The First of hopefully many.

frosty

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The First of hopefully many.

The first of hopefully many - Matriarch Blurry_Hitter.

First a little write up on equipment and skills.

Name: Matriarch Blurry_Hitter
Level: 87
Build: LF/WWS strafezon aka fury witch

Stats:

Strength: 102
DEx: 305
Vit: 103
Energy : 15 D'OH!!

Skills:

LF: 20
Strafe: 20
Dodge/avoid/evade :6/3/6
CS: 5
Pentrate: 11
Pierce: 7
Valk : 9
1 pt in all prereqs
1 point in fire arrow (don't ask me. )

Equipment

Andy's Visage socketed with a Ruby jewel of fervor (21%)
Mara's
Upped WWS with Shael/ Carmine Jewel of fervor
Razortail
36% War Travellers
Wisp Projector
Ravenfrost

Armor is this:

Smoke
Superior Archon Plate
'NefLum'
Defense: 971
Durability: 66 of 67
Required Strength: 103
Required Level: 63
Item Version: 1.10 Expansion
Item Level: 83
Fingerprint: 0xd694cb58
+10 to Energy
+75% Enhanced Defense
+10% Enhanced Defense
+280 Defense vs. Missile
All Resistances +50
Increase Maximum Durability 11%
-1 to Light Radius
20% Faster Hit Recovery
Level 6 Weaken (18/18 Charges)
Socketed (2: 2 used)

Gloves is this:

Dread Knuckle
Heavy Bracers
Defense: 44
Durability: 15 of 16
Required Strength: 58
Required Level: 57
Item Version: 1.10 Expansion
Item Level: 86
Fingerprint: 0x9fdb5937
+15 to Attack Rating
3% Mana stolen per hit
Attacker Takes Damage of 3
Knockback
20% Increased Attack Speed
+1 to Martial Art Skills (Assassin Only)
5% Chance to cast Level 4 Frost Nova when struck

On Switch is Titan's Revenge and Stormshield. Planning to make a Sanctuary for her.
Anti-Gloam equipment = Thundergod's in stash.

Various sc of resists and fine sc.

Merc :
Name: Vikhyat
Level: 86
Might Merc

Equipment:

18/13, 8/7 Gaze
Bonehew (Shael/Amn)

Stone
Superior Diamond Mail
'ShaelUmPulLum'
Defense: 2822
Durability: 14 of 14
Required Strength: 121
Required Level: 54
Item Version: 1.10 Expansion
Item Level: 84
Fingerprint: 0x4e8572ea
+16 to Strength
+10 to Energy
+16 to Vitality
+248% Enhanced Defense
+36% Enhanced Defense
+300 Defense vs. Missile
All Resistances +15
60% Faster Hit Recovery
Level 16 Molten Boulder (14/80 Charges)
Level 16 Clay Golem (13/16 Charges)
Ethereal (Cannot be Repaired), Socketed (4: 4 used)

^ Borrowed from Arthur's merc ^^

Why call her Blurry? It is because she shoots arrows at a blistering speed (9/2)

Comments

Blurry was played untwinked for normal, twinked with a Duriel's shell and Razortail at the start of NM. The rest of the equipment was added at the start of Hell. The players setting was at p8 all the way until today when I got bored of making preforated monsters ^^ and decided to rush her through the game. I rushed her through act 4 and 5 at p1, but I am pretty sure she could take them at p8, just needs a little more time. She was very annoying to start with and game play only improved drastically when I maxed out strafe and wore the HP gloves.

Surprisingly, Hell wasn't as difficult as expected as compared with other bowzons. Anything non-PI was wiped out and PIs were either dispatched with LF or magic arrows. She took out Hell Meph at p8 in 2 minutes. Ditto for Diablo. Half an hour for Baal as he kept on cloning himself. The Ancients were easy. No Fe on both rolls, rerolled once 'cos two of them spawned stone skin.

She suffered 5 deaths, 1 to NM Infector of souls and overconfidence, 1 to a quill rat boss in hell ^^ , 1 to an accident while MPing, 1 to FE boss, 1 to two unholy corpses' charge.

