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"Shiflet" <rshiflet@charter.net> wrote in message 
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> "Jam" <Jaysam168@optusnetnospammingnow.com.au> wrote in message 
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>> On my own this time (where are you!?!), i took my originally named 
>> TheUberSmiter (clvl 77) and equipped him with what i had. Guillamines 
>> helm(Pdiamonded),
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> Err, why on earth do you have a p diamond in your Guillames? It only adds 
> res in shield, in helm it adds all of 100 attack rating, absolutely 
> worthless with smite since it's ITD. Um or res jewel that sucker, or hell, 
> if those not availble throw in a shael(30 FHR on Guillames+20 on Shael 
> hits the 48 FHR breakpoint) or a p ruby for an extra 38 life.
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Let's put pdiamonding the Guillaume's down to a brain fart ;)
Countess dropped me a um today on a key run, the only RA jewel i've found so 
far is a decent lld thing (i think) so i'll hell/um the helm before the next 
run. Cheers!

>> Seraphs hymn(2/2), Duriels shell, Dracs, Black runeworded knout, 40 base 
>> res sacred targe(4x Pdiamonded), Nos' coil and Gorerider boots. Items in 
>> the inventory didn't help much... a 13/13 anni, 14 RA GC and a few ~20 
>> life LCs. I think his merc is about lvl 6 hehehe... she stayed dead :P
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> Why not hire a new merc? You don't gotta level em now, so whatever you 
> hired would be within 5 levels of you...
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I've found that no merc i've had lasted more than 10 seconds in UT. Maybe a 
Rogue with a faith bow would work, or one of the Iron Wolf mob, but i can't 
really see the benefit of haveing one more life bulb to worry about :)

>> TUS' skills are maxed smite, maxed salvation, maxed holy shield and maxed 
>> fana.
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>> First up in the lessers lineup, Duriel. This was also the first inkling 
>> of the disaster that was to come. Wimpy old Duriel, the lesser we used to 
>> chuckle at, was continuously hitting TUS for 2/3 to 3/4 of his lifeball.
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> Huh, that's odd.
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Aye, most unusual. Especially considering there isn't all that much 
difference in my equipment from last ladder. Duress, Grief, Highlords and a 
rare elite shield, coupled with a inventory full of +res/life charms... the 
charms are my main focus ATM.

>> Much thought was embarked apon before faceing Izual. It was decided that, 
>> with the realms being as stable as they are (lmao), Hammerdin would be 
>> bought in to tele to Izzy, and then TUS would smite him down.... we'd 
>> clean up the minions later! Well, after Hammerdin died 4 times, i 
>> enlisted the aid of my 7 yo son to throw hammers and add concentration, 
>> while TUS smited and fanatacized(haha, work that one out!)  proceedings. 
>> Many deaths >> followed, much curseing (not lifetap worse luck) but we 
>> did get him..... lifetap refused to trigger _at all_ during the battle... 
>> many, many purples where consumed.
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> In my experience, to get tap to trigger you're better off zealing, then 
> smite once it's triggered.
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I've read this before. I suppose the quicker strikes would make LT trigger 
quicker, someything to consider before the next outing.

>> Now, i have no idea what my stacked resistances are
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> Based on my math, your shield adds 116, 13 from anni, 14 from gc, 20 all 
> and > an extra 30 cold from armor, plus I assume 30 from Anya. That 
> makes...193, and 223 cold. If you were smiting with Salvation on, that's 
> another 110 or so. So, assuming you were fighting with Salv on, you had 
> res of 303/333. With -100 from hell penalty and -125 at least from 
> conviction(dunno if Meph has higher than lvl 20 conviction or not) that 
> puts your res at max, and I wouldn't think he would have hurt you that 
> much unless your life was really low. Although if you had fana on and not 
> salv, your res woulda been way in the red, which would explain the 1 hit 
> KOs.
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Salv was running when drawing Meph out first, and then switched to fana. 
Corpse runs where not a option after he killed me, so _if_ they haven't 
fixed the res bug, that shouldn't of affected it either. As i said earlier, 
i think alot has to do with missing life/res charms.

>> Now, to sell the unid LC, or ID it? First run, much struggleing, much 
>> death, much anticipation ... Yep id it! Want to guess what it was?
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>> 10/10 Druid.
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> LOL, will the joy never cease.
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I'm hopeing that was the end of that particular joy ;)

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>> Jay
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