[1.09b] Matriarch Metteyya (Sorc) [Level 72 | Lod | Retired]

[fearedbliss]

Oh what's this? A new universe has been formed in 1.09b, and Metteyya has arrived. The world of Sanctuary will once again know true peace, wisdom, and enlightenment in these dark times. The Prime Evils will be vanquished.

Besides that though, this will be on Softcore Expansion.

@Manny I know you happy

 

[Manny]

let's fkin goooo!!!

 

[Manny]

!!! Metteyya ~~ I see you!!!

Bro these names lately have been wild btw lol. But I can't talk -- my Sorcs are Jehosheba, Tzipora, and Eve -- all from the Bible, lol. And I already know you like to go straight Buddha w/ your shiet. Alas, all spiritual roads lead to the GOAT game -- Diablo fkin 2!!!

Also reminds me of one of my fav all time bands, lol.

 

[fearedbliss]

Lmfao definitely. Theravada (or Early Buddhism if you ask me my focus/interest) specifically, so I like to use the Pali romanizations . There are no R's in Pali so instead of saying Karma, it's Kamma. Nirvana -> Nibbana. Sutra - Sutta. But the standard romanizations that normally everyone uses sometimes sound gangsta as well .. maybe. You can think of Theravada and Mahayana (the more popular one) as the difference between prelod and lod lol. Some fundamentally major differences but they both still have positives lol. There's another major one that's practiced mostly in Tibet which is Vajrayana (the Dalai Lama is part of this school).

 

[Manny]

Lmfao definitely. Theravada (or Early Buddhism to be more specific if you ask me my focus) specifically, so I like to use the Pali romanizations . There are no R's in Pali so instead of saying Karma, it's Kamma. Nirvana -> Nibbana. Sutra - Sutta. But the standard romanizations that normally everyone uses something sound gangsta as well .. maybe.

 

[Manny]

P.S. LMK when you get to Hell! We can do Cows, CS, Blood runs, and Baal. ^_^

 

[galaxyhaxz]

As an avid zon player, guided arrow + buriza has a home in this patch Best baal killer imo

 

[Manny]

As an avid zon player, guided arrow + buriza has a home in this patch Best baal killer imo

Facts! The piercing guided arrow in 1.09 is so satisfying

 

[fearedbliss]

@Manny I'm gonna have to make a separate "Multiplayer" universe one day lol.

EDIT: I just remembered I can't even play MP anyways because my gaming comp is fully offline with no internet lol. But it's all good though, we can still chat on the forum and post stuff.

 

[Manny]

Lol trueee. But just for the record, Cactus works on Linux & BSD now, right? Eventually I will take my Windows 10 PC offline as well, but ideally I could still stream D2 and play LAN with friends on a secure machine

 

[fearedbliss]

Yea definitely, I would need to set up Cactus/Wine/D2 again on FreeBSD. Not that difficult but would need to happen to MP. Although my main gaming machine is still gonna be the offline Windows 10 machine . No worries, we will MP one day lol.

 

[Manny]

OK good! I just picked up the perfect desktop to build a FOSS system in. I am going to have fun this weekend configuring it and getting Cactus/Wine/D2 on it.

BTW, what build will Metteyya be?

 

[fearedbliss]

From my calculations, it seems I'm gonna be going Orb/TS/SF. I'll have a big mana pool, combined with max warmth for high recovery, and using energy shield as well to help me tank. The rest of the points will be going into TS to help me single target non-light immune monsters. Primary will be cold damage. Merc will also be helping deal with non-PI immune monsters. There will be situations where something could be Cold/Light immune, if so, hopefully merc can handle it or I'll need to re-roll the map (or skip the monster if it is a non-quest monster). But assuming goal is to reach level 99 for this char, I should have 110 points available after all skill quests. I want to have max static (even in lod) because Cows will be my main way to level up and I want as much range as possible to help me hit as wide of an area as possible in the farm without having to get close to the cows. Mix that with +skiller charms and gear, and we should be at a pretty interesting spot. Of course I'll also have full rejuvs and all of that so people may make different decisions/compromises, but I think I'll have fun with this build and I've tried Orb/Nova and Orb/FW builds before in 1.09b. They are also really good. Nova is VERY high mana consumption skill, so if you did want to use Nova for doing cow runs, you will end up having to do mana runs lol. I remember doing that.. doing Eldritch/Shenk mana runs, filling up all of my inventory and stash with mana, and then going into the farm and draining all of that mana. It wasn't the funnest experience but it was pretty good in terms of exp IIRC.

