AWESOME surprise seen as how i retired the Rhyme shield for Spirit and i respeced after finding a good base finally

[@shauksgamer814]

As a hardcore player, nm is my go to farm before I even try hell. I have a 73 sorc and still farming all bosses in nm.

[@Zestfull_Smoke]

finally got my first SoJ. I didn't keep count, but I had to have done 250-350 runs 470-530MF P8

[@youbetzler]

I must be lucky when it comes to SOJ's. I found probably 10 of them back in the duping days. Got D2R about a month ago and i've already found 2, one from meph and one from pindle.

[@fu6817]

Walking to Hell Meph is the worst idea.

[@blaink1234]

I found an SOJ off Nightmare Andy this first season of D2R, and also other good upgrades to help me get into hell. I think I spent maybe a week farming NM Andy and Meph before I went into Hell with my sorceress, and I feel it was worth it.

[@page8301]

It is, especially on Harcore.

[@ivanvoloder8114]

You should run Nightmare Andariel. Chance Guards, Goldwrap, Rattlecage are some of uniques I got from farming NM Andy.

[@SmaugUKA]

Peasants Crown vs Tarnhelm comes down to do you want Life and Mana (with a some FRW and Rep Life thrown in) or do you want MF and or extra Gold. Both can be a form of "Poor Man's Shako". The funny thing being how overlooked Tarn is nowadays for Budget MF Characters.

[@poboscov1979]

I love Tarns! Use them all the time on Trapsin and casters when mfinding

[@SmaugUKA]

@@poboscov1979 Nice

[@hungryhaitianna643]

Same, love the tarn, made the decision to socket with a Ptopaz, helped me until my shako!

[@d8l835]

Almost always use tarn till shako lol. Sometimes level 80+ still rockin that lil guy

[@poboscov1979]

@@hungryhaitianna643 Nice

[@williamoneill9575]

Great info man! Still hunting for my first soj

[@isufan89]

torch of iro is one of those grail items people get last because they have to go back and farm normal for it

[@viperswhip]

You can get Skin of the Flayed One from her, and Hotspurs. Skin of the Flayed One is BoS for a Prayer Merc. I will never forget back when we could have Manald and Nagel in-game and the next unique to drop would ALWAYS be an SoJ. Infernostride and Hotspurs can make you immune to or even heal from from fire damage when paired with a Dwarfstar.

[@snoek1474]

Farming Andy to prepare for hell is allmost a must. In the first 24 hour after this Ladder launched Andy gave me 2 viper, 2 shako, tal amu, Soj and a bunch of other stuff.

[@THEGRUMPTRUCK]

Hell yeah. It's almost a ritual for me to spend a day or two farming nightmare andy before I tackle hell, and then I am really prepared.

[@Bixxth]

Phil, idek if you'll reply but... I'm running HC Ladder, players 1, I can kill nm Andy meph diablo and baal (baal adds alot of gametime for 1 drop) or 1 hell andy over and over... What is my better bet here, to make overall gains?

[@stefanvanrij8261]

thanks for your comments ive played D2LoD 5 years 15 hours a day and i found 3 soj and in D2R i found one playinh 5 months 12 hours a day. Never seen Diablo Clone. but i have found some crazy runedrops in D2R(20 jah/lo/bers in 1 week) but never ever found a highrune in D2LoD.

[@BleuQuill80]

Another time you would farm NM Andarial, would be to make a sick KZbin video! Keep Slayin.

[@jakuchnier]

Found my first SoJ in 2 decades! Thanks for the tips!

[@yan-amar]

One evening I said "ok, tonight I get my SoJ" (I wanted my first single player Annihilus really bad). Respec my sorc to lightning, went running Andy, drew a line on a piece of paper for each run. Each ten run approximately, I get a unique ring. The fourth one was an SoJ. I was happy. Thought I found the goose that lays golden eggs. Since then I did like a hundred runs and never got another one.

[@Daskard]

1 Question about "Crushing blow - good for any melee character": Can the assassin's elemental charge effects (like the nova) cause a crushing blow? Since those effects are her main source of damage, a crushing blow on the finisher's single-target hit wouldn't really be worth it, would it?

[@vojtechralis6075]

I think you can simply follow this rule. If you can leech hp or mana from that sort of dmg, you can do crushing blow with it.

