1.09 Roll Call - Goals, Progress, Finds

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My BuriZon did both well - max Freezing Arrow and some healthy mana leech really helps - for cows, FA for the vast majority (GA for stragglers and uniques), for Baal, FA/MA for the waves (GA Lister), and for Baal, run to just to the side of Baal's pier, cast Decoy on the peir where he can see it, then GA around the corner until Baal falls.
 
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I forgot about the sorc you 99'd before upping and didn't know about the zon. Either way, gratz on yet another one and on that Tal's Plate! That'll be nice on a sorc.

I found a high MS being really nice in the cows as well. If you couple it with cleglaws for the extra slow and KB you can stand back and launch those volleys until everything falls. The piercing is just icing on the cake.

@pegleg: While you're in norm, an A2 defense merc goes really well with using shout. You can hire a lvl 13 one and try using the cube recipe "staff+belt+flawed diamond+kris" to make a savage pole. Then just use the highest def armor you can shop or that you've found that he can equip. You might have to stick around in A2 with him for a while to level him up some, otherwise jumping into A3 with him might lead to some deaths. You can always use "shift+pot" to heal your merc automatically too if you didn't know...?
 
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@cheerup thanks! I will try that!
@RobbyD thanks for the advice. Also congrats on the find man!
 
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I like FA over MA for cows because I like having the merc involved. With FA, you can keep all the cows around him frozen, and his Might helps you leech. And the freeze duration is impressive from the Buriza - if you load up on cold damage charms, it extends the duration (I bet Vamp Gaze helps a lot too), so the cows stay still a considerable amount of time.

Oh, and I guess I should mention that I am assuming you will be using a Buriza. The pierce and freeze duration of that weapon really makes FA shine! I tried it with a Melody GMB (+3 b/x skills) and it wasn't even close in performance.
 
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Well I have yet to find a Buriza or WF... Heck, I haven't even gotten a lycander's or eaglehorn yet for that matter! My bow choices are pretty limited in 1.09. I do have a few different sets of Titan's though. But my 1.13 Ice strafer may definitely make use of a respec to be an FA/strafer to make use of all of that -ecr on the bow.

I didn't think about the slowness of that GF for your wolf. Seems like the route you've been going is for the best right now.
 
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I am going to stick to trying to get my javazon to 99. In the mean time I slapped a skullders and a shako on instead of the shafty and the vamp gaze. So maybe I can get some good mf luck along the way.
 
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Skullder's is a good way to go for a JavaZon, but I'd stick a Stealskull over a Shako unless she already has all her leech needs adressed. What shield do you have on her?

**********UPDATE***********

I've been wanting to pop a lightning damage jewel in the Tiamat's for my 1.09 Wolf, so I went ahead and got my stable of rushees to NM Larzuk. Since I now have 7 rewards pending, I feel very good about a Strafer sporting a Tal's 3-piece if I ever find that WF. Aleksandr performed the rushing duties, so I'm hoping he ended up with a good map (I wasn't 'wow' about his old map, that why I used him).
 
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RobbyD- you should try to make a cruel matriarchal bow. If you get the cruel matriarchal bow of evisceration it's actually a little better than the WF.
 
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A 1.09 WF is THE legendary weapon. No other item will motivate me to make another 1.09 character. I don't see how a Cruel Mat Bow significantly outperforms a good Goldstrike Arch or Lycander's Aim, to be honest.
 
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RonnyD, if you socket the cruel right it is very powerful! The WF and Grandfather I've never seen drop. So consider yourself half lucky haha
 
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Well I haven't been getting any play time in with how busy life has been. Blah! This weekend may be better though. Just have a little grading to catch up on and not so many plans to top the crazy past 2 or 3 weeks. I've got to get my 1.10 rush sorc finished up and then I'll be working on getting a little more gear for her and starting up those crazy 7 player hf runs. I'll be lucky to get my sorc to proper level by the end of the weekend, let alone get all the rest of the gear she could really use. AKA: shako(still don't have a first one), skullder's/viper, another occy, and maybe some merc gear as well.

As for now, way past my bedtime. Gonna be another half asleep commute tomorrow morning, yay!
 
