Whew, that took a while! Looks like its time for my final writeup.
I'll start off with the name, I was trying to look for a good pun, and was bouncing ideas around with a friend. I mentioned Consoul, and he got so excited at the idea of a Consoul Avenger fighting for the pride of undervalued game systems everywhere that I stuck with it (I know, major nerd right
). In hindsight, its probably not the best name because he's not an avenger at all.
Stats
Str: 143
Dex: 179
Vit:163
Energy: 15
5 Unspent Stat Points
20 Sacrifice
20 Holy Shock
2 Concentration (misclick :laugh: )
20 Resist Lightning
16 Salvation
6 Redemption
Since its been a while since I played him through norm/nightmare, I can't really remember too much, so I'll just gloss over that and go straight to hell(which is what everyone wants to hear about anyways!)
Act 1
It was interesting coming back to this guy discovering an empty head slot(was quickly filled with a cathans visage gift from stash) but otherwise, this act was very slow and largely uneventful. I was having a whole lot of trouble with lightning immunes because my merc's weapon was a rare bec-de-corbin with low ed, if I remember correctly. That situation got corrected when I found
Code:
Bramble Bite
Hyperion Spear
Two-Hand Damage: 120 to 411
Durability: 28 of 30
Required Dexterity: 120
Required Strength: 155
Required Level: 43
Spear Class - Fast Attack Speed
Item Version: 1.10+ Expansion
Item Level: 73
Fingerprint: 0x72433b5b
+245% Enhanced Damage
+247 to Attack Rating
+1 to Maximum Damage
8% Chance to cast Level 3 Chain Lightning on attack
Andariel was dropped by running the pit in circles for a while, poking her with the occasional arrow every now and then. She dropped me the gift of the arctic belt, which wasn't very nice at all
Act 2
Right at the beginning of the act, I gambled a rather nice hat for my merc
Code:
Rainbow Circlet of Life Everlasting
Defense: 25
Durability: 35 of 35
Required Level: 37
Item Version: 1.10+ Expansion
Item Level: 76
Fingerprint: 0xe468f89f
Damage Reduced by 25
All Resistances +11
Then, with some more good luck, I managed to score a Griswold's heart in the halls of the dead in act 2! It was the highlight of the whole act for me.
I discovered an interesting bug with Duriel, if you've done everything required to complete the quest to go to act 3 (ie, talked to meshif) but haven't actually gone to act 3, Duriel's drops will be a gold pile, a gem, and a town portal. This caused seven extraneous clears through the tomb choked with lightning immune, ressurectable, unleachable, skeletons which was rather annoying. Duriel's drop too was utterly useless, but gris' heart was my real reward here.
Act 3
This whole place was a pain. Lightning immunes EVERYWHERE, so progress was very slow. Sszark gave me a scare, teleported right behind me, struck me for about 2/3 of my life and put a curse symbol over my head, but I managed to run away before taking another hit. There was no direct path from spider forest to flayer jungle, so I had to traverse the gloam infested great marsh, despite finding the WP early in. This is the first character I've taken through hell since learning about the LK chests, so I was
quite excited to give them a shot, the other set of chests handed me a sol, though. I had another NDE with Battlemaid Sarina, mostly because when I came back from eating a sandwich, I forgot that I had parked her right around the tp - self tp trap :dunce: . I also had a bit of an issue in the durance when m my merc bugged out, and the enemies refused to target him(helpful when he's
blocking the path, but its rather unhelpful when fighting extra fast exploding doll packs. Has anyone else run into this bug or know what causes it?
Anyways, Mephisto went down easily, but
didn't drop much.
