Outbreak

I got up to level 29 and got my Adherent of the Mists and Beacon of Magic sets equipped. I'm really good with fire and impulse damage attacks and illusion DC attacks which are my three things (Meteor Swarm, Shadowblade, and Phantasmal Killer).

Outbreak is annoying because it's a small area. Dimension Door did not break lock. I did so much of this naked and ended up dying 59 times. Three major reapers and about the same for minor reapers, though none in the final fight.

The two mini-bosses were not extremely hard. You can run around the hallway in an oval and hit them and maybe you mess up the timing and they hit you. The south wing guy (Aaron Leifbrand the mage) is much easier because the hallway there is long and wide.

I got lucky in the final fight. I aggroed the boss and retreated up the stairs and he managed to get stuck in the alcove next to the stairs. I could jump up and shoot him and he didn't hit me until one time but at least by then he was down from 77k hp to 7k hp. Meanwhile since I had immediately retreated the initial mob was inactive so I was free to hit the boss.

Unfortunately from the final fight entrance Dimension Door doesn't break lock so I had to stay there and die. But there is a resurrection shrine right there and once you're dead the bad guys walk back to their starting positions.

This one took me 3 hours.

Return to Cabal for One

First one I did at level 30. There's a new Cleric 30 hireling and he can do Divine Vitality III 34 times so that's nice. Also I can summon my level 30 permanent gold key hirelings (Scarecrow, Shield Guardian, Frogo) but that's less useful as I thought with my hit and run tactics. Trying to stay letting my hirelings take aggro doesn't really work well and I tend to stick around too long and get killed.

Gianthold adventures might be suited for me since hobgoblins don't tend to hide and/or have magic resistance. Wolves hide which is annoying and have high detection range so it surprised me to Dimension Door then a minute later a hidden wolf runs up and kills me. Another negative is lots of traps in these adventures though maybe I can have Frogo disarm them.

Anyway, in this one I took the deal so all traps were disabled including the ones guarding the throne room (I'd have expected those to be active since the guy is supposed to betray me). You kind of have to kill all the traitors anyway so take the deal to not have to deal with annoying traps.

Not that many reapers but there's a bug making reapers easy. Hit one then walk through a Dimension Door immediately kills the reaper. Not sure if it's DD doing it or because I tag the reaper with an ongoing effect (3 ticks fire damage). There were like three major reapers and half a dozen minor ones I killed this way.

Not that many champions either so I kind of blew through to the throne room in two hours then another hour to kill the two boss monsters who luckily were together so Meteor Swarm hit both.

Deep Gnome Wizard Level 30, Reaper 10, 13 Deaths, 3 hours.