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katran, when you say niob forging do you just mean socketing items with rings/amulets in niob difficulty? does it have extra bonuses when doing it in niob difficulty? I ask because I just hit niob difficultly. is it worth it to re socket my stuff if I had socketed it in plat difficulty?

Hi. I just sacred 2 recently. Glad to join the community. I want to rush myself to niob difficulty and do this in the shortest amount of time. I've rushed through silver doing only the main quests and the unique mount quest. Finished it at lv28. I started a closed net MP game on gold and nearly got killed running from town to town to do the main quest since the mobs were lv42'ish. I was forced to level up in the swamp area on silver to 35ish before I could safely run from town to town. My goal remains the same, rush to niob. So my question is what level is recommended to start each difficulty? I know for gold its 30's. what about platinum? niob?

I'm also torn between which one to choose for the gold mod of incandescent skin. I read through the thread and I am still undecided. I did notice that the two popular builds from these forums both suggest that the gold mod be the -regen one. I'm reading a lot of posts on HE and everyone seems to say regen doesn't become a problem once you get to a higher level (100+). Any input from a high level HE? one that chose the -regen mod vs one that chose fiery arbor mod? Thanks.