After crafting the weapon seen below for Gulzar and using up her normal socket quest, he tried it out when first venturing out into the Cold Plains in NM. With the lack of LL at that point on any of his gear, Gulzar was continually taking a dirt nap very quickly when mobbed.
It's too bad because he would have done some respectable damage as you can see below and look great doing it.
So we gave Gulzar back his 4 socketed Partizan and continued on our way to vanquish Andariel.
S/U found along the way, mostly useless and sold but nevertheless.
A unique light belt and two-handed sword from the same sparkly chest in the Underground Passage Level 2.
Spectral Shard in the Black Marsh.
Cathan's Mask in the Tomoe Highland.
Sigon's Greaves in the Jail level 2.
Unique War Hammer in Catacombs level 3.
This rare Heavy Belt was gambled from Gheed and was a decent upgrade from the previous red colored, rare Belt she was wearing.
These are the rings she is currently wearing to beef up AR because she really seems to miss the larger monsters alot, add some more mana leeching and resists are always nice.
These were by far the two toughest creatures we encountered prior to reaching Andy and they happened to be in the same chamber.
I forgot to dial the difficulty down before entering her chambers and ended up taking her on solo for most of the battle at /p8, since Gulzar kept biting it after a few seconds with her toe-to-toe, even after giving him a couple black potions. Same goes for the slvl1 Shadow Warrior as you can imagine isn't offering much help in NM, so I'm considering investing in the Master at this point and beef her up lastly.
The drop from Andariel looked more like a Hell Forge drop.
At least the War Hat was worth some nice GP.
Ember and Gulzar, Level 52, A2 NM