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Me2NiK said:
ResTTe said:Hello guys!
The time for the last update on my barb has come. He officially got to 99 today. Took me around 320 hours (6668 LK runs, 2046 Baalruns, 13396 Nihlathak runs, many NM/Hell Andy/Meph runs, trav runs, random pitruns and many more). The last bit wasn't that tough. I pushed myself a little more this week and did like 1,8k runs since Monday. Nothing special, but i don't really grind that much tbh XD Vipers were mean as always, mainly to my merc, but i had some stressful situations with them too, cause of my greed. Nothing spectacular though.
Clip of the lvl up:
Run Counter screenshot:
I did more Andy/Meph runs on both Nightmare and Hell difficulty, but wasn't using runcounter back then...
Got some nice items that you can see below.
Clips of the other drops:
I finished the first part of this char which was lvling to 99. Now i will focus on the second part which is getting Holy Grail done. Have to farm some essences and other random items to be able to do that though...
Thanks everybody for the support. It was fun to do this project. Will make a write up soon of course, so stay tuned.
Thanks again, Cya!
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Questing HeroesRich (BB code):Forumite Character SC/HC Class Level Exp Date E/S S/U Grail Deaths Hours --------------- --------------- ----- ----- ----- ---- ---------- --- ---- ----- ------ ----- zticazzy Perkele SC Barb 99 3.52 2016-07-12 No - - - - Pb_pal Eleanor SC Sorc 99 3.52 2016-11-09 No 3068 437 5 - NanoMist Izuna SC Sin 99 3.52 2016-12-25 No 5109 470 4 360 PhineasB Mercy SC Sin 99 3.52 2017-05-23 Yes - 475 11 - PhineasB Hiatus SC Sorc 99 3.52 2017-12-25 Yes - 471 21 - ffs HelpYourself SC Sorc 99 3.52 2018-04-29 Yes - 447 - - Neksja Aura SC Pala 99 3.52 2018-08-08 Yes - 481 - - Yng Sophie SC Sorc 99 3.52 2018-08-26 Yes - - 10 <300 T72on1 Neverland SC Sorc 99 3.52 2018-10-21 Yes lots 483 13 350+ Bewitch itssoftcore SC Sorc 99 3.52 2018-11-07 Yes - - - - PhineasB Phaedrus SC Pala 99 3.52 2018-11-12 Yes - 401 13 - ffs Ric SC Necro 99 3.52 2018-12-26 Yes - 463 - - Bewitch Mayhem SC Barb 99 3.52 2019-07-07 Yes - - - - PhineasB Pestilence SC Necro 99 3.52 2019-07-29 Yes - - - - Pb_pal Klaus HC Druid 99 3.52 2019-10-07 Yes - 433 NA - ResTTe ResTTe SC Barb 99 3.52 2019-12-14 Yes - 465 many ~320
Resting HeroesRich (BB code):Forumite Character SC/HC Class Level Exp Date E/S S/U Grail Deaths Hours --------------- --------------- ----- ----- ----- ---- ---------- --- ---- ----- ------ ----- PhineasB Quinta SC Ama 98.75 3.45 2019-11-27 Yes - 410 4 - ffs Lucid SC Pala 98.5 3.37 2019-12-11 Yes - - - - Gynli Amazon SC Ama 98 3.22 2019-11-11 Yes - - - - Luhkoh Arkana SC Sorc 98 3.22 2019-11-15 Yes - - - - Bewitch Necronomicon SC Necro 97 3.07 2019-07-09 Yes - - - - Vildecor Trina SC Ama 97 3.00 2019-08-27 Yes - 434 17 - darkstarhub Neptune SC Sorc 97 2.96 2018-07-23 Yes - 470 - - Ashenshugar Natur SC Druid 97 2.96 2018-11-20 Yes 2529 - - - Me2Nik Fugu HC Ama 96 2.72 2019-02-03 