~ SPHC Ladder Part V ~

Today is my lucky day! I completed all quests in act 4, saved Anya and started farming NM Pindle. He gave me a lot of exp and… [highlight]Skullder's Ire[/highlight]! :surprise: Yea! So I have now another reason to be more careful... and find 20 more strength! :(

Good luck all! Momento Mori!

Destroyer Spikard, Level 66, Septavirate Pure Summoner Necromancer, NM Act 5.
 
I managed to get Bullseye past Diablo and she's cleared the Foothills and Highlands.

Diablo was one of the most frustrating fights ever. The merc did fine for about the first 2 minutes. Then he died. Ok, no problem, resurrect. Dies. Resurrect. Dies. For the remainder of the fight, the merc died about 3 seconds into the resumption of festivities. The few times he lasted, he absolutely refused to turn on his Might aura. In summation, Bullseye and the valk did all the work.

Funniest moment: With Diablo at a sliver, I resurrect the merc one more time so he can get the points at the kill. He died literally 0.5 seconds before Diablo.

Diablo dropped the unique Martel, which was missing from my grail. Thanks, BigD.

Act 5 has been annoying but uneventful. Much to her displeasure, Bullseye met hordes of Slingers and Archers everywhere. The Slingers hurt, the Archers were no problem. The drops were absolutely horrible (i.e no green or gold) until she opened a wooden box late in the Highlands - [highlight]Witchwild String[/highlight]. WOOT!

I'm gonna have to decide whether the boost in damage is worth the loss of skill levels.

What do you guys put in the sockets on this? Shael for IAS? Amn for LL? More damage (wish I had an IAS/ED jewel but no such luck)?

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[highlight]Destroyer Bullseye_Baby, clvl 68, Frozen Highlands NM[/highlight]
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Tragor, AFAIK zon with Short Siege Bow (base weapon speed=0) has the following IAS breakpoints:
Code: 
Normal attack:

  IAS           frames per attack
   0%                  13
   9%                  12
  20%                  11
  37%                  10
  63%                   9
 105%                   8
 200%                   7
So I’d recommend you to put 2x Shael to your bow and find 30% more IAS from equipment like sigons or deaths gloves.

Edit: Strafe attack has different breakpoints:
Code: 
Strafe:

  IAS           frames per attack
   0%                 3
  86%                 2
So it very helpful if you manage to get 86+% IAS equipment, otherwise put Amns for lich.

I still run to NM Pindle. He is nice! He gave me enough exp to level up to clvl72, dropped unique Bec-de-Corbin for my merc, Stormchaser for my iron golem (nice lightning immunity and few elemental effects) and beautiful triple resist rare ring for me (26 lit/21 fire/20 poison)! O! And I forget Blackhorn’s Face! So now I have a reason to stop fearing willowisps.
I added 20 point to my strength so now I wear the Scullders Ire.
I have maxed skeleton warriors, skeleton mages, skeleton mastery and almost maxed golem mastery.

Well NM Ancients and Baal are waiting for me, so I must prepare better.

Good luck All! Don’t die please!

Destroyer Spikard, Level 72, Septavirate Pure Summoner Necromancer, NM Act 5.
 
I couldn't post here in the past several days so lots of things to say now. I'm happy to anounce that SniPe_XR is now Guardian SniPe_XR lvl 86 MA bowazon. She's my first Sept Guardian. I was very scared of Hell Ancients but I had a lucky first roll: Madawc was Stone Skin Extra Strong, Talic was Magic Resistant Mana Burn and Korlic CE Magic Resistant. They couldn't kill my Valk so I just ran around a lot and shot at them when I could. The fight took around 10-15 minutes.
Baal was extremely annoying and it took a long time to kill him because he just kept duplicating himself. He didn't drop anything interesting, just some crap.
I have also a few nice finds to report. Hellforge gave me a Fal and I've also found a Lum while running Meph. I did around 100 Mephruns and
my best finds were *cough* Arachnid Mesh *cough*, 35%MF Gheed's Fortune, and Boneshade.

