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After the gear swapping we were down to 70MF, but in the Frozen Tundra and Ancients Way we had the following two nice unique drops. Funny how MF works sometimes. I really appreciated being back at 50% CTB and having all the damage reduction modifiers in the Ancients Way. We rolled 3 CI...

Before venturing out into the foothills I crafted 7 caster amulets hoping for something better than the magic +3Cold/12PDR amulet but came up empty. Act 5 is always an adventure with the random guest monster rolls; I went down to P1 early in the Bloody Foothills when Hazade kept getting stomped...

@Grisu, way to go! Single-pass full clear phoenix striker is just so much more difficult than a sorc with partially synergized blizzard and CM; that takes real skill and patience to pull off! I know back in the day Jiansonz tried a bunch of tournament phoenix strikers but I don't remember if any...

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...

@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...

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. We found a 4...

@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)...

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...

Congrats on the Conqueror @Grisu! Your progress is keeping me motivated to try to keep pace with Medea. I had another good run of barbs in the Bloody Foothills. They don't kill anything but with 6 of them around they do soak up a ton of damage. The Frigid Highlands were tough; we rolled...

Sorrow and Leharas had a pretty uneventful journey through the jungles. I didn't even take any notes until we encountered our first CI/FI in the form of Witch Doctor Endugu. Fortunately, he has pretty low life and Leharas made short work of him; I wasn't even able to grab a screenshot before he...

Sorry about the deeds @little birdy. Dolls are brutal, and as others have said they've been responsible for a fair share of my HC deaths. Good luck with your Pally! Sorrow ventured out into the Moor with Blizzards flying. We found our first Sol rune in the Cave, and then our best unique so far...

Sorrow the future Blizzard sorc sold her starting staff and then went out into the moor with firsts swinging! Once we hit level 2 and put a point into Ice Bolt things became easier, especially when a white javelin dropped from almost the first monster. From there it was simple, ice bolt to slow...

Thanks @Vang! Pretty solid combat spell rolls for Blizzard and Meteor if I want to go for both/one or the other. Bummer about no Static or Teleport, but maybe I can roll a War Staff with charges of Teleport to at least have it as an option. Does anyone know if Thunderstorm got boosted at all...

Hey everyone, finally getting a chance to get back into some D2R after being away for a while. I've played in a number of tournaments over the years, but I've never tried my hand at a totally random one so this should be an adventure! Looking to best my performance from the March of the Doomed...

It's been a while since my last update. I had some vacation time off for the first time in a few years so I went out of town, away from computers for a while! The TLDR for this post. RIP Styke and Ilzan in the Forgotten Temple. I'd been writing the update as I went, so I'll just run through the...

Act 1 started out fairly normal, with no major issues or drops. We found a 4 socket broad sword in the Cold Plains, which might be the earliest I've seen a potential spirit sword candidate. We also picked up a plain white Partizan here as well, which will be rolled for sockets in the cube once I...

Hey everyone, old time lurker here coming out of retirement (again). I had been away from the game for a long time, but then stated dabbling again maybe 2 years ago and came back for the Orange You Glad that Rune Dropped tournament hosted by PhineasB. Managed to successfully steer a CS/LS Amazon...

I'm definitely in for this one! I needed a new tournament to keep me going! I'm thinking of a necro/assassin combo, and would be going with the single-pass option. I think with two characters progressing this should result in some pretty nice gear options. I'd probably also not restart a new...

Been away for a bit and finally got a chance to catch back up on this thread. Congrats on the first guardian @Luhkoh! First one is always special, and doing it via a single-pass tournament makes it even better! Hopefully she finds you all the HC goodies moving forward! @Pb_pal: I'm jealous of...

Hi everyone, This will be the first thread I've started since I returned a few months ago. Introducing Guardian Valryka! Valryka was my entry in the Orange You Glad tournament hosted by @PhineasB. She successfully performed a full clear of the entire game, and became my very first tournament...