Winniethepooh - Hybrid Werebear Single Pass - Topic

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#11

Aug 15 2020 03:33am

For a single pass, up the bonesnap, socket it, shael it and hope for pul at nm forge!

:')

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#12

Aug 15 2020 10:53am

Quote (wezman @ Aug 15 2020 02:33am)

For a single pass, up the bonesnap, socket it, shael it and hope for pul at nm forge!

:')

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No way. It's so incredibly slow. Part of this build is Fire damage delivery, but speed is also relevant for applying maul and cb. 16 fpa is going to be slower than when I get chilled by CE/HF in hell. Not only won't the dps cut it (barely 7k fully upped with a perfect roll and shael).. I can shop something over twice as fast and nearly as strong. NVM that upping it makes for an incredibly high strength requirement too. This is a single pass, upping it is wrong. Even the Riphook would do more dps (30%+ more) with just a shael and not being upped and its not good enough.

This post was edited by LogicalLynx on Aug 15 2020 10:56am

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Aug 15 2020 08:34pm

Another long day. ~7.5h to full clear A3 NM. Over the course of doing these single passes a3 has gone from my least favorite act to one of my favorites (it's close with A1). The day started off pretty bland with nothing interesting happening for most of forest to jungle. Then things got interesting

I started dropping decent enough runes to guarantee a smoke. I did not cube up yet as bases seem to be the hardest thing to come across this run for w.e reason. I've not found any 4os swords, no 4os exceptional partizan.. although now I'm likely looking for a 5os Partizan or thresher thanks to a Fal drop. Funny enough.. after dropping all these Hel and Io runes, it probably was only a matter of time before seeing my first Lum. I don't need "Smoke" yet but the 20fhr is coveted. I nearly have enough runes to save a Lum for an "oath" and still burn another for "splendor" but I'm going to hold out on the prebuff shield a bit longer.

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If the rune drops weren't decent enough, I had a pretty interesting day for charm drops. However, getting this first grand charm was no easy feat. My first floor of swampy pit was practically trapped by 2 doll packs, conviction+strong and strong+spectral.. yikes. I jokingly said last run when I got my SS skiller that'd I'd never see this on a shifter run... d2 always making me a liar

I also came across my first dual immune. With some cold dmg and OW it wasn't all that bad. I saw so many conviction and FELE packs today.. I was beginning to question the game's intentions with this run. If the game wanted me to die so badly it'd stop giving me these juicy res grand charms. They're not perfect but they're soooooooooooo needed. The Light and Cold GCs afford me quite a bit of gear flexibility.. and I had no idea what was going to drop next!

This is my first Tal's Mask in any of my runs. I'll gladly toss of my "Lore" for this helm. All res, Life, and Dual Leech? Um... yes thank you, I can use this. It's no Jalal's but I don't think there's anything LIKELY that I can imbue or craft better than this for this run. This also gives me a lot more gear flexibility. I'm looking in pretty good shape for hell. I can easily replace my nagel rings with crafted rings (maybe angelic combo if the neck drops.. I do have 3 halos already).

Mephisto actually dropped a rare. It's too bad hellplague isn't exactly great for this build.

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Overall A3 was pretty chill and easy. I'm loving the speed on riphook. I expect this weapon to be pretty awful in a4 with all the fire immunes and high resistances I'll have to contend with. I suspect I can endure it. I'm 5 lvls away from being able to shop a weapon suitable for hell (Cruel Gothic Axe of Quickness).

Here are my gear and stats after A3. I'll be pumping str to 150 and leaving dex on 100 and start hoarding stat points to see if I need to push for a Feral axe (Oath) requirement or some thresher/champion axe drop.

Thanks for reading!

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Aug 16 2020 09:05pm

Universal things that happened today: I failed to drop any good bases. I was a bit tilted by this and attempted to roll 2x broad swords (basically a coin flip) which resulted in a 1os and 3os. All swords I dropped today were also 3os - This game must think we're still in normal

I also attempted 3 cuirasses but came up with 3os each time. I've YET to find a 200def+ 2os base. I don't really need "smoke" right now and should be more patient. As it is, I have massive inventory space ~6 columns free (~60%). I have about 40-60 res worth of charms for fire, cold and lightning each stashed.

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My Act 4 was rather benevolent. All my maps rolled in favor of my build (lack of fire res/immunity); Only CS had its typical issues. However, drops weren't the best. An early Io rune was great, shortly followed by my first Feral Axe (yes first of the run and day). I got to equip the Tal's Mask somewhere around City of the Damned. I absolutely love the leech on it. Having 30% LL with such a low physical base is compensating nicely for now.

My hellforge crushed all hopes of an "Oath". I was really hoping for an Um rune or Pul rune. It's been a while since I've been hurt this bad by the forge (~6 runs). I was really hoping my amulet drop was going to be angelics. It was civerbs. I've dropped 4 halos (I've saved 2) in the event I need/can fit in the AR combo.

So.. so... so... close to that juicy ribby

I got excited for half a second thinking I dropped a trang's girth... Like I said, Act 4 drops were underwhelming. It was a surprisingly easy act for how difficult I'd imagine it was going to be. I finished fairly quick so I decided I'd proceed to Act 5 to see if I was going to need to shop at clvl 70 for a hell weapon or could greed out the entire act with what I had already.

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Act 5 started off with a difficult map, quill rats and spear cats. Fortunately no skele archers. Oak sage proved useful in distracting/absorbing ranged this map, but it was quite a bit of work and frustration pushing through bloody foothills.

I did say I needed shaels... I have 9 now.. thanks hellforge!

