06-24-2003, 08:40 AM
Hail Fragbait
I disagree, you say act 5 is very easy to melee'ers yet hard on spellcasters but you fail to remember that the frenzy-taurs are a melee'ers worst nightmare (extra fast groups especially) , everything else is just a piece of cake for both ranged, meleeand spellcasters, ranged and spellcasters hardly (if at all) get hit simply because the ranged attackers have very laughable damage for their ranged attacks that could hardly harm a fly.
Oh and the mana curse, you find the succubs very seldom outside of level 2 caves and even though the curse is annoying it's not lethal, the thing is Blizzard made the curse animation so... 'shiny' and adding in the casting delays it's considered just as a minor set back before it'll be off and you will kill those nasty sucubbs with one orb/firewall/meteor/CL/etc' because their Health can be compared to one of the bugs in act 2.
Also remember that you hardly need resistances in act 5 AT ALL while if you went to chaos sanctuary without resists (assuming you're not incredibly higher level than the monsters there) you will be toasted like an egg on a road on a very hot day while in act 5 there's hardly attacks to resist except for the frozens which their attack has very low damage and only really hurts by that it makes you chilled and you move slower.
Oh and chaos sanctuary easy on spellcasters while hard on melee'ers? The wraiths and mages are cold immune while the knights are fire immune not to mention the mages are the real threat here, they can decerify(sp) and then the knights/venom lords will eat you alive (notice I'm not considering the very high level sorcs or the ones with uber gear) or they could simply kick your ass by themselves because of their incredibly strong ranged attack (I think I saw somewhere that a hell mage's attack would do around 250 damage) and the projectile are very fast so it'll be harder to avoid them.
The above is also for melee'ers, Iron Maiden, while has a very lethal option if cast is not that hard to over come, it's cast very infrequently and you can always see when you get Iron Maiden on ya, probably the most feared option is to be IM'ed while you're zealing/fending/WW'ing and then you could be screwed if you just started the above attacks, but considering the IM's infrequent casting and considering it'll be cast on you exactly at the moment you were starting/ half way WW'ing is very slim, but the option exists and it petrifies most melee'ers
I disagree, you say act 5 is very easy to melee'ers yet hard on spellcasters but you fail to remember that the frenzy-taurs are a melee'ers worst nightmare (extra fast groups especially) , everything else is just a piece of cake for both ranged, meleeand spellcasters, ranged and spellcasters hardly (if at all) get hit simply because the ranged attackers have very laughable damage for their ranged attacks that could hardly harm a fly.
Oh and the mana curse, you find the succubs very seldom outside of level 2 caves and even though the curse is annoying it's not lethal, the thing is Blizzard made the curse animation so... 'shiny' and adding in the casting delays it's considered just as a minor set back before it'll be off and you will kill those nasty sucubbs with one orb/firewall/meteor/CL/etc' because their Health can be compared to one of the bugs in act 2.
Also remember that you hardly need resistances in act 5 AT ALL while if you went to chaos sanctuary without resists (assuming you're not incredibly higher level than the monsters there) you will be toasted like an egg on a road on a very hot day while in act 5 there's hardly attacks to resist except for the frozens which their attack has very low damage and only really hurts by that it makes you chilled and you move slower.
Oh and chaos sanctuary easy on spellcasters while hard on melee'ers? The wraiths and mages are cold immune while the knights are fire immune not to mention the mages are the real threat here, they can decerify(sp) and then the knights/venom lords will eat you alive (notice I'm not considering the very high level sorcs or the ones with uber gear) or they could simply kick your ass by themselves because of their incredibly strong ranged attack (I think I saw somewhere that a hell mage's attack would do around 250 damage) and the projectile are very fast so it'll be harder to avoid them.
The above is also for melee'ers, Iron Maiden, while has a very lethal option if cast is not that hard to over come, it's cast very infrequently and you can always see when you get Iron Maiden on ya, probably the most feared option is to be IM'ed while you're zealing/fending/WW'ing and then you could be screwed if you just started the above attacks, but considering the IM's infrequent casting and considering it'll be cast on you exactly at the moment you were starting/ half way WW'ing is very slim, but the option exists and it petrifies most melee'ers
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