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Jul 5 2016 08:36am
I'm back for another walk through this glorious game.

I am going to be playing a sorceress, starting as fire, ending as cold or perhaps light depending on my patience in LK.

Rules;

- Hardcore
- P8 all times
- Extended stash
- Kill Hell Baal
- Reach Level 91
- Craft either a good ammy or good boots
- Make Hoto & Chains of Honor

Hope you enjoy as much as I do :)

Meet Gabriella ~



















Nice gamble for such low level..



First rune word like everyone else lol.





Huge MF boost for early game. Let's see if it pays off...





Slaying the beast ~



Usual crap drops lol. Quest bugged her for future running.



Pushing through A2! Hate this act.







This was actually a very hard fight since I have such low life from pumping into mana for fireballs. Must have towned 6-7 times for potions since 1 hit 3/4'd me.

None the less, he met the true death.



Act 3!

Lovley jade -




My merc having to step up to handle this guy.





I don't think it would get 4 os at this ilvl at socket quest, but eth longsword is my preferred spirit sword style. Trashed it.









I'll take the +Mana! Good ring while clearing pre-meph mobs.



Come on Gull Dagger! Expected something useful here, lol.



Progressing to Act 4!

Izzy taking the beatdown:




Forge time..

Amn rune, will come in handy! Unique ammy, let's see..



Much needed..




Making my way through Chaos. Without a Leaf staff giving +skill bonus, Fb isn't clearing as fast as I'd like. I don't want to give up Gull dagger just yet, lol.



Used a re-spec from Akara



Much better clearing now...



Norm Diablo, always one of the toughest battles in the game.





Garbage drops... not even bloodfists, frostburns, magefists, anything useful at low level? Ugh..



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Ah well, Act 5 begins.



Merc armor/weapon upgrade





Dol!









Cubing up preparing for spirit sword once I find a freakin base.



Anya saved ~





Nagel


Cool little shield but nn..


Norm Ancients!





Nice blood, easy.













Baal, time to die ;)





Magefists, I'll take em'!






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Norm = complete!

Nightmare, coming soon.
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Jul 5 2016 09:32am
Wow, great start so far!

mages, eye of etlitch, ancients pledge, etc.

nightmare should be cake
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Jul 5 2016 10:08am
Decided to do a cow run for shits & giggles. Paid off, lol.

Key insight rune! No luck on any bases yet.








NM Countess ~





NM Andy - static + merc tank for 10 seconds + blizz = profit

Garbage drops as usual for me :(


Another Andy run, uniques dropping but nothing useful.


So now I have on the top left 4x runes a spirit set ready to go & next to it those 4x runes are for insight. Need bases!







Aldurs wpn



Gotta love this shield, MF'd right off Black Marsh waypoint lol..



Since I found an extra Sol a few pictures up, decided to make Lore for dmg/res.



Countess giving me some goods.







Hoto base unless I find an eth one for style points :)



A few NM Andy runs ~

It's raining Dol's



New merc wpn - good upgrade for sure.





Moving on to Act 2



Static + Merc's new wpn, success.





Duriel bite's the dust again







Old dmg:



New dmg:



Clearing my way throuh Act 3. Was rushed right at the entrance to Ruined Temple. Glacial spike + Blizz handled.













Venturing on to Act 4 NM:





Found this buggable armor, figured I'd give it a try with cubing for Treachery once I find a Lem if I haven't found a better base by then.





NM Diablo - Difficult fight, sent me to town a few times to replenish pots.





And all that work wasn't worth it, lol.



Shenk! Great spot to MF.



MF run updates ~





Nearly died trying to take this screenshot of Lem!



Found this longsword while doing some NM LK runs hoping for a weapon wrack that drops bases for spirit/insight. Really needed the dmg boost so I used my norm socket Q on it!







Decided to give crafting a try for some good boots.













Went back to do Forge & some MF runs! You'll notice I swapped out my Stealth with a sexy lifer armor I shopped. Needed the life bank more than FCR from steath at this point.

Also - clearing speed has vastly improved from simply adding spirit sword in the mix.













Lol D2 made me waste a socket Q on a long sword only to give me the damn base not long after. Typical troll.



Found the shael for treachery :ph34r: I'll make it when it's really needed. Merc's benefiting from the massive life leech from armor+helm combo atm.





Unique ring :o











Gambling skills 10/10









Progressing through Act 5 NM;



Merc handled np..







Glacial spike + Blizz makes these guys pretty harmless..







Man, these drops are just painful!







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NM = complete!

Now it's time to slow down & really MF the hell out of NM. I'm no where near ready for Hell, would be a fast RIP.

I have so much room for upgrades it ain't even funny. An insight base would be appreciated... lol. Although, I don't really need insight due to building my sorc around the mana issue (600+ mana w/ frostburns).

Posting more updates soon! Love this sorc.


This post was edited by Vincenzo on Jul 5 2016 10:30am
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Jul 5 2016 10:41am
Time to improve me & merc's gear..







Time to cube the eth cuirass I found a while back...



Yes B)



Not the best base but this will do!



This post was edited by Vincenzo on Jul 5 2016 10:41am
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Jul 5 2016 10:45am
holy long posts batman!

great stuff though :)
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Jul 5 2016 10:55am
Treachery doing very well, merc is an absolute tank. I took his armor, which was Duriels shell :P . Maybe vmagi will drop for me soon.















In game text speaks for itself..





Lost nearly 1/2 damage however I really only need my merc to clear a couple immunes in throne here and there but mainly act as a tank for boss killing, which treachery is allowing just fine.

I'll use insight for now just because I've been waiting for a damn base for so long lol.





End game boots imo. I'll still try to craft some nice ones but these are definitely a keeper.



My res/life stats now that I am using aldurs boots. I had to make another spirit in the broadsword I found earlier due to not having enough dex to carry longsword without the previous boots. Problem solved.









Replaces my first pair :)



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Jul 5 2016 10:56am
Quote (cB_ninja @ Jul 5 2016 12:45pm)
holy long posts batman!

great stuff though :)


I'll make them shorter going forward. Thought it would be easier to post the boring norm / nm progression in one or two posts but going fwd I will go smaller!
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Jul 5 2016 10:58am
Farming NM ~

Andariel dies within 6 seconds, it's great.









Trangs gloves!

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Jul 5 2016 11:06am
Huge merc upgrade!





Snowclash! Big upgrade for me.







That moment you are so used to identifying unique rings and seeing manalds or nagels...



Thought this was neat..



New dmg/stats since latest upgrades. Blizz is destroying bosses in literally seconds. Lookin' good so far!





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Jul 5 2016 11:09am
omg medi posts
amazing sorc wt
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