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[2015] Fortune and Glory: The Indy Jones Tournament [by japanzaman]
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I'm still playing too!
Act 4 is going well, although killing has slowed down very slightly due to increased monster health. The Venom Lords are also a bit trying as we are rocking 3% FR. Progress is still good and quick, although Gerhalt has taken a bit more of a back seat role and lets the bear take the lead. He marks the first character where I've actually been HAPPY to see spawners. Their pups die from rabies well before Jabari can chill them, so it leaves ample corpses for the vine to eat, keeping my life nice and high.
Our old friend Izual took an age. I'm really rooting for an Amn to drop soon so that I can make a 'Strength' weapon for Gerhalt and get some CB going for these longer fights. Up through the RoF we went, killing Hephasto and collecting our forge drop:
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Awesome! That's about as good as we could have hoped for. The rune is meaningless, but that was an absolute steal of a gem drop (more on that later).
Up through the CS we went, just mowing our way through everything. The seals were standard fare, with the Vizier and De Seis falling easily, and the Infector requiring a trip back from the WP to kill safely.
Now before we hit that last seal, we had to do something about our resistances as we really didn't feel like taking on big D with 3% FR. So Gerhalt stole Jabari's Stormguild, and cubed himself a Garnet ring with the PRuby from the Hellforge, putting us at 47/31/75/4 for the D fight with a couple other tweaks. As soon as we hit the seal and spawned our big red friend, things went sideways. Jabari died instantly, as did our bear, and everything devolved into a horrific game of cat and mouse:
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So we threw bears at Diablo and bit him when we could, and then we ran around trying not to get hosed until Rabies ran out. After about 1/3 of Diablo's life was gone, we had run out completely of mana pots, and were down to 1 last red pot and our rejuvs (as you can see above). This was not good, and meant we had to try and conserve our mana, so we couldnt be throwing bears around all willy-nilly. We decided to leave a TP open a few screens away and whenever we got low on mana or health (which was often), we would pop back, heal, and return from the WP. We eventually got D to stick around in a spot where his attacks couldn't hit us, and we would duck aroudn the corner to bit him every now and then. This tactic worked, as Diablo eventually fell. Now Gerhalt is waiting in Harrogath, wondering what he's going to do wihtout a single health or mana pot to his name. Oh well, a trouble for another time.
Other Treasure Point Finds:
- Leadcrow
- Ral
- Infernal Belt
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Nice progress everyone!
It took me 4 different instances of DII to do all the false tombs in Act II, because I hadn't more than 30 minutes each time I started D2...in the end, I managed to move on to Act III though
The only S/U I found is Isenhart's Lightbrand. I found a bunch of runes though and my trophy points seem more than acceptable at this time *g* Found a 15% MF magical ring and gambled a 31% MF circlet with my first try on a circlet...so I'm packing 136% MF at the moment
Blizzard + Lightning is cool, and I opted for a Prayer merc to save potions. Although I'm drowning in potions ATM...I'll see how thing go in the next few Acts! Good luck everyone!
Code:FORUM NAME | CLASS | PROGRESS | LVL | QPOINT | TPOINT | TOTAL ----------------|-----------|----------|-----|--------|--------|------ japanzaman | Amazon | A1 H | 73 | 82 | 109 | 264 ----------------|-----------|----------|-----|--------|--------|------ Grisu | Sorceress | A3 N | 28 | 11 | 31 | 70 ----------------|-----------|----------|-----|--------|--------|------ Pb_pal | Druid | A5 N | 35 | 21 | 49 | 105 ----------------|-----------|----------|-----|--------|--------|------ Dazliare | Assassin | A2 N | 24 | 6 | 3 | 33 ----------------------------------------------------------------------
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Gerhalt has attained the rank of Destroyer!
I wish I had a better update, but my drive got corrupted and I lost all my screenshots and notes from his trek through Act 5.Luckily however, somehow the spreadsheet survived, so I have all his treasures accounted for.
It was an easy journey through the final Act. Rabies continued to grow in power, and the monsters kept dropping like flies.
At some point during the journey, Gerhalt finally found that Amn and made himself a "Strength" sword to use alongside his Steelclash (which he popped in the Frigid Highlands), which substantially upped his survivability. Jabari was also given a new present in the form of a 'Stealth' Armour, to give him a few extra frames of casting. The most notable gear upgrade, however, came when Gerhalt popped a Face of Horror from a stash in the Pit of Acheron. The flee is the big bonus here, and he spent the rest of the act pin-balling baddies into each other, which really made the spread of rabies effective. He liked it so much that he personalized it, leaving the only quest not completed from normal the Larzuk socket.
The ancients were a non-issue, as they stayed distracted by all my summons while Rabies whittled them down. The first 3 waves of baal's minions also provided little resistance, but waves 4 and 5 were a bit tougher. I had to separate them into packs of 1-2 to make them manageable.
Cows were an absolute joke, although they didn't provide us with anything noteworthy.
