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Saraya, the shouting non-Barbarian walking sorceress

Oh well, not much to say... she's now lvl 10, started to run the Countess to socket her Studded Leather armor.
El, Ith, Ral so far, no useful hit yet.
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It's been a while since I made an update, so... this one is short but meaningful.

See you later! :)

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 D2R Forum Name        Character Name       Class   Level  Post #    Location               Score
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SP Yes Grisu             Medea                Ass     75     121       Hell Rogue Camp         12
SP Yes Norcim            Sorrow               Sor     75      59       Hell Rogue Camp         12
   Yes gregth            The Reckless         Nec     56      64       NM River Of Flame        8
SP No  PhineasB          Randi                Ass     49     104       NM Rogue Encampment      6
   Yes Dazliare          Kaltrexia            Sor     32     113       Panda Fortress           3
   Yes Nona              Sister_Ariel         Sor     ??     153       Panda Fortress           3
SP Yes Oblivious         Meninore             Ama     20      13       Lut Gholein              1
   Yes little birdy      hiepsi               Pal     22     208       Arcane Sanctuary         1
   Yes Irenicus          Norman               Pal     17      38       Lut Gholein              1
   Yes m4ke              Random_Sorc          Sor     17     223       Lut Gholein              1
   No  Arjan             ???                  Bar     17      34       Outer Cloister           0
   Yes djmbbandie        Kat                  Ass     16      80       Black Marsh              0
   Yes Babyhell          Saraya               Sor     10     237       Black Marsh              0
SP Yes Miron             Quan Chi             Nec      1      30       Rogue Encampment         0
   Yes coju              ???                  Bar      1       5       Rogue Encampment         0
   Yes Vildecor          ???                  Pal      1      77       Rogue Encampment         0
   Yes AntiRush          ???                  Nec      1     169       Rogue Encampment         0
   Yes djmbbandie        ???                  Dru      1     185       Rogue Encampment         0
   Yes Jcakes            ???                  Ass      1     195       Rogue Encampment         0
   Yes Vang              ???                  Sor      1     199       Rogue Encampment         0
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Our departed                                                           Died against/in
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   Yes AntiRush          RandomI              Ass     61       9       Hell Flayer Jungle      12
   Yes little birdy      lenna                Sor     24      59       Normal Diablo            3
   Yes Vang              Terror               Nec     ??      17       NM Arcane Sacntuary      6
   Yes little birdy      lennatwo             Sor     19      59       Jungle Act III           2
   Yes djmbbandie        Grim                 Nec     20     157       Catacombs                0
   Yes Arc1212           Random               Ama     27      81       Act V                    4
   Yes Arc1212           Bones                Nec     14     161       Act I Barracks           0
SP Yes Jcakes            Hephaestus           Pal     48+     18       NM Cold Crow             6
   Yes Vang              RagerX               Bar     ??     141       The Ancient's Way        4
   Yes little birdy      artemia              Ama     50     146       NM Durance of Hate       7
   Yes Arc1212           Crash                Bar     32     177       Baal's Throne Room       4
   Yes m4ke              Random_Pala          Pal     73      44       Hell Jail Level 2       10
 
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Sister_Ariel beat normal Baal and gained some levels. She now sits at lvl 42. She needs some major gear upgrades and I am currently shopping act 5 hoping to improve a little more before NM.

Baal drop...Studded leathers are a roll for me but this wasn't exciting.
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No play updates in this post, just getting ready for Hell.

I went to make Lionheart in a spare 3 socket Russet Armor only to check my tourney stash in GoMule and realize that it wasn't in there. Pretty sure what I thought was the spare ended up being the current one we were wearing with 3 topazes. No big deal, I figured I'd just Hel that one out when I realized I only had 1 Hel rune and I needed it for the Lionheart... Ultimately, I had to cube 3 Shaels to make a Dol, then cube 3 Dols to get the Hel I needed. I always pick up all the Shaels that drop but I usually only pick up 1 Dol rune since they aren't very helpful. I had the second because I thought Dol cubed to Io (it doesn't) but that worked out for me. So after a bunch of extra work, we finally had a Lionheart!
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I crafted a couple blood gloves, blood boots, and some safety boots. We're wearing the blood boots for now, but I'll craft a few more safety boots as we progress. I rolled up these blood gloves which would be really nice for a melee character. 20IAS, 10CB, and dual leech:
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I wanted to craft some caster death masks but realized I hadn't been picking up enough Nef runes... I'll give a few of those a shot if I find any in Hell, but for now we're going with a Lore bone helm.

Ended up spending a ton of gold gambling gloves and belts without much to show for it. I did get some new gloves and swapped the belt out for one with poison res since we were hovering around 14 without it.

I used our imbues from Normal and NM on plaint white Smoked Spheres I'd been saving. I just kept replacing them when I'd find another with a higher ilvl. The Normal imbue was terrible, but the one from NM was pretty darn sweet! I couldn't think of too many things I could find that would need a socket, so I burned our Normal socket quest and threw in a +fire res jewel. Figured I should personalize it at this point:
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Leharas got replaced by Hazade the Holy Freeze merc. Now that Sorrow has a better life pool, pretty good res, 19PDR, and 50%CTB I didn't think I needed the healing from Prayer anymore. I'm going to keep the Rhyme shield for now, since the dex from Lionheart got us to 52%CTB. We'll see as we progress if I want to keep it or swap it out for a 3 PDiamond tower shield, which would let us re-stat and add all the dex back to vit.

Screenshot of Sorrow's stats prior to venturing out into the moor for the final time. I've got 2 skill points saved to use between FM/CM depending on how our damage is working out between Blizzard and Meteor.
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Name: Sorrow
Class: Sorceress
Experience: 449627834
Level: 75

Naked/Gear
Strength: 85/116
Dexterity: 115/137
Vitality: 225/245
Energy: 35/74
HP: 584/807
Mana: 183/254
Stamina: 363/363
Defense: 28/434
AR: 525/663

Fire: 158/118/58
Cold: 125/85/25
Lightning: 187/147/87
Poison: 137/97/37

MF: 98 Block: 52
GF: 50 FR/W: 30
FHR: 15 IAS: 0
FCR: 0

Fire Bolt: 1/2
Warmth: 1/2
Inferno: 1/2
Blaze: 1/2
Fire Ball: 1/2
Fire Wall: 1/2
Enchant: 1/2
Meteor: 20/24
Fire Mastery: 3/4
Hydra: 0/0

Charged Bolt: 0/0
Static Field: 0/0
Telekinesis: 0/0
Nova: 0/0
Lightning: 0/0
Chain Lightning: 0/0
Teleport: 0/0
Thunder Storm: 0/3
Energy Shield: 0/0
Lightning Mastery: 0/0

Ice Bolt: 20/24
Frozen Armor: 0/0
Frost Nova: 1/5
Ice Blast: 1/5
Shiver Armor: 0/0
Glacial Spike: 1/5
Blizzard: 20/26
Chilling Armor: 0/0
Frozen Orb: 0/0
Cold Mastery: 7/11

Entropy Knot
Ring
Required Level: 18
Fingerprint: 0xbc2bb069
Item Level: 49
Version: Resurrected
10% Chance to cast level 3 Nova when struck
+18 to Attack Rating
+3 to Energy
+38 to Mana
Lightning Resist +25%
11% Better Chance of Getting Magic Items

Lionheart
Russet Armor
HelLumFal
Defense: 236
Durability: 18 of 30
Required Level: 41
Required Strength: 83
Fingerprint: 0x698afa5d
Item Level: 56
Version: Resurrected
20% Enhanced Damage
All Stats +10
+15 to Strength
+5 to Dexterity
+10 to Vitality
+50 to Life
All Resistances +30
Requirements --15%
3 Sockets (3 used)
Socketed: Hel Rune
Socketed: Lum Rune
Socketed: Fal Rune

Glacial Amulet of Life Everlasting
Amulet
Required Level: 45
Fingerprint: 0xfe07d62b
Item Level: 60
Version: Resurrected
+3 to Cold Skills (Sorceress Only)
Damage Reduced by 12

Pain Track
Battle Boots
Defense: 46
Durability: 10 of 18
Required Level: 51
Required Strength: 95
Fingerprint: 0x775f33de
Item Level: 69
Version: Resurrected
+30% Faster Run/Walk
2% Life stolen per hit
+5 to Dexterity
+16 to Life
Replenish Life +8
Cold Resist +16%
25% Better Chance of Getting Magic Items

Storm Clasp
Mesh Belt
Defense: 52
Durability: 16 of 16
Required Level: 25
Required Strength: 58
Fingerprint: 0x52e7f8bc
Item Level: 76
Version: Resurrected
+10% Faster Hit Recovery
+28% Enhanced Defense
+6 to Strength
Replenish Life +5
Poison Resist +23%

Lore
Bone Helm
OrtSol
Defense: 35
Durability: 23 of 40
Required Level: 27
Required Strength: 25
Fingerprint: 0x458cc779
Item Level: 65
Version: Resurrected
+1 to All Skills
+10 to Energy
Lightning Resist +30%
Damage Reduced by 7
+2 to Mana after each Kill
+2 to Light Radius
2 Sockets (2 used)
Socketed: Ort Rune
Socketed: Sol Rune

Fiend Touch
Heavy Gloves
Defense: 8
Durability: 14 of 14
Required Level: 13
Fingerprint: 0x8fe8a969
Item Level: 74
Version: Resurrected
+26% Enhanced Defense
Lightning Resist +27%
Fire Resist +6%
17% Better Chance of Getting Magic Items

Ocher Ring of Fortune
Ring
Required Level: 31
Fingerprint: 0x166c635b
Item Level: 63
Version: Resurrected
Lightning Resist +20%
20% Better Chance of Getting Magic Items

Corrosive War Staff of Teleportation
War Staff
Two Hand Damage: 12 - 28
Durability: 50 of 50
Required Level: 30
Fingerprint: 0x5369a5fe
Item Level: 45
Version: Resurrected
Adds 80 Poison Damage Over 4 Secs (100 Frames)
+1 to Fire Mastery (Sorceress Only)
+1 to Blizzard (Sorceress Only)
+1 to Meteor (Sorceress Only)
Level 2 Teleport (19/37 Charges)

Sorrow's Raven Song
Smoked Sphere
One Hand Damage: 4 - 16
Durability: 35 of 35
Required Level: 35
Fingerprint: 0x522043c
Item Level: 79
Version: Resurrected
+6 to Maximum Damage
Adds 30 - 83 Fire Damage
Adds 15 - 33 Cold Damage Over 2 Secs (50 Frames)
+2 to Blizzard (Sorceress Only)
+3 to Thunder Storm (Sorceress Only)
+3 to Meteor (Sorceress Only)
+16 to Energy
+30 to Life
Fire Resist +48%
Magic Damage Reduced by 3
1 Sockets (1 used)
Socketed: Ruby Jewel of Wrath

