After a very uninteresting WSK level 2, Whitefang continued onward toward the end. He had to dodge a whole bunch of beasties, which as far as the tournament was concerned, didn’t exist. Fortunately the poison mages and baal’s minions were not terribly tough. We will get back to them in a moment…
Bosses in the WSK level 3. None of them were very difficult.
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Ouch! I was afraid of that. Unfreezable frenzytaurs again! I tried to throw up a portal to have a backup plan, but I had run out and forgot to buy more! And my trail back through WSK 2 was plugged with monsters. Well, let’s try to find a scroll in the TOD…
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Bosses in the TOD. These guys didn’t pack much of a wallup, but the axe had definitely slowed down a bit, until amp triggered, and then monsters, even the minions of destruction, went down FAST. There were also freezable horadrim ancients but no skellies, so that was not difficult.
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I was able to handle all frenzytaurs because there weren’t any bosses. In retrospect the lack of a TP scroll might have been pretty silly on my part, in case there was an extra fast pack, but I didn’t pay for it.
I decided to attack Colenzo’s group, and still hadn’t found a TP scroll yet. His minions got frozen and Colenzo died quickly. Notice Whitefang is lower on max life. He timed out and had to fight on with reduced life and AR through this pack.
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I switched to the lawbringer vs Achmel’s pack because the axe had broken. It was handy to allow the skeletons to RIP. After failing to secure a TP scroll at the end of the skeleton minions, I went back the long way to the WSK 2 waypoint, again dodging tons of enemies that technically didn’t exist. I got more scrolls, fixed the axe, restarted my wolf timer, and trudged back from the WSK 2 WP past them again. Doofus.
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Bartuc and his minions all got amped and dispatched with zero trouble.
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Ventar and his buddies got strung out a bit but not too terribly bad. I could handle three or four at a time.
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Lister was not terribly difficult. You can see that my life went down for his pack: I put on the Cleglaw’s gloves and the Hwanin’s belt for 25% slowing, knockback, and PMH so I lost the life bonuses from the gloves and belt. All worked well and I took Lister alone (he was a pussy cat) and his minions no more than two at a time. Ajheed’s ice blasts freeze them for a good long time and I hack away at whichever one is closest. When the other one comes closer to Ajheed than the first, he switches fire, and freezes that one. He never had to switch more than twice before the two minions were down. Repeat until they were all dead.
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I started with Cleglaw’s gloves against Baal and put on a damage charm and a life charm so you can see that I had over 2000 HP for the fight. Not bad for a no vitality character! The plan was to use Cleglaws and the Lawbringer to nerf Baal’s attacks and switch to the axe to do the major damage, but I couldn’t hit Baal with the Lawbringer consistently enough to get him decrepified, and I was burning through my rejuvenation potions faster than I wanted, so I changed tactics. I put the blood gloves back on and Furied away, sprinkling Feral Rage, mostly to keep my run speed up. I had on the Spirit Shroud so the hoarfrost wasn’t a problem, and every time Baal got some festering appendages going I attacked them to replenish my life, because he damaged me faster than I could replenish with life leech. The gloves were the key and I hit him with crushing blow a few times. When Baal was slivered, I went back to Cleglaw’s to finish him off.
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His drop. The ED% was not very good. I don’t recall if I have ever seen a Doombringer before, but it’s a great Barb merc weapon. Getting any elite unique from Baal with 0 MF is cool in my book.
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So Tyrael and the rest of the crew in Harrogath thought Whitefang’s victory was pretty sweet. Maybe Natalya will change her mind when he got back to Kurast? He had one last stop to make before going back to see her. He hoped against hope that she would back off of her pledge. After all, he did save Sanctuary… and she’s in it, right?
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