jiansonz
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R.I.P. Primal. A valiant effort.
Mark and Isolde got through the rest of act 4.
We drew Grotesques, Maw Fiends (yuck, sooo much life they have!), and Abyss Knights on the River. Most interesting (and also frustrating) of the random bosses was this one. It took a while until I had the situation in the picture: all six Wyrms behind Sin Crawler, blinded. I brought a column a of mana potions in the belt, just for this fight. Whenever I felt my two curses were about to expire (15 seconds duration on Decrep is the shortest), I drank a mana potion and refreshed them both.
When I play the RoF with an underpowered character, I avoid the Hellforge area until I have cleared the rest of the place up to the waypoint. That way I can look for potential Hephasto portal parking spots, and have the choice to return from two different directions. I found the best type of place possible, the segment that has something that looks a lot like the Hellforge platform, minus the side stairs. I am so glad I did, because Hephasto had Might + Cursed.
Mark said "No thanks!" to tanking that brute, led him a long way away and introduced him to the wonders of portal parking.
But what is so good about it? What did you have in mind? There are some interesting possibilies, but I would actually have preferred an Io (for Black), a Lum (for Smoke) or a Lem (for a Passion elite bow). Those would have been more straightforward uses, and much appreciated. As I see it, I have three things I can do with it (I don´t use 1.11 so I can´t make a Duress armor, which would otherwise have been a good option.):
* Find a Fal rune, then upgrade Isolde´s bow to a beyond-Cruel Shadow Bow. That would kick @ss!
* Make a Crescent Moon weapon for Mark. The fastest eligible weapons that Mark can use and that can have 3 sockets are Long Sword, Military Pick and Phase Blade. Not hard to see which is the best choice, but also by far the most difficult to acquire...
* Socket it in armor/helm for the resists (arrgh, blasphemy! I usually pick on the twinkers when they do this instead of using a simple Resist All Jewel (even if it´s just 10-11%) Such jewels are..uh..at least 20 times more common than an Um)
I did some equipment changes for the major part of the Diablo fight:
* Swapped amulets again, drank Thawing potions, got the lightning/cold resists up to 75/85. Fire was about 65.
* Sigon´s gloves and belt, for the extra attack speed. The belt is a puny imitation of my 20/90 Russet Plated Belt of the Whale, but that´s the only Sigon´s piece I have beside the gloves. The helm would have been much better, with its large AR bonus.
* Strength Cutlass and Goblin Toe.
50% Crushing Blow against a /p3 boss was almost ridiculously effective. Pwnage.
I am building up the final MF piece now, my 4s Gothic Plate. Got the first PTopaz in. One more and it´s better than Isolde´s "ancient" +42% MF Breast Plate. Once it´s finished (if I manage to do that before Hell), I will switch our armors and lose some of Mark´s FRW penalty (and give some to Isolde instead...).
Character Names: Slayer Isolde (& Destroyer Mark)
Character Class: Fire Rogue (assisted by curses-only necro)
Character Levels: 67
Farthest Quest: Terror´s End, NM
Farthest WP: Harrogath, NM
Game Version: 'vanilla' 1.10 HC
Total MF: +469% for Isolde´s kills, +355% otherwise
Isn´t that nearly always the case, for any character (and the main reason the Kurast temples are so dangerous)?Shadow Druid said:
Mark and Isolde got through the rest of act 4.
We drew Grotesques, Maw Fiends (yuck, sooo much life they have!), and Abyss Knights on the River. Most interesting (and also frustrating) of the random bosses was this one. It took a while until I had the situation in the picture: all six Wyrms behind Sin Crawler, blinded. I brought a column a of mana potions in the belt, just for this fight. Whenever I felt my two curses were about to expire (15 seconds duration on Decrep is the shortest), I drank a mana potion and refreshed them both.
When I play the RoF with an underpowered character, I avoid the Hellforge area until I have cleared the rest of the place up to the waypoint. That way I can look for potential Hephasto portal parking spots, and have the choice to return from two different directions. I found the best type of place possible, the segment that has something that looks a lot like the Hellforge platform, minus the side stairs. I am so glad I did, because Hephasto had Might + Cursed.
Mark said "No thanks!" to tanking that brute, led him a long way away and introduced him to the wonders of portal parking.
I did get an Um! My first in 1.10, and my second highest rune ever.Warrior of Light said:
But what is so good about it? What did you have in mind? There are some interesting possibilies, but I would actually have preferred an Io (for Black), a Lum (for Smoke) or a Lem (for a Passion elite bow). Those would have been more straightforward uses, and much appreciated. As I see it, I have three things I can do with it (I don´t use 1.11 so I can´t make a Duress armor, which would otherwise have been a good option.):
* Find a Fal rune, then upgrade Isolde´s bow to a beyond-Cruel Shadow Bow. That would kick @ss!
* Make a Crescent Moon weapon for Mark. The fastest eligible weapons that Mark can use and that can have 3 sockets are Long Sword, Military Pick and Phase Blade. Not hard to see which is the best choice, but also by far the most difficult to acquire...
* Socket it in armor/helm for the resists (arrgh, blasphemy! I usually pick on the twinkers when they do this instead of using a simple Resist All Jewel (even if it´s just 10-11%) Such jewels are..uh..at least 20 times more common than an Um)
I did some equipment changes for the major part of the Diablo fight:
* Swapped amulets again, drank Thawing potions, got the lightning/cold resists up to 75/85. Fire was about 65.
* Sigon´s gloves and belt, for the extra attack speed. The belt is a puny imitation of my 20/90 Russet Plated Belt of the Whale, but that´s the only Sigon´s piece I have beside the gloves. The helm would have been much better, with its large AR bonus.
* Strength Cutlass and Goblin Toe.
50% Crushing Blow against a /p3 boss was almost ridiculously effective. Pwnage.
I am building up the final MF piece now, my 4s Gothic Plate. Got the first PTopaz in. One more and it´s better than Isolde´s "ancient" +42% MF Breast Plate. Once it´s finished (if I manage to do that before Hell), I will switch our armors and lose some of Mark´s FRW penalty (and give some to Isolde instead...).
Character Names: Slayer Isolde (& Destroyer Mark)
Character Class: Fire Rogue (assisted by curses-only necro)
Character Levels: 67
Farthest Quest: Terror´s End, NM
Farthest WP: Harrogath, NM
Game Version: 'vanilla' 1.10 HC
Total MF: +469% for Isolde´s kills, +355% otherwise
