JavaCraft

Hardcore, PX, can only used crafted items, no charms. Runewords must be from cubed runes and crafted bases.

Challenge one: Kill Andariel with your bare hands

Solution: Start game on P8. Level up until level 6. Find Skill shrine, kill Blood Raven on P1, use Inner Sight to lower her defense, so we can hit her. Reward: Act 1 mercenary. Start with cold (more damage, crowd control) then once Amazon is level 13, switch to fire, so the Rogue can use Explosive Arrow.

Level up to 14 for Amazon / 13 for Rogue. Put all points into vitality since you’ll mostly tank.

Andariel fight was a piece of cake, with the Rogue positioned in my “shadow”, so the poison can’t hit her.

The Keymaker – part 1: The hunt for the white wand

I did everything by the book, level 17, and found this anti-perfect wand. Not only does it have useless skills and stats that increase the cost by a whooping 290,340 gold, but it also has 1 socket, instead of the 2 or 0 needed.

No extra skills/stats, bu once again the wrong number of sockets!

Finally I found one:

Price was higher due to the extra confuse skill.

Skin of the Vipermagi

I found my first Skin of the Vipermagi during my playthrough with Wizendraw, my Holy Freeze bow paladin, in Nightmare, Durance of Hate level 2.

I had 99% magic find. It rolled perfect (13) on the Magic damage reduced 9-13 and a respectable 32 (20-35) on the All resistances. I added a perfect topaz for 24% magic find.