- Aug 1, 2008
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Split the sky asunder noble huntress of the clan. In your left hand raise the [strike]sword[/strike] bow, in your right hand cast the spear...
Hear ye hear ye, the story of Vahana and her ascent to matriarchy. After a long stretch of playing only on ladder, I have again embraced the merit of singleplayer and the wonderful convenience of GoMule.
Vahana is a proud Amazon warrior, born under the sign of the Fishy. She wields the power of frost in her left hand, and the power of lightning in her right hand and have decided to face the perils of hell without the help from the valkyries that often protect her people.
She set out as many others, cutting her path forward with a dull, rusted javelin and steel sharp determination. A bit into her journey she made friends with an ex palaceguard named Gulzar, and together they faced all perils the three prime evils could throw at them.
A bit into her journey she found her first set and unique item. Both due to bugs in the game. :S
A great pair of gloves for a bow Amazon. Good thing I really like amazons. And a decent upgrade for Gulzar, at least until we find him a pike with a decent mod.
Later, after rerunning Andariel a bit (when I had "maybe 5 min" playsessions) she found one of the best low level set items.
For me, Death's sash and Glegaw's gloves are both really top tier low level items. Cannot be frozen is so nice to have.
While the powers of frost and lightning made short work of any enemies set before them, Gulzar was starting to worry about his friends drinking habits. Many were the blue beverages bulging from her breeches as they left the borough, big was the banquet of blue brew that was imbibed before breakfast.
He knew that since knowledge is half the battle, insight would be needed to solve this problem. In the arreat plateu he found the first piece, and the strange land of beastial bovines provided the second.
I had had some problems with RWM (my game reverted to classic when I used it!?), but could not be bothered to fix it until I had reason to. Well now I had reason. First try after I managed to get the game to load as LoD again:
Fiddeling around a bit more:
Yes! It works!
Ral
Tir
Tal
Sol
With the new insights gained, the nightmare of following the three Prime Evils were significanly lessened. They found the place Milabrega probably died...
RIP Milabrega
Gulzar got his chance to shine...
First CILI dualimmune.
and they found some gloves for one of Vahana's sisters.
They carried on into hell itself, staying a while in the pit to grow strong. When pushing forward, they found indications that Gheed might have tried to charm the queen of hell herself for favours. Could this be the source of his fortune? Then again, we did gamble quite a few circlets from him.
Among other things, Stormshield was found while running the pit.
The first unsurmountable challenge for Vahana came at the ancients. She had tasted the bitterness of death a few times over the journey. As had Gulzar. But they always managed to grit their teeth and push on. But the ancients were something else. With two out of her three attacks (FA and LF) designed for crowds, and her third attack leaving her in melee (CS), she found herself having great trouble passing the test of the Nephalem.
After a few fruitless attempts, she sought the advice of the oracles. After their advice, she trained herself to better use a shield and used the legendary Stormshield she had found earlier. With this increased durability to physical violence, the advice and tools from the oracles and a blessing from one of the most legendary Amazon warriors, she faced the ancients once again. And this time...
...she stood victorious.
Having proven her worth against the ancients, she sought out Baal and ended his reign of destruction once and for all.
And thus, Vahana was crowned as my first Matriarch.
Hear ye hear ye, the story of Vahana and her ascent to matriarchy. After a long stretch of playing only on ladder, I have again embraced the merit of singleplayer and the wonderful convenience of GoMule.
Vahana is a proud Amazon warrior, born under the sign of the Fishy. She wields the power of frost in her left hand, and the power of lightning in her right hand and have decided to face the perils of hell without the help from the valkyries that often protect her people.
She set out as many others, cutting her path forward with a dull, rusted javelin and steel sharp determination. A bit into her journey she made friends with an ex palaceguard named Gulzar, and together they faced all perils the three prime evils could throw at them.
A bit into her journey she found her first set and unique item. Both due to bugs in the game. :S
A great pair of gloves for a bow Amazon. Good thing I really like amazons. And a decent upgrade for Gulzar, at least until we find him a pike with a decent mod.
For me, Death's sash and Glegaw's gloves are both really top tier low level items. Cannot be frozen is so nice to have.
While the powers of frost and lightning made short work of any enemies set before them, Gulzar was starting to worry about his friends drinking habits. Many were the blue beverages bulging from her breeches as they left the borough, big was the banquet of blue brew that was imbibed before breakfast.
He knew that since knowledge is half the battle, insight would be needed to solve this problem. In the arreat plateu he found the first piece, and the strange land of beastial bovines provided the second.
I had had some problems with RWM (my game reverted to classic when I used it!?), but could not be bothered to fix it until I had reason to. Well now I had reason. First try after I managed to get the game to load as LoD again:
Fiddeling around a bit more:
Yes! It works!
Ral
Tir
Tal
Sol
With the new insights gained, the nightmare of following the three Prime Evils were significanly lessened. They found the place Milabrega probably died...
RIP Milabrega
Gulzar got his chance to shine...
and they found some gloves for one of Vahana's sisters.
They carried on into hell itself, staying a while in the pit to grow strong. When pushing forward, they found indications that Gheed might have tried to charm the queen of hell herself for favours. Could this be the source of his fortune? Then again, we did gamble quite a few circlets from him.
Among other things, Stormshield was found while running the pit.
The first unsurmountable challenge for Vahana came at the ancients. She had tasted the bitterness of death a few times over the journey. As had Gulzar. But they always managed to grit their teeth and push on. But the ancients were something else. With two out of her three attacks (FA and LF) designed for crowds, and her third attack leaving her in melee (CS), she found herself having great trouble passing the test of the Nephalem.
After a few fruitless attempts, she sought the advice of the oracles. After their advice, she trained herself to better use a shield and used the legendary Stormshield she had found earlier. With this increased durability to physical violence, the advice and tools from the oracles and a blessing from one of the most legendary Amazon warriors, she faced the ancients once again. And this time...
...she stood victorious.
Having proven her worth against the ancients, she sought out Baal and ended his reign of destruction once and for all.
And thus, Vahana was crowned as my first Matriarch.
I then used her to run baal a bit. With the reduction in vitality brought out by the points allocated in STR and DEX, she was a little bit weaker to elemental attacks. So Gloams were a problem, but I could usually make my way through them anyway.
Except that one time when they stair-trapped me. I tried to at least get my body, to mitigate the exp loss, but died so fast every time. At the time of my S&E, I had gathered the body with my items aswell. But since I had STR-bugged the Stormshield on...
...it was still on the corpse, and was lost at the S&E.
I am still a bit grumpy about it.
Except that one time when they stair-trapped me. I tried to at least get my body, to mitigate the exp loss, but died so fast every time. At the time of my S&E, I had gathered the body with my items aswell. But since I had STR-bugged the Stormshield on...
...it was still on the corpse, and was lost at the S&E.
I am still a bit grumpy about it.
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