Weirdal-adin Insightful-din (2h Zeal) Single Pass - Topic

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Sep 14 2020 11:07am

I am going to try and make stream highlights moving forward and retroactively do this run and the werebear. Here's yesterday's 6h+ stream condensed into about 13 mins of excitement: https://www.twitch.tv/videos/740921220 I'll also start uploading to YT to make playlists of entire runs. Is this something you guys would be interested in? (I will continue to make WT's here)

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I've decided I'm going to abort the plan to use a thresher or a legend sword (crescent moon) swap. Instead I'll be going full vit and relying on the use of an "insight" elder staff if I can make it far enough into hell. I'll still be switching to a bec-de-corbin in NM if offered.

Early Hel and Sol runes were very welcome. But the highlight of the day was getting Duriel's Shell no more chill for me.

I added this lovely 9% LRes 3MF SC to my inventory as well as my very first Thul rune. I'm not sure I've ever waited this long for a single Thul lol. I would find 1 more in durance later.

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I had some really nasty temples. The worst offender was, surprisingly, Ruined Temple. I had a CE+Stone, Cursed+Burn Huntress packs with spiders right at the start. I barely escaped and had several close calls setting up the floor.

Sander's taboo was a small upgrade to the rare gloves I was using. The 40 life is welcome but this won't cut it for hell. I desperately need Lava Gouts or LoH.

Another decent charm today! 84AR 30L will probably make the final cut.

Another conviction Bremm. No worries, this is what salvation is for.

Finally a boss with unique drops!

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Gear and Stats

Thanks for reading!

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Sep 14 2020 05:52pm

I kept the stream short today. I've been trying to catch up on the grail and jsp write up stuff. Here's the youtube playlist I'll be expanding for this run if you'd like to follow along there: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SrVRg-Cqvok&list=PLjlQwrUdrQ0wdLfH8_d0HSQae1sLtuuPL

Act 4 was, as anticipated, easy. I didn't really get many undead spawns on the first few maps. I kept rolling into venom lords and vile mothers on every map save city of the damned.

There were some decent rune drops. I'm convinced this game wants me to make "Obediance" for the merc. I'm happy to oblige.

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Diablo was ridiculously easy. I used a life tap wand to make it even easier. MF swap netted another Duriel's Shell

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Gear and Stats:

Thanks for reading!

edit: It's pretty funny that with the ED% rolls on Duriel's Shell's defense and given my level when they both dropped that the defense at the time of the drop was 666 and 665 respectively. Idk if this is a blessed or cursed run :bonk:

This post was edited by LogicalLynx on Sep 14 2020 05:56pm

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Sep 14 2020 09:51pm

Awesome, gz on double duriels 😂

The YouTube summarization is a great idea. I personally watch videos in the morning (central european time) and this is perfect to start the day with 😀

I still have him go all the way!

...or die to some famous viper....

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Sep 14 2020 10:54pm

2 duriels within one act of each other... ona no rerun. How bout that.

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Sep 15 2020 07:25am

Quote (handmade2 @ Sep 14 2020 09:54pm)

2 duriels within one act of each other... ona no rerun. How bout that.

It's insane! I wish I had this luck on every run. I can add it to the list of cbf stuff I've found in the last 10 runs... 3 hawkmail, 3 duriel's, 3 ravenfrost, 1 death sash, 1 trang's girth.. I've yet to find Darksight, Kira's, or a Glad's tho

I actually dropped a sureshrill frost out of a trapped soul next to the river of flame waypoint too that day... crazy day

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Awesome, I'm so glad someone will enjoy it! I think after getting the CBF I have to try really hard to get to hell now. Surviving A1 is definitely going to be random luck with pack affixes and where they spawn. I would love to die to fangskin this run :rofl:

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Sep 15 2020 10:43am

Courtesy Slayer_Peach again :rofl:

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Sep 17 2020 09:47am

I haven't had a lot of time to get out of nightmare. I've not been feeling well, but I have gotten a lot of the content on youtube now.

So far my nightmare a5 start has been fine. Damage isn't the best but I think I can cut it in early hell. I figured there was only upside to burning my 4th Sol rune on one of my 4os Partizans. I was mostly hoping for an improvement to crit/ed or hitting lvl 16 medi. Oh well, at least the merc got a small upgrade.

Nothing has ever been quite as exciting as this super chest.

All of my overworld maps and red portals were pretty underwhelming. No crazy affixes or scary spawns.

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My first Lum rune was a nice get.. although I'm not sure I'll really be needing this after all (unless the game wants to toss me a ravenfrost)

I kept getting succubi and witches on maps, even the pea shooter fetishes. My merc died constantly during the first half of A5.