Act 4
Some very nice drops through the act. Found another gris, which I promptly socketed, a rare polearm I upped into a Bec-De-Corbin, and a nice new hat
Code:
Griswold's Heart
Ornate Plate
Defense: 931
Durability: 59 of 60
Required Strength: 102
Required Level: 45
Item Version: 1.10+ Expansion
Item Level: 85
Fingerprint: 0x3c70da7f
+20 to Strength
+9 to Dexterity
+10 to Minimum Damage
+14 to Maximum Damage
+500 Defense
All Resistances +11
Requirements -40%
25% Damage to Demons
+42 to Attack Rating against Demons
Havoc Spike
Bec-de-Corbin
Two-Hand Damage: 46 to 346
Durability: 40 of 55
Required Dexterity: 91
Required Strength: 133
Required Level: 48
Polearm Class - Very Fast Attack Speed
Item Version: 1.10+ Expansion
Item Level: 87
Fingerprint: 0x99b7720c
+259% Enhanced Damage
+101 to Attack Rating
Required Level +5
30% Increased Attack Speed
+41 to Maximum Damage (Based on Character Level)
+1353 to Attack Rating (Based on Character Level)
Soul Cowl <---- Soul!
Circlet
Defense: 22
Durability: 20 of 35
Required Level: 65
Item Version: 1.10+ Expansion
Item Level: 87
Fingerprint: 0x8cf59edc
+19 to Life
+15 to Mana
All Resistances +16
7% Life stolen per hit
Level 4 Dim Vision (30/30 Charges)
Plus, I grabbed a Lem off hellforge and gambled a
+1 hat.
The chaos sanc was a monster, I ended up having to solo it because I was burning through my cash much too fast to keep ressurecting my merc. I had to do it three times, but Diablo finally dropped me a
gift. (Following the tradition of being utterly useless)
Act 5
Being level 81, one of my main goals was to not level so that I could tie for third rather than being fourth. So I ran through most of the early areas at max speed killing next to nothing. Unfortunately, I still ended up leveling while saving anya. The blood lords in the hall of pain had me hitting a brick wall until I had Larzuk poke 2 sockets into the rainbow circlet of life everlasting and dumping two sol's into it. Then progress through the halls went swimmingly. I found
another very nice hat in the frozen tundra, which I promptly personalized and started wearing.
Next up was the ancients, I dumped something around 200 health pots on the ground, and rerolled them somewhere between 30 and 40 times. About 40 minutes into the fight, I slipped up and got clipped by Talic's Whirlwind, and ate a leap attack from Korlic.
Thus Consoul_Avenger's journey ended.
Probably should've taken a screen of the deeds screen, but, well, you know how it is when you lose a HC char, he was long deleted before I thought of taking a picture.
This guy was a my first SP char, first serious HC char, first char I've taken this far through the game solo; so I think I did pretty well, though it was really disappointing to have come that close (I know if I had passed ancients, I wouldn't have had any problems until maybe the cow level). Plus, I just lost all my best stuff. I was really looking forward to making this post in a separate thread, but oh well. Despite that, this was a whole lot of fun, and reminded me of the good times I had doing ironman in diablo 1.
Thanks for the fun tourny Wolron, and congratulations to everyone that managed guardian!
Hopefully, I do better in the scavenger's tourny!
