This story begins where another one ended. After being frustrated with a countless barren Mephisto runs in nightmare, I decided to buckle up and progress so I could be ready for the farmathon. It was tough, but I was gonna make it to LK and...



RIP Kickmonchan. Seeing how much I enjoyed playing this build though, I made a vow to make it to guardian with a Riftsin



Goals:

*Kill Baal in Hell Difficulty
*Obtain solid end-game gear
*Have a bunch of fun
*Share my first WT with this amazing community

Rules:

*Hardcore
*/Players 8 at all times (except Forgotten Tower level 5 for Countess reruns)
*S/E allowed
*Ladder runewords enabled via .txt file

Introducing: FOOTNINJA



This post was edited by Gavnlig on Jun 6 2018 08:15pm

Den of Evil done:



Blood Raven:



Saved Cain:

Ran Countess a couple of times for Stealth runes



Gambled these puppies, essentially a pair of chainmail socks:



And used them to kick Andariel repeatedly in the shin until she burst into flames

Picked up the cube and used my stashed chipped gems to reroll some wands. I was just looking to make some quick cash, but mana leech and -20 wsm is too good to pass up



Also made some sticks for when my mercenary gets old enough



This thing also dropped in Halls of the Dead and I feel very comfortable progressing

The maggot lair gave me this keeper of a gc



I stepped on some snakes



and Duriel gave me something I'll keep around for now:

Didn't take too many screens in A3, but I'm starting to stack up some resists in preparation for nightmare





Ormus' is a keeper for now, mf, res and attack rating never hurts

The resist-train continues:



And it's confirmed: Unique items DO exist



Council wasn't too hard, and we made it to the Durance:

Resists are gonna be nice since I don't plan on using fade this time around



Mephisto went down after a while, no drops as usual



Thul rune in Outer Steppes, highest rune so far

Izual went down without much of a fight and Hellforge apparently didn't even warrant a screenshot:



But then... What's this?



This looks interesting, will test it out. I like the mana leech on the wand I cubed earlier, but this has allres, open wounds vs diablo and a ton of life leech

Found some mf bling to put on once I start grinding

Lightning hose hurt a whole lot, so i decided to play it safe. He went down to a combination of Lightning Sentries and Open Wounds



And the drops: