With prikkie I just beat the HELL Ancients, cleared WK and
did Baal. This is a purist CS/LS/FA amazon fully in 1.10beta.

First the emotions.... AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRGG!

Well the Ancient problem was the thrower, Madawc; he was
Stone skin, teleporting and lightning immune.
The other two were dispatched fairly easily (2 minute work).
Note that prikkie is lightning specialized (CS= charged strike
LS=lightning strike, both giving lightning damage).
I thought he would doable with Freezing Arrow... (her other
side).
My goodness what an hitpoints! It shows prikkie is melee at
heart... she had just one full 350 arrow stack equipped
(inventory filled with charms.)

The stack ran out...
Madawc was still at 25% health and started to teleport
frequently.

The potions on the ground vanished...
Very annoying change in 1.10!
Luckily I made sure my belt was full at all times so I had
still 6 FRVs and some healing and mana potions.

Since I rely on the 'always hit' from CS and LS, my attack
rate was bad... 60% chance to hit Madawc with power strike,
worse with Jab. Only Freezing Arrow is reasonable... but
without arrows...

Some 10 minutes of battle with Jab/Power strike...
Probably Emilio (her defiance merc) did a far better job,
prikkie was down to 2 FRVs and Madawc was a sliver...

Madawc remained for nearly 2 minutes on a sliver...
Prikkie gulped her last FRV down...

Then Madawc fell... phoo...

Now I inspected the experience... 1093,9 M
She started at about 1,053 M (just above level 85)

So the quest only gives 40 M !?!
I expected 60 M! Grrr...

WK: Having a lot of Horadrim Ancients isn't nice, I
couldn't keep my merc alife (at least, not together
with going forward).
Luckily the HA sometimes get stupid solo storming forward
ideas, which made it easier.
I played until the WK2 WP. I wanted to save the game asap.

When going on in a new seeling, I met Black souls...
Their lightning hurts!

And those OKs...
Maybe I had just luck those two Diablo runs, where they
were easy. In WK3 I met a cold/lightning enchanted (+immune)
multishot OK, with next to him a multishot LI skeleton mage,
which was casting cold.
It took ages to separate and dispatch all minions, then kill the
mage and finally Jab the OK to his demise.

In comparision, the throne of destruction was doable (or maybe
just lucky with bosses). Only the welcoming commitee (Ancient
Horadrim and OKs) was nasty, luckily I could retreat around a
corner and establish a beach head. The few Hell (?) Lords were
not a problem.
A bit irritating were the undead stygian dolls... They were
resurrected by the ancient horadrim.... and later again by
Achmed (just a few).

Achmed was very nasty, until he stormed forward, after which
he was doable. The poison of his minions alone is bearable,
Prikkie and her merc just meleed them and were able to keep
health full. The life tap, cast from my gloves kept pace with poison.

The other groups were just a lot of retreating and dispatching
individually. Lister went down as one of the first of his group.
Getting him solo wasn't very hard.

Baal now casts more tentacles but since they didn't enclose
Prikkie, and baal frequently teleported out of such fortified
zones, they were not much of a problem.
I could get rid of a Baal Clone by town portalling. The damage,
Baal did was bearable. His hit points aren't spectacular, but
still he lasted 1-2 minutes.

Baal's drop was pretty crappy... Stormguild, Spirit forge, Diggler,
Milabrega's whatwasit-whatever and some uninteresting rare
shoes.

Shame on him...
compare with Hell Diablo's drops: Storm-SHIELD and IK belt.

Stats:
strength 150 (=base, +47 in bowmode, +77 in java/shield mode)
dex 180 (=base, +33 from equipment)
vitality 170 (=base, +2 from H.Crest. Life: 1005)
energy 15 (=base, +2 from H.Crest. Mana: 376)
level 85. (Both Prikkie and Emilio)

Skills:
max Charged Strike
max Lightning Strike
9 points in power strike for extra synergy.
max Freezing Arrow
9 points cold arrow for synergy.
All prereqs 1 point.

All passives 1 or 2 points. I started with a lot of stress
on + skill items, but with good defense/blocking the game
is doable with out uber D/A/E (not to mention, even at her
low levels in it, Prikkie suffered short moments from some
evasive dance)

Note that valkyrie still survived pretty long against Madawc.
Crazy defense and life tap do help. Still, I think shifting some
points to Decoy/Valk might have made things easier...
not too much... the skills did, but especially in WK, they were
not overwhelmingly powerfull...

Notable equipment...
Note: this is purist, all items were found by prikkie herself.
She cubed a lot (esp. javalin-class and bows items), but the
results were disgusting... +1 max damage or +70 to attack rate
and such things...

113%ED rare balrog spear. +196%ed versus demons.
296%ED cruel gothic bow. (Yep, fairly slow)
Matriarchal javelin with +2 jav skill. (Nearly all seemed to be +1)

Godly diamond mail, 1376 defense, in use by merc.
His total defense: 9295. (with defiance aura)

Holy diamond mail, 931 defense, in use by Prikkie.
Her total defense: 6045 (with defiance aura)

Amulets: (1) The Cats eye; (2) 21 resist all; (3)+1 ama/resist

Dracul's grasp (new unique, vampirebone gloves)
Dropped just outside hell act 4 town.
5% chance to cast level 10 life tap. (Keeps merc alive!)
10% life steal. 25% chance of open woulds.
+14 strength. 6 life/kill. defense 143. req level 76.

Stormshield, unique monarch.
Dropped by Hell Diablo when doing his quest.
chance to block 72%, 35% faster block
Defense 452 (level dependant).
strength+30, cold resist +60%
lightning resist 25%. Damage reduced 35%.
attacker takes lightning damage of 10.

Immortal kings details, set war belt.
Dropped by Hell Diablo on second run.
Lightning resist 31%. Fire resist 28%. Strength+25

Hone Sundan, unique Yari. 186%ed, Crushing blow: 45%.
Dropped in nightmare palace cellers level 2.
Socketted Amn/Shael. In use by merc.

Harlequin Crest, unique shako.
Dropped by Hell Flayer.
As usual: +2 skill, +lots of mana/life/MF, 10% dam.red.

Prikkie tried to get good runes my running the countess.
She made more than a level doing so...
The results are not so good... especially no higher runes
like Pul or Um...
2x FAL, 3x KO, 2x LUM, 1x IO, 3x DOL, 3x Shael, 5x SOL.
5x Thul and lots of minor rules...
On occasion the countess dropped 2xEL, 1xELD! Yech...

Well... All in all, it feels like an accomplishment...
And beating a game should feel like that...

Have fun,

Hans Escher.