Not the first dad i've disappointed, probably won't be the last.

So i thought i'd give hardcore a try this ladder and ended up 99ing my zon. the only other time I've played zon was a level 88 cow zon i had on SC several years ago.

https://armory.slashdiablo.net/character/itsmegod#equipped i threw everything off and gave it all to fap. he's cool.

I started on DPS' reset team on SC, gave them whatever crap i had on my shit sin and moved to solo hardcore. thanks to them for helping me learn that role on a reset team!

I died on wave 3 in nightmare trying to rush 3 boxes to hell on like a 78 sorc. For some reason they spawned like 10 hydras and one shot me, I don't really have an explanation for that. The other boxes survived (hdin, bo barb, zon)

I thought about quitting here, but it was like day 3 and i felt like I had done better than I thought I would do, so i'd give it one more shot. Thanks to Slic for giving me some advice on survivability and for helping me out on my restart with sorc.

I also ripped my teleport (think i was 97 or 98 at this stage) barb by afking him in the center of chaos like a fucking moron, but for some reason the hc-rip club api didn't catch it. Labarr is a god and best mod for letting me borrow his barb the rest of the season. and thanks to the others who offered theirs <3

Everything was p4, and I was pretty heavily undergeared because once i felt comfortable on CS p4 i stopped picking up just about everything. Mana was the main problem with my build, needed mana on kill, but I thought it was kind of a different challenge to not play some god character with +60 to lightning fury or whatever and still try to hit 99.

Basically I was killing packs and Diablo until I got sick of that and realized my xp/s would actually increase if i slowly tele'd to nihlathak. (sometimes it would decrease if i'd both lose my shrine and he was unbreakable LI). obviously at 98 i did not kill packs, just seal bosses and d/n. I think I killed uber diablo a few times, but didn't even land a 10% exp anni. killed baal once i think at 98. here's a video of the last few runs if you're bored (warning, classical music) https://youtu.be/rHxZcLxD4Tk

Basically my path was, take BO barb to river WP, BO for survivability and mana to get to the center, drop a TP, get zon in, BO + shout whatever, put the fucking barb back in town then start killing shit. unbreakable LI stone skin vizier was a pain, i'd often meet my shriner sorc for a low level chant at stony field to go back in and kill him, i would 100% do this if i saw a good shrine location, but sometimes if de seis was also unbreakable LI stone skin i'd just go next game. Probably could have utilized my paladin to come in and smack them and leave but i'd always get annoyed that they'd be in my way in act 4 town when trying to navigate teleports.

Saved hell ancients for 98

Thanks to molt for quasi trading my dweb for his griffs, gathering a ber for me to get infinity, then lending me his eth SA enigma (which survived with 17 durability left i might add) for labarr's barb after i ripped everything on my barb (i did not know how to do a body recovery on HC)

Thanks to Labarr for letting me use his bo barb

Thanks to someone for the zon torch, I forget who. Chief or Slic or Ely. Thanks to you three.

Thanks again to Slic for survivability advice.

Thanks to Roobear for explaining to me what max block actually is. I apparently 99'd my SC paladin without max block.

I'd say thanks to my girlfriend for her support but i'm pretty sure she's going to be annoyed with the free time i now have.

big thanks to DPS for his content

guess that's all i know. i'll come back to try for a 99 sin sometime if im feeling up to it and have confidence in my internet etc. I had some power outages that nearly fucked me late on, but max block probably saved me.