It should but I like to build suspense.Welcome! I enjoy your "did not die" accomplishments.
And, playing HC, shouldt that be #1 on your list?
I've thought about it for a few days and I decided this is what I want to do. I'll probably start my character today and start posting there I'm just deciding between amazon or sorceress, leaning sorceress atm.
So typically on my runs prior I would spec into fissure on this run I decided not to and rather invest those points into wolves. Either way seemed to work just fine, only reason I didn't respect this time is because I've blown respecs in the past thinking I could go werebear based on the gear I had or for other dumb reasons like Pits clear speed etc. I wanted to save every respec for as long as I could this time and just take my time clearing everything and not feel rushed so if I did need to respec I had 3 available. Either way is fine but yeah fissure helps with clear speed early for sure especially if you pair it with leaf.
On Trav I just stood back and let my wolves/merc kill everything while shockwaving them having a merc with insight just allows me to keep summoning over and over if the wolves die. Ancients it was the same thing except I used my bear and let my merc whittle everything down, I don't think I had to even use many health pots on my merc either maybe 2 rows total?
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