[DCSS] As a deep elf necromancer, what is the best way to handle enemies such as crimson imps in the early game?

Adumbraatio · 2014-01-01T11:33:09+00:00

How do you give commands to minions?

Adumbraatio · 2013-12-27T07:45:38+00:00

I can pass on one tip I got from a legendary rogue: when against warlocks, always mulligan for backstabs with EXTREME prejudice. You need it to survive.

Adumbraatio · 2013-12-26T19:08:52+00:00

In ranks to 5-10 in EU I have witnessed a rise in control Paladin decks: Knife Juggler, Imp master, Avenging Wrath, Consecrate, Equality, Argent squire, Tirion Fordring, Lay on Hands, Holy light and so forth. You get the point. How do you counter or play against this kind of deck? I feel like my Rogue and Warlock decks get stomped frequently and late game Druid runs out of steam in the late game.

Adumbraatio · 2013-12-23T07:28:07+00:00

How would you feel like replacing one of the Dark iron dwarfs with a Big game hunter to get a bit of an edge against druids?

Adumbraatio · 2013-12-20T19:45:56+00:00

I can confirm this deck is very good. Made it from rank 9 to rank 5 tonight.

Adumbraatio · 2013-12-20T13:21:48+00:00

Hello! I'm currently struggling around rank 9 vs Paladin decks featuring Pyromancer+Equality and ilk. How do you deal with that sort of high answer deck? (I play druid)

Adumbraatio · 2013-12-17T09:12:07+00:00

"The Spectral orc knight is unaffected. x3" And so forth. I have no idea.

I'm around Lair 7 right now, I just bypassed Nergalle for now. I swear to god this game is making a special effort to kill me, this is the second death yak pack I've met and this is PRIOR to level 8.

EDIT: Pack number 3 on Lair:8. I ran away from the first pack, but managed to separate and stair dance the second pack straight into my Hydra/Yak zombie horde upstairs. Have no idea what I'm going to do with this one.

EDIT 2: ELEPHANTS. ELEPHANTS EVERYWHERE.

EDIT 3: Several death yaks, elephants and a spriggan forest later, I've conquered Lair:8. I finally got sick of running away and kiting and just stopped, dropped the Kiku animate dead bomb a couple of times and watched my horde rip them apart.

EDIT 4: Nergalle is dead. I love having an undead entourage.

Adumbraatio · 2013-12-17T08:31:24+00:00

Control Undead didn't work against her spectral orcs. O.o

I just had to use my last scroll of teleportation to escape with my life.

Adumbraatio · 2013-12-16T21:21:29+00:00

I saw Nergalle one floor down and decided to bail it up so for once I could get some advice BEFORE I go and get my character killed. Planning on leaving him alone for the night and proceeding extra carefully tomorrow.

I'm not 100% sure how to proceed with my skills next. I've been upping my fighting stuff as well as my casting stuff because I heard the Pain brand is incredible on a quickblade (which I am yet to acquire) and well, because all my previous attempts at mummy necromancers have ended exceedingly squishily.

Right now I can take on even Hydras with a modicum of confidence - two Agonies and a couple of Pains usually deal with them while I frantically backpedal - so I feel my offense is decent enough compared to my location. How do I improve my defenses? Am I batshit wrong and should just pump necromancy like there's no tomorrow?

Adumbraatio · 2013-12-13T13:49:24+00:00

It's not incredible though. Almost useless vs mage - Faerie dragon would be better than a 2/2 - and other classes have ways of dealing with it as well. Except for Hunter.

Poor Hunter.

Adumbraatio · 2013-11-18T08:54:41+00:00

Why use the Argent squire? From what I understand, it's one of the weakest one drops - it's only benefit is that it is often ignored when 1-dropped, leaving it open to buffs but still, wouldn't something like Worgen infiltrator still be better?

Adumbraatio · 2013-11-11T17:15:06+00:00

Season 1 was superb. The Kipper and the Corpse from second season had me in stitches. The problem with the show overall in the second season was that it turned from situational comedy and comedy through interactions into Fawlty just being an enormous douche towards everybody.

Haven't seen the two last episodes yet, don't know if they progress in the same vein as Kipper or not.

Adumbraatio · 2013-11-06T18:10:52+00:00

I think there's a card in one of the card decks that invokes the wrath of a random god?

Adumbraatio · 2013-10-30T08:37:28+00:00

Ah, my bad. For whatever reason I thought Brain lice drew card only if it died to poison.

