@jiansonz - that is one beautiful amulet! Calabi is very jealous. Great progress too, I'm curious to see how a maxed shiver armour will do in Hell, have you tried it before?
@Sput - We'd love to have you.
As for conversion, I think that could be a fun skill, and definitely doesn't go against the style of the tournament. Since there are no pally's yet, I don't mind changing the allowed skills. I'll update it in the main post as well. Best of luck to Skilllass, I'll be watching closely!
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Calabi cleared out the rest of the Flayer Jungle, and all three Kurast "cities" above ground with no problems or excitement. The Valk has made crowd control much easier, and it frees me up to use Decoy more strategically as well. I'm impressed with her so far. The Sewers were also a breeze. All the bridges and obstruction made it very easy to take on monsters at a reasonable pace without getting overwhelmed. After resurfacing with Khalim's Heart, we could no longer delay. It was time for the temples.
We decided to do Sarina's temple first. No stair trap, good. It was the layout with the small entrance room with another small room on each side and the big open room with Sarina waiting. We cleared the two small rooms to give us some room to breathe, and inched forward towards the big main room. Nothing. Calabi decided to take action. She threw a decoy into the room to wake Sarina's pack, and then Kasim and the valk bottlenecked them in the doorway for easy disposal.
No sweat!
The rest of the temples were quite easy as well. Only one had some Wailing Beasts waiting in the entrance room (with a champion pack of spiders off to the side which were easily kept busy by the Decoy). No problems whatsoever! I can only hope I get that lucky in the later difficulties (if Calabi even makes it that far). One of the temples (Ruined Fane, I believe) was completely empty, except for one pack of regular snakes. I didn't even know that was possible.
The Council and Durance went off without a hitch, though we did run into our first
PI boss pack. Not challenging, but a nice glimpse of what's to come
. OW was our friend here. Meph went down like a sack of potatoes, and his drop was
underwhelming.
Calabi spent all her money gambling circlets again and STILL not a single one with %MF on it! Her and Kasim are still wearing their 2-chippie helms from act 1! I'm tempted to just stop trying for circlets, and wait for A5 where the 3-socket helms become available. This would allow me to try and find some better gloves/boots as I'll need some resists for Big D (she's in the 20-30 range for Fire/Lightning right now). Hm... we will see.
Act 4 was an absolute breeze. Kasim will need a new weapon soon, but he still kills reasonably quickly and it's very safe with the valk and decoy taking the heat off of him.
These guys gave us a bit of trouble in the ROF, but once we got them to the point in the screenie, they were harmless. Calabi found Stormguild Large Shield along the way, and was happy with the extra +25% LR for the fight with Big D (it also has higher blocking than her current shield). She also shopped A nice %FR belt, so her resists for F/Li were both around 50%. She also found a fire shrine to use for the fight against Diablo, although she didn't end up needing it, or the new shield.
This sums up the whole showdown with Diablo. That's the valk that D is hosing, and it barely moved her health. No danger whatsoever. His
drop wasn't great, although the nightsmoke could be upgraded later on if I can't find a better belt.
Priorities for Act5 are getting a better weapon for Kasim, and buying/finding some 3os helms and leave Calabi's horrible circlet gambling luck in the past.
Calabi the Sword-wielding Amazon, with Kasim the Blessed Aim Guard - lvl 35, Harrogath
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Forum Name Class Char Name LVL ACT Area
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Zylo Druid Hoyt 48 A1(NM) Rogue Encampment
jiansonz Sorceress Sissy 35 A5 Harrogath
Pb_pal Amazon Calabi 35 A5 Harrogath
djmbbandie Assassin Natasha 19 A1 Inner Cloister
Jocular Assassin ????? 14 A1 Stony Field/Dark Wood(?)
pharphis Sorceress SlamDoorsShut 11 A1 Stony Field
Morathi Assassin Carrisa 1 A1 Rogue Encampment
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