Short Questions Thread

So I tried doing the void about 30 times now, I am getting better and better, mendeln always survives with a tiny amount of HP, and in the minute I never manage to lower his health even a bit - he doesn't even cast SA.

I die pretty much all the time - is there a way to increase my survivability pretty cheap?

Are there any tricks to make it easier? I manage it the second time in SP but that was pure luck.

Very new here. Do most people bother with barrels and chests?

Actually another question, keep all jewels for recipe use later or will I have enough dropping later to not bother early?

thedude wrote:Very new here. Do most people bother with barrels and chests?

i check them in the early levels in act 1 hatred

thedude wrote:Actually another question, keep all jewels for recipe use later or will I have enough dropping later to not bother early?

keep the jewels to create sockets in the items that don't have any ( when making a runeword / rare items)

can somebody with spare time and a sin to do some updates to this balesin build? i read just some important parts and claims to be newb friendly and boss killer?

http://www.medianxl.com/t927-mxlu-balesin-the-firedancer

thedude wrote:Very new here. Do most people bother with barrels and chests?

Barrels have half a normal monster's chance of a drop. Chests have one monster's chance of a drop. If your kill speed is medium-high, it's not worth the time to bother with, unless of course the barrels are blocking the way.

Some chests (both sparkly and normal) have a custom drop rate, something like 2-3 elites would drop at once or something. Examples of special non-sparkly are the chests on each side of baal's summoning room in act 5 (throne of destruction?). Those chests are out of the way, but puke out a bunch of drops (though I'm not sure of the mlvl).

In unmodded d2, people already tended to ignore chests and barrels because of the focus on xp and the need to kill bosses for the truly good drops (high ilvl). In Median the monster density and rate is significantly higher, which makes barrels and chests less interesting (less xp per second), though I don't know what ilvl they drop at. There used to be a chance of a 1hk trap (punishers), but this has been removed.

Basically, tag them when you want to, but don't expect the best drops from them and you don't miss anything by skipping them. Gold chests and other special chests are worth it when you're near them.

Firien wrote:In unmodded d2, people already tended to ignore chests and barrels because of the focus on xp and the need to kill bosses for the truly good drops (high ilvl).

Lower Kurast Chests runs say hi!!!!

Prime_Evil wrote:
Firien wrote:In unmodded d2, people already tended to ignore chests and barrels because of the focus on xp and the need to kill bosses for the truly good drops (high ilvl).

Lower Kurast Chests runs say hi!!!!

Check all containers in Broken Hills !

an uber like http://pathofexile.gamepedia.com/Vaults_of_Atziri ?

where only contains chests :flip:

Thanks for the answers to my questions!