[@AlghostUnit]

Dude introducing those funny nopes was a very good idea you got my like this time lol

[@jeffsaffron5647]

Yea 100% agree. Online maybe with maxed out Item Find barb with Enigma but otherwise it is not worth it. In one year of playing D2R I found a single SoJ... from Hell Diablo (solo online).

[@JosephMagicFlower]

You can't use item find skill on act bosses

[@MaxGalette]

I droped my 2 soj on same 7h session of andy NM single player 600MF so worked well for me 😁

[@philipplebt4332]

Nice vid Phil! The poor man’s Shako is actually Tarnhelm :-p

[@shockwaverider869]

Years ago, I saved up lots of gold on multiple characters, has two computers and 2 copies of D2, id gamble about 25 to 100 million gold at a time, earned a bunch of SOJs

[@alinstoian4393]

I started my first ever ladder character, a blizzard sorc. Farming nm andariel, mephisto and baal I got chance guards, vipermagi, 2 Nagelrings and very unexpectedly, a Shako off of Baal. Hell is gonna be brutal...

[@real_Furryratchet]

I play offline - Druid Maul Werebear. I got ALL the "best ion slot" gear + druid torch. Only need the Anni charm. So like you said it's a good time to farm nightmare Andariel?

[@Heldermaior]

Nightmare Andariel is cool. I am doing the nightmare dif with my necro and I did a few runs (not a lot of them since I want to unlock hell). Got some nice mid level gear for my necro. I am now rocking a superior head thing with +3 to poison nova and Rhyme runeword. My wand is still magic but it has +3 to Poison Nova as well. I want to find a socketed wand with at least +2 Necro skills or +3 poison nova so that I can use runeword white on it. Or a socketed unique and I can instal a poison facet gem and make a budget DWeb. Have about 105% MF. It is enough for now. I could increase it but it would be at the expense of other things. Stealth runeword armour. I want to build a Bone armour but missing the Um runes. I have some MF gloves, nothing spectacular really. Just 28% MF. Using a set belt and boots. Want better ones but so far no luck finding them they are the weakest part of my gear and I am not happy with them. I have a +1 amulet and a couple of rare rings with mf and some other stuff. Really no good rings so far but they are good enough.

[@marijuonko7092]

His editing had me cracking up when he would say nope

[@jimwickert7993]

Got my only SOJ out of a crate in the Crystal Passage on NM.. online single player. Lvl 75 Cold/ wind druid with 290mf. Totally blew my mind!!!!!

[@justmike9756]

i love the editing bro ❤😂 keep up the good work

[@xTatsumix]

I dont target farm andy, but i definitely include her in my route in early ladder. (nightmare)

[@davidstump]

No bullshit… I decided to take a break from farming Hell cows for HR’s and do this… 3 minutes in on my SECOND run I found an SOJ. I have weird luck though. I found a Jah and +42 All Res Vortex Shield on the same mob before as well. Still only found the one Jah to this day but at least I got SOJ!!

[@69mihail96]

Thanks for the vid man, liked and subbed (it was long overdue)

[@akirasakoda4154]

I found an SoJ on run 55 (single player) after seeing this video . First time I've found one! Thanks! I'm off to level a Dclone smiter.

[@wantsoobaroo]

Playing HC ladder ATM. So I'm running NM Andy until I get a soj lol. Also, wasn't hunting for it, but found an ok shaftstop for the Merc.

[@ryanhatzenbeller4327]

What about when you just get to her? Will she still drop good stuff?

[@haukepauke7963]

literally watched this video yesterday and questioned my grind for viper and SOJ at andy nm - lvl 75 SP sorc. thought about what you said and left after finding 35 chance guards to go grind HELL MEPHI with now 270 mf - not 10 runs in the game i dropped myself my first SHAKO on D2R SP. THANKS BUD :) Later i found 3 blue Serpentskin Armors and 3!!! blue Arachnid Meshs - we need to talk about this! :D

[@fang5terf0xy]

Jusf for other ppl's opinion. Would a Vortex shield with Perfect Exile runeword be better than Herald of Zakarum?

[@nidergliv]

The torch of iro is quite rare in hell, lots of grailer last 10 items

[@Chrisfragger1]

What if you are gearing for later acts of NM, or Starting in HELL?

[@gelato40one]

700 hours into my grail I gave up, farmed nightmare andariel allllll day long and when I finally identified 12 rings one was my soj, 1200 hours in.. still no second soj. The grind is real

[@takacsjozsef2116]

I'm over 5k Andariel runs (375mf) but I've never found soj... gz!

