Stats without fade buff. Resistances aren't nice, but I also have 40 MDR so hopefully that will help if fade were to run out mid-fight.


Stats with fade buff. I will obviously try to keep fade buff on at all times, not sure about during Countess runs though. I took this pic actually just after Den of Evil because the pic I took before Den didn't have Battle Command on


Den was not too bad at all. Nothing scary. But damage seems a bit low. I guess it's just the crappy WW IAS. On to Countess!

So it was quite a bit easier than I thought to take down p8 Countess, although she was mana burn which sucked. Actually, I feel like 90% of the boss packs I have seen in Hell so far have been mana burn. Any time I've seen a coloured monster I just expect my mana to hit zero instantly.


Yeah... was pretty easy.


First run on p8. As stated in rules, Countess runs are the only place in the game where I can change player settings (since Countess gives more rune drops on p1)




Here's where I'm at now. My goals from Hell Countess will be another Treachery (need Fal or Lem and a 3os armor), and 2x Pul to upgrade my ribby and merc weapon because merc is getting smacked around. So all in all, 1x fal or lem, 2x pul is the goal.

Great walk through so far. Some uses for your SOJS :


3 Perfect Skulls + 1 Rare Item + Stone of Jordan = Add 1 Socket To a Rare Item
Rare Items can only have two sockets. You cannot add sockets to items that don't normally have sockets.

1 Perfect Skull + 1 Rare Item + Stone of Jordan = 1 High Quality New Rare Item of the same type
This formula has the possibility of creating a higher quality Rare Item than the following formula. ilvl = int(.66 * clvl) + int(.66 * ilvl) That is, the ilvl will be equal to .66 times your clvl (rounded down) plus .66 times the input item's ilvl (also rounded down).

Thanks! Yeah I actually threw the sojs away since I'm going for IK set and crafted ring I know that none of my end-game items will be rares

Re-rolled a nice Black Marsh map on first try.


First dual leech ring. Not great by any means but I saved it for now.

***MORAL DILEMMA, SEE BELOW***


***MORAL DILEMMA, SEE BELOW***




So IK maul dropped off of a random boss pack on the way to Countess that I was killing to keep my Full Rejuv stock up. Here's the thing... My rules say Countess re-runs on p1 and everything else on p8. I believe the spirit of this rule is that only the Countess kill counts for p1, in order to get more runes. If that is the case, then any items dropping from random mobs during these runs would not be fair game, and I would not be able to keep this IK maul... What do you think???

Not sure if this helps but I would keep it and use it without worries

I was leaning towards keeping it also, but I was thinking that my reasoning is probably biased so wanted to see what other people thought about it haha.

Technically your rule states countess reruns at p1 not just only countess kill on p1. I would use it

What does your conscience say?

This post was edited by d1no on Apr 18 2020 11:57pm

My reasoning was that I was already picking up drops from Countess minions without a second thought, and took a Lum from a rando mob on the way also. I figured that if I wanted to discount one drop under that context, morally I would have to discount ALL drops including potions, gems, items to sell for gold etc. I ended up keeping it and I feel okay about it!



I think a lawyer could get me off with this alone