~ SPHC Ladder Part V ~

Sorry to hear about it SteelsixtyIV Good luck with your new character.

Haven't played much today because I will soon have a written examination in macroeconomics so studies have taken my time today, I did get some playtime although in the middle of the day so I played with my MA assassin. She have cleared Arcane Sanctuary and killed the summoner.
I have come up with an idea on how to kill the OK:s without risking to much. I will use a 3s bow with 3 Ort rune and then use Venom to kill them, will handle the PI:s in the same way.
I will have points left anyway. Won't spend that much in MA tree. I will max Tiger Strike and Dragon Tail so there will be points over.

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Mrs_Ploppy lvl 25 Canyon of Magi
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Have fun and be careful

DX
 
XorceR said:
Congratz for your Guardians guys! Looks like today is a really good week for the HCL!
Sorry for your loss crazy_bear! It's fortunately not that painful, because you made her a Guardian after all.
Today was a good day for me too. Look at the following screenshots and you'll see why.
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Now you know why :lol: . SniPe_XR has now an even better weapon to fool around with. She has also rescued Cain and gained a level to 78.
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Congrats on the find, and upgrade. And about making Ursa a guardian first you're right. I wasn't planning on levelling her anymore anyway (she's top Amazon for the moment :) ) I muled anything she wasn't actually using so I was only risking her immediate gear. I've also really enjoyed the challenge of untwinked play, so it's not like I was planning to give that equipment to another character anyway.

Good luck, you'll make guardian soon too!

Sorry to hear of your loss SteelsixtyIV. I know what you mean about the bonemancer mana problem. I haven't yet found a necro build I liked, though the bonemancer was more interesting to play than the fishymancer. Hope you enjoy your windy, though the amazons have been rocking the ladder lately.
 
My untwinked Assassin have made her wat ro level 30 and act4.
Duriel and Mephisto caused no problems. Those pesky Blood Lords in Durance 3 did some damage though.
My main problem now is that I don't have any mana leach and it's quite annoying that I can't use my finishing move more than five or six times before I have to refill my mana.

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Mrs_Ploppy lvl 30 Pandemonium Fortress
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Have fun and be careful

DX
 
Spikard successfully completed all quests in act 1, act 2, act 3 and act 4. Now he is doing normal Pindleskin runs to find some equipment for NM.

I just realized how HCL site works and the fact that I have to mail Borlag to get my password to it. Although, I’ll try to remember in future that it is better to start thread reading from the beginning!!! LOL

Good luck to all!

Spikard, Septavirate pure summoning necro, Level 41, Normal Act 5.
 
crazy_bear said:
Congrats on the find, and upgrade. And about making Ursa a guardian first you're right. I wasn't planning on levelling her anymore anyway (she's top Amazon for the moment :) ) I muled anything she wasn't actually using so I was only risking her immediate gear. I've also really enjoyed the challenge of untwinked play, so it's not like I was planning to give that equipment to another character anyway.

Good luck, you'll make guardian soon too!
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Thank you for all the good wishes :) . Well I hope to make guardian, especially since I was sooo close with my last char, but getting through Hell is dangerous, and getting past the Ancients even more dangerous. But the MA bowazon is a really safe build, I can hind behind my valk and merc, cast decoy, slow missiles. Unless I do something stupid I'm not really endangered (yeah, theorethically :)).
SniPe_XR made her way through ActI on p5, and she reached clvl 80. She didn't find anything interesting. She will try to run Andariel a bit, maybe she droppes a Nature's Peace or some other nice unique jewelry. The only problem is Andariel can take out her 4k life Valk REAL fast (poison!) so she has to be careful.

Sorry for your loss steelsixtyIV! I wish you good luck with your Windmaster. My first sept druid will also be a Windmaster so I'm really interested in your progress.
 
My untwinked Assassin is running further. She had no problems in act4, got a Thul from hellforge. Diablo was nice to me and dropped a Unique Long Bow (Wizendraw). Using it now in act5 with Venom and it works really nice. Actually I'm considering on using Venom combined with a bow as primary and TS/DT as secondary but the question is if I can get enough AR so I can be effective with my bow later on.
One way to do it is to find a bow with alot of sockets and put Eth runes in it but I have to wait and see what's happening.
CS didn't cause any problems either used Bladefury and Venom in there so IM wasn't a problem in there.

