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[2015] The Passive Aggressive Tournament [by Pb_pal]
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FollowTheBear is now chilling in Harrogath at level 35.75. Act IV brought me the first situation where I had to give the merc a pot. The venom lords could get him to half life after few seconds, and the poison after about 15 seconds would require a pot. This was also the first time that my merry band of bear and merc started to slow in killing speed.
I didn't have any trouble through any of Act IV. I didn't get any nasty ranged attackers hitting me in the RoF area. Izual took awhile, FollowTheBear went ahead and had some fun hitting Izzy himself.
I brought back in resist gear to fight big D. I forgot to bring my mercs life leach circlet, but I doubt it would have mattered. I lowered the psetting to p5 right before hitting the last seal. The merc and bear didn't last long at all, and I was soon running for my life trying to figure out how to use mana pots with a belt full of heals and one column of juvies. They did about 1/20th of diablos Hp before dying, but my poison creeper was still roaming around! I tried rezzing merc and bear, but they died instantly this time. Hmmm. Bear wasn't doing anything. I made a Malice Great Axe for just this occasion. I removed the teleport staff i had shopped and equipped Malice. Then i ran away from diablo, and got bone prisoned. I started freaking out and threw my shield and club on the ground and equipped my teleport staff. This process probably took about 5 seconds to complete and I took no damage, but there was at least 6 things I could have done quicker and easier. Of course the easiest would be hitting the prison with my weapon, but that never crossed my mind!
After running around and getting nothing accomplished, I eventually settled into summoning the bear around a corner and chugging mana pots. That didin't last too long, so then I started summong the bear on the other side of D and hittimg him with my axe. By now I had picked up every potion in the CS, so I made a few town trips. D slowly went down with this method and overall it took 15 minutes or so. Once I got settled, the only scary point was getting cold touched and almost lightning hosed. I got away in time, but it was a white knuckled slowly-walk-away-while-frozen.
And now a scant pic or two:
Bear likes to watch (i had to resummon to get him to attack):
One of my favorite twinking items, so much strength!:
And finally D's drop:
The axe is Humongous.
Code:Humongous Giant Axe Two Hand Damage: 53 - 118 Durability: 26 of 50 Required Level: 29 Required Strength: 84 Fingerprint: 0x3a42ce3b Item Level: 40 Version: Expansion 1.10 +108% Enhanced Damage Adds 8 - 25 Damage 33% Chance of Crushing Blow +24 to Strength Requirements +20%
I have used this many times in the past on restarts, and I never once noticed that the requirements is +20%. Guess I never looked close enough. Makes me mad it wasn't a steeldriver. 2.5x the ED and -50% requirements? And ias? This axe got gypped!
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The suspense! Here's hoping you get what you need to complete it!jiansonz said:
@thefranklin - Calabi used the Humongous axe from A1NM through to Hell, where she switched to 'Passion'. It's not the speediest of weapons, but the CB was quite handy!
Also, great info jiansonz and felixbavaria on shopping/imbuing/crafting etc. It's amazing how after all these years, I'm still learning things about this game.
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Just a smaller (in terms of progress) update from Calabi today. I probably won't be having as much playing time for a while, so progress might wane a little bit. I will do my best to keep you all updated on the rest of Calabi's journey regardless.
She and Kasim picked up at the Lost City WP and cleared out the Ancient Tunnels, hoping the high alvl would net us some elite polearms worth using, or some more goodies. We got neither. Calabi is much more involved in the fighting now, and partakes in pretty much every fight. We still have to be careful with the really hard hitters, but she's much happier now that she can at least get her hands dirty a little bit!
The CVT started off with one of my least favourite formations (The one with the cul-de-sac that has the door to the chars right upon entering, see screenie). So we went straight ahead and were met in the next room by a boss pack of extra fast snakes, and a champ pack of Guardians along with their skeleton cohort. Not good. Thus began a hectic fight of trying desperately not to lose position to the knockback-ing snakes, while simultaneously not getting surrounded by skellies. We got pushed all the way back to the entrance, where we luckily did not wake up any other monsters. We managed to use some urns to funnel the snakes, and then they and the skellies went down without issue. Once that was over, we could deal with the Guardians in peace. Calabi used Zeal (as they are MI) against them, and was pleasantly surprised. She has no +skills, so it's only 2 hits. Truth be told though, I think I prefer that with her, as I wouldn't want to have to wait for the end of a 5-hit cycle to be able to move away from danger. After that less than ideal start, the rest of the level was done with no problems.
