Was just trying to establish a new map, and this dropped on the 4th try. I wish it was something faster though, the damage is huge but its slow af - I hit once every 2 seconds lol, will stick it on merc for now.

Wow… really weird lol

I decided to push through Nightmare, you really have to farm a lot because without a good weapon, resists and hp you really get murdered. Merc dies from 2-3 hits, and he doesn't lifesteal this patch, I killed Izual but ripped a few times after getting baited by a Hel rune that dropped in City of the Damned... was a bad idea to go for it, because I just ran past everything before, I managed to retrieve my corpse but lost like 2/3 of XP gained in the process... Hephasto two shot me, but as you can see there is this thing with Maul (another bug? :D) that it sometimes stuns even bosses, although they get out of the stunlock after a while. I think I also stuned Duriel for a few sec, but not sure. Got a sol rune from HF. Chaos Sanctuary was painful, I had to pull very small groups of monsters and work my way through slowly. Funnily enough Diablo was a lot easier than in Normal thanks to the 25% crushing blow, although attack rating is really bad I needed like 5-6 hits to get one in. I have 100 unspent stat points, because I really want to save some incase I find a good weapon.



Is this normal in Nightmare? lol

Gl with find Baezil Vortex/SandersRip

Sanders would be nice, Baezils better than my current wep but need more IAS. Some exceptional shields are also very good, mosers would mean I have good res in hell, gerkes great survivability, the unique scutum and dragon shield lot of extra damage.

Found this in Bloody foothills, will be usefull if I ever start a summon+hurricane druid - already muled a wolfs helm with +3 grizzly. Need sigons shield with this for the +3 all skills to precast Bear+HOTW


I started A5 Nightmare at only lvl 40, but since I saved stat and skill points gaining more levels wouldn't mean a lot, needed better gear mostly. I ran past the open areas, but farmed the caves, and gained a few levels on the way to Ancients whom I faced at 43.
Needless to say they were super though, I tried various tricks of dragging them away from each other. I thought I had them but then for some reason Madawc was dealing 2/3 my hp with each hit... On the next fight, Talic was just impossible to kill.



This post was edited by championmath on Oct 12 2021 12:52am

After defeating Ancients I gained 5 levels lol, rushing in 1.07 would be easy, as there is no penalty in Ancients, I think a lvl 1 character becomes 48 or something after Hell Ancients maybe even more.


Baals minions weren't a huge problem, as I had good res, and hp with block, actually easier than in normal, of course I still had to drag them away and kill 1 by 1 especially if they spawn with Fanat.


Found Nat helm from the wawes, not the best for me unfortunately.

Baal was easy thanks to the high ias and crushing blow, but his Manaflame attack hurts even in NM, deals about 500-600 magic damage. The great boss drops as always -.-


Went ahead and killed Nihlathlak aswell, his corpse explosion deals about half my hp, so I dragged minions away.


First cruel weapon. I like how you can buy magic weapons that are usefull in this patch. If this was an exceptional weapon, you can make it have 4 sockets and get a decent weapon until you find a better unique or craft one.
Some elemental damage weapons also come in handy in a lot of situations, I always wondered what is the maximum poison damage you can get, as they seem to multiply instead of just being added up, then you can use Venom on top if it for example, wonder if they stack.
Makes me think a Crystal sword with Prefix, suffix posion dmg socketed with 4 pemerald would do over 1000 poison, if venom also works this way with it, there is potential for some huge damage for this patch, at least early on.

gonna flashin Baezil's Vortex 1.07 achievement allow +100 Mana, it's nice
https://imgur.com/fArPam0

Not the best but will keep it for now, looking for those 30+ max dmg grand charms


I thought triple immune was bad, thankfully not immune to physical


Found a good Battle Scythe rack I don't know why I wrote Grim Scythe before lol, it takes 17-18 sec per run so lets gooooo. Atm at 100 or so runs, nothing yet will do 50 at a time, and pray that I don't missclick and lose the map. Looking at the stats for Athena's Wraith, I am pretty sure you can finish the game with it on many chars, and it will be a great merc weapon on my next. I tried Hell and do pretty decent damage with just fire claws my fast weapon and the charms. If I find Athena i'l start Hell and then look for the real juicy items in Hell LK.

After~300 runs I still haven't found Athena, but got a few nice items.

Because no tele, all FRW is great to make rack runs faster


Almost up to 100 extra max dmg from charms only. Because monsters don't have that much extra life, this means so much more than in the newest patches.


Useless for Bear, but cool find and might need it on next char