When running terrorized Andy as a Sorc, is it best to target just her, or her and most if not all her minions on level 4? I’m wondering if the white monsters and any champs are worth the time. Cheers
white monsters are where you find runes 
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Haha! Very good call indeed. That should’ve been obvious to me but it makes me wonder, they can’t be the only ones to drop runes? I know bosses have for me, can’t recall if champ packs or uniques have.
I wasn’t sure if this forum was going to allow me to post since I play on console.
TL;DR I never played D2 when it was new. Right now I’m on sabbatical from work for a few months and I’m leveling up one of each characters in HC. I’ve lost two - 80 bowazon and 70 hammerdin before I got really focused.
As of how I have a 91 orb/hydra sorc, 59 Barb, 49 wind Druid, and on down from there. Lowest is like a 21 necro. I wanted to be able to keep all good gear and not have a reason to vendor good stuff just because I don’t play X class.
Some of my best gear that is shared - Shako with Ptopaz, spirit swords and shields with good rolls, some nice rings but no Soj or even gg charms. Eagerly running terrorized Andy when I can.
I’m looking for tips that pertain to HC or just overall quality of life Re, best ways to enjoy the game.
One question I keep coming back to is the ideal players count overall? I usually stay on 7 and only drop it if I am overmatched. Because HC. Hehe
Thanks all! Really enjoying delving deep into this masterpiece. I’m offline SSF. Not trying for a holy grail because I don’t want to organize that much loot.
as far as i know, unique monsters and champs don’t drop runes, they only drop gear.
If you run TZ Andy you should target her and nothing else. She is the queen of SoJ, uniques, rare stuff like dweb, mangs, etc due to her permanent quest bug that devs never bothered fixing luckily 
if you are not running her for those then you are doing something wrong. for general XP farming, runes and bases you should be running all 4 levels of the Catacombs, it is a great place with many unique and champ packs and in the end, you have Andy as a bonus.
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Thanks much. I ran her yesterday during the terrorized hour. I can do a run in about 8-10 minutes if I tele to level 4 and then clear all of level 4. Found a Jalal’s mane yesterday but its Eth. Found several unique bows, and recently made Undying Will in a PB for my Barb who also runs a perfect Bloodletter gladius safely in NM; he might start using a shield in Hell. Here’s a laugh for you - maybe. For my 92 Sorceress, she is wearing an upped Duriel’s shell that’s now a great hauberk that I socket with an Um for resistances because HC. I’d love to get her some better armor soon (Enigma?). I have a decent stash of runes but I do use them to make words and up them when I can.
Very recently put 4 P Rubys into a bow for my amazon with exploding arrow - nowhere near maxed - and she’s slaughtering. I just have so many P gems I said why not. I’m sure I make less than optimal gameplay decisions but that’s part of learning.
I think I may have posted this thread in the wrong area of the forum. I’m new to this forum so I’ll look and see if there’s a better section for D2R newbs like me.
Duriel’s shell is nothing much, just some res and CBF, which does not benefit much any caster especially with native teleport. (you can always teleport to safety) FYI, upped Duriels is nice, you get decent defence but it is only beneficial for melee where you are stationary while fighting. Your defence goes to 0 when you are running hence casters gain not much value out of it. You could be better off using upped Skin of the Vipermagi until you get your enigma or CoH armour. You can farm Andy for Vipermagi in NM, you don’t even need her to be terrorized and it is not too bad in terms of drop chances if you have 100-200MF. Terrorized NM zones are actually decent, my paladin scored an OHM rune in Trist while I was levelling him for Hell.