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Apr 14 2023 05:41am

Extremely useful item dropped a few runs in. Goblin toe is one of the few sources of crushing blow available to us in classic:

At level 40 ish I started trying to gamble some dual leech gloves as I currently have no LL or ML and rely on pots. Managed to bag these beauties 😍:

During these runs I also managed to find some other very useful bits:

- angelics ring
- angelics amulet
- cathans ring
- iratha helm

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Apr 20 2023 05:45am

Nightmare was surprisingly easy with my exceptional polearm. Duriel dropped a sweet amulet:

Really nice stats and will be useful in hell once I find another solution for AR to replace angelics:

Mephisto presented no problems at all. Iratha is nice and I now have belt/helm/gloves, but won't replace my dual leech. Ran a few times to try and find some useful upgrades, but nothing turned up:

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Apr 20 2023 05:45am

sweet amu for classic

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Apr 20 2023 05:51am

Nightmare done!

I noticed that my damage was starting to become an issue here, and really felt it starting in A1 hell. I found a white martel in NM chaos and even though I am obv too low to roll great stats I thought I'd try for an imbue. Even 80ed+ would be useful:

Fingers crossed ...

Balls. Need to keep looking for a better weapon. Bonesnap would do it, or failing that any rare exceptional 2 hander with 100+ed. Will try to kill and run hell Andy for awhile to find something.

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Apr 20 2023 05:52am

Quote (Liptonboy99 @ Apr 20 2023 12:45pm)

sweet amu for classic

I know right I kinda wish I had this online 😍

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Apr 20 2023 03:55pm

Act 1 was definitely quite slow, my damage is really quite limited. Even blood moor zombies were taking many ww. Don't really have any choice but to keep using angelics as my AR sucks otherwise, limiting the leech I can apply via rings. Really need sigon helm to go with my belt for the AR and LL. Regardless, we finally take down Andy:

I decided at this point to do a few hell Andy runs to try and find a better weapon. Found some nice tri res boots:

Also a perf manald, which may come in useful later if I want to move ML to my rings:

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Apr 20 2023 04:00pm

Found this war club with slightly higher average damage ... But that just ain't gonna cut it:

After about 10 or so runs I finally find something that is an upgrade and worth respeccing for:

Not a huge improvement but hopefully enough to get me through A2 in reasonable time. Plus it looks pretty awesome on char:

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Apr 21 2023 01:41pm

As sexy as the axe looks it wasn't a great help in A2. It was a total drag and I nearly died more than once in arcane and tombs due to mob density and some bad ww control. In the end duriel himself was easy though:

I found another white martel in A2 so decided to try my luck with the imbue again:

Please .. just something with 100ed+ .. or even just 75ed+ on a martel ...

Holy shit that's amazing! Really nice rolls. Such great average damage on martel and 50ed to undead to boot, it's completely unmatched for pvm barb in classic imo. This thing should see me through the rest of the game no problem.

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Apr 22 2023 03:14am

Act 3 was a breeze with the new martel. Actually had another drop in trav which was almost as good:

Meph was nothing special and easy as pie:

Chaos Sanctuary was tough in places. Had several close calls with infector where I took some risky ww into the pack and came out on very low hp. But overall it wasn't too challenging.

I completely forgot to take the final screenshot as I killed diablo, but he was straightforward and finally dropped me the sigon helm I've been after all this time. Better late than never.

And there we have it, all three difficulties on p8 done and dusted:

This run was much less challenging than I thought it would be. The savage polearm recipe combined with ww hitting so much in classic meant that after lvl 30 much of this is just spin and win. If I hadn't rolled a nice Martel it would be much slower in hell, but still doable I think. Finding angelics early on was a big help too, AR is a major problem otherwise.

I may run some cs/trav to improve gear a bit but will probably start a new more challenging play through next. Anyone got any suggestions?

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Apr 22 2023 09:22am

nice
what is the chance for 200ed weapon in classic??

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