07-05-2003, 04:53 AM
Fought Duriel in Normal. Ouch! Ouch!
He has Holy Freeze, so he's doing a little damage from that. With a Half Freeze time item, and Duriel in Normal probably having a low level HF, I was occasionally - while running away crying "Mommy" - able to unfreeze if he stopped to attack me, before he started chasing again. Most likely in Hell his aura would cover the entire room.
But that's just incidental to his major hurt. You know you're in trouble when you start wishing Duriel was charging you :o After his charge he would do a Jab or Double Swing or something, so he would do two quick consecutive hits that would HURT! I had 310 life (and no AC at all), and the charge was doing maybe 1/4 or 1/5 of my life, and each 'Jab' hit maybe 1/6 or 1/8, so I just could not even close to stand there and tank him without rejuv pots. I've made very similar builds recently in 1.09, and I could tank Duriel with these characters without too much problem - at least until my heal pots ran out, which didn't take very long. But now Duriel was doing damage waay too fast for heal pots to help.
So far, I've yet to see a non-rare drop (other than gems, etc) from an Act Boss. Four rares from Andy, three from Duriel. I imagine that that's not the case if you've already killed them, and I'm sure it is possible to get set/unique items, but has anyone gotten a blue item from an Act Boss being killed the first time? I expect that the chance for a rare (if not set/unique) is 100%.
- Dagni
He has Holy Freeze, so he's doing a little damage from that. With a Half Freeze time item, and Duriel in Normal probably having a low level HF, I was occasionally - while running away crying "Mommy" - able to unfreeze if he stopped to attack me, before he started chasing again. Most likely in Hell his aura would cover the entire room.
But that's just incidental to his major hurt. You know you're in trouble when you start wishing Duriel was charging you :o After his charge he would do a Jab or Double Swing or something, so he would do two quick consecutive hits that would HURT! I had 310 life (and no AC at all), and the charge was doing maybe 1/4 or 1/5 of my life, and each 'Jab' hit maybe 1/6 or 1/8, so I just could not even close to stand there and tank him without rejuv pots. I've made very similar builds recently in 1.09, and I could tank Duriel with these characters without too much problem - at least until my heal pots ran out, which didn't take very long. But now Duriel was doing damage waay too fast for heal pots to help.
So far, I've yet to see a non-rare drop (other than gems, etc) from an Act Boss. Four rares from Andy, three from Duriel. I imagine that that's not the case if you've already killed them, and I'm sure it is possible to get set/unique items, but has anyone gotten a blue item from an Act Boss being killed the first time? I expect that the chance for a rare (if not set/unique) is 100%.
- Dagni