Now I'm thinking ... wait a minute, I'm more important than my merc... ISO KO. Time for more countess runs!

20 or 30 runs later...


Upped my vMagi.


Tired of MFin, questing time. Here is an action shot because I know how y'all like those..


cursed and extra strong is bad. Just extra strong is not too scary.

Final chapter for tonight... Catacombs l2, 3 & andy.





Rocking a staff of teleportation here. Still hadn't gambled an amulet w/ charges because, well, gloves & boots are cheaper!

Andy drops:


With that map I ran andy five more times at least. No good drops. Time to get the book of skill, then head back to the pits to see if it is any safer at my new level.

On the way to the book of skill, a useless find:


Then in the pits, a stylish new cap! I would have very much preferred a white one, or a rare one, but I'll take this. With my new shield I can afford to lose sazabi anyway.


At this point in time I decide to imbue a tiara I picked up. Then I go back to nightmare and imbue another one, because imbue is fun and addictive. Both crap.


Oh well, time to put some pTopaz in that diadem and move on.

I'm still hunting for merc armor upgrades, and since safety craft are cheap I gave another go:



Looks like I had ventured to get the staff already. No screen shot of action because that place is the worst. I still only had staff of teleport, and teleport w/o shield is ill-advised. My strategy was to toss hammers around corners where I could, lure monsters into more open areas, let merc duke it out, and teleport only if I knew it was clear on other side.

Another gamble. So close, and yet so far:


Fangskin awaits, and I feel merc armor really must be addressed before that. So back to the mausoleum / pits. Somewhere on the way to those places this must have dropped. I'm saving a socket quest for it, just in case jah & ber drop! (spoiler: hasn't happened... not close)

Finally, three days after my search for merc armor began:



In that time I also found a 6mf sc, and this cute shield. Spirit is better Ladder runewords are crap sometimes. maybe my next walk will be all magic / rares..



Made treachery for merc, and finally went looking for fangskin.



OK, so he was camped near the door, and had cursed. I made a decision to try and teleport over him to get the amulet. Go in and just zap over, ready to save & exit if need be.

The crazy pussy strategy worked. Got the amulet and was able to toss hammers around the bigger area. Purple pots were quaffed. No screenshots of the action taken because really, I didn't want to die.

This post was edited by DManZ on Jan 27 2012 01:33am

Before I ever do that again I will have an amulet or circlet w/ teleport charges...

The next day I gambled this. Damn. I was too focused on merc armor, I forgot basics. Shoulda been gambling amulets previously. Damn boots & gloves!


Especially as these just dropped in the arcane sanctuary!


Compare to my old:

In the tomb I didn't have to battle far! I was psyched about that, as this is where magic immune really start getting annoying.


Duriel drops:

Looks like I had to drink a bunch of pots, but there was no real danger.

On to posting A3!!!!

After sleep!

This post was edited by DManZ on Jan 27 2012 01:53am

A3!






This got 4 OS

On to flayer dungeon!

This place is scary as hell. There were SO MANY unique doll packs. I had to quit in the middle and go farm a1 for more juvs. I started using HOLY BOLT at this time, unless I could get the hammers spinning in the right direction. In preparation for wave 2 I actually spent some points in holy bolt instead of just holy shield.

Action shots!


This guy was not scary at all by comparison.


The dungeon was actually right at the start of flayer jungle, which is the only reason I went down there. Usually I like to level & MF some in travincal before going into scary places. This was the map. I spent a bunch of time looking for the gidbinn before I finally found it.

Ormus lost his magic touch.


one LK campfire at bottom entrance...