Claw Viper + Arcane Sanctuary done with ease.


Duriel's Lair is protected by Zoltun Kulle (Act3 Merc) that will open a portal to a special boss in Hell difficulty if I'm not wrong.
I like it how these names are actually not random, and actually have meaning + connections to actual Diablo Lore^^

Progressing.

The Vizier is on the Lower Kurast entrance with few 5-6 more of his buddies.
They all shot inferno looking ability that flies in he speed of amazon's arrows and has massive range. Bad screenshot to show it, but they hurt if you position badly.

Gidbinn reward is a SHRINE.
Thare are many shrines in the game, and they have only 1 use, crafting. Crafting cannot be done without Shrines.
In order to control the crafting outcome, you need to have a fitting shrine. This shrine would always give my item stats it has mentioned + random stats.

Progressing further
Mephisto actually dropped me DOL rune which will be great for a runeword I need

Found a base for my ENYO runeword, using the DOL Mephisto dropped.


That's how Diablo looks when he spawns. There's a whole army around him^^

Solid upgrade for merc.


Shenk always drops Mark of Infusion. It is used to create your own item with stats you want. Those items are called HONORIFIC items.
You can buy Orbs at vendors that give certain stats, and Mark of Infusion is used to merge those orbs with normal white items. Useful early and mid game. Never used in end game

That's what Mark of Infusion looks like in inventory, it's like a small golden cross.


Made 2 more runewords to make my life easier, Prodigy for me to get some mana regen and mana per kill,
and Ilmatar for merc. Act2 mercenaries are considered PALADINS so they can use Paladin Only items such as this one.
Act1 merc does the same with Amazon items, Act 3 merc with Sorceress items, and Act5 with Barbarian

Instead Frozenstein, there are some winged demons whirlwinding while walking. They don't hurt on normal difficulty.
Nihlathak is amazing cos he ALWAYS drops 3 unique items. People tend to farm him early game to get some Arcane Crystals and create their own uniques if they were not lucky enough finding some ^^

Ancients drop random items on death.


This "tower", aka Infernal Contraption, is the last wave on Baal Run. Except that it actually deals damage, and tanks quite a lot, it keeps spawning random minions. If you don't kill it quickly, you can find yourself in a quite tricky situation with Throne Room being packed.
After killing that last wave, Tran Athulua portal opens. First uber level.
note: you must be between lvl 50 and 59 to do this quest. If you're higher than lvl 59, you must pay 1 Arcane Crystal per 10 levels to get Charm from this level.

This is the level's layout, and the size of it is scary.
Thing that's scarier than it's size, are the enemies. This level is full of amazon warriors that shoot various different bow skills at you.
Level has 3 bosses (3 amazon priestess) that have special abilities. One of them, which is the biggest pain in the ass, is that she summons a wall made of 500 amazons that shoot at the same direction and can basically 1 shot you. Perhaps not on Normal though