New Charms?

[Soldier]

how do you get annihilus? or gheeds fortune?

[Harrycheek]

SOldier, you are stupid. It is incredibly obvious how you get them. All you have to do is get in the game and find them! Perhaps...in order to get Gheed's thingymajiggy...YOU GO TO GHEED!

-Harrycheek.

[Soldier]

gheeds doesnt have it, any more ideas?

[Shadow992588]

I know how to get Annahillis =). I'll think about tellin you. Hmmm ... DIABLO CLONE DROPS IT =). And for Gheeds Fortune Not sure.

[Soldier]

i know about the diablo clone, where is he usually at and how do you get him to "walk the earth"?

[trayne]

gheeds fortune is a lil tricky to get. after you kill the demoness in lvl 5 you must have 3 atma scarabs. give them to gheed and he shall reward you. if he doesnt. he'll be tricky and have it in his gamble window

[Shadow992588]

Welcome back Trayne and 3 Atma's Scarab?? Thats tough to get but, well its worth it that charm is awsome. And when will the realm swap be avaiable?

[Soldier]

can ne1 explain exactly how to get annihilus?

[Spitfire]

• The World Event occurs randomly, and is unaffected by anything you do in your game. Dozens of people have gotten it while just sitting in a game, not killing anything or selling any SoJs.

• There are a lot of World Events occurring. We've heard from numerous players who have taken part in 8 or 10 of them in less than two days, and players who have already scored 4 or 5 Annihilus Charms in that amount of time.
• World Events only in all difficulties, as well as in Hardcore, Ladder, and normal Realm games.

• We've heard from two people who say they got a World Event in D2 classic, and that both times Diablo didn't drop any items at all. This is unconfirmed, and it seems impossible that a d2x patch change would work in d2c also, but perhaps it does?

• His official game code name is "Uber Diablo," but since everyone is pretty well sick of the formerly-cute and now pathetically-overused word "uber," we're calling him by his first public name, "DiabloClone," or "DC" for short. Hell, call him "Annihilus Boy" if you want to, just leave "uber" out of it.


• When the World Event triggers in your game, you'll see orange text proclaiming, "Diablo Walks The Earth" The sky will go black and you'll see a circle of light around your character.
• Once you get this message, the next SuperUnique monster that anyone in the game gets close enough to spawn, will spawn as the Diablo Clone. It's best to run right to a location that always has a SU in it, such as Eldritch, north of the first waypoint in Act 5. Many people are fighting the Diablo Clone in place of Rakanishu in the 2nd area of Act One since the monsters around him will be easier to destroy, but we've had reports of him in place of Pindleskin, The Countess, Baal's Minions, and more.

• Everyone who joins a game that's been selected for a World Event will see the world event graphics and text message, even if the DC is already dead. He will not appear twice in the same game, and many players have spent hours hunting through games, trying to find him when he's already been dealt with.

• He is extremely difficult to kill and very dangerous; see below for player testimonials and strategy tips.


• When killed, the DC will almost always drop a single item, the unique Annihilus Charm.
+1 To All Skills
+10-20 To All Attributes (varies)
All Resistances +10-20 (varies)
+5-10% To Experience Gained (varies)

It's unknown why he sometimes doesn't drop one, but we've had numerous reports from players who saw him die with no charm dropping, plus there's this forum post by Blizzard confirming it. So it's real, it's just a mystery.


• The Annihilus looks like a unique, normal small charm before you identify it. Once you do it looks like Mephisto's Soulstone.
• The Annihilus Charm can not be placed in the trade window; you must drop it on the ground to transfer it to another character. You can only hold one of them on a character, so don't kill DC by yourself if you already have an Annihilus, or if you do be prepared to get a friend or join the game with another of your characters to pick it up.

• World Events have been reported from every type of realm game, including Hardcore and Ladder, as well as normal Realm chars, and World Events have taken place in all difficulty levels, though Hell seems to be the most common.


• It's not at all clear if players selling SoJs actually have anything to do with the World Events. Many players have gotten World Events without ever selling a single SoJ. Other players are speculating that the "SoJs sold display" is a sort of timer that resets at random intervals, and is unrelated to anything any players are doing.
• The SoJs sold counter is often entirely different for people on the same realm. Each realm is made up of numerous servers, and it seems that the SoJ counter runs on each server, making it possible for there to be multiple counters (and World Events) going on at the same time on each Realm. Another possibility is that the counter runs for each game individually, and there is some % chance of the World Event in each game, which may or may not be influenced by what the characters do in that game.



