Stream reference thread
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This is a reference thread for my stream @ Twitch.tv/gnomewizard
As requested by viewers: - Current Gear -
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- Leveling Guide -
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Many people have asked for my thoughts on the fastest and safest way to level in HC/Onslaught. These are my personal thoughts and are not to be followed as law, your mileage may vary! From scratch with no gear stashed: - Level up to level 2 in the twilight strand, kill Hillock. -Grab a Coral ring at the vendor (highest +life) - Head to Terraces, skip the mini boss, go to Mud Flats, get the WP. - Return to Terraces and head to Tidal Island, kill Hellrake, by now you should be at or near level 4. - Return to Mud Flats, clear and head to Lower Submerged, find the WP then head to the Flooded Depths and kill the Crab. (You should now be at or near level 6) -Return to Lower Submerged, find Upper Submerged and progress to the Ledge. -Farm the Ledge from end to end until level 10. Level 10-15: -Progress through Rocky Climb and head to the Prison, kill Brutus (you should be between levels 10-12) Continue on, being sure to grab your Brutus quest reward (Your first Aura) -Progress forward to the Ship Graveyard, locate the WP and find the ship. Grab allflame, kill Fairgraves return to town and grab your skill point. -Progress into the Coves, pretty much skip it all, run straight for the Cavern of Wrath unless you NEED to kill something (Zombie tar sucks) -Get your first Support Gem immediatley and link appropriately if so desired! (You should now roughly be level 14-15. -Return to the Cavern of Wrath, progress to Anger and kill Merveil (Be sure you have no less than 30% cold resistance!) Level 15 - 25: Act 2...easy stuff -Now that you're roughly level 15-16, head out to the Old fields and attempt to find the Cave, kill the Bear, return to town for your reward. At this point you can either do progression based on zone level/your level or as follows -Head out to River Crossings...follow the road killing everything along the way, progress into Dark Forest and grab the WP. Once you find the WP if you are at or above level 18, head to the Weavers Chamber for your next support gem, otherwise progress into Western Forest. - The first Grind: Grind Western Forest (also picking up a skill point from the way forward quest while there) You want to do this until level 23, it's pretty fast, just be careful of the exploding bandits if your fire res is below 30-40%. -Once you've hit level 23, go back and do all the required quests to progress to act 3 up to and including killing Vaal (If you're worried, just ask a friend or buy a kill it's alot safer and will save you a headache) -By time you finish all of act 2 you should be roughly level 25-26, congrats! Level 25-35: Act 3 Yay! The Second Grind! -This one is pretty easy, Grind grind and more grind on the City of Sarn! Run from the WP to the Door to the Encampment being sure to follow the southernmost route always, hug the walls! Do not stray too far north in order to minimize your contact with Perpetus! You can grind to 31 at this point in City of Sarn, if you have gear to rely on to be considered "over powered" for your level this is a good time to stop and ask a friend or buy and Act 3 rush, otherwise continue -If you're not rushing, Continue to grind City of Sarn until level 35, the xp slows down after level 30, but it is still pretty fast, alterantively if you have 50%+ Fire AND Cold resists this is a good time to ask someone for the Docks WP and grind there until level 35 instead. -Once you're 35, go through and go quest by quest until you clear the act, it should be a breeze by this level and you should end up @ Piety roughly around level 36-37 (Normal Piety isn't that hard and this is a good time to check your resists, you're about to lose 20% resists progressing to Cruel!) Always get the Topaz ring as a reward for turning in the items in Solaris, Lightning res is key from there on out -Kill Piety, with a friend, public group or by purchasing a kill. Congratulations you've made it through the hardest part!! It's smooth Sailing from here on out! Levels 35-75: This part is short, the basics above are exactly what you