Turns out I'm really updating after a month haha. Finally completed 7 Tombs + Duriel. Very tiring experience. Thankfully, there wasn't any Greater Mummy in the biggest true Tomb, only Blunderbores, Steel Scarabs and Mummies spawned, so it wasn't that draggy.

2 notable loots. First is a Wiz, which is cool but not useful for me.

https://imgur.com/qBBiZeC

2nd is a 5 Soc Thresher! Obedience is 100% secured. I've already gotten my Fal, and just need to find a Lum to cube to Ko. Otherwise as per my rules, I will grab a Lum from my shared stash after A4 Forge.

https://imgur.com/1ZXhhDN

Aside from these, nothing else good dropped. I'm really still hoping for a 4 soc Thresher/CA to drop, so I can upgrade my Merc's weap.

Oh and Duriel was being stingy as usual.

https://imgur.com/3HMHBIo

I'm at Flayer Jungle now.

This game is so much more fun when you have visible progress with gear. Look at these 2 beauties!





This post was edited by Ducko on Jul 27 2024 12:50pm

So true
When i start naked early season and find something like a lum rune for smoke or kiras guardian for high res
I get more excited than finding a hr in the late season

Didn't continue this character for 1 month because I was busy playing something else. Finally have time to progress, and what a great run it was!

Last I stop, I had just reached LK. This run was basically from LK to Trav WP. There was nothing exceptional except in Kurast Sewers 2. Inside a stash laid a Ko rune! With that, I have fully self found all runes for Obedience. Look at this beauty



Randomly killed a monster to see my overall stats with Enchant buff. This is such a huge upgrade to Bonesnap War Club. The attack speed is so much superior too. I don't think I need to be that reliant on Lawbringer anymore. Haha!



Still hoping for another Lem rune to share Treachery with merc. We both could use some extra resist!

Anyway, onward to completing Act 3!

This post was edited by Ducko on Sep 7 2024 07:38am

Obedience has been a HUGE upgrade DPS wise. Previously, I was heavily reliant on my Merc's damage plus Decrep's CC to help him survive. Now I can charge straight into battle with him. Thresher base means I hit pretty fast, which allows me to sustain my HP with Feral Rage. Act 3 and Meph were easy peasy right after this.

Sadly, shit drops, which is also the theme of this update. Nonetheless, I'm already satisfied with my overall gear and am confident of completing Act 5.



Act 4 was a little more difficult, primarily because my Merc could not survive well enough. Turned out I still had to rely on Lawbringer, but at least I could still dish out the damage together. Forge was not ideal since I already had my Ko rune haha.



Diablo was quite tricky. Merc stood no chance against his flame/lightning. But I could kite him. Proc decrep, hit him a few times with Obedience CB, rinse and repeat. Slowly but surely, he was slain. Again, nonsense drops.



What I learned from this run though is that Obedience is costly to repair. Coupled with my merc constantly dying, I burnt through about a million stashed gold this whole act to revive/repair. Had to feed on scraps during the last struggle in Chaos. Literally had about 80k left against Diablo haha.

It's been a long while, but now we're reaching the finale. Slowly but surely, we will complete this!

This is the reason why many pvm melee builds like to use phase blades or indestructible weapons XD