Yes Lots - - - teddeeboy Atheyanore SC Sorc 95 2.52 2019-02-03 Yes 300+ - 8 many Quinneczech Blackwell HC Barb 95 2.49 2019-04-01 - - - NA - Chaostar Prairie SC Sorc 95 2.49 2019-06-15 Yes - 384 25 - Hutton Terrahork HC Barb 95 0.00 2019-04-24 Yes - - NA - PhineasB Death SC Barb 95 2.49 2019-09-22 No - - 2 - drmalawi TheCanMan SC Pala 94 2.29 2019-10-20 Yes - - Yes - D30D0R3 Fragile HC Sorc 93 2.18 2010-09-21 No - - - 42 sanguillen GordonChen-UT HC Necro 93 2.14 2019-02-27 Yes - - NA - T72on1 TooMuchEnergy SC Sorc 93 2.10 2019-07-19 Yes 267 181 12 47.5 art_vandelay tragic_misstep SC Sorc 93 2.09 2019-08-12 Yes - - - - Smittyphi TheLongRun SC Sorc 93 2.09 2019-11-06 Yes 30 - Yes - Pb_pal Stevesy HC Barb 92 2.09 2019-10-30 Yes - - NA - LongingForDeath VelvetSky SC Sorc 92 1.92 2019-11-23 Yes - 248 11 - liquid_mage zDadColdSorc SC Sorc 91 1.89 2019-02-04 Yes - 223 - - sir_cyclops devi SC Sin 91 ?.?? 2019-02-27 Yes - - - - AlexTheNextOne Orion SC Pala 90 1.62 2018-07-22 Yes - - - - PhineasB Septimus SC Druid 90 1.62 2019-11-15 Yes - - 0 - Zarfen Stamina SC Sorc 90 ?? 2019-12-08 Yes - - Yes - Gynli Assassin SC Assa 89 1.50 2019-11-11 Yes - - - - art_vandelay snow_dog SC Nec 89 1.48 2019-07-19 Yes - - - - jjscud Ragnarok SC Pala 89 1.48 2019-11-24 No - - 36 lots Jocular BareBear_Where HC Druid 88 1.47 2019-05-20 ??? - - NA - MizzouFTW Mariah SC Sin 88 1.36 2019-01-28 Yes - - - - BasicBhoy Belgarath HC Druid 88 1.36 2019-01-29 Yes - - - - TwentyMuleTeam Chore SC Sin 88 ?.?? 2019-02-09 Yes - - - - Arctodus Lubotor SC Barb 87 1.29 2019-10-30 Yes - - 13 - Klonki Dualizt_Ann SC Sorc 86 1.14 2019-05-26 Yes - 37 1 15+ nMEKn Summon SC Nec 85 1.07 2019-05-17 Yes - - 4 - Vildecor Ivar SC Pala 84 1.02 2019-09-02 Yes - 307 3 - Bobbo Barbamel HC Barb 84 1.01 2019-01-11 Yes - - NA - nepeta finistere SC Sin 84 1.14 2019-01-04 ? - - 1 4 kstuart Nena SC Sorc 84 1.00 2019-09-07 Yes - - - - art_vandelay predatory_wasp SC Sin 81 0.76 2019-05-25 Yes - - - - Bewitch Mindcrime HC Pala 81 0.90 2019-11-19 Yes - - - - Irenicus_Mfs Morgana HC Sorc 69 0.26 2018-12-09 Yes - - NA 14+ RIP Sucell HC Druid 47 0.03 2018-12-08 Yes - 20 - - Grape Coke SC Barb 42 0.00 2018-12-06 ? 14 14 0 - Izzak Bones SC Necro 42 0.** 2019-01-10 - - - 1 - Lord Molybdenum Ilucuthen SC Sin 13 0.?? 2019-09-14 No - - - - MizzouFTW Hocus HC Necro 01 0.00 2019-02-19 No - - 0 0 dkn Morgoth SC Barb 01 0.00 2019-10-04 Yes - - 0 0 FireNice Isern SC Zon 12 0 2019-12-04 Yes 0 - - -
The FallenRich (BB code):Forumite Character SC/HC Class Level Exp Date E/S S/U Grail Deaths Hours --------------- --------------- ----- ----- ----- ---- ---------- --- ---- ----- ------ ----- Buckcrazy Zic HC Sorc 98.5 3.38 2019-07-22 Yes - - NA lots hasuprotoss Reina SC Sorc 97 2.96 YYYY-MM-DD Yes 1751 384 - - Tarantella Tarasha HC Sorc 96 2.72 YYYY-MM-DD Yes - - - - Grim Furious_Blonde SC Ama 96 2.72 YYYY-MM-DD Yes - - - - CrustyRusty Space_Oddity SC Ama 95 2.49 YYYY-MM-DD Yes - - - - XyleneCyanol Fishie HC Sorc 95 2.49 YYYY-MM-DD No - - - - ThomasJohnsen xInTheBuffx HC Sorc 95 2.49 