prayer merc? surprising! unless there's a specific reason for it that i'm unaware of?
after dying on my 1.09b hardcore barbarian, i decided to give 1.07 a try. so far i've been having a blast!
i've been using worg's crafting guide and repusz's 1.07 guide as references. unfortunately the information in this thread is scattered among so many pages.
i still have a ton of questions about mechanics, skills, etc, but one that i'd like to ask is: why travincal runs?
according to monstats, all unique council members suffer from the same problem as the act bosses, and drop only from tc33 and below.
(their minions should drop appropriately, however.)
is the cow level too tough? the council members do give nice XP, but with how many cows spawn, you'd think that the cow level is better for general farming.
in my casual testing of about 10 hell travincal runs (all 6 unique council members), the highest lvl item i've found was a lvl32 gothic plate. i ignored all the minions to make sure i would not get mixed drops.
IF this is true (tc33 for unique council members), then magic find is practically useless for these runs, as i understand.
i think the unique council members would only be good for charms in this case. and jewelry i guess.
there are a few other super uniques that, according to monstats, also have the issue. (haphesto, summoner, griswold, radement, nihlathak.) blood raven and the smith do not, but they only have tc57 unfortunately.
anyway, it was fun to learn how much off-weapon stuff gets added to lightning fury. once i have some gear, i will definitely make an amazon