The real culprit as it turns out was The assistant who had been leading me on for a couple of zones by now. The backstabbing however did not go how they thought it would. I put that ugly thing out of existence quicker than you could grab a bottle of bug spray.

It was then time to go clear out The Dark Tower and bag myself yet another boss. While The Dark Tower had three different levels to it. I did not find it that bad to clear out. I was kind of expecting with a name like that for it to be a bit longer, to be honest.

The boss fight at the end was a little different than others and rather fun. There were a few different gargoyles guarding the boss that activated in pairs that I had to take out.

Then the game gave me what I wanted. Further floors of The Dark Tower. There ended up being another three floors before I hit the final boss floor for the place.

Along the way, I lucked out and had a Unstable Dimension spawn. Thinking back to how many I’ve seen now my first character had a few more of these spawn than mine has even at his much higher level. It was not that long to clear out but I did find some upgrades in terms of loot.

Then I went back to the sixth floor to continue working on climbing the tower. The final way forward was locked off by a lever mini-puzzle. All you had to do is go around flipping all the levers in the area. Once that was done you then could flip the final one next to the door that was facing the other direction of the rest.

I never stopped to realize just how bloody parts of this game can become. Some of these boss fights can be downright horrific.

While it might not sound like it’s worth it with how massive of a boost in creature health and damage the higher difficulty is compared to the experience and crystals boost. You do get quite the kill streak bonus far better than the lower difficulty.

Most importantly however this is where legendary items start to drop. I would need to quickly find some of them if I wanted any chance at staying on this difficulty for very long. As it can be rather brutal otherwise.

It was also quite unusual I kept getting legendary helm drops. Each of them was slightly better than the last one so I was just happy to get an upgrade. I ended up settling on a Hellfire helm that dropped hoping I might find some other pieces along the way to get some set bonuses which is what need for this difficulty.

It was also no longer worth my time picking up rare or lower rarity items since they would not be worth my time anymore as far as upgrades are concerned. Thankfully I was just a couple of unchecks away in a menu settings for loot filters never seeing that lower rarity gear on my screen again.

Doing this gave me the damage and health boost I needed to survive this harder difficulty. I’m rather glad you can get these lower legendary from gambling. If I recall right true legendary as they are called you cannot obtain from the gamble NPC.

The time had come for me to head out and do battle again. This time I was ready. Large packs of creatures laid to waste as I cleared forward on my hunt for the next boss to down. While I still got killed on occasion things were starting to click gear wise the frequency of it dropped a lot compared to when I first started this difficulty.

Nope. These fighters were a bit longer. Long enough I realized I’d need to be tapping my mana potions as they came off cooldown to keep up with my mana burn. I’d pop my ultimate skill and try to get down as much damage as I could before it wore off. As long as I had mana remaining.

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