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Mrs_Ploppy lvl 33 Frigid Highlands
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Have fun and be careful

DX
 
Been a while since I've posted here, but my Necro is still alive and killing :)

Raphellius has just retrieved the Staff of Kings from NM Act 2, although I got rather fed up of killing Plague Bearers (Magic Resistance, bleah) so quite before hitting the next waypoint.

He has (at some point recently, -ish) hit level 55 though.

Congratulations to all the new Guardians, and condolences to all those who have fallen.
 
A quick update from me.

My first attempt at a Sept character, Anneka the Mageason, has made level 22 and is in Act 2 Normal (see Sept thread for more info).

I've also started an Assassin, Christina, in the no-vit Tourney, and she is at level 17.

Borlag, please can you add her to the ladder as well as Anneka
 
I have finished running to Normal Pindleskin. I did 368 runs, counted by screenshoting. Good findings are: +1 skills magic wand, +1 skills magic amulet, Frostburn (!), String of Ears (!!), unique Fuscina for merc (!!!), and the best finding - Skin of the Vipermagi with 32% res all(!!!). Not bad for normal difficulty.

With all that stuff and my old Sigon's shield and +1 to necro skills circlet I can prebuff my undead army with +7 to all skills by using skill shrine and then switch to MF equipment.

Finally, I and my army <censored> Ancients and Ball on players8 mode (ppl8 - for fun) without any problems. The army is: 9 skeleton warriors, 5 skeleton mages, Rare Partizan iron golem, 5 revives and a mercenary.

I started collecting my Septavirate stash. Now it holds 75 unique, set and good rare items like these:


Wraith Collar
Amulet
Required Level: 34
Item Version: 1.10 Expansion
Item Level: 45
Fingerprint: 0x3ff76e34
+10 to Strength
+28 to Life
All Resistances +6
+1 to Paladin Skill Levels

Storm Necklace
Amulet
Required Level: 27
Item Version: 1.10 Expansion
Item Level: 45
Fingerprint: 0xf36ee82
+7 to Strength
+17 to Energy
Damage Reduced by 3
Fire Resist +10%
Cold Resist +31%
+1 to Sorceress Skill Levels
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Nice for starting char, isn’t it?

Good luck all!
Memento Mori!

Destroyer Spikard, level 51 Septavirate Pure Summoning Necromancer, Nightmare Act 1.
 
I would say that is very good for normal difficulty, I usually only run him once in normal and that is when I need to get past him to kill Nils. Very nice starting gear

DX
 
I just went to check out cow level with allanon. Allanon handles the cows alright, by stunning them and letting armageddon kill them. However, when I coulnd't kill the cow king, cause his life kept replenishing too fast. I'll just have to try some other time.

Guardian Allanon, lev 83 Shockbear-using-Armageddon.

I'm not starting nay new character soon, so I might as well do the odd boss run with him between the studies.
 
Hi guys!

Today I had lots of time to play, so I made some progress with SniPe_XR. I also had several really good finds today. First I did around 10 Andy runs and she dropped Seraph's Hymn (my first!) and Hone Sundan. I've put 2 Shael runes in it so my merc had now a decent weapon(Believe it or not, I haven't found one single Amn rune yet with this char! So the third socket is reserved for an Amn :)). After that I cleared the Sewers on p5, then I went down to p3 for the rest of Act2. In the Far Oasis I think I found a Viperfork, which is another nice weapon for my merc. So now I equipped him with the Viperfork, because of the 15% chance to cast lvl9 Poison Explosion ( helps dealing with ressurecting foes; poor mans Nature's Peace :) ) and I keep the Hone Sundan in my stash for the bosses (45% CB).
And now comes THE highlight of todays finds, and I think it's one of my best finds ever: in Maggot Lair lvl3 after killing a group of Champion bug swarms ( can't remember the name , Black something :) ) I saw this on the ground.

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I didn't equip it because I only have M'avina's Tenet and with 2 items equipped I don't receive resists. I need the resists from Duriel's Shell for now. Anyway I'm really happy for this find. Ah, yes and I had ZERO MF!
So now SniPe_XR is lvl82 and she has just started Act3, did first quest. Time to go to sleep now :).
 
