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@NanoMist - Are you going to switch to an XP value in the table for progress like in the 'Quest for 99' thread? I probably will once I hit 98, at least that way you can feel like you're chipping away a bit instead of just sitting at 98 the whole time.
@Zenigma - Welcome! Looking forward to your updates, throw barbs are about as stylish as it gets!
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Just a pre-MFO update for Eleanor. She's also just shy of halfway to 98, but I'm going to give her a bit of a rest before buckling down for the MFO and hopefully keep all her good finds for then.
Eleanor is enjoying life as a Blova sorc. A small gear change to start as she swapped out the facet in her Ormus for a PTopaz in anticipation of the MFO. Baaling is much safer than CS, so although slower in an XP/time way, im enjoying it. NDEs have almost vanished so far, except for one moment when a conviction gloam pack clipped us and Eleanors life went below 200 before I could slam a pile of rejuvs and GTFO of there. So maybe (a big maybe) I'll save myself a death or two and end up ahead of the CS game anyways
. One thing to note is that nova is great against dolls as it ensures they explode far enough away if you kill them at the edge of the ring.
As you know, Eleanor is still in search for that elusive golden Shako. Baal must know that and is hoarding them for himself, but he actually did
puke up something a little more intriguing:
Code:
Nightwing's Veil
Spired Helm
Defense: 324
Durability: 39 of 40
Required Level: 67
Required Strength: 96
Fingerprint: 0xaf6ad74d
Item Level: 99
Version: Expansion 1.10+
Unidentified
+2 to All Skills
+15% to Cold Skill Damage
+103% Enhanced Defense
+18 to Dexterity
+7 Cold Absorb
Half Freeze Duration
Requirements -50%
Perfect % damage! Now this complicated things a bit for her, as her current circlet had 20@ res. So we had to lose her nice Baal map and head to normal to use our final socket quest on her new helmet. We put in a 15@res/7 str jewel, and with a touch of charm swapping she was back at max fire/lit res. Since the Nightwings is +2 all skills instead of just sorc, even though she ditched a +20 life charm, she now has more life, more damage, and higher cold/psn res than before the gear switch. The only downside is that she looks way sillier now.
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So she found herself a new Baal map (actually a slight improvement, I think), and is now just getting used to it before the MFO hits. About 10 mill shy of the 97.5 mark, she found what she'd been
looking for all this time
. Fitting, that she would only find it once it was obsolete, but at least it's still a grailer! We're actually going to use it for the MFO anyways for the extra MF, so it's in the stash for now.
Other finds:
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Vex
- Decent
zon craft, shame about the low FCR roll
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