Hi yesterday I got my barbarian to act 5 in nighmare. He resued anya and then I
magic hunted normal baal alot. I was trying to get a good gold sword that I
could use cube to make exceptional or get an exceptional sword to help when he
tries to do the ancients. Baal didnt give me much I could use but I did get a
gold manald ring and only good sword he dropped was a cold ali baba sword. I
dont think he will kill much with it but it ahs alot of magic find on it so my
plan is to put it on his switch with his rhyme shiled and will switch to that
whenever I use find item on dead bosses and champions.
Today I gave him day off and played my Holy Freeze Paladin. he was in act 3
normal but after I got golden bird reward I played him in act I at players 8 to
get runes to make an ancients pledge word for a nice shield I found and to get
more chipped jems to redo sceptors in the cube. When I was doing that the
countess or one of the monsters in her room dropped a gold scimiter it had 15%
life leech and was FAST he swung like twice as fast as his old mace. It was
REAL fun to use but the damage on it was real low I dont think I could have
used it for to long when I got to harder acts.
But after I got ancient pledge runes I played in act 3 I kept it at playes 8 to
see if he could do it. He did good and found a nice breast plate with 2
sockets. His old armor was ok but it was heavy for him and he ran REAL slow and
ran out of stmina alot after I had him use it. And breast plates are lighter
so I went back AGAIN to do alot of countess to get runes for stealth word. When
he was doing that she also dropped a green angel ring and a gold morning star
bloodrise it has alot more damage and life leech on it too so I tried that when
I went back to act 3 after making a stealth. I was hoping ormus would give him
anice ring for the gidbin blade cuz he gave my barbarin a real nice one but he
gave my palidin a sucky one so I sold it. But when he was in the flayers
dungeon a green grand sceptor civels cudgel or something dropped. It dont have
life leech but does ALOT more damage so he is using that now and I am keeping
the morning star in case I want life leech later. I sold the scmiter cuz I was
running out of room in my stash. It was fun to use but I dont think it will
help much in act 4 and 5 and wont be any good at all in nightmare if he ever
make it to there. Also while in act 3 a white circlet dropped from a monster so
I took it to charsi for imbue reward. One of you said it dont make sense to
save imbues in single player cuz if you wait too long even if its nice you cant
use it for too long and you cant move it to anywhere so it better to try early
when you need good stuff. When she imbued it it got 10%faster hit recovery, +49
to attack rating, +6 to life,+15 to all resists, half freeze duration, poison
length reduced by 25% and is 25 defence. I think its real gor to use for rest
of normal so he is wearing it now. So thank you whoever said that I forgot who
it was sorry but it helped me so thank you :) I played him in rest of act 3 at
players 8 and he did good he even killed the council at players 8 but before I
went into level 3 in durance of hate I turned it down to players 1 cuz I was
afraid to fight mephisto at players 8. He killed mehpisto easy but he didnt
drop anything he could use just 3 yellow spear type weapons and a yellow amazon
bow but it was still ok since even if mepeh didnt give him anything good he
still got alot of nice stuff from before.
Tomorrow Im gonna try and play my barb and finish Nightmare and get to Hell. it
will be first time I ever played in hell too so wish me luck :). Im gonna go to
bed now. Nite :)
Kaytie
> Hi yesterday I got my barbarian to act 5 in nighmare. He resued anya and
> then I
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> Kaytie
Nice report! Sounds like you are having fun!
Don't get discouraged in hell, it is very hard, especially in single player,
untwinked!
Good luck!
Justin
KaytieKat - 29 Nov 2004 03:02 GMT
<Nice report! Sounds like you are having fun!
Don't get discouraged in hell, it is very hard, especially in single player,
untwinked!
Good luck!<
Thank you I just found out. they are ALOT tougher than even in nightmare. I
just started in act 1 hell and did the den quest and looked around a little in
cold plains and my merc died like 9 times and I had to drink alot of potions
and run away or I would have to. We both dont do much damage so even on players
1 when we hit the boss monsters or champions it dont slow them down they keep
moving just as fast. So I think we both need to get better weapons.
