So decided to put my rather large backlog on hold to replay some d2 in anticipation of D3.
Rolling a CS/LF Jav Zon because they were basically my second favorite thing to play way back next to WWSin's which is something impractical to try and do in Single Player, Zon is fairly gear independent as a class which is nice in contrast. This is a good thing, since the rng gods have debatably not been nice to me this playthrough.
Up to Act 5 in Nightmare so far, and am still using two blues, one of them being a Maiden Javalin of Replenishing(with plus 1 to zon skills as a side bonus), this is typically alright, since CS zon's aren't actually weapon reliant and mostly just want them to self replenish for LF spam, but once I reach hell the Lightning immunes are going to become super common and if I'm still using one of the weakest weapon classes at that point things will really start to become painful. Ended up crafting some blood gloves to give me some crushing blow to help counteract the crappy weapon damage for lightning imunes, was hoping I would get something cool like attack speed or + jav skills, get +30 to two resistances instead, considering I will probably have an even 0 in those resistances in hell with those gloves I decided I was okay with that. Also gambled a Circlet in the hope of plus zon skills, 500k gold later rolled one with 50 lightning resist and a small amount of the others decided that actually being able to take hits in hell will be more important then overkilling non boss enemies harder. Also made the stealth Runeword in an armor because nothing good was dropping and I like the faster runwalk and hit recovery.
Unfortunately, my rings and Ammy are still relatively worthless, one ring is a rare with a minute amount of lightning resist, and the other has nothing useful but mana leech, which is failing to keep me from chugging mana potions because my leechable damage is horrid :-(. Ammy is a blue Zon skiller, which is alright, but doesn't actively help my character with anything but killing bosses faster really. The belt is equally meh, basically having some Faster Hit recovery and cold resist.
As for the drops that have actually made me happy in this run so far? I got a rare set of boots with Faster Runwalk, a little magic find, cold resist, and self repairing. I love Faster run walk on zons, and the fact that one of the item slots that loses durability the quickest got self repair is cool. As for the best item drop so far, Diablo dropped Sigund's Shield in normal, which I promptly put a socket in and the socketed with a perfect diamond once I could in act 5. I will probably keep this shield forever or something decent resist to everything, near perfect block rate, and plus 1 to all skills. I could probably technically upgrade it by runewording a spirit or rhyme, spirit would give an extra plus to skills, give loads of faster hit recover, double my mana pool, and boost 3 resist at the cost of losing about 20 or the fourth, the problem being the fourth is fire resist which I'm currently the lowest on, and is the resist that gets hit from the only thing that has killed me thus far (screw you Fire Enchanted rares that I accidentally oneshot through doorways, screw you) so anyways screw that, Rhyme on the other hand basically loses the plus skill for slightly better resist, crappy block percentage, some magic find, and Cannot be Frozen. Freeze is a pretty shitty status to get hit by, but whatever thawing potions can be used if it's really bad, and Duriel is a jerk and ignores that mod anyways so yeah whatever.
So yeah, text flood that can be summarized as I got crappy items and all I do is run faster wee or something. Also I somehow managed to max three resist in nightmare with crappy gear, except for fire, that's at like 0, I expect happy fun times and lots of dying in hell should I fail to rectify that soon.
In other news I demonstrated the OPness that is suicide Soraka to Andy in LoL >.>