Ruby Jewel of Wrath
Jewel
Required Level: 13
Fingerprint: 0xe8714cb0
Item Level: 66
Version: Resurrected
+6 to Maximum Damage
Fire Resist +27%

Rhyme
Superior Tower Shield
ShaelEth
Defense: 23
Chance to Block: 44
Durability: 50 of 69
Required Level: 29
Required Strength: 75
Fingerprint: 0xd5351f80
Item Level: 31
Version: Resurrected
+40% Faster Block Rate
20% Increased Chance of Blocking
Regenerate Mana 15%
All Resistances +25
Cannot Be Frozen
50% Extra Gold from Monsters
25% Better Chance of Getting Magic Items
Increase Maximum Durability 15%
2 Sockets (2 used)
Socketed: Shael Rune
Socketed: Eth Rune

Jade Grand Charm of Life
Grand Charm
Required Level: 15
Fingerprint: 0x133bfc58
Item Level: 36
Version: Resurrected
+16 to Life
Poison Resist +25%

Lapis Small Charm
Small Charm
Required Level: 10
Fingerprint: 0x7de98929
Item Level: 22
Version: Resurrected
Cold Resist +7%

Russet Large Charm
Large Charm
Required Level: 12
Fingerprint: 0x9c514ea0
Item Level: 24
Version: Resurrected
Fire Resist +9%

Russet Small Charm
Small Charm
Required Level: 10
Fingerprint: 0xff9c877b
Item Level: 52
Version: Resurrected
Fire Resist +7%

Small Charm of Sustenance
Small Charm
Required Level: 17
Fingerprint: 0x6488d2ef
Item Level: 55
Version: Resurrected
+14 to Life

Small Charm of Sustenance
Small Charm
Required Level: 17
Fingerprint: 0xc6b89df1
Item Level: 58
Version: Resurrected
+14 to Life

Snake's Grand Charm of Sustenance
Grand Charm
Required Level: 23
Fingerprint: 0xc55c6b9b
Item Level: 49
Version: Resurrected
+21 to Life
+33 to Mana

Emerald Small Charm
Small Charm
Required Level: 32
Fingerprint: 0x3ae31029
Item Level: 64
Version: Resurrected
Poison Resist +11%

Small Charm of Sustenance
Small Charm
Required Level: 17
Fingerprint: 0x409a5915
Item Level: 64
Version: Resurrected
+15 to Life

Shimmering Small Charm of Balance
Small Charm
Required Level: 29
Fingerprint: 0x41c797e8
Item Level: 61
Version: Resurrected
+5% Faster Hit Recovery
All Resistances +3

Small Charm of Vita
Small Charm
Required Level: 39
Fingerprint: 0xb057c8ba
Item Level: 64
Version: Resurrected
+19 to Life

Ruby Small Charm
Small Charm
Required Level: 32
Fingerprint: 0x666162e6
Item Level: 63
Version: Resurrected
Fire Resist +10%

Sapphire Small Charm
Small Charm
Required Level: 32
Fingerprint: 0xaf0a86f0
Item Level: 66
Version: Resurrected
Cold Resist +11%

Small Charm of Vita
Small Charm
Required Level: 39
Fingerprint: 0xf5d7c4f2
Item Level: 64
Version: Resurrected
+17 to Life

Lapis Small Charm
Small Charm
Required Level: 10
Fingerprint: 0x6e0d15c1
Item Level: 24
Version: Resurrected
Cold Resist +7%

Ocher Small Charm of Dexterity
Small Charm
Required Level: 10
Fingerprint: 0xddfe5334
Item Level: 31
Version: Resurrected
+1 to Dexterity
Lightning Resist +7%

Lapis Small Charm of Dexterity
Small Charm
Required Level: 10
Fingerprint: 0x6ff66571
Item Level: 19
Version: Resurrected
+1 to Dexterity
Cold Resist +6%

Bronze Small Charm of Sustenance
Small Charm
Required Level: 17
Fingerprint: 0xe40b2eaf
Item Level: 49
Version: Resurrected
+10 to Attack Rating
+11 to Life

Name: Hazade
Race: Desert Mercenary
Type: HolyFreeze-Nightmare
Experience: 49284000
Level: 74
Dead?: unknown

Naked/Gear
Strength: 171/176
Dexterity: 137/142
HP: 1405/1405
Defense: 1042/1347
AR: 1171/226003

Fire: 140/100/40
Cold: 170/130/70
Lightning: 140/100/40
Poison: 165/125/65

Treachery
Superior Russet Armor
ShaelThulLem
Defense: 270
Durability: 28 of 30
Required Level: 43
Required Strength: 97
Fingerprint: 0x2e94038d
Item Level: 52
Version: Resurrected
5% Chance to cast level 15 Fade when struck
25% Chance to cast level 15 Venom on striking
+2 to Assassin Skill Levels
+45% Increased Attack Speed
+20% Faster Hit Recovery
+11% Enhanced Defense
Cold Resist +30%
50% Extra Gold from Monsters
3 Sockets (3 used)
Socketed: Shael Rune
Socketed: Thul Rune
Socketed: Lem Rune

Wormskull
Bone Helm
Defense: 35
Durability: 37 of 40
Required Level: 21
Required Strength: 25
Fingerprint: 0xe9d609a3
Item Level: 42
Version: Resurrected
+1 to Necromancer Skill Levels
Adds 80 Poison Damage Over 8 Secs (200 Frames)
5% Life stolen per hit
+10 to Mana
Poison Resist +25%

Insight
Partizan
RalTirTalSol
Two Hand Damage: 166 - 365
Durability: 33 of 33
Required Level: 27
Required Strength: 103
Required Dexterity: 57
Fingerprint: 0x2a40d473
Item Level: 40
Version: Resurrected
Level 16 Meditation Aura When Equipped
+35% Faster Cast Rate
226% Enhanced Damage
192% Bonus to Attack Rating
Adds 5 - 30 Fire Damage
Adds 75 Poison Damage Over 5 Secs (125 Frames)
+4 to Critical Strike
All Stats +5
+2 to Mana after each Kill
23% Better Chance of Getting Magic Items
Ethereal
4 Sockets (4 used)
Socketed: Ral Rune
Socketed: Tir Rune
Socketed: Tal Rune
Socketed: Sol Rune
 
That are some nice upgrades there, @Norcim!

I decided to only do the barest minimum for survival - the first screenshot seemed a bit too dangerous...

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This seemed better - switched my 43%MF amulet for the rare one with 25% MF, 4% MS, 35% Res Cold and 21% Res Fire and also the boots for triple resists with lower MF. Socketed my Bartuc's with a Shael, too.

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No luck so far with elite polearms for a better Insight (only a plain Tresher and a plain CV...210 STR, go figure...) also no Fal or Pul so far :-/

So my merc is still using his Insight Partizan. I started with MF gear on my merc, but kept seeing this situation a lot:
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So I crafted some blood helms and kept one for my merc:

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     Pain Circlet
Helm
     Defense: 25
     Durability: 22 of 24
     Required Level: 65
     Required Strength: 26
     Fingerprint: 0x622e11a4
     Item Level: 80
     Version: Resurrected
+10% Faster Hit Recovery
     3% Life stolen per hit
     8% Deadly Strike
     +32% Enhanced Defense
     +5 to Energy
     +42 to Life

With 3% LL he wasn't dying quite that often...

Also, I did a major shopping spree towards the end of Act I, netting me some surprise gambles:
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Yes, that is a unique and an exceptional set item gambled in one session! Hotspur can be a good item when I reacht Act IV and for the fight against Diablo. Between those, Nokozan Relic and Darkglow I can max out Fire Resistance to 95% easily :) Now I only need a source of Lightning Resistance. I seriously am considering making Lore just for the +1 Skills and 30% Resist Lightning...

Now, how was Act I Hell?

I tried to start out on /p8 setting, sometimes lowering to p3 for certain in between for lower alvl areas, where XP wasn't that good anyways, and did Black Marsh and the Tower on /p8. After some NDEs there and in the Pit, I tuned down to p3 and never changed the setting again. There were some nasty fights along the way, once especially brutal:

In the Tower level 3 there was a stair trap (no screenshots, I was busy not dying) with 3 boss packs: one Might Ghost type, one cursed archer and some Devilkin or so with BA aura and extra fast. I literally got down the stairs and two of them were only 2 to 3 paces away from me, the archer boss pack down a narrow path. I almost immediately got cursed and I started Dragon Tailing like mad to get some breathing room (Knockback) and then quickly cast some Mind Blasts to convert and divert the packs. Chugging Rejuvs like I chug my coffee in the morning I ran through the narrow pathway the bosspacks (busy fighting themselves) left and ran down to a safer spot. I cleared the entire level 3 before going back to that nasty nasty area at the beginning of level 3. There, Mind Blast, Knockback, Bazillions of Full Rejuvs, 20+ resurrections and sheer luck eventually brought victory. Again, no screenshots I am afraid because...well, I didn't feel like dying. 🤷‍♂️ In between, I got so nervous (and the weather was fine) that I took a break for some hours to return to that fight...

More fun in the Tower:
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Also, due to my lowish Lightning Resistance, I came to be afraid of PI LE bosses. My merc couldn't do enough damage, and I got obliterated by the bolts. The only safe way was
a) Convert some minions and place behind those so that they absorb the bolts (dangerous if they reconvert mid-fight)
b) try to isolate the boss and then stay behind the merc while unloading the damaging charge (either Fire, Lightning or Cold, depending on boss resistance) with DT so that the boss gets knocked back. The bolts usually miss me that way because they only trigger after the knockback happens.

Pitspawn Fouldog was equally bad, spawning immediately in the first room in Jail level 2. Mind Blast saved the day though...

These situations left me to change my plans for my leftover skill points - I didn't max Mind Blast (stun length only increases by 0.2 per level anyways) but put a point into Blade Fury. Now I have a ranged attack for those nasty little buggers 🥳 I only now need the right weapon for it...something with CB, OW or such ideally. Maybe I even use The Scalper I found for the OW, but use BF instead of throwing because of low AR? We will see...any recommendations from you, fellow forumites?

