This seems like a bad a$$ helm to me.






Any comments are much appreciated.

This post was edited by GelatinousCube on Feb 15 2021 10:19pm

Farming normal Diablo sounds pretty darn boring imo, if you havent lost your marbles yet I'd slam a few mephs out maybe to finish the sigon trifecta youve almost completed there, the gauntlets will prob carry you to NM A5
I'd suggest goin frenzy asap if you cant make your mind up, its just amazing dps, not sure what flail you're using, hope its the malice runeword!

I used steel runeword + malice to carry me through to NM act1, then hope for any decent dps rare to drop, or amn/io runes for black/strength runewords, to slam out the crushing blow for dps vs bosses. NM andy is a good one to farm for awhile, I suggest quest bugging her (after you kill her, grab whatever loot you want, and take the TP that automatically spawns after killing her (dont take your own TP to town) then go straight to warriv and go to act2 without talking to anyone then save/exit and her drops will be slightly better^^)

you may not be able to farm her right away as she can be pretty spooky, but around level 55ish you should be good to go for some juicy drops from her and NM meph

+1 to that, my throw barb cleared NM Baal with Twitchroe and three part Sigon's (belt gloves boots)

As soon as you find an Amn rune, Strength runeword will help your boss clear speed immensely, as will Black.

For more MF, you can "Farm" gem shrines for perfect topazeseses and stick them in plain socketed helms/armour, have them in the inventory to swap to on last hit. Like so:



Kind of like Concentrate in that it's a slow single target attack aha. Unfortunately this guy RIP'd to nightmare Travi due to the ele enchant bug, hopefully Jr will get further

I'm done farming Diablo so onto act 5.

This is at Shenk. My merc and the monsters just stared at one another. Something with the map/stairs kept them from fighting. All of the stairs and barriers in the beginning maps of act 5 really show up the deficiencies in the mercs AI.




He even got stuck inside of the soldiers prisons and couldn't get out no matter what. Moron.



First AMN. I went back to act two and bought a flail.

I res-spec into frenzy and I used the AMN to make this. My killing speed went up a bit. With concentration I was invincible. With frenzy (and 19% life steal) I'm difficult to kill but not invincible. I had to save and exit from a pack of those frenzy guys once.




Somehow I got stuck in this animation and I had to save and exit.



First Shael and my highest rune so far.

Now that I know how important resists are this is probably my favorite reward.




Repairing rune words is expensive!

Most monsters completely ignore my merc and go for me. Odd...



It took a long time but it wasn't a problem. Once again they completely ignored my merc.




This post was edited by GelatinousCube on Feb 16 2021 10:10pm

Even surrounded they couldn't really hurt me. Once again they ignored him and he just stood on the outside and poked them.



I had to separate them into groups of two or three to avoid being overwhelmed and killed. They ignored my merc so completely they would endlessly run past him to get to me. I could have just run around and let him slowly poke them to death. It would have taken 12 hours but I could have done it.



Baal done. I ended up attacking his clone for about 5 mintues so a long fight took even longer. My merc mainly just walked around and killed tentacles. Useless drops. In fact, besides the amn, and shael I didn't pick up anything. Not a single unique or set item in all of act 5.

Well done Jr. Your dad would be proud. Also...no more P8!




Stats and skills at the end of normal. Except for the addition of the strength flail my gear is exactly the same as the end of act 4.




No Baal runs. The siren song of better gear calls to me and I want start farming NM Andy. NM is where the game really starts.

This post was edited by GelatinousCube on Feb 16 2021 10:27pm

Not odd, it' just the telebugged merc.

When your merc got stuck and is teleported near you, it can (maybe 100% but I dont think so) makes him not to be targeted by monsters.