And there we go, Hell difficulty completed, terror zones are unlocked. Let the real grind begin!

... and let me quickly edit in some good news. Almost forgot the hellforge quest, but it rewarded me greatly.
Now all the quests are done, got 2 more respecs, 3 imbues, 3 sockets and 3 personalizations pending.







This post was edited by Klontar on May 8 2025 07:07am

Reached level 84 and did some more chaos runs and attempted some baalwalks as well. The latter was really dependent on the guest monsters and is pretty unreliable for now, since souls/ranged mobs wreck my summons. The Chaos runs I enjoy a lot and I can also include a pretty quick Diablo kill in them as well. I also did the obligatory Cow King kill and messed around in higher /players cows, but it was pretty slow and boring, especially when the mercenary got instakilled, and resulted in me having to wait until he bothers to turn on Thorns again...

It's mainly going to be Pindleskin + Chaos combo for a while, unless some fancy TZ happens to drop when I get to play. Will revisit LK now and then as well.

I'm still keeping my caster amulet packs until I can gamble high enough amulets that can roll +2 skills. I decided to roll the dice on the rings anyway, found two pretty sweet upgrades from them. I also used up my abundance of pgems on a grand charm which rolled a great upgrade too.

I went back for some LK runs, and even though my bone armor is worthless now, they still went a lot smoother with fire golem + decrepify joining the toolkit, no more extra-fast pack surprises.

Tracking! I like that you make a little summary before bunch of pictures!
But i am not fan of the many little pic in a big pic. But def following!
Holy grail next?

Hey! Long time no see, glad you like it. What do you mean by little pics in a big pic? The red rectangle crops? I post those in the same picture because I think it would just spam the thread if I posted identified items separately.
Doubt I'll go for a holy grail, sounds like a hassle keeping track of it, but who knows - maybe if I stick to this walkthrough for long enough, I might do that.



Did a few more Pindle+Chaos runs, nothing of importance actually dropped so far, just gained some levels. I got kind of annoyed by the mercenary always turning on Thorns aura too late, so I decided to make an Edge bow and take the Thorns aura into my own hands, because that's my main damage source on higher player levels, as CE does not scale very well. I forgot to take a screenshot of the bow, so I did one later.

Since I'll be the one to provide Thorns aura, I switched my mercenary to a Might aura one. I made a Hustle (actually perfect ed%, shame it's a non-eth thresher, but that's all I had for now) and a Treachery runeword, since the Lionheart is not needed anymore for the +25 strength the non-eth colossus voulge required. Had to cube my Lums for a Ko rune, because I still haven't found any, and I won't bother looking for one at Countess unless I find a Gul or a Vex for Hoto.

This turned my mercenary into a killing machine, however without Lionheart he has lower resists now and could barely survive in chaos sanctuary unless he got faded early enough. The quality of life was also horrible without insight and the spirit sword, had to keep chugging mana potions and spam lower radius curses with less FCR. So I decided to buy a thorns mercenary again and stick with Lionheart+Insight for a while...

...then I thought I should just spam good ol' reliable Pindleskin for drops and xp - everything is melee, it's quick to enter, and I could churn up the /players to 8, because amplify damage + thorns works great here. No issues with resists, I gave back the mercenary his Hustle+Treachery combo to dish out more damage and keep himself alive with the lifesteal. However, with the quicker runs it got even more annoying that the mercenary sometimes doesn't turn on Thorns until most of my army got wrecked by Pindle, so I decided to wield the Edge bow and change back to a Might aura mercenary yet again... On high /players the corpse explosion doesn't help too much, so it's mostly that instant Thorns + amplify that carries the runs.

Found a random pair of boots in a horrible ethereal base, it also lacks FRW but decided to include it in the post anyway.

Reached level 86 meanwhile, probably going to do a bunch of Pindle runs for now and hope for some RNG along with the steady xp gain. I usually skip 'stone skin' Pindle because he takes way too long to fall. The tactic is to hop in the portal, summon all the skeletons and as many revives as I can before the warriors resurrect, teleport in to Pindle, amplify, and CE whenever possible. I also resummon the fire golem in the middle of the pack so they focus him instead of the mercenary.





You may not like it, but this is what peak performance looks like!

Haven't had too much time to play this week, but I still have some nice updates to share. Disregarding soj or bk the best possible ring dropped from Pindleskin.
The rest of the items were useless for me (maybe except for Kira which I stashed). I also reached level 87 meanwhile.

I vendored this pair of boots, but they were really close to being an upgrade to my current hsarus' boots had any of the resists rolled a bit higher.