Btw, the game was teasing me with (non-usable) drops like these:
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But also with this beautiful SC <3
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Then there was that room with 3 Goblin Shaman boss packs - I only captured two for my screenshots, because it was too dangerous when still all 3 of them were around...I am so glad for Phoenix Strike and its ability to freeze (and thus shatter) monsters, because otherwise this room would have been my end for sure. The third boss was lighning enchanted and extra strong IIRC...

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Andariel herself was so easy compared to all those bosspacks. She went down to level 1 charge of Phoenix Strike in no time, but her drop wasn't too impressive:
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On to Act II, I guess!

Medea, level 80 Phoenix Striker with a heavy addiction to Mind Blast and trying out Blade Fury for those dangerous bosses, Hell Lut Gholein next

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 D2R Forum Name        Character Name       Class   Level  Post #    Location               Score
-- --- ----------        --------------       -----   -----  ------    --------               ----
SP Yes Grisu             Medea                Ass     80     121       Hell Lut Gholein        13
SP Yes Norcim            Sorrow               Sor     75      59       Hell Rogue Camp         12
   Yes gregth            The Reckless         Nec     56      64       NM River Of Flame        8
SP No  PhineasB          Randi                Ass     49     104       NM Rogue Encampment      6
   Yes Dazliare          Kaltrexia            Sor     32     113       Panda Fortress           3
   Yes Nona              Sister_Ariel         Sor     ??     153       Panda Fortress           3
SP Yes Oblivious         Meninore             Ama     20      13       Lut Gholein              1
   Yes little birdy      hiepsi               Pal     22     208       Arcane Sanctuary         1
   Yes Irenicus          Norman               Pal     17      38       Lut Gholein              1
   Yes m4ke              Random_Sorc          Sor     17     223       Lut Gholein              1
   No  Arjan             ???                  Bar     17      34       Outer Cloister           0
   Yes djmbbandie        Kat                  Ass     16      80       Black Marsh              0
   Yes Babyhell          Saraya               Sor     10     237       Black Marsh              0
SP Yes Miron             Quan Chi             Nec      1      30       Rogue Encampment         0
   Yes coju              ???                  Bar      1       5       Rogue Encampment         0
   Yes Vildecor          ???                  Pal      1      77       Rogue Encampment         0
   Yes AntiRush          ???                  Nec      1     169       Rogue Encampment         0
   Yes djmbbandie        ???                  Dru      1     185       Rogue Encampment         0
   Yes Jcakes            ???                  Ass      1     195       Rogue Encampment         0
   Yes Vang              ???                  Sor      1     199       Rogue Encampment         0
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Our departed                                                           Died against/in
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   Yes AntiRush          RandomI              Ass     61       9       Hell Flayer Jungle      12
   Yes little birdy      lenna                Sor     24      59       Normal Diablo            3
   Yes Vang              Terror               Nec     ??      17       NM Arcane Sacntuary      6
   Yes little birdy      lennatwo             Sor     19      59       Jungle Act III           2
   Yes djmbbandie        Grim                 Nec     20     157       Catacombs                0
   Yes Arc1212           Random               Ama     27      81       Act V                    4
   Yes Arc1212           Bones                Nec     14     161       Act I Barracks           0
SP Yes Jcakes            Hephaestus           Pal     48+     18       NM Cold Crow             6
   Yes Vang              RagerX               Bar     ??     141       The Ancient's Way        4
   Yes little birdy      artemia              Ama     50     146       NM Durance of Hate       7
   Yes Arc1212           Crash                Bar     32     177       Baal's Throne Room       4
   Yes m4ke              Random_Pala          Pal     73      44       Hell Jail Level 2       10
 
Saraya, the shouting non-Barbarian walking sorceress is now at Arcane Sanctuary Normal

She is 19, and after getting Stealth runes on the same drop at the Countess, she leveled up running Andy for almost nothing (but this Tir rune for Leaf, the Hsarus belt and hmm an unusable pair of unique gloves), Act 2 provided the updates.

The first is the Battle staves. One with 2os had been used to craft a Leaf (for a better Warmth, as it is already available with one point due to Hydra skill), and a plain one had been shopped to unlock... Teleport! I won't grab Energy Shield to have another point in TP, but iirc any Battle Staff can be larzuk'ed for 4os - that would be a nice Insight base in the end.
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Afterwards the teleport had been put into good use to progress questing up to the Arcane Sanctuary waypoint.

See you later!

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 D2R Forum Name        Character Name       Class   Level  Post #    Location               Score
-- --- ----------        --------------       -----   -----  ------    --------               ----
SP Yes Grisu             Medea                Ass     80     121       Hell Lut Gholein        13
SP Yes Norcim            Sorrow               Sor     75      59       Hell Rogue Camp         12
   Yes gregth            The Reckless         Nec     56      64       NM River Of Flame        8
SP No  PhineasB          Randi                Ass     49     104       NM Rogue Encampment      6
   Yes Dazliare          Kaltrexia            Sor     32     113       Panda Fortress           3
   Yes Nona              Sister_Ariel         Sor     ??     153       Panda Fortress           3
SP Yes Oblivious         Meninore             Ama     20      13       Lut Gholein              1
   Yes little birdy      hiepsi               Pal     22     208       Arcane Sanctuary         1
   Yes Babyhell          Saraya               Sor     19     237       Arcane Sanctuary         1
   Yes Irenicus          Norman               Pal     17      38       Lut Gholein              1
   Yes m4ke              Random_Sorc          Sor     17     223       Lut Gholein              1
   No  Arjan             ???                  Bar     17      34       Outer Cloister           0
   Yes djmbbandie        Kat                  Ass     16      80       Black Marsh              0
SP Yes Miron             Quan Chi             Nec      1      30       Rogue Encampment         0
   Yes coju              ???                  Bar      1       5       Rogue Encampment         0
   Yes Vildecor          ???                  Pal      1      77       Rogue Encampment         0
   Yes AntiRush          ???                  Nec      1     169       Rogue Encampment         0
   Yes djmbbandie        ???                  Dru      1     185       Rogue Encampment         0
   Yes Jcakes            ???                  Ass      1     195       Rogue Encampment         0
   Yes Vang              ???                  Sor      1     199       Rogue Encampment         0
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   Yes little birdy      lenna                Sor     24      59       Normal Diablo            3
   Yes Vang              Terror               Nec     ??      17       NM Arcane Sacntuary      6
   Yes little birdy      lennatwo             Sor     19      59       Jungle Act III           2
   Yes djmbbandie        Grim                 Nec     20     157       Catacombs                0
   Yes Arc1212           Random               Ama     27      81       Act V                    4
   Yes Arc1212           Bones                Nec     14     161       Act I Barracks           0
SP Yes Jcakes            Hephaestus           Pal     48+     18       NM Cold Crow             6
   Yes Vang              RagerX               Bar     ??     141       The Ancient's Way        4
   Yes little birdy      artemia              Ama     50     146       NM Durance of Hate       7
   Yes Arc1212           Crash                Bar     32     177       Baal's Throne Room       4
   Yes m4ke              Random_Pala          Pal     73      44       Hell Jail Level 2       10
 
@Grisu, that first screenshot of your resists is terrifying! I'm jealous of the MF you were able to keep packed in there so far. Not having any crowd control options other than the merc (who also only has an eth partizan insight and 5LL and loves to die at the slightest hint of a dangerous boss) and no teleport made me bail on most of the MF gear earlier than I wanted to. Sorrow was only able to get to ~100 for now.

I wasn't intending on doing much shopping in Act 1 so it was a nice surprise to find a Jewelers Ancient Armor of Equilibrium from Malah while we were still clearing the Cold Plains. Could be an option that gets swapped in for extra MF for Hazade on boss kills if we can keep him alive long enough to get the last shot in.

Sorrow has been enjoying using Thunderstorm so far. It doesn't do any damage, but it has been a really nice scouting tool. I have a hard time seeing enemies like quill rats, especially in places like the Dark Wood, so it was helpful to see Thunderstorm go off and know that baddies were around.

We had two tough fights in the Cave. The first was a double boss back with archers and fallen. I didn't see the archer pack at first while we were fighting the fallen boss (who had fanaticism), but all of a sudden Hazade was dead and half of Sorrow's life was gone. I panicked and ran away, then we slowly inched our way forward until we could finish the fallen boss. Eventually we spotted the archer boss just behind, but she still managed to take Hazade out one more time before he could even get close enough to hit her.
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Keeping with the CE Multishot theme, Coldcrow was also fairly challenging, but most of that was simply keeping Hazade alive long enough for some Meteors to come down.
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With just under 100MF I noticed a big change in our drops, so I re-organized a bit and replaced the Lore with a 3PTopaz Death Mask for now. Eventually I'll go back to the Lore, but I'm hoping the extra MF pays off in the earlier parts of Hell. We made this swap somewhere just before going after the Countess. The tower was easy and so was the Countess; she just took a bit for Hazade to bring down since she was Stone Skin.
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Hazade could not stay alive against Griswold. He would 2 shot him each time, so I just left him dead and ran around in circles casting blizzard and meteor until he died. It took a few mana pots but wasn't dangerous because he moves so slowly. We had good battles against Pitspawn and the Smith. Nothing too dangerous, but Hazade required a few full rejuvs vs Pitspawn. I thought I had a screenshot of the Pitspawn fight but apparently I missed the hotkey in the thick of the action.
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We had our best drop by far in the Catacombs Level 2. I almost missed it at first thinking it was just another Ith rune... I'm now debating making a Delirium helm. We have everything we need to make it except for the Io of all things.
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Andy went down easily to Blizzard and Meteor as would be expected. She dropped a bunch of sets but nothing to interest us. Sorrow did pick up the Angelic amulet in Act 1, so with the Angelic ring from Andy I would have been pretty happy if Sorrow was a melee character.
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And Sorrow is now in Lut Gholein! She's only level 79 since I'm not as brave as Medea and keep the players setting at 3 for the whole act.

