I started a Zeal Sorc (http://diablo.wikia.com/wiki/Melee_Sorceress) WT today. I'ts my first WT (I only play on BNet else, sometimes I also play a character solo to nm / hell there, but never on P8 (obviously ))

Rules(I'll maybe come up with more):

- Hardcore
- Players 8
- PlugY (I won't upcraft endlessly though, so I won't collect 10000 low lvl runes and craft them to Jah or something like that), I just hate the small space I have else
- Hell Baal
- Passion Runeword (obviously, for Zeal)
- Ideally I'll have 2 Dream's (Helmet and Shield)
- I'm not allowed to first go the "easy path" (ie. play as a normal sorc first and reskill after)

Do you guys think it will be possible? I already find it hard at the very beginning - plus I'm always forgetting to take screenshots

Well here are some early impressions:

Since I recently watched "Once Upon a time" the name came right to my mind and I find it very fitting - for what she will be:




It took me like 20min to clear this - tbh I never played a "p8" game alone - it's much harder than expected


FYI:

This will be a duplicated of the first posts from here: http://forums.d2jsp.org/topic.php?t=75954048&f=161 - doing this because the pictures are not visible there... sorry for the confusion!

This post was edited by Nasicus on Feb 13 2017 12:42am

Forgot to take a picture after killing blood raven but I went to the mausoleum after...basically my strategy atm is: static field them to low life and then kill them with left click


In the mausoleum I also found my new current weapon:

To be honest after blood raven it became very easy - I even restarted the game because I thought player 8 is not working correctly

Well...I just assume now it's working and I think there are 2 reasons why it's going well at the moment:

1. Static field (almost to op to use, but I really don't want to go without it):



2. Shiver Armor (or what ever it's called) - it just helps soooooooo much:



Rescuing Cain was no problem at all!

This is kind of "the first.... I found post"

in Black Marsh I had to search the whole map for the WP.

But because of this I found my first set item:



Shortly after I found my first unique (using it now):



I feel like I've never seen this unique xD (probably never identified )

http://i.imgur.com/1SQMum7.jpg

The countess then dropped me my first rune :

http://i.imgur.com/H3iXdoH.jpg

Seriously I almost thought the game is bugged because zero runes dropped so far

This post was edited by Nasicus on Feb 13 2017 12:31am

Decided to do some countess-reruns (also in player8 mode).

Did like 5 runs, and found nothing except..

a) ...various times almost my death



b ) .. runes (all explicitly from countess)



c) ...enchant



kinda hoped for more dmg since I already had points in warmth - I am disappointed

This post was edited by Nasicus on Feb 13 2017 12:40am

Hammer time (and picture-can-finally-be-seen time):



Any good ideas what I should imbue?

Current stats:



And when I see this "picture" (in game) - every time I'm like " I'm in love with a stash " (it's my first time using plugy and it's almost as good as lasagne)



PS: Don't get your hopes up of me surviving too long, I usually die fast :>

Andy hit very hard, but went down in the end:



Really wondering if it's even worth drinking "Antidote" before fighting her, I don't think I see a difference and the dmg she deals...

Perfect timing for this drop:


Then I decided to do some andy runs (have a very lucky layout, I can go to her in like 30 secs!) until I found another unique....well it seems that this aim was a little too high for me After like ~15 - 20 runs I reached level 21 and still didn't find a unique. So I decided that this must be enough for today

This ring is probably the best thing I go from her:


Funny fact:
It was not until the ~5th time I killed her, until I found my first chipped skull

Idk if you know, but most wt's allow for p1 reruns for countess (ONLY countess) because it actually allows her to drop more runes. Running her on p8 does something (I don't have 100% knowledge) to her loot tables and screws with it. If you need runes, run her on p1 :). Just my two cents

Edit: also, idk if you know about this --> http://forums.d2jsp.org/topic.php?t=71142281&f=21
but it definitely helps for running Andy over and over. For all difficulties

This post was edited by Reyes on Feb 13 2017 01:18am

Thanks for the tip(s).

Always thought people run countess in P1 because it's faster

And I know about the andy bug - I think I have her "bugged"

This post was edited by Nasicus on Feb 13 2017 01:32am

Hope you kept death gloves, the bonus are really good for early/mid game when you have the belt