03-27-2004, 09:06 PM
Quote:His build: any vanilla bow, any magic book or spell he can read with natural magic (i.e. no Teleport). Clvl 22.
My parasitic build: vanilla short bow, scrolls only. Clvl 21.
Ouch on both counts. I remember my FBAR having a hell of a time getting stun damage at those levels. It was slow goin'.
Quote:Level 14 ... Love the witches, hate the balrog types. Their prancing around makes them difficult to hit, but fortunately we had a nice long corridor that saved my butt at least one time when we got split up when we activated a large bunch.
Heh. Rogs: Even if you had stun damage, it wouldn't have helped much. In any event, leading them down a hallway is a good tactic to foil that tedious "prancing" AI. Good strategy.
Quote:Level 15 ... IIRC all 3 advocates teleported themselves around the entrance to Laz's room. I positioned myself so that they couldn't hit me, but I could hit them and they dropped like flies. Strong flies.
Getting a lock on Advos in Laz's room can be tricky sometimes. (If available, flooding the room with FWall's also a nice way of dealing with 'em.)
Quote:Laz himself was a tough cookie. One of his fireballs hit me when I was at full health and almost knocked me over. I guess I was lucky.
Absorb one of those puppies on nightmare w/o resists. Eeeoow.
Quote:He walked around a bit and noticed the pentagram right across the wall in the quadrant to the SW to Lazarus' nest, and we trod carefully, ready to dispatch any and all foes that would try to prevent us from reaching dlvl 16. We might as well ran because all we meet was a single steel lord and a stray snow witch or two.
Heh. You also could've used the "TP Teleport" technique: Set TP over a wall. Return to town. Take TP. (Nice to do with two players since you won't have to walk back to town.) Of course, there is the danger of landing someplace terribly dangerous. ;)
Quote:We might just go straight for a 3@30 (not solo, but still).
I can't see us doing that without stone curse, though. Even with maxed str and dex, our damage would be around 45-50. It is certainly possible though, and I just might give it a solo shot eventually.
It's really, really tedious. That's why Garda(BAR) hasn't gotten her third dot yet, even at clvl ~36. (She has explored bits and pieces of H/H and NM/H on various occasions, though.) No stun damage, crippling blocklock, and magic hurts like all hell.
Quote:All in all, this was among my most rewarding Diablo kills ever.
Most certainly. :)
[o: *LEMMING* :o]