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Jun 29 2013 08:07am
So one of my goals for nightmare difficulty was to create an escape(GTFO CRAZY ELITE PACK=RUN!) weapon switch. I've been waiting a while to find this beauty of a rune. Found one on the way to Andy! The picture below is the new runeword weapon I will have on switch to get out of sticky situations fast. Keep in mind I use deaths belt so I cannot be frozen, so under 90% of circumstances I can get out quickly without issue. I feel like this is a pretty good idea for safety purposes,what do you guys think?With my boots + Burst of speed + Vigor my run/walk% is roughly 100%. Easily enough to get me moving AWAY from that "extra fast" elite pack.



HARMONY! :)



This post was edited by XcrvX4092 on Jun 29 2013 08:08am
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Jun 30 2013 01:50am
Rada.


Coldworm. Easy


Fangskin.
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Jun 30 2013 01:55am
So for Duriel I encountered a few problems. I was constantly being hit by his aura to be super slow, as well as his blocking my attacks/knocking me back. I decided to respec into dragon talon for high kick damage, and pump points into shadow master to tank him. I ran 90 Cold resist(hawkmail armor) for him and around 35% life leech. As you can imagine my life leech was pretty insane due to 4 kicks per dragon talon. I stayed alive easily, but the fight in total took around 10 minutes due to lower damage. Easily the hardest boss fight so far of this walkthrough. I am going to go back to my original build thunder claws/dragon claw for act 3 and beyond.







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Jun 30 2013 10:32am
Skippin ahead a bit... so I went back to grab khalims brain after making room in my inventory after checking all the big chests down in the sewers. turns out this unique ring dropped off a skull pile while I was headed back to loot the brain! manald heal... :(


Travincal Down.


Mephy down. Decently hard fight.


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Jun 30 2013 10:37am
Moving on to act four. I finally maxed out Phoenix Strike and am now using it permanently. I have changed up from dual claws to 1 claw/shield(60+ all resists rare I found) Phoenix strike requires just a weapon, and I changed skills back to dragon tail for kick damage since i can no longer use a two claw attack as my finisher.

Izzy? Ezzy...


Forge FAIL!


Found this awesome sorc circlet in Chaos Sanctuary...Sigh
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Jun 30 2013 10:40am
fifteen minutes later...


Shenky Dead.


Anya Safe again.
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Jun 30 2013 02:32pm
nice progress! moar!! :thumbsup:
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Jun 30 2013 11:20pm
Found this nice little small charm at shenk.


Ancients were a very big challenge. I had to reskill again and go back to dragon talon kicksin. I threw on all the crushing blow/attack speed/leech gear I had and this fight took about ten minutes total. I had to reroll them multiple times because of super awesome buffs they had (extra strong, cursed, etc). Finally got some buffs I could work with. I managed to kill one of them before my merc died, so after that I was able to let my shadow tank one and I handled the other.



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Jul 1 2013 01:09am
Tal mask WOOT!




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Jul 1 2013 01:12am
Baal Down, pretty easy. Bad drops.





Here are my stats entering hell. I am going to have to go back and do Some Serious farming for gear and runes because I tested my damage in hell, and it takes forever to kill anything.

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