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SP Yes Grisu             Medea                Ass     80     121       Hell Lut Gholein        13
SP Yes Norcim            Sorrow               Sor     79      59       Hell Lut Gholein        12
   Yes gregth            The Reckless         Nec     56      64       NM River Of Flame        8
SP No  PhineasB          Randi                Ass     49     104       NM Rogue Encampment      6
   Yes Dazliare          Kaltrexia            Sor     32     113       Panda Fortress           3
   Yes Nona              Sister_Ariel         Sor     ??     153       Panda Fortress           3
SP Yes Oblivious         Meninore             Ama     20      13       Lut Gholein              1
   Yes little birdy      hiepsi               Pal     22     208       Arcane Sanctuary         1
   Yes Babyhell          Saraya               Sor     19     237       Arcane Sanctuary         1
   Yes Irenicus          Norman               Pal     17      38       Lut Gholein              1
   Yes m4ke              Random_Sorc          Sor     17     223       Lut Gholein              1
   No  Arjan             ???                  Bar     17      34       Outer Cloister           0
   Yes djmbbandie        Kat                  Ass     16      80       Black Marsh              0
SP Yes Miron             Quan Chi             Nec      1      30       Rogue Encampment         0
   Yes coju              ???                  Bar      1       5       Rogue Encampment         0
   Yes Vildecor          ???                  Pal      1      77       Rogue Encampment         0
   Yes AntiRush          ???                  Nec      1     169       Rogue Encampment         0
   Yes djmbbandie        ???                  Dru      1     185       Rogue Encampment         0
   Yes Jcakes            ???                  Ass      1     195       Rogue Encampment         0
   Yes Vang              ???                  Sor      1     199       Rogue Encampment         0
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   Yes little birdy      lenna                Sor     24      59       Normal Diablo            3
   Yes Vang              Terror               Nec     ??      17       NM Arcane Sacntuary      6
   Yes little birdy      lennatwo             Sor     19      59       Jungle Act III           2
   Yes djmbbandie        Grim                 Nec     20     157       Catacombs                0
   Yes Arc1212           Random               Ama     27      81       Act V                    4
   Yes Arc1212           Bones                Nec     14     161       Act I Barracks           0
SP Yes Jcakes            Hephaestus           Pal     48+     18       NM Cold Crow             6
   Yes Vang              RagerX               Bar     ??     141       The Ancient's Way        4
   Yes little birdy      artemia              Ama     50     146       NM Durance of Hate       7
   Yes Arc1212           Crash                Bar     32     177       Baal's Throne Room       4
   Yes m4ke              Random_Pala          Pal     73      44       Hell Jail Level 2       10
 
This was a common sight in Act 2. Sorrow had to sacrifice her body standing in front of mummy sarcophagi to stop them from spawning. They take forever for our team to bring them down. Hazade really needs a better weapon but so far we haven't seen a single white elite polearm drop.
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We found a 4 socket monarch in the Halls of the Dead. We can't use it, but I don't always find white monarchs in tourneys so this was cool to see drop. I gambled a nice new mesh belt for Sorrow before we went into the Far Oasis. I rejiggered some charms so that we ended up with better poison and cold res than we had before, plus more life. It also allows Sorrow to wear the 4 socket jewelers ancient armor we shopped in Act 1, so I'm going to start bringing that in on boss kills.
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We found another Lem rune in the Maggot Lair, which makes 3 so far. I feel like that rune typically eludes me, so seeing it drop has been a nice change. We also picked up a Fal in the Lost City.

I threw on most of Sorrow's MF gear and bumped the player count up to P7 for the Ancient Tunnels. Figured with a blizzard sorc I should try to maximize that area. It was definitely a lot more dangerous, as any elemental attack or CE/LE bolts would really hurt. We full cleared the area and received a big fat nothing on the drop front for our troubles.

The alter was clear in the Claw Viper Temple, so we teleported into it and took Fangskin and co down from relative safety.
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We picked up a Nord's Tenderizer in the Palace Cellar. Always nice to see an EU drop.
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We were sailing through Act 2 at P3, and then we hit the tombs. I've said it before and I'll say it again, but man do I hate Unravellers. We hit sooooo many Unraveller bosses, and they were always paired up. Regular unravellers would go down to 5 or 6 meteors, which takes a while with the cast delay and the impact delay, so the bosses would require even more. It was really difficult keeping Hazade alive while fighting the unleachble skellies while trying to get Sorrow into a position where she could cast Meteors. I put all of our saved and earned skill points into Fire Mastery at this point as I really needed the extra boost.

We were stubborn and kept using the MF helm for most of the tombs, but I eventually swapped it out in the second to last tomb when we had to fight three sequential Gorebelly boss backs that were FI/CI. Meteor wasn't doing that much damage to the minions because the bosses all rolled FE. Fortunately we didn't fight any of them at the same time. I'm pretty sure if even two had come out at the same time that would have been deeds. The teleport war staff saved the day, as it let us split the pack and boss up a bit. The first two packs were really close to the entrance, so we didn't have much room to run. Hazade would be OK if it was just one or two beating on him at the same time. I grabbed screen shots of each boss, and actually had Sorrow do a fair bit of tanking for Hazade since they kept stunning him.
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You can see how far Moon Pox pushed us. We found him at the top room where the map is unexplored, and we ended up fighting him all the way back at the entrance.
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After all of that, they didn't drop us anything of note. Duriel wanted to make mince-meat out of Hazade, but once I stood behind him so he couldn't get charged back it wasn't so bad. Required a few full rejuvs but wasn't dangerous. We got him down to a sliver, then went and swapped in full MF gear, which gets us to 342MF. Probably the best Duriel drop I've ever seen, even if Sorrow isn't able to use anything from it. The Arioc's rolled +2, and may see some use for Hazade.
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And with that, Sorrow is level 84 and resting up before going back into the jungles for the final time. I'm hoping to keep it at P3 in the jungles since blizzard is still doing decent damage.

Good luck to everyone still playing!

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SP Yes Norcim            Sorrow               Sor     84      59       Hell Kurast Docks       14
SP Yes Grisu             Medea                Ass     80     121       Hell Lut Gholein        13
   Yes gregth            The Reckless         Nec     56      64       NM River Of Flame        8
SP No  PhineasB          Randi                Ass     49     104       NM Rogue Encampment      6
   Yes Dazliare          Kaltrexia            Sor     32     113       Panda Fortress           3
   Yes Nona              Sister_Ariel         Sor     ??     153       Panda Fortress           3
SP Yes Oblivious         Meninore             Ama     20      13       Lut Gholein              1
   Yes little birdy      hiepsi               Pal     22     208       Arcane Sanctuary         1
   Yes Babyhell          Saraya               Sor     19     237       Arcane Sanctuary         1
   Yes Irenicus          Norman               Pal     17      38       Lut Gholein              1
   Yes m4ke              Random_Sorc          Sor     17     223       Lut Gholein              1
   No  Arjan             ???                  Bar     17      34       Outer Cloister           0
   Yes djmbbandie        Kat                  Ass     16      80       Black Marsh              0
SP Yes Miron             Quan Chi             Nec      1      30       Rogue Encampment         0
   Yes coju              ???                  Bar      1       5       Rogue Encampment         0
   Yes Vildecor          ???                  Pal      1      77       Rogue Encampment         0
   Yes AntiRush          ???                  Nec      1     169       Rogue Encampment         0
   Yes djmbbandie        ???                  Dru      1     185       Rogue Encampment         0
   Yes Jcakes            ???                  Ass      1     195       Rogue Encampment         0
   Yes Vang              ???                  Sor      1     199       Rogue Encampment         0
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   Yes little birdy      lenna                Sor     24      59       Normal Diablo            3
   Yes Vang              Terror               Nec     ??      17       NM Arcane Sacntuary      6
   Yes little birdy      lennatwo             Sor     19      59       Jungle Act III           2
   Yes djmbbandie        Grim                 Nec     20     157       Catacombs                0
   Yes Arc1212           Random               Ama     27      81       Act V                    4
   Yes Arc1212           Bones                Nec     14     161       Act I Barracks           0
SP Yes Jcakes            Hephaestus           Pal     48+     18       NM Cold Crow             6
   Yes Vang              RagerX               Bar     ??     141       The Ancient's Way        4
   Yes little birdy      artemia              Ama     50     146       NM Durance of Hate       7
   Yes Arc1212           Crash                Bar     32     177       Baal's Throne Room       4
   Yes m4ke              Random_Pala          Pal     73      44       Hell Jail Level 2       10
 
Nice progress and write-up, @Norcim! Some pretty nasty fights there for you, as it sounds...I also hate those Greater Mummies. They were a PITA for me, although the freezing of a fully charged Phoenix Strike was usually sufficient to shatter the corpses after their third or fourth revival...

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And double bosses, too!
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Conviction FE/CE Bats aren't that much fun either, especially as a stair trap...the tomb is explored somewhat to the south because that is where I tried to get some room to maneuver...
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And then there were those triple boss packs with Extra Strong/Fast/Fana Decayed and an MS/LE thrower cat pack and Extra Strong Bats...
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Tactic most of the time was to spam Mind Blast, lure out the monsters that weren't converted, stunned or fighting converted monsters, defeat those, then repeat. Also, I used narrow doorways to Mind Blast mobs just behind the first monster in the doorway and keep hitting those Phoenix Strike charges on the single monster in the doorway, damaging all stunned monsters at the same time and keeping the fire from Meteor charges burning for those converted monsters - once they "re-converted", they immediately started taking damage from the flames.

It looks something like this sometimes (when the monster in the front gets accidentially converted, too, and I have to approach the second line to land some Phoenix Strike hits, which is...quite dangerous):
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Speaking of stair traps...
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This maggot was NASTY...I didn't know they were able to hit that powerfully in close combat. Nearly took all of my life with one hit - I had to step back and let the merc "do the talking" (stab stab stab goes my rap).

What else? Oh boy, Fire Towers...they have a bazillion hit points and it literally took minutes for every one to demolish...

Fangskin? Bad...the altar space was crowded with Skeletons, there were Greater Mummies all around and Fangskin themself...well, took me around 20 minutes to manage the fight down there with lots of Mind Blasts, split enemy packs, take some (un?)necessary risks and spend some millions in merc resurrections
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I found the perfect drop for @Norcim
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and the perfect way to die if one is not careful
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as well as one of my favourite, yet unusuable, weapons for untwinked play - WWS:
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My sparkly chest drop luck was amazing
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/sarcasm

as was my Duriel drop luck (*envies @Norcim's drop):
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I then went on to the Spider Forest, again doing full clears at p3. I again made the experience, that maggots can hit quite hard:
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and that dual PI spiders (their poison caused over 100 poison damage per second to me, thanks to negative poison resists) were troublesome. I could only damage them with the level 2 charge...or so I thought...after 5 minutes of fighting, going back to town, reviving my merc etc. I realized, that I could just use Claws of Thunder instead 🤪 It went quicker from then on.
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Against Stormtree, I used another tactic: Use BF to damage one minion from afar, then kill them one by one. Went very well.