Kaytie
On that special day, KaytieKat, (kaytiekat@aol.com) said...
> When she imbued it it got 10%faster hit recovery, +49
> to attack rating, +6 to life,+15 to all resists, half freeze duration, poison
> length reduced by 25% and is 25 defence.
That's a keeper, or even upgrader. Remeber (after upgrading) to use the
socket quest on it, and insert a perfect skull for recovering life and
mana. My necro has been wearing a +30 resist all corona for all of hell,
and he could use it *well*.
BTW: If you have got to use ATMA, I have tons of SP gear of low and
middle level quality, and could send some per email, if you like. My
address is valid as written (the spamfighter is only in there to keep
these dang worms and spammers off my box. I can't munge my address, my
ISP will automagically replace the result with my real address)
Gabriele Neukam
Gabriele.Spamfighter.Neukam@t-online.de

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KaytieKat - 29 Nov 2004 03:10 GMT
>That's a keeper, or even upgrader. Remeber (after upgrading) to use the
socket quest on it, and insert a perfect skull for recovering life and
mana. My necro has been wearing a +30 resist all corona for all of hell,
and he could use it *well*. >
Hi. Yeeah I like it alot. I will upgrade it if I dont find any better hats. I
do wanna save my socket quests.He only have 3 of them and cant trade off with
other characters so I want to make sure they are for stuff he will NEVER stop
using
>BTW: If you have got to use ATMA, I have tons of SP gear of low and
middle level quality, and could send some per email, if you like. My
address is valid as written (the spamfighter is only in there to keep
these dang worms and spammers off my box. I can't munge my address, my
ISP will automagically replace the result with my real address) >
I went to atma website to see if there was one for a mac but there wasnt. I
dont think there are any programs like that for macs but thank for offer it was
nice of you :)
Kaytie
Gabriele Neukam - 29 Nov 2004 18:09 GMT
On that special day, KaytieKat, (kaytiekat@aol.com) said...
> I went to atma website to see if there was one for a mac but there wasnt.
Oops, sorry I forgot that. So the only possibility would be, that we
might have a date on the open battlenet (with password, else it is too
dangerous), and exchange goodies.
Gabriele Neukam
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just so, at no cost.
>Hi yesterday I got my barbarian to act 5 in nighmare. He resued anya and then I
>magic hunted normal baal alot. I was trying to get a good gold sword that I
>could use cube to make exceptional or get an exceptional sword to help when he
>tries to do the ancients.
It's generally best to run the highest bosses you can do quickly. The
NM Council and Meph are probably where you should be.
>Baal didnt give me much I could use but I did get a
>gold manald ring and only good sword he dropped was a cold ali baba sword.
Both are nice.
>I dont think he will kill much with it but it ahs alot of magic find on it so my
>plan is to put it on his switch with his rhyme shiled and will switch to that
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>normal but after I got golden bird reward I played him in act I at players 8 to
>get runes to make an ancients pledge word for a nice shield I found
IMO it would be faster to just quest through to A5 and rescue the
barbs for those runes (aside from the fact that then you don't have to
do all those quests as _well_ as running the Countess). Anyway,
Ancients' Pledge mainly gives resists, which you don't really need
until NM. I assume the shield was a pal shield with good skills?
>But after I got ancient pledge runes I played in act 3 I kept it at playes 8 to
>see if he could do it. He did good and found a nice breast plate with 2
>sockets. His old armor was ok but it was heavy for him and he ran REAL slow and
>ran out of stmina alot after I had him use it. And breast plates are lighter
>so I went back AGAIN to do alot of countess to get runes for stealth word.
Again, just advancing through the game could easily get you a better
armor drop than a Stealth BP.
>But when he was in the flayers
>dungeon a green grand sceptor civels cudgel or something dropped. It dont have
>life leech but does ALOT more damage so he is using that now and I am keeping
>the morning star in case I want life leech later.
