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Originally posted by scwormy on Dec 30, 2006:
Guardian Tanis
This is guardian #2 for me a fire summoner druid based upon AE's guide. The first was Raistlin, a Fishymancer. Being an old necro, he wanted power, but not publicity, so I didn't post anything about his success.
Tanis was based almost entirely upon AE's guide. He was completely untwinked, single pass and of course hard core.
He was at level 81 when he bested Baal with approximately 2100 Life. This character could have entered almost any tournament you can imagine. As indicated, he was untwinked, single pass, two skill trees and only used a single Set / Unique (Eye of Etlich), used one Runeword (Lore).
He skill points consisted of
Elemental:
1 Firestorm
20 Volcano (main skill),
20 Fissure,
16 Molton Bolder
Summoning:
1 Raven
1 Poison Creeper
10 Oak Sage
1 Spirit Wolf
20 Dire Wolf
1 Grizzly
He only had a total of +2 all skills, and his weapon was +2 Elemental Skills. That club was the best item I was able to gamble. Everything else was items consisting of +resists and +life. Charms were +resists and +skills.
He was an extremely safe character to play with only one NDE. This happened to occur against Hell Baal. Baal had approximately 1-2% of his life remaining when he doublicated himself right beside me, and cast his appendiges while I was cornered. This quickly took out my oak sage and brought my life down to a very low level. I felt my heart jump up to my throat, but I was able to open my inventory and TP out. I regrouped, reentered his lair and was able to get out of the situation. The entire battle lasted approximately an hour and a half - my wife had been downstairs and at 10:50 I was facing wave three of Baal's minions, I said I'd be up in about 20 minutes or so...it was 12:45 when I went upstairs. Slightly longer than my 4-5 minute (P8/P3) Baal runs I'm used to in SC using my Blizzballer.
None of the other battles were close to this length. I expected Lister to be more difficult, but by taking on two or three at a time, the battle was pretty easy. The ancients weren't bad. I rerolled them a couple of times as they were cursed, LE or all three were FI. My merc didn't last all that long, but the Grizzly just tanked them and slowly burned them to a crisp.
Didn't find any Elite S/U's the entire time. I did find two nice runes though Um from the Countess and Um from Hell Hellforge (don't remember the NM Hellforge).
The best two items I found were skill charms:
Captains GC of Vita (+40) rerolled and
Lion Branded GC of Sustanence (+35) found
Also found a Goldstrike Arch (best item found).
This definately wasn't the fastest character I've ever played (as can be determined from the 90 minute Baal battle on P1), but he was safe. Gloams weren't a problem as I was able to cast volcano under them and they were sent into hit recovery.
Basic playstyle was to cast Oak Sage, three wolves and a Solar Creeper (to eat corpses - skill attained from Druid Pelt containing Lore). From there, slowly advance, have the wolves and merc engage a group of monsters and burn. I had a wand of lower resist on switch but rarely used it. Used it against the ancients and Baal, but other than that only used it about 10-20 times the rest of the game.
Tanis played Normal on P8, NM on P5 and Hell on P1.
I haven't determined which character I'm going to take through Hell yet, but hopefully I'll have another successful D&D character to report in another month or so. I still play SC a lot as well, so getting characters through quickly isn't my goal.
Guardian Tanis
This is guardian #2 for me a fire summoner druid based upon AE's guide. The first was Raistlin, a Fishymancer. Being an old necro, he wanted power, but not publicity, so I didn't post anything about his success.
Tanis was based almost entirely upon AE's guide. He was completely untwinked, single pass and of course hard core.
He was at level 81 when he bested Baal with approximately 2100 Life. This character could have entered almost any tournament you can imagine. As indicated, he was untwinked, single pass, two skill trees and only used a single Set / Unique (Eye of Etlich), used one Runeword (Lore).
He skill points consisted of
Elemental:
1 Firestorm
20 Volcano (main skill),
20 Fissure,
16 Molton Bolder
Summoning:
1 Raven
1 Poison Creeper
10 Oak Sage
1 Spirit Wolf
20 Dire Wolf
1 Grizzly
He only had a total of +2 all skills, and his weapon was +2 Elemental Skills. That club was the best item I was able to gamble. Everything else was items consisting of +resists and +life. Charms were +resists and +skills.
He was an extremely safe character to play with only one NDE. This happened to occur against Hell Baal. Baal had approximately 1-2% of his life remaining when he doublicated himself right beside me, and cast his appendiges while I was cornered. This quickly took out my oak sage and brought my life down to a very low level. I felt my heart jump up to my throat, but I was able to open my inventory and TP out. I regrouped, reentered his lair and was able to get out of the situation. The entire battle lasted approximately an hour and a half - my wife had been downstairs and at 10:50 I was facing wave three of Baal's minions, I said I'd be up in about 20 minutes or so...it was 12:45 when I went upstairs. Slightly longer than my 4-5 minute (P8/P3) Baal runs I'm used to in SC using my Blizzballer.
None of the other battles were close to this length. I expected Lister to be more difficult, but by taking on two or three at a time, the battle was pretty easy. The ancients weren't bad. I rerolled them a couple of times as they were cursed, LE or all three were FI. My merc didn't last all that long, but the Grizzly just tanked them and slowly burned them to a crisp.
Didn't find any Elite S/U's the entire time. I did find two nice runes though Um from the Countess and Um from Hell Hellforge (don't remember the NM Hellforge).
The best two items I found were skill charms:
Captains GC of Vita (+40) rerolled and
Lion Branded GC of Sustanence (+35) found
Also found a Goldstrike Arch (best item found).
This definately wasn't the fastest character I've ever played (as can be determined from the 90 minute Baal battle on P1), but he was safe. Gloams weren't a problem as I was able to cast volcano under them and they were sent into hit recovery.
Basic playstyle was to cast Oak Sage, three wolves and a Solar Creeper (to eat corpses - skill attained from Druid Pelt containing Lore). From there, slowly advance, have the wolves and merc engage a group of monsters and burn. I had a wand of lower resist on switch but rarely used it. Used it against the ancients and Baal, but other than that only used it about 10-20 times the rest of the game.
Tanis played Normal on P8, NM on P5 and Hell on P1.
I haven't determined which character I'm going to take through Hell yet, but hopefully I'll have another successful D&D character to report in another month or so. I still play SC a lot as well, so getting characters through quickly isn't my goal.