2nd gface


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Tricked again!!! 2 ceremonial javelins and a ceremonial pike in 1 night. How sad.

The extra sad part is knowing that this is actually rarer than Lycander's Aim. This thing has a 1:1500 chance of dropping here and the bow has a 1:1100 chance.

That's all for today. 2 Titan's and a Lycander's flank was sad, but Shaftstop and Gface were great.

Still looking for: Lycander's Aim, War travs, Raven Frost, Hone Sundan, 20ias/20+ mf gloves, potentially tal's ammy if it drops before I've found everything else, but I won't stick around to find it if it doesn't.

Eth greyform is kinda coo
Required str: a whopping 2!

Haha I thought the same. Truly build for a scrawny frame.

I have been gambling gloves recently trying to get some 20 ias/mf gloves or some otherwise nice mf rares for this build. Came up with these as the best so far.


Scratch that, found these shortly after. Still hoping for better though.

First unique ring pretty underwhelming.


But that's okay because a better one dropped shortly after.

New ( and current) MF gloves. The MF is a little lower, but the added res and ML made them more attractive. Still hoping for some 20 IAS/20+ MF ones.


Really didn't expect to see this here. They are quite rare from NM Meph. 1:5500 in my current setup.


Nice roll too, kinda hurt to vendor them.

Seemed to be raining decent items this session.


New and current Nagelring.


Hm. Welp, this is a good drop for me for sure. Even if I don't end up using it, it will allow for me to once and for all solidify my item choices going into Hell, so I can make a lot of room in stash. Build options to follow.

I have never really made this type of zon before on expansion. I am not sure what a good build would realistically be while entering Hell. The build would need to be able to survive but also have a fair chunk of MF. I have been considering these two builds, please let me know if I am missing something. I have calculated the MF% using the items I already have, plus a 40% roll on War Travs, which I don't have yet. So the MF could end up being +/- 10. At first I was leaning towards build 1 because of the higher survivability, but then I thought that either build would probably get slammed in the same situations. I'm not sure if the extra survivability is enough to actually make a difference, in which case build 2 would be better for the slightly higher DPS and higher MF. I think build 1 is more well-rounded for sure, but these builds only need to take me from act 1 to act 2 Ancient Tunnels (full clearing along the way). So I'm a bit conflicted as to which is better. Do I go for slightly more DPS/MF and just try to be extra extra careful, or do I go for slightly more survivability as an insurance policy?

Build 1:

Helm: Tal Rasha
Ammy: Tal Rasha
Belt: Tal Rasha
Gloves: rare
Rings: Raven/Nagel
Boots: War Travs
Armor: Smoke
Weapon: Lycander's Aim
MF=157
Higher life/mana/resistances/LL/ML
1 frame slower attack speed

Build 2:

Helm: Stealskull
Ammy: MF ammy
Belt: Gwrap
Gloves: rare
Rings: Raven/Nagel
Boots: War travs
Armor: Smoke
Weapon: Lycander's Aim
MF=193
Lower life/mana/resistances/LL/ML
1 frame faster attack speed

I've thought about it a little bit and I think I will go with build 1. I am having a lot of fun on this character so I want to defend against 1 shots as best I can. At the end of the day, playing her is a lot of fun, so if I take a little longer MFing in the Ancient Tunnels due to lower MF/1 frame slower IAS, then that's fine since the gameplay is enjoyable. Anyways, I will potentially find items to grant me a new and improved build after some initial time in AT. I'd really love to be able to find some resistances somewhere besides Smoke, because Skullder's would be so great. Oh, and I may use slightly different gear on and off up until I reach AT. No point in sacrificing survivability for MF in non alvl85 areas.

This post was edited by Belarathon on Jun 10 2024 09:56am

I've realized two things: one is that I think a couple of the more recent screenshots may be a little out of order. I think this is because I had over 800 screenshots from this wt so far that were clogging my harddrive so I deleted almost all of the already posted shots at once. I think a couple of the leftovers were entered out of order. Anyways, doesn't really matter as any of the effected screenshots are all from the same NM Meph runs so it doesn't really make a difference.

Secondly, I've solidified my choice for build 1 when I realized that with the faster IAS and less mana, even mana pots won't be able to upkeep my mana while using Freezing Arrow.