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I'm not sold on the cruel Mat bow, but maybe a 1.07 Blood crafted Hydra Bow... those get 3 sox from Larzuk!

I'm on a little 1.09 hiatus now too since I'm working on getting my 1.13 Wolf through Hell Act 1. Some Trav running and CS running going on in the meantime since 1.13 is my live patch.
 
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I'm thinking that maybe, just maybe I'll be able to play a little bit tonight! Wouldn't that be awesome!?! I know, right? Well, I'm planning on skipping over 1.10a for the +2 BKWB since that will presumably take a loonnnggg time to do in comparison to just going straight to 1.10s for the runes and beta Bramble. Might make some of the other beta RW's too if I can manage to find some bases in 1.09. That will surely happen when I MF a bit with my barb to hopefully gear up some.

Hope the rest of the crew is doing well and maybe doing some 1.09 playing as of late. It seems like ioupainmax may be secretly working on some 1.09...?
 
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Hey - good to hear from you. Let me give you some thoughts from my experience with transitioning from 1.09 to 1.10betas to 1.13.

1.10a BKWB running - I converted my 1.09 MeteOrb after getting her to 99 on cows, and made 1.10a CtA (the one that uses 4 sox and no Ohm), and finally procured a 1.10a Reaper's Toll - that made for some pretty darn safe Andy running. It took some time to find the BKWB (and I only found one), but I ended up adding Mephy to the list to get some more S/U goodness (Andy really can't drop that many good EUs) and she can run both effectively on /P5 (the magic setting for Andy drops). In 1.10a, it still works that all the monsters die when Andy dies, and FO works better in 1.10a than 1.10s (actually has a cool effect if you shot it into a wall that it stays there and spins for a second before dissapating). You can also do your HF collections in 1.10a if you want - just make sure you use the ATS application to convert them instead of just converting a mule from 1.10a to 1.10s because 1.10a runes poof when converted to 1.10s that way. Also, no version of ATMA works with 1.10a, so the ATS application is the only way to look at inventories of mules (you have to use multi-instance to mule in 1.10a).

Congrats on getting back to some old-skool D2! On 1.10s RW bases - pick up any War Scepters with +Holy Shield as those make good extra HAXX CTA bases - Larzuk give them 5 sox or you can roll with the socket recipe. Any Phase Blades too - those drop decently in 1.09 if you run A5 or cows, and you can collect enough of them to roll a 3sox with the recipe (or if you play enough 1.09 and pick up all grey PBs, you'll get a couple with 3sox already) for Crescent Moon. I find Demonheads to be a good base for Delirium - you already know that circlets don't get over 1 socket. And, for me, I've always been in the habit of picking up grey elite armors, always looking for a good merc Smoke base (eth 2sox), but keeping good def rolls with 3 and 4 sox for 1.10+ RWs. Most of my good 1.13 armors are made in 1.09 bases. I'd go with a Scarab Husk or Wyrmhide for your Bramble (though Dusk Shroud is probably the best on reqs).

On to my progress - I've gotten Alaric ready to go into the Act2 Palace, but I keep starting my playing session with MF runs, and end up doing that all night. I got my 4th Arkaine's Valor from Achmel recently, and have become obsessed with finding the WF (especially since I found that Tal's Armor that would fit a WF Strafer so nice), so I've been running Pindle/Baal/Snapchip with my WW Barb (about halfway from 98 to 99 now), and I've given my Schaeferdin some quality Pindle-running time as well (fiddling with strategies, I found that starting with FanaZeal with the Schaefer's, then switching to Sanctuary with the Lightsabre/Rhyme for the extra MF is significantly faster and less expensive for repairs than any other approach). He's over halfway from 95 to 96 now. I'm doing all my MFing on P3.

I've been thinking it might be fun to try another 1.09 MF contest - that resulted in a TC90 last time so maybe it will provide results again.
 
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I did get some play time in last night! Woo hoo!!! Did some nm p25 cow runs to level up my zon/sorc. LF/multi zon is now at 39 and the fo/meteor sorc is at 34. She's geared up enough to be able to do some A5 runs on her own now. However she has some serious mana issues so far. I'm waiting for 37 so she can throw on a +110 mana bahamut ring and I'm hoping that helps. The silkweave with the frostburn should help too. It just sucks how much meteor and FO take to cast...

