by The Avatar on Tue Jan 16, 2018 9:11 pm
If you do want to try it again with Elf Warlord, I'd recommend sightly different tactics. First off, MA is strictly superior to JJ. You want both Refreshment and Mystic Balance, one shot of mana (maybe 2), and then just enough piety to convert out. Leveling should be incredibly efficient as a warlord (kill a level 3/4 at level 1, a level 5 at level 2, 6 at 3, etc). Tackle the boss at level 6 or 7 depending on whether you can make your popcorn more effective (via TT, EM, WONAFYT, etc) and you should be able to get 2 mid-fight level ups. As for how you should handle the actual fight, use conversions until you get to 20 mana, then use mana potions (the might you get from mana potions will lower the boss' resistances) then go back to conversions. Once you are out of those, convert Gods to someone better (EM, TT, GG, Dracul, and even Binlor will help). Then use mid-fight level ups, your other God's best boons (Clearance, Reflexes, Refreshment, Blood Hunger, and Stone Skin respectively), and your Schadenfreude potion (last, that will maximize damage) and you should have plenty of resources left over. You can get away with far less than is outlined above, but that is the ideal situation. As for shop purchases, anything that boosts mana is great (I even pick up the non-convertible +1 mana pendant), and make sure you save 15 gold for your Schadenfreude. Also, be careful not to pick up too many glyphs as you won't be able to convert them until you start the boss fight (I would only pick up GETINDARE and WONAFYT/IMAWAL/WEYTWUT [one of those 3, prioritizing from left to right]). Hope that helps, although the other strategies above are definitely equally viable.
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