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RIP Through_Grief.
Amodan_Crane managed to make headway toward finalizing his grief process, gaining near full acceptance of all that he has endured. He left Harrogath at level 86 and hoping to make at least 87 before the end of his journey. I'll structure the update a little differently this time, showing the drops first and then some of the action shots afterward.
Some of his drops and creations at the start of the act. The Black devil star was a fun item but I didn't mind too much when it died because the knockback changed the battlefield a bit sometimes and slowed us down. Amodan_Crane used the Fal rune he got from the Hellforge and used it to make a Lionheart, which he put in an elite base. The resultant +90 to life was (and still is) able to be used with it's own strength bonus. I keep a +17 Strength amulet in the game stash to equip it each time I start a new game, and once equipped, it allows itself to remain on. The loss of 20% resist all between it and the Smoke runeword was partially overcome by Anya's salvation and a 9% res all jewel in the circlet, which got two sockets - booyah! I equipped enough charms to at least get to 16% FHR, but Amodan_Crane rarely gets hit and almost never goes into hit recovery. It seems that the hit recovery does not kick in when bone armor is being reduced, and I rarely run out of bone armor. The fungal amulet was SOO close to being a great amulet, and the fire and +life charm is a great one no matter the size of it. The insight thresher lasted not very long, and I will explain how in a bit.
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More of his nice finds later on in the act. Two really nice grand charms, which I don't use, ANOTHER Seraph's Hymn amulet (my only other unique amulets in this character's journey were a Nokozan and the other Seraph's). I also got a 5 os ethereal great poleaxe, which will make a great Obedience some day maybe.
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Here is a shot of our first and so far only unbreakable PI boss in the game. We got him with poison, open wounds and bone spears.
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Here is another blood lord boss, but we got him pretty easily. The hardest part in the Abaddon areas were the demon imps and witches which threw their orbs of doom all over the place. There was plenty of opportunity to play Demon Dodgeball.
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Here's where I screwed the pooch. I thought I'd be crafty and run the areas at /P3 (my standard through the entire difficulty so far) and pop the sparkly chest in the Glacial Trail at /P8. But, I forgot to change it back and so everything was taking a long time to kill and the enemies had a lot more power and they ended up dispatching all my IGs, including the IK Maul, the Champion Axe, the Insight Thresher and all others I really cared about. I might still have one or two sources of CB handy for the last few areas but I'm running out due to this goofy mistake. I got some great experience though!
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Check out the sweet firing squad I had lined up against Frozenstein and his pals.
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Nihlathak was not difficult and we cornered him eventually. He got one explosion off that hit my bone armor and some of my health.
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Amodan_Crane got to level 87 (a goal since Wendy needed level 87 to get enough strength to upgrade her Crow Caw but we still need to find a Lem to actually do the upgrade) and is at the Frozen Tundra WP.
Amodan_Crane managed to make headway toward finalizing his grief process, gaining near full acceptance of all that he has endured. He left Harrogath at level 86 and hoping to make at least 87 before the end of his journey. I'll structure the update a little differently this time, showing the drops first and then some of the action shots afterward.
Some of his drops and creations at the start of the act. The Black devil star was a fun item but I didn't mind too much when it died because the knockback changed the battlefield a bit sometimes and slowed us down. Amodan_Crane used the Fal rune he got from the Hellforge and used it to make a Lionheart, which he put in an elite base. The resultant +90 to life was (and still is) able to be used with it's own strength bonus. I keep a +17 Strength amulet in the game stash to equip it each time I start a new game, and once equipped, it allows itself to remain on. The loss of 20% resist all between it and the Smoke runeword was partially overcome by Anya's salvation and a 9% res all jewel in the circlet, which got two sockets - booyah! I equipped enough charms to at least get to 16% FHR, but Amodan_Crane rarely gets hit and almost never goes into hit recovery. It seems that the hit recovery does not kick in when bone armor is being reduced, and I rarely run out of bone armor. The fungal amulet was SOO close to being a great amulet, and the fire and +life charm is a great one no matter the size of it. The insight thresher lasted not very long, and I will explain how in a bit.
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More of his nice finds later on in the act. Two really nice grand charms, which I don't use, ANOTHER Seraph's Hymn amulet (my only other unique amulets in this character's journey were a Nokozan and the other Seraph's). I also got a 5 os ethereal great poleaxe, which will make a great Obedience some day maybe.
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Here is a shot of our first and so far only unbreakable PI boss in the game. We got him with poison, open wounds and bone spears.
View attachment 7122
Here is another blood lord boss, but we got him pretty easily. The hardest part in the Abaddon areas were the demon imps and witches which threw their orbs of doom all over the place. There was plenty of opportunity to play Demon Dodgeball.
View attachment 7123
Here's where I screwed the pooch. I thought I'd be crafty and run the areas at /P3 (my standard through the entire difficulty so far) and pop the sparkly chest in the Glacial Trail at /P8. But, I forgot to change it back and so everything was taking a long time to kill and the enemies had a lot more power and they ended up dispatching all my IGs, including the IK Maul, the Champion Axe, the Insight Thresher and all others I really cared about. I might still have one or two sources of CB handy for the last few areas but I'm running out due to this goofy mistake. I got some great experience though!
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Check out the sweet firing squad I had lined up against Frozenstein and his pals.
View attachment 7126
Nihlathak was not difficult and we cornered him eventually. He got one explosion off that hit my bone armor and some of my health.
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Amodan_Crane got to level 87 (a goal since Wendy needed level 87 to get enough strength to upgrade her Crow Caw but we still need to find a Lem to actually do the upgrade) and is at the Frozen Tundra WP.