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You will never look at halfling priests the sam again

PostPosted: Wed Jan 22, 2014 12:29 pm
by Astral
First of all I wanted to say hi to everyone on this forum, and thank the developers for creating this fantastic game!

I've been lurking on the forums for a few days and decided to finally post something. I'm not a vet, I've only played about a 100 games so far.

So, is this how you play a halfling priest with naga cauldron? :D

Image

How did I kill a 120/1110 blinking boss with lifesteal, and with no mid fight lvl ups? (Also I converted CYDSTEPP before hitting him :P)

Re: You will never look at halfling priests the sam again

PostPosted: Fri Jan 24, 2014 1:14 am
by Lujo
Gratz, this is the second thread about it in a very short time :D

I actually discoverd this quite a while ago when I was trying to break the cauldron back when it first came out. It's very strong! But here's a strange thing - the actual benefit comes from never being really able to get the 100% out of your potions which overheal allows for, and having a naturally large health pool. However, there's another way to make bigger health potions count.

Take a halfling monk with maxed out resists, a RBS for slow strike, and a few other debuffs, or even a halfling berserker on the right map, with a Naga Cauldron. I can't say for sure any of them are in fact stronger than a priest, but I'm not sure they're weaker, either.

Re: You will never look at halfling priests the sam again

PostPosted: Fri Jan 24, 2014 1:47 am
by TheSchachter
Hey Lujo, I'd recommend having another look at the screenshot. Astral did it Parched :P

From the results screen, the only thing that comes to mind right now is using GG's Absolution a bunch of times for even more absurd health as well as a bunch of beads (some Magic res), maybe some protections mid-run for leveling (you can convert a bunch of potions and stuff for piety after all), then switching to Binlor with a decent amount of Piety and blackspace leftover to reach ridiculous amounts of Magic res (maybe maxing them out?) Then combine with platemail + priest undead bonus for stomping both bosses. Also with bear mace + lots of resist you can probably regen-fight blahblah... or were you knocking The Indomitable into him?

I might be completely wrong about this though, or else missing something. Either way, an impressive achievement.

Re: You will never look at halfling priests the sam again

PostPosted: Fri Jan 24, 2014 1:56 am
by Lujo
O.O, rubbs eyes, then O.O again

:lol:

Wow, that is impressive!

(And, oh well, still, a bit of good advice still found a home, even if it made me look stupid)

But, why did you go parched? Not how, but why? Wasn't there at any point a moment where blowing a potion on killing something way above your level a good move? Because I'm sure you didn't plan on going parched and prepped the Cauldron on a Halfling...

Re: You will never look at halfling priests the sam again

PostPosted: Fri Jan 24, 2014 9:45 am
by Kestrel
Weaken Indomitable, then repeatedly kick him into blahblah for hundreds of free damage. Probably the most efficient strategy on that map if you can set it up. Dodge potion + whupaz to soften the vampire up a bit first was a nice touch, and so was not bothering to use the main point of the character build :)

Re: You will never look at halfling priests the sam again

PostPosted: Fri Jan 24, 2014 11:19 am
by Astral

Re: You will never look at halfling priests the sam again

PostPosted: Fri Jan 24, 2014 2:40 pm
by Lujo

Re: You will never look at halfling priests the sam again

PostPosted: Fri Jan 24, 2014 3:15 pm
by Astral
A funny thing about potions is even with other races I play about 97% of my games parched. I guess it's a mentality I kept from alpha: "if you need the potions you're a noob". And recently I've been trying to deconstruct it.
It's the same with bloodpools and sanguine, I tend to save them for bosses but in the end can't even drink 1/4 of them.

I also get confused by blinking and knockback a lot. Now I know knocking into empty space and walls is fine, into unrevealed walls is not recommended :P and into enemies equales a blink.

Sounds interesting! I only tried elven/dwarven wizards with EM and the Codex.

Btw do you know how blinking and cowardly interacts? Might worth a Taurog prep.

Re: You will never look at halfling priests the sam again

PostPosted: Fri Jan 24, 2014 3:27 pm
by Lujo

Re: You will never look at halfling priests the sam again

PostPosted: Sun Jan 26, 2014 10:59 pm
by dislekcia