I’m having lot of troubles trying to get “Last steps of the Living” boots from Formosus the Undying (blood, frost and death Monolith). I did it around 25 times and still haven’t found any…
Are em that rare? Any help, please?
P.s: sorry for the offtopic
They have a 15% drop chance, so you’re just unlucky if you’ve not got any to drop with that many runs.
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that statement there is pretty demoralizing. I have been trying to get wings of argentus with no luck after about 20 runs.
Ouch… Ok, thank you Llama, for the answer. Will try it again today.
Don’t make me talk about that body armour. I gave up trying to get it with my pala a while ago.
I am speaking about perfect rolled unique/blessings.
Which is not even mandatory.
Literally ANY item obtained from boss, Forosus (29 times, multiple others in 20+ times), f*cking God Hunter Argentus for the chest (10 - fail to drop, given up), any others. RESET IS SH1T.
So what would be an appropriate playtime to obtain such an item for you?
Assuming you already have a decent equipped character that can do a specific timeline in empowered already.
Currently 1 empowered timeline run, so Quest Echo No1, No2 and No3 will take something between 30min and 1 hour on average.
The rarest MoF boss drops (excluding Shade Uniques) have ~10% drop chance, so you need 10 kills on average.
This means currently we have something between 5 to 10 hours for obtaining such an item. Obviously this is only average and you might be more unlucky and need more kills. But on the flip side, you might be lucky for a different item/boss and get an item super quickly.
What would be a time frame you would think is appropriate? Or do you want it to be guaranteed for a certain effort?
I personally thing that all targetfarmable items in LE are actually too easy to obtain. Especially how strong and popular some of them are.
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shakes head
Actually, you’d have a 65% chance for a thing to drop in 10 runs at 10% chance. But that doesn’t mean that you can’t not drop it within 20 (88%) or more. As I’m sure d3viant knows & is just raging about being ####ed over by RNG.
I disagree, I don’t think they should be unachievable for “normal” players, ie, not you (and me).
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I don’t know. I understand that I will probably never get several items and I can accept this: they are a kind a reward for a stronger investment or skill than mine.
I would like to be able to get everything, but that would make the game far easier or casual, I fear.
Which is why I think 10-15% isn’t an unreasonable value. It’s low enough to likely require quite a few attempts but not so low that unless you’re playing the game “during the day” (instead of for an hour or two every day or so) it’s very unlikely to happen.
That said, the Shade’s ring can go #### itself.
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The fact that a a big portion of Uniques and set items (the MoF ones) are target farm able makes them very accessible even for very casual players.
Obviously they might not get every single item they want, but if you focus your effort and limited time to get a few specific ones. This is very achievable IMO.
Even for some that only plays 30 min a day.
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I mean, “normal” players will not play in empowered mode.
I already did several times, I found it difficult (obviously and hopefully), stressful and no fun. So 10-15% may be reasonable (I also think so), it will still be 0% for all players who don’t play in empowered mode. 
Which one of the 150+ we already got? 
Want to try Agrentus for the 15% drop item the fragments of the shattered lance, im upto 64 runs and no relic drop.
feels terrible as a game mechanic having to do all that crap again, that many times, for nothing, got the wings on empowered in 2 runs though, go figure.
Not to worry D2r will be my saving grace, september cant come soon enough.
Really LOL? I’ve only just returned to the game but I have 2 of the boots and 5 rings! LOL! What else does he/it drop? or did I miss the point in that he drops it way too often?
I just asked about the % of getting Last steps of the living boots (good to know how rare is wings of argentus too), but I’m totally agree with having “low” drop chances for some BIS items, and I say “low” because 15% is a very high chance compared to meta items in most games. So nothing to argue here
As a literally YEARS of time played in blizzard games (playing their games since Warcraft I), and how they are acting: just remember what they did with warcraft III reforge. I spect nothing from them.
However, this game just born and is awesome full of posibilities if devs keep creating content, seasons and stuff. Can’t wait for multiplayer an 1.0 to start playing with my friends.
There are 5 uniques in total that exclusively drop from Shade.
Ring is the most common item, boots are relatively rare (both of those items are very much like MoF boss items, where one is very common, one is a bit rarer)
The other 3 items have some additional conditions to be able to drop.
I am no blizzard advocate and don’t want to derail the topic.
But i think D2R is actually developed by an external dev team, that already has plenty of “remaster” experience, with several very well received titles.
Warcraft 3 Reforged was done by another external dev and blizzard themselves.
While i don’t like D2 that much, you might have better chances to get a truely “remastered/improved” product.
D2R is going to be very good. If D2 is your cup of tea I believe you will be very happy. This will not be another Warcraft 3 debacle.
isn’t that not true ? with the corruption added we gain more stability.
Short Term killing shades slows down your progression, because the amount of extra timeline stability you get from echoes from the corruption is very small and since the web resets, you need to start from the center again.
So generally, when you reached a high depth inside an exisiting echo web and the individual echoes give you 40-50 timeline stability, clearing those outer echoes is significantly faster, than killing one shade, resetting your echo web and start from depth 0 again.
Also the initial burst timeline stability from killing the shade is only worth ~2 echoes.
Even though the echeos will give you 1-2 more timeline stability at the low depth, it takes a while until you reach the 40-50 timeline stability again.
So as i said in my previous post: Long term it is really benefical, but if you “just want to get the blessing/unqiue” once not resetting your echo web and keep grinding the outer echoes is probably the faster strategy.