Do you find the extra plus skill to be that helpful on that BKWB? Idk if I want to take the time to do that with having so much else that I want to do. When I first started 1.09 I just wanted to make a few of the old builds that I had done, namely the lf/multizon and fo/nova sorc. I've got the sorc, and the zon is getting there slowly but surely for some endless cow runs. Now I feel like I've changed my mind so much and really just need to focus on one thing. Especially with how little I've been playing...

Maybe a MF contest would help. I need some motivation to get some of the high end gear that I've been missing for so long. Maybe one of us would get the WF finally. I could get some of the bases I'll need that way too!
 
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Well, for the gear you're looking for, Mephy is a much better target than the targets I'm running - I'm looking for WF, so I'm dealing with Pindle, Baal, etc. So you would probably smoke me with nice Mephy drops since I'm looking for super-elusive drops from much more tedious MF targets.

Sounds like you need what my MeteOrb used - 2xSoJ - I found those by running Countess, actually, but I don't necessarily think that's due to anything other than randomness. I'll say she burns through mana way slower than my Nova Sorc does. Do you have a Wizzy or a Shako for her - those help too. Also keep in mind that Serpent's GCs provide quite a healthy mana bump as well.

I'm not really sure how much the +2skills BKWB helps my Pally - only that it's part of a complete package of time travel cheeze and therefore is perfect for that character. It's just really cool to have one (and keep in mind that Nosferatu's Coil gets 10% life leech in 1.10a - not nearly as awesome, but cool nonetheless). Probably most useful if you make a character using oskills.
 
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Yeah, the payout on those upper tier guys is no fun when they drop so little. That is until you get a drop like that Nat's!

I tried rushing my sorc up through hell and was getting utterly annoyed. My sorc I was trying to rush with is still only 72, and my barb has no teleport. So I tried mixing the two together and was greeted with many deaths. At least she's in A5 hell now I suppose. Seems like I definitely have to do some Meph runs before I go any further with all of this mess. :( Just when I thought I was getting somewhere...

Let me know when you're thinking about another 1.09 MFO. I won't get near as much play time in I don't think so that will surely give me a loss this time around. But maybe I'll get lucky again. Spring break is coming up in a few weeks so that would surely be a good time for some action.
 
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I have my Sin parked at level 83 as she wasn't that fun to play and the Blender effect would require some significant leveling. Natalya's Odium might be the best Set in 1.09, so I'm thinking about at least trying it out. Here's the rub - I lifted her TGod's Vigor for another character (probably my hybrid Zon) and any melee character in Hell 1.09 needs that belt (or Blackhorn's Face or Lightsabre) - but I would like to outfit her with that Set and see how it works. It's only the third character-specific Set I've completed in 1.09.

That drop through me completely off of working on my Wolf and had me running MF all weekend (with no similar success, of course). I do have my WW Barb pretty darn close to 99 though, and MFing with him is significantly less tedious that with my poorly build Frenzy Barb.

But... I do want to complete my Wolf project before Torchlight 2 comes out, as I'm pretty sure I'll be fully involved in that game once it's out.

How did you mix your characters - you trying self-MP? I can't really pull that off with my computer because the transition time between windows is too long - I can rush, but I would not try dealing with 2 valid characters.

For the MFO, whenever Spring Break is for you would probably work for me (unless it's the same as my kids' break, because we will likely be on vacation). Maybe with some lead time we can get some others like ioupainmax and Steven Q Urkel involved. How about you Pegleg - you have a character you can do some MF with? Is your Sin viable?
 
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My Spring Break starts officially on March 19th, but I'd prolly be free once I get out of class on the 16th. I will likely be dog sitting over break so I can't MF 24/7 (like I'd do it even if I could, LoL) but I'd give it the ole college try if someone had a tourney going that weekend. I know I still need a 1.09 Shako and another HoZ for my 1.10s betadin, so hopefully that would give me enough incentive to keep plugging along. Now if only I could get the RNG to go my way.......:whistling:
 
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