Finally, after a long struggle with my inner demons, I managed to go through Hell's Precipice with Eltoora Braineater (N/E). She's also a sanctioned Drunkard at this moment, thanks to the Wintersday In July event.

I must say that my mindset has changed a lot during the past several months, and that seems to be a good thing. I still rush through some areas, but overall I've become a more patient player.

I even tried the hard mode and managed to vanquish Old Ascalon. Boy, is that time consuming!! Oh well, the cartographer title track will benefit from the slow vanquishing days.

Two more characters reached Droknar's Forge: Elvira Moonbow (R/Me) and Ewayle Darkfire (E/N). Ewayle's doppelganger was fun: she killed me during the first attempt, but the second time I made short work of her (I already had Master of Magic and Fire Attunement on me and I managed to be the first to cast Maelstrom, then Smoldering Embers and a Fire Storm plus 2-3 Immolations did the trick in less than 2 minutes, I think).

I even started to play close-range combat professions: I have a warrior, an assassin and a dervish. The dervish and the assassin are my favorites at this moment, but the warrior is also doing well with axes (thanks, Amy, for the axe idea). The only profession I haven't tried as main profession is paragon, but I'll start one someday soon.

Today I also finished Factions, also with Eltoora. Defeating Shiro was definitely an interesting challenge. I got killed twice or thrice, until I got the right combination of heroes/henchies and skills to defeat him, but the first runs were meant to get a taste of Shiro's skills, anyway.

I had Gwen in my party, with Empathy, Backfire and interrupts equipped. Among Eltoora's skills, there were Spiteful Spirit, Insidious parasite and Necrosis. These plus the celestial skills and the other heroes (Ogden and Koss) and henchmen (no monk henchman) did the trick rather fast.

The next one will probably be Eye of The North, as with Nightfall I am still far from the final missions.