@KoalaBear - for this, I think so too. I don't have any life leech or any damage to leech off of anyway, so the health recovery on Prayer might be kinda nice.
CaptainFalcon bid farewell to Fiona and hired Zanarhi, the prayer merc.
Gambled a magic poleaxe with 23ed for the new merc. When I get the cube I will make him a savage weapon. Failing that, I'll try to gamble pikes.
Zanarhi sure knows how to kill things. Captain Falcon watches him to be sure he's doing it right.
Cleared rocky waste, dry hills, and half of far oasis to the waypoint.
Bought ocher gloves of wealth to replace the old glowing gloves.
Then, bought sturdy gloves of fortune to replace those, although I'm hanging on to anything with lightning resist right now, in case I don't find something better for Diablo when I get there.
a nice ring dropped.
found a few more runes, eld, nef
2 more chipped topazes dropped. I upgraded one to flawed at a gem shrine in the Dry Hills. I check Fara everytime I come into town, in case she has a 3 socket breastplate for sale.
Falcon Punched a Berserker spear cat.
I've noticed how monsters tend to group up around the merc, making the charge positioning difficult. After the treasure hunt, I think I will try to use a strong rogue (if I find a Ko rune) or an Iron Wolf (never used one before, could be cool depending on what his AI is like).
Made lvl 22, continued to put points into Holy Fire. Even though holy fire is weak, I think it will be my best source of damage until I can find some +min damage gear.
Falcon Kicked a bunch of urns in Halls of the Dead.
Gambled a pike for Zanarhi; nothing special, but it does the job.
Got the Cube.
Shopped a 3 socket breastplate from Fara.
Found a rare amulet with a little bit of mf, so using it for now.
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cubed a sapphire, put it in the breastplate with 2 flawed topazes.
bought slightly better boots of wealth with poison resistance from Fara.
Did the Sewers, killed Radament. He dropped an Infernal Torch. Not quite what I meant by +min damage gear, lol.
Made 23. Skill points in holy fire.
found a small charm of blight.
current mf: 83 on CaptainFalcon, 55 on the merc.
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Did the Stony Tomb.
shopped another 3 socket breastplate.
cubed 2 savage polearms: one is a savage halberd of carnage that does 20-90 damage. Zanarhi is using that now.
@Korlic - I would say that this isn't the best way to highlight the power of charge. Don't go base vita/titan. Also, get thee a weapon for all that ED multiplication to work with. Charge itself is quite fun, and I do think it would be viable with more proper gear. This isn't stopping me from continuing the crazy though.
@Twibz - Thanks! Yes, sadly Sol runes in armor give 'Damage reduced by 7' instead.
Small update:
Did the Maggot Lair. Or rather, Zanarhi did (because he has more mf). But CaptainFalcon was ready to help at any time.
Made 24, point in charge.
Got the staff of kings.
Gambled a plated belt of self repair. Yay potion slots.
Found an amulet with more mf.
Time to cube some jewelry in hopes of more mf.
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Results of Jewelry Cubing:
Fortuitous Amulet of Protection - 13mf, damage reduced by 2
Ring of Chance - 11mf
Tangerine Ring of the Jackal - 10lr, 1 life
Amulet of Worth - +3 min damage
Beryl Ring of Worth - 7pr, +2 min damage
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Also bought a pair of lightning resist, 19 mf gloves for later.
Did the rest of far oasis, lost city, claw viper temple.
The lost city waypoint was right next to AT, so I did the viper temple first.
Gambled a nice belt
Made 25, point in charge.
found a ring with 13mf
found a jewel of joyfulness with +4min damage
bought boots of fortune with 21mf
cubed a ring with 3% life leech
found this failed unique claw:
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Plague Barb
Wrist Blade
One Hand Damage: 5 - 10
Durability: 102 of 156
Required Level: 3
Required Strength: 33
Required Dexterity: 33
Fingerprint: 0xd82ff386
Item Level: 15
Version: Expansion 1.10+
14% Enhanced Damage
+49 to Attack Rating
+1 to Mana after each Kill
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got the viper amulet. There were so many monsters on Claw Viper Temple lvl 2 that CaptainFalcon had to help the merc fight. There was no time to charge a falcon punch, so he just used regular punches. That's not a problem, because right now, the difference between regular attack and Charge is about 6 damage.
bought a 2 socket bone shield in case I choose to go with an Iron Wolf later.
completed AT, and palace cellars
Made 26, point in Sacrifice. Wait, what? Yeah, I want Zeal for a boss killer, especially when I craft myself some glowing blood gloves with Crushing Blow.
found another ring with +3min damage.
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Arcane Sanctuary - was slow. Zanarhi is the dumbest mercenary I've ever had. a 14 mf ring of chance dropped. Quite a few gems, too.
The Moon is true power! Er, the true tomb is the circle.
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Cleared Canyon of the Magi and 3/6 false tombs
Falcon Punched Ancient Kaa the Soulless.
Fought a physical immune apparition boss. Holy Fire was nice to have...
Made 27, point in Zeal.
Bought Tireless Boots of 23mf
found Isenhart's Horns. Heh.
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6/6 false tombs cleared.
found cleglaw's gloves, hsarus' belt
Made 28, point in holy fire
bought some gloves of fortune with 11 fire resist for later.
found a red grand charm with +1min damage. That actually adds 5min damage to charge and 3min damage with zeal.
I kept it in my inventory for /players 1 Duriel and zealed him to try to counter the slow from his holy freeze. He hit hard, and I had to return to town for more purple pots from my stash, but silly Zanarhi didn't die. Duriel did. He dropped Gorefoot. Silly blue unique for barbs. If only CaptainFalcon could leap.
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