Short Questions Thread

[Philby]

I was wondering, how come MXL Rifts doesn't make use of the random level generator of Vanilla D2 ?
I'm not a dev or anything close, just out of curiosity. Please note that I'm sure there's a good reason, so my point is not to ask for anything...
Thanks !

Because it's much easier to draw a new comprehensive preset map from scratch than trying to make something out of existing random level generator. Map generation process is heavily hardcoded and there is only a handful amount of possible level layout schemes available. Have you ever wondered why Arcane Sanctuary always resemble the same pattern even though it's a randomly generated map?

There is not that much you can do except for trying to replicate the existing room set for some specific level blueprint. That would require a lot of time and effort yet you'll end up with the same well known layout and the only difference would be its visual appearance. I have no doubt it's possible to write a brand new layout scheme but good luck with that, there is an enormous amount of code that needs to be reversed just to get a grasp on this process.

Thanks for the answer. Technicals aspects aside, it would probably be more boring to grind a randomly generated map rather than a well designed preset map. Like Act 1 jail vs Duncraig...

[altoiddealer]

Hello, just made my first Xis rune and I want to make sure I understand it completely before botching it up.

1. Can it only be used for runewords? Or can you use it for its bonus? I would assume you can but the documentation includes this slightly cryptic sentence “Xis rune cannot be used by itself unless making Natasha's Legacy.”
(https://docs.median-xl.com/doc/items/socketables)

2. Does cubing it with an ordinary rune merge the bonuses? Such as, JahXis would be 40% ed in a weapon?

3. Can you slap 6 JahXis runes in a weapon to add 240% ed?

[cnlnjzfjb]

Hello, just made my first Xis rune and I want to make sure I understand it completely before botching it up.

1. Can it only be used for runewords? Or can you use it for its bonus? I would assume you can but the documentation includes this slightly cryptic sentence “Xis rune cannot be used by itself unless making Natasha's Legacy.”
(https://docs.median-xl.com/doc/items/socketables)

2. Does cubing it with an ordinary rune merge the bonuses? Such as, JahXis would be 40% ed in a weapon?

3. Can you slap 6 JahXis runes in a weapon to add 240% ed?

Jah-Xis: 15%ED

[Scalewinged]

Xis runes by themselves providing just the same bonuses as their usual bases (so Jah and JaXis will give the same ED bonus) and it's simply worthless to use Xis runes for anything other than making enhanced runewords.

[altoiddealer]

Thanks for the replies

Xis runes by themselves providing just the same bonuses as their usual bases (so Jah and JaXis will give the same ED bonus) and it's simply worthless to use Xis runes for anything other than making enhanced runewords.

So to clarify: Xis runes do not actually add 25% ed to a weapon?

If they did, then I would rather use 6 Xis for 150% ed, rather than my current 6 Jah for 90% ed. I feel like I can hit more dmg with a crafted Labrys (plus, 6 rune bonus towards Runemaster skill), than with any runeword (only 1 rune bonus to Runemaster skill)

[Scalewinged]

Thanks for the replies

Xis runes by themselves providing just the same bonuses as their usual bases (so Jah and JaXis will give the same ED bonus) and it's simply worthless to use Xis runes for anything other than making enhanced runewords.

So to clarify: Xis runes do not actually add 25% ed to a weapon?

If they did, then I would rather use 6 Xis for 150% ed, rather than my current 6 Jah for 90% ed. I feel like I can hit more dmg with a crafted Labrys (plus, 6 rune bonus towards Runemaster skill), than with any runeword (only 1 rune bonus to Runemaster skill)

Xis runes themselves ye, adding what they list, but not Xis enhanced runes. So you won't get 40% ED if you make JaXis, you won't get XX% extra gold + 25% ED if you make TirXis and so on.

[altoiddealer]

Thanks! The 2 things that were confusing me in the wiki were that the Xis rune and all the enhanced runes include a comma in their bonus descriptions. So I thought maybe it signified they added together. And like I said before the wiki has that statement saying Xis runes can’t be used alone (without explicitly saying “when creating runewords”).

Good to know. I think I’ll acquire Xis runes faster than Shaad runes (if I ever get any)

[cnlnjzfjb]

all in here
https://docs.median-xl.com/doc/items/socketables#idx2

[altoiddealer]

Thanks again for the replies

I have a new question: where would be the best place to farm for the Edyrem Set items? Can they drop in Kurast 3k? I do fine in Duncraig, Teganze, Fauz... even Toraja really but the set items would probably speed things up a little. Just wondering where I’ll have the best odds. Thanks

[cnlnjzfjb]

Thanks again for the replies

I have a new question: where would be the best place to farm for the Edyrem Set items? Can they drop in Kurast 3k? I do fine in Duncraig, Teganze, Fauz... just wondering where I’ll have the best odds. Thanks

This set is rare, esp weapon and armor. Not sure about K3K, but Dunc and Fauz are guaranteed to be able to drop. If it was me, I will farm the two, not only for the set. Since in general K3K is kind of low return in late game farming, even in mid game farmiing.