need to know in order to continue progressing fast and safely. Once you've managed to hit Cruel Ledge...get used to it, its your new home until level 42! Take advantage and over farm this area there are alot of great unique items that can be found here, as well as great upgrades to keep you safe! -After grinding ledge to 42, head to Act 2, this time instead of killing the bear and heading to Western Forest go straight for Fellshrine! -Grind that Fellshrine until level 48 or so, then repeat the Act 2 progression from earlier, continue to Act 3 -Act 3 is another repeat, Grind City of Sarn until 51, skip Cruel Docks IMHO, chances are your resists aren't quite where they should be. Then you're off to progress through the quests and head to Merciless! Welcome to Merciless, the mega grind! An exact repeat of the above, Ledge until 60 this time, Fellshrine until 68, then City until 70 or 71, if you've maxed all your resists it's time for the Docks grind until 75. Do not touch a Map until level 75 unless you've managed to find alot of wealth and have bought very over powered gear, at this point it's not worth losing the character over curiousity! Good luck! - Vendor list of Merveil Uniques -
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**Vendor** Kelenhalt Hrimmnors Hymn Hrimmsorrow Ondars Flight Ondars Clasp Shiversting Deodres Tenure Araku Tiki Sidhebreath Kaoms Sign Broadstroke Blackgleam (less than 45%) Ashrend Bramblejack Facebreakers (less than 950%) Asenthas Mark Crown of Thorns Limbsplit Quill Rain (less than 90%) Silverbranch Last Resort Auromvorax (less than 55%) Everything else has a value worth selling on trade... Any of the above items could potentially sell for up to an alch but are usually not worth the stash space they take up while you try to spam trade with them. IGN = TheCIA Last edited by TheCIA#2160 on Jul 25, 2013, 2:23:45 PM
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Updated vendor list, in alphabetical order.
Araku Tiki Asenthas Mark Ashrend Auromvorax (less than 55%) Blackgleam (less than 45%) Broadstroke Bramblejack Crown of Thorns Deodres Tenure Facebreakers (less than 950%) Hrimmnors Hymn Hrimmsorrow Kaoms Sign Kelenhalt Last Resort Limbsplit Ondars Flight Ondars Clasp Quill Rain (less than 90%) Shiversting Sidhebreath Silverbranch Last edited by _Sycho#1612 on Jul 13, 2013, 2:53:24 PM
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I've made a list of the unique items Merveil can drop in Normal;
This list was comprised during the 0.11.1e patch, and may not be completely accurate depending on when you read this and whether or not i've updated it if something's changed in the meantime.
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Araku Tiki Atziri's Foible Daresso's Salute (Anarchy only) The Ignomon Karui Ward Sidhebreath Stone of Lazhwar Victario's Acuity (Onslaught only) Belts: (4) The Magnate Meginord's Girdle Perandus Blazon Wurm's Molt Rings: (6) Andvarius (Previously known as Ungil's Coil) Blackheart Doedre's Damning Dream Fragments Kaom's Sign Perandus Signet Quivers: (2) Blackgleam Broadstroke Body Armour: (4) Ashrend Bramblejack Tabula Rasa Thousand Ribbons Boots: (3) Ondar's Flight Wanderlust Wondertrap Gloves: (7) Asenath's Gentle Touch Doedre's Tenure Facebreaker Hrimsorrow Lochtonial Caress Ondar's Clasp Sadima's Touch Helmets: (7) Asenath's Mark (Changed name from Hyrri's Mark in patch 0.10.0. Drops prior to this patch will not change their name) Crown of Thorns Ezomyte Peak Fairgraves' Tricorne Goldrim Honoruhome Malachai's Simula Shields: (3) Crest of Perandus Kaltenhalt Springleaf Axe: (1) Limbsplit (Two hand) Bows: (3) Quill Rain Silverbranch Storm Cloud Claw: (1) Last Resort Mace: (1) Hrimnor's Hymn (Two hand) Swords: (4) Aurumvorax Redbeak The Goddess Bound (This item had the name Tipua Kaikohuru prior to patch 0.11.1c. The drops prior to this patch did not get renamed) Shiversting (2 hand) Staves: (2) Pillar of the Caged God The Searing Touch This all adds up to 56 different uniques. Good luck farming ;) *edit* Typos, and I removed/added items from the list. *edit2* Added links to the items on the wiki page. *edit3* I figured I'd remind you all that since all the items she drops are item level 17, these items can never have MORE than 3 sockets. So don't go crazy trying to 6 socket that wonderful Shiversting or 4 socket that lovely Goldrim that dropped for you ;) Info about sockets vs item level (Scroll down a tiny bit for relevant info). *edit4* Removed Le Heup of all from the list. It now requires an item level equal to the required lvl to equip it, and that is 24. Click here for GGG's official post about the subject :) *edit5* Punctuation, and added an item. *edit6* Small stuff (0.11.6 patch). Last edited by Meisen#2117 on Sep 25, 2013, 8:07:20 PM
