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Are there still enough people playing Diablo 2 and selling SOJs to spawn Uber Diablo?

Diablo II

Here I am farming my way towards making a character capable of taking down Uber Trist for torches, and it occurred to me that not once since I started back up playing have I seen the xxxx SOJs sold to vendors message.

I'm not sure they re-tuned the number of SOJs needing to be sold to take into account the significant population drop from D3 coming out, so am I doomed to be annihilus-less forever?

Posted Aug 1, 2012, 12:18 PM UTC

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xaoqshodan#2468•

No, it's big scam business still.

  1. Have 4 mules full of sojs in game
  2. Have SEVERAL smiters ready to kill DC in other games on the same ip
  3. sell sojs
  4. kill DC, take anni, quit
  5. rollback the first game
  6. have sojs back

also add selling the information on where are they doing that. And yes, that's exactly why any game where he spawns will crash within 2-3 minutes - the rollback crashes whole server, and they do it as soon as possible so very little people will have chance to kill him for free.

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kaiks•

Close, but not exactly.

First of all, there is no scam involved by which I mean no people are harmed nor get anything stolen.

You only need two mules at a time (for whatever reason, sojs are/were delivered by 40/char). First, you pick IP. At this time, you only need one game on this IP. You prepare to rollback, then when you're ready you sell ~80 SOJs, which is not enough to spawn DC, but pretty close.

Next thing, you crash the server (rollback), so you get the whole 80 back. Now the IP is empty, and after it comes back up (5-10minutes, usually), you find games on it really easily. This is done with hundreds (100-300) of accounts looking for games.

When you find a satisfying amount of games on desired IP, you walk. Java bots do the killing and picking up.

Crashing, as far as I've been told, is usually not even done by the guy(s) doing the walk, but some other person (probably another guy employing the same tactic, fighting for the market) so that nobody gets annis, but obviously at that point it's not very effective.

That way the annihilus market is being controlled, and Blizzard hasn't done anything about it for 5 years now.

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ricktencity•

I'm sorry what exactly do you mean by rollback the game/crash the server? How is a regular person able to crash the entire server?

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kaiks•

It's already been mentioned in this thread, and the method can be found on other forums. It's pretty easy, actually.

A while back, for example, you had to spam golems around act 5 so that TP had no place to spawn on the upper area and that would crash the server. This got patched, but at least one other public method is around.

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DoesntUnderstandJoke•

Meteors, meteors everywhere.

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xaoqshodan#2468•

Agree, it's not really a scam. Maybe went too far here :P

And interresting, I read that they sell until it spawns, kill and then rollback. When I was closer to the market it was like that, few years ago, now tactic has changed? Your scheme seems better but also has a flaw, if he walks when they aren't ready (after 80 sojs + some leftovers from previous walk ... we need 70-120 to spawn) it's a wasted time.

But crashing is definitely done by the sellers, to recover 100% annis and control the market - no free annis nono. It's probably still with the gold drop in a3, I doubt blizz has patched it ...

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kaiks•

I really doubt that there was sell until it spawns the kill and rollback tactic a few years back. There weren't enough decent bots to kill 100+ DCs in 5 minutes. (remember games get saved every 5 minutes and it's a waste of time to rollback after that, most of the server is occupied by you anyway).

There is small risk involved, but it rarely happens. When I was taking part, I'm not sure whether I was actually selling 69 to be sure or 80.

The last crash is (at least for one person I know) NOT done by the sellers, but by competition.

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xaoqshodan#2468•

Yes, it was smaller scale and manual killing, back in 1.10 :P

But it's the sellers who want to control the market and they want to make sure game is crashed. Not sure who else is here as competition...

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auralgasm•

I'm not sure what you mean by 5 years. This has only been happening with regularity since last December. People could rollback before, but it wasn't happening EVERY WALK until somewhat recently.

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kaiks•

I've been doing that 5 years ago. I stopped after a year, but my friends carried on.

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Razwiss•

Isn't SOJs for clone diablo ?

Because Uber Tristram (Uber Diablo, baal and meph) are spawned using relics dropped by some bosses in hell, in the cube IIRC.

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parsonsparsons•

Uber diablo is spawned by selling sojs

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AaronEhAaronEh#1272•

Correct, Pandemonium Diablo is spawned in the UT event.

Although Diablo Clone is used interchangeably with Uber Diablo.

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FinitePhysicsSoundex#1658•

Definitely. You can level 1-90 in an hour or two with Uber Tristram.

