Maldar, the Magnificent

[MongoJerry]

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.

Yeah, but when you're playing one-time only untwinked single player characters, Guls are worthless. You can't use them in any decent runewords and the +5% to maximum poison resistance is totally worthless. Anyway, I understood that in 1.10, you can get up to an Ohm from the hell helforge anyway. Is that not the case?

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).

Cool, yeah, I meleed with Maldar through all of normal and the first half of nightmare and found dim vision to be very useful while doing so. The trouble is that its duration is cut by a quarter in hell, so if you're planning to use it there, you'll have to pump it up a bit. Good luck with your character and let us know how it goes!