@PhineasB - Welcome! Those boots are most certainly yellow, go for it!
Good progress to everyone else!
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[highlight]Geras, Cultist of Malstrom
Talents: Charms Expert, One With Nature, Pride, Specialist[/highlight]
We decided not to let to first inherently "Malstrom-approved" S/U (ie. not personalized for approval) go to waste, and make things a bit safer for Geras while we're at it. So we took the Sureshrill Frost we found from Meph onto his switch along with this shield(the charges allow me to use it):
As you can see it has greatly improved his resists situation, gives him acces to Terror, and also gives him CBF (and hit freezes target!) from the Sureshrill. So the plan for now is to keep this setup as his main for walking around, and he will switch to his bow when needed (or if he finds a bow that can actually do damage...).
Well in true fashion for a druid summoner, it literally took one step out of the Pandemonium Fortress for things to grind to a halt thanks to this nasty
Spawner pack. Spawners are just bad news for us overall, as this group has pretty low firepower to begin with. Eventually though we did kill the pack and find the entrance to the Plains of Despair. Eager to get away from the spawners we took the exit straight away and ran into... more spawners! Took a while to slog through them again, but eventually we did manage to find and kill
Izual.
Onward to the City of the Damned and you guessed it, spawners! One thing we learned from all these spawners is that I think it's time for the wolves to finally go into retirement. So we switched to the bear full-time, and that helped our kill speed a little bit, but more importantly he is a much better tank so it's made us safer.
We finally found the stairs down into the inferno and entered the River of Flame. SPAWNERS!
No, I'm not kidding. 4/4 areas had spawners this time around, and the RoF drew maggots as well. Needless to say it was slow going down there. Slowly but surely we made our way to Hephasto. He was Cursed, Spectral Hit and had Might, so Geras was more than happy to hang back and let Annor
take him on. After all this slogging Geras plopped Meph's soulstone into the Hellforge and smacked it a few times.
YES!! This is probably the absolute best case scenario for Geras on his HF drop. Malstrom allows us to make Harmony, finally giving the team a decent PI solution and just a good weapon for Geras in general, something he has been lacking for as long as he can remember. We still need to find a good base for it, but that will come with time I'm sure.
So with renewed spirits the group set off and entered the Chaos Sanctuary. OKs everywhere made it slow going always laying decrep on the bear, but as long as we kept Annor out of it then she could pluck away successfully from the back end while the bear tanked.
Vizier went down easy and couldn't even budge the grizzly's health bar.
De Seis was a peach after leading his minions out of his aura's range and dispatching them first. For the Infector, we used a charge from our teleport staff to jump the gap back into the main "room", then led the group out into the open where they were more easily
taken care of.
So finally, after the longest time I think I've ever spent in A4 NM, we hit the last seal, nabbed a convenient Resist Fire shrine right by the pentagram, and went for Diablo. After some very careful positioning, we managed to get the bear in a spot where D's Lightning Hose couldn't touch him.
This still left him vulnerable to firestorms of course, but as long as we recast him quickly enough he could hold Diablo's attention and the rest of the group could whittle away. The
drop had nothing worthwhile, though maybe the Nightsmoke could be peronalized and upped if we're desperate at some point.
Onwards to Harrogath!
[highlight]Destroyer Geras the Hunter/Summoner Druid with Annor the Cold Rogue - lvl 66, NM Harrogath - 95 points[/highlight]
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I updated Daz as well.
Table Update
Code:
Name ----------- Points ----------- Score
Zisla +10 197
Thoth +10 181
~ Cultists ~
Character ----- Class/ God ------ Forum Name ----- Level ----- Act ----- Score
Squid Necromancer/Zisla Xios 87 5hell 187
Pyre Assassin/Thoth NanoMist 77 5hell 171
Kiora Sorceress/Zisla SunsetVista 82 5hell 165
Derevus Paladin/Sol Vildecor 74 1hell 98
Geras Druid/Malstrom Pb_pal 66 5nm 95
Xiu-Aethera Assassin/Xiu-Matesh Dazliare 49 1nm 59
ManOfSteel Barb/Fractured One Bry 28 4 38
Toxic_Tom Barbarian/Pherydimox mwille 27 3 28
Imoquir Necromancer/Requiem broxi_111 28 3 24
UndeadCooper Druid/Requiem Mezion 26 2 22
Cat Assassin/Chimaera PhineasB 25 2 14
Kraxian Druid/Sol ranagrande 20 2 12
Vrauzhul Necromancer/Chimaera iMonsterEatCity 17 1 8
Stefon Barbarian/Ouroboros Neksja 1 1 0
~ Legacy ~
Character ----- Class/ God ------ Forum Name ----- Level ----- Act ----- Score
Wicular Necromancer/Requiem Southpaw8668 74 2hell 135
GoreJess Assassin/Ullr mwille 65 5nm 97
Xiu_Atesh Druid/Xiu-Matesh Dazliare 63 4nm 73?
Gore Assassin/Ullr mwille 49 1nm 63
BaileyCat Assa./Antediluvianis Mezion 27 5 48
Lycaon Druid/Ouroboros Neksja 29 4 40
Perturbator Paladin/Pherydimox Mezion 33 4 38
OwenCat Necro/Antediluvianis Mezion 27 4 38
GoreLord Necromancer/Ullr mwille 31 4 38
AnnGore Amazon/Ullr mwille 32 4 38
Derevus Paladin/Sol Vildecor 32 4 34
Quimble Necromancer/Sol ranagrande 28 2 16
Sabine Sorc/Chimaera iMonsterEatCity 25 2 18
Snirn Barbarian/Pherydimox broxi_111 22 2 10
Gunvor Assassin/Ullr mwille 20 2 10
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