A new matriarch
After spending some time running the ancient tunnels and pindle, I decided to take a break from MF'ing and try to beat Baal. Or rather, try to beat the Ancients! Wow, they're tough. It felt like I got lucky when they spawned with mods that didn't immediately destroy myself or my merc. Anyway..
Matriarch Lhari
lvl 86 sorc
stats (w/o items)
str 93
dex 192
vit 167
energy 68
skills (my own build, but not that outrageous)
blizzard 20
glacial spike 20
cold mastery 9
fireball 20
firebolt 18
warmth 2
firemastery, static field, telekensis, teleport, frozen armor and pre-req's 1
Using shako (p topaz), tal's ammy, etheral Eschuta's Temper with +3 to skills, 12 to fire and 19 to lightning (socketted with a +7 energy / 14 res all jewel), vipermagi, rhyme heater, magefists, tal's belt, some nice rare chain boots (24 MF, 30 r/w, 10 FHR), 2 nice crafted caster rings. Merc using Duriel's shell, Bonehew (socketted with Amn and Shael -- the shael was probably a mistake. anyone know if it helps at all?) and undead crown.
This is not my first matriarch, but is my first for a 1.10 character.
I've been playing Diablo 2 for years. Always in SP! I just recently found this forum and ATMA .. very nice! Now I can hang on to stuff. It makes me sad to think of all the uniques I threw away because I had no use or room for them. But now.. well I think I'll have to go through and figure out what my (completely self-found) grail status is and put it in the tables.
This character also found a Gul rune from the helforge!! Now I'm thinking of making the Kingslayer runeword in a sword (was thinking phasebalde. any reccomendations?) and using it on my concentration barb to get him patriarch status. It's taken me forever to collect those runes, so I'm wondering if it's worth spending them.
Also a question for the kind people of SP forum .. my holyfreeze merc seems to die more than I'd like. My conc barb's might merc never seems to die. I'm thinking it's the defense from shout.. So I wonder if swapping my holyfeeze for a defiance merc might help him stay alive. But I don't know how much the holyfreeze aura is helping me survive. Thoughts? I'd rather not spend the time to level a new merc up just to find out that the holyfreeze was better.
Thanks! :drink:
After spending some time running the ancient tunnels and pindle, I decided to take a break from MF'ing and try to beat Baal. Or rather, try to beat the Ancients! Wow, they're tough. It felt like I got lucky when they spawned with mods that didn't immediately destroy myself or my merc. Anyway..
Matriarch Lhari
lvl 86 sorc
stats (w/o items)
str 93
dex 192
vit 167
energy 68
skills (my own build, but not that outrageous)
blizzard 20
glacial spike 20
cold mastery 9
fireball 20
firebolt 18
warmth 2
firemastery, static field, telekensis, teleport, frozen armor and pre-req's 1
Using shako (p topaz), tal's ammy, etheral Eschuta's Temper with +3 to skills, 12 to fire and 19 to lightning (socketted with a +7 energy / 14 res all jewel), vipermagi, rhyme heater, magefists, tal's belt, some nice rare chain boots (24 MF, 30 r/w, 10 FHR), 2 nice crafted caster rings. Merc using Duriel's shell, Bonehew (socketted with Amn and Shael -- the shael was probably a mistake. anyone know if it helps at all?) and undead crown.
This is not my first matriarch, but is my first for a 1.10 character.
I've been playing Diablo 2 for years. Always in SP! I just recently found this forum and ATMA .. very nice! Now I can hang on to stuff. It makes me sad to think of all the uniques I threw away because I had no use or room for them. But now.. well I think I'll have to go through and figure out what my (completely self-found) grail status is and put it in the tables.
This character also found a Gul rune from the helforge!! Now I'm thinking of making the Kingslayer runeword in a sword (was thinking phasebalde. any reccomendations?) and using it on my concentration barb to get him patriarch status. It's taken me forever to collect those runes, so I'm wondering if it's worth spending them.
Also a question for the kind people of SP forum
.. my holyfreeze merc seems to die more than I'd like. My conc barb's might merc never seems to die. I'm thinking it's the defense from shout.. So I wonder if swapping my holyfeeze for a defiance merc might help him stay alive. But I don't know how much the holyfreeze aura is helping me survive. Thoughts? I'd rather not spend the time to level a new merc up just to find out that the holyfreeze was better.Thanks! :drink:
