I'm like a newbie again!

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I spent a few days doing meph runs for gold and items and gambling, at one point I found a Brevitt's Keep so I don't need to worry about fire resist until nm, I've got a lightning resist jewel in my armor and some mediocre gloves, enough to finally get me through the RoF and past diablo. That 80% block would explain why I rarely hit him with zeal.. took a while, but he went down and dropped 3 uniques and 3 rares.. I was amazed, but only one of them was good (twitch, which I'm now wearing). I got an amn from soulforge, thinking about crafting a blood ammy once I get the P ruby (2 flawless right now).. Probably going to switch from magic socketed long sword to bloodletter once I hit 30. I read that the Eth rune's -25% target defence was broken at one point, is it still ITD? In either case, -25% target defence and the huge ar boost from zeal means I rarely miss monsters, so I may socket the bloodletter at larzuk for another eth.

I noticed that gambling was incredibly useless, compared to 1.04. I've spent probably a million gold on items, never getting anything useful. Lots of crap of self-repair or +stamina, but nothing that I would use. My jewelry is horrendous, best ammy i've found overall is only 7% mf. I do have eth and tal for holy thunder or ancient's pledge, depends on what I find socketed first.

I guess I just have horrible eq luck or something.