Hi Hammerskjold,
Probably won’t play one anyway. I tried once and it didn't hold my interest beyond church. So it was basically my frustration speaking.
The CC episode I mentioned earlier was just a trial run. I was fighting against Bone-Demons in the crypt and just wanted to give it a try. Turns out, they are not demons at all, they're Undead – my bad, should have been obvious, what was I thinking
But yesterday I broke out my Civerb's Cudgel for real. I was doing Laz runs (kind of obsessed with finding a Royal Circlet) when I leveled to 30 and suddenly had the silly idea “why don't I try a 3@30?”
Levels 13 and 14 were ok. I got ripped apart and killed by Lava Maws once (first death for this char, yay), but that’s what I get for letting myself be swarmed. Item recovery is not too hard with telekinesis and I doubly enjoyed frying them after that. So far so good...
But then I hit 15 with Soul Burners and Balrogs and find myself not so much fighting for my life as fighting mounting tedium. Actually fighting for my life would have been way more fun. The Balrogs I could dispose of, but it took me AND my golem(lvl 7) three to four stone curses(lvl 12) worth of time whacking away at one Soul Burner simultaneously to kill just one of them, and there were maaaany. This was just plain hard work and plenty of potions. The German term would be “Materialschlacht”, no game playing involved. After I had forced myself to fight my way through to Lazarus and kill him and his girls (that part was fun) I had completely lost interest in going on further. The only way I am going back and facing those triple immunes again is after many more books!
So, what's the secret, besides having higher level spells? Is there any trick to fighting Soul Burners as a mage? They hardly even register when I am playing my usual rogue, just some more witches to shoot...
About HF:Fixed, yeah, I considered that, but I remember reading the fix list and IIRC there were things that were deal breakers for me, like all scrolls that were available as runes were eliminated... what!?... no stone curse scrolls for my lower level chars?? Nope, not for me. I'd have to find the link again and go back to be sure about this, but it was something like that..
You say you have played D2... is it fun? Is it very different? Or is it just the next logical step?
lg
lyyn
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BTW, speaking of Lava Maws... strange thing happened on level 14: I was melee attacked by a single Lava Maw ( I know, I know... should have warned me of what was to come later, when I met a pack of his friends ) I tried to run away, but I couldn't because it had me stunlocked. I managed to stay alive by using hot keys to drink my belt empty. Then, suddenly, while I am down to my last potion and frantically clicking on some empty space to break away, knowing I will die …. it drops dead! Huh???
Did it suicide because I was to pitiful for it to bear? I have no idea what happened, but it certainly wasn't me that killed it!?!
lg, lyyn
Probably won’t play one anyway. I tried once and it didn't hold my interest beyond church. So it was basically my frustration speaking.
The CC episode I mentioned earlier was just a trial run. I was fighting against Bone-Demons in the crypt and just wanted to give it a try. Turns out, they are not demons at all, they're Undead – my bad, should have been obvious, what was I thinking
But yesterday I broke out my Civerb's Cudgel for real. I was doing Laz runs (kind of obsessed with finding a Royal Circlet) when I leveled to 30 and suddenly had the silly idea “why don't I try a 3@30?”
Levels 13 and 14 were ok. I got ripped apart and killed by Lava Maws once (first death for this char, yay), but that’s what I get for letting myself be swarmed. Item recovery is not too hard with telekinesis and I doubly enjoyed frying them after that. So far so good...
But then I hit 15 with Soul Burners and Balrogs and find myself not so much fighting for my life as fighting mounting tedium. Actually fighting for my life would have been way more fun. The Balrogs I could dispose of, but it took me AND my golem(lvl 7) three to four stone curses(lvl 12) worth of time whacking away at one Soul Burner simultaneously to kill just one of them, and there were maaaany. This was just plain hard work and plenty of potions. The German term would be “Materialschlacht”, no game playing involved. After I had forced myself to fight my way through to Lazarus and kill him and his girls (that part was fun) I had completely lost interest in going on further. The only way I am going back and facing those triple immunes again is after many more books!
So, what's the secret, besides having higher level spells? Is there any trick to fighting Soul Burners as a mage? They hardly even register when I am playing my usual rogue, just some more witches to shoot...
About HF:Fixed, yeah, I considered that, but I remember reading the fix list and IIRC there were things that were deal breakers for me, like all scrolls that were available as runes were eliminated... what!?... no stone curse scrolls for my lower level chars?? Nope, not for me. I'd have to find the link again and go back to be sure about this, but it was something like that..
You say you have played D2... is it fun? Is it very different? Or is it just the next logical step?
lg
lyyn
edit:
BTW, speaking of Lava Maws... strange thing happened on level 14: I was melee attacked by a single Lava Maw ( I know, I know... should have warned me of what was to come later, when I met a pack of his friends
) I tried to run away, but I couldn't because it had me stunlocked. I managed to stay alive by using hot keys to drink my belt empty. Then, suddenly, while I am down to my last potion and frantically clicking on some empty space to break away, knowing I will die …. it drops dead! Huh???Did it suicide because I was to pitiful for it to bear? I have no idea what happened, but it certainly wasn't me that killed it!?!
lg, lyyn