Hardcore Discussion

[Roranora]

not as good as Celestial orb, but still okay. co-op and teammates is where it's at; helps out the frantic DH usually always moving. You can more precisely place a caltrops and then hide behind rapture monk

[Roranora]

hay aurik wottles esuna euphoria rapture fireal jay momo peoples, help

let's coordinate ghost finds XD

I have Fecklar, Lucious, and John. I lack Dataminer, Drury, and the 2 A2 ghosts.

Aurik has Dataminer, Drury, The Tomekeeper (1 of 2 in A2), lacks The Archivist (the 2nd in A2)

Fireal has Archivist.. if only we were alllllll one, we would have the Haunted achievement

[Roranora]

if people want to hunt them for serious, best way is to create a game on The Shattered Crown at the Northwest Gate. Go get the checkpoint after Manglemaw in the real crypt and resume from here.

Backtrack to what will always be the real crypt. In the real crypt you will find John Gorham Coffin and Drury Brown at less-than-Ridill rates.

Lucious will be outside; he's easy. I've got him 4-5 times.

Then run and find the crypt that's either Jar of Souls or Matriarch Bones. If Bones, leave game, resume, go look for Drury/John.

If Jar, full clear and look for Dataminer.

If you find the third crypt (the short false crypt), just run through it. You can find a shiny chest here at about 1 in not too much. And you can find the useless Digger O'Dell in this third crypt too at about 1 in 10.

[Roranora]

Fecklar kicks it rare style in the Festering Woods. I stumbled into him during normal progression at some point. Good one to get out of the way.

The Tomekeeper and The Archivist are Unknown Depths and Realm of Shadow for Zoltun. You should also run The Storm Halls for a potentially very rare Elite spawn, a Fallen Cur rare/champ pack.

[aurik]

I wish there was a good resource that showed all the rare-spawn unique mobs locations

[Synbios]

Can i get a price check on this ring?

[Oxyminus]

What's the deal with these rare ghosts? I found one (didn't check the name) in the crypt this morning. Dinged lvl 52! SK fight next session!

[aurik]

Very expensive. There's only 4 on the AH now, I think they're overpriced but they're all like 10m. You could probably get several million out of it.

[Roranora]

What's the deal with these unique ghosts? I found one (didn't check the name) in the crypt this morning. Dinged lvl 52! SK fight next session!

Edit: Ftfy, first of all XD =D c:

Not much else to cover beyond the above posts? Just unique spawns. And.. at least Drury/Fecklar/Dataminer are extremely infrequently spawned or even noticed. Digger O'Dell is very common, spawns in the smallest of the crypts, and is most often the only one people see. And he's not even part of the achievement checklist of 7 unique ghosts. Seriously, if the Haunted achievement isn't on your radar, you probably don't even notice the beta content and subsequently, these particular uniques.

Unique (monsters, not items) in D3 means what super unique meant in D2. And instead of unique for yellow+minion packs, rare monsters are called rares. Champions are still champions. And all are subsets of Elite monsters; **themoreyouknow**

colours are easier; ask Mag

SHIT BLUES

OMG YELLOW RUN

then when it's just a unique, (a yellow mob with a purple name) everyone breathes a sigh of relief and facerolls

[Synbios]

Very expensive. There's only 4 on the AH now, I think they're overpriced but they're all like 10m. You could probably get several million out of it.

I threw it up for 15m right away. Looks like I'm not to far off

[Oxyminus]

Hah, thanks for the crash course. Yeah, I haven't been eying the ghost achievement, so I haven't been paying attention to the ghost.

I'm annoyed that Developer Hell has been alluding me. Between SC and HC chars, I'm shocked that it has yet to pop for me.

[Roranora]

Aye, Dev Hell is pretty elusive. Take solace in the fact it'll come before Haunted.. several months before probably @Q@;

[Oxyminus]

I guess I'll take some solace in that. I'm still surprised I haven't seen it. I figured since it's another random dungeon, it would spawn somewhat frequently. I'm not quite at the point of just reloading games
Until it spawns, but I'm considering t!

[Roranora]

I think Dev Hell is 0% on normal diff and possibly increasingly likely in higher difficulties. I've only seen it once and that was like my 3rd game in Hell

[Fireal]

Awww, and I died in the Halls of Agony :/

[miokomioko]

So much for my Lv.58.9 Monk. I zoned right into the fucking center of a Molten Waller Horde pack. I couldn't move at all and they were all over the zone entrance so I couldn't get back in either.

It's so amazing that Blizzard had no problem with coding mobs (especially elites) to spawn right on top of entrances like that. Such

[aurik]

You were coming out to the desolate sands from the terminus? That's bad juju, as there's often a champ or rare pack camping that entrance. You're better off taking the waypoint way back at the beginning of the desolate sands (not the one in the middle of it) if you want to farm that zone.

[miokomioko]

I was mostly farming that stupid Ancient Device achievement while simultaneously grinding my last two levels on the, as you said, elite packs that were often near that platform or on the way to the device from it. Every time I ran into a reaaaaally shitty pack, I was more than able to high-tail it back into the Terminus for a reset. Except for that time where I was unable to move whatsoever, even after my first time triggering Near Death Experience. ;/

It was my first Hardcore character ever. Consider the lesson learnt. ;(

[arus2001]

It's funny because Blizzard should have learned the lesson about WP rape through D2 when they finally removed the named amp damage quill rat from the Inner Cloister WP that had a bad habit of killing anyone before the screen even loaded.

[Plow]

careful what you say, we'll end up with FFXI shit where you try to kite for 10 feet and the mobs despawn