Good luck, the single run-through can be fun and challenging, yet also tedious and frustrating. I did it on my first attempt with my Barbarian, but failed on my subsequent Druid and Paladin attempts. I think of course the main reason was because of Barbarian's ability to obtain so much life/defense/resists with so much ease and I got

impatient with the other characters. This character screen overview you have is pretty cool too, also do you try to maintain a decent amount of magic find at higher levels or do you focus solely on your characters defense and strengths?

This post was edited by Jorquandre on Jul 3 2020 07:44pm

My Barb is my only guardian as well so far. The resistances sure do help. What I find most useful about barb is actually find item. Since there's no rerunning having access to an extra 50% monster drops is quite useful (particularly because of runes). He also has massive crowd control.

I try to take magic find whenever I can afford to, even if killing slightly slower; However, I do prioritize resistances and life when necessary. On my barb run I ran 172 mf (thanks to IK Will 2x p.topaz) for almost all of NM. The Kicksin broke 100 mf in normal and got to about 120-150 for most of nightmare, but she still ended up quite starved.

I think I'm usually quite patient and that certainly aids the runs. Part of the problem is when you end up with rooms/floor spawns that can be very tilting. Spending 20 minutes in a single room because unravelers/shamans are constantly reviving or flesh spawners/maggots keep spawning dropless, expless, completely, utterly, worthless minions... yea... that gets me tilting.

Haha you said it brother, I think it took me like 10 hours at least to get through all the false Duriel Tombs (in Hell of course).

This post was edited by Jorquandre on Jul 3 2020 07:56pm

My only guardian is also my only hell tomb as well. I was fortunate that one of the first monsters in my very first tomb dropped a Lo rune. Still, it took me 25 hours to full clear act 2. It has quickly become my LEAST favorite act, despite the amazing soundtrack. Act 3 went from least favorite to one of my very favorites. It has some scary packs but I find it quick and all very manageable. I've yet to lose any of my runs here. Entry to hell isn't even my highest claimer of death. It's Act 2, specifically Tombs edit: To add, one tomb death in normal (cold beetle) and nightmare (cold might wraith). None in hell, albeit snake temple is close enough to a tomb in reality. All other deaths have been in hell.

This post was edited by LogicalLynx on Jul 3 2020 08:17pm