I will be pretty limited I guess unless I play this char for a long time. But I guess if I played it a while then the things I would go for are:
jalals
maras
chains of honor
stormshield
sojs/bks
arachnid
magefist
gore riders/gtoe to help vs bosses
I guess fire facets in gear and skill GCs/lifer or res SCs
weapon would depend on focus... gris caddy with 3x ias jewels+1 shael if I was going for fireclaw speed. or Beast war spike if I didnt care as much about fireclaws... Level 9 fanat for summons, adds +3 to werebear and lycan, has crushing blow so I can go with other boots. But the runes are tough and it would only be 8 frame attack speed.

For merc I would probably go with an infinity setup if I could find the Bers. I know that reaper's toll is way better for the summons, but the conviction would help the summons chance to hit a lot, especially on a build that ignores the AR bonus from spirit wolf like this one does. And after all, one of my character goals was to bring fire claws to a decent level of power with only like 10-15 into one synergy, so infinity would probably be required for that.

Found the shael I needed


Buffed up a little for NM now

Some action in the Barracks


The Smith


I like this

My HoW, being immune to poison and physical, had no problem tanking Andy for me while I cleared the room


And then we had a cleared battlegrounds

Oh well, still better than my ring


Cubed a Sol using my Amns and the chipped amethyst from Andy. I now have all the runes for both Spirit and Insight, but still no base weapons!


Oh yeah, and all WPs from act 1 NM

Grizzly maxed


Will give this helm to merc for a little life leech %

Finally an Insight base! It hurts saying goodbye to the ctc amp weapon I've had since a1 norm, but it's so nice to say goodbye to mana potions!




Made Staff!

Soon after in Arcane!


Officially just playing support now until I can get some decent Fireclaws damage.


Wish this helm had 2os for Lore!

All A2 NM waypoints




After my merc died twice, I just let him stay dead. Grizzly took care of it!

Another act boss, another unique ring!


...But this one turned out to be pretty nice!


And a new amulet as well