Greetings, all. Well, since it's my first post and all, I figure I should post about my experience in surviving 666 levels of hell.
-In hindsight, I should have picked at least Hurt Me Plenty. I went with the lower difficulty to have an idea of what to expect, but by the time I reached level 200, it became a matter of killing everything on sight as fast as I can.
-Barons become much more accurate later on, and they can take a chunk of armor away so fast. Early on, the lava armor was very useful alongside the cerberus boots, but against Barons they quickly go down to zero durability.
-The Inquisitor set is a near game breaker. Arch-Viles, Mancubi, Revenants... all three are weaker than former humans at a long range fight by the virtue of the set having a 100 percent resistance to fire.
-Of course, Barons still require caution. Nightmare Arachnotrons are by far the toughest enemy. The caves of them are pure hell.
-Using a scout, I thought of going melee with blademaster. With the butcher's cleaver, there's no need to get that skill, and the weapon serves as a fantastic melee weapon from start to end.
-The Nano Shrapnel mod is another game breaker, if you're patient. This is especially the case if you use a super shotgun for that mod. The reduced damage is fixed from the double hit nature of the shotgun, without the limited range of the double shotgun. You might as well shoot in the dark until you know the enemy in the distance is dead. No reloads, just an endless stream of shotgun blasts.
-Whether it's the shotgun or the cleaver, everything gets killed fairly quickly. From Cyberdemons to Agony Elementals.
-Of course, it was all made much easier with the berserker trait.
-Getting the items for the nano shrapnel, thanks to so many levels, is usually just a matter of when than if. Got very lucky that I got most of what I needed before level 200, though I did not realize the benefits of the Inquisitor set until much later.
-However, getting the Dragonslayer is still outside my reach. I got the berserker armor, and I figured that I need that for the sword, but finding the latter was impossible.