Hiawatha-Bowzon
Mission: One time full clear of all areas.Complete normal difficulty with no more than one point in any offensive skills,no multishot or strafe.One point will be put in jab for Duriel(a wasted skill point).
Spells used:
Fire arrow 1
Cold arrow 1
Exploding arrow 1
Guided arrow 1
Ice arrow 1
Immolation arrow 1
Critical Strike 5
Inner sight 1
Dodge 2
Avoid 2
Slow missle 2
Penetrate 2
Decoy 2
Jab 1
Hiawatha was lucky with jewelry. She found a 6% mana steal amulet early on and used it right through normal, only taking it off to fight Diablo. Not having mana steal would have created a lot of problems for Hiawatha but luck was with her. Here are a few of the other items she found:
Greyform---gambled end of ACT 2
Tarnhelm-----gambled from Jamella (not used in normal but am hoping to use it in Nightmare)
Long War bow--Bought from Jamella 6-42 damage,Alacrity
belt------------- +19 mana +21 life
Plated belt--- +54 life (not used)
Rare Plated belt--poison reduction 25%,Fire res 15%.Poison res 15%,+19 life,thorn damage 1,+1 LR(not used)
gloves------Fire res 16%,+29 life
Rare gloves--gambled +5 LR,Poison res 13%,Ligntning res 6%,SIAS
Light plated boots--Faster,Fire resist 28%
Rare heavy boots--gambled Fast hit recovery,Faster run,poison res 8%,cold res 42%
Rare cap--gambled poison res 19%,Cold res 22%,Light res 31%,thorn damage 2
Helm----Fastest hit recovery,Light res 28%
Crown--Light res 33%,+39 life
Rings---+18 mana
-----------+19 mana
-----------Light res 18%,12% chance to find magic
-----------6% life steal
-----------Cold res 18%,+22 life
-----------Half freeze
-----------Cold res 42%
-----------Gidbinn quest Fires res 13%,+48 AR,+1 mana,+1dex
-----------+106 AR,replenish life 3
Amulets---+27 life
---------------6% mana steal
---------------MDR -3,Poison res 28%
---------------+38 mana,+5 strength
---------------Lightning res 26%, replenish life +5
There were no real problems in Act 1.A couple of lively fights in the underground chest areas with archer Boss packs but not a real problem. Andariel took awhile to kill and I had to be careful.
Duriel was a pushover,as I used a spetum with 9% life steal and this made it to easy,but I wasn't going to chance using a bow this time. I only drank 2 life potions.My mercenary also survived.
In act 3 I had a close call in one of the temples in Upper Kurast.Hordes of spiders with a Boss pack,crushers and ghoul lords coming through 2 doors made for a lively fight.My cold,fast cast mercenary saved me from losing control of the situation. Hiawatha used a composite bow (8-14 damage+ 1-16 lightning damage) until Travincal.The very fast speed came in handy when using Ice Arrow for crowd control,but I switched to a short Battle Bow (10-21+ 1-16 Light damage) to kill the council members as I was having trouble with the lower damage composite.Stacking imolation arrow finally did the job.
There was no real problem with Mephisto.After killing Meph I returned to town and proceeded to sell off the items I didn't want to keep and organized my stuff.I was tired from having cleared Upper Kurast to the Durance level 3.I quit and saved.As soon as I hit the save key I realized I hadn't gone through Mephisto's portal or even opened it.Not good.The following day I had to kill Mephisto for a second time and this time he hit me with one his cold balls which knocked me down to about 1/4 of my life.
My toughest area was the City of the Damned.Abyss Knights,Stygian hag Boss pack,and Doom casters all lurking around the stairs to the River of Flame.There is no way I wanted to start a new session with this combo so I decided to keep going to the River of Flame waypoint.City of the Damned had a very strange map with the waypoint and the stairs down to the River of Flame being right at the stairs coming up from the Plains of Despair.I found a nice Amy in the City,+38 mana and +5 strength but won't be able to use it much until I find a mana steal ring.
The River of Flame was a welcome relief with Maw fiends,Urdars and Rock worms.Hephasto was not a problem as I was able to park him across a lava field and take him out with guided arrow.
The Chaos Sanctuary went well with judicious use of slow missles for the Abyss Knights,which are always a threat.The final battle with Diablo took quite awhile and I did take some damage but never really came close to dying,thanks to my -6 MDR and 46% lightning resist.I didn't use my mana steal amulet,and opted for the extra -MDR,but ended up using more potions than I expected.His high blocking negated my guided arrows dramatically. My belt was completely empty when he dropped although I had some potions in my back pack and a few more strewn around the area.Diablo dropped a load of junk.The best item was Isenharts Parry ($16000) It felt very good to complete normal difficulty but the real challenges will come in Nightmare.
- Maaloch
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