Adventures of a Purist

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"Mark" <bongofury@verizon.net> wrote in message
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> "Steve W" <stwysongREMOVE@sbcglobal.net> wrote in message
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> > If you wanted a pure trapper, Fire Blast is supposed to work well as it
> > gets synergy bonuses from the lightning tree. I haven't played a pure
> > trapper yet so YMMV.
>
> I've used FB on a Ltg. Trapper and it's a slow killer. It'll do the job,
but
> I was hoping for something better.
>
> Regards-
> Mark
>
> Bongo-Fury
>
>
Yup, it is pretty slow. Blade Fury with ~25% CB works at about the same
speed, maybe a little quicker on the ones that have built in Fire Resists.
The real fun is when the Boss turns up SS/FE/LI. Those can take a bit of
work.


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In article <6kvXd.49969$ya6.7141@trndny01>, Mark <bongofury@verizon.net> wrote:
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>"Patrick Vervoorn" <patrick.vervoorn@NOSPAM.perihelion.demon.nl> wrote in
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>> Are you saying the spark generated from this beetle's death explosion
>> carried the damage you described earlier?
>
>Yup, exactly.

Holy cow, that's _bad_. 🙁

My utmost respect for playing SP HC in that environment!

>> I though the FE bug only
>> affected stuff within the explosion's radius (about a quarter to half a
>> screen is my 'safety zone').
>
>That's the common manifestation of FE. But it can also be carried on LE or
>beetle sparks, CE death nova, melee or missile attacks, or HS and HF aura
>pulses.

Hmmm. Not good. I'll see how my IK Barb fares against such stuff. He's on
the Ladder, in NM, and until now I just merrily hacked away at any boss I
encounter, including Fire Enchanted ones. The Death Explosions didn't do
any significant damage actually, strangely, since I understood the FE bug
was not fixed for NM online... Hmm.

>> If so, this is new for me... Luckily I only play on B.Net, where it has
>> been (mostly) fixed...
>
>Unfortunately, the SP part of the game is badly neglected.

Yeah. I was convinced to move to B.Net when the first Ladder only
runewords appeared, and I noticed some pretty nice ones between that
(Duress for instance).

Of course, it was finally the trading aspect of the game which kept me
online, despite the appearance of at least one patch which puts all the
new Ladder-only runewords in SP.

Regards,

Patrick.

 

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"~misfit~" <misfit61nz@hooya.co.nz> wrote in message
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> Mark wrote:
> > I used a chipped topaz helm and armor from A1 all the way through
> > normal. So I never made a Stealth or Lore, the most common runewords
> > for a Skellimancer. And I never found a head worth Rhyming that was
> > better than what I was using. Beyond that, I never found a rune
> > better than a Io. The Hell Countess dropped me an El. ;-)
>
> To change the subject a little, I have a skellimancer who has just about
> finished normal. Not HC, SP or Purist. However I decided to go MF all the
> way with him, equiped a Gull Dagger (100% MF) at lvl 4 as well as topazed
> everything, going from chippies to flaweds etc. Nagels as soon as I could,
> Goldwrap like wise, Tarnhelm, PTopazed as soon as he hit lvl 18. He is in
> act 4 and has played solo all the way through, no rushing and he has found
> exactly *ZERO* uniques so far. One or two set items but no uniques.
Amazing
> huh?
>
> Well, I thought so anyway. I have quite a few high-level uniques but
thought
> it would be nice to have some of the lower level ones I don't have to
twink
> starting characters with. (Lenymo, Biggins Bonnet, Hotspur etc.)
> --
>
YES! Someone else has the curse as well.
SvH messaged me to join a game he was in because uniques seemed to be
raining from the sky. So I jumped in, killed the Hell Council, Meph, and
the Countess.

Not one unique. I mean the char isn't geared up for MF, but she's got
around 340 or so. Best I got was an Ort rune, and 2 flawless gems.
This game hates me.


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"short" <shorts@zoominternet.net> wrote in message
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> I'm having good luck with an FO/FB Sorc but of course she's twinked out
> the
> wazzzoo
> The good thing about the FB Sorc is that you can put 10 points into
> Firebolt
> early on so you have an attack right from lvl 1.
> The only thing I've run into that is unkillable so far is the Hell
> Countess
> and one of the Hell Countess Members, that are always CI/FI. Merc can
> usually handle those guys though as long as I clear out everyone else
> first.
> Oh, and Lord Disease popped out ExtraStrong and Stone Skin once, even my
> Merc with ~70% CB couldn't damage him enough to keep him from
> regenerating.

Sorcs are my favorite class, so I've considered trying it with a Sorc. But
they are so fragile. And not having a castable minion makes the Ancients
problematic. I could easily find myself facing them without a tank.

> Trappers work fairly well also. The only problem I have with mine is
> forgetting to use Mindblast enough For some reason the monsters just
> don't stand still on their own.

Bastards.

> If you want to go the boring router you could go for a Hammerdin, but I
> can't recall if the hammers swing out far enough to avoid the FE bug.

A Hammerdin has to stand too close. And with the FE bug in SP it's just a
matter of time.

Regards-
Mark

Bongo-Fury

 

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"Mark" <bongofury@verizon.net> wrote in message
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> "short" <shorts@zoominternet.net> wrote in message
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> >
> > I'm having good luck with an FO/FB Sorc but of course she's twinked out
> > the
> > wazzzoo
> > The good thing about the FB Sorc is that you can put 10 points into
> > Firebolt
> > early on so you have an attack right from lvl 1.
> > The only thing I've run into that is unkillable so far is the Hell
> > Countess
> > and one of the Hell Countess Members, that are always CI/FI. Merc can
> > usually handle those guys though as long as I clear out everyone else
> > first.
> > Oh, and Lord Disease popped out ExtraStrong and Stone Skin once, even my
> > Merc with ~70% CB couldn't damage him enough to keep him from
> > regenerating.
>
> Sorcs are my favorite class, so I've considered trying it with a Sorc. But
> they are so fragile. And not having a castable minion makes the Ancients
> problematic. I could easily find myself facing them without a tank.
>
That's why Fireball is so beautiful
I faced them down in Normal all on my own, no problems whatsoever.
NM, same thing.
Hell, I had to reroll them quite a few times. The first few times 2 of them
showed up Fire/Cold Immune, and that just wasn't going to work out in my
favor.

> > Trappers work fairly well also. The only problem I have with mine is
> > forgetting to use Mindblast enough For some reason the monsters just
> > don't stand still on their own.
>
> Bastards.
>
I KNOW!

> > If you want to go the boring router you could go for a Hammerdin, but I
> > can't recall if the hammers swing out far enough to avoid the FE bug.
>
> A Hammerdin has to stand too close. And with the FE bug in SP it's just a
> matter of time.
>
Yup, that's what I figured.
You still forgot the LF/Freezing Arrow Zon


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