A little quiet in this thread, so I’ll add an update. It’s actually a pretty big one for both active characters!
First,
Hiatus is back running again, picking up >45M XP over the past week and a bit, to be a little past 97.2. She is in CS, mostly doing Gripphon runs, but hitting Diablo if there is an XP shrine. It’s a pretty good map, I think, with my preferred two straight arms layout and several bosses regularly spawning near Grand Vizier and in the room right outside Infector. She’s netting just under 100K XP per run on average.
I actually starting getting in a bad habit of also doing Diablo every so often when there was a CI boss near Grand Vizier's seal (for the extra drops), but realized how much slower the leveling would be and got more disciplined. She’s moving along pretty efficiently now.
Still no Arachnid’s
A major improvement came when I realized the Merc could now wear the CoH after Hiatus donned the Ormus.
So he is now sporting that + Delirium, which makes a big difference. He was too squishy without life leech, so I hadn’t been comfortable using Delirium earlier.
Aside from that change, we did a little shuffling with belt (Verdungos), boots (Sandstorm), and charms (still only three cold skillers, with a Ruby GC with FHR and Shimmering GC of life; the rest are 19/20 vita SCs or resists). This has her ~2300 life with BO active, hitting 105% FCR breakpoint (115% actually), and hitting the 86% FHR break point, with everything except lightning resist maxed. MF took a major hit and is now just 113, but she is all about getting the level at this point (and hopefully runes!).
Finds haven’t been major, but nice nonetheless. Runes were Um #4, Um #5,
Mal #4, Pul #3,
Gul #3, Pul #4, and
Ist. The items that warranted screen shots were
Nat’s Mark,
Torch of Iro, and
Ghost Flame, with an Eth Cerebus Bite, and Eth Kelpie’s, the Sandstorm Treks she’s wearing (plus another later), and the set Colossus Sword.
Still hoping for Arachnid’s and another Sur or Ber (plus a 4os eth Thresher or Giant Thresher base) for Infinity. I’m planning to focus on her to reach 98, and my goal is 2M/weekday + 15M/weekend, for 25M/week, which will put her at 98 at the end of September, assuming no deaths :\
Based on the last stretch of leveling, I think that’s manageable relative to what I did with Mercy. It should actually be a little less than 30 min a day during the week, and then about 4 hours over the weekend.
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Phaedrus got some time as a break from CS runs. He hadn’t actually completed the Nihl quests in any difficulty, so he did that, as I was planning on rerolling to LK map to get a better CS map to run at p1 in search of Diablo charms. As luck would have it, Hell Nihl dropped a charm
So he burned through 100 or so pgems, ultimately rolling a Harpoonists with FHR that is now on a Spearazon questing through Hell.
Code:
Harpoonist's Grand Charm of Balance
Grand Charm
Required Level: 42
Fingerprint: 0x480102bb
Item Level: 95
Version: Expansion 1.10+
+1 to Javelin and Spear Skills (Amazon Only)
+12% Faster Hit Recovery
After that, he rolled LK maps, finding a decent one, and did 10 minutes here and there. In the first 25 runes, he got 2 Lems and
+FRW Fungal skiller. And then #28:
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Well, 4 of the Surs got loaded up along with a +15% defense superior breast plate, and viola:
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So 1628 runes found in LK, and around 4075 total LK runs and he was now able to move with purpose! He still didn’t have a Shako or Arachnid’s (yes, it’s a theme
), so we decided to do some Meph runs. A couple rolls later, we had 7 teleports to the stairs, and the second run dropped this (on p3):
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So Sur #5 from LK had a partner, which opened up CoH for the merc. After cubing 4 eth armors, we got one with 4os, and the merc had a
new outfit.
He is also now in CS, with a decent little map, running p1 with p7 Diablo kills hoping for another GC or two to burn through the ~500 pgems he has left (and he'll go through the rest of the pAmmys and Rals he has for caster ammys). But no luck so far, as he’s around 1/5 of the way to 94.
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I hope to see updates from others who are still grinding. But I will probably keep up weekly updates for a while. Cheers!
