Excalibur's Progress

Excalibur

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Hey guys,

This is my D2 progress thread. It's main purpose will be to help me keep my own notes for projects and so on.
I will also regularly post screenshot of my finds or anything that I would like to preserve for easier access.

Runes
Since I am part of the SPT I will post all my D2R High Runes here to keep track of where these runes have been used.
This will make it easier to keep a history even for Runewords for trading purposes.

D2L Runes
Zod 1 - BotD, Stash
Zod 2 - Stash
Zod 3 - Stash

Cham 1 - Countess Minions (can't remeber what i did with that, very old drop)
Cham 2 - Traded for Ethereal Reapers, don't remember with whom
Cham 3 - Traded with Hackedagainanda
Cham 4 - Traded with Hackedagainanda
Cham 5 - Traded with Hackedagainanda
Cham 6 - Stash
Cham 7 - Stash

Jah Trade 1 - Got it from fabian for Phoenix Shield
Jah Trade 2 - Got it from Hokkipa for Phoenix Shield
Jah Trade 3 - Got it from Entwililighter in Stash
Jah 1 - Worldstone Keep 3 (Enigma, very old drop)
Jah 2 - Cows (Enigma #2, very old drop)
Jah 3 - Created Faith (for PVP)
Jah 4 - Traded with D2lover
Jah 5 - Traded with Delsy
Jah 6 - Stash

Ber 1 - Stash
Ber 2 - Stash
Ber Trade 1 - Traded with D2DC
Ber Trade 2 - Traded with Hackedagainanda

Sur 1 - Bonesaw Breaker (can't remeber what i did with that, very old drop)
Sur 2 - Mausoleum (traded with Theolog)
Sur 3 - Probably Cubed for Ber
Sur 4 - Probably Cubed for Ber
Sur 5 - Traded with Hackedagainanda
Sur 6 - Traded With D2DC
Sur 7 - Stash
Sur 8 - Stash
Sure Trade 1 - Cubed them for Jah trade with Hokkipa

Lo 1 - Grief, traded with TopHat
Lo 2 - Fortitude (Zealot Paladin)
Lo 3 - Fortitude (Frenzy Barb)
Lo 4 - Traded with D2Lover
Lo 5 - Traded with Hackedagainanda
Lo 6 - Stash
Lo trade 1 - Phoenix Shield (Stash)
Lo trade 2 - Phoenix Shield (Zealot Paladin)
Lo trade 3 - Grief 1.07 (Zealot Paladin)

Ohm - (The Worldstone Keep Level 2) Traded with Zaphodbrx for Griffon's
Ohm 1 - Traded with Hackedagainda for x2 Facets
Ohm 2 - Cta Zealot's Vigor
Ohm 3 - Cubed to Lo for D2R Grief
Ohm 4 - Cubed to Lo for D2R Grief
Ohm 5 - Traded with Hackedagainanda
Ohm 6 - Traded with Hackedagainanda
Ohm 7 - Traded with Delsy
Ohm 8 - Stash
Ohm 9 - Stash
Ohm 10 - Stash
Ohm 11 - Stash
Ohm Trade 1 - Received from Doomas (Exile which traded with d2lover)
Ohm Trade 2 - Received from Teolog ( Faith Bow for PvP)

Vex 1 - BotD (Stash)
Vex 2 - Traded to Theolog for DF
Vex 3 - Exile Shield (traded to D2lover)
Vex 4 - Traded to D2lover ( 1.07 polearms)
Vex Trade 1 - Phoenix Shield (x2 from Theolog)
Vex Trade 2 - Phoenix Shield (x2 From Gripphon)
Vex Trade 3 - Hoto Stash (from Gripphon)
Vex Trade 4 - Death (From Jason)
Vex Trade 5 - Death (From Zaphodbrx)
Vex Trade 6 - Traded from Ent to D2lover


