Merc: *exists*
Duriel:






I have an amplify damage jav on switch but it literally lasts such a short amount of time it's gone before I can screenshot it lol

So I just fed my merc potions and sat in a corner.

Took a few belts of health pots but it was the easiest duriel of my life.






Loot was pretty nice!

Gonna use both rings. A little AR and str to wear a 4 row belt.








Also picked up a couple dex gc's along the way because why not?

I'm going to try to rush through a3 as usual. I am not ready to begin meph farming... idk what I'd even want from him, but I hate a3.

Cleaned up stash. Writing this mostly for myself in case I disappear for 6 months again.

Keeping 2x nef for Smoke and possibly Myth? This is a spoiler but I want to try an a5 merc to start hell.. lawbringer and myth could offer serious crowd control in the form of howl/taunt/decrep's -50% slow/damage debuff.

1x Ith for radiance.. the crafter in me hates "wasting" a sol rune, but 75% def and 7 pdr will be a nice defensive boost.

2x eth obviously. Rhyme, bramble (lol), splendor, etc.

I'll hold onto an Eld for passion in case I get like multiple lem runes. +25 ias, 160-210 ed, blind/flee... it's like a shitty Silence in a sword!

And finally, one Tir in case of honor/steel/whatever.






... and let's not even think about the amount of sol runes I am going to need.

Even being high doesn't take away the pain of navigating a3.. it's also harder to see where you're going.

Mistakes were made.






Sweet drop considering my life is waaaay too low.






Still have no idea where the fuck the spider forest is.

WHAT was I thinking not taking decoy holy shit






Still lost. But hey, waypoints?






Literally the worst act.

I kept this for longer than I would like to admit. I had it in my mind that an Edge would be super awesome for farming meph.

Yeah, but, it's a composite bow...






Another merc-ignoring piece of shit slain.






I'll also hold onto this for about the next 8 months until I can make peace/lionheart.

It's not even the style I want but it's 15 ed soooooo...

This is somehow the most suicidal character I have played.






More proof a3 normal is better than hell LK for small charms.






AND YET THIS IS NO CONSOLATION FOR HOW FUCKING AWFUL THE MAP LAYOUT IS.

Ooh.






OH BABY YES!!

I have to physically restrain myself from imbueing them. I'll wait until I find out when I can roll ias/rep/stack at least.

For now the ias frame is a huge boost.






This took longer than I want to admit, even sober.

I'm kinda nervous about how later acts are going to be if this is the shit in normal.






They all came at once but for once it's a good thing. Decoy soaks hydras and plague jav did the rest.

No 20 frw no happy.






Not amazing but not awful. I'll take it. I have no way to reroll it anyway, lol.