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I've gone on to make a list of the uniques Merveil can drop in Cruel difficulty since i've recently leveled a marauder up to level 70 for the sole purpose of farming her in cruel whilst still being 100% safe from an untimely death :)
Keep in mind that this list was compiled as i'm downloading patch 0.11.4, so it should be up to date prior to this patch. Updates may or may not occur ;)
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Astramentis (Hardcore and standard only) Carnage Heart (Hardcore and standard only) Eye of Chayula (Hardcore and standard only) Voll's Devotion (Anarchy and onslaught only) Belt: (1) Sunblast Rings: (5) Gifts from Above (Anarchy only) Le Heup of All Lori's Lantern (Hardcore and standard only) Shavronne's Revelation (Anarchy and onslaught only) Thief's Torment (Hardcore and standard only) Chests: (5) Cloak of Flame Foxshade Icetomb Voll's Protector Zahndethus' Cassock Boots: (8) Bones of Ullr Deerstalker Goldwyrm Lioneye's Paws Shavronne's Pace Sundance Wake of Destruction Windscream Gloves: (4) Aurseize Deshret's Vise Maligaro's Virtuosity Slitherpinch Helmets: (5) Deidbell Heatshiver Leer Cast Mindspiral The Peregrine Shields: (2) Matua Tupuna Titucus Span Axes: (2) Reaper's Pursuit (Two hand) Wideswing (Two hand) Bow: (1) Death's Harp Claws: (3) Al Dhih Cybil's Paw Mortem_Morsu Daggers: (2) Mightflay Ungil's Gauche Maces: (6) Brightbeak Nycta's Lantern The Supreme Truth Chober Chaber (Two hand) Geofri's Baptism (Two hand) Quecholli (Two hand) Swords: (2) Ephemeral Edge Queen's Decree (Two hand) Wand: (1) Midnight Bargain Flask: (1) Divination Distillate This adds up to 52 uniques she can drop in Cruel difficulty that is unavailable from her in normal difficulty. Keep in mind that it's possible to get up to 5 sockets/links gear from her at this level (she drops ilevel 42 stuff). I again refer to Info about sockets vs item level. Happy hunting ;) *edit* fixed some small things. *edit2* Added items. *edit3* Added info about which leagues some items are restricted to. *edit4* Added 2 uniques from the 0.11.5 patch. *edit5* Added 2 uniques from the 0.11.6 patch. Last edited by Meisen#2117 on Sep 25, 2013, 8:08:53 PM
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And since patch 0.11.4 is HUGE and i'm only about half way done downloading it (and bored), i figured i might as well post the uniques she can drop in Merciless difficulty:
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The Anvil Ring: (1) Death Rush (Onslaught only) Chests: (5) Ambu's Charge Bronn's Lithe The Covenant Lightbane Raiment Soul Mantle Boots: (2) The Blood Dance Rainbowstride Gloves: (1) Voidbringer Helmets: (4) Chitus' Apex Geofri's Crest Hrimnor's Resolve Rat's Nest Shields: (2) Atziri's Mirror Daresso's Courage Axes: (2) The Blood Reaper (Two hand) Kaom's Primacy (Two hand) Bow: (1) Infractem Dagger: (1) Heartbreaker Maces: (2) Marohi Erqi (Two hand) Voidhome (Two hand) Swords: (2) Rigvald's Charge (Two hand) Terminus Est (Two hand) That's a total of 24 additional uniques you can hunt for. And at this level (she drops ilevel 58 stuff), 6 sockets/links are possible \o/ I doubt many people will find this information usefull, but hey, who knows :) *edit* Added info about which leagues some items are restricted to. *edit2* Small stuff (0.11.6 patch). Last edited by Meisen#2117 on Sep 25, 2013, 8:08:06 PM
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" Thank you, I actually farm her for leisure or if I hit a wall. :) |
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I mostly farm Merveil, since i lack of Alteration orbs. And yet farming her on Merci, never had a good unique dropped. Hoping on DF or Heartbreaker to drop :D
CoCS Shadow - iSpinMyCritsRightRound
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