[@Turapuru]

Any big difference between P1 and P8 on offline Act boss farming?

[@poboscov1979]

Personally I would do nightmare chaos runs for the added power leveling. Especially with a good mob clearing character (FOH pally/Javazons/Cold Sorc, etc)

[@timofeyzhukov-khovanskiy9173]

Well, I did find Tal's ammy from her yesterday. Hunting SOJ with NM andy-mepth with other items I'd like to get like a HOZ

[@demise100x]

I just did 650 runs and found myself 3 SoJ's actually. (run number 671 152 and 650) sold one and got my self a 19/16/6 Anni. did these runs with 565mf and on Players7

[@Ashleymaul]

I once found 2 SOJ back to back withing minutes doing Hell Mephisto. Never had one on normal/nightmare. I assume SOJ on normal only drops from Baal and Nih?

[@OriginalChrizum]

The reason I farm NM Andy is Skin of the Vipermagi. I have a few SoJs lying around in fact found almost everything, but in 5000+ hours of playing Diablo 2 I have to this day never found a freakin Vipermagi, goddamnit.

[@frankenstein3163]

So you only need to sell one for d-clon ? I thought it was several hundred's. Is that necro wand new to d2 ?

[@dhzero6990]

what do you mean sell the soj to get an anni? I'm new and trying to learn all this stuff lol

[@codyb20]

The "No!" section made me lol and my dog got scared. You're the man lol

[@WoetotheVanquished]

man, I used to bot NM Andy and wake up to find like 2-4 SoJs from a night of running at 600 MF. this was by far the best way to get SoJs.

[@miladfaghihifar2834]

Only soj I’ve ever had drop was online nightmare as I was playing through as a pally. Was so stoked

[@Mackoroni2]

ive gotten a Soj from NM Andy. while rushing as well.

[@carpetshake]

What are those boots worth? A ist? Ber?

[@Krudi89]

I started fresh on ps5 last week and found Tal Rashas amulet on my first Andariel run on nightmare ^^

[@timmsmiithgm557]

Do the odds of her dropping rings change whether it's a Quest Andy kill vs a non-Quest?

[@CriminaIlyInsane]

Does the andaroel glitch still work? The glitch where you kill her go immediately to act 2, save and exit and next time u kill her its gonna be like first time kill

[@guillaumeayotte1497]

I'm under 600 run in hell (splitted in 3 days), solo, online, 2 soj so far and lot of unique that I could keep and junk I gave for free to new player. In otherword, it ain't that bad to run tbh. I tried the NM run, never drop something good, nor an soj in 300 runs or so. Here's stuff I got from doing that (197%MF) : 5 nagel ring : 30%, 28%,28%,25%,19% 2 Dwarf Star 2 ravenfrost 2 shako 1 gheed 2 SOJ 1 sandstorm trek 2 Nozokan Relic 1 Thundergod vigor (eth) Got aswell magefist, frostburn and these thing like nightsmoke, sharkbelt etc... It's not bad to do hell andy, even online, solo. GL peeps

[@GordosTacoShop]

I've played off and on since release, and have gotten exactly one SOJ, from a barrel.

[@FluxOperation]

Do a video on the most powerful class in D2. Like the most indestructible and highest dps character ever. Just a guess since we’ve been out of the game for a while but I’ll guess hammerdin. I’m talking min maxed to the gills.

[@Uthuriel]

I love that part where he goes... No!!!

[@danf8986]

@sweet phil I decided to give nm andy a try and boy oh boy was I rewarded! 30 runs in I found a Tal ammy! Never found yet, thank you :D Soj, here I come!

[@Swizzle62]

Just hit soj from hell mephisto and I wasn’t even really thinking there was a chance for it on single player… really lucky early on one lol But when I used to play a decade ago I grinded hell Andy quite a bit and for sure have found a handful of em. I even remember grinding 3 from maybe a 1000 nightmare Andy runs back in the day too.. but bad luck spell sent me to hell Andy lol. My reaction was similar though. I had one raven drop prior but then i was hoping BK and it was too lit.

[@andrewsercer9538]

I've gotta say I don't usually watch your stuff (sorry!) but those "no!" cutaways were top notch, quality edits. I hadn't seen that in any of your other videos I've actually seen ... again pretty small amount, but after this one that may have to change 😂

[@SweetPhil]

Ya that type of editing and filming takes for ever. That 15 second segment all in all probably took over an hour to make.

