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Re: Tournament : The Bountyhunter's heaven
Actually for the very reason you said: I wanted to avoid being charged. I knew that my merc was going to die instantly if he closed in on Diablo anyway, and since I was low on gold, I decided to bring him down with Bone Spear. So I Bone Prison'd him and used Decrepify and tried to stay out of his Lightning Hose reach. Worked fine, and I was glad for the FRW on my boots.jiansonz said:Nice going, Grisu!
Take your time putting the Hell gear together.
Looks cool! What was the purpose of using it here? Does it distract him, or did you just want to avoid him charging you and getting close?
Yeah, I took my time - I used Charsi's imbue on a Necro Shrunken Head, on which I then used the Larzuk socket reward and inserted a Perfect Diamond (An Andariel - i.e. joker - drop, which I upgraded with Gem Shrines), making it a joker item, so I don't have to throw it away if a SU drops a bad shield
Can't post the readout right now, because I'm on my other PC, but it's a shrunken head with Res All 20% and an extra 18% FIre, 17% FHR and bad staff mods (+2 Terror being the best IIRC). With the PDiamond that makes +57% FIre Resist and +39% everything else. Not bad
Then I crafted the SU drop Plate Mail from my merc to a Blood Plate Mail, which now offers 1% LL (!!!) and 2 open sockets - I'll probably stick an Ort in there for the resists.
Now I have 1 jewel left, and the only recipe I could use is for blood belt or Hit Power Ring (if I give up my Amn...), but it will be difficult to improve the +20 Life/+20% Cold resistance on my current belt. So I decided to wait if I can craft a better helm later on (currently Skull Cap with 33% MF).
jiansonz said:Reading the thread, it looked like my Mavi was still kicking. I wondered why I had not played one of my favourite builds in my favourite type of tourney. Turns out that I had, but she had her equipped items on the 'corpse' section in ATMA.
I fired up my HD cabinet with my old drive in it, and found a screenie that clarified she had died in one of the first days in 2012.
That's sad! I was wondering why I wasn't reading any updates from you...what a shame. You do insist on full clears, do you? Because I was thinking of skipping some tedious maps (like the false tombs in Act II), esp. since there are no trophymobs for me...
But very nice trip, jiansonz! I'm impressed with the Fangskin fight! Would you rather have had a tank merc sometimes, esp. in those false tombs?
I suppose you won't give this another try?
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