Upon arrival in Frigid, I nearly got clapped by a champion Siege Beast - These guys are no joke wtf lmfao.. But at least the drops started going my way: I finally dropped Angelic's. The combo puts me at 10k AR. I think I may be able to get away using the combo in hell. We'll see how the rest of A5 finishes and how my crafting/imbuing/gambling go.

I also dropped an upgrade to the riphook. It may seem like this is the same damage as the riphook and I'm simply trading OW for Blind, but the 50% ds here is actually a 50% damage boost to my physical. Another perk is this lets me run "rhyme" to help a bit with MF and CBF for a strong Nightmare finish! 113 mf is great for a shifted druid, really

Getting up to arreat plateau wasn't tough but it was long and I was greeted with a guest pack of carvers. Dealing with carvers was a pain in the ass; wtf is wrong with these things, do they have dodge? I swear I was "missing" constantly. I thought it must be my AR, so I got my angelic combo.. its definitely not AR. It wasn't block lock which I thought it could be because shockwave and maul were being applied... also shockwave was going through them but not stunning.. seriously I need to check basin or something but this was the most annoying thing I've had to deal with in the last 9 runs.

FORTUNATELY this effort was rewarded with my second Feral Axe which just so happened to also be ethereal!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! if that weren't enough I then dropped half a Mal rune moments later. "Oath" hope has been REVIVED

More Io runes. The game apparently believes I need lots of Lum runes.. its not wrong technically.. although now I can cube up 2.5 Lum runes and still have an unspent Lum!

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Rescuing Anya was easy enough. The reward from her is almost never good, this one was no different. I do like the 10 all res from Mallah though

I finished up with glacial trail - this one had a waypoint, and had a nasty drifter cavern (although nothing like my Frenzy Taur drifters on my sin). I checkpointed my Frozen Tundra waypoint and will be starting from there tomorrow!

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Up to the eth feral axe and um rune drops I was saving stat points and keeping my stats at 125 str, 100 dex, and 175 vit. I'll now be pumping str to 165 and holding 20 stat points from there. I feel pretty good about my life. 1500 in werebear about 600ish in human form. I do expect these numbers to increase before I start hell as I have a lot of gear to replace. I think it will be quite easy to hit 2k+ by the end of this run considering I don't even have a prebuff weapon (~20% max life) yet and will likely invest at least 50 more stats into vit.

Here are my gear and stats as of now:

Thanks for reading!

This post was edited by LogicalLynx on Aug 16 2020 09:06pm

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Aug 17 2020 07:16pm

Today was probably my most underwhelming day as far as drops go this run, despite running 113-133 MF all day 3 set items

I did drop some early runes. I punched this lum into a shield for a prebuff "splendor. My Frozen tundra had some skele archers that needed some work. I also had some skele archers inside Abbadon along with some Taurs.

My first map inside Nihlathak's temple was filled with devilkin... it was the Carver situation from yesterday all over again of course I also got snakes, but fortunately the snake on floor 3 were accompanied by 2 melee packs (night marauders and spiders). I managed carefully and surprisingly spared the mercs life. I sparingly used the oak sage for fear of it killing us both in the poison cloud.

I failed several more broad sword rolls today - I'm amazed how I've gone all of Nightmare with numerous sword drops and personal cube rolls but not a single 4os - I can't win a coin flip apparently. However, I finally dropped a 2os cuirass base. It's not the best but its enough.

Baal had nothing to share sadly despite doing some MF swapping on him (I used Angelics for the fight). It was pretty easy, but the 30% slow from cold steel wasn't really enough to deter the occasional teleport or cloning.

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I did NOT die to cows well.. almost

I had another center of the map start without much room to move, but this is where shockwave kind of shines. That said my cow king was atrocious.. I tried carefully trying to hit and run and take very little invisible corpse explosions but this was destroying my rejuvs and I wasn't getting him much past half health.. so what did I do? I bought a cheap hunter's bow and grabbed all my psn charms out of stash and killed him that way

Winnie The Pooh has taken all the honey from nightmare.

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I really think I may get away with running at least 1 angelic ring + ammy for hell ~7k AR. 11k with both. Here are my gear and stats with most of my best res charms in my inventory with about 2-2.5 columns of inventory space. I have a lot to craft and gamble.. unfortunately my normal and nightmare imbues (which I did at the start of today's stream) were terrible.

Tomorrow I will be trying to prep for hell, which includes the crafting/gambling and trying to shop hratli for a decent entry-hell weapon. I think I have a little over 6m gold once I sell off some stashed pages of 30-35k stuff.

Thanks for reading!

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#16

Aug 18 2020 12:20am

Gl in hell :ph34r:

I really hope you get that mal drop :drool:

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Aug 18 2020 12:04pm

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#18

Aug 18 2020 04:10pm

why no spirit?

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#19

Aug 18 2020 04:47pm

Looks good

nice setup of story as well

gl further on ur adventure.

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Aug 18 2020 09:47pm

Quote (Aztec209 @ Aug 18 2020 03:10pm)

why no spirit?

oof, its very apparent I cannot win coin tosses :cry:

the number of 1-3os swords I've seen in nightmare is bewildering.. I've lost 4 or 5 p.ammy rolls on broad swords too which is essentially a coin flip. Go figure

Quote (gel87 @ Aug 18 2020 03:47pm)

Looks good :) nice setup of story as well :) gl further on ur adventure.

Quote (TheChancellorX @ Aug 18 2020 11:04am)

Thank you guys!

Quote (Ston3 @ Aug 17 2020 11:20pm)

Gl in hell :ph34r:
I really hope you get that mal drop :drool:

I'm not very optimistic about it.. The barb went the whole way with find item and never saw one. I'll feel better if I see a pul rune first as that has greater potential I think.. 1 pul + 1 um means I just need 2 pul (or lems) or 1 um.

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