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#11
Jul 19 2020 09:05pm
Quote (Jsoo @ Jul 19 2020 06:12pm)
Hey - enjoying watching the streams in the background while I do chores or tend my daughter. Sanders boots get no love? The mf isn’t working out for you. But I guess single pass you really need to get some drops so you need those mf booties... Good luck in A5


Hey, thanks for watching! I'm so glad you're enjoying the content. Sander's would've been dope, but yeah its just better to greed. Damage isn't really an issue. FRW saves me time, but at the cost of possible better jewelry or wizendraw or fun stuff like ravenfrost.
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#12
Jul 20 2020 01:18pm
Good luck! I find zon very difficult. Also word of caution: the Peace valk proc is terribly buggy. Maybe it works different on Zon? but with my pally she only sticks around for 30 seconds max. It's super annoying.
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Jul 20 2020 02:43pm
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Good luck! I find zon very difficult. Also word of caution: the Peace valk proc is terribly buggy. Maybe it works different on Zon? but with my pally she only sticks around for 30 seconds max. It's super annoying.


I remember reading about this somewhere, only bugs on other chars, zon with 1 point in valk should be just fine.
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Jul 20 2020 03:01pm
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I remember reading about this somewhere, only bugs on other chars, zon with 1 point in valk should be just fine.


Oh that's good then!
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Jul 20 2020 07:05pm
Quote (davor70790 @ Jul 20 2020 12:18pm)
Good luck! I find zon very difficult. Also word of caution: the Peace valk proc is terribly buggy. Maybe it works different on Zon? but with my pally she only sticks around for 30 seconds max. It's super annoying.


Not an issue!

Quote (olmi @ Jul 20 2020 01:43pm)
I remember reading about this somewhere, only bugs on other chars, zon with 1 point in valk should be just fine.


This is correct. I have 1 point in all passives. I also now have a "Peace". Level 15 valkyrie in normal feels like cheating. I was pretty sure I was going to have to cube into an Amn rune. Sadly, only 1 partizan drop and it was 1os. Not a single viable base for my first insight (certainly not one I'd burn my first socket quest on).



"Lore" can wait a bit - although I'd really like the lightning resistance for nightmare.

Not much to say about A5. It was pretty easy and quick, but I'm still constantly drinking. There were several scary champion frenzy taur packs, one even trapping the door to Infernal Pit. The other had a berserker (Abaddon). I think low chill/cold immune champions might give this character a fright in nightmare and hell.

Baal offered little of use but also was easier than originally thought:


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Cows were probably the quickest I've done in any of these runs. They coughed up another Thul rune as well :)

Here are my entry stats and resistances to Nightmare as well as my current gear. I have a 15@ ammy I'll be swapping to tomorrow so add +10 to C/L/P



Thanks for reading!


This post was edited by LogicalLynx on Jul 20 2020 07:06pm
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Jul 21 2020 04:52pm
I started off dumping my MF to plug in resists. I don't trust myself to greed in NM with low fire/lightning res. Considering I hadn't found an exceptional base (and didn't today) for "Insight". I went ahead and made a "Lore" with my only Sol rune.

This worked out well though!



Still in desperate need for an exceptional base for insight but I may just take the first 4os polearm at this point.

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I honestly blazed through Act 1. Despite spending ~20 minutes shopping a 20% IAS glove and +1 bow glove (sadly no 2s or 3s). I finished full clearing Act 1 in well under 5 hours.

The usual Andy drops:



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I just want to note that act 1 normal and nightmare have dropped over 66% of my uniques (6) with 0 MF this run. Act 2-5 Normal was run with about 110 MF on average (3 uniques). Shame.

Here's my final gear for completing A1 Nightmare:



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Jul 22 2020 07:51pm
The day started off easy enough. Halls of the dead was a breeze thanks to AOE and freeze. I managed to add to my growing pile of Sol runes. I also fortuitously dropped a 4os Partizan seconds after whining that the war scythe I dropped was only 2os. Unfortunately my first roll was lv 12 meditation - which honestly is fine considering my mana pool is quite small anyways. However I later dropped another 4os partizan and just decided to burn the runes. Yay for medi 17 and decent ED to boot.




No tilting in claw viper temple floor 2.. yet :) I also rolled decent crafted gloves. I still think I'm going to spend some time trying to shop +3 bow 20% IAS gloves at some point. I'd prefer the +skills to the IAS either way as I will only ever be able to get 2 FA per 1 IA which means I only need 12 FPA - melody will take me to 11.

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Speaking of Melody I dropped my Ko rune in the same room as my first Hel rune. I even said, "Nice a hel, we're not getting excited until we drop a Ko though" seconds later because of this I went and tried to roll sockets in a +2bow 0s stag that I dropped earlier in the day. Sadly I rolled 2os :cry:



My Lv 15 Valkyrie was very impressive. She stayed alive much longer than I anticipated. I managed to chunk Duriel to 50% hp before she ripped. Unfortunately I had to tank it from there. I did gear swap to boost to 119 mf for the drops. ACTUAL uniques - also note this is my second rogue bow this run... not wizendraw tho :(

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Here is my gear and stats after completing NM Act 2. I dropped so many charms today including a decent cold GC, fire LC, and lightning sc. I'm starting too look in decent shape for Hell and hoping to avoid switching my "peace" to "smoke".



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#18
Jul 23 2020 01:33am
cool build, i hope you find a nice 4 os bow for harmony (no stags allowed)
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#19
Jul 23 2020 12:41pm
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cool build, i hope you find a nice 4 os bow for harmony (no stags allowed)


"Melody" is first and foremost. A stag is fine. I'm not pumping dex whatsoever.
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#20
Jul 23 2020 06:30pm
I'm not sure why it didn't occur to me to switch from a 3x Ral +1bow Stag to an "Edge" - I had plenty of 3os +1bow Stags. This bow feels a little bit better than added fire damage - the extra mana from the attributes ain't bad either. Act 3 was pretty uneventful. There were some jump scares like an extra fast wraith pack at the start of flayer. Cursed souls in swampy, along with various enchant doll packs (one near a conviction pack). But packing clear speed, along with FA and Decoy had me feeling safe the entire run. Some temple doors were trapped with archers, beetles, or brutes, but nothing was overwhelming.

There were many FELEs today and none were worrisome until arrival at Durance of Hate Level 3... Conviction FELE Bremm:



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I moat-tricked meph because I could and in return he spited me (swapped to ~80 mf at the end):



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I'm looking forward to getting that juicy izual quest tomorrow. Here's where I ended up today:



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