New Wonderful Things

Yeah, I still haven't gotten Reaper of Souls but I don't feel too bad because I'm still discovering lots of new stuff with the new updates and all. Take the new sword I gave my Wizard's companion, Eirena the Enchantress for example. It was an old weapon (pre-update) I kept in my stash because I liked the design and then I realized one day that it would make a great weapon for her.

Little did I realize that it now has new attributes such as the ability to summon a demon companion. Damn thing nearly gave me a heart attack and, as you can imagine, I was swatting and blasting away at it thinking it was an enemy!

It looks evil but the demon companion is pretty handy manifesting (remaining on this plane on a considerable amount of time) whenever there's an enemy and battles alongside the Enchantress, connected by a fire chain. Lemme tell 'ya, the two can dish out a world of hurt on anything that crosses their path.

I got another item that summons a herd of cows but that's a story for another day.

My Favorite Companion

My favorite companion is the Enchantress. Why? There's lots of reasons why.

1. She can charm enemies to fight for me for 8 seconds.

8 seconds might not seem too long in real life, but in Diablo time, that's a lot. A lot of things can happen in 8 seconds which can spell the difference between life and death. The best thing is, she can charm not only mobs, but elite enemies and the big dudes like the one above. Imagine being in a situation of almost dying, the monster gets charmed, stops fighting you and fights others... you have time to recover your life as you continue hacking him unopposed. 8 seconds is a LOT of time. I've escaped many scraps where I could have died because of this.

Apparently, the only thing the Enchantress can't charm are the big bosses like the Skeleton King, Ghom, Rakanoth, Azmodan, Belial and of course Diablo himself.

2. She increases your armor by 3% just by being the chosen companion.

Again, it may seem like not a lot, but it is. It works even if she's dead.

3. She increases your attack speed by 3%, Attack speed is important for a Barbarian because increased attack speed is increased damage. Nuff said!

There's another skill that I would like to use, but that means removing the additional attack speed, and that's the Enchantress' ability to turn enemies (even Elite monsters) into chickens for 5 seconds, making them lose their ability to use their skills as well as make them easier to kill. I opt for the attack speed though.

That said, I'm now Paragon Level 69, Torment II and I think I've pretty much hit a wall with Belial. I've stacked a lot of my skills in defense and vitality. I've got a TON of life but not so much damage. It takes a long time to kill Elites on Torment II and it takes forever to kill something like Belial. It gives Belial time to trigger his enrage timer at which point everything goes insane and I'm dead. There's no more going past it until I get better gear which gives me higher life and higher damage.

Reaper of Souls is just around the corner anyway so it won't be long now before I get that better gear! Belial better watch out!

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