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Feb 15 2018 07:10pm
Hello everyone,

this topic will document the life of Magma-Mate – The Shaman Druid. He will make use of fire skills and summons.








Rules:

- Hardcore
- Players 8 (Players 1 for countess reruns allowed)
- Ladder runewords enabled
- Normal stash
- Diablo Clone and Ubers enabled
- Patch 1.13c

Note: I use Plugy for Ladder runewords, Diablo Clone and Ubers only. Every other modification is deactivated





Goals:

- Have fun with this build that I have never played before ^_^
- Kill Hell Baal
- Reach Lvl 90+
- Find a nice pelt
- Build Hoto
- Kill Diablo Clone and Ubers :D





Community game:

- Guess my first normal set item
- Guess my first exceptional set item
- Guess my first elite set item

- Guess my first normal unique item
- Guess my first exceptional unique item
- Guess my first elite unique item

- Guess the area where I die ( :rolleyes: )


The winner for each guess wins 20 fg!





Enough said – Let's go! :)


This post was edited by lenni490 on Feb 15 2018 07:11pm
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Feb 15 2018 07:15pm
Since I messed up the image uploading in my first topic, I will quote all messages done so far here :)


Quote (Leevee @ Feb 15 2018 05:11pm)
First set: Cleglaw's Gloves
First unique: Maelstrom




Quote (Andymcnoob @ Feb 15 2018 05:17pm)
Will follow for sure!
How do you plan do build him?

Hsaru belt
Aldurs weapon
Ik mace

Felloak
Dark clan crusher
Nord's tenderizer

The pits Hell

Best of luck!




Quote (X3M90 @ Feb 15 2018 05:17pm)
- First set: Arctic Furs
- Guess my first exceptional set item - Guillaume's Face
- Guess my first elite set item - Immortal King's Will

- Guess my first normal unique item - Coif of Glory
- Guess my first exceptional unique item - Venom Grip
- Guess my first elite unique item - Lightsabre

- Guess the area where I die ( :rolleyes: ) Traviancial hell ( Sorry )

Good Luck



Bonus first rune: Tir ;)




Quote (Generations93 @ Feb 15 2018 08:20pm)
Community game:

- Guess my first normal set item arctic light belt
- Guess my first exceptional set item najs puzzler
- Guess my first elite set item tal rashas wrapping

- Guess my first normal unique item manald heal ring
- Guess my first exceptional unique item Titans
- Guess my first elite unique item shako

- Guess the area where I die ( :rolleyes: ) forgot this. Hell andy




Quote (JRyan1 @ Feb 15 2018 08:31pm)
- Guess my first normal set item: Cleglaw's Shield
- Guess my first exceptional set item: Sander Boots
- Guess my first elite set item: Tal Rasha's Horadric Crest

- Guess my first normal unique item: Hotspur
- Guess my first exceptional unique item: Venom Grip
- Guess my first elite unique item: Djinn Slayer

- Guess the area where I die ( :rolleyes: ): Hell Trav

Good luck mate! I'll be following for sure.



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Feb 15 2018 07:15pm
Looking forward to this.

I am about to do my first WT and I think a shaman druid is what I want to do.. Never really played the class but it should be fun.

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Feb 15 2018 07:17pm
Quote (Andymcnoob @ Feb 15 2018 05:17pm)
How do you plan do build him?!



That is still relatively open. 20 Points will go into one pet. The options with their pros and cons are:

- spirit wolves: can have 5 of them, but do relatively low damage and are not that tanky
- dire wolves: can only have 3 of them, but do better damage
- grizzly: only 1 summon, but the most tanky and good damage

At the moment I tend to go for the grizzly.

Concerning the elemental skills: I will most likely neglect Armageddon, thus going for Firestorm, Molten Boulder, Fissure and Volcano.
Molten Boulder and Volcano have the advantage of dealing physical and fire damage, while Fire Storm and Fissure only deal fire damage. However, my summon and merc (with might aura) will deal good physical damage (hopefully), so I might go for pure fire damage.
Another question is, wether to skill Oak or Wolverine, i.e. go for more life or more damage for merc and summons (the fact that I play HC might suggest to go for oak ..)

I think I will try different setups to figure out what works the best ^_^ (I am open for suggestions too, though)



Some different note: Some of your suggested first items don't match the item quality class (for example: IK helm is exceptional, not elite). You might want to edit that (also Tal Rasha Wrappings is the entire set, not a single item ;) )
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Feb 15 2018 07:25pm
After that much talking it's really time to start. So let's go ^_^









Finished den

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Feb 15 2018 07:34pm
After den, I thought I buy a 2-handed melee weapon since it's still early game :rofl:





First little 'test' of the game. Extra strong boss group. As you can see, I put 1 point each into Oak, Raven and Spirit wolf (I wont invest more points into them for the moment)





Useful jewel for early game!

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Feb 15 2018 07:38pm
First rare item from Bishibosh





Killed Raven and got some new boots





I hired Kyoko after that :wub: She got a nice bow to protect me (including that fine 20 poison jewel)

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Feb 15 2018 07:41pm
Killed Rakanishu along my way and got a new helm





I ding'ed Lvl 12 while in the Underground Passage and skilled fissure as my new main attack





Also, I put 1 point into cyclone armor for some elementary absorbation (I will leave it at 1 point, it will get higher once I get some +skills equipment)

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Feb 15 2018 07:44pm
Killed Treehead and his buddies. No problem with fissure





Fissure works wonders against dense packs like these ^_^





Saved Cain and cleared the rest of Tristram


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Feb 15 2018 07:55pm
Black marsh waypoint right at the tower :hail:





First keeper :thumbsup: I think this one will accompany me for quite a long time :D





First countess kill.

Quote (X3M90 @ Feb 15 2018 05:17pm)
Bonus first rune: Tir ;)


Nope :P




This post was edited by lenni490 on Feb 15 2018 07:55pm
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