Peak Mythicality

Good Morning Folks. My friends will tell you that I have “Bel Luck” when it comes to anything involving random chance. I’ve spent years trying to deny this but there are times you just cannot ignore there is something. For example around 2015/2016 Magic the Gathering released a number of sets with ultra-rare chase cards that had a pull chance roughly equivalent to one in every two full cases of booster packs… so somewhere around one in four hundred packs. I pulled the most expensive card buying completely random packs that still go for around $800 after a significant price drop due to the card being banned recently, and had a peak of around $1200. Not only did I pull one of these… I pulled another one of these chase cards from Kaladesh… as well as one from Zendikkar, and two from Amonkhet just buying the occasional random pack. In all examples, I likely bought less than half a booster box worth of packs in total.

This is a common enough occurrence that my friends will talk about my “Bel Luck” rubbing off on them and them benefitting from being in close proximity of me when it comes to good drops in video games. Last night Ace and I spent the evening running summoned bosses. I have no clue HOW many we ended up killing but we wound up doing the same rotation we did last time. We started with Varshaan and we did at least twenty summons before moving on to Lord Zir for another twenty or so there. Then we did Beast in the Ice, followed by Grigore… and in both cases we had to go back to town a few times to clear our inventory. We wrapped up doing Duriel and only got about halfway through our summons before we ran out of steam. Either tonight or some other point this week/weekend we will finish up Duriel and do Andariel before to halt for another week or so and gather back up the materials for more summons. Ace got the first Mythic drop last night and made the traditional comment that my luck was rubbing off on them.

Then my luck kicked in. Over the course of the night, I got Five Mythic Uniques… the first of which was crafted. I’ve lined them up in the order in which I got them to drop. I attempted to use Andariel’s Visage but was taking too much damage due to the high damage reduction roll I had on my existing unique helmet. Then I got a Glaive drop which seemed really interesting, but unfortunately, Kepeleke is kind of required to make the build work. Then I got Heir of Perdition which is a helm that my previous build incarnation wanted, but is not really useful for Quillrain. Next up I got Ring of the Starless Skies which is pretty much a universally good item that I was able to work into my build. Lastly, I got Tyrael’s Might, the Mythic Unique that the build ones, and the one that Ace managed to get through crafting.

Even with all of these upgrades… there seems to be some special sauce that has Ace far ahead of me in performance. This morning I attempted Pit 60 something that they have been speed farming… and it was an absolute slog to get through. I would essentially have to gather everything up and then slowly grind it down. There is something I am missing… or some piece of gear that does not have a high enough roll. Whatever the case I can now comfortably do Torment III all day long, but as I approach Torment IV everything slows down to a crawl. I am just not certain what I am doing wrong with this build, but whatever the case I am annoying the hell out of me. If nothing else my survival has gone up significantly since getting the two mythic upgrades.

At some point, I need to inspect Ace in-game so that I can look through their gear and try and glean what I am missing. I also feel like I am missing talent points somewhere because when I follow a build guide I seem to always be a point or two short from what the guide is recommending. I am seeing that there is a bug that folks are talking about where a respec gave them 69 points instead of 71 so I am wondering if I am being impacted by that. I really do not want to respec everything again but I might try that. I wish Diablo IV had something akin to POE.Ninja which lets me poke around in other builds doing the same thing so I that I could see whatever they were doing differently. I am stronger than I was, but nowhere near what I am seeing from Ace.