You can also upgrade the Bloodrise to exceptional for more damage.
>I sold the scmiter cuz I was
>running out of room in my stash.
Yes, the small stash is a significant game design error by Blizzard.
In D2C it's half the size of the LoD stash, if you can believe it.
>One of you said it dont make sense to
>save imbues in single player cuz if you wait too long even if its nice you cant
>use it for too long and you cant move it to anywhere so it better to try early
>when you need good stuff.
That was me.
>When she imbued it it got 10%faster hit recovery, +49
>to attack rating, +6 to life,+15 to all resists, half freeze duration, poison
>length reduced by 25% and is 25 defence.
Nice! My first SP sorc got an amazing grim shield imbue, and I've
been a fan of early imbues ever since (although _waaay_ too many of my
HC chars have perished in Hell without ever having got _any_
imbues...)
>I think its real gor to use for rest
>of normal so he is wearing it now. So thank you whoever said that I forgot who
>it was sorry but it helped me so thank you :)
YW!
-- Roy L
KaytieKat - 29 Nov 2004 03:36 GMT
>It's generally best to run the highest bosses you can do quickly. The
NM Council and Meph are probably where you should be>
I tried the council like 3 times in NM and meph once but it was real hard and
took forever even without my magic find stuff on. He even died once cuz
sometimes those bosses with fire enchanted kill me when they die even if he has
full life ball they go spalt and BOOM he dead. He dont happen all the time but
I cant tell when it will. another of the 3 times he didnt die but he lost like
900 life and he was running away. Now when he fight boss like that I try to
make sure when boss is close to dying he runs away and let merc kill him. Meph
was hard too those baby skeletons on meph durance are scary when one dies he
lose like 400 life for each one so he have to be careful. Meph wasnt too hard
when he got to him but I used up all my big purples. So I went to to normal
baal cuz he could do him real fast and he even got up one level while doing
like 10 runs or something.
>IMO it would be faster to just quest through to A5 and rescue the
barbs for those runes (aside from the fact that then you don't have to
do all those quests as _well_ as running the Countess). Anyway,
Ancients' Pledge mainly gives resists, which you don't really need
until NM. I assume the shield was a pal shield with good skills?>
But it will be lots easier questing to act 5 if he already have it and if I do
lower acts at players 8 he still gets more levels and builds up for higher
acts. I think thats why when I just started my first charcters got stuck alot I
would go through once and they would do ok but by act 3 they would barely kill
anything and die alot or get close to dead alot and by act 4 they would die all
the time. Now if I go slow and build up first they do lots better and game is
fun so I dont mind if dont go to fast :)
His shield dont have any skills on it so far I only seen 1 palidin shield with
a skill on it and it wasnt even plus but just charges for sacrfice. It just
had lot more defence and 50% blocking and 12 to all resists and 3 sockets and
was better than any shield he found so I wanted to use it.
>Again, just advancing through the game could easily get you a better
armor drop than a Stealth BP.>
hehe yeah but stealth bp will help him advance without getting whomped all the
time. I hope so anyways :)
>You can also upgrade the Bloodrise to exceptional for more damage.>
yeah that is what I am planning when I get the runes to do it
>Yes, the small stash is a significant game design error by Blizzard.
In D2C it's half the size of the LoD stash, if you can believe it.>
I know it is REAL annoying if I made game I would make bigger stash for single
player or make it so when you opened stash you could filp through the stashes
of all your characters if you wanted.
>That was me.>
it was? thenn THANK YOU *hug* it helped ALOT :)
>Nice! My first SP sorc got an amazing grim shield imbue, and I've
been a fan of early imbues ever since (although _waaay_ too many of my
HC chars have perished in Hell without ever having got _any_
imbues...)>
Im a fan of early imbues to now and gambling early. I think that is another
reason I didnt do good at first I didnt gamble much and only at rings or
amulets now I been gambling for everything helmuts boots belts armor and
gloves and weapons sometimes.
Kaytie