Poison Creeper

[Crystalion]

Wow, nice run down.  Very interesting indeed.  Thanks for going through the trouble.  It makes perfect sense(blizzard sense) now.

Hehe, yeah.

For fun I made a new Druid (ladder, untwinked, pubbie game player)... of course this means I was in act 2 at clvl 8. By clvl 11 I was restless, so I decided to do normal cows (I have a mule that can open the portal).

This "build" has slvl 11 Poison Creeper, junk gear, a lvl 9 act 2 merc (croaked right away) and no other Druid skills (used at least--I have a Druid cap that would let me be a Wolf and cast a couple of Ravens).

Shortly after entering the cow level (with the clvl 11) I encountered the Cow King. Turns out it is very very easy to kill Hell Bovines with slvl 11 PC, but considerably longer to nail the King.

Nonetheless, it worked (milk, aka stamina potions were needful). The xp was awful, of course.