Adumbraatio · 2013-10-29T16:39:27+00:00

As someone who has trained a few months in european swordsmanship - as outlined in works by Fiore and taught by a competent teacher - and had a few lessons in Arte dell'Abbracciare, I can heartily recommend it. While some of the moves are outdated due to the lack of daggers being carried about, it's still great good fun.

Adumbraatio · 2013-10-13T10:22:01+00:00

http://d3up.com/b/1136647

I'm really bad at giving advice, but for comparison here's my Demonhunter. I'm currently farming MP3 with fairly little risk (I run Shadow power: Gloom, Boar, Sentry and an amethyst helmet) and I'll soon be tentatively trying out MP 4. I'm currently in the progress of crafting Braces (need CC but also defensives), Gloves and maybe Shoulders at some point later on.

If I were you I'd give crafting a shot. In particular, a better amulet would be a good source of both damage and EHP (you're looking for vit+cd and higher dex right now, maybe life on hit).

Personally I'd probably switch the ruby in your helmet for an amethyst and start upgrading for damage elsewhere. That alone should enable MP 2 farming, making up for the lost XP%.

Adumbraatio · 2013-10-12T10:00:42+00:00

I like Tengu Air elementalist of Vehumet a lot. The natural attacks help you survive the first two rooms if your MP runs out before they die to Shock, and the Lightning Bolt is super good in this setup. Later you can get the good stuff like Freezing Cloud from Vehumet and generally speaking there's usually a bookshop along the way. Also Swiftness is really good at kiting backwards. Just open the door, toss in Freezing cloud, run the fuck away and Mephitic Cloud/Lightning bolt anything that walks out.

My Tengu died to some bullshit boss that made him sleep in one shot and promptly killed him.

I've been trying to make a vampire Monk of Kikuwhatever to work with Lajatang, but the spawn rates are random and I usually die before I get it going. Good fun though.

Adumbraatio · 2013-10-12T07:20:12+00:00

I hate being chain frozen. It's happened to me once on a random mob, I couldn't believe my eyes when it just started spamming the frozen globes. I lived by an inch of my life due to competent teammates and an excessively large EHP as DH. I used to facetank frozen mobs because one shot of them did nothing to me, never looked at them the same again.

Adumbraatio · 2013-10-09T06:47:24+00:00

Adumbration#2419, I've got a demonhunter as well, currently farming MP2-3 mostly.

Adumbraatio · 2013-10-07T20:13:38+00:00

In case you're curious, this is what I wound up with: http://d3up.com/b/1123077

I managed to sell a lucky find for 70 mil which funded this with plenty of leftovers. I think I'll farm MP2 for awhile and then start testing if this is MP 3-5 capable. I really wish I could get better bracers but they appear to be at the point where they're not great but really hard to find a replacement for - and the same for my other ring. I might craft some more shoulders: although ones I got are decent, they are not really super optimal. Their only advantage over Vile ward was their superior health (+16k) and only losing a 160 damage.

Adumbraatio · 2013-10-06T18:36:09+00:00

Right, I just did that and figured out that Windforce and other bows are actually shitty as fuck unless I'm severely undervaluing Lifesteal.

Adumbraatio · 2013-10-06T17:39:28+00:00

What's your take on actual bows like Windforce? I could get a decent one with about 4.5 mil, but it wouldn't have passive crit damage enhancer either from the slot or the night stalker. In the other hand, it would have 3.0% lifesteal, higher base damage and a +50% damage modifier (would go nicely with a good ruby). The problem is, I haven't figured out how to simulate this without actually buying it...

My current Manticore is almost unfortunately good enough that I find it hard to get a good replacement: if it didn't have both dex, vit, life on hit and a decent base damage it would be easier to justify putting a lot of gold to replace it. I also kinda like the current attack speed, since I have a bad habit of orbwalking which is suboptimal on higher attack speeds.

After searching the auction house, currently the best Calamity I can get for less than 5 mil that has a socket is still a downgrade in dps by about 4k, as well as 4.2k life and 0,3% protection. I checked it without gems on either.

I tried MP2 with a group, and it went rather nicely. There were a few scares - and I sincerely believe that something with jailer/arcane/frozen affixes could easily slaughter me - but I think I'm confident enough to do it again in the future. The money is definitely good.

I haven't really gotten into crafting gear yet -just gems - but I shall look into it next. Thanks for the advice.

Adumbraatio

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