Metteyya's Build

• 98 - Leveling
• 3 - Den of Evil
• 3 - Book of Skill
• 6 - Izual

110 Available Points

Cold Spells

• 1 - Frozen Armor
• 1 - Frost Nova
• 1 - Ice Bolt
• 1 - Ice Blast
• 1 - Glacial Spike
• 1 - Blizzard
• 20 - Frozen Orb
• 17 - Cold Mastery

43 Points

Lightning Spells

• 1 - Charged Bolt
• 1 - Lightning
• 1 - Chain Lightning
• 1 - Nova
• 1 - Telekinesis
• 1 - Teleport
• 1 - Energy Shield
• 1 - Lightning Mastery
• 20 - Static Field
• 19 - Thunder Storm (the rest go here)

47 Points

Fire Spells

• 20 - Warmth

20 Points

 

[Manny]

I definitely agree regarding Nova being VERY expensive! My Nova sorc was my third sorc and she inherited several GG's which made her viable (such as a forwarded 1.07 MPK ring). But without that pricey gear it would not be possible. She is also an 8 frames / 105 FCR sorc which means she melts cows before they can even react. -- it's LOTS of fun xD

Ok so on your build... I don't I think it's bad necessarily, but I would highly recommend going Meteor instead of TS as your secondary "kill" skill. So essentially a Meteorb Sorc. I think you'll get a lot more mileage out of that one, because otherwise you will have a hard time killing any cold immunes. TS is fun for PvP but it's kind of a 1 point skill IMO. And what are you going to do when you hit cold immunes? Float around waiting for those TS strikes to come down? Also, you don't need to max Static. You will hit more than the whole screen at 17 points IIRC. I would put 10 points in it and get the rest with +skills gear.

That's my two cents anyway. Meteorb is the bees knees for 1.09 unless you can afford Nova. It devastates Cows & Mephisto (moat trick ^^). It's also a lot of fun!

Here's a sample build you can take a peek at: Goddess Metteyya. I left the stat points alone so you can tinker with those as you like.

Oh, and just 1 point into CM. It's really not going to be worth going higher for PvM. Trust me

Just thinking out loud bro! Have fun!

 

[Gentle Wookiee]

The real question is when is someone going to set up a server for 1.09b that we can all occupy? lol

 

[fearedbliss]

@Manny haha good looks. So the reason I wanted to try out the Orb/TS build is also cause I've had the other sorcs before (including Meteorb). The Meteorb sorcs are good for sure but I didn't like waiting for the meteors haha. So for now I wanna give a try to this alternate build and see what happens. Worse case scenario I can make another sorc and I'll have a shitload of gear that I found with Metteyya. So the second sorc should be much easier to remake and I'll have p8 when starting her up again. Time to experiment lol.

@Gentle Wookiee A long time ago I use to mess around with the private server software, but trying to stay away from that from a legal perspective (even though I haven't seen Blizzard going after private servers for a long time). So I've been pushing LAN if anything cause 1. It's legal 2. No specific server setup is required so a lot easier to get going 3. We can play multiplayer with any version of the game since even 1.00 has it, and private server software I believe is limited to 1.09 as the earliest.

 

[Manny]

@Gentle Wookiee Bro that honestly would be pretty lit, and it's definitely something I've thought about lol. It'd be an exclusive/private 1.09b server for members of TMC and would be tightly integrated with the forum. As far as the gameplay it would be very vanilla like, perhaps with some minor QoL enhancements, but nothing crazy. I think that would be a lot of fun.

@fearedbliss Haha, I hear you on the delay with waiting for Meteors to drop, lol. Your build sounds fun and unique! GL HF

 

[galaxyhaxz]

In fact, there actually is a 1.09 server that someone is hosting. However, they make a bunch of additional changes people probably won't like, but then again I guess they are going for the authentic *real* 1.09 experience people had back in the day with actual bugged items/maphacks etc. and not just the vanilla 1.09 was intended to be.

But anyhow, the software people use to host servers can support as low 1.09, so it would be possible to setup your own pretty easily. I would definitely be interested in playing such a setting since I missed out on the golden days, even if I think some things about that era were questionable, it would be great to play a game not dominated by teleporting paladins. (Would also be sick to have a 1.05b server, but that would require a ton of work to pvpgn)

 

[Manny]

@galaxyhaxz Rock on! And same here regarding the teleporting Paladins, lmao. Personally I'd probably want to use something like your 1.09b Fix-up Final Update as the basis for the private server as it has a lot of bug fixes and the elite 1.08 uniques which were part of my childhood. I'd have to review the changelog as it's been a while but I remember it being a tasteful/vanilla-like mod with some classic elements mixed in.

 

[galaxyhaxz]

They actually added some of the same changes I did but went even further, basically adding every single 1.08 unique as an alternate drop to the 1.09 version (which I agree with over my mod cherry picking the ones I wanted), but they do some stuff that drastically alters the game, like adding mana potions to vendors. That's a really bad idea... imo

I forgot many of the changes I made in that 1.09 mod but ran through it right quick, there are definitely some things I would do differently now, but many things I would keep. I had a chuckle from this right here, I remember adding this to be funny:

Minor Bugs

- Lord De Seis properly spawns with conviction.

So yeah... I might open a thread where we can discuss mod theorycrafting, as I *might* make another d2 mod now that I consider my diablo 1 stuff pretty much done (plan to release it here!).