07-10-2003, 12:14 PM
There are odd spots in this game where the competition is just a little too insane. I've found this quite a bit in Act 5 where I'll run a character quite happily until meeting some new threat and suddenly BLAM! It's like Nihlathak and his old corpse explosions all over again.
This time I had something impossible.
A pack of Tree Hulk champs in the Spider Forest started hammering on my Paladin and his merc. After the merc died a couple of times and the pack had been separated and whittled down, I got in a little spot of bother. A Tree Stump had managed to close to melee range and while pretty much fully Frenzied managed to lock the Paladin into hit recovery . . . again and again and again. I could do nothing. I couldn't actually move the character at all. He was completely stuck while this thing whomped him into the afterlife. :(
This was a shieldless maul charger BTW.
(sigh)
Other freakish things I've seen in the game is the poison tossing snakes that appeared in the Halls of Vaught. Blasted my heavily overleveled Elemental Druid apart in the space of a second. should'verescuedstinkingfairiesinthehighlandsgrumblegrumble <_<
Gloams in the Worldstone Keep and Harpie packs on the Throne level warrant a "Beware of the Cold-blooded Murderer" sign on the front gate. :(
It's a strange irony that limits the Ancients to pixie status and yet grants 2 or 3 hit kill capabilities to every third monster on selected levels.
This time I had something impossible.
A pack of Tree Hulk champs in the Spider Forest started hammering on my Paladin and his merc. After the merc died a couple of times and the pack had been separated and whittled down, I got in a little spot of bother. A Tree Stump had managed to close to melee range and while pretty much fully Frenzied managed to lock the Paladin into hit recovery . . . again and again and again. I could do nothing. I couldn't actually move the character at all. He was completely stuck while this thing whomped him into the afterlife. :(
This was a shieldless maul charger BTW.
(sigh)
Other freakish things I've seen in the game is the poison tossing snakes that appeared in the Halls of Vaught. Blasted my heavily overleveled Elemental Druid apart in the space of a second. should'verescuedstinkingfairiesinthehighlandsgrumblegrumble <_<
Gloams in the Worldstone Keep and Harpie packs on the Throne level warrant a "Beware of the Cold-blooded Murderer" sign on the front gate. :(
It's a strange irony that limits the Ancients to pixie status and yet grants 2 or 3 hit kill capabilities to every third monster on selected levels.
Heed the Song of Battle and Unsheath the Blades of War