Wow, make a guy do 1500 runs and then give him this awful pair, it won't even max my PR! But it'll be close to max after the final Anya quest.


Izual done.


That's about as good as she'll get stats wise, possible upgrades are: SOJs or better FCR ring to replace the rare one, re-roll CTA, better charms/skillers

Gear update as I begin act 4 hell progression. Sorry if the pic is small... if you open it in a new window you can zoom in. I cut off a bit of the Delirium runeword to make it not as wide haha.

Just wanted to comment that now that I've used her a bit versus some FI monsters in A4 hell, I am definitely changing my SS socket to that Lightning facet instead of Shael. Good god, that nova damage is so insanely terrible. I'm about halfway through CS, currently dreading the Infector seal and wondering if I can even do it haha It has been about 45 minutes so far in there. Stay tuned

I still don't understand how this happens? The same thing happened at Coldworm. The main boss is "Cursed" and all of his minions kept getting amped, but I have no source of ctc amp on my merc or myself.

2 Guls now Could make a Vex but I don't really need it for anything.


All waypoints in act 4 hell.


I teleported right to the back of Chaos and spent some time clearing out this area as my home base. Any trouble packs I had after that I just lured back to this area and picked off.

It took quite a while to clear out the area, there were a lot of monsters and her kill speed with Nova is sooo slow. Chaos Sanctuary was really taxing for her, because most of the stuff is FI.


This guy hit Hypatia for almost 900 damage, unamped. A cute little reminder that she can still be one-hit at any time even in her final gear.


It took over 45 minutes to clear the Chaos Sanctuary of monsters, now time for the seals.

These guys were pretty easy, as I expected.


Had to be a little bit more careful, but still easy.


Last seal wasn't quite so easy. Infector spawned with Conviction so I lured most of his pack away and let them beat on each other while Confused while I spammed Nova. It really took forever to kill them even with Static taking them down to half. I had to return to town for mana pots 3 times for this pack. Any time Confuse ran out and they swarmed me, I took about 500 damage pretty fast.

Eventually I had Infector on his own, which was a really good thing because his pack + Conviction was nasty as hell.


Any solo boss is pretty easy with Static + Hydra.


Merc couldn't hang though.

Every fight is a struggle


Hopefully the extra -5% LR will help Nova a little...







Now continuing in Act 5!