Arachnid Mesh drop shot1
Arachnid Mesh drop shot2

edit: I've also found a PERFECT Bonesnap in the WSK lvl2.
 
Congratz to your Guardian XorceR :clap:
Amazon guardians starts to be quite common at this moment.
That's number three in a short period of time if I'm not mistaken (have been mistaken before) :lol:

DX
 
I haven't been playing much but did manage to get Dragu to Act II and lvl 24. So far I have been relying on my summons to do the killing for me until I reach lvl 30. With all this Bowzon action lately I need to get my own started soon. I have two bows (WWS and Lycander's) just begging to be used.

Good job XorceR on the Guardian!

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Dragu lvl 24 Wind/Summoner Druid Act II

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First of all I would like to congratulate you XorceR with Sept Guardian! And with nice findings too! :thumbsup: Keep on Sept!

Today is a day of great battles for me too! Pindleskin no more give me enough experience for faster leveling so I stopped running to him. The time of Nightmare Ancients is come. It was an easy battle though. Preparation – that is the key to them! If you are well prepared they are yours! I had putted my best ammunition, found in endless battles with Mephisto, Pendelskin and others in Normal and Nightmare difficulties. The best propety of this equipment is total “+8 to all summoning skillsâ€. I found skill shrine since after reserching my current map I found a shrine right near the Cold Plains waypoint. I putted my telekinesys ring that I keep specialy for Ancients. And finally I built my undead army: Iron Golem, 11 skeleton warriors, 11 skeleton mages and 9 revives. All Ancients was “mana burn†so they didn’t have a chance to kill a single minion of me.
I will not describe the battle with Ball since it was the same.
I quickly executed Akara’s Skill Quest after that and now I’m resting.

Looking back I would like to especially thank my officer Haseen, The Master of Might. I would not be here without you!

The upper text was written several hours before and wasn’t posted because of forum down. After that I began running to Baal for leveling. The result is a few new levels and … my fist elite unique – Demon Limb. Unfortunately I don’t see any use for it except merc pre-buffering with that lvl23 enchant.

Conqueror Spikard, level 76, Septavirate Pure Summoner Necromancer, Nightmare Act 5.
 
Congratz, XorceR. :thumbsup:

Bullseye is still going strong. Since this is my first character to reach A5 NM, it's been very interesting. Up till now, everything has been pretty normal. In A5, it's like they changed all the monsters. Everywhere she goes now is full of Slingers and Archers. They are much more comman than the usual Enslaved-types. Have not seen a single Mauler-type monster (not that I'm complaining, I hate those things). The only difference was the Passage, which were full of Archers, Vipers and Apparition-type things.

Question: What the heck is the wierd "cold wave" attack that the Vipers get when they charge?

[highlight]Destroyer Bullseye_Baby, clvl 70 Bowazon, About to go see Nihlathak NM[/highlight]
 
Congrats on the new amazon Guardian!!

To Igor, +8 skills is nice, i already got my pure summoning guardian necro up to around +12 skills. skeleton mastery is at lev 32.
 
Mordalles do you have more +skills to use for your summoner or is that the maximum. Would be fun to see how far you get it. If you want to I can send you a GC with +1 to summoning to pump it even further.

Well since I managed to make my bowazon Guardian I thought maybe I can make it with a Javazon aswell. Have tried one before but she died. The other one used both Lightning and Poison this one will be pure lightning. PILI can caused a bit of a problem remember my bowazon in 1.09 a faced PILI Lord de Seis in Hell. That was a long fight which I finally won.

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Borlag can you please add Aunt_Ploppy to the ladder
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Played some Baalruns with my IK barb on players 1 and found my third Arachnid Mesh. A month ago I didn't have a single one of those now they are rolling in. This one was found by a Boss Snake in WSK 2.
Did some timed run in Cowlevel to see which playerssetting that was optimal to do runefinds. It was players4 for this guy but his kind of slow so I hope my Javazon will get that far.
Well atleast he is close to level 92 now a few more Baalruns and he will be there.

