All of this talk of cheaters and trainers and variants is making me very sentimental. I was going to post some anecdotes from the golden age of channel Variants, but I will spare you all that.
The simple solution to this is, just use the Helm of Sprits (or actually, you might really consider the Overlord's Helm). You don't really want Shadowhawk. You need to prioritize for the real problems that you have to deal with in the game. The chance that you will run out of potions is very real, but there are a lot of bigger issues to deal with here. The first thing you should be concerned with is, you need to be able to kill Butcher AND probably Leoric with first two birthday gifts and most likely nothing else.
OK, just a little bit of nostalgia... Variants were actually a very social thing for quite a while. BNM rules required the character to hoard as many cursed items as would fit in inventory for backup gear, unless he could gift them to another BNM in need. This tradition passed to other variants, and people would host "yard sale" games where they would give away variant specific items they had found and lugged around. I know that some of us did use trainers to transfer items from one character to another in town and most of us did not. Using items that had not been found and sacrificed by another character or player, however, would have been considered cheating plain and simple.
The simple solution to this is, just use the Helm of Sprits (or actually, you might really consider the Overlord's Helm). You don't really want Shadowhawk. You need to prioritize for the real problems that you have to deal with in the game. The chance that you will run out of potions is very real, but there are a lot of bigger issues to deal with here. The first thing you should be concerned with is, you need to be able to kill Butcher AND probably Leoric with first two birthday gifts and most likely nothing else.
OK, just a little bit of nostalgia... Variants were actually a very social thing for quite a while. BNM rules required the character to hoard as many cursed items as would fit in inventory for backup gear, unless he could gift them to another BNM in need. This tradition passed to other variants, and people would host "yard sale" games where they would give away variant specific items they had found and lugged around. I know that some of us did use trainers to transfer items from one character to another in town and most of us did not. Using items that had not been found and sacrificed by another character or player, however, would have been considered cheating plain and simple.