Two stair traps in the temples could only be handled thanks to Mind blast and the knockback from Dragon Tail:
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And there were archers. Lots .... of .... archers. Might+Cursed, Fana+cursed, you name it - I got it. Mind blast FTW!

and then there was this double boss pack with a might aura thresher...and well, after only 12 mins of Blade Fury I killed both boss packs from afar! :jig:
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I found M'Avina's Tenet and now have to usable set items from that set...unfortunately, each only gives additional bonuses with at least 4 items and all other items from the set are off limit...
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Well, now I am about to face the council - good thing I have Hotspurs and Nokozan Relic! That should make things easier :) Wish me luck!

Medea, level 85 Phoenix Striker, Hell Travincal next

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 D2R Forum Name        Character Name       Class   Level  Post #    Location               Score
-- --- ----------        --------------       -----   -----  ------    --------               ----
SP Yes Norcim            Sorrow               Sor     84      59       Hell Kurast Docks       14
SP Yes Grisu             Medea                Ass     85     121       Hell Travincal          14
   Yes gregth            The Reckless         Nec     56      64       NM River Of Flame        8
SP No  PhineasB          Randi                Ass     49     104       NM Rogue Encampment      6
   Yes Dazliare          Kaltrexia            Sor     32     113       Panda Fortress           3
   Yes Nona              Sister_Ariel         Sor     ??     153       Panda Fortress           3
SP Yes Oblivious         Meninore             Ama     20      13       Lut Gholein              1
   Yes little birdy      hiepsi               Pal     22     208       Arcane Sanctuary         1
   Yes Babyhell          Saraya               Sor     19     237       Arcane Sanctuary         1
   Yes Irenicus          Norman               Pal     17      38       Lut Gholein              1
   Yes m4ke              Random_Sorc          Sor     17     223       Lut Gholein              1
   No  Arjan             ???                  Bar     17      34       Outer Cloister           0
   Yes djmbbandie        Kat                  Ass     16      80       Black Marsh              0
SP Yes Miron             Quan Chi             Nec      1      30       Rogue Encampment         0
   Yes coju              ???                  Bar      1       5       Rogue Encampment         0
   Yes Vildecor          ???                  Pal      1      77       Rogue Encampment         0
   Yes AntiRush          ???                  Nec      1     169       Rogue Encampment         0
   Yes djmbbandie        ???                  Dru      1     185       Rogue Encampment         0
   Yes Jcakes            ???                  Ass      1     195       Rogue Encampment         0
   Yes Vang              ???                  Sor      1     199       Rogue Encampment         0
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   Yes little birdy      lenna                Sor     24      59       Normal Diablo            3
   Yes Vang              Terror               Nec     ??      17       NM Arcane Sacntuary      6
   Yes little birdy      lennatwo             Sor     19      59       Jungle Act III           2
   Yes djmbbandie        Grim                 Nec     20     157       Catacombs                0
   Yes Arc1212           Random               Ama     27      81       Act V                    4
   Yes Arc1212           Bones                Nec     14     161       Act I Barracks           0
SP Yes Jcakes            Hephaestus           Pal     48+     18       NM Cold Crow             6
   Yes Vang              RagerX               Bar     ??     141       The Ancient's Way        4
   Yes little birdy      artemia              Ama     50     146       NM Durance of Hate       7
   Yes Arc1212           Crash                Bar     32     177       Baal's Throne Room       4
   Yes m4ke              Random_Pala          Pal     73      44       Hell Jail Level 2       10
 
Great job on all the progress everybody, and thanks to those putting in the detailed posts, it really is fun to read! I won't be doing a detailed post :), I just defeated Meph, and think I'll just push on. I'm still waiting for a 4os crystal sword for spirit and was tempted to run meph for Occulus but just too slow at killing him. Maybe if things don't improve before Hell I might come back. Right Lvl 56 and moving on to Act IV
 
I am enjoying reading the updates too! Lost interest in playing my Paladin though. Really should have asked for a different class -_- Maybe I'll try to pick him up again this weekend...
 
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@Grisu: nice progress, and excellent write up! Rooms with champ packs of Greater Mummies are so frustrating and I can't imagine what it would have been like clearing those out with a melee character, nice work! I'm quite jealous of the Tal's ammy drop. Sorrow saw 3 green amulets drop in Act 2 and I was hoping for Tal's with all of them, but it was not to be.

I usually post updates at the end of Act, but I just had an amazing drop while clearing LK that I was too excited about not to post right away. The journey so far up to that point:

Ormus sold us a new War Staff with charges of level 5 teleport; the new staff has 48 charges rather than the 37 we had before, so that was a nice plus. I went up to P5 for the Spider Forest since there weren't really any FI/CI creatures here. I really didn't notice any difference in kill speed with blizzard, and I wanted the extra drops. I took it down to P3 for the spider caves, since I've met my deeds at Sszark a few times before. I cleared almost the whole Spider Cavern before going after him so we'd have room to retreat, but by the time I even noticed where he was in the pack he was almost dead.
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We didn't roll gloams in the Great Marsh, so we kept things at P5. I went down to P3 in the Swampy Pit because I was afraid of dolls, but I forgot that the ones that spawn in here are not CI and so blizzard makes short work of them. We rolled dolls in the Flayer Dungeon as well, but they are also not CI so we didn't have any issues.

Sorrow has currently cleared ~15% of LK, but we just had this drop from a Zakarum boss at P5:
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AHHHHHH! That's the highest rune I think I've ever seen drop in a single-pass play through, but I could be mistaken there. I picked it up and went straight to town, then got worried that in my haste I had forgotten to grab a screenshot of it on the ground. I don't remember doing it, but muscle memory must have kicked in. It's so shiny!
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We probably won't find an Um rune, but if one somehow dropped (come on Hell Forge!) Sorrow could find herself rocking a tournament Chains of Honor!

We're heading back to finish LK now.
 
Wow, such a drop @Norcim! 🤯 I really do hope you find that Um, just to see a CoH in a tournament!
And switching to p8 again - wow, I wish my Phoenix Strikes had that much firepower!😳

Meanwhile, Medea defeated Mephisto and Diablo!

With my last write-up I ended just before facing the council. Somehow I didn't even need the Hotspur/Nokozan Combo, because the only one dying was my merc...so I switched his PTopaz Armor for Darkglow and tried to take most of the hits myself. Ismail offered not so much of a challenge as Geleb, who was Extra Strong Conviction LE and on top of that FI and LI, my two main damaging elemental types.
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So I had to fall back to another plan: I lured him away to a corner of Travincal, then TP'd out and came back with the WP to avoid him directly. Instead I went on the highway around Travincal and used my Malice claw on switch, used BF with Malice to prevent him from regenerating, at the same time causing OW and then switch back to Bartuc's to finish him with BF from afar. The hardest thing was to keep the merc alive who kept charging him and whom I needed to regenerate my mana:
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And yes, as you can see from the clock in the upper right corner, the fight against him alone took 10 mins...so no council running for that character after the tournament is over, I guess...

The rest of the council was easy and I ventured into the Durance of Hate and man - every time I am astounded by how big level two is - look at that map:
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There were dolls of course, but mind blast and the upgraded Insight from my merc (now in a Thresher instead of a Partizan) kept me safe. I had to be careful of converted Dolls though, because they were sometimes running by me (fleeing from their brethren, I guess) and then coming back from behind...
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Bremm Sparkfist was tough, too, because he hit really hard and his bolts and Hydra could kill my merc quickly, but the fight was well worth the effort it took (again: BF Malice and some carefully placed charge 1 Phoenix Strikes FTW!) because of what his minion dropped:
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A Skullder's Ire! And even usable! I was out of my mind :)

Against Mephisto I loaded up on Antidote and Thawing Potions and the fight was no real challenge. No usable drops from Mephisto, though...
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I was very lucky to not draw any Gloams in Act IV, but instead Balrogs, Corpse Spitters, Oblivion Knights and the like. Izual went down way faster than in NM - after checking his HP I stopped wondering about that: his base HP in NM is 41811, in Hell 57365, so he had more HPs in NM at p8 than in Hell at p3.

But coming to the River of Flame, there were Mobs like this one:
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The Holy Freeze aura was really annoying, and I had to spam Mind Blast, get in for one or two Meteor hits, back up, Mind Blast again...rinse and repeat.

Hephasto was honestly quite underwhelming thanks to having only a Blessed Aim aura, but the HF reward was scaled to his difficulty:
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After that, I prepared for the Diablo fight and crafted some blood helms. I inserted an Ort and a PTopaz in the first one you see here and kept the second in my stash just in case my AR should be too low xD
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Here are my stats before entering the CS:
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Some High TC double drop in this screenshot, but the quality wasn't to my liking:
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Right before the CS there was a boss pack of Flesh Spawners with a pack of Oblivion Mages - the Spawner had a Conviction aura and was CE and FE, so that I didn't dare to go near it and I had to spend some minutes to lure it away from the mages:
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The Chaos Sanctuary took quite a long time, because I constantly got Decrepifyed and it was really dangerous to land some blows and the Mages kept escaping the Meteors because I was so slow. I had to try to stun them with MB without converting them to keep them in place, and finally the CS was cleared and I went to fight the Seal bosses.

First the Vizier of Chaos, who drained my Mana so quickly, that I had to rely on brute force and life steal to dispatch of the pack. Unfortunately, The Vizier was killed hovering slightly over the edge, so no drop from them😡

Next was Lord de Seis, and with Mind Blast and Malice to stop everyone from regenerating, it only took about ten minutes to defeat him. There was a groan moment after I defeated all of his minions (with Fana aura) and had to go back to town, just to return to have him switch his aura to Conviction...🥴 But all went well and he went down.

I was lucky to have the straight pathway to the Infector, so no need to use TP and run back through the WP as I usually do when I have the other layout. I lured them away bit by bit so that the mob was smaller, used a Charge 3 Phoenix Strike to freeze up the minions that were still hanging around and could fight Infector almost alone.
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Then there was only Diablo left:
With Nokozan Relic I had 85% Fire but way lower cold resistance (which I didn't find as important against Diablo), but I didn't dare to switch out the boots for Hotspur, because my lightning resist would have plummeted to 40%. Still, Maybe that would have been wise, because Diablo's Wake of Fire was far more damaging than his Lightning Hose. My merc stayed alive long enough, because Diablo was seldomly using his Flame Wake (which killed him instantly) so that I only had to resurrect him once.