Final Score:
Quests (79): +158
Waypoints (116): +116
Perfect Acts (14): +42
Level (82): -82
Destroyer Bonus: +5
Conqueror Bonus: +10
Total: 249
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[highlight]DEAD/RETIRED[/highlight]
[B][U]Character Class Forum Name Level Act Death Site Score[/U][/B]
Character Class Forum Name Level Act Death Site Score
Light_Wight Toxic Wight OldSoldier 80 - Guardian 284
LordOfTheBones Mummy Kool69 81 - Guardian 283
Angelic_Elektra Angel Grisu 77 - Guardian 283
Consoul_Avenger Martyred Saint Glenstorm 82 A5 [H]Ancients 249
Bone_Wrap Mummy Wolron 80 A4 [H]Pand. Fort. 226
White_Death Toxic Wight GuraKKa 69 A1 [H]Catacombs 2 174
Beaster Werewolf PetePizza 62 A5 [NM]Highlands 143
Rune_Hunter Valkyrie mwille 63 A4 [NM]River Flame 131
ALRuner Valkyrie Butzull 65 A4 [NM]River o Flame 127
Beast_Six Werewolf OldSoldier 59 A3 [NM]UK Temple 114
Angela Angel Mursilis 61 A3 [NM]Travincal 113
Angel_Electra Angel Wolron 59 A3 [NM]Great Marsh 107
Rune_Rage Valkyrie Wolron 57 A2 [NM]Canyon Magi 97
Polterhoop Poltergeist Hoop76 48 A1 [NM]Catacombs 2 83
Boneaparte Mummy Butzull 51 A1 [NM]Catacombs L2 80
PlagueKrack Toxic Wight Saucy 36 A1 [NM]Rogue Camp 72
Soul_Seeker Martyred Saint goltar25 32 A4 Chaos Sanctuary 52
Ort_Rune Valkyrie Scatha 37 A5 Abbadon 51
ALSaintSparky Martyred Saint Butzull 33 A4 River of Flame 46
Sangelia Angel goltar25 27 A3 Durance Lvl 3 45
DeathViper Toxic Wight Gabriel74 30 A4 pand fort 43
EarlJHickey Martyred Saint EmperorMoo 29 A2 Durance Lvl 3 41
BoneDaddy Mummy Old Soldier 28 A3 Stupid Mephisto 39
Boner Mummy PetePizza 28 A3 Stupid Mephisto 31
ChaosZerker Poltergeist Butzull 26 A2 Canyon Of Magi 19
Bone_Horror Mummy ToI 25 A2 Canyon of Magi 16
BillyThePally Martyred Saint HiMyNameIs..20 A2 NOT DEATH 4
UnholyMoley Mummy EmperorMoo 17 A1 Catacombs 2 3
AngelofHamsters Angel EmperorMoo 18 A1 Catacombs 2 3
Rune_Obsessee Valkyrie ToI 20 A1 Catacombs 2 1
St_Michael Martyred Saint Quickdeath 19 A1 Catacombs 3 1
Saint_Pwangsta Martyred Saint pwangsta 19 A1 Catacombs 4 0
Plague_Huntress Toxic Wight pwangsta 6 A1 Stony Field 0
Divine_Radiance Angel Rashiminos 16 A1 Barracks -2
Orions_Fury Poltergeist pwangsta 11 A1 Tristram -3
[highlight]ALIVE[/highlight]
[B][U]Character Class Forum Name Level Act Last WP Score[/U][/B]
Character Class Forum Name Level Act Last WP Score
Saint_Xylo Martyred Saint Wolron 56 A2 [NM]Duriel Runs 102
Mi-T-Bone Mummy jgreg7 52 A2 [NM]Sewers 89
ToxicMungo Toxic Wight EmperorMoo 22 A2 Far Oasis 9
FuryAndChaos Poltergeist Rashiminos 20 A2 Lut Gholein 5
FollowinAnAngel Angel EJB 18 A2 Lut Gholein 5
Havoc_Pavarotti Poltergeist Grisu 20 A2 Lut Gholein 5
ANGELofRAINBOW Angel RedHeadedDeath 21 A2 Lut Gholein 4
O_Rourke Poltergeist Tadzio 21 A2 Lut Gholein 4
Rougarou_Beast Werewolf Medea 20 A2 Lut Gholein 1
TheToxicViper Toxic White HiMyNameIs..24 A2 Lut Gholein 0
Toxic_Avenger Toxic Wight Hoop76 1 A1 Rogue Camp 0
Ophelia Valkyrie EmperorMoo 1 A1 Rogue Camp 0
Thunder Valkyrie Ilshad 1 A1 Rogue Camp 0
Funny_Bone Mummy pwangsta 1 A1 Rogue Camp 0
Dubbel Poltergeist IronCrown 1 A1 Rogue Camp 0
Angelectric Angel Butzull 16 A1 Outer Cloister -2
Noxious_Bone Mummy Mezion 10 A1 Stony Field -3
Bonekeeper Mummy LordMay 12 A1 Stony Field -5