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I think I created Quedra shortly after 1.10 was released to test the synergies and to make a magezon, which I hadn't done in 1.09. This afternoon I finally killed Baal, Matting her after almost 4 years.
Matriarch Quedra
Name: Qedra
Class: Amazon
Experience: 978701143
Level: 84
Naked/Gear
Strength: 56/56
Dexterity: 32/66
Vitality: 230/230
Energy: 100/100
HP: 906/906
Mana: 266/306
Stamina: 377/377
Defense: 8/311
92 stat points saved
All resists in the negatives, between -30 and -15 iirc
skills:
20 in:
Exploding Arrow
Immo Arrow
Cold Arrow
Freezing Arrow
1 in:
Fire arrow
Ice Arrow
Magic Arrow
Multi shot
all of the passives
1 unspent
Fire Side:
Kuko Shakaku
Cedar Bow
Two Hand Damage: 26 - 78
Durability: 26 of 28
Required Level: 49
Required Strength: 53
Required Dexterity: 49
Fingerprint: 0x4922ef62
Item Level: 87
Version: Expansion 1.10+
Properties:
169% Enhanced Damage
+3 to Immolation Arrow (Amazon Only)
50% Piercing Attack
Fires Explosive Arrows or Bolts
+3 to Bow and Crossbow Skills (Amazon Only)
+57 - 225 Fire Damage
100% Chance to cast level 31 Meteor when you Die
4% to Fire Skill Damage
-3% to Enemy Fire Resistance
1 Sockets (1 used)
Socketed: Rainbow Facet (4/-3)
Fire arrow - 1 (14)
Exploding arrow - 20 (33)
Immo arrow - 20 (36)
Cold Side:
Wizendraw
Long Battle Bow
Two Hand Damage: 5 - 30
Durability: 38 of 44
Required Level: 49
Required Strength: 40
Required Dexterity: 50
Fingerprint: 0xe4dbf3ae
Item Level: 55
Version: Expansion 1.10+
Properties:
+15 to Energy
+30 to Mana
70% Enhanced Damage
+81 to Attack Rating
Cold Resist +26%
20% Increased Attack Speed
Fires Magic Arrows
+24 - 38 cold damage with 0 sec Duration
100% Chance to cast level 43 Frost Nova when you Level-Up
4% to Cold Skill Damage
-37% to Enemy Cold Resistance
1 Sockets (1 used)
Socketed: Rainbow Facet (4/-4)
Cold arrow - 20 (30)
Ice arrow - 1 (11)
Freezing arrow - 20 (30)
and another SS showing the gear and the true AR with the kuko (silly bow skill AR bug giving me about 51% chance to hit Baal, with my BA merc)
my gear was very +skills heavy, and I found that almost everything that wasn't fire immune died in 3 or fewer immo arrows, or chewed through my mana using FA.
gear:
charms of note:Code:Peace Light Plate Defense: 102 Durability: 60 of 60 Required Level: 29 Required Strength: 41 Fingerprint: 0x92717cc3 Item Level: 85 Version: Expansion 1.10+ Properties: +2 to Amazon Skill Levels +2 to Critical Strike 2% Chance to cast level 15 Valkyrie on striking 4% Chance to cast level 5 Slow Missiles when struck 20% Faster Hit Recovery Cold Resist +30% Attacker Takes Damage of 14 3 Sockets (3 used) Socketed: Shael Rune Socketed: Thul Rune Socketed: Amn Rune Cruel Visage Tiara Defense: 46 Durability: 25 of 25 Required Level: 67 Fingerprint: 0x76576b5c Item Level: 88 Version: Expansion 1.10+ Properties: Damage Reduced by 5 +2 to Amazon Skill Levels Half Freeze Duration +4 to Mana after each Kill 5% Chance to cast level 3 Frost Nova when struck All Resistances +19 Archer's Chain Gloves of Dexterity Chain Gloves Defense: 8 Durability: 16 of 16 Required Level: 45 Required Strength: 25 Fingerprint: 0xe56ac08d Item Level: 76 Version: Expansion Properties: +1 to Dexterity +3 to Bow and Crossbow Skills (Amazon Only) Beast Grip Ring Required Level: 16 Fingerprint: 0xfae8dcdb Item Level: 30 Version: Expansion 1.10+ Properties: +112 to Attack Rating +2 to Minimum Damage Lightning Resist +20% +5 to Light Radius 5% Bonus to Attack Rating Goblin Toe Light Plated Boots Defense: 33 Durability: 18 of 18 Required Level: 22 Required Strength: 50 Fingerprint: 0xc45ac0e3 Item Level: 90 Version: Expansion Properties: 52% Enhanced Defense +15 Defense Damage Reduced by 1 Magic Damage Reduced by 1 -1 to Light Radius 25% Chance of Crushing Blow Raven Frost Ring Required Level: 45 Fingerprint: 0xfcbe9a7c Item Level: 75 Version: Expansion 1.10+ Properties: +18 to Dexterity +40 to Mana +189 to Attack Rating +15 - 45 cold damage with 4 sec Duration 20% Cold Absorb Cannot Be Frozen Razortail Sharkskin Belt Defense: 106 Durability: 14 of 14 Required Level: 32 Required Strength: 20 Fingerprint: 0xe058ece0 Item Level: 61 Version: Expansion 1.10+ Properties: +15 to Dexterity 146% Enhanced Defense +10 to Maximum Damage +15 Defense 33% Piercing Attack +8 Attacker Takes Damage of Valkyrie's Amulet of the Bat Amulet Required Level: 67 Fingerprint: 0x60e2dd21 Item Level: 90 Version: Expansion Properties: 3% Mana stolen per hit +2 to Amazon Skill Levels merc: Corpsemourn Ornate Plate Defense: 1145 Durability: 60 of 60 Required Level: 55 Required Strength: 170 Fingerprint: 0x3c62a700 Item Level: 87 Version: Expansion 1.10+ Properties: +8 to Strength +10 to Vitality 154% Enhanced Defense Cold Resist +35% +12 - 36 Fire Damage 6% Chance to cast level 2 Iron Maiden when struck Level 5 Corpse Explosion (40/40 Charges) Insight Cryptic Axe Two Hand Damage: 119 - 501 Durability: 65 of 65 Required Level: 59 Required Strength: 165 Required Dexterity: 103 Fingerprint: 0x5ed8312c Item Level: 79 Version: Expansion 1.10+ Properties: All Stats +5 234% Enhanced Damage 23% Better Chance of Getting Magic Items +6 to Critical Strike 35% Faster Cast Rate 193% Bonus to Attack Rating Level 13 Meditation Aura When Equipped +5 - 30 Fire Damage +2 to Mana after each Kill +75 poison damage over 5 seconds +9 to Minimum Damage 4 Sockets (4 used) Socketed: Ral Rune Socketed: Tir Rune Socketed: Tal Rune Socketed: Sol Rune Tal Rasha's Horadric Crest Death Mask Defense: 106 Durability: 16 of 20 Required Level: 66 Required Strength: 55 Fingerprint: 0xb095951e Item Level: 87 Version: Expansion 1.10+ Properties: +60 to Life +30 to Mana +45 Defense 10% Life stolen per hit 10% Mana stolen per hit All Resistances +15