Had a little time to play today so Bullseye_Baby went back to Kurast to clear the ruined/forgotten temple/reliquary/etc.. A couple of NDEs, one due to poor planning, the other due to a Might enchanted boss pack waiting at the stairs as she entered one of the temples. :rant: I hate running blindly into unknown territory looking for a toehold.

She has now reached clvl 63 to match my previous best character (HC or SC). She's got a stack of old body parts and just needs a flail to cube them with. Off to see the Council. Tally ho!!

Also had time to go to a movie and do some more light-hearted questing with my wife (we're running a werebear/wolf team). I'd almost forgotten how it feels to play without the fear of death over my head. :lol:

The only interesting drop today was Goldwrap, but Bullseye wasn't about to trade her String of Ears for it. Goldwrap got dropped in the grail stash.

Hope everyone is having a great weekend.

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Bullseye_Baby, clvl 63, Travincal
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Have started a new Character today. It will be my second untwinked character. Will try to get Seven untwinked but don't know if I make it. He will be anormal skelliemancer not anything fancy but effective to be played untwinked.

He will do full clears on players8, no rerunning before he have killed cow king in that difficulty.

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Uncle_Ploppy lvl 12 Stony fields
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Borlag can you please add him to the ladder

Have fun and be careful

DX
 
WOOT!!

Bullseye_Baby has surpassed my previous high-point and is now officially the best character I've ever had. As a side note, she's also just wasted Mephy (who was nice enough to leave a Dark Clan Crusher behind for her). The fight was pretty easy. Never lost the merc, had to recast the valk twice. Two trips to town for more mana pots (strafe wasn't hitting enough to replenish it's own cost). Still running in NM on /players 8.

FTR, she will NOT be running Mephisto for any reason whatsoever. Durrance 2 was, without question, the BIGGEST map I've ever seen. I showed it to my wife once I was done and her only comment was "Damn!" I swear, the WP and the stairs down to 3 are on separate continents. :lol:

But who cares, eh? It's off to hell to shoot pointy sticks at the big red lizard.

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Destoyer Bullseye_Baby, clvl 64, Bowazon, Pandy Fortress
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I played some more with my untwinked necro today and he's doing very good. Everything except maggots lair on players8. Andy wasn't causing any problem and neither did Duriel.
Have used alot of TP:s in halls of the dead and other places with alot of rooms to walk into.
If there are alot of skeletons and mummies I run to the nearest mummy and TP to town and then back again and my army makes short work of them.

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Uncle_Ploppy lvl 25 Kurast Docks
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Have fun and be careful

DX
 
Played a lot with my necro on the weekend - holiday+no wife in town+rain=lots of D2 time! Moved him out of normal and half-way through Act I NM. He's now level 50, and things are still going smoothly.

Korbal - level 50 skellimancer.
 
Trenshadow added my status page to The Septavirate Quest Site last night. Though, today I have played a bit more “on breakfast†and leveled to lvl64.
Nothing more to add. I still do NM Meph runs cause I got nice durance2 map with entrance to durance3 in the second room next to WP! I have already done around 50 runs. The best findings, that comes to mind, are Trang’s Trophy and nice rare +2 Necro/+1 Decrepify totem. The first is reserved for future TO set completing if I’ll manage to find belt and helm. I currently use second since my necro is pure summoner and hasn’t any curses.

Destroyer Spikard, level 64 Septavirate Pure Summoning Necromancer, Nightmare Act 3.
 
Cauthon said:
Played a lot with my necro on the weekend - holiday+no wife in town+rain=lots of D2 time! Moved him out of normal and half-way through Act I NM. He's now level 50, and things are still going smoothly.

Korbal - level 50 skellimancer.
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Ouch level 50 I have alot of playing to do if I'm gonna catch up with this one. But I like a challenge.

DX
 
Finally got around to finishing Act 2 NM with Raphellius the Bone Necro. Duriel actually noticed the Bone Prisons this time, although sadly for him it didn't help :)

Maybe now I'll remember to give Raph the spare Vipermagi I've had lying around for a while. Although he's done fine without it...

Destroyer Raphellius, level 57 Necromancer
 
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