Unexciting drop again...really no luck with the act bosses...
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1 hour 15 mins for the CS isn't too bad for a melee character though - so overall I am quite happy to have come so far and in such a short time. :)

Medea, level 86 Phoenix Striker, Hell Harrogath next

Code:
 D2R Forum Name        Character Name       Class   Level  Post #    Location               Score
-- --- ----------        --------------       -----   -----  ------    --------               ----
SP Yes Grisu             Medea                Ass     86     121       Hell Harrogath          16
SP Yes Norcim            Sorrow               Sor     84      59       Hell Lower Kurast       14
   Yes gregth            The Reckless         Nec     56      64       NM River Of Flame        8
SP No  PhineasB          Randi                Ass     49     104       NM Rogue Encampment      6
   Yes Dazliare          Kaltrexia            Sor     32     113       Panda Fortress           3
   Yes Nona              Sister_Ariel         Sor     ??     153       Panda Fortress           3
SP Yes Oblivious         Meninore             Ama     20      13       Lut Gholein              1
   Yes little birdy      hiepsi               Pal     22     208       Arcane Sanctuary         1
   Yes Babyhell          Saraya               Sor     19     237       Arcane Sanctuary         1
   Yes Irenicus          Norman               Pal     17      38       Lut Gholein              1
   Yes m4ke              Random_Sorc          Sor     17     223       Lut Gholein              1
   No  Arjan             ???                  Bar     17      34       Outer Cloister           0
   Yes djmbbandie        Kat                  Ass     16      80       Black Marsh              0
SP Yes Miron             Quan Chi             Nec      1      30       Rogue Encampment         0
   Yes coju              ???                  Bar      1       5       Rogue Encampment         0
   Yes Vildecor          ???                  Pal      1      77       Rogue Encampment         0
   Yes AntiRush          ???                  Nec      1     169       Rogue Encampment         0
   Yes djmbbandie        ???                  Dru      1     185       Rogue Encampment         0
   Yes Jcakes            ???                  Ass      1     195       Rogue Encampment         0
   Yes Vang              ???                  Sor      1     199       Rogue Encampment         0
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   Yes AntiRush          RandomI              Ass     61       9       Hell Flayer Jungle      12
   Yes little birdy      lenna                Sor     24      59       Normal Diablo            3
   Yes Vang              Terror               Nec     ??      17       NM Arcane Sacntuary      6
   Yes little birdy      lennatwo             Sor     19      59       Jungle Act III           2
   Yes djmbbandie        Grim                 Nec     20     157       Catacombs                0
   Yes Arc1212           Random               Ama     27      81       Act V                    4
   Yes Arc1212           Bones                Nec     14     161       Act I Barracks           0
SP Yes Jcakes            Hephaestus           Pal     48+     18       NM Cold Crow             6
   Yes Vang              RagerX               Bar     ??     141       The Ancient's Way        4
   Yes little birdy      artemia              Ama     50     146       NM Durance of Hate       7
   Yes Arc1212           Crash                Bar     32     177       Baal's Throne Room       4
   Yes m4ke              Random_Pala          Pal     73      44       Hell Jail Level 2       10
 
Awesome progress, sorry to hear about the deeds @Dazliare . Are you going to roll up another one? This tourny has been really fun so far. If I deeds I may fire up another toon...

@Norcim: I always thought of Sszark as a female! I imagine we all have little things about the game like that. Pronunciation in particular, but genders too.
 
Randi, Lightning Trapper, NM A2 Palace, Level 56
After finishing up my SC Bowler Druid, I returned to this project this past weekend, completing NM A1 and the first half of A2. No game-changing drops, but quite safe progress.

As MF has increased and odds of S/U drops increase into NM, we had quite some of those, but only three notables that were equipable:
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Unique Greaves eth.jpg
The first went to the merc to minimize freezing and because topaz luck had been so poor that he wasn't wearing gemed armor anyhow (and I don't really have patience to maximize MF by letting merc kill everything, to be honest). The latter two were eth and promptly sold because I wasn't going to use.

We also encountered our first LI in early A1, as a preview of what's to come and reminder of need for some viable backup, and a nice jewel that will likely see use in Hell:
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Resist all jewel.jpg
We picked up a 4os Scythe, which was a damage downgrade from cubed Partizan, but a net gain for the mana regen, and Andy fell:
Andy Down.jpg
Sewers dropped a third plain Partizan on the playthrough, which got 4os (first two were below ilvl 40 and missed 4os, while this one was max 5os but lucked out, so go figure), and then check out this Insight roll:
4os Partizan 3rd cube.jpg
Partizan Insight.jpg
I so wish it had been an eth Partizan! That really improved speed of progress (and may prompt me to fill out 3os armor for merc, who was upgraded to Might), and only other notable drop was this nice amulet upgrade:
MF Ammy.jpg
I've gambled lots of gold, and still have only plain boots and gloves with MF, so hoping for a rare upgrade there with some resists (FRW would be nice on boots also), and still only a +1 traps claw along with Rhyme. But she's been plenty strong and safe so far, and the drops will come!

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 D2R Forum Name        Character Name       Class   Level  Post #    Location               Score
-- --- ----------        --------------       -----   -----  ------    --------               ----
SP Yes Grisu             Medea                Ass     86     121       Hell Harrogath          16
SP Yes Norcim            Sorrow               Sor     84      59       Hell Lower Kurast       14
   Yes gregth            The Reckless         Nec     56      64       NM River Of Flame        8
SP No  PhineasB          Randi                Ass     56     104       NM Palace                7
   Yes Dazliare          Kaltrexia            Sor     32     113       Panda Fortress           3
   Yes Nona              Sister_Ariel         Sor     ??     153       Panda Fortress           3
SP Yes Oblivious         Meninore             Ama     20      13       Lut Gholein              1
   Yes little birdy      hiepsi               Pal     22     208       Arcane Sanctuary         1
   Yes Babyhell          Saraya               Sor     19     237       Arcane Sanctuary         1
   Yes Irenicus          Norman               Pal     17      38       Lut Gholein              1
   Yes m4ke              Random_Sorc          Sor     17     223       Lut Gholein              1
   No  Arjan             ???                  Bar     17      34       Outer Cloister           0
   Yes djmbbandie        Kat                  Ass     16      80       Black Marsh              0
SP Yes Miron             Quan Chi             Nec      1      30       Rogue Encampment         0
   Yes coju              ???                  Bar      1       5       Rogue Encampment         0
   Yes Vildecor          ???                  Pal      1      77       Rogue Encampment         0
   Yes AntiRush          ???                  Nec      1     169       Rogue Encampment         0
   Yes djmbbandie        ???                  Dru      1     185       Rogue Encampment         0
   Yes Jcakes            ???                  Ass      1     195       Rogue Encampment         0
   Yes Vang              ???                  Sor      1     199       Rogue Encampment         0
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   Yes AntiRush          RandomI              Ass     61       9       Hell Flayer Jungle      12
   Yes little birdy      lenna                Sor     24      59       Normal Diablo            3
   Yes Vang              Terror               Nec     ??      17       NM Arcane Sacntuary      6
   Yes little birdy      lennatwo             Sor     19      59       Jungle Act III           2
   Yes djmbbandie        Grim                 Nec     20     157       Catacombs                0
   Yes Arc1212           Random               Ama     27      81       Act V                    4
   Yes Arc1212           Bones                Nec     14     161       Act I Barracks           0
SP Yes Jcakes            Hephaestus           Pal     48+     18       NM Cold Crow             6
   Yes Vang              RagerX               Bar     ??     141       The Ancient's Way        4
   Yes little birdy      artemia              Ama     50     146       NM Durance of Hate       7
   Yes Arc1212           Crash                Bar     32     177       Baal's Throne Room       4
   Yes m4ke              Random_Pala          Pal     73      44       Hell Jail Level 2       10
 
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So about 643 Frozen orbs later the lord of Terror fell in NM. Nothing notable for the drops. Sister_Ariel has snagged the Crystalline passage WP and is pushing on. I need upgrades in almost everything and have been getting by mostly on the OP ownage that frozen orb has at P1 NM. I'm level 59 or 60, I can't remember what my last ding was while running Eldritch. Nice Insight roll @PhineasB
 
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Sorrow picked back up in LK after the Ber drop. We found a Ruby Jewel (40ED) in the sewers. Always fun to see one of these, even if it likely won't ever be used. I was worried about the temples and took it down to P1 for all of them but we only had one minor stair trap and it wasn't a boss pack. There was a pack in the next room, but they didn't wake up until we had cleared the stair area out.
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We had a couple of good fights that I documented. This one wasn't dangerous but it did take forever. CI/FI Stoneskin is not a fun combo. Eventually Hazade and low level thunderstorm was able to bring him down.
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That fight made me want to find a weapon with PMH or Open Wounds that Sorrow could use. I've got a set of Angelic jewelry available for a quick AR boost, so I'll keep an eye on weapon possibilities moving forward.

At the council we fought Toorc first, and he also came out CI/FI Stoneskin but went down much faster than the vampire boss.
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Geleb was next, and he did us the honor of dropping a Dwarf Star. We immediately equipped it, which made the rest of the fight against the council much easier. Sorrow could then tank the hydras because Hazade would drop quickly if they concentrated on him.

We got to Ismail last after all the other council minions were dead, which worked out really well because he was packing Conviction. This would have been a pain with multiple hydras around but with just him it didn't cause us any troubles.
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We full cleared the Durance, which is just freaking huge. I always forget that, but at least it wasn't that dangerous. I did catch a few doll explosions when I wasn't being careful but thankfully we never got near an NDE. Sorrow had to fight Bremm on her own as Hazade refused to stay alive. Blizzard made short work of him.
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After the drop we had from Duriel I was very excited to see what Meph had for us, but even after swapping to full MF gear for the killing blow he decided we were unworthy of the good loot:
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Sorrow is up to level 85 and is ready to get after Diablo! I'm heading out of town for a few weeks, so I'll leave her resting in town until I get back. Looking forward to reading everyone's updates when I get back! Go @Grisu Go!

