epaminondas
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You can shop several decent 2s weapon types from Fara. Flail is my favourite.
I know, but I frowned at her offers until now. I need a superior one with a little +ED%, please.

That bug still in in 1.13?!? Those lazy Blizzards ....Halfway through the River of Flame, after I ran away to separate some spawners, I was hit with the bug where monsters completely ignore my merc. I set it back to /p1 and cast Dim Vision a lot to keep myself from getting toasted. I'm mad that I missed out on xp and drops, but glad to be alive.
An idea might be some crafted gloves with a little CB. Sure, it means surviving close to the boss. Perhaps with a long range weapon ...I'm going to need a better way to kill bosses soon. Normally some skills would be kicking in about now. But not today.
Adriana has moved on. Aliza wandered along but, man, is she hard to aim. Approaching Radament I forgot to scan the area for useful shrines and found myself staring at an Experience one with no valuable monsters around. Sighing heavily I decided to put it on and assault the first desert area as I know a unique usually lives there. Wrong, there were two unique packs around, but did I manage to reach them? Well, no, because Aliza decided some leapers were much more interesting and I used up all my shrine time without a single leaper at my belt. Not to mention all those beetles Adriana had to tank for extended periods of time because Aliza had better things to do. Those, along with the fact that the boss pack at the entrance of Dry Hills was killed by Adriana herself (as Aliza was determined to change her mind every second: "Now I want to tank all by myself this boss pack here... Now I want to shoot some arrows at a random target... Now I want to walk around between the monsters... Now I don't like it anymore and want to get out... Now I will shoot ONE more arrow", ad infinitum), got her fired. I probably am not smart enough to compensate for a rogue's stupid AI. I could have tried harder to separate the targets to get her only one option at a time, maybe some terror charges, but I was just tired of her. And in the Arcane Sanctuary would be quite a challenge to keep all those ghosts above ground.
Anyway, a new merc was hired with a blessed aim skill, and I plan to exchange him as needs change. Adriana takes care of the Hollow Ones (from time to time the merc also happens by) and merc handles the rest. A cap of frost shield which he wears also helps by occasionally freezing the skeleton pack.
An interesting thing happened in the Stony Tomb. The sparkly chest dropped only a double-durability magic wrist blade and some arrows. Did Adriana just witnessed the rare set/unique chest drop? If so, she was really unlucky to get NoDrop on /p8 on the 3 consecutive drops after the initial failed one. And if so, what were the arrows doing in the chest? I can't explain it.
Itemwise, many other failed ones including katars and wrist blades, a set leather gloves and not much else (the gambles have been ok, though). Adriana checks Drognan wares each time she has the chance, as he often sells Deflecting shields and he's bound to dispense a Mechanic prefix between them. If Adriana can get that (as my characters often do), it will get two Elds for the fight with Duriel.
Adriana ended her session with half of Dry Hills cleared, the Cube safely in her stash and the DH waypoint marked.
And it's that time of the year when a table gets posted. Here it is. Good progress, guys!
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Alive characters:
Forum Name Class Char Name LVL ACT WP Version
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SunsetVista Necro Yredelemnul 34 A5 Harrogath 1.13
japanzaman Barb Babs 28 A3 Kurast Docks 1.13
jiansonz Assassin Helena 28 A3 Kurast Docks
felixbavaria *Paladin Incompetentus 26 A2 Arcane Sanctuary
epaminondas *Assassin Adriana 23 A2 Dry Hills 1.11
HanShotFirst ***Sorc Two 20 A2 Lut Gholein
Dazliare *Barb Vladimir 15 A1 Outer Cloister
Southpaw8668 *Paladin Lucious 12 A1 Outer Cloister
xXxGrimmxXx **Druid Roland 1 A1 Rogue Enc 1.13d
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Dead ones:
Forum Name Class Char Name LVL ACT Place of Deeds Version
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xXxGrimmxXx **Assassin Noctyria 9 A1 Cave Lvl 1 1.13d
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Notes:
* = this class has been randomly chosen
** = this class has been somewhat randomly chosen
*** = this character needed a random decision that it would not be random :)
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