Annihilus - Endgame Item

General Discussion
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Annihilus - Endgame Item

:white_check_mark: Goal:

  • :white_check_mark: Nice-To-Have End-Game-Item that must be hard to get

Currently a player or a group of players must sell between 75 and 125 Stone of Jordan Rings to spawn Diablo Clone, which in turn drops the Annihilus Small Charm when defeated. Diablo Clone spawns in every active game on the same server as the Stone of Jordan Rings were sold in sufficient quantity.

:x: Problem:

:x: Players organize Diablo Clone walks with dozens of people that each contribute Stones of Jordan Rings in exchange for server information as to where Daiblo Clone is going to spawn, and so they can join and leave games until they land on the correct server.

:x: This is creating unnecessary server load because players keep spamming games in order to get lucky and land on “the correct server”.

:white_check_mark: Solution

Make Annihilus Spawning a simple LOCAL Event.

Sell anywhere between 2 and 5 stone of Jordan Rings to a vendor in your current Hell Difficulty game, and Diablo Clone will walk in YOUR game ONLY yielding ONE Annihilus Charm when Diablo Clone is killed.

  • :white_check_mark: Stone of Jordan Rings will be a Rare Commodity

  • :white_check_mark: Annihilus Charms will be a Rare Commodity

  • :white_check_mark: Stone of Jordans can be somewhat target-farmed (NM Andariel)

This would give players more control over obtaining an Annihilus Charm themselves deterministically simply by requiring a player to grind for Stone of Jordan Rings and/or Trade for them. Players that invest time and effort into obtaining this Rare End-Game Item can do so and be rewarded with the option to obtain the Annihilus charm in exchange for sacrificing 2-5 Stone of Jordan Rings.

:x: Currently they said they want to make Diablo Clone a Global event. (Because D3 devs are now involved in D2R and they are notorious for Care-Bear Mindsets) But that would have terrible consequences. Not only would everyone capable of killing Diablo Clone be instantly rewarded with an Annihilus Charm on a GLOBAL Scale WITHOUT any effort or contribution to it’s spawning, but it would also saturate the market in one instant punch, rendering Annihilus an item which will be treated like garbage in the streets.

:x: If they indeed make Diablo Clone a global event, they better make sure the D2R World-Community must sell a combined 5000 Stone of Jordan Rings (With a Counter that resets after D-Clone Spawn) to spawn Diablo Clone globally or every half-decent player on D2R will run around with an Annihilus Charm in the first couple days of a Ladder Reset. My bet is they will F-This-Up if they make Diablo Clone a GLOBAL event after just 125 Stone of Jordan Rings are sold to vendors.

:x: 99.9% of players encountering Diablo Clone (by chance due to being online) in this Global Event would not be able to kill Diablo Clone when confronted. This will result in massive MOANING and WHINING which in turn will result in massive dumbing down of the Diablo Clone to “make him more accessible for weaker players”. They will nerf his HP, his defenses, his resistances and his Life-Regen to lower the burden on the forum moderators flooded with WHINING and MOANING as well as Ticket Support.

:x: This will ruin the exclusivity of one of THE remaining End-Game Chase Items aka Annihilus Charms.

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Selling soj is completely pointless. It was a sink in classic to rid all the dupes. In d2R no such thing exists. Blizzard needs to fix the spawn mechanic but I doubt they ever will. Current state of the d2r shows their lack of ability in improving the game. 2.4 is proof.

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Selling Stones of Jordan is perfectly fine in order to obtain another highly valuable and build crowning item.

Although it is true that the Diablo-Clone event and the Annihilus Charm were used as a tool to flush duped Stone of Jordan Rings out of the trade economy (by the Playerbase itself), by requiring players to sell Stones of Jordan to in-game vendors (without the option for buy-back) in order to spawn Diablo-Clone, it is still a perfectly fine gateway tool to obtaining Annihilus Charms today.

The whole reason why Sojs were duped in the first place was because they were THE in-game currency in D2.

Stones of Jordan are nowhere near Best-In-Slot items for most builds, yet they still have a solid worth to them due to the stats and simple drop rarity. This ties perfectly into being required to spawn the Diablo-Clone.

I agree on the remaining sentiment that they should refrain from making the changes they plan to do with 2.4 and future changes, simply because D2R already doesn’t feel and play at all like D2 anymore.

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They were the only +1skill rings in Classic and as you are not flooded with +skills in Classic everyone wanted them. Also you could only socket your items with the soj recipe. They became a currency because everyone had use for them.

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The actual fix would to be make Anni similar to Torch as far as obtaining because the whole Soj selling thing was a sink to get rid of dupes in old D2, a sink that is not needed in D2R and is unrealistic to even obtain.

ofc id rather them make the game even playable online first considering I only see games that are 2-3 hours old because of whatever dumb system the game list works on now

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I think such useless item like Standard of Heroes should be used to call DClone. The cube is 4x3, so why not to cube 12 Standards to trigger this event in your game? Of course the last Uber boss must drop only one standard, no matter how many players took part in Uber-run.
It would be fair, clear and not an easy way to get annihilus. Current mechanics with selling N very rare items to spawn DClone is not fair at all - someone had more luck, someone less. I’m playing Diablo 2 for 10 years and found only 1 (ONE!!!) SoJ at Travincal!

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I say just make the quick fix, Sell 1 Soj, Diablo walks INSTANTLY… No more problems. People have annis, and they will become monetarily worthless… I shouldnt have to spend Real money or Forum gold to get a item that the game should be generating. If you go look on other websites, you have people that have 30 and 40 and sometimes even a 100 or more anni’s… See, money is ruining the game. The anni is not a very rare or hard to get item, There is just no way to compete with getting these items when people dump money into the game and hoard them while trying to run a online business…

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at least right now you can easily buy one unid anni with one soj on traderie.
But that beeing said, this whole event needs a big overhaul indeed ! A normal person cant and will never spawn the dclone himself. It only works in big group events and then needs to check ip with external tool and recreate game until its a match. this is just really plain stupid and it just cant be the intended way.
Next to improved lobby and chat fix (and maybe p8 command) this is my top change request