Code:
 D2R Forum Name        Character Name       Class   Level  Post #    Location               Score
-- --- ----------        --------------       -----   -----  ------    --------               ----
SP Yes Grisu             Medea                Ass     86     121       Hell Harrogath          16
SP Yes Norcim            Sorrow               Sor     85      59       Hell Panda Fortress     15
   Yes gregth            The Reckless         Nec     56      64       NM River Of Flame        8
SP No  PhineasB          Randi                Ass     56     104       NM Palace                7
   Yes Dazliare          Kaltrexia            Sor     32     113       Panda Fortress           3
   Yes Nona              Sister_Ariel         Sor     ??     153       Panda Fortress           3
SP Yes Oblivious         Meninore             Ama     20      13       Lut Gholein              1
   Yes little birdy      hiepsi               Pal     22     208       Arcane Sanctuary         1
   Yes Babyhell          Saraya               Sor     19     237       Arcane Sanctuary         1
   Yes Irenicus          Norman               Pal     17      38       Lut Gholein              1
   Yes m4ke              Random_Sorc          Sor     17     223       Lut Gholein              1
   No  Arjan             ???                  Bar     17      34       Outer Cloister           0
   Yes djmbbandie        Kat                  Ass     16      80       Black Marsh              0
SP Yes Miron             Quan Chi             Nec      1      30       Rogue Encampment         0
   Yes coju              ???                  Bar      1       5       Rogue Encampment         0
   Yes Vildecor          ???                  Pal      1      77       Rogue Encampment         0
   Yes AntiRush          ???                  Nec      1     169       Rogue Encampment         0
   Yes djmbbandie        ???                  Dru      1     185       Rogue Encampment         0
   Yes Jcakes            ???                  Ass      1     195       Rogue Encampment         0
   Yes Vang              ???                  Sor      1     199       Rogue Encampment         0
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Our departed                                                           Died against/in
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   Yes AntiRush          RandomI              Ass     61       9       Hell Flayer Jungle      12
   Yes little birdy      lenna                Sor     24      59       Normal Diablo            3
   Yes Vang              Terror               Nec     ??      17       NM Arcane Sacntuary      6
   Yes little birdy      lennatwo             Sor     19      59       Jungle Act III           2
   Yes djmbbandie        Grim                 Nec     20     157       Catacombs                0
   Yes Arc1212           Random               Ama     27      81       Act V                    4
   Yes Arc1212           Bones                Nec     14     161       Act I Barracks           0
SP Yes Jcakes            Hephaestus           Pal     48+     18       NM Cold Crow             6
   Yes Vang              RagerX               Bar     ??     141       The Ancient's Way        4
   Yes little birdy      artemia              Ama     50     146       NM Durance of Hate       7
   Yes Arc1212           Crash                Bar     32     177       Baal's Throne Room       4
   Yes m4ke              Random_Pala          Pal     73      44       Hell Jail Level 2       10
 
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Medea finally killed Kreon Baal and is now my first Assassin tournament Guardian! 🥳

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I have to admit, that Act V is one of my least favourite Acts for tournament play. There are almost no good spot where you can grab a waypoint and save and exit the game to continue later. You always have to retrace your steps either through narrow passages in the mountain or through huge outdoor areas...so I often paused the games for hours or even days and only S&E a few times when I needed to do some gear changes.

The bloody foothills promised a good start with skeleton archers and spear cats and no thorn beasts as in NM - they were nasty back then with their thorns aura and were responsible for hundreds of gulped Healing potions...and even better was the unique Casque that dropped...and that Shimmering GC...
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But things did get spicy from time to time, because those ranged monsters could deal out some damage...look at that mayhem:
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For Eldritch, I switched player settings to 8, which gave more XP, but no good items. I then proceeded to free Anya, after surviving Extra Strong LE Thresh Socket (some merc revives included).
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In the Pit of Archeron, I had to rely on BF again to defeat some of the nastier monsters, and Malice on switch was again doing its work:
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The Crystalline Passage...or "Why did it have to be snakes!?"...at least that boss was some trouble, and I had to feed my merc some full rejuvs for that fight. But even more trouble were the Succubi...dear lord, how much damage to they deal? And what sort of damage? Physical? The hit hard!!!
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Not to speak of the Frozen River with its gloams and succubi...afterwards, I had to restock on Full Rejuvs.
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After rescuing Anya, I raised the player setting to 8 for Pindleskin, but nothing useful from him, and I switched back to p3 afterwards, because Nihlatak's Temple would have been bad at p8...and there they were again - @Norcim's and everyone's best friends, the boss pack of greater mummies. Luckily, no undead to resurrect...
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Luckily, there were no serpents down in the temple, only lots of PI monsters:
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Although Nihlatak was Might Enchanted
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I somehow managed to lure him into using CE on converted minions and soon there was no monster left and it was only Nihlatak against Medea Haseen
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I then continued the journey through and up the mountain, finding a Shimmering SC (+5 @All Res) of Pestilence :oops: yeah, I take that!
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Mind Blast and the prolonged duration of a maxed skill level proved very good (and necessary!) against some boss packs (yeah, that is a Conviction aura):
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My merc kept dying to everything though, that is why I did a S&E before facing the Ancients. Mind Blast doesn't work against them, and my CtH will be very bad, or so I thought, that is why I did some cubing and runeword shenenigans:
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My stats before the fight:
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I only captured Talic, and the Extra Fast was the best thing that could have happened, because it reduced the damage output of WW by loads. You can also see my potion preparation on the plateau, but I didn't even need that many potions (although I had to reroll the Ancients like 15 times...cursed, Fana, Conviction etc. were quickly dismissed)
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And then they went down and I went into the Worldstone Keep:
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Uaaaahhhhh!
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pheew....
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The first 4 Baal waves were no issue, Mind Blast kept them busy while I unleased Phoenix Strikes and Haseen. I split up Lister from its pack using Mind Blast and first brought him down alone, then I took down the Minions of Destruction one by one. Very safe and very efficient!
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The fight against Baal was mostly a fight of endurance and town trips, but thanks to Obedience and Treachery (what an upgrade over Insight and Darkglow!) the crushing blows kept coming and my low damaging Phoenix Strikes did the rest:
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Here are my stat/item dumps:

Name: Medea
Class: Assassin
Experience: 1336628527
Level: 87

Naked/Gear
Strength: 115/161
Dexterity: 115/141
Vitality: 275/275
Energy: 25/25
HP: 1047/1261
Mana: 154/154
Stamina: 521/521
Defense: 28/1225
AR: 100000539/2100016716

Fire: 180/140/80
Cold: 178/138/78
Lightning: 173/133/73
Poison: 110/70/10

MF: 315 Block: 47
GF: 50 FR/W: 3
FHR: 48 IAS: 40
FCR: 0

Skills:
Fists of Fire 20/24
Claws of Thunder 20/24
Phoenix Strike 20/24
Dragon Tail 1/5
Weapon Block 1/4 (for the 1 pt in Claw Mastery...)
Mind Blast 20/23
Blade Fury 5/8

Coral Ring of Fortune
Ring
Required Level: 31
Fingerprint: 0x4fa152cb
Item Level: 55
Version: Resurrected
Lightning Resist +27%
19% Better Chance of Getting Magic Items

Arctic Binding
Sharkskin Belt
Defense: 65
Durability: 13 of 14
Required Level: 40
Required Strength: 20
Fingerprint: 0xf7b164bf
Item Level: 33
Version: Resurrected
+30 Defense
Cold Resist +40%
Required Level +5
Set (2 items): 40% Better Chance of Getting Magic Items
Set (3 items): Cold Resist +10%

(2 items): +5 to Strength

Wraith Turn
Ring
Required Level: 66
Fingerprint: 0x755f21d4
Item Level: 78
Version: Resurrected
+17 to Attack Rating
+19 to Strength
+2 to Dexterity
Replenish Life +7
Lightning Resist +26%
9% Better Chance of Getting Magic Items

Beast Talisman
Amulet
Required Level: 18
Fingerprint: 0xab7a036d
Item Level: 27
Version: Resurrected
4% Mana stolen per hit
Cold Resist +35%
Fire Resist +21%
Magic Damage Reduced by 2
9% Damage Taken Goes To Mana
25% Better Chance of Getting Magic Items

Arctic Mitts
Light Gauntlets
Defense: 11
Durability: 17 of 18
Required Level: 2
Required Strength: 45
Fingerprint: 0x70c1086b
Item Level: 58
Version: Resurrected
+10% Increased Attack Speed
+20 to Life
Set (2 items): +50 to Attack Rating
Set (3 items): +10 to Dexterity

(2 items): +5 to Strength

Skullder's Ire
Russet Armor
Defense: 671
Durability: 90 of 90
Required Level: 42
Required Strength: 97
Fingerprint: 0x4fee8b43
Item Level: 86
Version: Resurrected
+1 to All Skills
+175% Enhanced Defense
Magic Damage Reduced by 10
24% Better Chance of Getting Magic Items
108% Better Chance of Getting Magic Items (Based on Character Level)
Repairs 1 Durability in 5 Seconds
+60 Maximum Durability
1 Sockets (1 used)
Socketed: Perfect Topaz

Stealskull
Casque
Defense: 243
Durability: 23 of 24
Required Level: 35
Required Strength: 59
Fingerprint: 0xf59a1075
Item Level: 83
Version: Resurrected
+10% Increased Attack Speed
+10% Faster Hit Recovery
5% Mana stolen per hit
5% Life stolen per hit
+233% Enhanced Defense
40% Better Chance of Getting Magic Items

Loath Shank
Demonhide Boots
Defense: 35
Durability: 12 of 12
Required Level: 24
Required Strength: 20
Fingerprint: 0x8ed9a0b
Item Level: 52
Version: Resurrected
Lightning Resist +32%
Fire Resist +22%
Poison Resist +20%
16% Better Chance of Getting Magic Items

Bartuc's Cut-Throat
Greater Talons
One Hand Damage: 78 - 139
Durability: 61 of 69
Required Level: 42
Required Strength: 79
Required Dexterity: 79
Fingerprint: 0x7ca37dfc
Item Level: 52
Version: Resurrected
+1 to Martial Art Skills (Assassin Only)
+2 to Assassin Skill Levels
+20% Increased Attack Speed
+30% Faster Hit Recovery
156% Enhanced Damage
Adds 25 - 50 Damage
20% Bonus to Attack Rating
6% Life stolen per hit
+20 to Strength
+20 to Dexterity
1 Sockets (1 used)
Socketed: Shael Rune

Rhyme
Grim Shield
ShaelEth
Defense: 149
Chance to Block: 40
Durability: 70 of 70
Required Level: 29
Required Strength: 58
Fingerprint: 0xb6d184f
Item Level: 52
Version: Resurrected
+40% Faster Block Rate
20% Increased Chance of Blocking
Regenerate Mana 15%
All Resistances +25
Cannot Be Frozen
50% Extra Gold from Monsters
25% Better Chance of Getting Magic Items
2 Sockets (2 used)
Socketed: Shael Rune
Socketed: Eth Rune


Weapon switch:
Malice
Greater Claws
IthElEth
One Hand Damage: 23 - 49
Durability: 52 of 52
Required Level: 33
Required Strength: 76
Required Dexterity: 76
Fingerprint: 0xc717af90
Item Level: 61
Version: Resurrected
33% Enhanced Damage
-25% Target Defense
+50 to Attack Rating
100% Chance of Open Wounds
Prevent Monster Heal
+2 to Cloak of Shadows (Assassin Only)
--100 to Monster Defense Per Hit
Replenish Life +-5
+0 to Light Radius
3 Sockets (3 used)
Socketed: Ith Rune
Socketed: El Rune
Socketed: Eth Rune

