The diary
Early stages... before a big sleep!
April 2020
Career started on the 29th... only cleared the Den for now, not even took the time to get the Cold plains' waypoint
Two skillpoints in Warmth, the remaining ones in Fire bolt, and stat points in Strength to get 30. Using Arctic armor and belt for now, will twink a bit more later.
Beside, crafted her a pair of Spirit broad swords, trying to get the highest fcr...will be capped at 33 out of 5 tries - not bad, and enough to target the 63 fcr breakpoint.
Hit Jail 1 wp, then lvl 15 in Jail 2, had to stop there.
Well not much to say, twinked with knell striker, a low Nagel but 70AR, a 10fcr ring rare with some AR and poison resistance iirc, Hsarus boots for early FRW, and the always much efficient Bloodfists.
At this level cap I will twink a bit more, getting Cathan's helm and a ring (20 mana, 10 strength), some strength charms to get to 50 (currently 30), and replace boots and amulet by Vidala's (30frw, 50mf, 150 stamina!). At lvl 17 Stealth armor, 19 Leaf.
For later, Whistan's shield is now ready thanks to one of AlreadyDead's quest
Normal clear, Act 1 NM complete. TP TP TP TP TP...
August 2021
Decided to run her a bit before MFO, and got her to Nightmare. She went through normal fireballing on p5, then leveling in Act 5 up to 50 doing Baal runs on p8.
Afterwards, she jumped into Nightmare, and as there's no xp to be done early, she flew over Act 1, not even rescuing Cain nor picking waypoints, except for the Catacombs 2 as she went directly into it.
Session had been stopped there, so she has just arrived at Lut Golhein.
Gearwise, she is mostly following Zorro's path, except for the jewelry. If she had a 35 spirit, she would hit the 105fcr cap, but as the target is having a max block build, there's no need to push over the 33 spirit - yet?
Update - Nightmare completed
Switched to P3 from Sanctuary waypoint and on, so the xp could be taken and get Frozen orb to high enough for Act 4.
Everything had been smooth, teleporting had been particularly useful in Act 5 to jump over massive packs at some point, but apart from that no real difficulty.
Ended #Conqueror at clvl 61, Hell unlocked. Will probably level up to 75 before facing the last difficulty tho.
Update 2 - Welcome to Hell
After leveling in Nightmare until clvl 73, Hell questing had been started on p1. Session ended at clvl 74, granted by Radament or one of the many monsters or packs surrounding him.
Oh, and Cain had been rescued this time. Free id is back
Update 3 - a TP session up to Eldritch
Well on p1, she teleported through almost everything...mandatory quests, some packs, but that's it. Some charms have been updated to get max res to Fire before Act 3, and some strength added in order to use new boots - ethereal treks - same gear otherwise.
Hell Forge delivered a Gul - pretty nice after Nightmare's one which
delivered a Lem.
Definitely, the Fireball/Frozen orb combo works very well with the mandatory one point in Static field.
She may be my lowest clvl Guardian, a she's only clvl 75, lower than any of my character... which had been my Phoenix Strikeress at clvl 82, my last Matriarch. It seems that I am in a hurry lately... incoming MFO side effect?
Update 4 - Hell complete
Well Act 5 had been again rushed, Anya rescued, then zap zap zap towards Baal, as illustrated by the 0 xp gained between
the Ancient's and
the Throne entrance.
Guardian'ed at 77.5 on the 27th of August, with Baal
delivering a valid qualifier few days before MFO start. A sign?