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@JudgeHolden - Welcome! What's your end-game build plan? Are you sticking with holy fire or going to try something else? Close call in the cave there, good job!
For the table, just quote the last message that has the most up-to-date table, and simply delete everything else from the post (including the [ QUOTE] [ /QUOTE] tags) except for the table (everything between the [ CODE] [ /CODE] tags). I'll add you in for now, and you can fill in all your point totals
Good luck!
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After returning briefly to nightmare to socket my sharktooth armor so I could make treachery, I now have some survive-ability with my merc. More than anything, it's nice to have curses disappear, as the guy is a curse magnet. The added venom and IAS is also helping with killing. I think it was wise to go ahead and make it now rather than hold out for something better. My experience has taught me never to take anything for granted once you reach hell.
I also managed to make a nifty little belt with the imbue quest.
So now its on to Andariel, a fight that is usually quite difficult. For some reason I think she is tougher than the other bosses in Hell. I've got tons of juvies saved up, so I think I'll be able to handle her on p1 without too much concern.
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Gerhalt has moved out into NM. Killing is still fairly good, but bosspacks are beginning to make fights longer and tougher for the group now. The Face of Horrow is still more than pulling its weight, letting Gerhalt bounce monsters around and back through groups to effectively spread his virus.
They moved up easily through the Den and the COld PLains without trouble. The Blood Raven fight was really annoying, with a ton of running around. This of course meant that Jabari and the bear would get distracted by zombies, but we switched to our Steel axe for the OW and eventually the poison and bleeding wore her down. Onwards we forged, killing Coldcrow and moving down to the Cave level 2.
Down there we found our first real test in the form of this zombie boss pack:
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The tricky part here was that there was an Extra Strong Zombie boss pack mixed in there as well. The bear died probably 4 times in this fight, but eventually Rabies proved superior.
In the Dark Wood we found ourselves a Sol rune, which meant it was time for a 'Lore' helm for Jabari. Or rather, it WOULD be time for one, except that we haven't found a SINGLE 2-socket helm thus far. Jabari is still doing decent damage right now, but he'll be wanting that skill boost sooner rather than later, so hopefully one turns up!
Onwards we trudged, all the while things becoming tougher and killing speed dropping. We offed the Smith and headed into the jails. The intensity instantly got dialed up to about 100 when we ran into Pitspawn on level 2. He was insanely difficult. We managed to get his pack locked into one of those floating "jail cells", which I'm positive is the only reason we are still alive.
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Keep in mind right now that Gerhalt's LR is only 21, so those lightning balls are absolutely deadly. Having them pinned in the jail cell let us slowly kill off the minions with rabies, and leave only Pitspawn himself there. This is where things got tricky. He could wipe out Gerhalt's entire health bulb in about 3 hits (and almost managed to a couple times!), so we didn't want to get anywhere near him. As you can see above, he was shooting into the pillar, so we were at least safe from harm and we figured maybe Jabari could take him out. Nope. Jabari did so little damage to him (he has 75% innate CR, not sure if him being CE boosts that at all) that he actually GAINED health while Jabari attacked him. Okay, change of plans.
Our tactic shifted to throwing a bear at him, and then running in, biting, and getting the heck out of there as fast as possible (it had to be FAST, as he melted the bear in about 3-4 hits). Here is a shot of that tactic in action. This was terrifying, but with very careful footwork it eventually led to Pitspawn's death. Definitely the hardest fight so far, and it used up most of our healers and mana pots, which is not encouraging for the Andy fight. This fight was of course followed up by a rather difficult archer boss pack which gave the group some serious difficulty as well.
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As in Normal, Gerhalt couldn't wait any longer to receive the treasure Charsi had promised him and imbued himself a new belt. Not great by any means, but better than what he had previously at least.
The Catacombs continued the trend of feeling very near the brink of death with this Lightning Hound boss pack, as well as this Ghoul Lord Boss, who each gave us a tough time. One good thing to come from the Cats was that we finally found a 2-soc helm and were able to make that Lore helm for Jabari (not that I noticed any appreciable difference in his killing).
We had saved up all the antidote potions we found throughout the act, so we were able to buff gerhalt and Jabari quite substantially for the Andy fight. The whole thing was quite hectic. Mostly running around, with lots of bears being cast and some risky bitng.
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Eventually, the Maiden of Anguish fell, and we were able to head to Lut Gholein, although we had to do it again with zero remaining healing and mana pots. Sigh, this seems like it may just be a recurring trend for Gerhalt, but that's okay, at least he's alive to complain about it.
For those wondering, here are his bookcase stats from the act (MUCH worse than his Normal difficulty ones!)
4 Bookcases found
- 3 Scroll of TP
- 1 Scroll of ID
Luckily, he got all the tomes he needed in Normal, but that's a pretty disappointing haul, for sure.
Treasure Point Finds:
- 4x Tal
- Sol
- Ort
- Dol
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