Edit: not sure why this deserved a downvote. Uber leveling was still in the game for a sizeable amount of time, and thus something he missed out on, just not something he is missing out on. Silly reddit.

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auralgasm•

Heh, you're still behind the times. You can't level with trists anymore, they removed experience from the minions Meph spawns. Nowadays it's back to chaosing until level 70 or so, then hell Baals until you hate yourself.

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FinitePhysicsSoundex#1658•

I quit shortly after the respec patch, I guess it slipped my mind.

then hell Baals until you hate yourself.

sigh

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bucketofscum•

So...many...abbreviations... Seriously though, what do some of them mean?

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Malazin•

SoJ's = Stone of Jordans, a unique ring. During the D2 hayday, SoJs were used as currency, and were duped to the high heavens. To combat the massive numberof SoJs in the market, Blizzard released Diablo Clone or Uber Diablo (used interchangeably). By vendoring a SoJ, you would have a chance at spawning Uber Diablo in every game on that server (people would have to sell 70-120 SoJs to "Walk Diablo" for a server, so frequently it was a coordiated effort)

Here's where the fun begins: A "server" in Diablo 2 is one of a couple hundred random IP addresses. To see your server, you either need a hack or need to hit up your DOS Prompt and run a diagnostic. So what people would do is target a certain Server, broadcast the IP address and let people collect a few hundred games on the server. To get on the server, you would rejoin games over and over, checking the IP every time to see if it matches the one you're looking for. Once everyone is ready, a "seller" would sell 100 SoJs and Walk Diablo for everyone on the server, spawning hundreds of Diablo Clones.

Once Diablo is spawned, "Diablo walks the Earth" will be written in your game. The next unique monster you encounter is replaced by him. He is a beefy version of Diablo much harder than Hell Baal but much easier than the Pandemonium event bosses. Once you kill him, you get an Anni (short for Annihulus) small charm. It is a badass little thing with +all skills, +all resist and +all stats.

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bucketofscum•

You sir are a gentleman and a scholar.

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You sir are a bucket of scum.

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Steeezy•

anni/torches can be placed in the trade window these days, you could always just trade for them?

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GiantPineapple•

wuuuuuuuuuut?

EDIT: By which I mean, "Really? That would be awesome"

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RLGGZA•

http://www.reddit.com/r/slashdiablo

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smocca•

To give this a bit of context, you can spawn Diablo Clone on slashdiablo by selling a single SoJ. Selling one SoJ will spawn him for every single person online (in a hell game).

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b4b•

I do not really have much time to write about it, but most (probably 95%+) annihiluses are botted. There are few players who in the past could load 200-400 characters to games via clientless bots - on the same server and then spawn diablo clonse by selling either botted, legit (bought at d2jsp) or duped sojs. I am unsure if the annis were collected manually or botted too, I suspect the latter.

Then they would sell full accounts of unid annihiluses. Personally I've defeated diablo clone like 15-20 times, but have around 60 annis. All were bought at D2jsp from resellers

You can also buy NON-ladder sojs at d2jsp for few fg each and spawn the Clone for whole whole server (e.g. Ladder) - non-ladder sojs are dirty cheap when compared to ladder / HC.

edit: botting is still quite popular, people often run 4 or more bots.. I would say that one player can farm on ladder, trade those items for non-ladder sojs and spawn the clone. There are still many people playing.

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RedmondTheRobotShazbot#1459•

There used to be a site along the lines of dclonehunters that would show you which IPs were hot and when Diablo had last walked, but I can't seem to find it. Most of the walks are controlled by certain groups now. I think there is one that is usually on an IRC channel or one on Ventrillo (I can't remember). If you're really looking to get in on some of them they require a certain amount of SOJs as payment then they give you the IP to go to.

If you're lucky enough sometimes you can end up in a game with the IP that is hot and have him spawn, but that's only happened once in about the past 2 years for me. As much as I don't really like the site, you could probably find out more on D2Jsp as well as players who are looking to hunt for D Clone.

Edit: Here's a site that keeps track of it, I'm not positive on the accuracy of it though. Hope it helps!

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AaronEhAaronEh#1272•

It used to be Dclone IRC - not sure if it is still active though.

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b1ackcatblackcat27#1415•

was just in it last night and they did a co-op (coordinated spawn of dclone). It's not nearly as active as it once was, but it's not dead (yet)

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BongMaster395•

I just got back into D2 a while ago and have been trying to find people to get him to walk with but i couldnt find anyone interested add me im NL West, BobTheZealot

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