And now for the sweeter part. Yet again I kept running out of inventory space to the point I couldn't properly stash my items, so I decided to roll GCs with my pgems. I had two of them stashed as drops from cs runs and I was pretty sure I would find nothing in 10ish rerolls.

Well, the second reroll turned into an extremely lucky skiller, and the 5th reroll after that into a crazy allres GC. I now have to find a new roll-GC from pindle.

I felt really lucky and since I reached level 87 I finally had the (albeit very low) chance to roll +2 amulets from gambled ones. Unfortunately I had no way to check if any of the amulets were high enough itemlevel for that prior to crafting, but some of them rolled with lvl 88 or lvl 95 requirements, so I assume those could have been +2 ones. All in all, atleast the stash is cleaner now.

The luck wasn't over either, I found 3 amulets in a row with necro skills, although currently none of them are upgrades for my summoner.

The last one will be a really nice amulet for when I respec to poison. I also stashed one of the +1 necro amulets with 10% fcr, just in case it makes sense to reach a new breakpoint later on.

Going solid mate!

Bro, that hustle runeword is insane for its level / the runes needed. Wow!

I don’t really know any of the d2R rune words but that one is perfect for your summoner nec at the moment

Keep it up!

Had tons of progress in the past 1-2 weeks, took a bunch of screenshots but I didn't have time to update this topic properly, so now I'm doing it in bulk again.
I've been running Pindle, Diablo, Cows (mainly during their TZ hour though) and LK.

Found a MF boots upgrade, finally switching from the ol' reliable Hsarus.



After socketing so many monarches to 3 sockets back in LK, finally found and successfully socketed a white monarch to 4. Took 13 spirit sets to get 35% FCR. I don't really need the 35% FCR for anything right now (especially that I can't even equip this shield for a while and it'll probably be a CTA shield anyway), but I wanted to clean my stash that was full of spirit sets.



Demon limb is an interesting find, I will keep it for ubers and dclone. Doubt it'll be too useful there or anywhere else, but it's worth a try.

Reached lvl 88 at Pindleskin, decided to do some LK runs.

Whenever the cows were in TZ when I happened to play, I did a few runs.
Found a very nice pair of WT and an eth Ogre axe for which I had 4/6 chance to roll 3 sockets and replace my current non-eth thresher Hustle.

It rolled 3 sockets, a small but useful upgrade for now. I've been running lots of /players 1 Pindleskin, hoping to find a Shako or some other unique upgrades, with no luck so far.

And now for the crazy upgrades! After such a long time since the last proper upgrade (other than the WT, but that was merely +20% MF) behold this beautiful scenery of runes:



I picked them up and immediately save-and-exited, before the game decides to randomly crash and I end up losing those runes. Happened with a Ko rune before.

Cubed my LK Sur runes to a Ber:



And now a huge milestone is completed.

Then literally 2 runs later with my enigma I found a Ber rune - which I almost missed. Made me wonder how much upgrades I may have missed during this walkthrough. Wish they had shiny minimap icons like in Diablo 3.
I don't really need this rune right now, maybe for an Infinity eventually, but stashed it of course. An Ohm would be nice for Cta, maybe a Lo for Fortitude.

Also found my first actual +2 amulet in TZ cows, and it rolled necro as well! My +1 crafted one is still better, but it's nice to finally start finding these.

I will keep running chaos, the current 125% FCR setup clears it quickly. I had to change my mercenary back to Thorns from Might, but now I get to keep my Edge bow on switch instead of the tele staff until he turns his own aura on, or when he dies now and then. Maybe I should also include some summoner/nihlathak in the mix to start collecting keys for ubers.

I didn't bother rerolling stats/skills for now, as I would have to either grind a Token or leave Hell difficulty, which would throw away my crazy good LK map.