Decent SC drop today. I'm not sure how I feel about my res going into Hell yet. It's not looking great. I think I'm going to burn my NM socket quest on my Duriel's Shell. At least I have boot options now. 40LRes vs 40Fres+FRW. I think even my 30C 17F belt may stay. Gloves, rings, and helm are in the sorest need of upgrades.

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I'll be attempting my NM finish today and plan on doing some shopping, crafting, and gambling tomorrow.

Thanks for reading!

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Sep 17 2020 09:50am

lmao funny double walk bro, hope you make it past hell

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Sep 18 2020 07:50am

Well, Insightfuldin Weird Al has actually made it to hell! It wasn't without a lot of effort. Most of A5 was underwhelming and tame up to the final clear. I started the day with Ancient's way. This would be the first of 4 consecutive maps that I rolled frenzy taurs (excluding pindle's map). In addition to this, I'd spawn other dangerous packs with them. Ancient's Way = Lancers+Afflicted, Icy Cellar = Snakes+Succubi, Anguish = Flayers+Beetles, Pain = Quill Rats+Zealots. Champion Frenzytaurs gave me the biggest scare, the minion packs were rather easy to deal with, although the several extra fast taur packs were terrifying. I had a pack of taurs next to my ancient's way start and that freaked me out with not much space to move.

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I forgot to screencap the Blackhorn's drop somewhere in Ancient's/Icy. I ended up using this for the -20% slow and Light Absorb. This replaced my "Lore" and was probably going to be my helm in Hell.

I had to be extra vigiliant for the FE beetles in Anguish. That said it was a pretty rewarding map for me. I went and made "Treachery" and it's replaced the duriel's shell on the merc. I might swap to this armor if I can afford the resistances and find a ravenfrost later in hell. We'll see.

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As bad as my first 4 maps were... is how easy the remaining 4 lucked out. Vaught had no snakes, I repeat NO TOMB VIPERS! It's been 10 freaking runs since I've had a snakeless Nihlathak.

I ended up fighting an extra strong madawc and holy fire talic at the same time. I didn't reset Ancient's as there wasn't any FE or troublesome auras. I didn't really prepare (bring pots) to fight them and did so with 1 belt of 8 super healing and 8 rejuvs. This left me with 2 rejuvs after the fight. Cleansing actually did a suprisingly good job of sustaining my life.

WSK 2 had a Soul+Unraveler spawn - which I called moments before. But WSK 1 and 3 were easy spawns. Fortunately there weren't any champion unraveler's or many unique packs to deal with, so clearing souls was quick. Also the blackhorn's kept me basically immune to souls.

And cows are where all gearing ideas changed.. Nearly 2 in back to back runs. This helm is almost definitely getting my socket during my hell prep stream. It's likely not coming off at all whereas I could see potential to replace the duriel's if I get lucky.

More boot options is good. I don't think I'd wear cold boots, but I'll know for sure after I do some crafting and gambling on today's (late) stream.

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Thanks for reading.

I'll have a gear and stats update once I've made all my gear for hell.

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Sep 18 2020 04:34pm

In total I crafted:
13 blood gloves
8 safety boots
8 safety belts

I gambled over 1.5 million (not including resell) gold on:
sharkskin/heavy gloves
sashes for demonhide sashes/crafts
greaves/warboots for safety crafts
I gambled another 1.5m+ on rings (nothing worth using)

I have a full inventory (minus 2 columns for cube and scrolls) of resistance charms. 52 Fire, 46 Cold, 56 Light. A large amount of these are tied up in large and grand lightning charms with single digit resistance. I can make some space here for more life/ar/FHR in the future.

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I knew I'd be socketing the Tal's today, so I went ahead and started with that and waited to see if we'd need an Ort or a Ral rune. It ended up needing a Ral rune.

Both imbues were total garbage.

I think this @11 ring came from a 3 ammy cube recipe. But I got this towards the end of nightmare and held onto it just in case.. well it's day has arrived.

While gambling heavy and sharkskin gloves I ended up with these 20% with 19% Light. My blood crafts didn't go so well. I did hit 20% with 28 res.. but it was poison unfortunately. No CB for me I guess.

I hit these lovely safety boots on the 6th roll. Fortunately they have some FRW even if only 10%.

I had a couple of different belt options - I was using a 20c 17F belt. I also hit a 20C 20L belt through gambling. It is only a sash and would need to be upped if I switch to it in the future. It would add some life but that's about it.

With all my charms out I can safely fit the angelic wings and halo onto my equips. The extra replenish life should go nicely with my prayer aura.

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Here are the final gear and stats for heading into hell. I hope I survive long enough to swap from a Partizan "Insight" to an Elder Staff "Insight"

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I don't feel optimistic about completing A1 Hell. In fact I'd not be surprised if I died somewhere stupid like the cave or even an overworld map like stony field. I told my chat I probably won't survive underground pass. I am going to give it my best shot though!

Thanks for reading.

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