2017-03-31 Yes - - - - NamelessPenguin Rockatansky SC Barb 95 2.49 2017-12-14 Yes - - - - Dezrok Salome SC Sorc 95 2.49 YYYY-MM-DD Yes 792 318 - - Reyz Qty SC Sorc 93 2.10 YYYY-MM-DD No - - - - Zenigma Ayura SC Barb 93 2.12 2018-09-08 No - - - - Potent Challenge(CL) SC Sorc 92 1.96 2018-07-30 no - - - - Trapin' ceegee SC Pala 92 1.92 2018-08-16 No - - - - Tatterson Titaani SC Barb 91 1.84 2018-11-27 Yes - - - - Zenigma Gnosis SC Druid 91 1.79 2018-04-26 No - - - - OldSoldier Battleforge HC Pala 91 1.76 YYYY-MM-DD Yes - 236 - - kyndig DrearyAura HC Sorc 91 1.76 2018-02-20 Yes - - - - tokerdin tokeress SC Sorc 91 1.76 YYYY-MM-DD Yes - - - - Neksja Aurora SC Sorc 90 1.70 2018-09-08 Yes - 215 - - Southpaw Njord SC Druid 90 1.62 YYYY-MM-DD Yes - - - - Qwernt CanbeOnlyBlizz SC Sorc 90 1.62 YYYY-MM-DD Yes - - ? ? MercMan Este SC Ama 90 1.62 YYYY-MM-DD Yes 1212 278 2 ? Lynchgrinch Tattersail SC Sorc 89 1.48 YYYY-MM-DD Yes - 321 ? ? LiquidClear Sally SC Sin 88 1.36 YYYY-MM-DD Yes 225 - 1 - Neksja Turirao SC Druid 87 1.25 YYYY-MM-DD Yes 191 124 5 - T72on1 Grapelike SC Barb 87 1.25 2019-01-24 Yes 98 82 13 37 Gladstone Socrates HC Druid 86 1.15 YYYY-MM-DD - - - - - Burgomaster3 Hastur SC Druid 86 1.14 2018-07-02 Yes - - - - sanguillen DirkStruan-UT HC Pala 85 1.10 2018-12-19 Yes - - NA - hackedagainanda Hugo HC Necro 85 1.05 2017-12-17 Yes - - - - DaveW Long_Term SC Sorc 84 0.97 2018-05-02 Yes Heaps - Lots 30+ Naturallog Athos HC Barb 84 0.96 YYYY-MM-DD No 159 105 0 - Kitteh Gwynt HC Druid 83 2018-10-28 Yes - - NA - Xul's Gull Xul HC Necro 81 0.74 2018-03-26 No - - NA - Qwernt AmaAgainstAll SC Sorc 81 0.74 YYYY-MM-DD Yes - - - - Gambit Mallenroh SC Sorc 81 0.74 YYYY-MM-DD Yes 0 0 0 0 aarrgus Acala SC Barb 80 0.68 2017-12-30 Yes - - 5 - ioupainmax Durnik SC Pala 79 0.63 2018-06-28 Yes 177 111 0 - Jean Avila SpeedAdict SC Ama 77 0.52 YYYY-MM-DD No - - - 50 logoutzero Digimon HC Necro 76 0.48 YYYY-MM-DD Yes 85 65 0 - Gripphon Ryu SC Sorc 76 0.48 YYYY-MM-DD Yes - - ? 13 Darke Rahl Bells HC Ama 74 0.40 YYYY-MM-DD No 19 - 0 - Smittyphi SliceNDice SC Sin 70 0.30 2018-03-27 Yes 15 - 6 - Xul's Gull Araphel HC Necro 60 0.12 2017-12-21 No - - - - Burton Roberts Arizona SC Ama 56 0.08 2018-06-12 No - - 15 38 Sleepybear123 Rob_theBarb HC Barb 50 0.05 2018-01-06 Yes - - - 10 Pijus AGoodBoy HC Druid 45 0.00 2018-05-29 Yes - - NA - TrU Henryk SC Barb 41 0.02 YYYY-MM-DD Yes - - 22 12 Gambit Colossus SC Pala 39 0.02 YYYY-MM-DD Yes 0 0 0 0 Smancer Smancer SC Necro 26 0.00 YYYY-MM-DD Yes 1 - - - RIP Espada HC Necro 24 0.00 2018-06-01 Yes - 13 - - BKC FearsomeFreddie SC Necro 23 0.00 YYYY-MM-DD Yes - - - - Ergroilnin Erilinda HC Sorc 20 0.00 YYYY-MM-DD No - - - - DaveHutt Alice SC Ama 13 0.00 2018-05-18 Yes - - 1 - MizzouFTW Hocus HC Sorc 01 0.00 2018-10-28 Yes - - NA -
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PhineasB said:Huge congrats @ResTTe and really fast progress for the last level, and especially at the end! I'm looking forward to the write up because my barb will be following a very similar path to yours.
