They could make a weekly thing. 1 week you have to find lenymos to sell to spawn DClone. Another week you have to find ribcrackers to sell to spawn DClone. Set number would have to be sold for DClone to spawn. The only way for anyone to have DClone spawn in their game is if you had found one, and sold it during that week of whatever item is up for selling to spawn DClone. Also, items would be flagged for selling if you traded for the item that is up for selling to spawn DClone. You have to find the item yourself, and not be traded for.
You will remove giving free items to people with this decision.
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Great point. Another downside. SoJs it is I hope.
All uniques and set items would be chaotic. Soj worked because it was so difficult to find one and it only occupied 1x1 slot.
I was thinking maybe blizzard could add in a new feature later on that tracks the number of sojs being sold to the vendors a bit differently.
The feature would include a group of 50 that you would join from the lobby area after collecting enough sojs. From there, each person would then contribute sojs until a token is won. This assumes there are set of guidelines that the players must follow so the contributions are fair. That token can be then used anytime as an option to create game that spawn dclone.
I could be overthinking thingsā¦ or maybe the simpler the better and keep everything as is.
I think one SoJ for clone is good sacrifice. But idk if that still is not too much. Look how easy is to get torch in comparison.
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I kinda love that. 1 SoJ = 1 Anni. hundreds of SoJs = 1 perfect anni. Sounds amazing, something everyone will constantly be hunting for.
1:726 if my math is correct? Amazing.
I think it should be minimum of 1 soj to trigger dclone without guarantee and maximum of 5-6 per player.
Too much, normal player will never have so many sojs per season.
Many wont even find one.
Normal player should never have a perfect Anni 
I would love if it it super rare. 1SoJ per anni sounds like the perfect balance. Iāve only ever found around a couple dozen SoJs, ever.
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If i should choose best way for Diablo clone, i would remove the sacrifice part. I would make something like plugy has, automatic system randomly spawning clone over time.
I donāt know what the high runes (e.g. Jah or Ber) are going to be worth in D2R but I suspect theyāre at least 2 sojs each. 1 soj = 1 anni seems too cheap IMO. I could be wrong 
Since it is global servers if it still works the same way, and people can see SoJās sold to merchants I believe they could make a value of 1-100 sold to spawn him. Every hour everyone gets a chance to guess a number between 1-100. If you guess right you can make a game, and he spawns in that game. If DClone doesnāt spawn within that hour it carries over to the next hour. If you had already guessed a number on the previous hour you canāt guess another number on the carry over hour, and can only guess one number after each DClone spawn.
Yeah but that will remove SoJ from the market basicly. I dont like that.
Theyāve said itās available in single player, I canāt see them coding two different spawns.
I think it will be simple and repeatable, but am hoping SoJ is involved.
What about if we think backwards. Instead of selling SoJās to spawn DClone, what if he is spawned by the number of SoJās that drop somehow? Maybe like every 100 SoJās dropped(found) globally he spawns on that 100th drop. It resets, and the next 100th drop will spawn DClone. This will make Anni extremely rare because it all depends on who gets the 100th drop of a SoJ found. Although SoJās are extremely rare to find as it is so this would definitely make Anniās rare.
But why we want to make it extremely rare? I dont understand logic behind it as getting torch which has +3 skills is easy.
True. Only thing on Anni that gives different stats is the exp gain. Another idea could be during a daily timeframe Blizzard could set different time parameters for the finding of a SoJ, and if you find one during that timeframe you can use that SoJ to either keep, or sell to spawn DClone in your game. Example: D2: R launches Thursday, September 23rd. Letās say they announce Friday, September 24th 1:00P.M. PST to 9:00P.M. PST to find SoJ for DClone. If you play during those hours, and find a SoJ you can have a chance at spawning DClone if you choose to sell that SoJ to spawn DClone. Next day Saturday, September 25th they could use same timeframes, or switch it up, and allow shorter, or longer periods to find a SoJ to use for DClone. This seems like a pretty good idea because people may switch from Baal runs, etc. and group/solo MF to try to find that SoJ during the timeframe set forth.
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I kinda like that idea 
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Theyāll make it a random spawn in games in hell difficulty. Probably add some mechanism where killing an act boss has a incredibly low chance to trigger spawn too.
Oh. My. God. Picking up itemsā¦ AND SELLING THEM!? Do you realize what a stick-in-the-mud you sound like right now?
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