sweet

ty, but i wont be able to repair those charges anyway, so its 20 time uses. im doing fine without it for now.



ty ty. progress here.

smith. barb tanked him hard




andy. she killed merc fast. my poison res is also only 55 even after drinking an anti pot. i had to use my lifetap wand on her, she was easy with lifetap on

raddy was also annoying due to low poison res. im anticipating whilring through most of a2 since poison is a weakness


first none/magic thresher this game.

tried my luck, didnt turn out so hot. if i find an eth one, im gonna actually larzuk it for 5os


cool.

skipped all of them. dont wanna deal with poison dmg. took the staff and tp


i actually cleared this area. vipers hit pretty hard, but i could tank it all np. didnt run into any curse uniques or fanat. so it wasnt a big deal


might try to finish a2 tonight

great progress, awesome run

ty for support.

leap attack/ww straight through arcane. dont wanna deal with PIs, berserk is shit slow compared to frenzy.


absolutely no issues with lifetap wand


ring was like... some shitty res and energy and mana leech

ive already decided what character im using for my next wt, and its not a barb. szark hit really hard, i cant imagine facing him without my 3k life.... i totally understand why people say baba wts are easy


a nice gc to upgrade to.

OMG! Yes. I do that and I used to lead him to the entrance of the cave and kill him there as a warning to any other monsters which might be thinking of making it their hideout.

I also have a strange quick of waiting until I'm level 8 then hiring a Rogue and letting her kill Blood Raven. I feel like she has more reason to desire vengeance.



So that's how it happened. I have one comp which shows the mana and another showing the life. I guess I accidentally clicked the globes. I will now use this feature all the time on both.



Just a couple of ideas which you've prolly already thought of: Have one cold damage charm in your inventory (or wear Raven) so each monster gets chilled and have as many poison damage charms as you can so while you are merely giving them love taps, they can still be busy moving slower and if not losing life, at least countering their regen.



Yep. I've had it like that but on the other side. I've also had a map where it all twists around so the Lost City bumps right up to Lut Gholein which made me question the sanity of the town's peeps who couldn't find it.



I go one step further and open every treasure chest, kick every barrel and urn and simply look in everything.



Be sure to keep track of your total FHR so that you hit your breakpoints. I would think 48 for 5 frame would be the minimum you'd want and 86 for 4 frame would be the best. 200 for the next BP would require too much trade off in other areas. The key point I'm making is if you have, say, 48 FHR from gear that 12 from the charm puts you at 60 and does absolute noting for you.



You might consider farming Grand Charms and re-rolling them in the hopes of getting a +1 to a skill tree along with other potentially useful mods. The best places for this is in NM Arachnid Lair, Spider Cavern, Flayer Jungle and the Great Marsh, all of which are in the jungle - your favorite area.

Charms in from these areas have a sufficient ilvl that they can get the +1 to a skill tree while not being too high that the pool of possible mods dilutes the odds. It also gives you something to do will all those perfect gems which accumulate.



Consider hoarding Ort runes. Ort + Weapon transmuted in Cube = fully repaired weapon. Ort + any chipped gem + Weapon = fully repaired and recharged.



While the Diamond Bow is an Elite item it has a base speed [0]. I prefer using a Blade or Great Bow with base speed [-10] for the merc. This is expecially important if you have LL on the merc. The quicker she hits her targets, the quicker she regens life.


Quotes will break if I use one more, so your's is in Italic:

"so funny that the run i made the duress, countess drops me this. treachery up next. ill be testing both. either way i wouldnt mind a stashed treachery for prebuffs"

Use an online cacluator and be sure you hit your breakpoints for IAS. As an example, my melee Sorc uses Passion in PB which has a base speed of [-30] and Treachery armor. Passion's 25% IAS and Treachery's 45% gives her 70 and that gets her into the fastest possible breakpoint she can have. I'd imagine it will be similar for your Barb.


Good luck on your WT. After all these years this is still the single most fun game I've every played.

thanks for all the interest and support. a couple of points though:

1. i have a raven. got that cold damage on my hits
2. ive also seen lost city right behind the town
3. duress also gives fhr. im hitting a nice bp so its np
4. id consider rolling charms in a different wt. skillers dont mean much to me, though ill hold onto a wc skiller if i find one.
5. i got plenty of orts, and i barely spend money on pots now since i can hork if i actually run low. money is a non issue for now
6. yeah i know what you mean about the bow, but im only half serious about it. plus i dont know if ill ever find a 4os blade/great bow.

anyway, consider you own wt, a melee sorc would be cool

This post was edited by wheezy2004 on Jun 4 2013 06:40am