Aaagh! Vast hordes of em

[kandrathe]

Ok, you got me curious and a bit frightened, so I meticulously rebuilt my lvl 90 glass cannon (500 life), burizon. Stats, items, skills, charms are now the same as my realm character. The only thing I was missing was my lvl 90 baba hireling and his CCB of Gore. All this was players 1. Everything felt mostly the same, she played the same and other than needing a little more resistance (was -70, maybe I'll aim for positive #'s ). I think she'll be ok. I found that the elemental damages hurt her more now. Leeching seemed to be the same. I took her to some representative areas in Act 1 - Act 5 and then attempted to take out all the act bosses. Andy was no problem, skipped Duriel for now.

Mephisto was much harder... I tried my usual trick of standing far off to one side and shooting toward where he should be standing with GA, and he rushed me. Mephisto one hit killed her with a lightning bolt, as I found out he has some other new tricks. I used to just ignore his charge bolts and lightning bolts, and then dodge when he was casting his lightning orb. The Valkyrie withered in one or two of his blows. His poison attack was gone, but then we didn't close with him much.

Now, his lightning bolt hurts somtimes (pry 1-XXXX) dmg, but it also chills. I got hit with the lightning/cold ball once as well, but that only did about 90% of her life. He was quite persistant in chasing her down now, and is about twice as fast as the old mephy. He also is pretty dangerous in casting a modified version of Blizzard. His drop was very poor, but the council combined was ok and it was quite a hoot. Then I went to Travincal, and it was much easier. The fact that certain members of the council are no longer mostly PI is very nice.

Saving the fun of Diablo, Baal and Duriel for tomorrow.

I also want to try out the rune words "Call to Arms(AmnRalMalIst)", "Hand Of Justice(SurChamAmnLo)", "Passion(DolOrtEldLem)", and "Breath Of The Dying(VexHelElEldZodEth)" as Grand Matron and Hydra Bows. So far have done "Call to Arms", and it will be pretty neat for her to be able to use BO for herself, Valkerie and baba. Damage is slightly less than Lycanders, but this RW has some nifty features for a bow. It is a good thing these runes are rare, because in a Crusader or Hydra bow they will be powerful, and I think on par with Eaglehorn and Lycanders. Not quite a Windforce though, but the runes for CTA, and Passion are not nearly as rare. BOTD and HOJ will be as rare or rarer than a Windforce.