02-26-2004, 10:36 AM
Quote:I didn't have much luck using dim on gloams--teleportation AI doesn't stop immediately and then oops, you're in range. Maybe a bit of practice will help me figure out how to make that effective? Any tips?
If you dim a monster that is moving toward you they will keep moving toward you until either they are in melee range or something else gets in the way. Even if they get into range I've only seen them use the melee attack rather than the frightening lightning bolt. My thing with scary melee guys like frenzytaurs was to either blind them before they started moving or make sure there was some meat in between me and them.
Actually I'm talking out of my butt here because I've never used dim other than in act 1 normal, my experience comes from using cloak of shadows which I assume acts just like dim except you cant target it. If dim does act differently then I'll have to experiment with it.
The reason I want to max my dim is because I'm pretty sure I can affect ranged monsters off the screen before they "activate" thus saving me from the offscreen gloam beatdown.
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