Nice going there
@Pb_pal and
@NanoMist !!! Good luck on the rest of the journey to 99. And yes Pb_pal, 4hp left is way too close. Better try to squeeze in some more hit points it seems.
As for myself ...
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I finally hit level 97 after 59 hours and 25 minutes. Almost half of that (29 hours and 10 minutes) was actually spent on gaining xp in 1088 CS runs. The rest was for LK (4 hours and 10 minutes) early on and RoF superchest runs (almost 3 hours) and Pindle runs for the MFO (23 hours and 10 minutes) when I was at about 75% to 97. I had no deaths, not even close calls in the CS, so that compensates for my rather slow runs somewhat.
Btw, first part of the CS runs were done including De Seis on /p1 and Diablo on /p8 whenever Infector didn't spawn CI. After I had rerolled my map to get a good RoF map, I stopped doing that and only did the first 2 seals, including any boss packs I'd encounter near the seals and between the 2, with an occasional stop for other bosses. That definitely sped things up considerably.
Drops were quite terrible since my last update quite a while ago, except for my
Pindle run results. Especially runes were really frustrating: only an Um early on from RoF and a Mal from Pindle. But in the CS? Nothing but a couple of Ko's and Lum's. Really frustrating, especially with all the HRs floating around in this thread alone, while I'm some 75 hours without a HR now, and only got one single HR in the CS

. Ah well, I guess things can only get better, right?
Right (and I mean right

) after the MFO I got
one terrific drop. Other notable drops were a WWS, Steel Carpace, Stormshield and a Halaberd's Reign. O yes, and my fourth cold skiller, the first that wasn't a plain one:
And yes, I sorted that in my inventory properly afterwards

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I also found this dual leech ring, although I don't know if it's any good:
I'm not sure what I'll do next. Probably take a break from CS, or at least lower the intensity. Although it actually hasn't been that intense, except for the MFO maybe, and the last few sessions after my holiday to make the push to 97. Besides those, my playing sessions were always shorter than 2 hours, so no wonder it took me so long to hit 97 ...
So yeah, I might do some more RoF or LK runs. Or take a break from my Sorc altogether and continue the MF Barb I started. Problem with that one is that I'm still missing so many items for him (Arreat's, dual Grief and Enigma to begin with) that that doesn't make much sense yet. I'll have to think about it for a bit.
Code:
Name (F) Name (C) SC/HC Class Level/exp Extended Stash #of S/U Grail/504 #of deaths # of Hours
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zticazzy Perkele SC Barb 99 No - - - -
Pb_pal Eleanor SC Sorc 98.25 No 2945 431 5 -
NanoMist Izuna SC Sin 98 No 2672 437 2 239
T72on1 Neverland SC Sorc 97 Yes 1594 394 11 148.5
hasuprotoss Reina SC Sorc 95 Yes 894 316 - -
PhineasB Mercy SC Sin 95 Yes - 328 9 -
XyleneCyanol Fishie HC Sorc 94 No - - - -
Tarantella Tarasha HC Sorc 94 Yes - - - -
Reyz Qty SC Sorc 92 No - - - -
PhineasB Hiatus SC Sorc 91 Yes - 278 13 -
Southpaw Njord SC Druid 90 Yes - - - -
OldSoldier Battleforge HC Pala 90 Yes - 236 - -
Qwernt CanbeOnlyBlizz SC Sorc 90 Yes - - Dont want to know
LiquidClear Sally SC Assn ** Yes 225 - 1 -
Lord Molyb Cruise_Control SC Necro 84 No 104 87 16 idk
Gambit Mallenroh SC Sorc 81 Yes 0 0 0 0
logo Digimon HC Nec 76 Yes 85 65 0 -
Darke Rahl Bells HC Ama 74 No 19 - 0 0
Zenigma Gnosis SC Druid 61 No - - - -
ioupainmax Durnik SC Paladin 52 Yes 50 42 - -
Lord Molyb Verisimilitude SC Ama 50 No 12 9 0 idk
Zenigma Ayura SC Barb 48 No - - - -
Kitteh Darozzo HC Druid 45 No - - - -
TrU Henryk SC Barb 41 Yes - - 22 12
Gambit Colossus SC Pal 39 Yes 0 0 0 0
Smancer Smancer SC Necro 26 Yes 1 - - -
Ergroilnin Erilinda HC Sorc 20 No - - - -
The Fallen:
Code:
Name (F) Name (C) SC/HC Class Level/exp Extended Stash #of S/U Grail/504 #of deaths # of Hours
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coju NintyNine_orRiP HC Sorc 81 Yes - 0 0 a few
Tenecabo OldShatterhand HC Druid 49 Yes - 0 1 -
coju fB HC Sorc 29 Yes 1 1 0 2
Kitteh Verallus HC Druid 26 No N/A N/A 0 N/A
logo Rolex HC Barb 21 Yes 0 0 0 1