Another update on Revenge, who is now lvl 91 and has become my first Guardian!
After leaving LK, we ran the Pit until lvl 89. Runs were done P1 and he horked like crazy, basically everything that was around bosses and their minions. Just wanted to milk things and make use of FI "pretending" it's P7, given I was looking for runeword bases and lots of S&Us.
S&Us:
His first highly sought after item came quickly with Shako from a random mob. Then he was quite lucky with lots of items for WW spec: Arreat's (5 LL), Reaper's (low dmg, non-eth), Raven, Goblin Toe, LoH, Gravepalm for Baal's second wave (no Ghoulhide yet) and luckily a quick Andy's (8 LL) for Merc.
Screenshots:
Runewords:
Things started out okay when the first PB that dropped got 5 sockets in cube, and was quickly turned into Grief:
Not the best roll, but of course good enough.
Unfortunately, his good luck with PBs seems to have ended right then and there. The next
eight plain PBs got 1-4 or 6 sockets, and 2-3 grey ones that showed up on the ground were the same kind of trolls.
I was itching to make use of all those Sharp and Fine charms I found and get a few levels at Baal, so this was/is quite frustrating. At one point I decided I'd settle for an Oath as second weapon, and when an eth CS dropped with 4os, it was turned into one:
Bad roll, even less impressive than the average Grief, but I didn't bother rerolling it as it's just an interim solution until that second 5os PB comes along.
At least he was a little more lucky with eth elite polearms. First eth base (CA) rolled 5 sockets and was turned into Obedience to smack Meph down a little faster (now basically redundant though). The second one was a CV that got 4 sockets, and was promptly turned into Insight. Kept the first roll for now as the only downside is its average CS roll:
After making Guardian, we used his 2nd quest respec to get into WW mode. Baal runs were fine, but a little uneasy at times. So we first gained two levels (89-91) doing P8 Pindle runs, just to beef up a little bit more. Now he's using a mix of life and damage charms to get him close to 5k life after BO. If I feel comfortable, I will swap in more damage charms going forward.
Current setup is 3 sharp GCs with life and cold dmg, 1 fine SC with life, with life on all other charms.
After BO he currently has 4730 life, 18% DR, and 75/46/71/44 resist on WW switch.
To dos:
First some Baal/wave running. Wish me luck.
I'm sure he'll die eventually, but I don't wanna give Lister the satisfaction!
In terms of items he needs, for WW spec there are actually only two meaningful upgrades remaining: 5os PB for second Grief, and HLW. Other than that his WW gear is already really nice. Gore/WT wouldn't hurt, but Goblin Toe is just fine given I include Baal in my runs for now.
Planning to continue Baal at least 93 so that he can start crafting amulets. Maybe even lvl 95 or so if I feel comfortable doing the runs, which I may not.
Once I'm either 93+, or bored, or too scared to run Baal, I'll take him back to the Pit as Singer and farm some more. In Singer spec he had 5.2k life and was essentially unkillable, which is were I feel I should be with HC chars personally.
There were a couple of S&Es at Lister already, so I don't feel 100% comfortable there yet. Nothing that could be considered an NDE yet, though.. let's hope it stays that way!