Another nice find in the sewers:



Maybe someday I'll find a Guillaume's Face to put this in.

With Radament dead it was time to venture into the wide open expanses of A2. I immediately noticed that my lack of cold and poison resists were a big problem, as those slinger dudes and the stupid little hawk birds were doing way too much damage. I swear, those hawks must have the ignore target defense mod on them too because they just seem to always hit.

So I needed some gear swaps as I don't feel like constantly chugging antidotes and thawing potions.


The Rhyme came back out, as did this:



... and this:



I seriously need some upgrades in the headgear dept.

... except a cold enchanted death nova almost wiped me out... A2 is really dangerous so far... I'm having to play more cautiously than ever.


Hopefully a HoTO will help I was seriously considering just running countess until I found a Vex worth of runes, but then this happened:



Not that a Gul in /p8 is that uncommon, but here is the video anyway!

http://s1078.photobucket.com/albums/w486/d2thing/Penelope/20120403/?action=view&current=Gul.mp4

Time to run countess... Maybe I just suck but I don't feel safe in A2 at all yet. It seems like most packs are unique packs, and I'm often fighting two packs at a time.

Countess updates:
Tal
Thul Amn
Key Eth Ral
Tal Thul Unique Grim Wand
Amn Shael Eth
Tir Ort Io Nat's Helm


Key Eth
Amn Tir
Hel Mal Ort


Video: http://s1078.photobucket.com/albums/w486/d2thing/Penelope/20120403/?action=view&current=Mal.mp4

Ist Tal


Video: http://s1078.photobucket.com/albums/w486/d2thing/Penelope/20120403/?action=view&current=Ist.mp4

Ral
Ith Shael Ort
Ort
Ith Amn
Sol Lum

Only one more Mal to go! That was very much faster than I expected! Ofc, I also need to find a 4os flail, but that shouldn't be too hard. I just need to go back to A5 norm.. I hope I find a Fal & extra Kos & Lems before the Mal or Ist though. I'm trying to keep reruns to a minimum, but I'd really like to have the runes in case a pole for merc Obedience drops, or to upgrade a vMagi if one finally decides to appear.


But being HC & tired is bad. I'm violating my Plan, which was to sleep and exercise normally. So g'night all!

Final edit: the album has all countess drops, as always: http://s1078.photobucket.com/albums/w486/d2thing/Penelope/20120403/

This post was edited by DManZ on Apr 4 2012 12:40am

Ive been following these updates for a while, and must say i find them very interesting

Hope you continue untill the end

So lucky with that Gul drop. Keep it going.

We wanna see your brand new HoTo ASAP!

Another insane streak of rune drops bij DManZ
It's almost like the third party program increases the drop rates just a bit, pretty sick..

That would be the WORST with all the time & effort I put in Dozens of you have PMed about exactly what I've installed, and the documentation for the method I used to get set up w/ 1.13c & extended stash in one easy step assured that the drop mechanisms are unaltered. If that isn't the case then I'd be very upset indeed!

I'm about to run countess some more over my lunch break here, so hopefully more updates in a bit

Are you currently employed Dmanz? I am curious about the amount of hours you've put in this.

Yep. full time. But what does one have to do with the other when I'm still posting at 3am?

Curious on this extended stash thing... Time to search google...