General-Purpose bragging topic!

[Tinker]

[Darvin]

Unstoppable is pretty easy on Hexx Ruins, you just have avoid petrifying anything of level 8 and above and success is automatic. The bigger point is that Stheno got to absorb everything for massive resists.

So, how did you do this? Massive damage 1HKO seems unlikely on vicious, and there aren't that many wall tiles so Stone Heart seems unlikely (though not impossible) and you've already ruled out Chaos Avatar... did you just brute force Stheno here in spite of 90% (I believe that's the maximum from monster absorption)?

[caviar]

[Astral]

Yeah, 90% is the limit. If Lujo used indirect KB, that makes this a lot more manageable.

Fun thing about Stehno's resistance is that if she removes everything the game keeps count of her real resists. So it takes a lot of resist shredding before you start going under 90%.

@Caviar
That only works with the 2nd boss, cause as soon as Stehno is hurt she kills every monster.

[caviar]

[Lujo]

I whish it was in some more interesting way, really, but it was just plain pissorff spam, not very optimized and with too many missplays in the process and also a lot of leftover blackspace. What's really bizzare is that I mean to just slam the other boss into her to ignore her resists (and thus the whole level as such), thinking that she'd absorb the whole map as soon as I touched her.

What happened is - nothing. She doesn't react to indirect pissorf by removing stuff (probably to avoid accidents).

Which didn't mean anything, because you can have 99% and pissorf goes through fine. But you can just take her down to 1 HP using knockback (hit something into her ofc), and you can even ding with popcorn while you're at it, and only remove everything with the killing blow, which is still done vs the no-resist form.

The last strike on her was melle with no first strike or anyhting. The Wraith was just collateral, and I even slammed 3 things into her once afterwards (had to move it around a bit, so I don't kill anything, lol). One of the many mistakes I made was usig whoopaz on the wraith thinking it's physical resists would mean EDIT: Stheno would go down sooner, but it didn't for some reason.

So, essentially, you can bypass the entire hex ruins entirelly just by pissorf spam. Like, even more than you can allready bypass everything else.

Which is actually pretty funny, seeing how that place allready has a lot of hard solutions, like viper ward and Imawal and all that jazz, this is like taking the whole well established tradition of weaseling your way to easy money on Hex and blowing it out of the water I did it with a PQI fighter, two runs before that, I just wanted to see if I could do it without killing anything.

So, err, not sure if bug, several bugs, balance issues with CB and PoS in general (well obv, that I'm sure about), or a cool new steam achievement material. XD

Also, VT would've made the whole thing easier, as I could farm Binlor piety without stuff dieing, which I couldn't, so I was really lucky to run into the Endiswal. I had plenty of resources and would've had more if I could've farmed binlor from the get go. The dings were unnecessary, tbh, I just always use Alch Pact instinctively on Hex, because of the obvious benefits on a map with no popcorn, and because it's 2-3 hits of Chaos Avatar with pissorff spam, as levels 1-2-3-4 are basically your engame (often enough).

But then again, the JJ bosts were kinda essential. It's more of an experiment than anything.

[caviar]

This would be a better fit for an RNG thread, but since we're on the subject of how PoS completely demolishes dungeon-unique features:

http://i.imgur.com/aCzUJVN.png

The tale kind of tells itself. Issues with a blinking/trait-changing boss? No problem, just mash his neighbor into him and he'll go down without moving an inch. To add to the hilarity, the sub that spawned one tile away from the entrance was zombie gold.

[Lujo]

Oh, god. That's a victory screen right there

But 4 serious, PoS needs counters. Because that IS a victory screen.

[flap]

Yet another modest bragging post : I have just beaten warlord silver on first try, and escaped bleatie's trap

I was at level 8, and required just 3 xp to level up. I was and elf (with more than 20 mana) worshipping Earth mother, had found the pactmaker, 95 piety, and plenty of plants and blood pools left. A nice heap of ressources patiently gathered with the use of entanglement and IMAWAL.
So, when I went to fight bleaty, "piece of cake" I thought : I have tons of mana available to cast sidestepp.

But SURPRISE ! On first hit, the damn goat petrified every left monsters, and became 60% resistant...

Aaargh, I had not prepared for that. This is where the pactmaker became extremelly usefull to get the expected level up. The rest was just a carefull use of clearance / plantation / green blood / potion drinking to kill the goat.

I can"t say that its was particularly high skill fight. But I am delighted to have survived the trap, even though I had been caught unaware !

[Tinker]

OMG guys fireball is so overpowered!!!1!1!!one! We need a nerf _now_.