Conclusion :

LF + strafe = uber pwnage.
Best drop was a Grand Matron Bow from her first few pit runs.
Life was on the edge with her. Two hits from anything and her life orb plumments.
^ that was fun.^^

She shall take over Frosty in WSK duties and also be a cow runner and Pit runner. Most of all, a rune hunter.

Next: another Hellforge quest and Trang' Oul's set necro.

edit: She is twinked to the heavens. And she's my 7th Mat/Pat, I think.

[/end ramble]
 
Congrats Frosty :thumbsup:
I hope there's many more for you. I guess it's up to you now to keep the SPF forum on its toes. I miss Solo

- Jas :wave:
 
She's the first Matriarch of my group of characters called the Hitters. Hence the title.

And she is the 7th Mat/pat overall already.
 
Nice gloves, with both mana steal, Knockback and IAS! :clap:



I have four qeustions:

1. In what way was she "very annoying" in the beginning? In my experience, even untwinked amazons rule the early-mid game pretty well...

2. If a character borrows the merc´s armor and summons a Clay Golem using a charge, will the golem stay or disappear if you give the armor back to the merc?

3. What is WWS?

4. Did you imbue or runeword that Grand Matron Bow? What was the result?
 
1) Very annoying in that it was difficult to achieve mana/life leech in normal difficulty. I ended up either mana leech or life leech but never both. So Diablo, Meph and Duriel in normal difficulty was kinda irriating (sp) to me.

2) It will disappear.

3) Witch Wild String. The unique short siege bow.

4) Actually the bow is this:

M'avina's Caster
Grand Matron Bow
Two-Hand Damage: 40 to 207
(Amazon Only)
Required Dexterity: 152
Required Strength: 108
Required Level: 70
Bow Class - Very Fast Attack Speed
Item Version: 1.10 Expansion
Item Level: 88
Fingerprint: 0x12ab9226
+188% Enhanced Damage
+50 to Attack Rating
40% Increased Attack Speed
Fires Magic Arrows

***Partial Set Item Bonuses***
Adds 114-377 magic damage
10% Chance to cast Level 15 Nova on striking
+2 to Bow and Crossbow Skills (Amazon Only)
***Partial Set Item Bonuses***

Considering the odds of that dropping, I can safely say that it is the best item drop she ever had.
 
frosty said:
1) Very annoying in that it was difficult to achieve mana/life leech in normal difficulty. I ended up either mana leech or life leech but never both. So Diablo, Meph and Duriel in normal difficulty was kinda irriating (sp) to me.

I usually don´t bother with life steal in Normal and early NM. Usually, you don´t do enough damage for it to be all that useful. Also, Greater Healing Potions work almost like full rejuves when you don´t have so much life.


frosty said:
2) It will disappear.

That´s what I thought. Bummer, but a nice try...


frosty said:
3) Witch Wild String. The unique short siege bow.

(goes to check stats)
Oh yeah, I recognize that one. I think one of my rogue mercs have used it in 1.09. I don´t remember it having sockets, though...Hmm...
(goes to check 1.09 stats)
Yep, those are new in 1.10. What a boost for the attack speed they can provide!

Do the Magic Arrows only work with Normal Attack or are the Strafe arrows also magical?


frosty said:
4) Actually the bow is this:

M'avina's Caster
Grand Matron Bow


Ah, so that´s what the Caster is. I´ve seen M' avina´s gloves, armor and belt so far. Caster doesn´t sound much like a weapon to me...

Yep, that must be a rare find. I think I have seen something like 2-3 Grand Matrons Bows of any quality altogether.



As you might have guessed, I know very little of items I haven´t found. I want to be surprised when one of them DO turn up.

(Sidenote: this is a clear case that removing the color option in these forums can lead to misunderstandings. Before the change, I would have spotted a Grand Matron Bow just by a quick glance at the post and immediately known what sort of item it was.)
 
A bowzon's damage is really pathetic in normal. :lol:

The WWS magic arrows only work with the normal attack. Works pretty well against single PIs
 
Nice work frosty :thumbsup: She sounds like a fun character.

Now go Mat a sorc or assy for #2 :)
 
Congrats, Frosty! Zon's are a fun build.

I am not sure why you were complaining about her life orb going down in normal. She is not supposed to be hit! :lol:

Good luck on the next one.

*kicks Frosty's shins* *runs away*
 
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