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OldSoldier said:Upon entering Lut Gholein our first order of business was to thank Chalan for his service and hire Gulzar in his place. Gulzar sports a holy freeze aura but I kept Andrew's main aura on Might (level 20 by this time) for additional damage from Gulzar. Very shortly after entering Lut Gholein's vaunted sewers I got my second two handed weapon, and it is an exceptional axe, but I don't really like it: Warlord's Trust. The 175% ED still makes it hit less powerfully than the Cleglaw's switch, which means no thanks. Now, if it were ethereal that'd be a different story since it repairs itself.
We pulled Radament's minions off of him one by one. The ones that didn't cooperate got pushed forcibly by Andrew's charging away from Radament until they were dead, and then redeemed (level 4 redemption at this point, where it will likely stay) so they were not resurrected. That tactic saw a lot of use in this act in areas with Unravelers.
The Claw Viper temple was fun, as we spent the time charging back and forth with snakes. All the monsters in level 1 were snakes. Here is our entrance. We had Vigor running so we could hot foot it to safety if necessary.
We made it to the corner and I ported out so that Gulzar could join Andrew and fight in series.
Some more showing of our tactic. I was running backward to get another proper angle to keep the invaders off of Gulzar. It worked well.
Here we didn't have to use any special tricks to keep the monsters off of Gulzar. He took them one at a time. Sometimes when Gulzar wouldn't find himself perfectly aligned with an obstacle Andrew would create one with another monster or push a monster back into a doorway to block it from others pouring through.
We got ourselves into a bit of trouble sometimes in the Arcane Sanctuary when stepping through the portals. I should have switched to smite here, but just stood there like a statue until Gulzar could finish them off.
Devil Hack had his own Conviction aura and I stayed well clear of his LE bolts.
The fight with Kaa was less exciting than it was for Devil Hack.
Duriel got a fair dose of Smite with the Cleglaw's Brace at /P8. When the CB ran out of steam I started charging him with the Gull and that did eventually work. It was actually a pretty fun fight all things considered when I started running around and charging him. He dropped a sweet weapon- for an Amazon!
Our drops in act 2. I made the shield with my two best damage jewels and some gems and it allowed the Gull poignard to do significantly more damage, enough to keep up with the mana cost of the skill (via the 7% leech on the Manald Heal). The bill was a failed unique, dang it. Blackleach Blade would have been great!
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