Haha I think I just second-guess myself a lot. Anyways GL with act4. How do you find your damage? is it pretty slow?

well done jeppe! Reading ure topic is like reading in a good book!

perhaps yeah...
I find my damage to be total crap atm. I do 1,8k~ per throw with merc aura... but in act4 /p8 this just isnt enoughÅ^^ Im so tired of running to town to repair. I hit fast tho but still my dps is shite....
trying to gamble better harpoons but cant get... only crap in 8+ mio spent

thx stefan

FE explosion damage was reduced in 1.13. Details here http://www.theamazonbasin.com/d2/forums/index.php?showtopic=82940&view=findpost&p=913069

Even then, multiple elemental enchantments remain deadly, notably FE+LE which you may encounter frequently on Hell difficulty.
Beware and do not go toe-to-toe with any of them.

See also http://wiki.theamazonbasin.com/index.php/Fire_Enchanted

But iirc the damage was even refered to as "bugged" a long time ago, did this get fixed? or was everything working as intented always with FE, but got nerfed lately? (4k hp barbarians on hardcore with 75res could get 1hit'd by hell travi / ancients FE.)
nevermind, read up on it now on ur link and google. the fire dmg is based upon the mobs life. thats why the barbarians in arreat can kill almost anything in 1 hit lol




This post was edited by SpAz. on Nov 14 2011 03:12pm

So I was following along this old school untwinked challenge and was sufficiently motivated to have a go at it myself. On my way down to Durial in nightmare I had the drops of a lifetime. It all started out with a large charm. Bah, gotta ID those things just in case you know?

[img]http://www.freeimagehosting.net/bc947[/img]

7 Res All / 5 FRW! Pretty nice, you know?

Then a unique great helm dropped. "What's that?", I thought. Howltusk? What that? Oh... knockback!!! Cool! But also howl on striking, and howl overrides amp damage so not great, but was exactly what I wanted to try out before crafting some KB gloves. I'd been using all my p sapphires for upping throwing spears to harpoons, so wasting one on a craft was iffy... But knockback is very much worth it. I switch armors between Myth and Stealth runewords. Myth + Howltusk is great crowd control for now..

Then this happened:

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Whaaa?! Eth Shaftstop?! Hot damn! One of the best drops I've ever had... ever. So I IMMEDIATELY replaced my merc's old armor (eth bugged 3os ancient armor, 517 def Shael / Thul / no Lem yet ) I'll have a real choice to make in hell if/when I find a lem.

Then I tossed one of those weapon racks and out popped an eth throwing spear. Can you say imbue me?! Too bad I already wasted NM imbue on eth pilum. Gotta wait to imbue this:

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Continuing... What the hell is this now?
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Cain was able to help me figure it out:
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The only other time I found a soj was with my gold find barb once in travincal. Sad part is it isn't even part of my normal gear because I need specific resists and leech from rings. D'OH!

Durial was a cakewalk because he could barely touch my merc.

My luck continued in A3 too, but I'll save that story for another post. As a teaser, those putrid defilers of the dark wander dropped me a Ko!


Edit: so what's up with the images not presenting inline? Damn! Help? Also edited content! I forget about Howltusk the first time. Yep, it dropped too, but not quite in same league as Soj & eth SS, so I forgot!

This post was edited by DManZ on Nov 16 2011 06:20pm

not sure.. try capitol [IMG] brackets maybe? also could be because you can only have 3 images in a post right?

Hmm, well I'm too lazy to write up A3, (basically found Guillaume's Face in flayer dungeon. Glad I saved some stat points to bump my strength.) But here is my gear at the start of NM A4.

BTW, I did try caps on IMG, but the preview makes lowercase. I will forgo the preview and put in the caps and only one img this time... I hope it works..

Pretty nice gear, I would try to gamble for a amu and rings tho.

Thanks ante. My resists are all pretty good for now. All my gold goes for gambling throwing spears and sometimes belts & gloves. Rings and Amulets are too pricey. I wish I had a gheeds & an edge, but this is single player... Anyone using a mod? I am cheating a bit using atma to mule crafting supplies, but I try to limit current gear swaps to what I can hold & stash. For instance I, have a SoJ & Cathans sitting in my stash Cathans is in case I can't get enough LL on one set of spears. Untwinked is fun, but lack of ladder runewords is CRAP. I would mod to enable but I don't know how battle.net checks and I still play on the realms mostly.

Here is the sum of that gear + charms: ( Might merc aura not active, and no BO / BC which bumps resists another good bit. )



A question to the others playing through: What order are you maxing the skills? I went with double throw & BO, now pumping double swing & throwing mastery, but double swing twice as fast as I notice only 75% chance to hit in NM A4. I just gambled a fools spear though... Will post my stash of throwing spears some other day.

This post was edited by DManZ on Nov 16 2011 10:15pm