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Quote (Belarathon @ Feb 16 2018 08:15am)
YESSS! Finally, I've been waiting for either a Shaman or Hunter to follow religiously :thumbsup:

GL and I hope you find a really sick rare pelt! :drool:

e/ I saw that you were a little unsure about skill point distribution, and I can tell you that if you are only going to max one of the summon skills, definitely make it Grizzly. I also saw that you were leaning towards Oak Sage as your spirit, but I would suggest HoW because there are a lot of FI monsters in Hell, and on P8 your Volcano won't be spectacular. Your Grizzly doesn't need the extra life from Oak because you can just recast him any time, and you + merc can go without the extra life as long as you are good with your Grizzly placement and especially if you get some decent FRW to kite things with fissure.


Thanks for the info, I think I will go that way! :hug:


Before starting with act 2, I did one more Andy run and found this on my way. Keeping as a temporary sc.





Drops of that one run





I really like these low level uniques :wub: Not kept, of course.



This post was edited by lenni490 on Feb 16 2018 02:10pm
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I got the cube before Rada because ...





... I really had to cube some gems and runes :rofl:





Much better!

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Another temporary sc on my way to Rada. Only 4, but I lack some light res, so I'll keep it for the moment.





+1 skill. No problems.





I keep finding these mid res sc's :wacko: Stashed!

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Nothing spectacular happened while getting staff and amulet.









Hello there!

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20 frw is nice in early game, but considering those nasty fire damage shamans in act 3, I decided not to keep these, but to stick with my gambled 10 frw / 17 fire res boots





4th way, what else <_<





But then again, I only had to walk one hallway to get to Duriel's chamber ^_^

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Duriel took a while, because fissure only "hits" every few seconds. He always focussed my wolf and killed him with 1 hit, so I had to recast him frequently. Oak was killed a few times I think and merc once at the end of the fight. I also went to town a few times to rebuy potions





Crappy drops







This post was edited by lenni490 on Feb 16 2018 02:26pm
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I tried to cube a nice weapon for my merc :bouncy:





And got this nice thingy on my 2nd try in total :banana: I cubed a third one, but it was worse





While in act 3, I found a white circlet and thought I go imbue it. I should have taken a pelt, but I didn't think of it at that moment :wallbash: Well, 2 more chances to imbue pelts (hopefully) :rolleyes:



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Not the worst for that level, some energy, res and dr. I stashed it and decided to continue to use my TirTir helm in act 3, because it would be very useful at those large flayer groups





Jade figurine from Szark





The eye, seconds later

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20 hp in return for the figurine :hail:





The usual – a temporary mid res sc :P





Got a shortcut map and could skip great marsh :thumbsup:



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Good luck !
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