i'll have to give that a try, thanks buddy



brain obtained! the inferno HURTS with no fire resists D; gonna have to work on that before diablo happens for sure..



heart! this will be one of two. in the durance of hate level 3 i plan to rip mephiso's heart straight from his chest and add it to my collection



forgot to screenshot trav.. fuck

that's fine.. this made it better. popped a chest and this popped out! CaWwWwWWwwwWWW

CBF is going to help a lot!

i should've expected this.. i also should have prepared better. She is softcore, so she's not dead forever..

still embarrassing, but a promise is a promise. FIRST death



act 3 complete! meph was kind of a bitch to kill tbh. this quest drop was also VERY underwhelming.. ah well.
i'm level 23 now and i feel either under leveled, or under geared.
maybe i'll try running some reruns for gear and try to get some powerleveling done before i progress through act4.

in any case, i'll see you guys soon!

Thanks for staying tuned

Maybe both... But don't worry, i predict some good drops before the end of normal. Also, what are your options for bow runewords in 1.09?

i'm hoping for something like rogues bow! that would be friggin awesome.

options are very limited for missile weapon runewords - Zephyr and Melody lol. Both of which i probably won't bother with..

MAYBE zeph when i get to act 5 and get the ort rune from Qual.. we'll see

so like i said, i needed to farm for some gear/levels.. so i decided that LK was a good place to start. did probably around 50 LK runs, and came across some runes (which was extremely nice after my failed countess runs)
i made this bow, which i found the base for (14ed/3ar) in LK it works WONDERS btw



also found a tal rune and fused a bunch of my old countess finds to make eth. i then rerolled charsi about 10x and got this BADASS base!
I never thought i'd have to wait until i was at a4 norm to make a damn stealth

i also learned that gambling circlets is more efficient in this patch.. or at least it seems to be.
i've done a TON of gambling on the newest patch of d2, and the one before it - and circlets can be tough to come across when gambling.
HERE they appear quite a bit more frequently (either that or i'm just getting lucky as fuck) either way i'm fine with it tbh.



after upgrading those few things, and gambling a few shitty circlets, i decided to press onward. and that meant Izual! Took him down like the little bitch he is!

and here it is! the stairway to hell



the seals weren't too bad, outside of the fact that mana is a slight problem in this patch. i actually tried out a 4% mana leech bow though, and mana leech is BUSTED here. so i have that to look forward to heh
Diablo's ai is also quite a bit different in this patch, which surprised me a lot. He uses his lightning inferno a LOT more than he does now. he also prisons the portals almost immediately

all in all, he wasn't too too bad. i had to return to town a bunch to grab mana pots from my stash and to heal up and stuff, but he wasn't TOO bad.



sick drops, as per the trend

upon defeating diablo and getting to Harrogath, i immediately set my sights on the overseer, and eldritch. they just HAD to die



and a few games later, after deciding i was going to farm LK And shenk/eldritch i found this!



def using

with my full mf setup right now, i'm sitting at 119% mf and it seems to be working well

i'm also level 27 now, nearly 28.

Nice going... sorry about a death you could have escaped from using the Wall(room) tactic with Luring tactics. Not very many people use this to find out the position of the council members (Meph area) are located... they will spawn Hydras on the other side of the wall when your character runs to close after entering (you can do with with others in the rooms left and right without making them come out.

Personally... I think you should start leveling up your merc while mf'ing Act1 upwards before getting too ahead of the level of merc. Ancients could cause you more issues in 1.09 compared to other patches.

BUT... awesome work so far, and if I was playing this patch, I would not go past Normal Difficulty until I reached level 45, this includes my merc.

EDIT: I do remember one thing... finding 791 psn damage small charms in 1.09.

This post was edited by izParagonzi on May 28 2021 09:49pm

you're beginning to irritate me now tbh

Sorry you feel that way. None of my advice was to try and irritate you in any way, but then, that is your problem since you take it that way, as for me, I don't rely on items, I rely on strategy of what I have on hand at my character level and strategies that work with the assumption that I don't find or have access to certain gear, or rely on Gold I find that can run out because of gambling.

My points are different to yours, but at the end of the day... you died in Act 3 Normal, yet, you could have survived this shit if you did NOT play like 1.10 patch plus. Oh, as for you vs 1.00 comparison... you should have used better tactics because 1.09 countered what 1.00 patch was about.

It is a learning experience... stop rushing your climb like all noobs just starting to play D2 even if it is 20+ years old.