Hey everyone! This is a guide I posted on an old forum I was associated with for a while. During the time, I was a clan member of the site and was under another name. If you have visited the site before (I will not link it here) you may recognize the post. It was posted by Tempest Knights, I am Tempest Knights, it was a Diablo account I ran for a few years. Just wanted to make clear I am not stealing this, this is my guide.
Sorry its so out of date, if people have things to add to bring it up to date that would be awesome. I do not play anymore (or at least at the moment), but thought it would be useful here for some people.
So have you heard of Dclone, you know he's an Uber Diablo who drops the Annihilus. You like the idea of farming Anni's but you have no idea where to start. Well sir/madam, you have come to the right place. Much to the uneducated man's (or woman's) surprise, Dclone is not at all a random event. Dclone will in fact spawn on a particular game server when a certain number of SoJ's (yes the unique ring Stone of Jordan) are sold to a vendor (yes it sounds like a waste but I'm not joking).
Lets start with the server part. When you connect to battle net you have the option of making or joining a game. Each game is assigned to a game server, each game server has a number. This number is the IP number of the game server. Here is an example, this is the game server my pally is currently on:
63.214.83.43.4000
43 is the server number.
Now you probably want to know how I found out that IP address and are dead keen to try yourself. Well, I will get to that in a minute. You must understand that this server has hundreds of games on it at one time. If Diablo clone walks on this server he walks in every HELL game on this server! (Hardcore, softcore, ladder or non-ladder; it does not matter.) Dclone will not spawn on a nightmare, or normal server. When Dclone walks, a game message will appear saying "Diablo walks the earth." Dclone will spawn at the first unique monster you come across after that message is announced. I suggest places like act 2 arcane portal in the palace, a unique spawns there, or act 5 frigid highlands waypoint.
OK so now you want to know which server Dclone is going to spawn on and how on earth you find out which server you are currently on.
Dclone will spawn on a server after somewhere between 80-120 SoJ's are sold. There are various websites that log how many are sold. Unfortunately, I do not wish to link them to you as the one I use is also linked to another website/forum much like this and I do not have permission from a mod/admin yet. However, their are 2 battle.net channels that have a bot that has the exact same info as these websites.
Op Dclonewest - West
Op Dclone - East and West (i have found to be the most accurate)
You can access these channels right now and type ".hot" or ".top" and the bots will tell you if their are any hot servers atm, and how many SoJ's have been sold on the top 3 servers.
Now your really keen to find out what server you are on right? Well it's really not hard to do. Firstly if you are going to hunt Dclone, I suggest you open your Diablo in windowed mode. To do this simply right click on your Diablo 2: LoD link in your start menu > Properties > target, change it to look like this: "C:\Program Files\Diablo II\Diablo II.exe" -w. All you have done is added the -w at the end of it(make sure you leave a space or it wont work).
Now log into battle.net and create a game. Any hell game preferably with a password (don't want people stealing your Anni). Now minimize Diablo and open your start panel (hit the windows key). Then you need to find the run function in your start menu. It's right below "help and support" and "search." It will open a box, type into that box "cmd". A black box will appear on you screen. Then just type into that screen:
"netstat -n"
A list of IPs addresses will appear. You are looking for the one ending in .4000 like the one I showed you before.
63.214.83.43.4000
The only number that will change will be the number in bold. Sadly, the only way to get onto a particular server is simple trial and error. Keep remaking games until the server your on matches the one you want. I would also suggest you wait a minute between making games or you may find yourself with realm down and unable to connect to battle.net (they temporarily ban your IP).
So there is my brief guide to how to hunt Dclone. If you are wondering how you actually kill him, I suggest using an Uber Smiter. I will post a link of a 10 minute youtube video on how to build an Uber Smiter for under 2 Hrs. (I did not make this video however, I made the character and solo Ubers easy). Thank you all for reading and any feedback would be greatly appreciated.
If you need any further info please ask, I will do what ever I can to answer your questions or maybe some of our peers can do so as well.
Grammar and Spelling have been corrected. Feel free to just copy and paste or let me know if you dont want it. Also, decent guide and how the hell did you stumble across this method?
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Grammar and Spelling have been corrected. Feel free to just copy and paste or let me know if you dont want it. Also, decent guide and how the hell did you stumble across this method?