Update 
tl;dr: Ian, lv 48 is now a Destroyer.
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So when we last left off, Ian vanquished Mephy, A3 didn't drop much of anything, but did surprisingly drop 2 hawkmails. Things happened and Ian found himself burning in hell.. literally. Ian had nearly any fire res worth speaking of.. that is until I remembered Ian had a rare ring mail that had a whopping 28 res and 2os dropt stashed, which I then took and stuck random fire res jewels in it which helped solve Ian's burning in hell issues.
chucked about a dozen or so tool sets worth of hammers at Diablo til he died; one thing to note, lightning hose is a real killer ( being in the hose for merely a half a second brought health down by 100 hp ). sadly like mephy, he didn't drop any thing worth noting.
many montages later, ian finds this diamond in the rough..
but it doesn't end there!-- fastforward some--
luckily it isn't socketed (otherwise it'll only have a max of 3), still feeling the presence of RNGesus I/Ian does something i/he may regret quite dearly.. or not because
gasp*
BAM!
sadly I used up my only remaining Amn to socket that so I had to leave it for next difficulty
many scenes later, the time has finally come..
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Thoughts for Hdin:
Now that I've completed Normal, I've got to say, Hdin is pretty fun and that's without the need for Enigma. Once you get the handle on how to quickly shift gears from locomotion to battle to and back it goes pretty fast and quite thrilling experience.
For reference sake these are my hotkeys and explanation, here's to hoping this helps confused and frustrated engimaless hdins.:
- Q W E
- A S D
s - - -
- - - a space
Q: holy shield
W: charge
E: vigor
A: blessed hammer
S: redemption
D: concentration
s(shift): stand still
a(alt): toggle run/walk
space: show items
basically I'll have my hand positioned with my thumb resting on my alt, pinky on shift, middle on W, ring on A, index on D. When I enter a new map I'll always have my pinky pressed, toggle set on walk. From there I press W and E together with middle and index respectively and click where I want to zoom zoom to. After arriving to my destination I press A and D together with ring and index respectively and hold hammer lift up shift to duckwalk around and hold shift some and hammer while occassionally pressing S with index to redeem and back to D with index until mobs all slaughtered.
why use vigor when charging?-- because it helps to solidify in your head you're switching gears from w/e it was previously to locomotion, and strengthen the hand's reflex ability to quickly remember that to switch gear from locomotion to attack and back is to press two button above or two buttons below all while having your shift held down.
anyways this is my brief digest of the hdin, here's to hoping it helps.
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Ian's Normal Summary:
Lv 48 , HP: 842, MP: 198
STR: 64 , DEX: 76 VIT: 170
BH: 20, Conc: 16, Vigor: 5, HS: 1, Redemption: 1
MF: 21
BHDmg+Conc: 1134-1156
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Cool pair of Bloodfists 
