Hello everybody, meet BigOx! My first ever HC P8 walkthrough! Wish me luck as BigOx whirls his way to hell baal (hopefully). He'll be starting as doubleswing because he doesn't want to single-poke mobs on his way to level 30. As soon as he hits 30 he'll respec to whirlwind and spin his way to victory.

Rules:
P8 during all progressions
Any difficulty allowed for reruns
S/E allowed
Ladder runewords enabled via .txt file
No Plugy, no extended stash
Swords only

Den Cleared. Reached level 6 already and got double swing. Also found an eth jav while I was in here to toss at the boss from a safe distance

This post was edited by zuppj350 on Dec 15 2018 04:54pm

Had to capture an action shot of fighting this fearsome beast:

Nice action shot of Andy's final moment here

Quest drop:


Won't be re-running Andy the map is terrible. Onward to act 2!

Radament down but forgot to get a screen. First unique from act 2:

Staff Obtained

Second unique drop from act 2:

Might have to hang onto that to make sure I have enough mana leech when I switch to whirlwind even though the rest of the stats on them are useless.

Amulet obtained

Some magic find for my little helper

Coming for you Duriel

Super easy with BO, Shout and thawing potions. I think I only used 1 healing potion on my merc and none on myself. Took about 2 minutes.

Finished act 2 at level 26. Four more to go for whirlwind.

Got the eye

Another unique, this one is of no use to me


Having some nice luck with the color of drops but so far I haven't found any decent weapon. Been on the looking for socketed long swords for steel & malice. Longswords are nice bases due to having 44 durability you don't need to go to town every 5 minutes to repair.

Gidbinn Found

As expected, the ring was of no use to anybody.
Brain obtained

Heart obtained