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Game Forum / Role Playing Games / Diablo / May 2005Hardcore no fly zones (this is D2 related, I promise)
As some might know from reading my daily post the other day, I've been playing a singer barbarian recently, that I've outfitted for hell gold find and magic find, specifically, hell travincal. He's currently kitted out as follows, a compromise of resists, skills, gold find and magic find: Hat - IK with two perfect topaz Armour - Wealth dusk shroud Amulet - Mara's Ring 1 - Lightning resist/magic find Ring 2 - Dwarf Star Weapon 1 - Spirit sword and Spirit shield for main war crying Weapon 2 - Two ali baba swords for horking (find item) Gloves - Frostburns Belt - Goldwrap Boots - Infernostrikes This gives him plenty of gold and magic find, and, combined with an investment in Natural Resistances, the key resistances, fire and lightning, are 82 and 75% respectively (plus he has some fire absorb from his dwarf star ring). Cold and poison are in the 40-60 range. War Cry stuns the regular council easily enough, and has a smaller, but definite chance to stun the "big three" council. So most runs are reasonably safe. However... some runs are absolutely killer. Literally. Even in hell, with the FE bug "sort of" fixed, he can still take in excess of 1000 damage from a FE council death explosion. And with the right mods, a lightning enchanted boss can reduce his 3200 life to zero in literally about one second. And melee shots in excess of 1500 damage aren't too uncommon either. It's fun as heck getting the large gold piles, and the random killer mods keep things from getting dull, but clearly it's not an activity that the heavy players of hardcore mode would want to engage in, if they have an interest in surviving for very long. What other activities do you guys steer clear of? I've heard it said that hardcore mode is also not a place for variant builds, and also that teleport-to-boss style MF has limited application. What else do you have chalked up in the "don't do" this column?  SignatureIf in doubt, hit with axe. > What other activities do you guys steer clear of? > I've heard it said that hardcore mode is also not a place for variant > builds, > and also that teleport-to-boss style MF has limited application. What > else > do you have chalked up in the "don't do" this column? I posted recently that I didn't understand how folks just teleported around without getting killed. But that was after a NDE trying to do it while rushing some folks through the Anya quest. The Gloams in the Frozen River here absolutely hammering me even though my Sorc had 105 FC. I only lived because when my belt ran dry I happened to find a quiet corner to regroup. Since then however I have been running Hell Mephisto and gradually I became comfortable doing it there. Now I just port her all over till I find the stairs. It's really not a problem. The only cause for concern is when I land into a group of mana burners and they drain my globe. But even then it's not bad since my Insight merc almost instantly gives me enough to port away. So I guess it's just a matter of picking you spots where to port around. I certainly won't be doing it where Gloams are lurking. But what do I avoid? Nothing I can absolutely put my finger on, but generally places where the danger doesn't match the reward. For example my Hell Mephy running MFer. After offing Mephy I'll open the chests and such in the are and if one of the councilors wander in I'll kill them too. But if they show up Conv I'll just bag it and move on to the next game. That situation has a much greater chance of killing me than yielding a nice drop, so that's why I squee. Regards- Mark Bongo-Fury >I've heard it said that hardcore mode is also not a place for variant builds, >and also that teleport-to-boss style MF has limited application. What else >do you have chalked up in the "don't do" this column? Here are a few that I try to avoid: CE, DS and LF in the presence of dolls. Soloing Normal Diablo with a necro who hasn't got Summon Resist yet. Meleeing FE bosses in NM and Hell. Conviction, Fanaticism and Holy Freeze enchanted bosses in combination with certain other mods like XF and MS. Fighting while Amped, especially against ranged attackers or high-damage monsters like bulls. Multiple boss packs with auras. Soloing no-shield builds in Hell. -- Roy L > As some might know from reading my daily post the other day, I've been > playing [quoted text clipped - 44 lines] > else > do you have chalked up in the "don't do" this column? Nice set up, but why not chance guards? Typo? I don't play sorcs, so I can't comment on teleport. When in hell mode I mainly avoid places with stair traps. Everything else is doable. Specifically the Tower, the act III dungeons, and WS Keep are places I can't find a way to run safely with any of my characters. I do WS keep if I have a playing partner and will occasionally do the act III tome quest, but with a nasty double boss pack at the bottom of a stair it could be game over even for a good team. Neither of us play barbs or druids, so maybe with the extra life those places would be safe. =Steve Long ago, in the world without shrimp, "Steve W" <stwysongREMOVE@sbcglobal.net>, supreme ruler of bunnies, hopped and flopped and said: >Nice set up, but why not chance guards? Typo? Mana considerations. The frosties are a holdover from when I wasn't using a mercenary with an Insight polearm. Even in full +mana setup, once he started aggressively war crying, it made a Nova sorceress look downright economical. But I've been thinking about switching from to chancies (and I do have a 40% MF pair lying around spare, I do believe), since I now have an Insight wielding Prayer mercenary backing me up. >I do WS keep if I have a playing partner and will occasionally do the act >III tome quest, but with a nasty double boss pack at the bottom of a stair >it could be game over even for a good team. Neither of us play barbs or >druids, so maybe with the extra life those places would be safe. Battle Orders and Oak Sage can make a huge difference indeed. SignatureIf in doubt, hit with axe. I've heard it said that hardcore mode is also not a place for variant builds, > and also that teleport-to-boss style MF has limited application. What else > do you have chalked up in the "don't do" this column? I generally avoid going after Nilathak. His corpse explosion makes him too dangerous and, let's face it, the quest reward is... pathetic. As a rule, all my characters retreat when AD is cast and there are archers around. Watchman :) Signature'Anyone who isn't confused doesn't really know what's going on' > teleport-to-boss style MF has limited application. What else do you > have chalked up in the "don't do" this column? My fairly vanilla mf'ing HC barb doesn't poke his head into the Keep very much. It's not that he can't, it's just that the rewards aren't worth the effort/risk. Any assy I build will ALWAYS use shield/claw rather than dual claws, so to put in the correct form for the question, it would be "don't do a dual claw assy", I suppose. No character I play will stand toe up to a Moon Lord pack of any kind, aura enchanted or not. If they can spread them out without too much trouble maybe, but mostly it's "Homey don't play that way". About the only other thing I can think of is the Universal Avoidance of Nihlathak. Heh, my Azurewrath-equipped barb doesn't even mind wading into a pack of dolls--in Hell, mind, not NM. Speaking of which, I just remembered another "don't do this"--I play melee characters exclusively, and they "don't do" NM once they graduate. At all. Signaturechainbreaker |
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