Most of A3 was pretty uneventful. I did have a scare with a possessed doll in swampy pit. But I progressed pretty quickly through the act.

As usual, durance 2 took a long time but it was gracious enough to give me an armor worthy of hell (mid roll 177%):


I guess this also frees up the shield slot if I decide I want to run something other than rhyme. It's really too bad I "retired" (shared stashed) the Moser's I dropped the other day, but I really wasn't expecting to have any other source of CBF this run.

Meph proved easier than the stoneskin Vampire I had moments before him:


Here's where my gear ended up for the day. I'll keep running as much MF as I can until hell:


This post was edited by LogicalLynx on Jun 24 2020 07:44pm

The more I think about it, the less I'm sure I want to gamble them. I won't have a pul to up the rares to elite if a good roll, and I think I'd rather up to boneweaves if that's the goal. I'll probably hope some whites/blues drop in a4 or a5. I have some MF warboots doing work now. I think I'd prefer trying to gamble for some gg rings/ammys for hell.

Stoneskin vampire aka 8 million hp

Nice walk here!

I'm so lucky I haven't run into a phys immune yet. By this point last run I had come across 3x with the Barb (one of which was a PI A3 Vampire in Normal)

A4 had some dangerous parts, but it was mostly manageable. I was pretty careful with my CoS use for fear of crashing the game on a tortured soul.

This was an interesting group of 2 packs - surprisingly easy to chew through:



Hellforge has me considering a "Duress" over the Duriel's shell I found yesterday:

Chaos sanctuary had some scarily thick packed knights that gave me a couple of scares but we managed to clear them out only to deal with difficult seals:


Diablo was a cakewalk however. Finally not another nokozan and dropped a Curio (might use this in hell):


Here's final stats (pumped dex) and gear (should be unchanged):


Thanks for reading!

I was not feeling great so I kept today's adventure to another short stream. As a result, I didn't get through much of Act 5. What I did get through ended up being chaotic.

Frigid-Plateau was relatively tame; Despite lots of ranged attackers, they were easy to shut down with CoS. However both crystalline passage and glacial trail maps started with fanatic mage packs the former had lots of frenzytaurs nearby which caused some panic. If that wasn't bad enough, my journey to rescue Anya was littered with snakes, wraiths, and succubi. Fortunately they die quick, but they were all quite dangerous.

Frozen River did reward me though, unfortunately the imbue didn't go better. I did give it the best odds with a clvl of 70 - still a solid 21% phys dmg boost:



If anything was hard leading up to drifter's cavern, this map might take the cake for the hardest map I've had in any of my runs... Center map with 3 packs of Frenzy taur trapping the door.
#1: Lightning Enchanted + Blessed Aim
#2: 3x Champions + 1x Berserker (YIKES)
#3: Holy Freeze + Cursed

Lots of running, resummoning shadow, CoS'ing, tp'ing out, mapping back in to spread the packs out and find a safe area to kite too (which required clearing out some afflicted+champ skele mages) and I was left with 1 baddy:


Tomorrow I'll kill Nihlathak, Baal, and Cows

Thanks for reading!

This post was edited by LogicalLynx on Jun 26 2020 03:46pm

Here's a clip (14min) of the frenzytaur floor if anyone's interested: https://www.twitch.tv/videos/662765769

This post was edited by LogicalLynx on Jun 27 2020 07:47am

Its actually kind of hilarious how bad of luck that is at least it was probably some good exp. Thank god you stock up those rejuvs, I always forget those.

Well done so far bud! Hell is gonna be tough