cheating or not it is still fun to read =) keeps me occupied while at work

ok!

From there I was desperate for ist, so I re-rolled my map to get a better LK, ran countess, travincal, chaos, shenk / eldrich and even Meph a few times.

Some choice drops from this period of time:


Crap!


Ooooo... first piece of armor for ubers!

I eventually gave up looking for ist. My barb had an ist rotting away, so if I completed the game then under the rules I set for myself, I could twink. sigh.

Time to go save anya.


After saving anya, I actually started looking for ist again. No self control.

I found another Vex instead. Jan 13, 6:34 PM

Then a unique ring! Manald


Then a Ko.


No I will not be rolling another hoto.

This nice charm:

fun to read, ok maybe some lucky drops(for all the whiners--> leave this topic wtf), but keep posting your wt

This post was edited by EQ_Fisti on Jan 27 2012 04:16pm

The charm is now from Jan 14.

Another day of play, but no drops.

Jan 15 now:


meh.


An interesting option for uber trist.



I've never found one of these before.

I don't blame you guys for thinking this isn't legit. At this point I was double checking the dropcalc, and was going to check the checksums of the game files to make sure the pluggy distribution I am using didn't bundle some other mod.

I love double special drops:


From the 16th now (1:39 AM, no self control!), more random nice things:

158 ed / meh

2:25 AM



Nothing special though. 14 /12 non-eth

You can see from the screen shots that I now MF trav with run toggled OFF! I realized the reason I was using purple pots so much was that it was on, and I was getting hit while trying to walk away.

I still choose not to stick around trav if monsters don't die quickly, and have cursed / extra strong combo. There is always a shrine in trav, and frequently a well that I use to remove curses ASAP.

Looks like a boot streak.


Later that day: (I'm in a trav / eldrich / trav /eldrich pattern now)



Drops are getting interesting.. can't stop without a sign.

The sign.


don't press my luck. Keep on questing, finish, grab that ist for BO.

Ancients. Sorry no /p8 screenies. By this time I had decided i WASN'T going to post the walkthrough. It was the wisp that put me over the top. I've found more than my fair share of HRs (2 Ohm / Lo / Sur ) the last couple ladders so I really didn't think too much of it, but never a wisp. Not even that the wisp is important for the build I have in mind. I would have MUCH rather found the more common (relatively) Natures Peace, for obvious d-key farming reasons.

Obviously I've changed my mind about posting the walk for the reasons mentioned before, so here are the two screens I did capture:




I wasn't too worried about them. See the small experience bump? I was level 90 or 91 by now anyway. I've rushed plenty of loaded games for people, and my gear now was almost as good. No shako, no anni or torch, but still 8k hammers.

OK WAVE 2:



Strategy:
* Hammers to knock over skellies at the start, then
* 1 point redemption - clean up dead skeletons before they can be revived.
* Holy bolt. Holy Bolt "Ignores the resistance of Undead" ... even resistance to magic damage. After maxing hammer synergies I put several points there instead of just holy shield. Bolt damage synergies with hammer and works against wave 2.
* Merc does ok damage w/ my conc. aura even though I still have not found a 4 os elite polearm yet. Damn haters.
* Revive merc a lot if he gets stuck on skellies (no LL).

Also if wisps spawn in the room prior to wave 1 then I don the wisp projector, but also am sure to clean them up w/ redemption so as to prevent them from being revived.

Waves 4 and 5 were much more scary than I am used to. P8 is no joke. If the waves don't melt away like you are probably used to seeing on the realms, then you are gonna be one-two shotted, especially by wave 5. I cautiously started well below where I would normally setup in a BO / p1 situation and threw up a hammer field. Then I walked vigorously, then ran away when they all didn't just die. Then I creeped back and let them see me one or two at a time. I still use this strategy at level 92, even with BO. Wave 4 is safer, but 5, still not so much.

On to baal:


And drops