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Upon leaving the Pandemonium Fortress and heading out to the Outer Steppes, Hypergolic was delighted to discover that Megademons did NOT stop Molten Boulders (I had thought that they did, and was worried because MB is still by far his best damage-dealer...). The grizzly, however, was bad about knocking them and doom knights out of the path of the boulders, though, so he went back to dire wolves for most of ActIV. The steppes were cleared and not long after moving to the Plains of Despair, he located Izual...he was no problem, but took a long time to whittle down. Increasingly, Hypergolic was finding the damage from his Steel broad axe insufficient, and when a superior 15%ed 2sox Giant Axe dropped in the City of the Damned, it was a godsend. He made another Steel in it, and while it was a bit slower, the damage was more than double that of his broad axe!
With that nice little upgrade, Hypergolic finished clearing the city, then move on to the River of Flame, where he had a VERY nice run of gem/shrine/rune luck! Hypergolic's gem luck had been pretty good overall, but to this point, he had gotten very few emeralds... In the first half of river of flame, he got 5 standard emeralds, plus several other gems, 2 jewels, an El, 2 Tirs, 2 Nefs, and an Ith! Then, on the way to the Hellforge, he had the following run of luck:
Then, just offscreen there, was a gem shrine...so he cubed 3 of the std emeralds he'd found to flawless, and...
Then, just a bit further down the path:
From there, he could go right or left...right was:
Not bad at all! He had used several Eths in runewords, nice to get another, and while the topaz was kinda a shame, the other gems were great!! In fact, when we turned around and went left, the emerald was cubed to flawless with the others that had dropped earlier, to use on:
Nice, already have the reagents for 2 spear crafts when it comes time!! After that, he cleared the rest of the RoF and the the Chaos Sanctuary... he was very careful with all of the seal bosses, but everything went smoothly... lowered to /P3 for Diablo, who fried the merc instantly with his area attacks, so I left him dead and after a longish fight with much ducking and dodging, stood triumphant over D's ugly carcass, contemplating the drops I couldn't use...
WoRG
With that nice little upgrade, Hypergolic finished clearing the city, then move on to the River of Flame, where he had a VERY nice run of gem/shrine/rune luck! Hypergolic's gem luck had been pretty good overall, but to this point, he had gotten very few emeralds... In the first half of river of flame, he got 5 standard emeralds, plus several other gems, 2 jewels, an El, 2 Tirs, 2 Nefs, and an Ith! Then, on the way to the Hellforge, he had the following run of luck:
Then, just offscreen there, was a gem shrine...so he cubed 3 of the std emeralds he'd found to flawless, and...
Then, just a bit further down the path:
From there, he could go right or left...right was:
Not bad at all! He had used several Eths in runewords, nice to get another, and while the topaz was kinda a shame, the other gems were great!! In fact, when we turned around and went left, the emerald was cubed to flawless with the others that had dropped earlier, to use on:
Nice, already have the reagents for 2 spear crafts when it comes time!! After that, he cleared the rest of the RoF and the the Chaos Sanctuary... he was very careful with all of the seal bosses, but everything went smoothly... lowered to /P3 for Diablo, who fried the merc instantly with his area attacks, so I left him dead and after a longish fight with much ducking and dodging, stood triumphant over D's ugly carcass, contemplating the drops I couldn't use...
Gear stayed the same except he replaced his gloves and boots when they wore out and upgraded his axe as mentioned
Code:
Head: Wolf Head +2 Molten Boulder/+3 Cyclone Armor/+2 Carrion Vine
Body: Stealth Breastplate
Hands: eth sup light gauntlets
Feet: eth chain boots
Belt: damaged plated belt
Ring1: +1MPK/10FCR (Akara)
Ring2: Entropy Band 30mana/29%LR/4%LL/10FCR/1MPK/Half Freeze Dur (Ormus)
Wpn1: Leaf Battle Staff
Wpn2: Steel Giant Axe
Merc:
Head: Ethereal full helm
Body: Stealth Ethereal Chainmail
Wpn: Malice Ethereal Scythe
WoRG
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Forumite Character Class Lvl Progress
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Skiff ColdFever Sorc 77 Guardian
Vang *Spokane Zon 81 Guardian
PhineasB Orange Zon 85 Guardian
OldSoldier GaranDarkslayer Pal 83 Guardian
Norcim Valryka Zon 86 Guardian
Luhkoh Amaresu Sorc 78 Guardian
Pb_pal Elding Pal 81 Guardian
skoolbus Agni Necro 85 Guardian
Grisu Lugh Barb 86 Guardian
Jocular Cranky Barb 71 A5 NM
Vildecor Rowena Sin 53 A2 NM
Dazliare Svetlana *** 49 A1 NM
WoRG Hypergolic Druid 36 A5
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Forumite Character Class Lvl Progress
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zemaj OUGNecro Nec 33 A3 N
Jocular PopeJohn... Pal 48 A1 NM
Vang Solidify Sor 54 A1 NM
CaseyJones RunsWithLava Dru 76 A3 H (Sszark)
Babyhell *ItsATrap Sin 77 A3 H (Mephisto's council, S&E)
PhineasB Craft Pally 53 A2 NM (retired)