Bring on the pits!

I'm finally done with NM Baal. I have my necro decked out with only marginally good stuff, but he's at 250MF, so that's something. About to take my first step into the pits, which will be my destination for quite a while. Wish me luck!



EDIT Oh god Oh god Oh god do not go in there!

I was met immediately by two boss packs, one extra fast archers with fanat aura, the other melee chicks who promptly cursed my party with amp. merc and all skellies went down in ~4 seconds. i got out alive somehow. So, uh, guess I'm starting a new game.|||oops double post somehow|||And this is why you want at lest level 10 dim vision. |||Pretty much. They were basically standing at the entrance. By the time I DVd the archers, most of my skellies were gone. Ah well, Vipermagi and Tal Mask dropped in the next couple of runs so I'm on my way at last.|||Stair traps are scary. You really shouldn't go into the pit until you complete hell. I know it's an A1 area, but the Pit level 2 has probably caused more level 85+ deeds than Hell Baal has.

Edit: sorry I always think I'm in the HC forum for some reason. Guess you'll be ok, just take it slow. Remake the game if you get a bad spawn like that.

Love the pit. So much fun for Summoners/Strafezons.|||Yeah, if I go feet up it's not the end of the world. I only have 720life and all my res are in the red right now, so it's going to happen. At least my merc is doing fine with his eth Partizan Insight now.|||Ouch. I've hit a wall vs the Act 4 burning souls. 13 lite res + Tgods does nothing at all to stop them from 2 shotting me. Blind does nothing b/c they're too spread out and they shoot me dead before I see them. I guess I'll have to save/exit if they show up (only in the first two areas right?) until I get a game where they are nowhere to be found. Once I get to the first wp I should be good to go I guess.|||I've only ever encountered burning souls in the plains of despair, but if my lite res is a little low then yeah I'll save and exit and try again. On the plus side, you get to clear through the outer steppes a few times for some delicious exp, and each boss pack you kill has the potential to drop you something valuable.|||Got past them finally. Saved and exited a couple of times and finally got a game with no souls. Act 5 is going to be rough, though I will have some extra resists by then (+18 in my homun from pdiamond and anya quest). It's still going to hurt a lot, though.|||A Necro N00bie asks: what are the Pits and what is MF? Seen the terms a lot but sadly cannot relate them to actual gameplay. It's age. Sad, really.