u/MansoppLongnose

I am eternally hunting for a build that can take me through to T12 that doesn't rely on wasting 2/3rds of the spots in each piece of gear stacking crit chance and crit damage. I have never cared about bone skills, and I want to have as many minions out as possible without sacrificing any. I run a cold build right now with a SOJ, Shako, and spirit stacking levels to all skills along with my amulet, and my unique charm is currently a squirt blouse until I can make undercrown or hand of Naz/warrior glove into one. I just got to T10, and can't do mephisto to save my life. Are there any builds out there than can survive without relying on forgoing most of the powers in the game in favor of only crit?

I currently use decompose, blight with cold, ice mage, sword warrior, big iron golem, and cold army of dead as my skills. I use shako, enigma with nagu que, frenzied onslaught gloves, deaths defense pants with neo ceh, piercing cold boots, hellbent commander flail, spirit shield, SOJ ring, reanimation ring, and gloom amulet. Toughness is 2.44M to 3.78M With barrier and fortify, weap dmg is 4.5k and I am plateauing at T10, Not going down, but not doing dmg fast enough for pit 85 time limit. My glyphs are mage, warrior, corporeal/dead raiser, and control.

I am considering a tongue split, but I take 6 pills daily for conditions like diabetes (well controlled, 5.8 A1c) adhd, chronic pain, cholesterol and acid reflux. I have seen posts where people say they had to use liquid pain medicines during recovery. My medicines cannot be skipped as far as I know, and so I ask, what do you do to take pills that are time released and cannot be cut or crushed into a liquid?

I just got the Shovel Evolved mod, among the other Evolved mods, and I'm 80 hours into act 1. I already beat the Spider Matriarch, but found that Shovel can get a permanent buff from her. When I went to the corpse, it was still there, but there was no interaction, so I can only assume Shovel must be in the party when defeating the monster.

How can I spawn in the creature to just fight a 2nd copy? Or would it be easier to change flags and revive the original to fight it again/reset the whispering depths area altogether? I am not restarting from the beginning, but if there is a way to try this fight again to get the buff, I want to do it.

I can use the SE console, or download a creature spawner mod, or whatever else is needed, I just want that buff.