Progress Update
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Name (C) SC/HC Class Level/exp Extended Stash #of S/U Grail/504 #of deaths # of Hours
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zticazzy Perkele SC Barb 99 No - - - -
Pb_pal Eleanor SC Sorc 99 No 3068 437 5 -
NanoMist Izuna SC Sin 99 No 5109 470 4 360
PhineasB Mercy SC Sin 99 Yes - 475 11 -
Neksja Aura SC Paladin 98.50 Yes 8606 464 - -
T72on1 Neverland SC Sorc 98.17 Yes 2190+? 475 13 270?
PhineasB Hiatus SC Sorc 97.2 Yes - 406 19 -
hasuprotoss Reina SC Sorc 97 Yes 1751 384 - -
Tarantella Tarasha HC Sorc 96 Yes - - - -
XyleneCyanol Fishie HC Sorc 95 No - - - -
ThomasJohnsen xInTheBuffx HC Sorc 95 Yes - - - -
darkstarhub Neptune SC Sorc 95 Yes - - - -
Grim Furious_Blonde SC Ama 94 Yes - - - -
Reyz Qty SC Sorc 93 No - - - -
PhineasB Phaedrus SC Pala 93 Yes - 270 12 -
Chaostar Prairie SC Sorc 91 Yes 659 261 12 126
OldSoldier Battleforge HC Pala 91 Yes - 236 - -
tokerdin tokeress SC Sorc 91 yes - - - -
Zenigma Ayura SC Barb 91 No - - - -
Southpaw Njord SC Druid 90 Yes - - - -
Qwernt CanbeOnlyBlizz SC Sorc 90 Yes ? - Dont want to know
MercMan Este SC Ama 90 Yes 1212 278 2 Classified
Me2Nik Fugu HC Ama 90 Yes 80
Lynchgrinch Tattersail SC Sorc 89 Yes ? 321 too many lots
LiquidClear Sally SC Assn ** Yes 225 - 1 -
liquid_mage zDadColdSorc SC Sorc ** Yes - 160 - -
ffs HelpYourself SC Sorc ** No - - many ?
Neksja Turirao SC Druid 87 Yes 191 124 5 -
Gladstone Socrates HC Druid 86 ? - - - -
Zenigma Gnosis SC Druid 86 No - - - -
Lord Molyb Cruise_Control SC Necro 86 No 115 94 19 idk
Naturallog Athos HC Barb 84 No 159 105 0 -
Lord Molyb Verisimilitude SC Ama 83 No 28 25 0 idk
Qwernt AmaAgainstAll SC Sorc 81 Yes - - - -
Gambit Mallenroh SC Sorc 81 Yes 0 0 0 0
Lord Molyb But_Why SC Sin 81 Never 55 51 53
Jean Avila SpeedAdict SC Ama 77 No - - - 50
logo Digimon HC Nec 76 Yes 85 65 0 -
TwentyMule Rayne SC Sorc 76 Yes 195 140 ? ?
Gripphon Ryu SC Sorc 76 Yes - - over 9k 13
Darke Rahl Bells HC Ama 74 No 19 - 0
Vildecor Celia SC Ama 59 Yes 52 43 0 -
ioupainmax Durnik SC Paladin 52 Yes 50 42 - -
Kitteh Darozzo HC Druid 45 No - - - -
TrU Henryk SC Barb 41 Yes - - 22 12
Gambit Colossus SC Pal 39 Yes 0 0 0 0
Smancer Smancer SC Necro 26 Yes 1 - - -
Ergroilnin Erilinda HC Sorc 20 No - - - -
hackedagainanda Hugo HC Barb 16 Yes - - - -
The Fallen
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Name (F) Name (C) SC/HC Class Level/exp Extended Stash #of S/U Grail/504 #of deaths # of Hours
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coju NintyNine_orRiP HC Sorc 81 Yes - 0 0 a few
TwentyMule Valus HC Barb 76 Yes - - 1 -
Pb_pal Stevesy HC Paladin 76 Yes - - 0 -
Tenecabo OldShatterhand HC Druid 49 Yes - 0 1 -
coju fB HC Sorc 29 Yes 1 1 0 2
Kitteh Verallus HC Druid 26 No N/A N/A 0 N/A
logo Rolex HC Barb 21 Yes 0 0 0 1
You cruel person...[/QUOTE]
He is probably going to gain a level on RoF and CS runs, even if it’s not efficient, which will allow some caster ammy rolls and maybe some item upgrades along the way.
