Finally I got to play a little! LiliVon dashed through the Cold Plains to the Stony Field, and began walking, with an NDE when Rakanishu and several of his minions were awakened by the moron while I was so carefully holding the shift key and firing arrows toward the Standing Stones. Run, run, to the already-cleared safe areas, and moron manages to die ... open inventory as I don't have an in-belt TP scroll ... last possible corner, click and whew! Safely in town. TP will land me back in their midst, but running again through Cold Plains might get monsters on my tail ... okay, switch to melee and TP and RUN. Somehow we got them into one of those barricades so I could switch back to my gemmed bow and plink away, avoiding the lightning, and all was easy from there on out.
The passage entry into the Dark Wood was right by the entrance to the Black Marsh, so I picked up the Black Marsh WP and ventured back into the Dark Wood, only to lose moron completely. Had to return to the WP and go back to town for her to return to my side. NO clue where she got stuck. We very nearly full-cleared the Dark Wood before finding Treehead Woodfist, but luckily LiliVon hit L12 and her main skill, Blaze, so it was just a zig-zagging layering of Blazing to defeat him and his hasty sidekicks, no bow or scimitar needed.
Luckily, we weren't swarmed in Tristram while rescuing Cain, so after going back to town and getting the insta-sell ring, we cleared the place counter-clockwise and saved Wirt's Leg for cows (should we live so long). Then, onward to finish full-clearing the Passage, and then a quick dash back into the Cold Plains, through everyone who had followed us on the way to the Stony Field, to get Coldcrow's lair. Someone down there dropped a magic ring with fire resist, so LiliVon has her first piece of jewelry. She's now only missing a second ring, ammy, and hat. Everything up to the Black Marsh WP is now full-cleared on p/8 ... I hoped to get this far, but had my doubts.
I've never Walked so much in a game before. I'm more cautious than I've ever been. My only other HC character had minions (a druid in the All Alone tourney) and my sorcs have always been able to utilize a spell or two but now at L15, Blaze is sustainable at L3 without serious mana problems. The strategy is to walk carefully until someone wakes up. If a ranged-stationary foe, draw back and plink away with the bow. If a melee foe, right-click
Blaze and zig-zag back the way I came, trying to draw them into a narrow area or encircle them, switching to the melee gear just in case I need to whack someone who gets too close, watching the life bulb and switching to the bow with the leech if it gets below 2/3 full. It seems that walking with Blaze is more effective than running. I can lay a denser area of flame. I'm really going to need the practice with Blaze, as this will be my main killing skill other than multi-element-plus-leech bow or pure flame melee until I a) find a better melee weapon or b) pass L50 when I can pick up a secondary and as-yet-undecided skill.
LiliVon
L15
5 WP =5
3 quests = 6
11 points
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[highlight]ALIVE[/highlight]
[U]Score Character Class Forum Name Level Act WP [/U]
112 Clobber Barbarian Wolron 48 A1 NM Cold Plains
108 Paul Druid Naab 46 A1 NM Rogue Encampment
66 BrassMonkey Paladin waflob 32 A4 Panda. Fort.
51 Nerullan Necromancer Sir Lister of Smeg 29 A3 Lower Kurast
50 VitaForTheWeak Amazon Zarfen 20 A3 Flayer dungeon
43 OneTrackSkunk Necro Skunkbelly 25 A3 Kurast Docks
41 mad_hatter Amazon skoolbus 25 A3 Kurast Docks
32 PosadnutaAma Amazon Kugel 20 A2 Lut Gholein
27 Ned Paladin 'poops 23 A2 Dry Hills/Hall of Dead
25 Karmesha Amazon moiselvus 21 A2 sewers lvl 2
25 Conny Paladin Docturnal 19 A2 Sewers lvl 2
22 Mercury Amazon Mursilis 20 A2 Lut Gholein
13 Bearly_Skilled Druid Saucy 16 A1 Black Marsh
11 HoldYourColour Assassin Tartanasia 15 A1 Black Marsh
11 LiliVon Sorceress TrubbaNot 15 A1 Black Marsh
10 DeltaO Amazon Wolron 15 A1 Black Marsh
8 Obsessive Assassin OneFromBeyond 14 A1 Dark Woods
7 No_Sushi Sorceress Grisu 12 A1 Stony Field
1 Clean_Hands Assassin JoeBruce 1 A1 Rogue Camp
1 Infraction Paladin PsychoPath 1 A1 Rogue Camp
1 Undertow Necro Spatacula 1 A1 Rogue Camp
[highlight]DEAD/RETIRED[/highlight]
[U]Score Character Class Forum Name Level Act WP [/U]
59 OCD Paladin pwangsta 30 A3 Durance L2
32 FoulKrack Amazon Saucy 20 A2 Lost City
23 Ungar Barbarian pwangsta 19 A2 Sewers L2
22 Scorn Druid Spatacula 20 A2 Lut Gholein
19 ObsessDeeds Amazon EJB 19 A1 Cat LvL 2
14 StaticBabe Sorceress Quickdeath 17 A1 Outer Cloister
[highlight]OBSESSIONS[/highlight]
[U]Character C.Type Element Attribute Skill 1 Skill 2 Skill 3[/U]
BrassMonkey Paladin
Clean_Hands Assassin
Clobber Barb Fire Vitality Mace Mast Berzerk ?
Conny Paladin
DeltaO Amazon Cold Vitality Jab Straf Valkyrie
FoulKrack Zon
HoldYourColour Assassin Cold Vitality BOS Blade Fury ?
Infraction Paladin
Karmesha Amazon Lightning Vitality Valkyrie - -
LiliVon Sorceress Fire Vitality Blaze - -
Mad_hatter Amazon Lightning Dex Strafe - -
Ned Paladin Fire Strength Charge
Nerullan Necro Poison Vitality Raise Skel ? ?
No_Sushi Sorceress Cold Vitality Firewall
ObsessDeeds Amazon Lightning Dexterity Multishot - -
Obsessive Assassin Lightning Vitality Dragon Talon ? ?
OCD Paladin Lightning Vitality Holy Shock ? ?
OneTrackSkunk Necro Poison Dexterity Skeletal Mage
Paul Druid
Undertow Necro Fire Vitality Iron Maiden
VitaForTheWea Amazon Lightning Dexterity Magic Arrow Valkyrie -
Mercury Amazon Lightning Vitality Plague Javelin