@jonnyphive yes, i got one since first round of RFL, and dropped a better Griffon nicely socketed. Guess i'll have a time at Travincal to find those 4 5/5, or trade them!
@jonnyphive yes, i got one since first round of RFL, and dropped a better Griffon nicely socketed. Guess i'll have a time at Travincal to find those 4 5/5, or trade them!
I have a 5/5 I'd be willing to trade you straight up for a +3-4/-5 - I just want to see that perfect shield getting put to good use! PM me if interested.
I have a 5/5 I'd be willing to trade you straight up for a +3-4/-5 - I just want to see that perfect shield getting put to good use! PM me if interested.
Beside some Travincal runs for JMoD's lightning facets hunt, BabyNinetyNiner got a small progression.
He completed his lvl 22 doing Andy runs, hoping some upgrade. This one went under the form of a Bloodfist pair of gloves 18def, always nice, Gorefoot boots, and a 17MF Nagelring.
Some weapon upgrade also before Steel craft:
Afterwards the cube was required and he did almost a full level getting it, dropping two Tir on the run.
In the end, decided to craft a Falchion Steel - I didn't do fine maths, so for me at 35ias total the 30% more Zeal attacks shouldn't compensate the about 50% more raw damage.
Having dropped no El at that time, went back to Countess for few runs. It was a Ral Tal Eth El sequence, so nice ones stashed for future runewords!
Finally completed the level by testing the weapon in the Stony tomb - nothing interesting has been found there.
Still no death to report Act 2 beetles incoming...
Alright, my untwinked 99er is back to being my highest lvl char, so all is right again Got lvl 94! Did 930 ancient tunnels runs with Arkana during this phase. First 400 or so were on p3 then I upped it to p5 for most of the rest. Found several grailers but only 1 TC87 (grandfather). Runes were better than expected with vex, ohm (from chest), and ber. Never found an eth elite polearm for merc or an ebug helm for delirium (though this doesn't matter much at all). Fortunately 2 monarchs for spirits dropped early on, but i dont have a 3rd one for a body recovery kit. Also somehow dont have another 5os crystal sword. When I find a mal, I may have to roll her second cta in a double axe -.-
Gonna take a break from her a while and work on other characters, but when I come back to Arkana, it will be to Diablo's lair!
@Babyhell haha i wont complain. That definitely would not have beaten my round 3 score It was very nice seeing a ber on the ground for the first time. Now just cham and zod remaining
Little update for Prairie, just to say she's hit lvl 95 after hours of Chaos Sanctuary run. At least !
Some more grailer, especially my first Tal Rasha Amulet ever. Incredible, but I never dropped that amulet before, I had 2 death Fathom, one Stormlash and every unique ring and amulet of the game before I get this little green thing.
I made some cow level to find an eth base for a future Infinity. I got it, now I need another Ber...
I never had a lvl 95 char before.
I start to realize how long the quest for lvl 99 will be.
Klaus entered what has to be the single most boring 20M stretch of his career. Nothing happened. No noteworthy S/U, no decent runes, no good charms or jewels, not even an NDE for something to talk about. I resorted to picking up gold piles by the end of it to keep myself entertained. The only thing keeping me going at a decent pace was that 98 was finally in sight. Oh, speaking of which:
That feels good. I'll take this chance to remind anyone that's thinking of getting to 99 with a fire druid (which, realistically, is nobody) that it is NOT fast. At all. Klaus has already spent just as much, if not more time at Nihlathak than Eleanor did (not more runs of course, but more literal time), and he's still got (by FAR) the biggest stretch to go.
Grail sits at 426 for Klaus, only 11 off from what Eleanor found (with significantly less emphasis on MF gear and running) so that's pretty cool.
I'll take this chance to remind anyone that's thinking of getting to 99 with a fire druid (which, realistically, is nobody) that it is NOT fast. At all.
I've been thinking the same thing, with an untwinked fire druid on my laptop and my recent entry in the overburdened tournament. That's way down the road, and chances of burning out/losing interest before then can't be minimized, but the Druid is the class that seems hardest to push through. Crazy that a Druid was the first SPF 99er in v1.10+
Great progress @Pb_pal and dedication to keep the XP bar moving!
I've been thinking the same thing, with an untwinked fire druid on my laptop and my recent entry in the overburdened tournament. That's way down the road, and chances of burning out/losing interest before then can't be minimized, but the Druid is the class that seems hardest to push through. Crazy that a Druid was the first SPF 99er in v1.10+
Windys should be the faster 99ers, yeah. They can do Ventar runs pretty well, but suffer a bit one Lister and Baal come into the equation. The main trouble with Fire druids is that fire is already a terrible element for getting to 99 (fire sorcs at Nihl notwithstanding), and fire druids specifically don't have very strong or efficient attacks.
All that said, I still think fire druids are wicked cool and I'm still having fun with Klaus, so I wouldn't have it any other way. Oh, and they're good at cows for the RFL so there's that!
However, I couldn't really get into LK again, so I went back to /p7 Pit and Countess runs. Due to two nice fcr rings I could replace my Magefists with the gloves from the Arctic set, which combined with the belt give 40% mf. This way I could still maintain the 125% fcr breakpoint and reach 175% mf.
I got off to a very good start in the Pits, with my first HR outside of LK ...
Up to that point I had been using Tancred's amulet and helm because of the very juicy 78% mf bonus. The set offered nothing else though, so as soon as the Mara's dropped, I switched that one in, and replaced the Tancred's helm with a 3os helm with 3 perfect Topazes. Almost the same mf, but 2 +skills and some very needed resistances.
At that point I realized that lately I had mainly been using Lightning instead of CB, as it's just much stronger in the end. I doubted for a while, but in the end gave in and respecced to full Lightning, for now giving up on the CB/ES build. Too bad really, as I don't really like Lightning's slow cast speed. But CB just kills much slower. Also, the more I was using Lightning, the more the fact that CB doesn't pierce felt uncomfortable to me. And I guess I'm not really patient when it comes to D2. So I just gave in and took the most efficient option.
Ever since I have been playing on /p8 with ease. That's to say, I had to adapt a bit to the fact that the safety buffer of ES was gone, and as such suffered my first death since a very long time a bit after TooMuchEnergy reached level 88. But other than that things have been going very smooth, and killing obviously goes a lot faster and easier.
TooMuchEnergy has just reached level 89 by doing a mix of Pits, AS, Eldritch and Countess, although the focus has mainly been on Pits.
Drops haven't been really good up till now, but that's not to be expected with only 175% mf and not so many runs under my belt. This was probably the most rare one, which dropped early on, when I was still using the CB/ES build:
TooMuchEnergy has only found 8 unique body armors, of which 2 are duplicates. To find 2 SotVM out of those 8 ... Unfortunately, again it had a terrible roll (22/12 instead of 21/10), so it only meant a very small upgrade.
Next on the most efficient thing to do would still be to get to LK again. I still need 2x Ber for Infinity, 1x Lo or Ohm for Fortitude for the merc, better charms, skillers, ... Then Meph would make sense in search for Arachnid's. Problem is that I had to return to NM for my respec. So LK means rerolling maps again. And I hate rerolling. And I also don't particularly like LK. So I might stay in Pits for a while longer and hope for a lucky Ber drop. Or two .