Good luck this next iteration with Amodan_Crane. I'll blame my first deeds with my Javazon to drinking several beers while trying to quest her through Normal.Progress has been slow with Amodan_Crane to say the least. To say more than the least I'll give a brief explanation. The frail necromancer had plugged along with his trusty sidekick/mercenary with a nice stack of javelins and a bunch of thrown potions for damage. His level was rising quickly and even though he wasn't quite to 21 yet, the first chamber in the level 4 catacombs held a champ pack of zombies and some of those lightning hurler types, so he was confident in his ability to get to 21 before facing Andariel, or at least as a result of killing her.
In my mind I was thinking how fortunate I was in being able to get to 21 with a stat-less and skill-less (save the amp damage from a wand he'd picked up along the way) necromancer with less than 100 HP. He wasn't even running any bone armor. My sons are 6 and 7 years old and into the Three Stooges so I was chuckling to myself about how I was going to get to 21 and most everyone else only got to 20, and this popped into my head:
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But alas, the cruel fates intervened and one of the champ zombies felled poor Amodan_Crane right there in the last easy fight before Andariel. A zombie! Moving as slowly as they do! Not my finest hour. In another thread I had remarked to Jiansonz about how rusty I was and I definitely proved it. I felt like this:
View attachment 6218 That is a picture of my Oldsmobile that I am very slowly restoring from a rusted hulk.
So I decided to make Amodan_Crane over again and deleted his stash and started over with a new character of the same name. I took my lessons learned and cobbled together equipment that gave him 60 additional HP of bone armor and a level 3 clay golem (which actually did pretty well throughout the act). I got a hunter's bow and put some rubies in it and ended up getting /P8 Andariel to the ground with it. I tried to tank her once but she took me from full health (83 HP) plus some of the bone armor down to 14 HP in one swipe so I ran away and didn't do that again.
Amodan_Crane, level 20 bone necromancer, Lut Gholein
Edit: Hilarious pictures though, especially the one of your Olds!!!