So at this point, I deicde to do some more Meph runs. Maybe something would pop up and be useful. Then this happened.
Run #1

Run #2

Literally back to back. So I took this as a sign to respec (even though this is my 2nd respec) to take the 17 points from Axe Mastery and pump Berzerk/BO/pre reqs. I also put a point in Mace Mastery. The damage now was more consistent and LL was very nice. I still couldn't really kill much in Catacombs, but I CAN do Normal Baal. So, right now it is operation find me some fucking bloodletters. These can easily get me to NM Meph and perhaps beyond. So I did a couple Norm Baal runs and foudn these gloves to use for non-MF

So, I'm done for the night but am 100% committed to finding some Bloodletters on Norm Baal before progressing through NM. Wish me luck!