Rhyme
Bone Shield
ShaelEth
Defense: 16
Chance to Block: 40
Durability: 39 of 40
Required Level: 29
Required Strength: 25
Fingerprint: 0x7a6d20a0
Item Level: 35
Version: Resurrected
+40% Faster Block Rate
20% Increased Chance of Blocking
Regenerate Mana 15%
All Resistances +25
Cannot Be Frozen
50% Extra Gold from Monsters
25% Better Chance of Getting Magic Items
2 Sockets (2 used)
Socketed: Shael Rune
Socketed: Eth Rune


Fine Small Charm of Vita
Small Charm
Required Level: 39
Fingerprint: 0xce0854b5
Item Level: 69
Version: Resurrected
+2 to Maximum Damage
+19 to Attack Rating
+20 to Life

Small Charm of Sustenance
Small Charm
Required Level: 17
Fingerprint: 0xf6fbf8ef
Item Level: 49
Version: Resurrected
+15 to Life

Shimmering Small Charm of Pestilence
Small Charm
Required Level: 25
Fingerprint: 0xa4226490
Item Level: 81
Version: Resurrected
Adds 25 Poison Damage Over 5 Secs (125 Frames)
All Resistances +5

Stout Small Charm of Fortune
Small Charm
Required Level: 18
Fingerprint: 0x2bbb0eb6
Item Level: 80
Version: Resurrected
+1 Defense
4% Better Chance of Getting Magic Items

Small Charm of Vita
Small Charm
Required Level: 39
Fingerprint: 0xa5e184a4
Item Level: 82
Version: Resurrected
+16 to Life

Shimmering Large Charm
Large Charm
Required Level: 26
Fingerprint: 0xeeb1b299
Item Level: 49
Version: Resurrected
All Resistances +7

Small Charm of Sustenance
Small Charm
Required Level: 17
Fingerprint: 0x7166cd52
Item Level: 43
Version: Resurrected
+13 to Life

Lapis Small Charm of Life
Small Charm
Required Level: 14
Fingerprint: 0xaa3d9a39
Item Level: 13
Version: Resurrected
+5 to Life
Cold Resist +7%

Small Charm of Sustenance
Small Charm
Required Level: 17
Fingerprint: 0x2445efe3
Item Level: 62
Version: Resurrected
+14 to Life

Lapis Small Charm of Life
Small Charm
Required Level: 14
Fingerprint: 0xc6a4aed2
Item Level: 22
Version: Resurrected
+7 to Life
Cold Resist +7%

Garnet Small Charm
Small Charm
Required Level: 20
Fingerprint: 0xa928f982
Item Level: 49
Version: Resurrected
Fire Resist +8%

Jade Small Charm of Inertia
Small Charm
Required Level: 27
Fingerprint: 0xe09ff6b
Item Level: 55
Version: Resurrected
+3% Faster Run/Walk
Poison Resist +9%

Sharp Large Charm of Balance
Large Charm
Required Level: 21
Fingerprint: 0xcc256e84
Item Level: 41
Version: Resurrected
+8% Faster Hit Recovery
+5 to Maximum Damage
+41 to Attack Rating

Cobalt Small Charm of Strength
Small Charm
Required Level: 20
Fingerprint: 0x28b29108
Item Level: 50
Version: Resurrected
+1 to Strength
Cold Resist +8%

Small Charm of Fortune
Small Charm
Required Level: 18
Fingerprint: 0x44f26169
Item Level: 79
Version: Resurrected
5% Better Chance of Getting Magic Items

Ocher Small Charm
Small Charm
Required Level: 10
Fingerprint: 0xa180c519
Item Level: 21
Version: Resurrected
Lightning Resist +7%

Garnet Grand Charm of Strength
Grand Charm
Required Level: 15
Fingerprint: 0x6c19e4a0
Item Level: 26
Version: Resurrected
+6 to Strength
Fire Resist +21%

Ruby Grand Charm of Dexterity
Grand Charm
Required Level: 22
Fingerprint: 0xb0d2e364
Item Level: 39
Version: Resurrected
+4 to Dexterity
Fire Resist +27%

Large Charm of Vita
Large Charm
Required Level: 66
Fingerprint: 0x60378eca
Item Level: 83
Version: Resurrected
+35 to Life

Large Charm of Vita
Large Charm
Required Level: 50
Fingerprint: 0xbc312a9d
Item Level: 85
Version: Resurrected
+29 to Life

Grand Charm of Vita
Grand Charm
Required Level: 69
Fingerprint: 0xc42c6a66
Item Level: 85
Version: Resurrected
+40 to Life

Shimmering Grand Charm of Lightning
Grand Charm
Required Level: 27
Fingerprint: 0x5d0dcc7c
Item Level: 80
Version: Resurrected
Adds 1 - 6 Lightning Damage
All Resistances +14


Name: Haseen
Race: Desert Mercenary
Type: HolyFreeze-Nightmare
Experience: 79940080
Level: 87

Naked/Gear
Strength: 194/204
Dexterity: 157/167
HP: 1910/1961
Defense: 1402/1906
AR: 2000/2015

Fire: 175/135/75
Cold: 205/165/105
Lightning: 205/165/105
Poison: 175/135/75

Treachery
Balrog Skin
ShaelThulLem
Defense: 476
Durability: 23 of 30
Required Level: 57
Required Strength: 165
Fingerprint: 0xcca5e0b1
Item Level: 81
Version: Resurrected
5% Chance to cast level 15 Fade when struck
25% Chance to cast level 15 Venom on striking
+2 to Assassin Skill Levels
+45% Increased Attack Speed
+20% Faster Hit Recovery
Cold Resist +30%
50% Extra Gold from Monsters
3 Sockets (3 used)
Socketed: Shael Rune
Socketed: Thul Rune
Socketed: Lem Rune

Spirit Mask
Helm
Defense: 28
Durability: 24 of 24
Required Level: 82
Required Strength: 26
Fingerprint: 0x943f4b8d
Item Level: 85
Version: Resurrected
+15 to Attack Rating
3% Life stolen per hit
10% Deadly Strike
+49% Enhanced Defense
+51 to Life
Lightning Resist +30%
24% Better Chance of Getting Magic Items
+1 to Light Radius
2 Sockets (2 used)
Socketed: Ort Rune
Socketed: Perfect Topaz

Obedience
Superior Cryptic Axe
HelKoThulEthFal
Two Hand Damage: 155 - 705
Durability: 72 of 72
Required Level: 59
Required Strength: 132
Required Dexterity: 83
Fingerprint: 0x13c82855
Item Level: 80
Version: Resurrected
30% Chance to cast level 21 Enchant when you Kill an Enemy
+40% Faster Hit Recovery
370% Enhanced Damage
-25% Target Defense
Adds 3 - 14 Cold Damage Over 3 Secs (75 Frames)
-25% to Enemy Fire Resistance
40% Chance of Crushing Blow
+268 Defense
+10 to Strength
+10 to Dexterity
All Resistances +21
Increase Maximum Durability 11%
Requirements --20%
5 Sockets (5 used)
Socketed: Hel Rune
Socketed: Ko Rune
Socketed: Thul Rune
Socketed: Eth Rune
Socketed: Fal Rune

Guardian Medea, level 87.8 Phoenix Striker, Hell Cows still roaming the lands

Thanks for the tournament, @Vang! Thank you @Norcim for the friendly race - I was very sad to read that you had to leave town for some weeks because I was both eager for and afraid of your next update every morning ("Will Norcim be the first to Guardian?") Good luck for your final stretch!

Thank you everyone else who participated and especially @Vildecor for rolling me such a great character!

Code:
 D2R Forum Name        Character Name       Class   Level  Post #    Location               Score
-- --- ----------        --------------       -----   -----  ------    --------               ----
SP Yes Grisu             Medea                Ass     87     121       Guardian                18
SP Yes Norcim            Sorrow               Sor     85      59       Hell Panda Fortress     15
   Yes gregth            The Reckless         Nec     56      64       NM River Of Flame        8
SP No  PhineasB          Randi                Ass     56     104       NM Palace                7
   Yes Dazliare          Kaltrexia            Sor     32     113       Panda Fortress           3
   Yes Nona              Sister_Ariel         Sor     ??     153       Panda Fortress           3
SP Yes Oblivious         Meninore             Ama     20      13       Lut Gholein              1
   Yes little birdy      hiepsi               Pal     22     208       Arcane Sanctuary         1
   Yes Babyhell          Saraya               Sor     19     237       Arcane Sanctuary         1
   Yes Irenicus          Norman               Pal     17      38       Lut Gholein              1
   Yes m4ke              Random_Sorc          Sor     17     223       Lut Gholein              1
   No  Arjan             ???                  Bar     17      34       Outer Cloister           0
   Yes djmbbandie        Kat                  Ass     16      80       Black Marsh              0
SP Yes Miron             Quan Chi             Nec      1      30       Rogue Encampment         0
   Yes coju              ???                  Bar      1       5       Rogue Encampment         0
   Yes Vildecor          ???                  Pal      1      77       Rogue Encampment         0
   Yes AntiRush          ???                  Nec      1     169       Rogue Encampment         0
   Yes djmbbandie        ???                  Dru      1     185       Rogue Encampment         0
   Yes Jcakes            ???                  Ass      1     195       Rogue Encampment         0
   Yes Vang              ???                  Sor      1     199       Rogue Encampment         0
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

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Our departed                                                           Died against/in
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   Yes AntiRush          RandomI              Ass     61       9       Hell Flayer Jungle      12
   Yes little birdy      lenna                Sor     24      59       Normal Diablo            3
   Yes Vang              Terror               Nec     ??      17       NM Arcane Sacntuary      6
   Yes little birdy      lennatwo             Sor     19      59       Jungle Act III           2
   Yes djmbbandie        Grim                 Nec     20     157       Catacombs                0
   Yes Arc1212           Random               Ama     27      81       Act V                    4
   Yes Arc1212           Bones                Nec     14     161       Act I Barracks           0
SP Yes Jcakes            Hephaestus           Pal     48+     18       NM Cold Crow             6
   Yes Vang              RagerX               Bar     ??     141       The Ancient's Way        4
   Yes little birdy      artemia              Ama     50     146       NM Durance of Hate       7
   Yes Arc1212           Crash                Bar     32     177       Baal's Throne Room       4
   Yes m4ke              Random_Pala          Pal     73      44       Hell Jail Level 2       10
 
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