Okay so I was playing Diablo 2 Lord of Destruction, right? Trying to gear up my Sorceress to tackle Hell difficulty. Farming Mephisto for days! It was brutal, man. Just endless runs. Needed better gloves, better rings… basically everything. Kept getting piles of junk runes and low-level gems, though. Nothing useful dropped. I was getting desperate.

Then, I remembered something. Crafting! The Horadric Cube! There had to be a faster way than just hoping for drops. Said screw it, and started looking up those cube recipes everyone talks about. Figured I’d give it a shot with all these random gems and runes collecting dust.