I will do my best!!!

Diablo was a piece of cake. I had to dodge a few lightning hoses, but there was no real danger. On to Act 5!



Cleared up to Shenk. I'll do a few Shenk + Eldritch runs for some XP.



One of their minions was kind enough to drop this for me.

It's shitty, but it's still a Treachery!



Barbarian bros brought back.



Frozen River was kind of annoying. On my first attempt, the entire area near the entrance was swarmed with Souls so badly that my merc was getting fried instantly from off-screen enemies. I hate that I'm limited to this tiny little 800x600 box of what I can target, yet Souls can shoot me from off-screen no problem

A very scary moment involving Fanaticism + Champion frenzytaurs on the way, but Nihlathak himself went down easily.



Ancients were incredibly easy once they decided to sit nicely in their bone prisons and get speared to death.



Baal was slow but easy. Act 1 Hell let's go!!!

Conqueror!



Character select screen. Loving that chain mail + crown graphic at the moment



Stats entering Hell. My resists are actually half decent this time!!!

Here is my gear:



I think I will try to roll some prismatic amulets to try and top my resists off and hopefully get a good suffix (prismatic amulet of the whale would be awesome).

I'm not 100% sold on my Rhyme right now, because I don't need MF% (more interested in bases) and the blocking stats are useless for me. A 3 socket shield full of P diamonds would give me 32 extra @resist at the cost of losing CBF and +1 bone spear...hard to tell which is the better choice.

My gloves, boots, and rings are obviously crap and need to be replaced soon. If I find a nice chest to run I might go on a gambling spree.

This is what my merc is wearing:



His helmet is okay for now, but I will replace it with a 3 Sol high defense base when I can.

I'm honestly completely unimpressed by Treachery. As a bone necro, my merc spends a ton of time sitting behind bone prisons not getting hit by anything, so very often he goes into fights without Fade up. The IAS is kind of useless too because he has no crushing blow, and I don't rely on him for damage anyway. I would much rather have an armor that will keep him alive during those moments when he IS getting hit with a ton of burst damage. Something like a Gladiator's Bane or Iron Pelt would be awesome, but since I don't plan on doing any serious MF'ing, my best bet will probably be a nice e-bugged Stone with super high defense. I will probably try to find him a decent base for a 4 Sol armor in the meantime.

His weapon obviously sucks but the lvl 17 Meditation is amazing so I will wait patiently for a nice eth 4os Thresher/CA/GPA.

Went back to NM Drognan to get a teleport staff.



Hopefully this is the last time I need to kill Corpsefire



Ditto for Blood Raven.

Bone Prison you are my greatest ally.



Tristram was a little too heavy for me. Cursed + extra fast + champions = run away



There is no shame in a graceful exit.

I don't remember the Ghosts being so impossible to kill the first two times around. 50% magic resist and they can float through my bone prisons definitely not ready to farm this place yet.



I'm here to get loot and chew bubblegum...and not die.



Finally got that last gem and cubed a prismatic amulet. No suffix

New resists, not bad!!!



Why is it that you never seem to find these things on characters that can use them?



80!

I've been spending all my extra gold gambling boots hoping to get a nice pair of rares with decent resists...this is the only upgrade so far. Same 40% FRW, now with more armor



The levels are coming quickly. 81!



I had an extremely close call with a pack of extra fast + holy shock + lightning enchanted rogues that took me down to a sliver of health before I could slam a full juv and run away. I need to get a pair of boots with lightning resist so badly, I'm just gonna sit here and shop until I find some. No luck so far, but I found some cute gloves.