04-22-2003, 08:13 PM
(This post was last modified: 04-22-2003, 11:49 PM by Sporky Smurf.)
Another quick update on LL-Piege, who is still level 35. BUT, she has just thoroughly cleared the Cow Level in a three player game, though she was solo.
The moment she stepped through the glowing red portal cows were coming at her from all directions. She set her beautiful Sentries around her in a five-pointed star to try and stop the rushes while she slipped out and started running. Piege is almost ALWAYS moving. That's the beauty about this character. All of her attacks are fire-and-forget, basically. Traps, fire and forget. Highly potent, long lasting poison damage from a bow, check. This proved a slight problem at first because she had spawned right next to the Corral of Doom, and the more she moved the more beef she awoke. Once Piege remembered she had Death Sentry at hand she cleared the first area in a matter of seconds and developed the strategy she used for pretty much the whole level. This strategy was:
Scout at the edge of your screen for Cows with your Lightning Sentries. If they go off, fire a couple of venom-tipped arrows in the direction of the bovines. The poison was almost always enough to produce a corpse or two, and the LS's would smoosh some more. Run up, check the mob's size. If it's large, lay down a Death Sentry or two and lead the herd over a corpse. Boom! Boom! Moo. This would produce me a "field" of corpses where I would set up some more Death Sentries, go herd up a LARGE crowd and lure back for their slaughtering. Overall, it was an EXP and Item bust, but oh well. Still had fun being a butcher.
Edit: I guess LL-Piege wasn't as "immortal" as I had thought she was. I was in a game, cruising through A1 and about to rescue Cain. Someone else in my game was doing Andy, so I hit her portal and smashed Andy to pieces. Hop over to A2 to get my HF Merc and decided to test him out in the Sewers. Round the first corner and a whole nest of Skellie Archers launch some flaming arrows into my butt. I save & exit at the exact moment I perish. So now the character icon is invisible, but dead. Grrr. Losts a WHOLE bunch of poison charms, etc... Grrr.
The moment she stepped through the glowing red portal cows were coming at her from all directions. She set her beautiful Sentries around her in a five-pointed star to try and stop the rushes while she slipped out and started running. Piege is almost ALWAYS moving. That's the beauty about this character. All of her attacks are fire-and-forget, basically. Traps, fire and forget. Highly potent, long lasting poison damage from a bow, check. This proved a slight problem at first because she had spawned right next to the Corral of Doom, and the more she moved the more beef she awoke. Once Piege remembered she had Death Sentry at hand she cleared the first area in a matter of seconds and developed the strategy she used for pretty much the whole level. This strategy was:
Scout at the edge of your screen for Cows with your Lightning Sentries. If they go off, fire a couple of venom-tipped arrows in the direction of the bovines. The poison was almost always enough to produce a corpse or two, and the LS's would smoosh some more. Run up, check the mob's size. If it's large, lay down a Death Sentry or two and lead the herd over a corpse. Boom! Boom! Moo. This would produce me a "field" of corpses where I would set up some more Death Sentries, go herd up a LARGE crowd and lure back for their slaughtering. Overall, it was an EXP and Item bust, but oh well. Still had fun being a butcher.
Edit: I guess LL-Piege wasn't as "immortal" as I had thought she was. I was in a game, cruising through A1 and about to rescue Cain. Someone else in my game was doing Andy, so I hit her portal and smashed Andy to pieces. Hop over to A2 to get my HF Merc and decided to test him out in the Sewers. Round the first corner and a whole nest of Skellie Archers launch some flaming arrows into my butt. I save & exit at the exact moment I perish. So now the character icon is invisible, but dead. Grrr. Losts a WHOLE bunch of poison charms, etc... Grrr.