07-10-2003, 07:15 AM
My clvl 31 1.10 bowazon just finished normal (after going through the game on players 1), and I'm a little bemused with the patch at this point. I did, in fact, find a cleglaw's pincers and while I agree that knockback is really useful it's not a panacea for untwinked bowazons. I'm using a rare long war bow dropped by Diablo (around 4-31 da or something like that) which is the best I've seen, and it's damage rate is pretty low relative to the hps of the monsters.
It's worst against minion/champion packs who really have to be strung out. I went through close to a couple of <i>quivers</i> of arrows for each <i>one</i> of Lister's mob. They were absolutely zero threat, however, because just a lvl 2 valk (with lvl 2 decoy) is a beast who can tank 2 (or even 3) of the minions without any problems with covering knockback fire from me -- her life regeneration seems to be even faster than the monsters (and I have poison damage to stop theirs). It shouldn't be necessary (or possible) to tape down one's mouse while playing this game. Unless super-high damage weapons are fairly readily obtainable, I'm not sure where this is going, but this seems like it's precisely the wrong direction. I switched to a spear/shield set-up for Baal (as I did for Duriel and Diablo), and he didn't pose much threat either (though I suppose two high damage attacks in rapid succession could have killed me)---but I did burn through close to 30K in healing/mana potions while wearing him down. It looks much less promising on nm/hell difficulties (where Baal presumably does serious damage).
It's worst against minion/champion packs who really have to be strung out. I went through close to a couple of <i>quivers</i> of arrows for each <i>one</i> of Lister's mob. They were absolutely zero threat, however, because just a lvl 2 valk (with lvl 2 decoy) is a beast who can tank 2 (or even 3) of the minions without any problems with covering knockback fire from me -- her life regeneration seems to be even faster than the monsters (and I have poison damage to stop theirs). It shouldn't be necessary (or possible) to tape down one's mouse while playing this game. Unless super-high damage weapons are fairly readily obtainable, I'm not sure where this is going, but this seems like it's precisely the wrong direction. I switched to a spear/shield set-up for Baal (as I did for Duriel and Diablo), and he didn't pose much threat either (though I suppose two high damage attacks in rapid succession could have killed me)---but I did burn through close to 30K in healing/mana potions while wearing him down. It looks much less promising on nm/hell difficulties (where Baal presumably does serious damage).