Have fun and be careful

DX
 
My Javazon is doing great. Pumped dex in the start so I could reach 65 and use throwing spears early on. She is currently at level 20 and having no problem yet. She have recently killed Radament and saved the city of Lut Ghulein. I'm about to get out in the Desert and try to get the Cube and the pieces of the Horadric Staff.

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Aunt_Ploppy lvl 20 Lut Ghulein
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Have fun and be careful

DX
 
Introducing [highlight]Conqueror Bullseye_Baby[/highlight]

Not only it this my first conqueror, it's the first time I've ever beaten NM with any character. Trust me to do it the hard(core) way. :lol:

I was terrified of the Ancients and the FE bug so I dropped the difficulty to /players 3 (everything else, including WSK and Baal, were on /players 8). As soon as I managed to see the mods on the trio I was kicking myself. The very first roll was:

Madawc - Spectral Hit
Korlic - Magic Resist and something safe
Talic - LE and something safe

No FE in sight. As a result, all three of us (zon, merc, valk) survived the entire fight with no problem. The hardest part was getting a reading on the mods. Definitely need to work on that (in SC :lol: ).

The WSK was a massive mana-suck-fest. Almost everything was undead (mages, wraiths, gloams, etc.). Little or nothing to leech from. I thought she was beyond the point of constant pot drinking. :grrr:

The Baal fight was fairly uneventful except for almost standing near one of those festering tentacle things too long. Yikes. Those things never hurt her before. Lesson learned. She stayed well away for the rest of the fight. Nothing much interesting dropped except a Unique War Club. Hmmm. Diablo dropped a Unique Martel. Do I detect a trend?

Thanks to everyone here for advice given, directly or indirectly. I don't know if she'll make Guardian but she wouldn't be a Conqueror without this site. I owe you all a drink.

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[highlight]Conqueror Bullseye_Baby[/highlight], clvl 74, about to go farming (NM)
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Congratz to your Conquorer. Is the fourth Guardian Amazon on it's way perhaps?
I think Amazon is not the fastest way of getting Guardian but it's one of the safest

DX
 
I chose The Pit to level up to 85-90. It is a nice place! Very nice! Levels come quickly and you always have a chance to find something incredible. One of the positive sides of summoner is his almost complete item independence. He doesn’t need +damage equipment in Pit runs like combat characters, and he even doesn’t need +skills equipment as caster characters. He just puts on maximum possible +summoning skills, summons his pets and than he can freely choose whatever equipment he wants. Pets stats are calculated on their creation and doesn’t decrease after that! I have tested it many times mathematically.

So I have been done 20 or more pit runs with +272% MF. I found a lot of stuff, but the true pearls are:
[highlight]
Eaglehorn Crusader Bow
Immortal King's Soul Cage Sacred Armor
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I have mulled them to my hardcore stash. However, since I’m going to build seven *untwinked* guardians I don’t need them. So I would like to giveaway them to someone, who could find them useful.

Conqueror Spikard, level 80, untwinked Pure Summoner Necromancer, The Pit, Hell Act 1.
 
Thanks guys!

It seems like bowazons are very viable for HC because this is the 3rd Guardian in a short while. And as you said DX, a fourth is on it's way.
Now I will do a second try to make a melee Guardian. I was very close with the last one :). Now I'm playing with:

Rage_XR lvl 24 2H wielding Berserker Act II Normal

He's going very well for now, no problems at all, although he's a bit slow, because he's wielding a maul with slow attack speed. Anyway, I can't wait
to reach clvl29 to mule on a near perfect Steeldriver. I think this is the only item I will mule on to him. I also have an Arreat's Face but unfortunately it's in my HCL stash, so no muling on :mad: . I hope to find another one for Meph, because I will run him alot. Theoretically I should run him real fast with this build, because of Leap Attack. Anyway it's a loong way to NM Meph :).

