06-18-2006, 05:26 PM
Hail all,
Just wanted to give an update. So far I've cleared every part of act one through three in nightmare. Monty was able to handle any mess of monsters or boss with relative ease. No real danger to his life pool, and he has been able to strike down regular monsters with one to three hits on average. Although I must admit that his ease and success in the battlefield is probably due to my luck with gambling the high damage one-handed rare sword, and then upgrading it to a exceptional version. Before I acquired that sword I found it took quite a while with my previous gear to vanquish enemies in nightmare. I was lucky enough to be forewarned by many of you that advancing to Hell is not a matter of using strategies and leveling up, but instead mostly finding the right gear or already having it. In my case I don't have any gear to give this character, and I'm seeing that playing legit can be quite a grind (although I came back from World of Warcraft, so Blizzard already polished my grinding skills). None the less, I am still enjoying the game and I will certainly finish playing with my original goals.
I do not plan on jumping into Hell blindly and unprepared. If it requires me to do a bit of item hunting before I achieve my goal, then so bet it. If I have to get up to Hell / Countess and spend a month killing Hell Countess / NM Baal / NM Mephisto, I will. I don't mind picking up the game for 20 to 30 minutes and doing boss runs, it's relaxing from my daily life. I realized this game would be sort of an item hunt ( I admit more so than I expected), so after I get up to the Countess in Hell I'll be in item hunt mode.
With that, I wanted to ask everyone what they thought would be achievable if I do a week or two worth of item hunting, and what would be the best way to approach doing that. I can play about twenty hours a week, so I'm trying to figure out what my odds are of obtaining high-end runes in that period of time, although math is not my forte. I have been reading up on similar Barbarian builds, and I'm trying to get an idea of what my gear should be like in Hell. Although a lot of those builds ask for certain elite unique items which I can not plan on finding.
Thanks again for all the comments everyone, I really appreciate it.
-MonTy
Just wanted to give an update. So far I've cleared every part of act one through three in nightmare. Monty was able to handle any mess of monsters or boss with relative ease. No real danger to his life pool, and he has been able to strike down regular monsters with one to three hits on average. Although I must admit that his ease and success in the battlefield is probably due to my luck with gambling the high damage one-handed rare sword, and then upgrading it to a exceptional version. Before I acquired that sword I found it took quite a while with my previous gear to vanquish enemies in nightmare. I was lucky enough to be forewarned by many of you that advancing to Hell is not a matter of using strategies and leveling up, but instead mostly finding the right gear or already having it. In my case I don't have any gear to give this character, and I'm seeing that playing legit can be quite a grind (although I came back from World of Warcraft, so Blizzard already polished my grinding skills). None the less, I am still enjoying the game and I will certainly finish playing with my original goals.
I do not plan on jumping into Hell blindly and unprepared. If it requires me to do a bit of item hunting before I achieve my goal, then so bet it. If I have to get up to Hell / Countess and spend a month killing Hell Countess / NM Baal / NM Mephisto, I will. I don't mind picking up the game for 20 to 30 minutes and doing boss runs, it's relaxing from my daily life. I realized this game would be sort of an item hunt ( I admit more so than I expected), so after I get up to the Countess in Hell I'll be in item hunt mode.
With that, I wanted to ask everyone what they thought would be achievable if I do a week or two worth of item hunting, and what would be the best way to approach doing that. I can play about twenty hours a week, so I'm trying to figure out what my odds are of obtaining high-end runes in that period of time, although math is not my forte. I have been reading up on similar Barbarian builds, and I'm trying to get an idea of what my gear should be like in Hell. Although a lot of those builds ask for certain elite unique items which I can not plan on finding.
Thanks again for all the comments everyone, I really appreciate it.
-MonTy