ResTTe said:@PhineasB Thanks! I made a write up for this barb. Took me a long time, cause i wanted to make it more like a guide. You can find it here: https://www.purediablo.com/forums/threads/the-hall-of-legends.97/post-7359
ffs said:Grats on finishing the Barb @ResTTe! Which class next?
ResTTe said:@ffs Thanks! I have some plans. My current project is grailing with this barb. I also want to do untwinked 99 sorc and pala, untwinked melee assassin playthrough and some farming with her and maybe try to do untwinked HC barb playthrough once again with farming. We will see...
Luhkoh said:@ResTTe congrats!! great job!
Me2NiK said:Congratulations @ResTTe ! Reading your post was a treat.
I just gambled a 4% BK. Today is the luckiest day of my life.
ffs said:Managed to do quite a bit of running this week and pushed Lucid to 98.65.
After going back and forth for a while, I revisited the idea of running without Holy Shield, so that Confuse from Dreams procs more reliably thanks to the Paladin being hit more often. It reduces Viper-related S&Es a bit, whereas other spawns (in particular Might, Fana) just take some getting used to. Some of his last couple of runs to 98.65 with this approach:
Due to the way above average amount of XP shrines in this batch, this extrapolates to 4.68m XP/h – obviously not his real long-term average... It does feel like a noticeable improvement over his previous approach though, which netted some 3.5-3.6m XP/h whenever I timed him.
He found a small upgrade in the meantime with a perfect Mara's, replacing his 28@ one. Not sure I shared his current gear here before, but it's included at the end of the video for those interested.
Other notable drops included Jah, 3os HHG and three RBFs, of which two rolled 5/5 (cold and lightning):
Only 60m to go till Ancients and 99!
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Questing HeroesRich (BB code):Forumite Character SC/HC Class Level Exp Date E/S S/U Grail Deaths Hours --------------- --------------- ----- ----- ----- ---- ---------- --- ---- ----- ------ ----- zticazzy Perkele SC Barb 99 3.52 2016-07-12 No - - - - Pb_pal Eleanor SC Sorc 99 3.52 2016-11-09 No 3068 437 5 - NanoMist Izuna SC Sin 99 3.52 2016-12-25 No 5109 470 4 360 PhineasB Mercy SC Sin 99 3.52 2017-05-23 Yes - 475 11 - PhineasB Hiatus SC Sorc 99 3.52 2017-12-25 Yes - 471 21 - ffs HelpYourself SC Sorc 99 3.52 2018-04-29 Yes - 447 - - Neksja Aura SC Pala 99 3.52 2018-08-08 Yes - 481 - - Yng Sophie SC Sorc 99 3.52 2018-08-26 Yes - - 10 <300 T72on1 Neverland SC Sorc 99 3.52 2018-10-21 Yes lots 483 13 350+ Bewitch itssoftcore SC Sorc 99 3.52 2018-11-07 Yes - - - - PhineasB Phaedrus SC Pala 99 3.52 2018-11-12 Yes - 401 13 - ffs Ric SC Necro 99 3.52 2018-12-26 Yes - 463 - - Bewitch Mayhem SC Barb 99 3.52 2019-07-07 Yes - - - - PhineasB Pestilence SC Necro 99 3.52 2019-07-29 Yes - - - - Pb_pal Klaus HC Druid 99 3.52 2019-10-07 Yes - 433 NA - ResTTe ResTTe SC Barb 99 3.52 2019-12-14 Yes - 465 many ~320
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PhineasB said:Nice progress! I forgot Lucid still had Ancients, which is always a nice way to wrap things up. Good luck on this last stretch!
ffs said:Yeah, apparently it took me 3 tries to become smart enough to pick a class/build that wasn’t better off running Baal before 98.
GL to your last stretch as well! What’s the ETA for Quinta?
PhineasB said:Still aiming for Quinta to ping before the end of the year. She's at <40M left, so it should be doable, especially with the holidays. The wrinkle is that I'm temporarily moving into a new position for work, with a lot to get up to speed on and likely longer work hours as a result.
Pb_pal said:@ResTTe - Awesome job, congrats!
Yng said:Hey everyone, still alive! Classic Wow really sucked me in there for a second (not in the sense that i play too much, not nearly enough time to play anything too much, but it did take any free time i had). Everything going great with our second little man, he's a healthy and happy fatso.
