jiansonz
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Re: Tournament: The Sword of Destiny
Actually, Nilly is much easier to handle in the current version than he was in v1.09, because both the range and the damage from his Corpse Explosions have been nerfed considerably. Back then, monsters had less life, but Nihlathak´s CEs actually did damage equal to 60-100% of the exploded monster´s life, and the range was insane. He could 1-hit you (well, unless you were a monstrous 4k+ life Barb/Druid ) by exploding corpses even from a bit off-screen. The ONLY ways you could safely beat him were these:
* Use up every corpse as soon as it formed. The runeword Black was the standard tool for non-necros. Quite convenient that it has 40% CB as well.
* If you had no CE available, you had to get your merc killed first. I am serious! Then you needed to lure out every monster and kill them on the other side of the "block" in front of his lair. The side corridors were not far enough away. Once he was down to fresh summons, you could start fighting Nilly, but as soon as he summoned an Ice Spawn, you had to flee before it mutated and exploded on you. Under no circumstances could you afford any corpses on the ground anywhere close to his lair. It was usually a nervous and frustrating fight, but very much possible back then as well.
For Marion and Jemali, I think at least 5 corpses formed during the fight, but Marion just made sure to get about half a screen away and Nilly would explode the corpse to hurt the tanking Jemali, while Marion was outside the explosion radius.
Taking on Nilly, in HC no less, takes some guts
Actually, Nilly is much easier to handle in the current version than he was in v1.09, because both the range and the damage from his Corpse Explosions have been nerfed considerably. Back then, monsters had less life, but Nihlathak´s CEs actually did damage equal to 60-100% of the exploded monster´s life, and the range was insane. He could 1-hit you (well, unless you were a monstrous 4k+ life Barb/Druid ) by exploding corpses even from a bit off-screen. The ONLY ways you could safely beat him were these:
* Use up every corpse as soon as it formed. The runeword Black was the standard tool for non-necros. Quite convenient that it has 40% CB as well.
* If you had no CE available, you had to get your merc killed first. I am serious! Then you needed to lure out every monster and kill them on the other side of the "block" in front of his lair. The side corridors were not far enough away. Once he was down to fresh summons, you could start fighting Nilly, but as soon as he summoned an Ice Spawn, you had to flee before it mutated and exploded on you. Under no circumstances could you afford any corpses on the ground anywhere close to his lair. It was usually a nervous and frustrating fight, but very much possible back then as well.
For Marion and Jemali, I think at least 5 corpses formed during the fight, but Marion just made sure to get about half a screen away and Nilly would explode the corpse to hurt the tanking Jemali, while Marion was outside the explosion radius.