+1 bow/crossbow
+1 passives
113 AR/21 GF grand charm
98 AR grand charm
34 AR and some cold damage small charm
2 FR and an LR charm to bring them up to near -25
general game play:
I started the character with the idea to only have enough str and dex to wear the gear I needed in the end, so I have no idea why I ended up with 56 str or the 32 dex. my original plan for the cold side was a +3 3 socket stag bow with melody in it for the extra stats. I finally found one in act4hell and made the bow, but the 1.10 change to wizendraw made it better than my original plan, even with the extra +6 skills.
I think I played through normal on players 8 and then most of nightmare at players 5 until I abandoned her in act5NM back in November 2004. When I had been playing her I remember being told in MP games that it looked like she was throwing the arrows, since she doesn't have the base str/dex to equip either bow. When I started playing again I still found her hard, but I got through the rest of act5NM on players 5. based on that I changed some of her gear around to aim for lots of skills, and started hell. I found going along in hell at players 1 to be rather fast, so i bumped it up to players 3. that was fine for act1, although andariel was a bit hard, and for act2. Duriel was really bad though, he killed my merc and valk a couple times before I figured out a winning strategy. i spent 15 minutes chain casting a decoy so duriel could one shot it while my merc and valk very very slowly killed him.
Act3 was much better, didn't get any gloams, which was great since my LR was around -7 then. the urdar type monsters were a problem, and I had giant chases across all of the different parts of kurast stringing them out to kill them. would've been faster to just park them, but it wasn't too bad killing them, and i enjoyed the challenge. I made sure to switch it down to players 1 for meph, and the council wasn't too hard compared to the urdars.
Act4 was fine because there were no gloams again. Izual went down faster than I thought he would, probably because of the boot switch to gorefeet i made before hell. His two skill points finished off cold arrow as my FA synergy. Cleared the chaos sanctuary at players 3, which from the waypoint took me about 2 hours. dropped it down to players 1 for diablo, which combined with him bugging out some of his attacks (river of fire became fire wall or some such) but overcompensating by trapping me in a bone prison 3 or 4 times, i killed him rather quickly, and moved on to act5.
Act5 I got bored like I normally have so far with the guest monsters and I dropped it down to players 1. I was on my way to the ancients when I realized I forgot to save Anya, so I went back to save her. I saw the gloams and panicked and ran away, deciding the ancients would be easier. Reading that sentence again, hell ancients being easier than gloams, really points out how overpowered they are. Anyway, I respawned the ancients I think 10 times before I got one that I was comfortable doing. After I remembered not to kill the leaper first I killed the thrower (without slow missles, I never get the hang of it) and then the whirler. Leaper was last, and he was CI, so it was down to immo arrow to kill him. My amazing plan for him was to run away, wait for him to leap, and then name lock him and fire an arrow. I could have gone all day, except he was aura enchanted with holy fire, and with -27 fire resist it was starting to hurt. I kill him with one full juvie left, proceed quickly to the WSK2 WP and S&E and load up again after restocking. I always to into the ancients understocked, I think I had, including my belt, 9 super healing, 4 super mana, 1 rejuv and 8 full rejuv. ended with 3 super mana and 1 full rejuv, and down about 300 arrows. i finally went back and rescued Anya, gloamless, and made my way down to the throne of destruction. There were some gloams there, but they weren't killing me (after the first time) and I shot them off screen to return the favor. Baal's minions withered to my slvl 30 FA, and Baal gave me some trouble with a clone, but switching my merc's weapon between his insight and a kelpie snare I took him down in under 10 minutes, this time with me actually getting to shoot my bow, which on its own was a much needed improvement over my duriel assist.
I think I had 3 deaths in Hell, one in the river of flame before the WP, got surrounded my maggots, one in act5 frigid highlands to an undead archer, and one to gloams in the crystaline passage or WSK4, i forget which.
hell Hf was a lum.
i went back and did normal HF, got an El.
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