Found this off Andy (along with Mav belt--- both dropped at once, decided to use this one and vendor the Mav belt)



Merc stats with the Partizan:



Found this, but partizan better:

Found this off Meph... vendored:



Found this...



also found an eth version a few runs later. I vendored it. The lifesteal off Greyform helps my merc leech life. I hope to find the Shael rune soon so I can upgrade Greyform for my merc.

This is tough. Mace is an upgrade, but I'm 14 points into Sword Mastery and have no re-specs, and only get one more respec come Hell. Gah! Vendored mace.



At this point, things are rough. My stash is full because I'm trying to save gems and runes but I'm not finding the right combinations to actually use some of them up. My inventory is getting full from random charms.

Act 4 with Players 8 is too rough right now. Every monster seems to curse me with Amp. I need to find some upgrades. With the ali baba my kill-hit MF is like 204. I do the Countess on players 1, Andy on players 5, and Meph on players 3. I've done about 50 Andy runs, 10 Countess runs, and 6 or 7 Meph runs.

I'd most like to find armor & glove upgrades so I can move out of Sigons gloves/armor. The 30IAS / 10 LL is nice, but the low defense really hurts me now.

I'm not sure where to go from here... I guess it might be time to abandon Andy and Countess and just start doing Meph every time and leveling up that way.

try to get a lionheart or treachery for urself
maybe if u a really lucky u can get a oath pretty soon?
maybe got some parts of ik set for u going?

I don't have access to the ladder runewords, and Mal looks a ways off yet.

Haven't found any Ik pieces yet

Found Tal's Mask on a run just a bit ago, will have merc use that (we're 64, it req. level 66) and then I'll get him better armor

This post was edited by Interesting on Aug 26 2017 12:25pm

Melee tough in late NM without good gear. Keep grinding Andy and meph

Yes, NM Andy + Meph should be able to provide some adequate upgrades: SoE, Duriels, Bonesnap, WW, IK pieces, Shaft, etc

I'd try to make 'Treachery' for gz IAS, resists, and DR.

Yeah, basically farm-time.

I found an upgrade off Meph - Vile Husk sword. Not an amazing upgrade but an upgrade nonetheless.

Crafted some gloves, no IAS but 10% cb and 3% ll, so I decided to use the water walkers and those gloves and ditch the sigons. Would like to find some exceptional unique armor off Meph now.

Progressed through Act 4, nothing off smith but did find a Ko in Sanctuary. Had to s+e out of Sanctuary twice, which I don't like doing, so I'm down to farming Meph. Level 67 now--upgraded enough that I can run Meph at p5 consistently and safely.

Had hoped I could push past Diablo in a long fight to farm Eldritch / Shenk, but I'll need some upgrades before getting there.

The going keeps going tough.

Since the last post, I have done about 30-40 p5 Meph runs, have not found a single upgrade. Probably have gambled about 4 million on rings, not a single upgrade. Crafted 3-4 more pairs of gloves, not a single upgrade. Re-rolled some Meph-dropped charms, rolled even a PComb with +max damage on it, but not a single upgrade.

Level 68 now. Will update this WT with pictures once some stuff actually starts happening.



This post was edited by Interesting on Aug 29 2017 07:44pm

Big update:

Nice maul... level 30 req. too. I wonder if this would have been good for lld:



Interesting coronet, sold back:



Vendored find: