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Continuing the journey of manly frenzy barb ....

Following this i am playing last of the three - Requiem of Sorrow. Now when i have more empirical data (finishing act 4 atm), can give some unbiased impressions. It's quite similar to original clod in tearms of skills and what they do, but char get aditional tree with various passives also few new skills.
Drops are better, act boss drop 4-6 items and usually one of them is set or unique which is nice. There is unique charm with 4 ingredients that you add at 25, 50, 75 and 100. Merc uses belts, rings, amulet, ect. Some maps are expanded, some areas are reworked, but not drastically.
Main issue is enemy AI, seems like mobs have decreased field of vision or are dumb enough to wait until i atack them. Luring one by one is quite easy and beneficial, almost cheeseable. You can get a big crowd chasing you and they stop one after another making sort of a line. Then you go back and finish them one by one - the manly way to chop things.

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Update on Requiem of Sorrow. Reach destruction with frenzy barb. Drops are low, only unique mobs and act bosses are worth farming for. Regular mobs drop useless crap, give little xp and are pain to kill. Some unique bosses drop unique charms which get better values depending on difficulty. Act bosses usually end up dropping one set, one unique and load of crap. Find item for barb is very good for bonus loot. Boss fights are easy enough if you know what you are doing. With barb it's even better because you rape them with merc and summon, all being buffed with barb buffs. Baal throne room has Mephisto and Diablo in it. And from last waypoint you meet Andy and face Duriel before mob waves. This really makes Baal runs good for xp and items. Now i just want to see how uber Diablo fight looks like and probably be done with this mod.

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Nice screenshots :clap:

. Are there any ubers or new maps in this mod?

I don't think so. There are few "new" areas like Izual chamber in Act4 and Khalim eye + brain + heart give key to new area which is like any of the tombs in Kurast areas. That area is just stronger mobs like mini cows for farming and one key gives permanent access to that area in any difficulty. I will do all area check in destruction later, but i already search most of the maps and no ubers so far.

Requiem of sorrow update - farming terror for xp. Hit the wall hard at this point. Terror does not give enough xp to lvl up fast and destruction is too hard at the moment (lvl 79). I can do terror Baals no problem at p3 but it does not help. Same time at p1 destruction is just a boring and hard grind fest with zero achievements. Only hople is Baal runs for set items to complete some sets and hope they give desired effect.

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New mod at the moment - Nezeramontias. Hard start as usuall for these clod+features mod. But i see that mercs sell crafting items to make uniques/sets from regular stuff, also skill books and stat points. Guess it is just a matter of time until i accumulate enough gold and game becomes boring hack and smash one hit everything fest.

Hope you get the reference of this one ...

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Flying Polar Buffalo Error forgotten brother ?

Actually is Monty python and the holy grail reference - Sir Robin, not so brave as sir Lancelot.

Anyways, act5 now. Collecting flail for opening Mephisto dungeon was a challange, especially sewers part. At least for frenzy barb. Also i managed to get enough money to buy set crafting materials. Now got full death disguise which solves hp leach problems and some random soul which i use as a ring and it solves mana leach problems. I can now finally focus on damage problems :mrgreen:

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Finally reached level 45 and unlocked summon - epic crew of three badass gangsters is out for blood. Skill require a lot of skill points just to +1 and http://web.archive.org/web/200708241722 ... index.html says charm will need 1024 souls ... When you thought potato mod with 555 potatos was annoying... Next objective to farm unique bosses like Griswold, Raven and act bosses for their tokens to craft some sort of unique end game charm.

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Hello Metalistas. I installed BFE and intend to start playing a bit (just because the pics you posted!).
Is it possible to play with D2Multires? (just to confirm, since I dont believe its possible cause BFE need 1.10).

Thx in advance.

I think there was no multires for BFE, but i am used to regular "small" window so was no problem.