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Level 36 now, half way to 37...

Scored a heap of gems, runes and a handful of useable charms on the areat highlands, got to the ice tunnel (forget what its called) and hit the way point then got out.

Need a perfect skull to socket into my super club but gems keep dropping instead. :(

Anyone know where skulls drop frequently?

IIRC... skulls have the same drop formula as gems, only 1/2 as frequent. So... just keep killing stuff. There's no shortcut.

Got to level 38.

In the last hour picked up...

About 3 large charmes which were better than large charms I had (similar effects) so upgraded.
An avenger helm to replace my fanged helm. Although I lost +2 mace mastery and +7 mana it gives me a heap 60 MORE defence and a heap more life.
2 skulls... 1 more and I can make a flawless, add to my other flawless and I'll have that perfect one I need...

Am currently in halls of pain (had to get to waypoint) and there is a heap of xp in the 4th quest to that point so I'll grind it out to level 40 next week.

nice.

I have been looking at playing Morrowind again but I think I will hold out for a new computer and Fallout 3. hot damn.

You won't like fighting Nithalak. He has TONS of minions around him and spams corpse explosion.

Just got to level 39.

Now level 14 iron skin and level 5 shout.

I'm working on defense for a few levels before heading back to whirlwind...

Level 40 last half hour.

Finally found my last skull to allow upgrades to perfect skull.

Socketed my mace and put the perfect skull in.

Now have:
+4% mana, +9% life per hit from mace
+4% mana, +4% life per hit, +2 mana per kill from sword
+4% mana, +3 life per hit from amulet
+4% mana per hit from gauntlets.

I ran whirlwind 23 times through a group of monsters before I finally had to switch to double swing.

The gauntlets were a level 5 trade and also found a 'yellow' fanged helm which gives +1 to all barbarian skills and a heap more advantages.

The game in the last 15 minutes just got a whole lot easier. I even went back to Diablo and co and clocked the level from River of flame way point in 6 minutes, didn't even need any potions for diablo.

By level 5 trade I mean act 5.

Level 41 now.

Killed Nihlathak, no problems at all, simply whirlwinded through his minions 6 or 7 times, killed them all and as he had teleported away I followed and his corpse explosions were useless.
No potions needed to kill him, just annoying as he kept teleporting.

Traded for 369 defence armour for my merc, he has better defence on the armour (mine is 350) but mine gives me +25 life.

I'll grind out to level 45 before I hit the barbarians I think...

All those boss Barbarians are Lvl37, so any higher than 42 makes them worth little EXP.

Just FYI.

BYE

Thanks for that HBMC, I'll run through the next couple of days and kill them before I get to 43.

I got to the start of the frozen tundra but didn't get to its waypoint.

So that will be my goal for today...

Hit the frozen tundra way point and stopped.

Have to have a nap before the wife gets home this afternoon so I can paint my minis tonight...

Got past the barbarian ancients and got a green avanger guard helm with 2 sockets.
Can't use it until level 47 though. :(

Barbarians were so easy... was really surprised but they gave up a heap of xp.

Just got to the Level 2 waypoint for the Worldstone keep, anyone know how far further it is to get to the throne of destruction?

Will probably do it tomorrow.

Can't be that far, but for you, quite far. Ba'al is quite a few levels higher than you are.

Then agian, if you ain't playing through on Nightmare, then you don't care.

BYE

Well got through to Baal.
Went back and killed him again for more items.

Picked up an absolutely fantastic mace 'Aldur's Rhythm) from a set.

Did the cow level.

Leveled up (45 now IIRC) and have started on nightmare.
Alot tougher in the first level but whirlwind just minces my opponents.

Think I will give it a rest for a couple of weeks. I really need to do some painting.


Thanks for the help guys.

Uhh... the Cow Level. I've done that once. Only way I got through it was because my Paladin had Holy Freeze. It'd slow them all down to a crawl, and Zeal could take out who was around me by the time the next bunch got into range.

BYE

Ahh, Moo Moo Farm. Happy times. Their voices made me fall out of my chair the first time I played it. It's the premium place for hardcore Hell training on Battle.net.

At one stage I ran around and gathered 7 or 8 groups of cows (well over 100), then just whirlwinded them to death.
Pretty povo on the xp but they dropped plenty of decent gems...

I am at level 45 now and finished the first 2 quests in Act 1 but am removing the disc from my computer this morning so I won't play it for awhile...

Jeez you must have ground the hell out of D2. I played quite a bit, but I didn't grind at all really and struggled against some bosses.

Frickin Diablo was impossible to beat as a summon necromancer unless you had a fire golem. Once expansion rolled around, I'd get Decrepify, a bunch of the (then new) Not Suck tm Skeletons, a merc, and a fire golem and wear the guy down over a few minutes.