Season 10 Walk Thread

[Mezzanine]

I'm a bit embarrassed with my equipment, but I'm still surviving! Just finished Nightmare at level 64 with 440HP and 300Mana. Don't think that will cut it in Hell. Most of my stats points (165) are unspent as I'm waiting to see what gear drops. I'm finding all sorts of melee gear and no sorc gear at all. Most of my gear hasn't been upgraded in 30 levels or so. It is all blue/rare normal armor, no exceptional or elite.

Leaf Staff
Stealth in Ethereal Chain
Rare belt with 60 Life + Mana + resists
Rare Boots with good resists + 30% RunWalk (55% Speed is how I survive)
Rare Gloves with good resists
Blue Helm with LR + Mana
Rare Ring with Resists + Mana
Blue Ring with huge Mana (105)
Rare amulet with huge resists.

Have been trying to get the runes to make Smoke or similar so that I can free up other slots for something other than resists. My resists are near max for NM (75/65/65/65), but would be a lot easier if I had resists on my armor and switched to a shield.

I have the runes to make spirit, but no shield for it yet. Am wondering if I should just make a spirit longsword and use a temporary shield until I find a Monarch?

Suggestions welcome, I'm still new to all this.

Yes. Monarches are hard to come by, at least until later in the season. Use a temp shield like rhyme (shael+eth) it's pretty decent, good resists that help you survive hell and cannot be frozen mod.

I'll donate you an AP smoke tomorrow, have a realm down now and can't be bothered logging back in. Haha.

[Rakhir]

I finally had a bit of luck and had an Ethereal Goldskin drop. 592Def and 35% resist all! And since I almost never get hit, it should last quite awhile.

Went ahead and made the Spirit Broadsword as well, and am using a Rare Grim Shield with 15 Resist All and 17% FHR. Found a 2-socket Hydraskull so made Lore in that. Getting some improvements, at least. Looking forward to Hell tomorrow night!

[Tbone]

Yeah the jump from nightmare to hell for a sorceress can be quite a task this early in the season. Getting your resists up and battling duel immunes can make it quite a challenge. I was banging my head against a wall the last few days just trying to get through act 1 and decided to go back to nightmare and mf a while to upgrade the gear.

[Mezzanine]

NM Baal can drop Shako!

[Tbone]

Yeah, apparently Baal is the only one that drop a Shako in nightmare. And it's not too often.

[Rakhir]

Note Pally shields cannot get 40+ resist automod until about NM act 3 so no point picking any up before then. You can't get them in normal. 40+ resist is ilvl 50.
But all pally shields will get 4 sockets from Larzuk.

Does this work on Blue magic shields as well? or only Grey/White?

Found a Blessed Heraldic Shield of Maiming with 45 Resist all, 44Def with +4 max damage.

Also, are 5os polearms wanted? Found 5os Lance and Partizan.

[Mezzanine]

Just whites for runewords

Nope, 5os useless, 4os is good. 4os eth Partizans are good beginner insights till you can get elite poles

[gakky]

I also abandoned Hell and went back to NM. Yeah died a lot from resists but I think I could solve that with smoke or treachery, or maybe buy a viper. Dual immunes aren't too bad I find. Pretty rare to encounter and jsut use static then telekenesis while your merc kills I haven't had any issue. What really got me was the really slow killing with low +skills. And I know past Act1 monster hp goes up. Constant merc death was also a very major issue. Kept running out of money.
Only NM baal can drop shako ?? I'm giving up and switching to a hammderin

eth Partizans are actually extremely good. The damage is pretty close to a plain elite, 81.75 versus 91 or a CV. The reqs are very low.
5os eth partizan isn't too bad for Obediance at this point in the ladder. So I think it is worthwhile cubing plain eth Partizans, 2/6 chance for 5os, 1/6 for 4os.

[Merle]

Yeah, apparently Baal is the only one that drop a Shako in nightmare. And it's not too often.

Saw a Shako drop in from the Minions in a NM Baal run last night.... guy flipped out.

[Funky_Monk]

Found a Shako in Tamoe Highlands off a normal mob yesterday.

I've been pit running on my Fishymancer and it is THE easiest way I've found to play Hell without gear. Solo'd everything up to ancients. You can kill anything. Your Clay Golem and Skele's can take a real beating when maxed. Might merc + AMP + CE will clear anything in seconds once the first mob drops and you can load up on cheap MF gear, cheap wands and pit run fairly safely.
Best way to start broke IMO. Too bad it took me 12 years to figure that out. Oh well, D3 in less than a week XD