[@dertobbe1176]

I found one Single soj since release. It dopped on hell minion of the countess.

[@maximos905]

Congrats on your SOJ

[@Pathoslogical]

Good summary Phil! Thanks

[@coelacan7h]

Made a sorc only for a soj farming. Online ladder. Got one on my 5th run.

[@xTatsumix]

grats on the tals amu. ive never gotten one outside hell

[@user-qb6mc8zx1y]

nightmare andy is good for SoJ. it was on classic D2, don´t really know on D2R, just started it...

[@soldierxgaming8753]

Ps how rare is a 3 sok 15 ed armour 76 defence 30 strength required and no level requirement? Bet ya could run enigma early hehe. Really? which vendor you give it too? So you trade soj for anni? Never knew this

[@samtheguru]

Don't stop I did something very similar very recently and I had another SoJ drop about 100 runs later. Praise the RNG gods,

[@zacattack3192]

Phil you rock man! How long does it take to make these 1000 run videos?? Thanks for your great info bro as always

[@Turapuru]

Considering the time on top right screen plus some 30 seconds to check items and reload instance, I'd say something like 20 hours straight

[@daddymasamune5485]

Tbf on single player a 25%+ Nagel is still great If you've just arrived in nightmare with any fire based run. (Fireball, Meteor, Fissure, Explosive Arrow, Hydra, Corpse Explosion etc.)

[@meskalin64]

I never got a SOJ but i was told you need to have nagelring and manald heal in the inv before you can have a chance for drop. Otherwise its gonna drop them first. Is this true?

[@SweetPhil]

No that's not how it works. You can only find 1 of a unique item in a game. So if you find nagel and Manald in that game than you know the next unique ring you find won't be either one of those. Simply carrying them though won't effect anything.

[@Dunkelelf3]

i got 2 sojs in d2r so far. and both from nm andy. i ran her for 2.5 days straight to get them over the weekend back at launch. i made a wealth armor for some 300 or so mf. my gear was pretty shitty otherwise and it was really worth it. i found 3 tals amys that were really expensive to come by cause everyone wanted tals pieces and i guess about 12 vipers. i kept 1 perfect viper 35/13 to up and socket for myself and traded away the rest. i wouldn't say it isn't worth it to run nm andy on bnet. i pretty much set up my sorc with it. so in the early weeks i had 2 sojs, a perfect viper, tals amy that i used till i got a maras, magefist and it allowed me to trade for a good 15 ed spirit, perfect arach and occy. after that nm andy grind i went on to run hell andy for a shako and my char was pretty dope to grind for runes to get coh and infinity and so on. so i ran a lot of countess to get ists and mals and actually dropped a sur from a random devilkin in the tower lvl 5. i traded it for ohm+ cause i considered cta to be more useful at the moment than coh or infinity and casually rolled a 2-1 cta -.-

[@stevesutton772]

It's crazy but the day you got one I decided to go for it too and got one in like the first hour... 3 days later aaaaaand I want to make my pet druid now just to chill out.

[@MeatSwingKing]

Love ya buddy!!! Keep it coming

[@patrickprafke4894]

I got my first and only SoJ from the Den of Evil. At lvl 2. Yep...normal. Still Shocked.

[@llVIU]

don't underestimate demonhide set boots, I recall they have 40% faster run walk and that can make a huge difference considering how much you walk around especially with non sorc characters. Time is money.

[@maxdostal4819]

í´ve found a jewel with 7% fhr and 7% dmg goes to mana. is that something good or crap?

[@nfapeng187]

NM Andy was my first SOJ in D2R. Even tho I dont play anymore. Than in other versions of LOD, and Pd2. I've got em even off The Countess, and Mara's off her. But that was in HELL the countess one, and Mara. I do play D2 still just not D2R.

[@LegendsRyze]

Love the videos Phil!

[@357souls]

Crazy. I've found so many SOJ and I only play single player offline. They've all dropped from Andy or Baal.

[@redacted3551]

Does MF count for you if you put it on your comp?

[@jeffreyness355]

I’ve only found one SOJ since coming back to D2 during the pandemic

[@isuckatthisgame]

11:53 nostalgic pic

[@KingIce86]

I also found a really soj during the dupe time in d2. But it meant something to me because it was real and my friend from school was playing with me and saw it happen.