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While I can't guarantee it'll work for you, here's what helped me complete a bunch of runs: themed parties, logged and later posted to the playthroughs forum at Beamdog. The very act of writing things down provides motivation to keep going, and the themes - sometimes mechanical, sometimes...

If you go south from the Nashkel mines, you hit the Cloud Peak mountains. Which is clearly where the population of winter wolves seen in the BG wilderness comes from. They can be found in AR5200, AR5300, AR5400, AR5500, and OH3000 at spawn points, and in AR5400 as a rest encounter. All of those...

Well, my next planned big run will be paladin-themed (actually a LG cleric->fighter dual as protagonist, but that's close enough). And they're not going to go shoplifting or robbing houses. Definitely going against my usual tendencies, but I can do self-imposed rules. When it comes to multiple...

The most important fact: you are not a tank. Don't try to fight like one. Staying in melee will get you killed. What's the alternative? Throwing weapons are one option, letting you fight at range with archer tactics. They're not nearly as powerful as a bow and arrows in BG1, but they do let you...

I did a few Diablo runs today with my sorceress Cythandria, as an interlude before Telka pushes into Nightmare. She's up to level 91 now, because all of those runs add up. Ten runs, three new set and unique items for the collection: Stone Crusher, Bul-Kathos' Sacred Charge, Seraph's Hymn. She...

And ... there. A morning session to finish up Normal, and I'm ready to start the tale of Telka. She's the sixth of my Hardcore cycle, which has so far seen three Guardians (assassin Danys, sorceress Cythandria, barbarian Jassar) and two deaths (necromancer Prebek, druid Osmadi). As I've already...

I'm currently running a Freezing Arrow archer myself as the next step in my HC project. As the sixth character of it, she has a lot of good stuff stockpiled. Plus a bit of mod support to enable the ladder runewords, so she was running Skystrike and an Insight on the mercenary before she even got...

I've found two of them in this project. One while Cythandria was doing Diablo runs, just before I started Jassar. He's using that one. Then Jassar found another, with 28 resist instead of 25. That one's in the stash for a future character. My softcore collection, built over years and many more...

Jassar part 3: Hell I'm posting later than usual, because today I played through the hours I normally skip. Instead of heading outside when the sun encroached on my screen, I pulled the blinds and just kept going. Before moving Jassar into Hell, I did some Diablo runs with Cythandria. She got...

Jassar part 2: Nightmare There's not much to say, really. Nightmare was a breeze. Nothing remotely threatened him - massive life and 75% blocking and 75% resists and substantial reduction of both physical and magical damage is a very strong defense. I think the lowest he ever dropped was about...

Congrats on another Guardian. I'm going for a slightly different pattern on my HC project. The main rule there is to alternate gender, with the order otherwise chosen to delay the more gear-dependent builds until I had enough of a stash. My least favorite class is the one I'm playing right now...

I've gone Phoenix Strike myself a few times, and always enjoyed it. Even way back when I was playing with a one-button mouse. 1.10 hurt it a bit with synergies, as the skill got rather unwieldy synergies to each of its elements individually, and thus didn't really keep up with other options...

A quick interstitial update: I've been doing Diablo runs with Cythandria - well, full clears of everything from the River of Flame waypoint to the act boss - and she's now level 90. She has also found a lot of new stuff. Including this: I had one of those in softcore. Now I have one in hardcore...

Second half of the post: On to act 3, and it doesn't take long to reach a milestone. Level 29. The first of the IK pieces is on. Sszark drops Cathan's Visage - with the partial set bonus from the ring, that mask is actually fairly good. Then in the Flayer Jungle... A great item ... but I'll...

I've gotten far enough on it ... time for a report on the side project. Atlas. The rules: 1. Atlas starts with a complete Immortal King set, with sockets already filled. (Perfect topazes in the helm and armor, Shael runes in the weapon) 2. Atlas will invest all stat points into strength. No...

Though it's a bit embarrassing to still be using blue items in some slots, even after four characters worth of item-gathering. That Arch-Angel's Amulet... OK, gambling with high-level characters is about the only way to get +2 skill amulets, and I've spent large parts of that time without any...

And now, the final update of Cythandria's story. Right out of the gate in act 3, the wanderer's flesh beasts drop a set item (Arcanna's Deathwand). An auspicious sign. Then, later on in the Spider Forest, I get an item I've been waiting a long time for... A four-socket Monarch. I would have...

From what I've seen on the monetization in the mobile Diablo game ... you can pay real money to buy tokens, which you then use to upgrade the end-game runs that drop the best stuff so they drop more and better stuff. And you can spend at an absurdly high rate. Lootboxes at one remove. But it's...

I've already made my Hell adjustments and started playing. I'd be playing right now if it weren't too hot. In this case, the main resistance boost I went for was replacing her Lidless Wall shield with a 3-diamond shield. Overall... resists now maxed in Hell, MF and GF even higher, skills from +8...

Cythandria update 2: Nightmare Before going to Nightmare, I swap out basically all of Cythandria's gear. Heart of the Oak, Skin of the Vipermagi, Tarnhelm, Lidless Wall, a rare amulet (prismatic, +2 cold skills), rare rings, Tal's belt, Tearhaunch, a fire skill charm, a bunch of +life charms...