antidotes adds 50 pr stackable by consuming more

Spoiler alert - you don't get the cube until act 2. It was gem shrines. Yes I used antidotes as well to get it to 80.

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Sick shield!! What should I put in it?



Let's do this!! He was pretty tough.



Trash

Upgraded my STEALTH



First Mana Burner!! Stay far away...



I will use this! Need to start stacking MDR/PDR now.

Stormtree down. This is only the 2nd unique I got the entire game and I have 147% MF now. Lots of yellows and greens, none very good.



Check out my LK map...perfect! Too bad the superchests can only drop up to RAL in Normal. I was hoping for something more to make my LORE.



Trav was annoying, but not terribly difficult. Just kept killing merc. I might farm them a bit before moving on to A4, I think they can drop ORT/SOL.

Cool wand! But I want to use my GULL dagger for MF. If I can get another source of shiver armor soon, I can use this as primary and switch to GULL for killing blows.



MEPHISTO!!! He was actually pretty tough. Those balls of ice hurt. I need more COLD resists.



Meph down. Belt was 17FHR/10LR but needs 45 strength. I can't afford that right now.



So now that I am closing in on level 30, I need to think about how I want to respec with the points I have. I was thinking something like below. After all the discussions here, I have decided to go pure ICE and ES:

1 ES
1 TK
1 teleport
1 warmth
1 cold mastery
1 shiver armor
9 prereqs
17+ frozen orb (as many points are left over at level 30). Not sure where to add points in subsequent level ups...frozen orb synergies? or ES/TK? Let me know!!

...did I miss anything above?

Also I will split points between ENERGY and VITALITY to get equal HP and MANA. Anyone have better ideas for stat distribution?

My shield for act 4



Izual down. Pretty easy.



Ding level 30! Going to respec shortly.

Pray for SHAEL or SOL rune for much needed RHYME or LORE



Worst possible outcome...oh well. At least now I have SPIRIT runes! LOL.



Ugh. Diablo. This was really tough. I almost deeded when he dropped me down to 33 health. I think my maxed F/L resists saved me. I almost S&E'd.

What the hell man!!



Off to Act 5. Shenk/Eldrith until I get bored.



I like COLD skill tree a lot better than lightning right now. I am using both glacial spike and frozen orb. Damage is pretty high. I have 1 point in all of the prereqs for FO as well as Energy shield and warmth. I have 15 in glacial spike, and about 4 each in FO and CM. I want to hit 17 for CM with hard points plus item skills, then max FO and Glacial spike, max TK, and max ES. Build is done when I get to 90.

You can read off the possibilities from the table below 'Reward': https://www.theamazonbasin.com/wiki/index.php?title=Hell%27s_Forge

Hellforge (n) drops one rune among r01-r11 (El Rune ... Amn Rune): the 11 lowest runes.
Hellforge (N) drops one rune among r12-r22 (Sol Rune ... Um Rune): the 11 middle runes.
Hellforge (H) drops one rune among r15-r25 (Hel Rune ... Gul Rune): not 11 highest runes.*

*) Notice that a continuation of the pattern from normal and Nightmare would have produced the range r23-r33 (Mal Rune ... Zod Rune).

Thanks...so I guess it was the best possible outcome! Did not know that. I was too lazy to look up the drop table.

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Doing Shenk/Eldritch runs to level up and get some gear. Y U NO GERKE'S??



Not as good as RHYME, which I do not have yet...

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Have about 167% MF, lots of yellows and greens.

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