Oh man... what an adventure I've been on all damn day... This write-up btw was great, I appreciate it. After spending about 200 runic hammers, I finally made a 100% fire axe for the grizzly bears. I found another 100% fire i imbued for the satyrs too.
So i attempted the third tier, and holy hell! They kept spawning into paragon satyrs, so had to get my bard down there, which by the way was the ticket to getting the satyrs back to normal hue. I had 2 reverts going back down to tier 2. When I remembered... The new fey slayer katana "Defiler of Virtue" ! Oh yeah!, that was the ticket! honor + double strike, sometimes killed them in 2 hits! So that was going good, still eventually running out of regular satyrs, so had to log in the bard and take some karma hits provoking cu's and satyrs to keep the level from reverting to 2... then all of the sudden, ALL the paragons disappeared and spawned regular ones. I knew that was my chance, and finally the candles lit up like a christmas tree. But what a friggin pain that level was!
By the time I got to the grizzlies, I knew I was home free! they were a cinch with the fire weapon.
100% fire - 50% HSL - 50% HLA - 62% HML - 30 SSI Double axe.
But no luck with loot. Twaulo of the Glade was a TURKEY! And I got a flippin cornucopia! haha...
But that Dreadhorn statue will be mine!
Thanks again for the writeup, what a great challenge it was!