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Well if you're a middle tree Defender, the only one you really have to fear is the explosive type as all the others can be dealt with via the status reflect battlecry. I guess we all have to stick with fierces when dealing with those polarity bastards. :?
In a related note: the Staff Fierce attack + range and damage bonuses = the anti-polarity setup of choice, especially if you're kiting.
Line em up and knock em down!
use the hammer, the knockback is super useful.
Also, I would like to thank SK for making the achievements in this game actually things that you would do in the course of playing the damn thing!
I've been playing commando in CO-OP and its a lot easier than solo, but ranged immune enemies are a pain in the ass. Even ruiners are kind of meh thanks to the -40% melee damage reduction.
On the other hand, I have a laser cannon, so its all good.
When you pull lots of mobs to one location.
As far as status effect enemies go: I'm a middle path Defender and I barely use it reflect debuffs battlecry. All it takes is recognizing it's a polarity and while you're sliding (or prior to sliding) hit him with a juggle then roll away from it. That's it.
The only time the reflect really comes in handy is versus multiple trolls (either ice beamers, ice mallets, or slow trolls) and versus the ghosts in World 4 who have the life drain. It's a quick 100% heal + godmode with the reflect debuff on
BTW, I completed one level 3 charm that creates an acid pool. Let me just say, UNDERRATED. The proc isn't all that common (I'm lucky for it to proc once a battle, usually it's every other). What it does is create a rather large pool right underneath you. Enemies that touch it seem to take ~2 - 3000 damage everytime it pulses (rough guess, it was 1-shotting the "foddor" undead). It lasts about 30 seconds if *nothing* touches it... but here's the trick: Stand behind the pool. Guys that touch it (and die) explode into another pool. I've literally proc'ed an acid pool and stood behind it while the pool got carried from one end of the screen to the other killing everything in it's path. It even kills those really beefy zombies pretty fast. I haven't managed to proc it on a boss/troll yet, but the flying fat guys seem to completely avoid it (Ghosts might too).
Oh, and the charm adds +1 to ALL my skills. Both my Defender tree and my Human tree. Working on another charm that heals me when I get hit but I still need 8000 undead kills
Herding is pulling lots of mobs to one location.
Kiting is simply backpeddling/running away while shooting a mob.
So you did get better at the game? I remember you worrying you wouldn't.
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Kiting is more about keeping mobs at range I think.
That sounds awesome, I finished my leech charm last night now I need 3900 50 hit combo kills to unlock my black hole of doom charm. God help me.
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Seriously. I don't play RPGs around my non-gamer friends because I'm generally embarrassed by the quality of the story and the dialogue. They wouldn't understand. This is a genre several steps removed from translations by people who don't actually speak English. What they're seeing here is progress. Plus it's hard to be self-righteous about crappy movies when others see the content of my hobby.
I've played through a few levels with my 50 Berserker and am now getting quite frustrated. I haven't found any epics, or really anything of value for level 50 - and given how much the difficulty ramps up around the last 5 levels, that means I'm getting absolutely destroyed. I can't even no-death the first level at this point. I was hoping to get an epic set with him, but I don't think I'll be able to put in the effort - I'll probably try out another class tonight. On the good side, I can now set it to autosalvage all but orange/red items, so I don't have endless loot to sort through at the end of a run.
I have mine set at blue right now, if only because I want to check some purples as they come in. I think 50 enemies you just have to watch some of the previous really nasty attacks (like a red laser aided missle barrage) because they went from annoying to fatal.
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What's it called when you drop everything and go into an Archer, er, Rocket Launcher killing frenzy?
Fucking archers :x
lol it's all good.
Aggro.
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I think that philosophy may be problematic.
I think its just the damage is higher at 50. I mean by that point you either know how to clean the fuckers out or you are a corpse.
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I gotta say though, DoT effects are just fucking ridiculous. A fire troll managed to DoT my Defender (and my Champion friend) and that DoT alone killed us both. It was ticking for something like 300+ damage. A single application of poison will also kill my Defender if I don't roll constantly or find health.
And I'm the lucky class with the highest HP and reflective status effects. I can't imagine playing this game with lower health/no status immunity (Bio/Def only -_-).
Oh yeah, it's also pretty silly how world 2 is so much harder than world 4... co-op or otherwise. World 2 has just LAYERS of polarities in it, it's insane.
That's what I liked. I'm not just rolling through smashing. I have to actually watch my ass or its valkerie time. Makes coming out of it more badass.
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Also Carbon and I rocked some shit as Bio / Defender last night. I was like a little charity case he kept giving loot to. In return I think I gave him...A pair of gloves.
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Car..bona?
Its too late... Nah it doesn't bug me. I'm working on making my defender a black hole laying motherfucker ready to roll at a moments notice.
I so hope we can take our level 50s to the sequel.
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Honestly its like playing a caster in AoC, sure you could do it, but its fucking boring compared to shanking fuckers.
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Yeah when I was playing with my flower power staff on my champion it was like I was neo from the second matrix movie bitches flying every which way.
Whoever thought "yeah enemies should get batted extreme distances in ragdoll" Get that man a fucking cigar.
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Yeah I think so - once I started playing a champion and bioengineer, I learned a little more about melee, rolling and handling different types of enemies. Also, I learned the importance of really focusing on applying just the right kind of runic enchantments on your stuff and being just generally anal about upgrading gear. To be honest, it's kind of a pain in the ass, but it strikes me as basically required if you don't want to be frustrated while playing the game.
I will say that the path to improvement in the game is not obvious. I mean - I knew I sucked at, say, Ninja Gaiden 2, but I also basically understood why and what I'd need to practice in order to get better. I really feel like I've only improved at 2H because of reading the forums and Dyack's posts.
I'll probably give Commando another shot once I get done with my Champ run. We'll see if any of what I've learned carries over.
I'm still adjusting to using a two hander, on my hammer and shield it was faster and easier to knock guys around, but the big two hand sword needs more frontal arcs from what I've seen. Getting surrounded with a two hander is a bad thing.
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You see, I'm actually Prince, and I do that kind of shit.
If only they would include a level range when searching or creating games!
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Oh I see... So you are truely an awful person.
Well I was hesistant to use two handed swords, but for the big troll fuckers they are awesome, swinging at their legs you'll take off their arm.
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...Damn, my Internet at home is down. I guess no TH or CC co-op tonight
Does anyone else have issues with the motions to kill trolls? I'll be holding all the way in the other direction and still get thrown off. Do you have to start pressing right as you start moving?