Posted January 14, 2025
TL;DR version:
Have you ever found a Bramble ring? If you have a character with it, are you willing to share it?
TL;R version:
Hello all! After about 6 years away, I had an itch to play the game again.
When I was last here, I was talking a lot about the impossible-to-drop, and the nearly impossible-to-drop unique items in the game. One of these is the Bramble ring (I think drops only extremely rarely in single player, and in levels 1 and 2 of the dungeon?), which as far as usefulness goes, is not a useful item at all. But the fact that I've been playing the game on-and-off ever since it first came out, and still have not seen every item in-game just drives me crazy.
I did runs of early Cathedral over and over hoping it would drop. And I found a Bleeder, one of my sought-after rare uniques, and was thrilled to finally see that artwork unique to this one item, but alas, no Bramble.
Back when I was last here, someone made a comment that I'd essentially have to use a trainer to import an item file into my character. And say what you will about using trainers and character editors ruining the fun of the game, I was desperate to have the item in-game, even if it meant cheating to get it. But the problem is, when I found really old archives of old item files from 20+ years ago, none of these even contained a Bramble! So I couldn't even cheat a Bramble onto my character!! This just make me want the Bramble even more. The fact that the archive of exported unique items is missing a Bramble!!
I also resorted to using a mod called Diablo Fixed, that specifically addressed these impossible drop tables. This wasn't exactly ideal, because it didn't quite fix the drop tables, as much as it substituted some items for others -- at the time I had a character that had two Constricting Rings, and the second I opened that character, it morphed them into a Bramble and a Bleeder. So... I had my (cheat) unique ring, right? Sadly, no. The second I tried to take it into a new game after undoing the mod, it turned back into a Constricting Ring. It basically just substituted some values and artwork to make it look and act like a Bramble, without being one. (Also, I believe I tried exporting the item data of this pseudo Bramble when it was a Bramble, but importing that data again just imported a Constricting Ring instead I believe. It was six years ago.)
So, after doing countless Cathedral runs without success, and trying to cheat my way to get one without success, I thought to ask -- have any of you ever gotten one? Does anyone have a character with one they are willing to share?
EDIT: How do I unmark this topic as a "Help needed" topic? It's probably not appropriate to be marked as such because this isn't exactly a problem.
EDIT 2: I did some reading on more modern mods like DevilutionX that have come out since I was away, and it looks like there is a mod based on it that also tried to fix the unique drops, but it sounds like it's doing an identical thing as Diablo Fixed -- items morphing and then morphing back.
Have you ever found a Bramble ring? If you have a character with it, are you willing to share it?
TL;R version:
Hello all! After about 6 years away, I had an itch to play the game again.
When I was last here, I was talking a lot about the impossible-to-drop, and the nearly impossible-to-drop unique items in the game. One of these is the Bramble ring (I think drops only extremely rarely in single player, and in levels 1 and 2 of the dungeon?), which as far as usefulness goes, is not a useful item at all. But the fact that I've been playing the game on-and-off ever since it first came out, and still have not seen every item in-game just drives me crazy.
I did runs of early Cathedral over and over hoping it would drop. And I found a Bleeder, one of my sought-after rare uniques, and was thrilled to finally see that artwork unique to this one item, but alas, no Bramble.
Back when I was last here, someone made a comment that I'd essentially have to use a trainer to import an item file into my character. And say what you will about using trainers and character editors ruining the fun of the game, I was desperate to have the item in-game, even if it meant cheating to get it. But the problem is, when I found really old archives of old item files from 20+ years ago, none of these even contained a Bramble! So I couldn't even cheat a Bramble onto my character!! This just make me want the Bramble even more. The fact that the archive of exported unique items is missing a Bramble!!
I also resorted to using a mod called Diablo Fixed, that specifically addressed these impossible drop tables. This wasn't exactly ideal, because it didn't quite fix the drop tables, as much as it substituted some items for others -- at the time I had a character that had two Constricting Rings, and the second I opened that character, it morphed them into a Bramble and a Bleeder. So... I had my (cheat) unique ring, right? Sadly, no. The second I tried to take it into a new game after undoing the mod, it turned back into a Constricting Ring. It basically just substituted some values and artwork to make it look and act like a Bramble, without being one. (Also, I believe I tried exporting the item data of this pseudo Bramble when it was a Bramble, but importing that data again just imported a Constricting Ring instead I believe. It was six years ago.)
So, after doing countless Cathedral runs without success, and trying to cheat my way to get one without success, I thought to ask -- have any of you ever gotten one? Does anyone have a character with one they are willing to share?
EDIT: How do I unmark this topic as a "Help needed" topic? It's probably not appropriate to be marked as such because this isn't exactly a problem.
EDIT 2: I did some reading on more modern mods like DevilutionX that have come out since I was away, and it looks like there is a mod based on it that also tried to fix the unique drops, but it sounds like it's doing an identical thing as Diablo Fixed -- items morphing and then morphing back.
Post edited January 14, 2025 by Esuriit
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