AK Mouths Off Yet Again

[Taem]

That's really impressive

I can rattle posts off but to do anything of that sort of quality takes me quite a long time

If you would consider a request, here's a subject I'd like for you to get the ball rolling on:

One hit kills (Nil, Ancients, MSLE and so on). Cheesy or an essential part of the game?

With 75% resists and 20 lighting absorb, MSLE will only slightly damage you. Any player can get this kind of set up by hell easily enough. With my sorceress, she has on a Guardian Angel armor and Thunder Gods Vigor belt and has 95% lightening resist with 20 absorb. Lightening attacks from MSLE heal her. The only problems I've had are when I was one-hit killed by an MSLE with Conviction in Chaos Sanctuary in hell - at the time, my friend first died with 75% resist and 20 light absorb, so I strapped on a Lightsabre and Blackhorns for a total of 60 absorb and 95% light resist, and I still died in one MSLE blob. Is this slightly unfair? Hell yes! So, don't stop the MSLE's... stop the MSLE's with conviction because no matter what your resists, absorb, or life is, your dead!

Ancients one hit kill? News to me, and I've been doing them for a LONG time, but with 75% DR, 75% block, and 90-95% resists, I tend to not have many problems with them unless they spawn immune to cold and lightening, in which case I cast a TP. I think that the ancients would be hard to balance because of the single player aspect. Face it, they meant for Diablo 2 to be a multi-player game and should balance it accordingly. There are suppose to be other players helping you do the ancients so they aren't as difficult.

Nith - whatever his name is. He is only a 1 hit kill if you run into his lair like a fool, killing everything around you. Using an amazon with decoy, I had no problems with him. Using a sorceress, I had to lure the monsters out of his corpse exploding range and take them out - took almost 10 minutes, but I lived to tell the tale. I don't see why all classes can't do this, so I consider your point mute.