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Video now available: [Diablo II] Dancing of the Souls Easter Egg - Infinite Magic Find
I’ve been hearing about this easter egg for a few months, although I only recently found out that the "dancing of the souls" easter egg is not just an artificial visual fun thing, but it actually does have gameplay implications through the boosting of magic find, if done properly.
Mr. Llama’s video shows this off here, and people on the PureDiablo forum have been speaking about it from the perspective of 1.07/1.08, which don’t have diminishing returns on magic find. This means you can force unique drops from basically all monsters in those versions.
From what I’ve read so far (some may not be 100% true but may be approximately true):
1. The earliest discovered code for this easter egg goes back to 1.04 (but @ZOMBY has confirmed that this works in 1.00).
2. The magic find buff lasts around 19.2 hours.
3. The magic find buff stacks if you repeat the easter egg.
4. The letters spelled out by the souls are the letters of the developers (David, Erich, Max, Etc).
5. Each letter that the soul spells out will increase your MF count.
6. The buff will reset if you leave the game or die.
The technique to trigger this is basically:
1. Go to Plains of Despair
2. Get 4 souls together (you’ll probably want to clear some mobs and isolate them. Some people say 3 souls works as well).
3. Let them attack you. Don’t move/attack or do anything (Drinking pots will not affect it).
4. Eventually the souls will \"get in sync\" and stop attacking you. They will start using their lightning to spell letters. If they don’t start spelling letters within 1-2 minutes, you’ll probably want to move around and try again.
Once they are done spelling all of their letters, your buff will be activated. You can re-do this trick with the same souls and it will stack.
Soul Sequence Patterns (D -> E -> M - > V? -> R? -> A? -> S?)
The initial 3 letters are most likely David Brevik, Erich Schaefer, Max Schaefer, and I’m guessing some of the other letters are for Rick Seis, Phil Shenk, to name a few). Once the souls finish their sequence, they will attack you again.
I’ll be trying to replicate this on 1.05b to see what happens (on a cloned testing character). Although I don’t know if I’ll be using this myself, or will be using it frequently, not sure yet. Part of the fun is playing normally and letting the RNG stuff happens and getting that dopamine hit whenever a rare/unique does drop. We’ll see how I feel about it. Are you all planning on using this in your playthroughs?
I’ve been hearing about this easter egg for a few months, although I only recently found out that the "dancing of the souls" easter egg is not just an artificial visual fun thing, but it actually does have gameplay implications through the boosting of magic find, if done properly.
Mr. Llama’s video shows this off here, and people on the PureDiablo forum have been speaking about it from the perspective of 1.07/1.08, which don’t have diminishing returns on magic find. This means you can force unique drops from basically all monsters in those versions.
From what I’ve read so far (some may not be 100% true but may be approximately true):
1. The earliest discovered code for this easter egg goes back to 1.04 (but @ZOMBY has confirmed that this works in 1.00).
2. The magic find buff lasts around 19.2 hours.
3. The magic find buff stacks if you repeat the easter egg.
4. The letters spelled out by the souls are the letters of the developers (David, Erich, Max, Etc).
5. Each letter that the soul spells out will increase your MF count.
6. The buff will reset if you leave the game or die.
The technique to trigger this is basically:
1. Go to Plains of Despair
2. Get 4 souls together (you’ll probably want to clear some mobs and isolate them. Some people say 3 souls works as well).
3. Let them attack you. Don’t move/attack or do anything (Drinking pots will not affect it).
4. Eventually the souls will \"get in sync\" and stop attacking you. They will start using their lightning to spell letters. If they don’t start spelling letters within 1-2 minutes, you’ll probably want to move around and try again.
Once they are done spelling all of their letters, your buff will be activated. You can re-do this trick with the same souls and it will stack.
Soul Sequence Patterns (D -> E -> M - > V? -> R? -> A? -> S?)
The initial 3 letters are most likely David Brevik, Erich Schaefer, Max Schaefer, and I’m guessing some of the other letters are for Rick Seis, Phil Shenk, to name a few). Once the souls finish their sequence, they will attack you again.
I’ll be trying to replicate this on 1.05b to see what happens (on a cloned testing character). Although I don’t know if I’ll be using this myself, or will be using it frequently, not sure yet. Part of the fun is playing normally and letting the RNG stuff happens and getting that dopamine hit whenever a rare/unique does drop. We’ll see how I feel about it. Are you all planning on using this in your playthroughs?
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