Congratz for your great finds Igor Potapov! You were really lucky, that's for sure :). I sure could find that IK Soul Cage useful, but it's a Sept char. And I don't think you should give them away. Keep it for a grail. I for example am planning to do a Septavirate Grail. But I'm far from reaching that. Currently I have 43.95% of it.

edit: Borlag could you please add him to the ladder
 
Another level from my IK barb he is now at level 92. He gained the level almost entirely from players1 Baalruns. This level gave me 8 graalitems and alot of nice rares.
My amazon has reached a bit out in the desert and got the Cube and the staff soon it will be a bit dark but killing the Claw Vipers will solve that.
I'm pumping dex right now for her so she can have 118 as soon as possible to use Harpoons. I think I will reach it at level 26. This have made me to put to perfect Rubys in my helmet so I won't loose to much HP not good playing HC.

That's some great items Igor after 20 Pitruns I say as XorceR keep them you never know when your feeling of gettin the grail.

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Guardian IK_Ploppy lvl 92 Running Baal
Aunt_Ploppy Amazon lvl 24 in the desert
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Have fun and be careful

DX
 
For a change of pace, I've started another HF Zealot. He's cleared the Den and found the first WP.

Borlag, please add Mr_Frosty to the ladder (at your convenience, no rush).

Mr_Frosty, clvl 6, HF Zealot

Thanks
 
Just got started SPHC again :clap:

I got my zealot to level 26 last night (his name is "feelthezeal" I know its horrible...) and I got uber lucky while doing the tombs on players 8 and one of the chests poped an eth pike with some ED on it so now my merc does 300+ damage. Gona go try and best durry now!
 
hey everyone. Im new to the SP scene,but iv played countless hours on B.net. Lately iv caught the D2 bug again so i wanted to try something new. Id like to get in on the HC action,but not sure on which class.....Im thinkin a strafezon named... Levian
 
XorceR, I wish you good luck with your new project. I would be very surprised if you make shield-less berserker guardian. And you know – my necro is sept too! So if I understand Septavirate Rules right, you may use my items. BTW IIRC I have IK gauntlets, helm and armor in sept stash. Are you interested?

DX-Crawler, congratulations with level 92! It is impressive! Have you any plans to stop your other projects and level him as high as you can? It would be one of the greatest events all over the SPF. I even think peoples could help you with some good HCL items. For example I could donate a plain +20 life sc. It would be very good to have our own SPF HC level 99 champion!

gotenks_2322, welcome to forums! It would be nice if you read Single Player Forum FAQ, which you can find at top of thread list.

Good luck to all new chars here! Momento Mori

I have played in The Pit more without any good findings. It looks like the findings of my first 20 runs are the best of all I may find there while leveling to 85+.

Yesterday in an ordinary run something strange happen with my char, that scared my very strongly! It was normal fight with unique Rogue Archer pack when suddenly my life had dropped to something like 20%! It was strong shock to me! I have 1000+ life and level 9 bone armor on. My almost immortal 20+ minions are cruising around blocking all monsters. I even use revives in hot fights! How I can lose 700-800 life in a moment? OMG! I don’t want to die!
I immediately stopped playing and come to camp to analyze the situation. After thinking a while I come to decision that it cold be wild arrow from CE LE FE unique rogue with critical strike. You know all monsters can double there total damage including elemental with 5% chance. It looks like small yellow flash on strike.
I was wearing a lot of MF equipment so my resists was like 20/-15/20/-30. And now I want to max them ASAP! I stop playing in the Hell until I find max resists setup!
I have written all that stuff here to notice everyone on the same mistake. Don’t learn on your own mistakes! It could be the hardest way.

Conqueror Spikard, level 81, Sept Summoning Necromancer, Hell Act1, Rogue Camp.
 
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