Hey everyone!
I've been lurking around this section for a while and decided to do a WT of my own.
I have little single player experience and only accomplished guardian once on a sorc (no p8).

I hope to have a bit of fun and not die too early on this char.

Rule are as follows
. P8 all times but countess
. HC char
. Plugy enabled
. 1.13

Alura started as a fireball sorc and then respec to blizz at lvl 30.

Alura just finished normal at the start of this topic.

Feel free to criticize and i will consider any tips on build/items to look for/etc.

Good luck!

A1 was mostly spent grinding runes for both leaf and stealth.
I managed to find a +1 fireball +3 static field base for leaf which was awesome!
I wanted to make tir tir helm to help with mana issues but i was bored to death farming those two alone ^^
Found this funny ammy along the way

I also made a malice runeword for my a2 merc with the runes that i found.
A2 was not that hard and i decided to pump a few points into teleport since i was dealing enough damage already, making teleporting viable both in fights and to move faster

A3 was somehow fast and i got my first unique @ meph oO

This was my highest rune from normal.

Crappy forge ^^

Maybe merc weapon upgrade?

Yep!

Still had the runes needed for malice due to my lack of luck at countess (i think i done ~30 runs for tal eth tir ral)

And got dia down

A4 was the hardest for me. I had to juv at one of infectors minions (really close call) and diablo was hard to get near to frost nova + static.
As i decided not to try to save my merc, diablo was easier since i could juke his stuff and static him low enough.
My playstyle trough normal was to pull mobs together, frost nova and a few static and then finish with fire balls. Merc was tanky enough to keep most mobs together which was helpful!

Leaf >

Nice res on this dudu helm

I was planning to respect at ~lvl 30 and i shoped a 20 fcr wand already.
Shoped this as well and made anci pledge after q2 from A5

Some stats when i was about to respec

Found this really cool ammy on my way to anya!

It was my second +1 to anything found so far (my first was +1 curses iirc)
Went to rescue anya and bump my res to 75/53/75/75

From my experience so far the hardest part of normal was behind me but have to be careful with ancients!



My merc was good enough to tank them and once i got them separated, i managed to static both melees down. After that blizz + tele arround until they died.



Lets finish normal

lame plugy

The waves were easy with blizz but this guy took the most time!



Baal with static was np. Drops were not that impressive ^^



Now i am planning to farm baal (on p8 ofc) for some levels and hopefully a piece of gear or two.
After this the plan is to either farm andy nm a bit or rush to meph and get some cool upgrades there. What do you guys think?



Overall normal was pretty easy besides from A4 cs. I managed to play most of with no shield and teleporting blindly sometimes. I know i can't be doing that in later stages of this walktrough.
I will try to play more slowly in nm even though it is tempting to go fast on a sorc