I also decided to don my Lore again. the +skills is something I still completely lack, and I thought that also had something to do with the complete failure to make progress in A4 the first time. Before I got backed up onto the stairs I did put up a fight. It was only that my attacks didn't really pass muster. So now sacrificing some cold res for +skills.



Newly outfitted and with a new strategy, A4 became much easier:


Izual was cake. Staticed, then orb ball ball orb ball ball, etc.



I'm now also needing to stock up on gold again. Had to sell all this crap izual dropped, for instance.

Hephasto:




Io? I could maybe eventually replace my Insight staff with a Memory staff. Or make merc delirium. Dunno, saved though.

i actually suggest getting a holy freeze merc, for the sole reason you cannot freeze cold immunes with your spells, but HF works on everything. A chilled pack is always the safest.

All the WPs:


And I forgot to SS from A3, so here it is too:


Continuing into CS:

Thuls abound:
http://i1078.photobucket.com/albums/w486/d2thing/Penelope/20120326/Screenshot039.jpg
http://i1078.photobucket.com/albums/w486/d2thing/Penelope/20120326/Screenshot041.jpg



Crap! no resists on this, but +2 fire and life. I'm gonna try it out, but I'm real short on stash space and I am pretty sure my resist situation will be worse in hell...

Do PvM Sorcs need resists so much as +skills? Please advise..

true but nothing helps with moon lords dudes that are immune to all cold effects. just depends on how you play ofc.

still, HF > defiance for the sole reason that sorcs don't have that much def in the first place. you can go might for higher merc dmg output though.

A safety boot craft because I have extra Orts and also need to make space (hopefully) for diablo drops.



I got real excited for a minute when I saw tri-res and big cold which I am deficient in. But then Fire & Lit were so weak, and there is no FHR, or MF, or FRW.. So close


So, what about those Diablo drops?

30K Gold!



23331 Gold!



Saved! I was saving a blue amulet with +29 or so lightning res, but this displaced it. This will likely displace my nagel in hell.

See the amulet I ditched : http://i1078.photobucket.com/albums/w486/d2thing/Penelope/20120326/Screenshot053.jpg

This post was edited by DManZ on Mar 26 2012 09:08pm

Thanks for the merc advice guys. I'm going to check Penelope's defense with his aura & w/o the aura and then make a decision. It probably doesn't matter a great deal either way. Might would be good in hell if there are more dual fire & cold immunes. I've never noticed how many of these there actually are. Hammers own everything


Is there any video from the last number of days that people need to see? I'm getting full up again. Nothing really special happened this whole walk yet, with the exception of the crafted belt & dual res fcr ring in A3 somewhere. I guess the boneflesh drop and the new rhyme base were pretty lucky, but also pretty ordinary (and not end-game) too. Let me know soon if you want to see anything.

This post was edited by DManZ on Mar 26 2012 09:20pm

BOSS