Found something in Frozen River:


There were those cold breathing monsters and souls. Didn't get far but picked up PB for socketing:




Fail. The Old Bears got poor cold and poison res. Been worried about CE.

Did some Lks:




It's just non eth kelpies snare. Decent craft:


Still like old belt which is just 50+life/20+pr/10lr/20str...no fhr...but this craft is tempting.

Using this craft or trying it out. The dwarfstar is the alternate. Like ar and res mods along with leech:


Found lots of skillers!


Got lots of decent charms on the Bear but no skillers. Sometime I'll 'merge' them. Another craft that is being considered:


Bit of fcr could help on the switch to beast.

Getting to the frozen river is never easy:


If you can't kill these guys, you won't get far in frozen river. Dead!


Fought through witches, fast lancers, and really nasty cold skellies...cold is pretty much BoBo's Achilles heel along with poison.


I like this charm. Also found a 10 poison res sc.

Much needed scroll:


Got rid of a sc of 9 lightning res. Ofc, always need to do this:


Beast isn't as bad as repairing a grief...why is that? BoBo gets confidence and moves on:


Lighting isn't his problem. Fire isn't either. But cold elemental beasties...they can really hurt. So pretty easy getting to Ancient way with imps and cats and light skellies.

Ran into these guys:


For some reason, their cold doesn't hurt as much as the skellies in frozen river. They dropped this:


Which is this:


That is so good. Now BoBo wonders if he made the right decision using the Ber for beast. This is an endgame shell for Oath. Beast really has gotten BoBo to Ancient Way. It's is a killer.
Not sure I'll use it right now. Rather have a cta in a pb. Have the rune for both shy of shael in Oath. But Mals are hard to find. Beast is really good. Keeping though. With 100 off wep ias,
it could be a 7fpa wep. Beast can only get to 8fpa but has the ar bonus and helps summons with fanat. Ar seem to be a problem with Bears. Lots of ways to get ar but there are sacrifices to fire claw synergies or
summons or both. Pretty much want to make a fireclaw bear with weapon doing the damage to fire immunes. This Oath in bearded axe would also require more than 20 ias to reach 8fpa. So beast is good for now.
What a find though!

Here is the Oath chart with ias calculator:


Emboldened by easy monsters along the way...the bulls with horns are a favorite meal for bears...the tainted monster, yummy.
The other monsters were not so bad, the carvers with their ressurrectors and those frozen horrors:


Had to use tp to escape this one. And...


That was like try number 6 or 7. Only one amp too. One of the many tries just wiped out the party very fast. Even gave up and distributed pots. No real help. When merc dies,
it's time to start again. In this final try, rejuvs were all gone. Didn't see any bad auras like might or fanat. BoBo wants a cta.

Be careful sir dont die now !!!

Yeah, there were some sketchy moments. On one, was running to let the pots digest and the whorlwind guy was so fast and had it in for BoBo. It was funny because I switched the eth partisan insight for the obedience thresher on Gulzar and they were mana drain
But the Obedience seem to work better on the later tries. Had them down to 50% but they seemed to get nasty. Decrepify really does help...kind of essential. Here is the chart:


Might and enchant aren't figured in.

This post was edited by TammyFaye on Aug 25 2015 10:45pm

im glad you made it out alive !!