Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna of Russia.
Pissed at everyone and everything, she's come to avenge her family.

Yeah, that's the amount of role playing I can withstand.
In actuality, this is quite a generic walk through. This is my first SP character in a while, and I am starting fresh with no saved character. What better then, than to start with a sorceress?

Eventually, I'll enter these PvM events (Farmathons etc) that I've observed in this sub-forum. Who knows, maybe it'll even end in a grail attempt (yeah right).
I'm starting as fire. I will respec into blizzard, or a Fb/orb, anticipated by nm/hell. Final destination for build might be lightning, depending on my luck. I like blizzard though more than most for CS/Baal (as long as you got a reaper's), so you'll probably see me hitting the mid/late lvl 90s as blizzard (if I live that long).

Rules:
Hardcore
Full clear not required
Players 8 (During progress)
Re-runs allowed at any player setting
S&E allowed
Extended stash and ladder RWs.
1.13c
Untwinked

Primary goals:
Have fun
Don't die
Beat hell baal
Level 90
Farm meph hell efficiently
Farm a shako

Later goals:
Find Reaper's toll (ETH?!) and make a dank A2 merc
Farm CS efficiently as blizz w/ Reaper merc
Find atleast one TC87 Unique/Set
Make a CTA/Find atleast one HR
Level 95

Eventual, nosebleed level goals:
Make an infinity and re-spec into lightning
Level 98/99
Finish holy grail

So, here goes.
Comment: You will notice that some screenshots seem blurry. That's because they're taken in windowed fullscreen mode (ALT+ENTER) with Glide gfx. When playing, it looks crisp fyi.

Hello Anastasia


I forgot how slow /P8 is, but i'm getting used to it. Here I'm whacking Corpsefire.


Den done


This post was edited by SpAz. on May 28 2018 04:25am

Wow. Lets goooo! Good luck

Disclaimer:
I apologize in advance to any of my russian friends. I don't mean to engage in cultural appropriation. You have such a rich history, and I'm likely abit ignorant of it. I just used this story because I think it's an enthralling one.


Well thank you!
I realize this might not be the most exciting of walk throughs, but hey, if someone want to check out when I level up my first of hopefully many SP chars, welcome

I'm posting some recent progress, I'm abit further as I did in fact start this weekend.

First unique monster encounter


First rare drop, always pick up 'em throwing knifes for the cash!


Raven time


This post was edited by SpAz. on May 28 2018 04:55am

Oh god, I have totally forgot that this game can actually be challenging at /P8. Lots of running around, lots of potting. I believe I even towned once.


A good 10km run later, she eventually went down. Good job Anastasia, I bet raven was a commie infiltrator!


Moving ahead


This post was edited by SpAz. on May 28 2018 04:50am

GL man

Lycka till!

Someone give this guy a medal! When I wanted to play 1.00 version of D2 couple years back, this champ provided me with the ISO:s so I could try it. Keep up the work around and ty for the good lucks
Tack! Och detsamma, sett din hampal såklart

Well hello there, the one with many names! The "killer of every first-time-playing-d2 noob", the "death welcomer of first day of ladder", the "reaper of inexperienced iron-man aspirants", we meet yet again. (one of my fav mobs in d2).


First eth rep rare but not for me


He always packs a punch


This post was edited by SpAz. on May 28 2018 05:10am

Cain. I always loved the gfx of this event


Gris is no match for a bit of static


And as always; why doesn't he let me use his portal

Lets try and fast forward a little bit

Always a relief when you get one of these early


first charm


mandatory pitspawn foul dog upload

Bane ash


10life sc, t4t


Teleport!