Hello again. After posting a bit about and completing my Barbarian run, I figured that this time around I would do a full post with regular updates. My single pass runs will be full clears. I'll always be on players 8 (bosses and countess included). Absolutely no rerunning maps or bosses. All items are solo self found; However, I will "retire" items to shared stash. These stashed items will not be used once stashed. Plugy is only to be used for the extended stash; no restatting, reskilling, or ubers. The intention is to theory craft a single build, avoiding respec, that can handle all aspects of the game but still presents some challenge. My goal is to full clear every map and defeat Hell Baal. I will be streaming this run everyday on twitch.


Chat has spoken:


Much like Bobarian was a tribute to my streamer friend Bob, this one goes out to my buddy Ash.


The run starts tomorrow 6/17/20 - around 11a-12p PDT

I forgot to hit print screen today
at least there is a VOD

She blew through act 1 - completely unexpected after my last couple runs. I managed to fit in enough stream time to full clear to claw viper temple.
She's got decent block ~45% and res with lv1 fade and some diamonds in a shield. Got her to 71 mf as well but I've yet to drop anything of interest, save a couple of arctic bindings

Finished Andy around lv 20.5.

I'm going to keep prioritizing mf while the going is this easy. Hopefully I'll drop some runes higher than nef tomorrow.

Current gear and stats: https://diablo.run/logical_lynx (without fade)

Nice, keep uit up!

This post was edited by Karokk on Jun 19 2020 01:34am

I managed to break 100mf briefly today - then the uniques started dropping.



I also managed to gamble decent ias gloves to get past 2 bps to the 9/3/3/3 kick. A2 was pretty easy, but my life pool was leaving me wanting. I decided to hold on to pumping dex for a bit and just get str to 70 for greaves and then focused on getting my vit up.

Much like yesterday, things were moving pretty quick. We were at Duriel in no time


But his drops weren't that impressive but I guess it's better than a bunch of TP scrolls (not the greatest for a kicksin anyways)

Sidenote: I'm not sure how this forum works completely.. is it only 3 pictures per post? I can try to consolidate in the future.

I usually stream for 5 hours so I had lots of time to fill, I figured I'd make a push for A3



Nothing to interesting to note here, we did find a diggler on one of the kurast maps. I just kept abusing CoS to stop from getting swarmed by dolls and flayers or attacked by gloams.

We got to meph rather quickly and will be on to a4 tomorrow!



I'm a bit behind my average exp. I normally finish a2 at 29 and a3 at 33. But this wouldn't be the first time the maps have spited me and I've ended up half a level or so behind. It'll balance out in a5.
Here's my final gear/stats for the day:

This seems cool, good luck

Day 3 was going so quickly that I (once again and not for the last time) forgot to take a printscreen for my diablo kill. I was a little bit nervous going into that fight with < 400 hp so I did shop for a lres belt just to max out. The fight was fine. There were a couple of times where the chill+hose put me to ~50% hp. Merc and lv 1 shadow warrior were obliterated.

Sidenote: My hellforge was an El rune

We rushed through a5 eating up all the juicy exp to get to lvl 42 after saving Anya. I then went and started gambling for exceptional boots. I used my only amn rune to make an "edge" hunter's bow to save a little bit of money. 600k+ gold and over 60 boots later I had nothing but regular boots and heavy boots (some were shopped at 43 and 44). This felt pretty bad as my odds were about 6-7% and 3-5%, respectively, for an exceptional gamble upgrade; So, I proceeded to clear glacial and drifter's. I decided I was going to end on nihlathak today because I wasn't feeling up to a baal push.

Fortunately Nihla's temple was holding what I was looking for. These took my physical dmg from ~116-176 to about ~172-272 - a solid upgrade:


I managed to get to and sustain over 100 mf today. The Unique and Set items that I dropped today were:
Ichorstring
Leadcrow
Treads of Cthon
Arctic Horn
Arctic Binding (3rd of this run)
Berserker's Headgear

Here's today's finish along with stats and gear



I'm hoping I find a shael and/or sol rune soon. I have a decent base for "Lore" and "Rhyme" waiting to be put to use.
I'm just now starting to put points into fade to prepare for NM. The Shadow warrior is also now slvl 10. I am loving the 1 pters like blade fury and dragon flight (seriously so good with CoS)

Baal and Cows tomorrow. Thanks for reading!

This post was edited by LogicalLynx on Jun 20 2020 05:29pm

I should've probably just finished baal yesterday. I took it pretty casual today but we still ended up clearing to him in about 1.5h - I am absolutely loving the one point I spent in dragon flight. Between tele stomping demon imps and positioning the merc on high priority targets, I'd highly recommend using it.



I hopped over to cows thinking it might fill in my "3h minimum" stream requirement, but alas we got through cows in about 20 minutes. 1 pt death sentry literally mopped the floor. Sadly, I've yet to find a single Sol or Shael. I especially wish I had a Shael for rhyme. It would have made the Baal fight a little easier. I finished normal at my usual exp of 48.5 - I'm finally caught up as I expected.



There was only one thing left to do to fill in the time gap:



This post was edited by LogicalLynx on Jun 21 2020 04:09pm

As it stands I'm running 18 DTalon, 10 shadow warrior, 1 Blade Fury, 1 dragon flight, 1 Death Sentry, 6 Fade (prepped for nightmare res) and 3 Venom (after DoE quest + lvl up). I will be pumping venom up to slvl 10 and figuring out where to go from there. I'm thinking I want my shadow warrior on slvl 16 (17 once I have lore) and fade on slvl 13 (14) by the end of nightmare. This should leave me with about 8 unspent skill points before Hell.

Easy cleanse:


This was a bit annoying of a fight even with CoS+Tele Stomping her - the shadow and merc didn't really want to pin her down:


There were some really nasty packs so far in NM. Maso had quite a few dual enchants, one of which was next to a conviction pack. I had 3 unique packs stacked in the cave floor 1 (one of these was dual enchant). I also had a cursed+extra strong pack in crypt - Blade fury proved very useful in all these situations where I could sit back and let the merc and shadow tank.

Here's where I ended my stream:


As always, Thanks for reading!
p.s thanks to the jsp guy that stopped by my stream today and also reminded me to hit my print screen button

This is what I needed in my life, a proper challenge!
Just for my information, when you do these runs its normally not allowed to re-run bosses/areas?
And its not common do do a 2man team up, in 8man difficulty games?