Suspicions Mount:

We are speculating that SoJ sales do nothing at this time, other than reduce the quantities of duped SoJs clogging up so many characters on the realms. We think that Blizzard controls how fast the "SoJs sold" counter moves, and how frequently a World Event occurs in someone's game. With v1.10 just out they want to make it exciting and reward players, so World Events are occurring constantly. Perhaps Blizzard will turn down the speed later, or actually tie it to sold SoJs, or something players do in a given game (points for every boss kill or quest finished?) and the frequency of World Events will drop greatly. They seem too common now, with individual players reporting seeing over a dozen of them in just two days.





Characteristics of DC (Diablo Clone)


He's stronger and much tougher than the normal Diablo. Killing him has nothing to do with completing Act Four; he's a bonus monster. In addition to all of Diablo's normal attacks, the Diablo Clone can cast Armageddon, just like the Druid Skill, but of course Diablo Clone's does actual damage.
Diablo Clone has 95% resistance to Fire, Cold, Lightning, Poison, and Physical Damage. He also blocks very well, has very high defense (check your to/hit against him) and has extremely fast health regeneration and tons and tons of hit points. We'll post more exact stats once they become available.



Strategy Tips


Surviving the Battle:
• High resistances, especially 75% or more to fire and lightning, will make the battle far more survivable. Use charms, use fire absorb equipment (Dwarf Star, Hellmouth, etc), ask a Paladin for Salvation, etc. Low resistance characters are the ones dying repeatedly to DC. Chars with maxed fire and some absorb can tank him indefinitely.

• High defense and blocking helps as well, but only against his melee cold hand attack. Something that gives you Can Not Be Frozen is a great help for melee characters who want to keep attacking quickly.

• Add more AR

• Items that add damage to demons are a great help. Laying of Hands especially are highly recommended for characters who deal physical damage.



Killing Him:


• DC is vulnerable to magical damage, especially from the Barbarian's Berserk attack.
• Crushing Blow is a great help as well, for DC and every big boss.

• Use Static Field. You can chop off the first 50% of his hit points in Hell in a blink. Remember that Static has much less range in v1.10 than it used to, so you have to get pretty close.

• DC heals extremely quickly, and often regenerates to full hit points once there aren't any characters on the screen with him. Trips back to town for more red/blue pots, or tactics that regularly take you out of visual contact are therefore a very bad idea.

• Since he has such high poison resistance, poison damage doesn't seem to be enough to stop his health regeneration. Prevents Monster Heal items are extremely useful and can vastly improve your killing time.

• Team up on him: msg your friends, use a variety of attacks, let some chars take turns tanking him while he stands in damage over time spells, such as Firewall.

• Try to spawn him in a single player game, then join in with more characters, so his hit points won't be multiplied by extra players when he's created.

• Cutting DC's resistances helps greatly. Use Conviction and/or Lower Resistance and he'll go down to a Sorceress in no time.

[Soldier]

wow! thx spit thats very helpful

[trayne]

world event works in standard classic non-expansion. the "so called" raven hoop rings. are considered hacked in non expansion but they are actually super hard to get. harder to get than most exceptional unique items.

The stats on raven hoop rings are as followed:

• resistances 22-75%</li>
• 7-14% mana steal</li>
• 6-22% life steal</li>
• 7-20% magic find</li>
• 1-4 light radius</li>

The world event for non expansion is champion cows that will be in the portal or in random levels. they drop a large amount of items like a drop mod and are worth 9 times more experience. they are as strong as diablo and have resistances of 70%. Thier attack is enchanted with lightning and fire and have holy freeze aura with the chance to cast hydra when struck. Its a rareity that they will appear since they have made it a hard to get world event.

[Wintermute]

U have to complete countess quest and 3 atmas, or u can do it when ever u want?

Or u were joking? :ph34r:

[Sadness]

Wow... thanx spitfire

[Shadow992588]

Oh and BTW I got the Annahillis

[AngryIdiot]

good! now get me some!

[trayne]

i'll see about playing west more often and get people charms. on asia i got gheeds, 3 annihilus, shadow stone large charm (rare) 2 raven loops, and still mfing before asia is closed down.

[Shadow992588]

I'm goning to try to get another mine sucks really bad its 11/15/7 .

[Soldier]

how long it took u to get 1 annihiilus?

[ITH]

how many chamrs does dc drop at a time?

[Dark Avatar]

1 and possably a few items, that is what tom has seen so far....