Matriarch Marael the Vegasorc

ricrestoni

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Matriarch Marael the Vegasorc

Last Thursday she killed Hell Baal and got her mat status. Plain old good meteorb, at level 80, doing her 10k Meteor and her 500ish frozen Orb. The game was very easy with her, so that i didn't twink her all the way. And knowing how good she is supposed to be at MFing, I thought she would haldle herself well enough without best possible equipment.

Her life is in the 900s, her mana in the 700s. She equipped an Oculus with a Stoemshield, 2 SoJs, Maras, Magefist, SoE, Shako, Skulders, War Travelers, some skillers, a Gheeds and resist charms.

Her best find was a P&B skiller with +4 max damage.

Conclusions:

Static Field is teh Baal murderer, really, taking half his life has never been so fast. Fantastic also against ancients, frenzitaurs, etc.

She was a little too micromanaging to my taste. I don't like to choose which of the 4 skills better suits me every second of the game. As I said, FO was on left, and the right button alternated between meteor, fireball, teleport and static field.

Her merc was a Might Guard with default reapers/gaze/shaft material.

I found out other pretty important things:

- I don't like cookie cutters.
- Casters are not nearly as fun as melee.
- There are more than just a couple fire/cold immunes. Countess included.
- Raise fireball first, then fire mastery.

She didn't die at all. Most notable NDE was against a pack of champion frenzitaurs, which promptly massacrated my merc and chased me in a way that teleport was not fast enough to escape. Also, it was in the beginning of a level, so teleporting at random would wake up other hordes. Pretty tactical battle!

That is it, the 6th of my 7 pat/mat project. Now, as I promised, to barbs!
 
Congrats on the Mat, ric! :clap:

- I don't like cookie cutters.
- Casters are not nearly as fun as melee.
- There are more than just a couple fire/cold immunes. Countess included.
- Raise fireball first, then fire mastery.

Yeah, I like melee characters 10x better than casters, but for MFing a Sorc has always been more safe for me, so that's why my first 1.10 char is a Sorc. Can't wait to find some good stuff and start up a melee char, though.

Also, Countess is always dual-immune, which is just lovely for my rune runs. :uhhuh: But that's why I gave my merc some CB and a Viperfork.

And for raising Fireball first, I maxed FM first myself (before I even had any cold skills actually, which wasn't really the best idea :p ) because they each gave a sizable boost in damage but FM didn't require any more mana cost. *shrugs*

As for not dying, well, that's one thing you have over me. My sorc has died quite a few times, usually on either a combo boss pack of archers (Might + Extra Strong + Cursed = Dead) and a couple of FE deaths were I didn't see that I was standing near a boss.

Ah well, enough about my char, this is your thread! Congrats again ric! :thumbsup:

~Wolfgang
 
ricrestoni said:
I found out other pretty important things:

- I don't like cookie cutters.
- Casters are not nearly as fun as melee.
- There are more than just a couple fire/cold immunes. Countess included.
- Raise fireball first, then fire mastery.
Congratulations!

Oh yeah, I totally agree with the things you noticed!

I played like 5 sorcs or something until now. It was the only char I ever played for a longer time than to lvl 30 or something. I loved sorcs all the way, but now in 1.10 I really like melee chars better. I have played sorcs too often. Atm my favoure char is the barbarian. :) I have disapproached "cookie-cutters" aswell. With them I mean hammerdin, blizzard sorc, javazon and so on. These are fast killers, but they have only one element if build after one of those dozen guides. And hammerdins are just boring. Not the fact that they can kill anything and can kill fast, I mean just the skill... And yes, I always max the attack first and then the mastery. If you get the mastery at lvl 30, put 1 point into it and let +skills do it until you maxed the attack spell, because if the base damage isn't high, a procentual increase won't do that much...

Congratulations! :thumbsup:
 
Congratulations !

I, too agree with you about the melee builds being the funnest. I only really enjoy sorcs for MFing but except for that Paladins and Necromancers who get in the action really do it for me :)

Goodluck with your 7th pat :) I expect to see a thread in 2 weeks :D
 
congratulations. what type of barb you going for?
 
Congratz on the Mat!

And casters are better than melee and I love cookie cutters!
 
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