After all this rerunning I had quite a bit of gold.
SO I decided to gamble for an precast amulette.
I nearly only got Amus with skills on them... but not fireskills or sorceress skills
It felt like as if this game was making fun of me -__-


But finally
And still got some cash!


Here you can see my "new" damage. It's in town, so without might aura. But that would not change that much tbh

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I shopped this after gambling... dunno if I should use it really.
I think it's definitely better than 10% damage reduction, but I'm afraid to get used
to this much life. I mean, I'm going to change the armor for sure no later than hell A1,
because I'll need more res than.
What do you guys think?! lmk

See you soon in the next update

it's a good question, try it out!

I'd use it then switch from that to Lionheart. The difference in HP will only be about 80 if I remember the stats on Lionheart correctly.

Yes m8, you are right! I mean, I have to go through the Chaos Sanctuary/Diablo and whole Act 5 first, before
I have to worry about hell... So screw it, I'm definitely using the life armor now



Lionheart provides (in case of a sorc) 90 life. So that would "only" be 69 life less. However my goal is to use Treachery which provides zero life
But as told above, I'm not going to worry about that now.

So time for an update I guess

Did some more rerunning before entering the CS, because I did not have enough time
to complete it. Again some highlights:
Found this one. Very nice dps but not much more. Was considering to use it over the Kelpie Snare.


Well but then I found this! Really a nice Upgrade! Definitely better than Kelpie.
Merc is running with 60% cb now. I think that's going to help versus Diablo a lot.
Socketed it with 1 Amn and 2 Shael Runes. I hoe I can upgrade it in the future.


Again some Inferno. Had more defense than my current, so I'm using them
Ring wasn't usefull for me.

Here you can see my new sexy look
Switched to the +154 life Field plate.
I did not have enough strength (Rockfleece provided +5), but didn't want to wait for another level.
So I gambled most of my gold for a ring with enough str that could replace the Nagel.


Okay... onwards!
Had to slash my way through the rest of the River of Flame first ofc


Was pretty easy! Just like the first part of the River of Flame. Very few hits needed per
the average guy. And merc is a truck atm.

Reached the CS. My welcoem committee (weird word btw) was this fireimmune guy and his friends.
Very easy pray!


These guys take longer than the fireimmunes.


The curses can be very annoying here. Still sticking to my old tactic to fight
as less monsters as possible at a time.

Vizier and his pack.


Very easy as always.


Found this thing a couple of steps later. A fireskiller would've been so
so nice

Cleared the whole Sanctuary before attempting Seys and Infestor, because I'm
going to use every room I can to seperate them as good as possible.
Lost merc a handfull of times, when he was surrounded and cursed at the same time.
Have to concentrate more when I hit the seals.


There we go. I was very very nervous, since this guy was a thread in normal.
I'm going to try to stretch this group as good as possible, because I think merc will go
down pretty fast when surrounded. Fanatism Aura sucks and these guys are all fireimmune


stretch... as you can see, the baddies actually fighting with merc don't profit from the fana aura
anymore. Had to tele back and forth a lot to keep merc at a nice position.
The AI seems to hold this pack together. If you tele to far, they all go back to Seis.
So no easy job.