Trang-Oul's Chaos Armor

There just isn't a whole lot of excitement to tell. I've been running around Lower Kurast accumulating flawless gems, cubing them up and using 3 pgems to transmute charms, mostly into less useful charms. I found this Trang-Oul's Chaos Armor after about 50 runs.

I also found that some seeds have more than 1 camp-fire. Previously I'd been attaching myself to running 1 camp-fire area, until I found out there was more than 1 in some seeds, which would explain the lousy drop rate I mentioned in a previous post.

I accumulated statistics for 48 runs. In those 48 runs nothing really remarkable appeared (other than this set item). Oh, I suppose the Laying of Hands (Disciple set) Bramble Mitts also could be considered remarkable. I think it's actually the second piece I've found in that higher level set.

A lot of charms dropped, and almost all of them useless. I muled a bunch away for really weak characters I'll play in the future (any advantage is an advantage). I also muled away a bunch of jewels. At some point I'll probably start crafting caster items with these things. Maybe I'll run the countess a bunch of times and see if I can get the right runes to drop... but not now.

Speaking of runes, here's the rune count from the 48 runs: 2 x Ort, Thul, Tal, Tir, Io, Ral, and Sol. Not a lot of runes, but the Io is a pretty high rune. Running countess at /players 8 is likely to result in multiple deaths (and loss of experience) and maybe I could cube up to something a lot better, then again I have heard of Ber runes dropping in Lower Kurast... just not for me, not yet.

The spreadsheet I created in LibreOffice has cells for 56 runs (2 pages), front/back if you have a printer that can print on 2 sides.

My goal running LK has really been about getting runes to drop so I can cube up. I'm thinking I've been wasting a lot of time and it's time to move on.

Slicer is level 86 now. All the synergies for Blessed Hammer are maxed out. There's little room to squeeze more out of Slicer except with exceptional equipment. Without Enigma and HOTO Slicer does just shy of 5k damage.

Slicer was getting his butt kicked trying to get into Nilithak's lair. Turns out the raised skeletons are darn strong. It might be high time I look at beefing up Slicer's hireling.

11 minutes of normal Mephisto runs

Got 11 minutes to spare? In 10 minutes and 50 seconds Slicer ran normal Mephisto (without teleport) 10 times at /players 8. The key is not to attack everything in sight and go straight to Mephisto. You'll also want to find a good map. What's a good map? A good map is a map where the way point is extremely close to the level 3 (Mephisto's lair) stairs.

Here's what Mephisto dropped on each run:

Run #1: (Unique) Bloodrise Morning Star, (Unique) Gleam Scythe Falcion

Run #2: nothing of interest

Run #3: nothing of interest

Run #4: Tir Rune

Run #5: nothing of interest

Run #6: nothing of interest

Run #7: nothing of interest

Run #8: normal magical jewel (useful for crafting and that's about it)

Run #9: nothing of interest

Run #10: (set item) Arcana's Death Wand

Running Mephisto in normal mode, even at the /players 8 setting, really doesn't turn up a lot of rewards. But it's an easy and fast way to get low level uniques and set items.

Cool set item- Dark Adherent Dusk Shroud

We all know normal Dusk Shroud's are cool. Quite early on in my Hell travels I found this awesome Dusk Shroud, the Dark Adherent, part of The Disciple higher level set.

It's been a couple of weeks since I first found the shroud and since then I haven't found any other part of the set.

I have been lucky enough to find a few other cool higher level set items but they seem so rare. Lower level set items seem to drop more often even in Hell.

One of the obstacles I find doing different runs is that I seem to fill up my stash fast. I'm thinking I might just concentrate on finding set and unique items again. I might create a new mule just to unload everything in both my stash and all my charms. Then I'll load up on MF equipment and see what drops.