The Big Bad Wizard

[wyatt]

I’m the big, bad wizard your mother told you about...

I say that a lot when smacking trolls in nightmare w/Kjartan as he’s my main melee dps, followed by Vraes then Kyera. He was my fist character to reach 100, then 200 points in a single hit. That said, Tamilin *IS* my dps. She does 80-85% of the group’s total most turns, sometimes more.

I’d like to do spell damage, but it’s so dang tough just to stay alive. I must have played Ep.1 10-15 times on nightmare before making it to the bridge. Another 2-3 times to get part way through Ep.2 before biting it.

The last time I bit it, I took an 18 month break to rethink things...

I rebuilt my team and tried again... When Kjartan got down to 6hp in two hits in the Underforge, I again did a re-think. I then spent 14 Bloodstones to get ready for the Vurnak fight...

When I wrapped up Ep.2, I went to revisit a zone off of Granthorn. Trolls almost got me... Then SIX bloody Kobolds almost gacked my group. That was the last straw... I really obsessed over and over over and then respeced Vraes & Kyera.

Every last character is now a tank, provided I keep things debuffed.

Vraes and Kyera usually tied for melee defense, barring armor (Vraes usually +40-50 higher)
Kjartan is equally balanced for melee and ranged (his ranged is better than Kyera’s and Vraes’)
Tamilin is a ranged defense god equal to Vraes, but pulls the lowest melee defense

The toughest fights have been:

The Baron (one char down to 7hp)
Gholla Outlook
Vurnak (just the start... it got pretty easy by the end)
The Krete onslaught (I respeced just before that fight)
The Cult’s HQ, the first level really caught me flat footed.
Orc Lord Kriton... that was a 3.5h fight tonight. I went through 40-50 potions. Without my team being mega tanky I might have been running about the map for 8-10 hours or just dead.

And random Kobold encounters... I treat them with the utmost respect. Yet to do Craig Peak due to the group of Kobolds that almost got me last time.

Currently #7 on the board. The Wolf Den or Craig Peak is next.

[fallen]

Tread carefully, you're climbing the ranks! Love the battle reports, highlights of hardest fights and the quick look at character builds.

[wyatt]

Fought the Wolf Lord...

I went on the right as it seemed more spread out/room to run.
The fight itself was only 90 minutes, but I came much closer to biting it than the Lord Kriton fight.

At the peak, I had 24-25 baddies on me (w/3+ shaman)
I made a push to kill all the shaman, got one and almost another, but many debuffs wore off at the same time...
One round later, two characters had been knocked to less than 20% health with me hoping/praying that they didn’t get hit again as archers and casters and melee kept firing off. I was yelling at the screen, bloody hubris thinking I could get all the shaman in a few rounds...

Thankfully, no one bit it. We ran back about 18-20 more squares, and then started the long grind to try to kill the shaman. This time it was easy-peasy, just a grind barring one tight moment when the group on the left started adding as we got closer. Finally, the Wolf Lord was dead and we looted the place.

Since then, I’ve started the Darkbloom Quest and am in the swamps.

Just pulled into position #6, too (#5 is a LONG ways off)

[wyatt]

Sea Road got Tamalin

Kreten Chieftain debuffed both AP buffs at the same time and he could have hit Kyera, Vraes or her 3x, but he went all 3 on her.

I’ll try another run down the road with what I learned. (She had the weakest melee defense)

[drspendlove]

To be clear, you're using Staff boy in melee?

[wyatt]

Yeah, often.
Kjartan had consistently the best landing percentage and best damage on tougher opponents. (Kjartan had 9s +25)
On softer targets, Vraes and Kyera would out perform, but on the tougher ones it was miss, miss, miss.

That said, restarting as Tamalin bit it.

[drspendlove]

How is that highest damage possible? He has 0 talents for melee attacks.

[wyatt]

Crit, negative armor value due debuffs and +38 lighting damage on the staff. I’m guess what he was fighting was susceptible to lightning damage, too, but I wasn’t paying attention.