And someone has reached Harrogath...but it wasn't easy.
I found the City of the Damned WP about halfway around the map and left the other half of the map, just in case. How important that was!
The River went easily, the Chaos Sanctuary too. I left the Balrog seal until last, and it was the one where you can easily get cornered. Fortunately my wolves lured them all to the edge, then I was able to run past them and out into the main area with freedom to manoever. Once out, they were easily, but carefully dealt with. I left it on /players 8 all the way...do or die.
I did however put it down to players 1 for Diablo, and it was an epic struggle. I had him down to half his life and ran out of my single stack of arrows. I ran back out to the River WP and stepped up to the City WP and fought some Damned until I found more arrows then went back to Big D.
He'd healed to full (bugger!), so I tried again and got him down to about 1/4 life before I ran out of arrows again. Ran back to River WP, up to City WP, got 2 stacks of arrows from assorted critters, not muching around this time (I had dawdled the previous time...didn't expect that repair rate in normal!). I made it back to him and he was just over half. Plenty of arrows this time and he fell, dropping Ichorstring (which I have now on switch), Razortine which remained on his grave, and a few rares I ignored (all melee weapons).
That then meant I had to speak to the Angel to go to Harrogath. I wasn't sure I was going to get the skills because the quest sheet still said "Talk to Izual's Spirit", but yep, I got them and am looking forward to starting full clears of Act 5 so I can be the highest possible going into NM (I've been mostly clearing areas, but not full clearing and not taking unnecessary detours like the Hole, etc, as I wanted progress).
Diablo did manage to fire a couple of good shots at me, but I managed to survive because I saved this for the battle:
Gemmed Breast Plate
'RalOrt'
Defense: 100
Durability: 26 of 26
Required Strength: 20
Required Level: 21
Item Version: 1.10+ Expansion
Item Level: 27
Fingerprint: 0x6603b582
Fire Resist +30%
Lightning Resist +30%
Ethereal (Cannot be Repaired), Socketed (3: 2 used)
along with a rare druid pelt with fire and lightning resist which I've since dropped on his grave too! I had 68 fire and 75 lightning resist for the battle.
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[highlight]Alive Characters[/highlight]
[U]Forum Name Character Build Class LVL ACT WP [/U]
Butzull Warnie Druid 33 A5 Norm Harrogath
Chern All_Alone Summoner Druid 33 A4 Norm River of Flame
Chicago WhereIsAkara MA/?? Amazon 32 A4 Norm River of Flame
stephan Louise Assassin 23 A3 Norm Kurast Docks
skoolbus OneFingaPushup Trapper Assassin 26 A2 Norm Canyon of the Magi
Jabash RunAway Blade/Shdw Assasin 26 A2 Norm Lut Gholein
Friiser HCAll_Alone Summoner Necro 22 A2 Norm Far Oasis
OldSoldier Princess_Diana Amazon 20 A2 Norm Far Oasis
WestXylophone SoloFire HolyFire Paladin 22 A2 Norm Halls of the Dead
San Sigrdrifa PsnJava/MA Zon 21 A2 Norm Lut Gholein
Mursilis Anubis -- Necromancer 20 A2 Norm Sewers
Cygnus Lycus Hammers Paladin 20 A2 Norm Lut Gholein
Crazy_Bear Silent_Bob Psn/Mage Necromancer 20 A2 Norm Lut Gholein
Tweety Remi Boner Necromancer 19 A2 Norm Lut Gholein
Brak Tojolobal Quesodin Paladin 19 A2 Norm Lut Gholein
SinningThings Rapunzel Trapsin Assassin 19 A2 Norm Lut Gholein
ShockTactics So_Alone Summoner Druid 17 A1 Norm Outer Cloister
ZeN DieAlone Fishy Necro 14 A1 Norm Outer Cloister
SonOfBaal NigelNoFriends Fishy Nercomancer 17 A1 Norm Tamoe Highlands
GreyEagle LoneEagle Trapper Assassin 17 A1 Norm Tamoe Highlands
mjosh Electrolyte light sorc 15 A1 Norm Great Marsh
Credge YinMKII -- Necro 15 A1 Norm Outer Cloister
Feared April_Ethereal Summoner Necro ? A1 Norm Black Marsh
FromBeyond HesHardcore Barbarian 11 A1 Norm Stony Field
EmperorMoo GotArrers Mageazon Amazon 11 A1 Norm Stony Field
Quickdeath Eve Cold Sorceress 10 A1 Norm Stony Field
Zodwizard HC_Rainwalker Fire-Hunter Druid 17 A1 Norm Outer Cloister
Chizz Trapper ? Assassin 6 A1 Norm Stony Field
Anraxas ibone_alone bow paladin 22 A2 Norm far oasis
Hoop76 Lonely_Guy Paladin 1 A1 Norm Rogue Camp
Vang WirtsOldMan Barbarian 1 A1 Norm Rogue Camp
tripsu InsaneEnvy Amazon 1 A1 Norm Rogue Camp
Silverslasher Forlorn fire/summon druid 1 A1 Norm Rogue Camp
rY xD Illidan Berzerker Barbarian 1 A1 Norm Rogue Camp
adny Scorch Hydrasorc Sorceress 1 A1 Norm Rogue Camp
Gabriel74 Smelly Lightning Sorceress 1 A1 Norm Rogue Camp
Retawd Sinistral -- Assassin 1 A1 Norm Rogue Camp
Ron Bamboozle Trap Assassin 1 A1 Norm Rogue Camp
Breaker PerfectGame Bowler Druid 1 A1 Norm Rogue Camp
Liquidcore ThaDru Wind/fire Druid 1 A1 Norm Rogue Camp
inSTAALed HumanMeatBlock WW Barb 18 A2 Norm Lut Gholein
[highlight]Dead Characters[/highlight]
[U]Forum Name Character Build Class LVL ACT WP [/U]
whoisfu WhoIsZon Amazon 35 A4 Norm The Chaos Sanctuary
EmperorMoo BertieWooster Summoner Necromancer 25 A2 Norm Duriel's chamber
Sindus Sindus Comando Necro 25 A2 Norm Summoner
Colorless Green Omega Assassin 21 A2 Norm Halls/Dead2
EJB WheresEveryone Druid 22 A2 Norm Radament
Silverslasher Sizzlingpain Trap Assassin 21 A2 Norm Radamant
ShockTactics Frostshock Frostadin Paladin 20 A2 Norm Radamant
EmperorMoo Wordsworth Summon Necromancer 11 A1 Norm Tamoe Highland
chizz Chizzy Summoner Necro 11 A1 Norm Jail level 1
Anraxas ibone_alone bone necro 8 A1 Norm countess
Liquidcore FightingLove Sniperzon Amazon 6 A1 Norm Stony Field
Butz. :dunce: