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sphere
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posted December 01, 2006 02:20 PM |
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Edited by sphere at 14:23, 01 Dec 2006.
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Hey,
- Anyway that I can remove a "friend" from my list ? I really need this info. there are some thats constantly is pm me .. and that was after I rushed him and he told me ( naivity comes to mind here ) to add him...
Edit - Because he filled me in on all the "hot-key's" for items, like hoto = Heart of the oak etc. and he promised me that after 3 hours of rushing... then he left.. what a **** arse 
- Guz
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william
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LummoxLewis
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posted December 01, 2006 03:06 PM |
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You can do this sphere:
/f r persons name
or /squelch persons name
That will help.
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sphere
Supreme Hero
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posted December 06, 2006 03:19 PM |
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Edited by sphere at 15:21, 06 Dec 2006.
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Hey,
- A few more questions.
(1) - Could someone make a list of the item shortcuts ( like BOTD = Breath of the Dying ) here, so I can see what ppl actually are offering/needing instead of entering their rooms to ask ?
(2) - I am currently lvl 70 with my new h-din but I have been told 2 things a) Go to Hell at lvl 73 b) Wait till you have better items
- I have lousy items ( still ) so I can see the point in b, but that dosent help me in the long run, I still need some better items. a) makes sence, since the exp. for each baal-run takes longer after that lvl ( I HAVE noticed something after all  ) but can a medicore h-din make it even i hell act 1 ( just outside rouge encampment ) ? - Dmg with concentration maxed. is 900-1400 approx. and my hammer does around 600-800 ( can't remember the exact # ). Def is ( with H-shield ) 15k + ... ?
(3) How does a hammerdin actually act with the hammer ? I have experimented with it in NM, 8 players on Baalruns.. stand in the "hot-spot" and started to whirl, but I have to say, In 6/10 I take a beating when it comes to Ventor and Lister and their minions.
(4) - I have 4 lvl 60+ toons, would it be wise to take the HF quest both N and NM despite my low MF , or should I wait ? EDIT for the runes I mean...
- Guz
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sphere
Supreme Hero
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posted December 07, 2006 07:08 PM |
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Hey,
- Yes,yes double posting...
- Any of the Europe players going to be on ...well now ? I am sick and tired of having bad items, and no way I can handle Hell ( just tried with my first paladin and he got creamed in the Den )
- So I was wondering if anyone has an Enigma / hoto or similar I could borrow/have ... just till I get my own ...pretty please with sugar on top 
- C'mon ....
- Guz
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angelito
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Undefeatable Hero
proud father of a princess
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posted December 07, 2006 07:16 PM |
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As mentioned in my IM yesterday, I'm still confused about where u actually play Guz. The way u described it on GS yesterday sounded like closed battle.net. But the description of your IM here on HC then is the way Open-battle.net is played.
So take a look on that pic below, and tell me if u click the "blue arrow" button (closed battle.net) or the "red arrow" button (open battle.net)
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sphere
Supreme Hero
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posted December 07, 2006 07:25 PM |
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Edited by sphere at 19:29, 07 Dec 2006.
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Hey,
- Well I may have been a bit unclear as to where I am actually playing on, but I play through the Blue arrow
- If I press the Multiplayer 2 which is Other multiplayer in the English version, I get the option of Open.net and tcp/ip
- So where does that leave us... trade-wise ? 
- Guz
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angelito
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proud father of a princess
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posted December 07, 2006 08:11 PM |
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The red button followed by "Open battle.net" would lead us to a possible trading session with my singleplayer character.
But u seem to play on closed battle.net, and I don't have decent closed characters. William may have some items for u, as I know he has some closed characters...he even may have some NON hacked ones..
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william
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LummoxLewis
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posted December 08, 2006 01:43 AM |
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I have plenty of non hacked characters, and it is not possible to get hacked characters into closed battle.net, or is it....?
I would have some items for you, but I might need them for my lower level characters, I have plenty of good items though.
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william
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LummoxLewis
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posted December 09, 2006 10:36 AM |
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Hey,
- Yes,yes double posting...
- Any of the Europe players going to be on ...well now ? I am sick and tired of having bad items, and no way I can handle Hell ( just tried with my first paladin and he got creamed in the Den )
- So I was wondering if anyone has an Enigma / hoto or similar I could borrow/have ... just till I get my own ...pretty please with sugar on top
- C'mon ....
- Guz
Sphere, about you asking whether anyone has Hoto or Enigma or such, I have 2 Fortitude Armours.
One you might not be able to wear, and the other is an Ethereal Fort armour for my Merc.
The one that I wear requires around 232 Strength.
I have a Steel Carapace which gives you about 1700 Defense, but it requires that you have 230 Strength.
You used to have Hoto but traded it long ago, bad trade which I did.
I may have some items for you, but I have installed HOMM3 again today and might start playing that with some people here, so if you do not see me on Battle.net then that is why.
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sphere
Supreme Hero
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posted December 09, 2006 10:42 AM |
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Hey,
- I would have some items for you, but I might need them for my lower level characters, I have plenty of good items though.
But you play on US-West, Will and I'm on Europe server.
- On a side note, I am starting to build up ( FINALLY) my item(s) collection. I got an ok Hell 4 socked armor ( def only 400 ) and Kenzon my long time RL buddy just rushed a lvl 25 toon that he didint want to play anymore, to Harrogath (NM) to get the socket quest. Then I made it 5 and threw in 5 pftopaz. Also has a 3 socked Hydraskull with 3 in it... those combined with some minor mf-charms and some Sigon set items, I have well over 250+ mf now.. and that really makes a difference.
- I just use my high lvl assassin and run Tower,The Hole,The pit ( lvl 1-2) and those two extra areas in Highlands ( Abbadon and the other ) already found my first soj  and some pretty decent items to trade with............... now for that Enigma 
- Guz
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william
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LummoxLewis
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posted December 09, 2006 10:47 AM |
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Edited by william at 11:01, 09 Dec 2006.
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Enigma is sometimes worth maybe 1, 2 or 3 hrs at the most, you would need some pretty good items that you could get for some hrs.
Try and get a 4 socketed Ethereal Armour for your merc, and perhaps a 4 socketed Armour for yourself, preferably with a Defense of around 600+, and not to much strength required, that would make for an awesome Fortitude Armour.
Enigma is alright, because of Teleport and + to skills, I think, havent checked it out for a while, but in Defense Wise, Fortitude is much much better, I always think that Fortitude is better.
You can also get a Fortitude weapon aswell, which is awesome, although I use BOTD 6 Socket Phase Blade, for more damage I could have used an Eth Beserk Axe if that is what it is called, or basically anything that is better than a 6 Socket Phase Blade, but I had the Phase Blade, and the runes so I just made it, and it has way more damage than my Lightsabre did, and much more Life Steal aswell, which is exactly what I am wanting, because in hell mode, life steal is pretty important, well in my opinion anyway, because with higher life steal, you will get more life back every time you hit a creature, which is awesome, so in theory if you ave alot of Life Steal, than really, you do not have a need for Health Potions, Rejuvenation Potions, maybe, but Health Potions you do not need, because basically Life Steal acts as health potions, but reacts faster and you get more health from hitting creatures, which is awesome.
The Telport thing with Enigma is good because you can do Baal rushes in Nightmare or Hell mode very quickly, instead of always having to find your way by walking and all that.
With Enigma, you can make that with Non-Ladder characters, and offline characters (single player), but with Fortitude, you need to be a Ladder Character, meaning you can not make a Fortitude using a Single Player or non-ladder character.
Enigma
Items Needed: 3 Socket Body Armor
Rune Order: Jah + Ith + Ber
Stats:
+2 To All Skills
+45% Faster Run/Walk
+1 To Teleport
+750-775 Defense (varies)
+ (0.75 Per Character Level) +0-74 To Strength (Based On Character Level)
Increase Maximum Life 5%
Damage Reduced By 8%
+14 Life After Each Kill
15% Damage Taken Goes To Mana
+ (1 Per Character Level) +1-99% Better Chance of Getting Magic Items (Based On Character Level)
+2 to all skills is good because that means it increases every skill you have, for example: if you are a tesladin, than it would increase Zeal and Holy Shock by +2, and if they are at level 20, then they obviously would go to level 22, thus making you deal out more damage, and your holy shock damage would be increased aswell.
With holy shield, the holy shield duration would be increased, and the holy shield defense bonus would also be increased, making it much better for you to have.
+1 to teleport, means you would no longer really have to walk as much, you would also be able to do Baal rushes very easily, good for public baal rush games, or non-public (private) baal rush games.
The +700-755 Defense (varies) is also really good, but for even more defense then just stick to Fortitude Armour, that is your safest bet with this course of action, and Fortitude can make your defense going from really bad, to very good, maybe up to around 4000 Defense without any enhancers with it, or maybe even more.
Currently, with my Fortitude Armour on, my defense is at around 2600, with Holy Shield it goes to about 7000, then with my Merc Defensive Aura it goes to around 15000 Defense, which is very very good
Fortitude
Items Needed: 4 Socket Weapons/Body Armor
Rune Order: El + Sol + Dol + Lo
Weapons
20% Chance To Cast Level 15 Chilling Armor when Struck
+25% Faster Cast Rate
+300% Enhanced Damage
+9 To Minimum Damage
+50 To Attack Rating
20% Deadly Strike
Hit Causes Monster To Flee 25%
+200% Enhanced Defense
+X To Life (Based on Character Level)*
All Resistances +25-30 (varies)
12% Damage Taken Goes To Mana
+1 To Light Radius
Body Armor
20% Chance To Cast Level 15 Chilling Armor when Struck
+25% Faster Cast Rate
+300% Enhanced Damage
+200% Enhanced Defense
+15 Defense
+X To Life (Based on Character Level)*
Replenish Life +7
+5% To Maximum Lightning Resist
All Resistances +25-30 (varies)
Damage Reduced By 7
12% Damage Taken Goes To Mana
+1 To Light Radius
With body Armour I was lucky to get Perfect Resistances, +30 to it, which is very good for me, although my overall resistances still suck badly, but atleast they are not as bad as they were before I had Fortitude Armour.
With Body Armour, +300% Enhanced Damage and +200% enhanced Defense, that is really good, will possibly to my understanding, increase the defense and Damage, I am not to sure about Enhanced Defense and Damage though so I am not that sure about this.
The enhanced defense and damage increasements are both the same with Body Armour Fortitude and Weapon Fortitude, so that is nothing much to worry about.
The resitances Increasement is also the same with Weapons and Body Armour.
In my honest opinion, I think that Fortitude Armour is better for you, then Enigma, and perhaps a Fortitude Weapon is also what you might need, just pick the correct weapon, and if you are a Barbarian, then pick a good damage Weapon that you would be able to have another weapon equpped at the same time aswell, maybe a 2 handed or 1 handed (not to sure, I think if it is 1 handed then that means that you can have another weapon equipped aswell, and if it is a 2 handed that means that it is only a 2 handed weapon and you may not have any other weapons equipped) and ofcourse you can have 1 and 2 handed weapons, that is what I think yuou should get, and make sure it has good damage aswell.
Well I hope that helped you, and oofcourse, you are right that I am US West, perhaps you should come onto US WEST aswell, I have an account on the Europe server but I never play with it, I much prefer to play with my US WEST account.
But if you do ever come onto US WEST then I will be more than happy to help you out with items and getting up levels quickly and all that
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this_other_guy
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posted December 09, 2006 12:54 PM |
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Enigma is sometimes worth maybe 1, 2 or 3 hrs at the most, you would need some pretty good items that you could get for some hrs.
Enigma will never go for 1 hr unless the seller is on crack, and the better ones go for alot more than 3 hr.
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Try and get a 4 socketed Ethereal Armour for your merc, and perhaps a 4 socketed Armour for yourself, preferably with a Defense of around 600+, and not to much strength required, that would make for an awesome Fortitude Armour.
Depends on what merc you use really. For a hammerdin, you would choose an act2 merc armed with an eth Insight and at higher levels, they have close to 200 strength. Thus an eth armor with low str requirement and around 600 base defense is not worth making a fortitude with; 900 def should be the minimum base def for a set of eth armor to be made into fortitude.
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Enigma is alright, because of Teleport and + to skills, I think, havent checked it out for a while, but in Defense Wise, Fortitude is much much better, I always think that Fortitude is better.
Defense wise, the difference between the two isn't that great: Enigma gives +750 - 775 extra defense while fort gives 200% enhanced damage. Provided that these 2 rune words are made on identical armor, both has the chance to be more superior in defense than the other.
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With Body Armour, +300% Enhanced Damage and +200% enhanced Defense, that is really good, will possibly to my understanding, increase the defense and Damage, I am not to sure about Enhanced Defense and Damage though so I am not that sure about this.
Just a note: enhanced damage affects physical damage only, which brings up the next point...
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In my honest opinion, I think that Fortitude Armour is better for you, then Enigma, and perhaps a Fortitude Weapon is also what you might need, just pick the correct weapon
Fortitude on a hammerdin is a 100% waste, period. Best stat on fort is the 300%ed and that affects blessed hammers in no way whatsoever. Also, a hammerdin who cannot teleport is useless: and enigma is the only option, not to mention a hammerdin heavily relies on +skills to increase damage, and the +2 to all skills surely comes in handy.
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william
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LummoxLewis
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posted December 09, 2006 01:00 PM |
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I do not have hammerdins, thus I have a Fort, because I use Tesladins, and Fort for me is very important.
I have seen some Enigma sbeen traded for around 1 to 3 hrs, and even more.
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sphere
Supreme Hero
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posted December 11, 2006 02:53 PM |
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Hey,
- Well an Ali Baba Tulwar with 2 Ist runes in it does the trick. I know it's a bit expencive to use 2 Ist on that.. but I have already found one more with this magnificent mf weapon I currently have well over 400 mf and still can kill pretty fast on NM.
- As armor and helm, I just use some lowbie 3-4 socked items I have found and have pf-topaz in them... and 2 pefect Nagelrings.
- I just need one advice though. Can anyone tell me where ( if any at all ) the best drop rate is according to runes ( not including Hell ) ? Am I totally on a side-track when I say Tower,The Pit and Meph on Nm?
- Mf is addictive as hell I'd tell ya
- Guz
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william
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LummoxLewis
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posted December 11, 2006 02:56 PM |
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Runes drop randomly, I am not sure if MF effects the % of getting more runes dropped, I am sure that it does NOT affect the drop rate of runes (MF that is).
You can find some hrs if you are lucky with Hell Hellforge, but that can only be done once.
The Countess drops runes all the time, but not that good runes which is kinda crap.
I have gotten a Pul rune drop from Meph before, which is pretty good.
They drop randomly, no place has a higher drop rate then another place.
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sphere
Supreme Hero
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posted December 14, 2006 12:23 PM |
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Edited by sphere at 12:24, 14 Dec 2006.
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Hey,
- Well time for me to make an Enigma...
- 1 question first though. Looking at the Enigma formulae :
- +2 To All Skills
+45% Faster Run/Walk
+1 To Teleport
+750-775 Defense (varies)
+ (0.75 Per Character Level) +0-74 To Strength (Based On Character Level)
Increase Maximum Life 5%
Damage Reduced By 8%
+14 Life After Each Kill
15% Damage Taken Goes To Mana
+ (1 Per Character Level) +1-99% Better Chance of Getting Magic Items (Based On Character Level)
And especially : +750-775 Defense (varies)
+ (0.75 Per Character Level) Does this mean that if I make one from a normal 3 socked armor, say 130 def, I get :
130 + 750-775 and 0.75 per chart. lvl ? - 130 + ( exp ) 750 and ( exp ) lvl 80 ( 60 ) = 940 total ?
- Would it be better to hold off till I get a higher armor from Nm or Hell ? - or is it just " C'mon, get cracking,mate" kinda thing with this armor ?
- Guz
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william
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LummoxLewis
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posted December 14, 2006 12:27 PM |
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Edited by william at 12:28, 14 Dec 2006.
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And especially : +750-775 Defense (varies)
+ (0.75 Per Character Level) Does this mean that if I make one from a normal 3 socked armor, say 130 def, I get :
130 + 750-775 and 0.75 per chart. lvl ? - 130 + ( exp ) 750 and ( exp ) lvl 80 ( 60 ) = 940 total ?
I think you ot that all wrong, you forgot the part at the end of the Level thing in the (0.75 Per Character Level) and I think that that is referring to the Strength which is right after that bit, so I think you may have misunderstood for that, or it may be that I am wrong and forgot to add a space after that and that the (0.75 Per Character Level) was actually part of the Defense thing.
But you should have made Fortitude, it is way better than Enigma.
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sphere
Supreme Hero
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posted December 14, 2006 12:36 PM |
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Hey,
- Ok, so it's base armor + the 750-775 from the rune word only.. ok fair enough(t).
- As for Fortitude... I am after MF, Will, and by the way that armor/weapon is ladder only 
- Thanks for the quick reply though.
- Guz
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william
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LummoxLewis
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posted December 14, 2006 12:37 PM |
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Ofcourse it is Ladder, so you are non-ladder then?
Non-ladder characters miss out on alot of awesome items, you should become a Ladder Character and I could help you out with some items.
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CaptLoser
Hired Hero
Superhero of CherryCandy
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posted December 14, 2006 07:48 PM |
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Yo Sphere!
I havent been here in a while.
So Sphere you are playing in Europe and non-ladder... Thats nice, cause I have non-ladder chars too, like my uberkiller assassin.
But now playing usually in Ladder though..
So you are having a bit equipment problems. Those are the nasty ones, you wouldnt usually have those if you make mf sorc first( mine is blizzard which does 8k dmg), with about 300 mf. And then in hell kill about 100 times mephisto. But the best way is to have some nice (and trustful friends) with you and do some "everything goes" -runs.
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