[*DONE*] A necromantic hardcore journey

Congrats ! On your highway to hell !

Well Played Shadowheart!

If you stick with Summoner then I'll stick with my original guess of full completion (not in it for the prizes)

But if you change to Bone, I'm going with Overlords in Glacier Trails. They're quick and hit Hard

Happy Farming and Best of Luck once you enter Hell!

OH Yeah! Just thought of something. during my offline summoner run came across a neat little trick you could perhaps try yourself.

Instead of using tele staff to tele-stomp Bosses. you can instead cast a

Teleport on top of them (or in Diablos case, where he'll spawn)
and go to town and back to compact your army into one right on top of your target

Never heard anyone talk about this strategy but I suppose everyone just uses a tele-staff. my summoner doesn't have one

I don't know for Shadow, but considering my own load times on D2R, that would be the best way to die on Hardcore

For Shadow : should it be Bone or Summoner, both can deal with Hell. In any case, do remember that being cautious and patient is

Key for Necro hardcore. I have not died a lot in SC, but pretty much always when I was ahead of my meat shields.

Just encountered a pack of Fanat-aura Death Lord in

Throne of Destruction just below the stairs, my merci died quickly but my spears were enough to kill one that I revived, then a second to

Revive... Gave me enough time to snipe the aura bearer and end the pack before going back to town to bring back Azrael to life. At a certain level, Revives are just unkillable (typically they survive to DClone or

Uber Tristram) before they expire, even if managing them properly is not that easy.

Anyway, play slow, when you go through a door in a dungeon always be ready to back off quickly.

I intend to start my Hell playthrough tomorrow around 2024-05-18T12:00:00   This timestamp has been automatically converted to your local date/time for convenience. The format is DD/MMM/YYYY, HH:MM am/pm. This is based off your browser time. . I've decided to try out Bone. I might regret this decision, but I hope I'll be fine

Shopped a +3

Bone Spear

Wand from

Drognan and made a White
The first

Wand I shopped with +3

Bone Spear was a

Yew Wand, and I didn't realize/remember that they can only 1 socket max. It was superior so I gave it to

Larzuk, and imagine my surprise when he only gave it 1 socket. Wasted a

Larzuk quest, so that was a bit embarrassing. Ah well, live and learn!

Almost time to start

All who oppose me... beware.

Is that enough to earn the Rogues' trust?

Blood Raven, rest well.

Randomly found a pair of

Magefist in

Cold Plains

Cain has been rescued

ShadowHeart wrote: 6 months ago

Randomly found a pair of

Magefist in

Cold Plains

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Not just any

Magefist either, a nice perfect roll!

Knappogue wrote: 6 months ago

ShadowHeart wrote: 6 months ago

Randomly found a pair of

Magefist in

Cold Plains

image.png

Not just any

Magefist either, a nice perfect roll!

I didn't even notice that!

ShadowHeart wrote: 6 months ago

Cain has been rescued

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Keep on Shadowheart, really enjoy to read your thread. I always have max respect to ssf, I think it´s the best way to enjoy the game for a long time.

Let me drop a guess on your Death, necromancer (dark mocking laughter).
->

Chaos Sanctuary

U can keep me out of the prize thing, just here for fun.

My wishes for avoiding Death so

I sense a demonic presence here.

Lmao, this is completely useless, but gives me Diablo 1 vibes

Back to the hell that spawned you,

Andariel.
On to Act 2!

Oh, and apparently

Warriv didn't mind that a Dark One Shaman and one of its pet Dark Ones tagged along for the whole caravan journey across the desert.

What a waste of undead flesh.

shaman and

Fallen??/