jiansonz
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Re: Mastery Sorc Tourney
Apprehensive in Fangskin´s lair as usual, I slowly advanced and soon saw a snake boss - with the wrong colour! Whoa, another bosspack. An empty altar platform, and I didn´t think twice about getting up there. A few Bone Warriors soon walked up here. Jill has no way to make them stay dead, so Haseen was put to guarding duty (and for soaking up Unholy Bolts...) while Jill burned snakes. Lightning bolts hurt quite a bit when I don´t have my shield, so I needed one town trip for refilling.
Another FIPI boss, requiring Shocking treatment. Good thing I can sometimes stand behind the merc and still hit, even with a range 1 weapon.
The FW staff was used a lot in Arcane Sanctuary, against all those PI Specters. I noticed something peculiar. I have suspected it before, but now I am completely sure. When Specters are completely on top of each other and you lay some fire on the ground, they will shield each other from the flames. Only one of then take damage. When it dies, the next one will start to burn, and so on. This makes large packs exponentially more dangerous.
The Golden Chest of Joy in the third false tomb had a great treasure for me. Yay! Hello Pierre the Cryptic Axe.
What an improvement. That´s a good enough weapon for Haseem for the rest of the game, and a good option for a socket reward. It also frees up my Lem rune for other uses. Haseen is going to get a 'Treachery' armor for the next session. I do not care that it will be a Breast Plate...
I took on Duriel on /p3, and had brought my MF helm + armor. Static to half, then whacking with my 'Strength' Cutlass. Both of us were Enchanted and had cold resist boosted with potions. Jill is the better tank (max block) so she took most of the hits, but I often had to pull back to let healing potion do their work (sorcs are not good with red potions...). I think I needed about 10 town breaks for potion refills and merc resurrections. It only got dangerous once, but that was scary.
Killing blow was done while holding Jill´s Gull. Nothing interesting in the drop, though.
Sszark fight was quick and brutal, and left her another grailer. This was my last remaining green/gold armor/weapon among the normal grade base items. Yes, I´ve seen Sander´s Paragon, the Cow King´s stuff and all the TC3s (the three golden TC3 'rods' just once each, though). It´s a freaking wonder it has taken this long for a golden Grim Wand to drop...
(Geez, what a sweet necro item it is, btw!)
Sometimes irony plays a joke on you. In the very last corner of this floor, I found this.
Conqueror Jill the Mastery Sorceress and Haseen the Blessed Aim Guard, level 82, Hell Lower Kurast next
Apprehensive in Fangskin´s lair as usual, I slowly advanced and soon saw a snake boss - with the wrong colour! Whoa, another bosspack. An empty altar platform, and I didn´t think twice about getting up there. A few Bone Warriors soon walked up here. Jill has no way to make them stay dead, so Haseen was put to guarding duty (and for soaking up Unholy Bolts...) while Jill burned snakes. Lightning bolts hurt quite a bit when I don´t have my shield, so I needed one town trip for refilling.
Another FIPI boss, requiring Shocking treatment. Good thing I can sometimes stand behind the merc and still hit, even with a range 1 weapon.
The FW staff was used a lot in Arcane Sanctuary, against all those PI Specters. I noticed something peculiar. I have suspected it before, but now I am completely sure. When Specters are completely on top of each other and you lay some fire on the ground, they will shield each other from the flames. Only one of then take damage. When it dies, the next one will start to burn, and so on. This makes large packs exponentially more dangerous.
The Golden Chest of Joy in the third false tomb had a great treasure for me. Yay! Hello Pierre the Cryptic Axe.
What an improvement. That´s a good enough weapon for Haseem for the rest of the game, and a good option for a socket reward. It also frees up my Lem rune for other uses. Haseen is going to get a 'Treachery' armor for the next session. I do not care that it will be a Breast Plate...
I took on Duriel on /p3, and had brought my MF helm + armor. Static to half, then whacking with my 'Strength' Cutlass. Both of us were Enchanted and had cold resist boosted with potions. Jill is the better tank (max block) so she took most of the hits, but I often had to pull back to let healing potion do their work (sorcs are not good with red potions...). I think I needed about 10 town breaks for potion refills and merc resurrections. It only got dangerous once, but that was scary.
Killing blow was done while holding Jill´s Gull. Nothing interesting in the drop, though.
Sszark fight was quick and brutal, and left her another grailer. This was my last remaining green/gold armor/weapon among the normal grade base items. Yes, I´ve seen Sander´s Paragon, the Cow King´s stuff and all the TC3s (the three golden TC3 'rods' just once each, though). It´s a freaking wonder it has taken this long for a golden Grim Wand to drop...
(Geez, what a sweet necro item it is, btw!)
Sometimes irony plays a joke on you. In the very last corner of this floor, I found this.
Conqueror Jill the Mastery Sorceress and Haseen the Blessed Aim Guard, level 82, Hell Lower Kurast next
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