smooth wt so far, just watch out for murderpuppies in the sewers and durance, one might be chucky and lil sorces are an endangered species down there

maybe so
but my life bar literally has not moved the entire spider forest





here's an action shot killing szark

my first death ever in this game was to this guy
I know better than to get close to him
he haunted my dreams for years as a pre-teen


rolled 3 sockets on the 2mete 2orb 3es staff
found a bill, gonna hope for a better roll so I can replace the partizan my merc is wielding now

dinged 62
best exp in act3 has sill been the arachnid lair, nearly half a level there alone (but that was 60-61 range)
pexlomat was right about those dolls. I thought I killed the whole unique pack went to tele on through just to stomp the unique as it died and got a nice kick in the pants. it took me down to half even with all the pdr gear

firewall is a huge pain in the ass to use. 9 hard points in it so far and it's still just about useless. I don't know how you kids have done walks with that as your primary attack . . my only guess is you static the hell out of them then merc finishes them off. getting the right angle for maximum damage is just irritating, not to mention the delay. also getting pretty sick of blizzard. the damage is nice vs packs but vs singles it's sort of hit or miss. glacial is a nice bonus for keeping my merc alive, but in hell that won't do anything vs cold immunes which would be his biggest struggle with that setup anyway.

might go with a cookiecutter mete-orb build, it seems like it will do the trick

light/bolt-orber sounds like fun though

If you decide to go with orb/fb I'd add hydra instead of meteor (you prolly knew this already ). It's pretty good for scouting and for kiting.

Good progress.

on untwinked p8 I would need the power boost from meteor. never have been a fan of hydra

crunched the numbers and it seems orb is better than blizzard, though if I synergize blizz with glacial it would then have a nice freeze duration.

finally leveled in an area that is obscure just as a sort of proof that yes I am clearing the side dungeons. scarabs always give great exp.




I'm about 90% set on respec to meta-blizz setup.
on paper orb seems better than blizz, but that doesn't factor in the freeze from glacial and the range I can cast blizz from.
blizz works well for seeing out of your light radius, not quite as good of an indicator of monsters, but it seems to do better against packs of monsters than orb.
just sorta like the idea of spamming glaciaspike/meteor on mobs and blizz/fireball at bosses
I know there are some who swear by a lightning/cold sorc but I just think that lightning immunes are some of the most dangerous and want as many weapons against them as I can get.
either way I need to get some practice with the hotkeys before hell mode

lots of splodey midgets
vampire monsters take a while to kill, they have high cold resists I guess



durance 3 took about 3 minutes total
awful drops here. wish I could rerun for some tals pieces..








so a gear update just because

lore circlet 22def
spirit longsword 35 106 4
rhyme bone shield 11def
20 pdr amu
142 def gothic plate with a chipped amethyst and 3 sol runes (style)
upg nightsmoke
gloves with 13pr 30fr 22lr
boots with 30frw 31lr 22fr
some rare fcr ring with 30 mana 18 cold
and this dropped in durance 1 or 2 somewhere. not really sure where. I was fairly certain it would be junk nagel/manald since it was the first unique ring I remember seeing with her.

Nice soj!

pretty uneventful

there was an exp shrine in plains of despair
also wisps, but they don't do much in nightmare mode act4 (Act5 ones can hurt though)

grouped a bunch of monsers around izzual and got the shine, smoked em all for massive exp
a mosers dropped somewhere in the melee, but I don't need the resists so it's on my switch


fire in the hole

lum from nm hellforge

now I can use that tals amu