Maldar, the Magnificent

[Crystalion]

What rune would Maldar get? An Ohm? An Ist? An Um?

A stinkin' Gul again?! Grrrr... (Gunter had also gotten a Gul as you'll recall).

I hope you're kidding (about being disappointed). IIRC Gul is the highest possible hell hellforge reward (1/11th chance and you got it twice). Two of them cube trivially to make a Vex. Having a Vex is approximately a mere Ist away from Silence, which, if I understand correctly, puts Hit Blinds Target +33 on a six socket bow for ~11 seconds of blind assured in hell difficulty at range on targets hit (e.g. use Multishot) with only a clvl 55 req.

In other words, getting 2 Guls is a phenomenally lucky draw, with great trading potential, if nothing else. Many (e.g. SP or non-corrupted realm) players would consider your *entire* time spent playing Gunter and Maldar worth it, for just those two runes as reward.

Nice work on Maldar. I've played a bone prison Necro before, but reading Maldar's journal has biased a build I wanted to play with (the teleporting minion-melee-focus kill-then-CE necro) toward using Dim Vision pumped early. I'm level 24 now (a long long ways from testing the tele-focus, even though I can now use a staff of teleport) and Dim Vision made getting there one of the easier play throughs I've had with a character... I've played a CoS Assassin (v1.09) but I hadn't realized until your reports that DV surpasses the utility of CoS substantially if you're willing to pump it enough (CoS is a one point wonder and doesn't lose duration in nm/hell, but you can't expand its radius or focus it effectively off-screen).