Great to see everyone still chugging along with this, big grats to @ResTTe for finishing your barb (love the PDR emphasis) and @Pb_pal for finishing the HC Druid! Will check out the write ups during a poop or something in the near future hahaha. Good luck to everyone else on continued progress (@PhineasB and @ffs so close!)
Vildecor said:I'm also back after a break and figured I'd give a small update, since Baal gave me a welcome back gift:
Griffon's #2 with a 15/-15 roll, which makes it worse than the one I'm wearing. It's still nice to see a second one drop this early after waiting so long for the first one to show up!
I doubt I'll hit 98 before the end of the year, but once I do I'll probably start doing some LK runs with the paladin.
Also big congrats to @ResTTe on hitting 99 and @Pb_pal for becoming the first HC 99er in this reboot! I knew you could do it!
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drmalawi said:@ffs you did mention that you spec'ed out of Holy Shield. I was wondering, did you ever considering 2H vengeance (eBotd in 2H wpn) ?
(I am planning / preparing on how I will do Nila with my paladin - who now is a zealot - my fav setup so far, using an old paladin of mine as test subject - is smite with grief. Right now I am doing some runs with eBotd Colossos blade and I kinda like it - oath could be a nice budget option actually)
ffs said:@drmalawi I didn't respec no, just stopped casting it in most cases, except when I see Might/Fana rolls without Vipers (then I cast it before engaging Nihl). Admittedly my skill points in general are not ideally allocated at the moment given I figured out some things since starting 98-99. But in order to respec I'd have to kill Ancients already, which I don't want to do before 99.
Actually Smiter was the first build I tested, and I was 95% sure that would end up being the best option for Nihl. Surprisingly, I now think it's a very bad option. Basically for two reasons:
I thought about 2h BotD (in GPA base), but ended up preferring the dual Dream setup. Apart from losing out on the huge lightning damage from Dreams, 2h is generally slower. GPA maxes out at 10 FPA, and even that is hard to hit without Faith Merc. Even with 1h BotD, I went with to a Faith Merc to speed things up to 8 FPA. Maybe the biggest reason for Dreams though was that apart from the damage boost, they provide the necessary crowd control via Confuse CtC (hence no longer casting HS most of the time). That is godsend for Nihl running.
- Not being able to leech except from Life Tap. However, LT overrides Confuse and thus causes problems with Viper spawns. Also the only reasonable LT option is Exile, which is not a great Smite shield. Last Wish was too little damage for a Smiter and Dracul's was too unreliable.
- Short range: That really annoyed me the most, given Nihl is always crowded by his entourage, often leading to longer runs and even S&Es when everything is full of poison clouds before you even hit the guy once.
What I tested in-game apart from 1h BotD/Dreams and Smiter was Sacrifice and Hammerdin. But found they didn't work too well either. IMO Vengeance is the way to go. But there are lots of options to play around with, such as 2h vs 1h, A1 Merc with Faith vs. A2 Merc with lots of different weapon options etc...
EDIT:
Oh and I can definitely confirm is that Avenger with dual Dreams + Oath works very well. That's what I tested with when exploring options with twinked chars before respeccing Lucid for 98-99 -- since I didn't have 1h BotD before on my twinked chars -- and it's also part of Lucid's corpse recovery kit. Main downside is that leech will need to be obtained form other sources, whereas BotD takes care of everything you need. Pretty small downside considering how easy to get Oath is.
drmalawi said:You did not try Grief?ffs said:Last Wish was too little damage for a Smiter
Exile, which is not a great Smite shield
~75% of smite damage is grief's damage.
Consider this then: I might not have access to dual dreams You still Avenger is the way to go?
EDIT: thanks for the reply sensei
ffs said:Yes of course I tried all Smiter setups with Grief except when I tried Last Wish (which was much worse).
Good news and bad news at the same time, but you will be running a lot even before 98 and chances of finding 2 extra Jahs/equivalent before 98 are very high.
drmalawi said:I have played smiter on Bnet a lot (you know, pandemonium key running / ybers ) so I am pretty comfortable playing him at Nila (but perhaps not in 25second games 1-2h / day )ffs said:Good news and bad news at the same time, but you will be running a lot even before 98 and chances of finding 2 extra Jahs/equivalent before 98 are very high.
I try to plan a head with "worst case" scenarios Also if I manage to get dual dreams, I might actually do baal runs since those are also kinda fun with tesladin.
(EDIT: does not smite scale with wpn range? Grief in BA - will be costly to repair though...)