sweet ring!
yeah duriel is a total bitch in earlier patches, reaching A3 is celebration worthy
good stuff so far!

try to make a bugged maek ring even better with fcr

that would solve mana

u can get 36maek and 10fcr in add

Thanks everyone

Everything is getting smoother.
I have been barely ever using any mana potions, so by the time I got up to Mephisto I was totally stocked.
I took a video of the battle in durance 3, it went so smoothly I was very suprised.
Duriel was way harder.

Not sure why the bottom half of my screen got cut out, I will try to fix it for next time.
You don't get to see how close I almost got to RIP from the Conviction aura cold enchanted kill XD I was trying to escape it





I should have identified the boots that dropped before I stopped the video, here they are

Act 4 was a little hairy,
izual was in the middle of a bunch of lighting soul casters,
While running through river, I decided to keep the hellforge hammer and use it as a temporary weapon because the +40 fire resist is much more beneficial than any rune would be for me right now.
then chaos sanctuary was pretty scary with the storm casters rapeing my mana,
and getting gang banged by groups of Oblivion Knights and their elemental missiles.

My technique the whole time pretty much was to blast them all until my mana ran out, then portal back to town and heal at jamella, go back in, repeat.

It really sucks not being able to buy mana pots lol gotta do what you gotta do.

Here is video of diablo kill


After killing Shenk in act 5, I decided to make an ip game and mule some of my gear.
My entire stash is filled with mana pots pretty much, but little things like the runes and other stuff that I probably wont ever end up using anyway I threw onto a mule.



The only items worthy of a mention that I've found thru act 4-5 so far are
Sigon's belt
Rite of passage boots
Ith rune

This post was edited by pyropunk on Sep 25 2018 11:07pm

good progress

normal mode is complete
I did my forge, got Amn rune, and a Perfect Topaz
I also made a huge mistake, I hired a barbarian as my mercenary, replacing my high leveled act 3 merc.
For some reason in my head I thought you can go back and hire a new merc and it will be close to your level. I don't know if that's just because I'm not an expansion player, or if that's just in this early patch... but regardless,
the barbarian merc is asbsolute trash and my godly cold paladin from act 3 is now level 19, and dies right away from anything
now that i'm in nightmare, i'm probably going to hire an act 1 merc until I get to act 3. i'm not a fan of the act 2 mercs.

here's a video of me rescuing anya so you can get to see how I fight against mobs





Going into Nightmare, I am level 28.

Lvl 28 is extremely low lvl for Nm, you can gain easy xp till 40 (Nila halls, WSK lvl2).
Also Act5 mercs are the best tanks in 1.07. On higher lvl they can fully regen in a few seconds.

Idk my act 3 mercy was carrying me a lot, especially when I ran out of mana. He could kill most stuff with 1-2 ice blast.
The act 5 mercy was 5 levels higher than me, couldn’t kill a single thing, and dies within 30 seconds.
I’m going to go back to do some normal runs, I just wanted a new merc and den quest

This seems to be pretty unreliable. I remember having some chats about it, but nobody knew what exactly was going on.
One minute the merc doesn't seem to be regenerating at all, the next minute he suddenly regenerates 90% of his life in 2 seconds.
I thought it maybe was AI related similar to how A2 mercs work with their auras, but the disassembly probably has to be checked to know for sure
I often had to revive the merc because he wouldn't turn on his super regen

This post was edited by Fruit on Sep 27 2018 02:46pm

I messed around in 1.07 on SP for a while and made 3 bugged MAEK rings. None of them are perfect but even a lower one can really help out since mana potions are so hard to come by.

1. +12 Str +19MAEK
2. +22 MAEK +32% GF
3. +23 MAEK

I played on a Java so I stopped after I had a few.

I also have the 1.07 Visceratuant with the +2 Necro skills & +80 life as well as a 1.07 Occy. Now all my single player characters are on an updated patch but I have a couple of cool items that I can't make/find now.