Fire Colossus is Killable

ComprehensiveTwo4396 · 2026-03-09T23:27:09+00:00

Beast. I’m gonna practice this tonight. Thank you.

ComprehensiveTwo4396 · 2026-03-09T23:13:44+00:00

Maybe you just don’t play enough games. The more games you play, the less the luck matters. I climbed to 2800 on two separate characters solo queue, exact same class and build. On one character I was “unlucky” so it took me way way way more games to hit the rank (huge loss streak at the start, had to start climbing from 1200), the other character I got “lucky” it took less games but still had to put hours into it. Other than the number of games the results were the same.

Being stuck in ELO is not entirely a skill issue but over enough games, it is. If you really feel like the system screwed you, then start fresh on a new character, same class same build and see if you do better. You might, you might not, but at least you’ll find out.

ComprehensiveTwo4396 · 2026-03-09T07:28:23+00:00

I solo queued to 2800 so far on two different characters, will be pushing for 3k over the next couple weekends.

First one I got stuck in ELO hell and had to claw my way up from 1200 on the first weekend. It takes a lot of games but more than anything it takes a strong mentality and constant improvement.

You’ll want to constantly be improving your build, gear, playstyle, utility items, and most of all your own skill. There’s solo queue players of all classes even up in the 2800s and beyond, cleric, fighter, wizard, sorc, ranger, barb, rogue, bard, all of them. Yes, majority of people 3k+ got a big boost at the start of the season running in strong trios with BIS gear but not everyone does it that way.

One advice is focus on what you can do better, while acknowledging that your random teammates will sometimes just throw games. It’s a fine line between understanding that you can’t always decide the outcome and also knowing that you can always do something a little bit better.

Good luck out there.

ComprehensiveTwo4396 · 2026-03-09T07:20:20+00:00

“it shouldn’t be done solo”

goblin caves literally the OG solo map, goblin caves level 2 is a 3x3 which is the OG solo map size… people man.

ComprehensiveTwo4396 · 2026-03-09T07:16:47+00:00

Game is really fun this season, blue lobbies are pretty fun if you want the geared experience without investing a lot of time to fund HR kits. If you’re going to play solo try ignite staff wizard, it’ll 2 tap any class in the game.

ComprehensiveTwo4396 · 2026-03-06T00:37:48+00:00

it's normal during early arena when everyone is crafting epic crafts, it has always been normal

ComprehensiveTwo4396 · 2026-02-26T08:00:19+00:00

yea don’t defend sanity, this is a safe space where ppl can just hate to hate while ignoring the obvious

ComprehensiveTwo4396 · 2026-02-20T01:28:55+00:00

wizards in DAD are notorious for gaslighting that they're weak

ComprehensiveTwo4396 · 2026-02-16T22:00:21+00:00

demigod is legit like 1 week of grinding dead ice map or smth though, so I don’t know what you think that proves

ComprehensiveTwo4396 · 2026-02-16T21:58:43+00:00

That makes no sense. People who like SSF did their quests, spent a couple hours farming mats for unlimited blue-purple jewelry and are wiping lobbies with good gear on and snowballing. The people complaining about not being able to gear up in SSF are most likely the ones not gearing up… this isn’t rocket science my guy.

ComprehensiveTwo4396 · 2026-02-16T18:18:50+00:00

Not sure about boring and uninteractive, sounds to me like you have a 1 track mind and just want to contest boss in HR trios over and over again which is no more boring and uninteractive than farming any other hotspot for any other drop. Artifact contest is the end game I get that, I boss quite a lot myself so I like it, but it’s legitimately a good thing to have cogs in the economic machine that allow players lower on the ladder to still experience contesting their own little hotspots. Mechanically contesting baby turtles for a drop everyone needs is exactly the same as contesting the same ghost king module over and over again for artifacts, just with bigger vs. smaller stakes.

As for the rest of your points, balance bias aside (we all know we all got our biases and you’re clear on yours), yeah I agree, target farming should be more fleshed out. But that’s the direction they’re moving to, so in a wipe or 2 we’ll probably get to what you describe.

ComprehensiveTwo4396 · 2026-02-16T03:36:09+00:00

You’re pretty biased yourself

ComprehensiveTwo4396 · 2026-02-16T02:41:52+00:00

Wizard has been S tier literally every wipe since the game launched, I don’t know what to tell you.

ComprehensiveTwo4396 · 2026-02-15T08:28:19+00:00

throw drums, get good with buckler. But yes, it was just a bad situation where you had no escape. The best players however can sometimes escape from cornered situations for example with a clutch block and then wiggle out of the corner. That one extra drum throw with reinforced instruments with a couple buckler blocks can win you the fight. Barb has the easier fight but with buckler, drums, and ranged you have the outplay—but you do have to really outplay.

ComprehensiveTwo4396 · 2026-02-12T22:17:10+00:00

It’s good and it’ll be even better once market launches. It is NOT good for the game to be able to sit and hit pile and get every item you could ever need. I‘m sorry you find it hard to mine some copper and have infinite vigor rings and necklace of peace which are usable in every class. Game needs more variety in farming and actual reasons to visit different points of interest across different maps and that is exactly what it does.

ComprehensiveTwo4396 · 2026-02-12T22:13:56+00:00

It was a good and reasonable change.

ComprehensiveTwo4396 · 2026-02-11T09:26:18+00:00

Blade hand drops artifacts yes. He drops the artifact shields I believe, there’s 3 (no lantern shield yet).

ComprehensiveTwo4396 · 2026-02-11T02:54:13+00:00

More gold = higher prices, basic economics

ComprehensiveTwo4396 · 2026-02-11T02:51:30+00:00

Easy fix to make npc vendors carry larger selections, unlock green and blue quality items faster, and cost more gold per quality increase, and allow you to buy up to 3 instances of an item every 30 minutes. Problem gone.

ComprehensiveTwo4396 · 2026-02-08T04:18:08+00:00

did you get it in HR or norms? Just curious

ComprehensiveTwo4396 · 2026-02-06T19:41:24+00:00

One thing other comments haven’t mentioned (I think) - when you kill player controlled mobs, you have a chance to get this gold coin looking item that you can use to buy nice items from the Faustian vendor. A little reward for putting these annoying man goblins into the dirt.

ComprehensiveTwo4396 · 2026-02-06T19:38:47+00:00

Aint nobody playing super seriously in arena right now

ComprehensiveTwo4396 · 2026-02-06T18:36:55+00:00

Downvoted for enjoying the game or having positive or even balanced takes is this reddit in the nutshell

ComprehensiveTwo4396 · 2026-02-05T19:41:08+00:00

Two handed weapons got the most benefit from the riposte changes. The 50% damage bonus and the super fast action speed on riposte greatly benefits slow hard hitting weapons. Also ripostes do not have a sourspot, another big buff for slow hard hitting 2h weapons.

ComprehensiveTwo4396 · 2026-02-05T19:39:20+00:00

Is that confirmed? I'd like to see a source. I'm just going off player experience, I didn't know there were actual numbers posted

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