I was on, just trying to level my hammerdin in a game with MDSL’s new amazon, when punha comes on. He has a new pally rune mule at lvl 30 that’s just in NM and he wondered if he could get a rush as far as we could take him. MDSL had to leave to go to work, but I said sure.
We go into NM. The rush went well. punha’s following me while I’m running around killing things so he can leech the experience. We got him the NM forge, then Diablo, and head into Act 5. By this time punha’s level 38, so we do Shenk and Anya and he hits 40. We do the Ancients and Baal and go into Hell.
I had some issues with Andariel, and a lot of problems with the Maggot Lair (punha had to bring his barb in for the lair), but the rest of Act 2 was going well. Fenris shows up in time to help kill Duriel and the Act3 counsel. He brought his sorc in to tp to Meph and we kill him. Then we did the Hell forge.
After that we created a game to mule the crap we picked up. I did my muling… and noticed a “tap…tap…tap” sound on my desk. I look and my desk is wet. I look up and see water dripping from my ceiling…
I have a couple or three inches of snow on my roof and apparently it wanted to visit me as it melted… My cable modem got wet and shorted out, I just picked up a new one. Luckily I rent so it won’t be me paying to get my roof fixed, but with the weather, I don’t know when anyone will be out to repar it. It’s no longer dripping, but I’m waiting… it’s supposed to be warmer today.
Absoul (I’m not sure whether this is his SD name or not) came in with his 85 sorc and we were making headway. I died a lot trying to tank, but we had him down to about a third of his life when it dropped my connection…
Does anyone know how many cows there are in the cow level? I did some research, and a NM cow has about a 1 in 4500 chance of dropping the knout I need, and I’m wondering how many runs that would be. Along the same lines, sturmhauke, do you have a character who can open the NM cow portal? Yeti and I have both accidentally killed the King.
Meanwhile, Yeti got a shiney new toy last night. Normal Baal gave him a near-perfect Titan’s. It’s not ethereal, and I don’t think we have the runes to upgrade it, but it’s still a butt-kicking weapon.
I was sick last week, and since I had nothing better to do I managed to get my druid up to level 67. Though he’s finished nightmare and killed Baal a dozen times, he seems to be sucking air in hell. I have two different sets of armor, one of which gives him good resistances but crappy defense, and another set that gives him a pretty good defense but not very good resistances. The good defense armor has two open sockets, and I’d like to smoke it, but I currently lack a lum rune.
However, he’s a non-ladder char, and I tried to join a couple of SDMB games and it appears you guys are using ladder chars, so I’ve started a couple of ladder chars. One of them is a by-the-faq bowazon that I’m having fun playing, and is most likely the one I’ll stick with for a while. The plan for tonight is to rush her as far through normal as I can.
Buckgully, you don’t say whether you’re on East or West, but if you’re on East I can probably give you some stuff for your non-ladder druid. If you’re going to be playing ladder, you’ll see me eventually. Just mention that you need some non-ladder stuff and I’ll see what we can come up with.
I’ve killed Diablo in NM with my pally but not Baal yet. I might have killed Baal with my barb, I don’t remember. Next time I am on I’ll try with him. I can enter the cow level with my pally but I dunno if it will let me open a red portal. As for how many cows… I’d guess around 500.
You have to have killed Baal (and hence be called Champion), and you have to not have killed the Cow King. I thought you had to kill Baal to enter the portal, too, but maybe Diablo is enough. Next time we’re both on, I can give you the Baal quest for free, if you’d like: My paladin is almost ready to fight him.
And to answer my own question, there are approximately 591 cows in the Secret Cow Level. I checked my experience before and after, and also the amount I got from a single cow. That’s an overcount due to champions and bosses (or is that boses?), but they drop better anyway, so that should cancel out.
Blizzard changed the Cow level a bit in 1.10. Besides nerfing the experience and possibly the drops, they also changed it so that anyone in that difficulty can enter the portal to the cows. You still have to kill Baal to create the portal though.
Not near perfect, but PERFECT…200%ed and 9% life leach…beautiful.
I have a LUM, but not a PUL, but when I get it, it’s gonna get upgraded. I do have UM, maybe I can do a trade for a PUL and something on the side…
I’m ok with it not being etheral. Last etheral Titan’s I had, I broke permanently (not paying attention to the quantity count going to 0.)
Chronos, sorry I’ve been really tired as of late and have been known to fall asleep at the computer and I think that’s what happened last night when I timed out. Next time, try waking me with “Help Me” and “Time to Die” voices and see if I wake up…
The night before, my cable connection took a dump for a few hours, so I went solo for awhile before I fell asleep that night…
My luck’s been in and out - I found Tal-Rasha’s helm and a Witch-Hunter’s claw with my Trapassin in the space of one NM Bloody run, then did Hell Countess for the first time and got …
What is a Witchhunter’s Claw? I don’t know that one and it isn’t under claws on b.net. Is it an assassin weapon?
I found a nice little Firelizard Claw in Tristram last night. Interesting weapon, I hadn’t seen it yet. Now I have 4 really good claws and I don’t know which two to use! I have 2x Shadowkillers, a Jade Talon and the Firelizard’s Claws…sigh.
Multiplayer and all those uniques have spoiled you, MDSL. Witch-Hunter’s is the name of the “+2 to Assassin skills” mod.
This particular claw is Witch-Hunter’s BTs of Slaying with no power-ups. Not brilliant, but then as a Trapassin I’m not using it to hit anyone. It also means I’ve got +8 to all skills now, which is very nice.
You have two Shadowkillers, and you can’t decide what to use? The minimum damage on Shadowkiller is higher than the max on either of the other two. Plus it freezes target. Plus you never need to spend an arm and a leg to repair them. Keep the two Shadowkillers on primary tab, and switch to the Jade and Firelizard’s whenever you’re up against a phys immune or want to use your shadow disciplines.
Yeti, I stand corrected on the javelin. I thought that you were just rounding up, and that it was 195% or something. Now we’ve just got to find an Occulus to match it… And I did leave you a message before I logged off, telling you where to find the True Tomb and Tal Rasha’s Chamber. I should have thought to use the speeches.
Interesting tidbit, by the way: The tombs are always arranged in the same order in the Canyon. From left to right, it’s always circle - crescent - square - 4 pointed star - double V - triangle - circle with crescent. And that’s also the order in which the six false symbols show up behind the Summoner. So you don’t have to ask your rush-ee what the symbol is, and once you know what it is, you can go straight there without searching the entire Canyon.
Well, the problem is that the fire lizards give me like 500 fire damare on top of the phys and +3 to shadow skills. the Jade Talons give me +49 res all. Some thing that I sorely need. They also have the +skills to several things.
the Shadow killers on the other hand cast lots of frozen novas and have a little freeze. The frost novas go off all the time so they really slow things down, but I don’t think that it outweighs the resistances and whatnot. I know for a fact that I die quickly to any elemental damage without the jade talons.
It occurs to me, MDSL, that a holy freeze merc would also slow things down remarkably, thus enabling you to use a Jade Talon and a Shadow Killer (and switch to the Firelizard with a suitable shield or the other Shadow Killer for PIs).
