Martina had some minor troubles in The Hole and Tower Cellars but careful play sorted those out. The PI Ghosts in there were the first enemies that Martina had to kill almost by herself. Jemali does small cold damage with his Holy Freeze but since he deals no poison or Open Wounds damage, that damage won't overcome their regeneration (plus their inherent mana drain lets them steal life).
Nothing better than Shael from the Countess. I do not think Hell Countess has ever dropped anything really nice for me.
Pit level 2 was scary as usual. I went with players 1, as I do with all characters that do not deal super AoE damage or have super crowd control. My plan was to stay back and have Jemali fight the Devilkin until they shattered, no matter how many attempts that would take on each of them, before letting him get to the shamans. Usually, you can defeat the first two Devilkin packs without waking up any boss packs this way. Not this time, as there was a Cursed Dark Stalker pack early on. I tried to time it so the Decoy would block them in the narrow passage near the entrance, but failed and they poured in! I exited up the stairs.
This is bad. That mob can dish out a lot of damage when we are Amped. Their level is 7-10 steps higher than ours, so they hit often. You might think that my CoS charges on Darksight Helm would save the day. Maybe they could have, but I should have done that earlier, when we had more space. Too crowded for that now.
It is for these situations I have Heart Carver and Whitstan's in my stash. I equipped them: 71% blocking. Good.
Plan B: go down, cast Decoy, run around the pack and try to lure them away and get out by portal somewhere on the righthand side of the level. That failed, because I got boxed in in the corner in the tiny entrance room. TP out.
What now? OK, that boss is Cursed, but that is also all she is. Her other two abilities are insignificant. There are no archers around, and no elemental threat. We can take them in a tanking fight!
Come on, meet our pointy sticks! Sweet, the boss can't reach us at the moment. I couldn't click on the rogue that was whacking Jemali in the back - only the exit was shown when the mouse pointer was there. Good, now I know I can get out if I need to. Jemali hardly takes any damage because anything in front of us attacks Martina and her shield is working in overdrive. Boss attacks, we stab her.
Down she goes, and we aren't even Amped! Yay.
The rest of the session was much calmer. I got the opportunity to try out Charged Strike twice, against PI + FI bosses.
Here is the first, a goat. That worked pretty well. Damage per hit isn't impressive but I was impressed by the attack speed, so lightning damage over time is decent.
Only green/gold from the whole bunch of areas from Black Marsh to Cathedral was another Sigon's Guard. I have brought in Blade of Ali Baba for the next session. I will try to hold it when Andariel dies. Should be an easy fight. She has lousy fire resistance and I attack from range. I am more worried about tricky Dark One situations and nasty Ghoul bosses and such in the tight Catacombs levels.
[Highlight]Conqueror Martina the Immozon and Jemali the Holy Freeze guard, level 79, 13 S/U items equipped, Hell Catacombs next[/Highlight] 
Oh well, part of the adventuring process. I haven't done much gambling before, and have recently refreshed my understanding of the Magic items from the Arreat Summit, but they don't seem to have a qlvl listing there. If you have one handy...much appreciation and am still looking...
or a "I DID IT!" listing...and how much gold was gambled, I'll go back through the postings and see if anyone mentions their gambling successes.
