Hi there!

After having the idea of running a SSF HC P8 Single pass for a while today I have decided it was the time start it out. Rules are:
- No passing twice in the same area under any circunstances. If I have to because game closes, skip as many enemies as possible in that given area.
- HC.
- P8 all time.
- No sharing items, no ATMA. Only storage the shared and own stash (all was empty before starting the run).

I have decided to pick a kicker Assasing because is the only class I havent played yet. I suppose as with many other melees it will be weapon-dependant, but hopefully this challenge it is doable.

Here the first pick of her starting the game, P8 till the end of hell or dead, whatever comes first:

https://lh3.google.com/u/0/d/1Zoq-xWz8BNZ5LXuRrOiBEFC0fRBc69Cs=w3840-h1922-iv1


Today I only completed the first quest and arrived to the cold plains portal. Look what a beauty corpsefire dropped in the den of evil:

https://lh3.google.com/u/0/d/1yySpcOBZqK670y_vpgvC7rErLxtVzFA0=w2812-h1807-iv2

This post was edited by ooozuZ on Jul 11 2023 05:04pm

Day 2, easy advance to rescue deckark cain.

So far so good, being higher level than the enemies pays off and it is very easy to defend from attacks and succesfully land attacks.

She eats too much mana when kicking but still basic attack is enough to kill fast.

I found a decent base for "strength":
https://lh3.google.com/u/0/d/1VSzTQ59V0kgm5pMdajjm8ahUmZ4J9Qif=w3840-h1922-iv1

And this super pretty gloves:
https://lh3.google.com/u/0/d/1i9OZvC-cg9rQ-WBokC902_XGZrLI_MYk=w2812-h1922-iv1


This post was edited by ooozuZ on Jul 12 2023 05:23pm

It is wepon dependet, but it has sooooo many different wepons that are usable due to it not require any high base dmg wep.

a 3 ral -10 wsm sword will make norm like a steamroll.
Nightmare and hell require some cb/ow or ctc wep.

yeah, it is my first time running an assasin but it seems like weapon wise it could be more forgiving that other melee chars like a zealot.

That ralx3 idea seems good, but being p8 and single pass... runes are scarce, no countess farm.

I littel update.

I finishes act1 normal with ease. So far it has been a cakewalk. I advanced a little bit more and get the cube and the staff pieces from the desert.

I think I have been lucky with drops because this combo is good for early game:

Artic Furs:
https://lh3.google.com/u/0/d/1OGG4t4dta-ntLEVZGw-jZfSOUrDf_aok=w3840-h1922-iv1

and Artic Binding:
https://lh3.google.com/u/0/d/1Ws7DxNvXJtt5Ot7466gB5HrS2yw65rqZ=w2812-h1922-iv1

And I did some gamble and got this beauties:
https://lh3.google.com/u/0/d/1DT4CCELKa9CzeYoJoR8jAdR1bE5U3frz=w2812-h1922-iv1

So far I am rocking 105% magic findand killing fast. Lets see what this act has left !

This post was edited by ooozuZ on Jul 19 2023 10:02am

Arrived to tomb stones. Tomorrow I will start going through all of them. This is one of the worst parts of a single pass run as they are one of the areas I hate more from the whole game.

Anyways, I was lacking damage by the arcane sanctuary, so I decided to gamble a pair of greaves to add some base damage to the kick. I got these ones with magic find:



Unfortunately, I didn't have the required strength to use them so I burnt some runes into this helmet:



Strength + mpk ain't half bad, but I dont like the gold reduction. As soon as I gain a level I will come back to my old helmet.

Let´s see if I can finally kill duriel.... those town portal dropped from him sure are awaiting

This post was edited by ooozuZ on Jul 20 2023 05:56pm

Well I finished Act 2 (and all the tombs ;O)

Got my first unique out of a jar in a tomb:


I was thinking about using it + stealth armor, but i prefer the resis and magic find that my current setup provides

Duriel was easy being level 28, he dropped a bunch of useless rares:




Lets go act 3. I hope I can get an amn soon and craft "Strength" which should improve my killing speed quite a bit.

A thul also would be fine to craft "black" in a flail.

BTW.... Look what ormus had just arriving to act 3



NICE teleport staff

Moving faster in act 3!

I got to the bazaar relatively easily. All monster in act 3 are weaker to physical attacks than act2 ones. So this was pretty easy.

I got the typical useless ring from ormus

But finally the Magic find paid off and got this weapon upgrade:



The very fast speed was superb, I see how important get to good frames is for a kicker.

And 5 minutes later I got this other drop(my second unique) which is even better than the weapon above:




Look how badass now she looks:



Let's see what the council has to offer.

This post was edited by ooozuZ on Jul 25 2023 06:56am

Well, I finished act 3 without incidents.

Mephisto was a bit harder than duriel and it required a couple of rejuv potions. Unfortunately he dropped absolutely garbage. Same thing with council:



Fortunately, I gambled these boots, a little upgrade:

You need to include the type of Boots you are using for your Damage as a Kicksin... not just the weapon.

EDIT: let us say you get to Hell difficulty... have found Hotspurs and War traveller boots with great mods to fire resistance... you want to increase your killspeed thus use the War Traveller boots (mod dependent as well). Damn.. if you find the Unique War Trav boots... great, the added damage helps etc.

Anyway... goodluck in your run... wish you the best

EDIT#2: Oh... for a Kicksin... all boots have damage calculated based on Normal / Nightmare & Hell drops (types)

This post was edited by izParagonzi on Jul 27 2023 11:29pm