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dywi...@scf.usc.edu (Donald Wilson) wrote:

>Do these wonderful unique/godly items I keep reading about actually exist.
>Have you encountered them in your travels? Can I hope to finally get some
>really decent kit by persevering here?  Its getting kind of boring and the
>only thing that sustains my interest while I wait for the inevitable add-on
>pack is the hope that there is some good equipment to be had.

>From my own *very* brief experience at lvl 40 and mostly from talking
to others, it does seem you start finding better things at that level
and certainly get offered better things in town.  Since writing the
previous I've picked up a Godly Helm (grand one even) of Whale from
Wirt and a Meteoric (long war) Bow of Lightning from Gris.  The really
good stuff seems much more accessible in town once you're lvl 40.

As for Uniques- I've found about 80% of them and probably more than
half in hell (any mode).  What fancy jewelry I've found has always
come from hell (again, any mode) and for whatever reason, has always
come off a decaptitated corpse.

I think people underestimate how very, very rare some of the rare
stuff is.  Once something starts getting duped on b.net, it gives the
impression that it is everywhere to be had.  Also, I get a big kick
out of the people who always start yelling, "THAT DOESN"T EXIST IN THE
GAME!!" simply because they've "been to hell/hell 50 times and would
have found it if it did."  Pshaw.  

One example, I found a King's (great) Axe of Haste in Nightmare Hell
quite some time ago.  I've held onto it (thinking I'll do a warrior
someday) but have never seen or heard of another one.  I've had people
offer me their souls and their firstborn children for it and they say
that they've never seen one or heard of anybody having one.  

So I believe the answer to your question is, yes, those really, really
nice things can be found  in hell (I tend to find better in NM mode
than Hell mode) but they are really, really, really rare.