I was worried for a bit and wondered if I forgot to loot the viper amulet - but I autoequipped it because I had to sell my old one to Drognan...
Also found a nice shield upgrade, going to start investing some points in corpse explosion soon. Bone spear seems to work a lot better yet, especially on higher /players as the CE damage seems to not scale with the player count.

Duriel was a bit slow, but easy to cheese with iron maiden + clay golem.
In act 3 my damage started to fall behind a little bit, I probably went too aggressive with the CE skilling and should have kept leveling bone spear instead. CE worked great on the flayers though.

I only have one FCR ring equipped since Stealth + FCR ring reaches the 30% breakpoint but Stealth + double FCR rings wouldn't reach 48% anyway. I keep one stashed just in case it makes sense to equip one more.

Obligatory teleport staff purchase from Ormus, this will save some time in the future.

Mephisto was easy now that I had bone prison. Even though he kept breaking it, atleast he stood still most of the time for the bone spears.
Talking to Izual's spirit actually crashed my game so I had to restart act 4, hopefully this is the correct screenshot.

I started to fall behind a lot in damage now, Act 5 is getting tougher so I crafted some new weapons for my mercenary and I will proceed with some /players8 Eldritch runs for some quick xp.
I have to put levels into bone spear again, probably put way too much into CE.

Some sweet upgrades, shame the boots are eth, but I will wear them anyway until they break. Life tap from the Anya reward kept my mercenary alive easily.

And now for a huge upgrade straight from one of Pindleskin's sidekicks - 3 bone spears AND 2 sockets, this will make a great Rhyme runeword. I'm glad I didn't go ahead yet with my original plan to shop a 3 socket kite shield for Ancient's pledge.
I also managed to equip Kasim with the battle scythe thanks to the fake Shako. Got a lot stronger now, time for Ancients.