Epic failure's challenge!

[matrim]

I think I was 41 at that point but I had benefitted from the boosted exp from act 1 (half of it anyway, update came out as I had just cleared the western map of Oskahold). If I recall I was just over 1.6B at that point as well. I am nearly at the end of current content and sitting at 1.96B I believe. Good luck, careful on the Weaver, she's a doozy!

[phaze]

Bollocks. I totally forgot about Vincent's extra level.

Maybe Kjartan will get one later game to balance it out

[Zhivago]

1.618b end of e3. Great boss fight. Losing Selen and KJ made it very challenging to handle the Seer Lords. I'm actually kind of happy I got freed from my don't buy anything self challenge, or else I may have been chugging elixirs instead of health pots. Episode 4, here I come!

[phaze]

Great job! Ep 4 content is really fun with some stellar rewards and interesting battles.

It will take me some time to finish this party given various trips, but I look forward to posting my next score at closing the first tower.

[fallen]

Jul 27, 2016 12:10:16 GMT -5 Zhivago said:

1.618b end of e3. Great boss fight. Losing Selen and KJ made it very challenging to handle the Seer Lords. I'm actually kind of happy I got freed from my don't buy anything self challenge, or else I may have been chugging elixirs instead of health pots. Episode 4, here I come!

Great play! The fight definitely throws a curve ball every time!

[Zhivago]

Team down at 1.644b Ember Battleground. Extreme carelessness plus bad luck. KJ got targeted by a high damage necro lord for 3 attacks for 900+ and I hadn't healed him from the last battle. He would have survived had I healed him up as I normally always do.

To be honest, I was still a bit frustrated/disillusioned by playing up to that point without knowing about the gold/points cap and I was just going through the motions a bit. There's no reason my run should have ended there. Break time. Cheers!

[anrdaemon]

And here I was thinking of warning you that Ember BF would be a change similar to the storerooms. >.< Decided to not flood the topic. Damn.

[Zhivago]

Jul 28, 2016 18:39:47 GMT -5 anrdaemon said:

And here I was thinking of warning you that Ember BF would be a change similar to the storerooms. >.< Decided to not flood the topic. Damn.

It was very sloppy play on my part. I needed to take some time away rather than just rush through fights because of frustration.

[phaze]

Sorry to hear that zhivago. Player mistakes are the worst. I try to remind myself never to play with distractions.

I am working through CoD in the second tower. I forgot how terrifying the ranged damage is here. At lvl 42 the beefy necromancers do over 600 damage each shot. It makes Kincaid very nervous. I find dodge tanks to fall apart at this point of the game even with over 40 strong dodge and over 20 weak dodge. Skeleton accuracy is deadly.

In groups with necros and archer skeletons or towers, I have to play very slowly to draw enemies out in a controlled way. The ice heart bow is a godsend for doing this.

The unlooted tomb was awful for close quarter combat. And a poor loot drop to boot

[matrim]

The best thing I did in CoD was have the sneak slots vision spell levelled to 4. I never lost a stealth roll and on turn 1 I could spam it all over to make sure that there were no hidden towers or necros that could get their full round of shots on people. Tamilin also had +4 MP to make sure I could move in, reveal tons, then move back out of range.

[fallen]

Always good to take a break after the end of a Nightmare run. I've tried to start too many runs directly afterwards and they always seem to end badly in the Ratkin lair, as I am rushing it (still frustrated).

[phaze]

Lvl 4 farsight is great! Loving the utility.

Playing very cautiously. I've cleared half of CoD. Working in the western half now. Current score is about 1.55 billion. Should be well over 1.6 by time I finish CoD. I feel the score is good and well in range of matrim and zhivago.

Should finish by this weekend.

[phaze]

Finished CoD. 1.602 billion. A touch behind zhivago, but that will even out as I max my gold account. My inventory is stuffed.

Nearly had a death of Kincaid in the battle having forget to recast sure parry. Wraiths hit hard with two attacks at lvl 46. Thankfully, I have a high armor Kincaid and good hp.

It was a managed fight except for the skeleton archers and ranged second seer lord. A worst case turn could have killed Kincaid.

[fallen]

phaze - great play, and always exciting to hear that you are skirting along the edge of death still

[phaze]

I have completed exiting CoD and passed the camps.

I appreciate the change in pace from CoD. Golems are irritating but the reduced damage of all enemies makes for a nice breather in battle tenseness.

I am at about 1.66 billion and just headed north to clear the area and talk at Gholla outlook to finalize that quest. Then all the new content will be south. I plan to make a beeline for the monastery for that quest reward. I already know what item I will choose.

My Kincaid, all game blade wielder with SoS lvl 1 is building thrown and DS to hit the 4x4 block. After raising CF and FU, to increase his offense further, you can hit more targets or do more damage. FB is tempting but I believe the added flexibility of DS to hit the battlefield will give Kincaid more battlefield versatility.

I'll do a party write-up later to mention late game strategy.