Blood Raven was easy to kill with a ranged weapon and I took care of the minions with CE.





And here is my first successful gamble:



Having more fire damage is nice, and of course the extra resist.

Fun Fact
When gambling you have a 3% chance for the item to be unique, a 5% chance for it to be a set and a 7% chance for it to be a rare item, the rest of the time it will be magical. If a unique item can’t spawn (because it’s already in the game) you’ll get a rare item with 5x durability instead.
You cannot gamble exceptional items, wands, staves and scepters.
Gamble prices are fixed, regarless of the clvl and range from 2500 gold (Caps, Boots and Leather Gloves) to 800k (Ancient Armors). The item level is +4/-5 of your character level (same as in LoD)

This post was edited by -joey- on Sep 11 2016 02:16am

i wish i had 1.00, my discs are 1.06
gl with the walkthrough, hope you finish hell.

I had couple of theories how to proceed until lvl18. First it is good to have the bow because Clay Golem is shit. It has almost no damage, dies fast and does not slow enemies like today.
The first possibility would be shopping a +3 Raise Skeleton + 3 Skeleton Mastery Wand so I could have some army with adequate damage. Because there is now way I am wasting any hard skill points for skeletons. But it would have cost tons of money and I did not want to farm anymore in Act1 so I decided to keep going slow and steady with the bow.

Fun Fact
Big potions and full rejuvs have a chance to drop even in Act1 normal.



Raka:


And here is the current CE radius.



Fun Facts about CE
Until patch 1.03 CE radius was about two times larger. This means from ~lvl17 CE will damage offscreen.
Until patch 1.03 the damage done by CE (60-100% of HP) was scaled up according to the player settings. This means I am able kill with the same speed regardless of the number of players.
This is why necs were one of the most OP chars back then. ^^

Wow. Gl!

Killed Shithead and went for Cain.



A nice MF-ring there, of course I am using it. This is not from gamble, just took the screen there.



Fun fact:
Before Expansion gamble screen did not refresh automatically every time you visited the NPC but you had to go off town and return. The quickest way to handle this was using the Sewers in Act2 or opening a Cow portal next to Gheed. Also rings and amus did not spawn every time, so gambling them was a pain in the ass.

Fighting Griswold was took about 15 mins, even with CE (corpses did almost zero damage to him).







Thanks!

This post was edited by -joey- on Sep 11 2016 03:02am

Following this

that CE radius is just brutal! I wish I could have it in 1.13

The old fart is saved.



The reward is quite what I need at the moment so no complains.



Going to the Countess just because she is on the list.

She was easy and some of the minions dropped me a precious belt.



Fun fact
Fastest hit recovery was equal to 20% FHR.



This is also a strange feature:

Killed Smithie. Was the same as Griswold, corpses around him made almost zero damage.



Of course I will not use the imbue quest until I find some nice stuff in Hell.

This crap was dropped from a mob.



Fun Fact
Before Expansion magic find only affected regular monsters and objects. Drops from Uniques, SuperUniques, Champions and Act Bosses were fixed as follows:
- 1 magic item and 1 potion from Us and SUs. In Act4 there is a chance to drop rare instead of magic.
- potion and gold from Champs, with a chance to drop like Us and SUs.
- 2 magic items and one extra item at first kill from Act Bosses. The extra item had a chance to be set, rare or unique. Diablo dropped one extra item per player, so in a P8 game the quest drop was 8 extra green, yellow or golden drops (like there: http://i.imgur.com/H2qnw2Q.jpg).
- and there was some weird rule around Cow King, but I will explain that later ^^

The shield is useless.



This post was edited by -joey- on Sep 11 2016 03:40am