Mosaic
Mang Songs
Ormus

Info on items I need for building my characters.
- to enemy fire Resist
Hand of Justice (-20)
Obedience (-25)
Phoenix (-28)
Phoenix (-28)
Flickering Flame (-15)
Ravenlore (10-20)


Ormus (+15)
Enchutas (+20)
Demon Limb Enchant

- to enemy Cold Resist
Doom (40-60)
Ice (-20)
Voice of Reason (-24)

Nightwings Veil
Death's Fathom (+30%)
Ice (+25%)
Ormus (+15)

WizenDraw


- to enemy Lighting Resist

Infinity (45-55)
Crescent Moon (-35)
Griffin's (-20 +15)

Ormus (+15)
Thunderstroke (-15)
Enchutas (+20)


- to enemy Poison Resist
Grief (20-25)
Death's Web (40-50)
Plauge Lower Resist (-23)

Trangoul's 3 Pieces (-25)
Trangouls Gloves (+25%)
Bramble (+25-50)

Auras
Insight - Meditation
Ice - Holy Freeze
Cure - Cleansing
Flickering Flame - Resist Fire
Plauge - Cleansing
Infinity - Conviction
Beast - Fanaticism
Harmnoy - Vigor
Last Wish - Might
Dream - Holy Shock
Faith - Fanaticism
Exile - Defiance
Dragon - Holy Fire
Hand of Justice - Holy Fire
Edge - Thorns
Hustle - Fanaticism
Lawbringer - Sanctuary
Mist - Concentration
Pride - Concentration
Brambe - Thorns
Azunerath - Sancruary

Melee
Reaper's - Decrepify
Lawbringer - Decrepify
Atma's - Amplify
Lacerator - Amplify
Wrath - Decrepify
Wrath - Life Tap
Last Wish - Life Tap
Exile - Life Tap

Crescent Moon - Static Field
Dragon - Venom
Plauge - Lower Resist

Damage Reduced
Enigma
Chains of Honor

 
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I don't think there's a compelling reason to change the mercenary from the Insight carrier you already have. What's his other aura?
 
Yeah, I was mostly worried about which aura to chose.
He has holy freeze now which I think may cause trouble like slowing down mobs and not being close enough for the poison nova to hit them or they will freeze to death leaving no corpse behind.
I was thinking for Defiance or Prayer perhaps?
 
Assuming you want fast clear speed with heavy use of CE, Might is still ideal. The Merc gets you the first corpse to start the CE chain, so he should dish out as much damage as possible, while PNova helps him and deals some damage to other monsters so that CEs can be chained more smoothly.

Insight is great, another option is Infinity if you have it and make an Insight Iron Golem to still get its aura.
 
I mean.. Prayer merc for sure right? Is there any other merc that provides good benefits to a caster? Or are you talking about gear choices? Infinity can break cold immunes if necessary in some situations and will help your damage output in places like AT if you feel you need it. Insight is like comfy mode and can handle taking out cold immunes quickly enough on P1. Looks like you're mfing and I usually just run my infinity on there because with my full tals mfer setup I don't generally have mana issues and it feels like my run times are faster. But yeah I don't really see a different option other than prayer it's like qol right? Comfort is king to me, keeps me running longer. What are the other options though like defiance? Or you could run a might merc for their own damage. But I prefer not that because although a merc slaps the shit outta everything on P1 generally they still aren't as fast as you just killing things even if you're teleing right onto the yellow mob. But I dunno I guess maybe it depends on what you're running and your long term plans. I never pick anything else tho.

Edit: oh freeze aura is good too I guess. I don't really pick it because I've never needed it. Prefer mana and life regen and prayer and insight together are synergistic and make runs more comfortable. I think if your runs will be dangerous and you risk dying frequently then pick holt freeze and if not then pick prayer. Holy freeze was never worth it to me on a cold sorc which I used primarily for mf. But if you wanna use it for farming to 99 in like CS or something I've never done that so I dunno what's best there.
 
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