I think the new patch hits the sorceress the most. At least, the biggest problem I've had so far was with my lvl 81 hydra sorc. And it was in Act1 Hell. That girl was breezing through the whole game on "players 8" before this patch and now she's incapable of doing a simple countess run! Did I got scared? As hell - since she almost got killed I didn't even consider sending her to Act5. I guess it's time for me to try this out...
Update: I took her for a walk in the WK and I must say it was quite fun. It wasn't easy but it was just so hard that I had to use all my skills to survive and move on. Alas when I reached the Throne of Desruction everything changed for the worse.
First I stumbled upon a succub boss that killed poor Hrothgar in a glance (I think after a while he got used to it). The demon was fire and cold immune and I have no high level lightning skills so I had to park her.
Proceeded to the big bosses before Baal. The second pack took me a while. The fourth took even more. I struggled at least an hour before Lister spawned. His mods were nothing special BUT... I simply couldn't kill him :( . My primary skill is 27lvl Hydra (supported by 28lvl Mastery), and all Minions of Destruction are immune to fire. As support skills I use lvl 28 Glacial Spike with lvl10 Mastery and lvl 9 blizzard. The Minions of Destruction I took one by one. And if it wasn't Hrothgar I'd still be fighting them :( . The reason - lvl 28 GS does nothing to them - they heal faster then I do damage. Even if I combine it with Blizzard and Thunderstorm nothing really happens to them. So it took tons of mana potions and quite some time and I, correction, Hrothgar, killed the minions. As for Lister - he's probably still there waiting for that nice little sorc to come again and tickle him with her magic.
Finally I came to the big boss and I must say I expected more of him. After such a bad trip I thougth it'll take me hours or might even be impossible to beat him. Well it wasn't. Took me around 7-8 minutes to dispatch him. He dropped this. I think it could have been worse. Considering I lost more than 500k gold to ressurect my merc it's just puny.
Update: I took her for a walk in the WK and I must say it was quite fun. It wasn't easy but it was just so hard that I had to use all my skills to survive and move on. Alas when I reached the Throne of Desruction everything changed for the worse.
First I stumbled upon a succub boss that killed poor Hrothgar in a glance (I think after a while he got used to it). The demon was fire and cold immune and I have no high level lightning skills so I had to park her.
Proceeded to the big bosses before Baal. The second pack took me a while. The fourth took even more. I struggled at least an hour before Lister spawned. His mods were nothing special BUT... I simply couldn't kill him :( . My primary skill is 27lvl Hydra (supported by 28lvl Mastery), and all Minions of Destruction are immune to fire. As support skills I use lvl 28 Glacial Spike with lvl10 Mastery and lvl 9 blizzard. The Minions of Destruction I took one by one. And if it wasn't Hrothgar I'd still be fighting them :( . The reason - lvl 28 GS does nothing to them - they heal faster then I do damage. Even if I combine it with Blizzard and Thunderstorm nothing really happens to them. So it took tons of mana potions and quite some time and I, correction, Hrothgar, killed the minions. As for Lister - he's probably still there waiting for that nice little sorc to come again and tickle him with her magic.
Finally I came to the big boss and I must say I expected more of him. After such a bad trip I thougth it'll take me hours or might even be impossible to beat him. Well it wasn't. Took me around 7-8 minutes to dispatch him. He dropped this. I think it could have been worse. Considering I lost more than 500k gold to ressurect my merc it's just puny.