Time to pay a visit to our old friend Fangskin. We stepped down the stairs and moved forward down the hallway slowly. From the top of the screen came skellies and a snake or two. We killed the snakes, but the Guardians kept ressurecting the skellies, so we weren't making any progress. Some more snakes started coming from the bottom of the room. A quick check showed they weren't minions, so that was good. They started knocking the decoy around and between them and the skellies, we were getting pushed towards the entrance. We did NOT want to get stuck there, so we switched to our teleport staff in an attempt to establish position.
Not bad, but not great. The valk was strong enough to take Fangskin on her own, and Kasim stood excatly where you see him, getting pummeled by the unholy bolts of the Guardians. We used the decoy to distract snakes into the lower corner (you can see her on the map of the screenie), so that the valk didn't get overwhelmed until she managed to take out Fangskin all on her own. We couldn't hold this position forever though, as Kasim was just getting slammed, and the knockback from the snakes threatened to push the valk up the stairs, which could get very messy. We tele'd back out to the eastern corner of the main room, and from there we managed to work our way around the room clockwise until it was all cleared. Phew! That wasn't as bad as it could have been, but we definitely caught a couple lucky breaks. We also forgot to mule on the Nadir helm AGAIN, which could have saved some aggaravation from those Guardians.
The Palace was cleared easily, with the only problem being this gentleman:
Horror archers have 75% Magic Resistance, which meant that Berserk did basically nothing. Luckily, we had cast a valk with a ctc Amp, so once again she was the hero of the day:
It only took three or four cycles of Amp-ing to take him down, between the three of us. We managed to clear one section of the Arcane Sanctuary before quitting for the night, with no snags.
Other finds/notes;
- Burning GC of Greed (Big surprise, more Enchantress fodder)
- Haemosu's Adament
- Trang-Oul's Scales
- Another plain Ogre Axe. Still no magical/rare elite polearms/spears yet.
- Fal rune from a chest in Arcane. Now we can either make a Lionheart for Kasim's end-game armour, or hold out and hope for a Ko to make Obedience. I might try some cubing/crafting etc in the meantime, and if that provides us with a juicy weapon, then the choice is made for us.
Conqueror Calabi the Axe-wielding Amazon, with Kasim the Blessed Aim Guard - lvl 83, Arcane Sanctuary
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As an experiment I crafted two different magical War Forks on the Realms, since I already had several of the needed ingredients for the crafting recipe. Both purchased from Fara in Hell difficulty, wasn't able to bring up any in NM like I thought I could. See the screenshots for the drastic variation that came out. Both kind of troll spears, but at least one of them came out with two sockets and better overall stats. I think I will wait till I can get my hands on either a magical Ghost Spear or Mancatcher prior to crafting or try my chancing with the three normal gem recipe as previously mentioned by srrw. On an even more sour note these were crafted by a lvl 87 character, so I believe he should have gain access to the most possible modifiers on top of the mandatory few.
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Destroyer Hallow, Mizan and Gumby have successfully defeated Baal. We plan to go back in Normal and finish up Nihlathak and Cows before continuing on. I'm pretty fired up from Pindleskin dropping a white Partizan, which I figured had a pretty good chance at my level from him to come up with 4 sockets from Larzuk and it did. Now I just need to find another Tir, so I can make Insight. Now I wish I didn't make two Strength weapons for Mizan earlier.
I'm so glad that I decided to throw a point in Attract, since that spell made getting through almost every generally hairy situation rather chill. I just stood back and watch Gumby slow everything he touched and Mizan destroy everything with the CB sticks. I think the faster weapon tended to be better overall the farther along we got, I never switched back to the slower Pike. Maybe I should however?
Lister dropped us a nice ranged weapon for later perhaps, once I get my dexterity up to the requirements.
Destroyer Hallow, Mizan and Gumby, Level 47, Heading to kill Nihlathak
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@jiansonz : thanks for sharing the info about the other tourney. That sounds fun and challenging for sure! I've tried building entire Ladder characters with crafted items and they almost always ended up so underpowered that I gave up on them. Especially when you are rolling a normal class item and you barely get any additional affixes because of your ilvl and your clvl. I still have Elite crafted items I'm waiting to use because the crazy clvl requirement after crafting it with a lvl 80+ character to try and get the most affixes. Also, building an Impalazon is something I've always wanted too try, perhaps I will give it a shot with a crafted weapon and additional kit in that tourney you mention.
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Hallow, Mizan and Gumby have executed hundreds of cows and one double-crossing Harrogath Necromancer. Anya personally thanked us for that and we now begin our NM adventures. Angelic suit dropped on the way to Nihlathak. Another Cathan's suit and a couple runes dropped in Cows and one was a Tir. Woot, woot! So, I assembled this beautifully, cheese-filled weapon of cruelness for Mizan.
Destroyer Hallow, Mizan and Gumby, Level 47, NM Act I
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