I realized this farming route was going nowhere, so i decided to go all the way back into the Minoan Labyrinth, to get them from Megalesios. That decision paid off. The first one drops on the 3rd run, the second drops 10-11 runs later from a chest on my way to the Telkine.





Ok, let's see...

Yes! I get the attack speed completion bonus. I intentionally crafted the Valor of Achiles relic inside a weapon to get the attack bonus, i don't if that helped, but the result is promising



My DPS jumped from 264 to 407 - that's why you get the Shroud! Now it's time for the MEGA pain of vendor farming a Hallowed helm... this can take me from 10 minutes to a couple of hours, but i there's no other way (gonna have to hit the heavy metal playlist for that one). I might also have to go back to Act 1 one again and farm a Pristine Plumage charm, to upgrade the hallowed helm for some poison resistance, because i'm at 0 and Typhon does poison too.



This post was edited by KillingIsMyBusiness on Oct 25 2020 03:57pm

This Juggernaut affix is ideal for Typhon, it gives me additional elemental resistances and +50 DPS - I'll take it



Oh, thank god, finally! This took well over an hour of running from vendor to vendor... i saw at least a hundred green helmets in their inventories before this one.



Went back in act 1 and farmed some harpies to get poison resistance for the hallowed helm. That was quick.

Had to buy these two magic items to complete my Thyphon setup, this is it, i will rotate the gear when necessary



Only my physical resistance remains at 0, but that one is hard to raise without sacrificing the important resistances. I think as long as i have good defensive ability and block chance, with a decent dodge on top, i should be okay against most physical attackers. The good news is, unlike the other 7 primary resistances, physical doesn't get a penalty on higher difficulties.



Chang'an Farmland is the other good spot for farming Sabertooth. I will wait until 3 of them drop, if none of them is better, i will continue with the act anyway...

Well i had a one crappy Sabertooth in the very first run, but i guess i forgot to screenshot it. Here's the second one, another crappy one on run 3...



Level 32 - All points in the Warfare tree



The third one takes more than 20 runs to drop, but is just as lame... eh... moving on. There will be more tiger encounters, i hope to get a random Sabar from them



This post was edited by KillingIsMyBusiness on Oct 25 2020 08:56pm

Moving on - end of the act coming up



I can handle regular Dragonians now, but my god, the mages can still do a ton of damage... the game is so unfair at this point



Of course there have to be archer dragonians two... the others are not enough.

Yaoguai - I was very scared of this boss, because i've read he has a bleeding attack that will insta kill me even with maxed bleeding resistance. I'll be shitting my pants in Epic and Legendary. I can't skip him too, there's a force field blocking the other bridge. Time for the hardest part of the game so far - Wusao Mountain, The Obsidian Halls and Typhon



This post was edited by KillingIsMyBusiness on Oct 25 2020 09:05pm

I did 8 or 9 Typhon runs before realizing that he's not worth the trouble. He is worth farming, but not with my current kill speed. It takes 3-4 minutes per run from the rebirth fountain and with a more aggressive item setup. I only got one blue in these runs, that may only serve as a swap amulet. Typhon can drop much, much more and more often than this, but i was just unlucky.



Act 4 begins - upon arriving in the city of Rhodes, i see a ghost talking to me, telling me to go meet the sorceress of the Ixian Woods. He also wants me to go find him in the Underworld



With act 4 the pain is going to get bigger. Everything hits harder here, while there a few enemies (2 in particular) that are so overpowered, they have become infamous among the TQ players - the Grandmaster Archers and the Dactyl Gigantes. The archers i'm gonna have to deal with somehow, while the dactyls are a rare spawn, so i may never encounter them, but if i see one, i'm reloading my safe there and then, i'm not fighting them no matter what... they stun you and kill you with 2 hits, no matter what resistance you have.