06-02-2012, 01:07 PM
I died farming in Act I Hell on my L53 (1 bubble from 54) witch doctor.
I knew from previous play sessions that what I hated the most on him was fast + molten because of all the crap on the floor making my kiting tactics (I would often spirit walk back through the pack) trickier. I had run into a Fast + Molten + Vortex skeleton pack the other day that made life even trickier for my current build but had killed them. Well I got Fast + Molten + Vortex on some grave diggers. So they had inherent slow abilities. I engaged for a bit, realized that I wasn't getting enough damage into them and decided to leave the crypt I was in and shuffle my skills since I didn't think my blender build without more methods of slowing them was going to cut it.
I got vortexed a few times but was making progress when the stupid happened. I hit spirit walk and immediately hit my move key so that I wouldn't interact, which is standard for me, but I hiccuped, my mouse shifted, I ran the wrong way. A way covered with flames already (there wre 4 of the buggers just covering the floor with the fire). Without the the extra speed of spirit walk I had to choose to head deeper beause there was only 1 that way and 3 the other way. I wasn't running with extra slowing grasp so I used it on the three but it wasn't enough to make the blind corner that I figured was still safer. I got pulled back to the corner, which I was expecting and even with the floor covered with fire I had to spirit walk to try and get out because they were hitting me (which slows and bounces you from a grave digger) and I was in a corner. I got out, but it wasn't for long because the dummy took too much damage. Spirit Vessel popped saving me. Potion was drunk. I could see the exit, vortex pulled me back again. Spirit walk was 2 seconds from coming back up. Mass confusion was 1 second. I dropped grasp. I jammed the spirit walk key needing it as soon as I could get it.
"You have died" shows up on the screen.
It was close. I didn't disengage from what I knew to be one of the worst combos for my spec soon enough. The only regret, and it's small because I knew what I was signing up for, was that it happened while farming a bit, not while progressing.
Now it's time for the 10 sided die to let me know what toon is next for the hardcore trek.
I knew from previous play sessions that what I hated the most on him was fast + molten because of all the crap on the floor making my kiting tactics (I would often spirit walk back through the pack) trickier. I had run into a Fast + Molten + Vortex skeleton pack the other day that made life even trickier for my current build but had killed them. Well I got Fast + Molten + Vortex on some grave diggers. So they had inherent slow abilities. I engaged for a bit, realized that I wasn't getting enough damage into them and decided to leave the crypt I was in and shuffle my skills since I didn't think my blender build without more methods of slowing them was going to cut it.
I got vortexed a few times but was making progress when the stupid happened. I hit spirit walk and immediately hit my move key so that I wouldn't interact, which is standard for me, but I hiccuped, my mouse shifted, I ran the wrong way. A way covered with flames already (there wre 4 of the buggers just covering the floor with the fire). Without the the extra speed of spirit walk I had to choose to head deeper beause there was only 1 that way and 3 the other way. I wasn't running with extra slowing grasp so I used it on the three but it wasn't enough to make the blind corner that I figured was still safer. I got pulled back to the corner, which I was expecting and even with the floor covered with fire I had to spirit walk to try and get out because they were hitting me (which slows and bounces you from a grave digger) and I was in a corner. I got out, but it wasn't for long because the dummy took too much damage. Spirit Vessel popped saving me. Potion was drunk. I could see the exit, vortex pulled me back again. Spirit walk was 2 seconds from coming back up. Mass confusion was 1 second. I dropped grasp. I jammed the spirit walk key needing it as soon as I could get it.
"You have died" shows up on the screen.
It was close. I didn't disengage from what I knew to be one of the worst combos for my spec soon enough. The only regret, and it's small because I knew what I was signing up for, was that it happened while farming a bit, not while progressing.
Now it's time for the 10 sided die to let me know what toon is next for the hardcore trek.
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It's all just zeroes and ones and duct tape in the end.
It's all just zeroes and ones and duct tape in the end.