Extreme East Spoiler and Discussion Thread

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I've been playing around with the Troll quite a lot recently, so I thought I'd leave some feedback.

First of all, Blink and Knockback on the same monster seems kind of janky - when you kill the blinking monster it will push you in a different direction than it should have. Not very significant, but just seems strange.

As for the gameplay, here are some insights I have so far:


I'm currently trying to tackle Curious Naga City with a Troll, and I'm having a rough time - as of yet I haven't made it past the first wave. I'm not sure if that means it's weak, I can't play it well, or Curious Naga City is very hard. Probably the last one, because this class has no trouble killing 3 level higher monsters even on Vicious difficulty, and the amount of blackspace it has remaining makes it a powerhouse at killing bosses, too.

I'm running Frozen Crown and Dracul at the moment. Frozen Crown is about as strong as I thought it was - a much stronger Whurrgarbl with a downside that doesn't matter too much for the Troll. However, I think I'm going to have to switch out the Frozen Crown for something else here, because there are too many physical-resistant bosses for it to be feasible. I'm going to try a Draining Blade build instead, possibly with Jehora to start so I can still level properly (the Troll has some trouble with Naga City's monster set).

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Yeah, I was thinking a Punchomancer could work well here, but I wanted to do it with Troll to really get a feel for the class, since most hard (and vanilla vicious) dungeons are just trivial for me at this point.

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A regen fighter in a dungeon where everything has fast regen...

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I didn't say that conventional play had a chance to win it. It probably doesn't.

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Cleared Echoes of Power without abusing Fido! Hopefully my honor is redeemed.

I enjoyed 2-shottting Namtar with that completely busted item, so I decided to do something similar here and took in an Orc Rogue with Namtar's Ward. My god chain was Binlor -> Jehora for the health and mana boosts - a little unorthodox, I was hoping for GG - but it all worked out pretty well. All in all I still wouldn't call this dungeon very difficult with this build - I had a pretty easy time with CYDSTEPP, BLUDTOPOWA, and the Crystal Ball, but I didn't use Namtar's Ward very effectively (barely used it in the underworld at all) so I think so long as you find one or two decent spellcasting items the run is as good as won for this build. This dungeon definitely gave me less trouble than Gladiator, though to be fair during that run I was also trying to learn how to play a brand new class.

Funnily enough, for the first time ever I almost died to the last form of Namtar - I was on 1 HP with no mana having used all my resources on the 5th form, and when I drank Quicksilver dodge didn't proc. Fortunately I was only a few damage short of one-shotting him so I just converted my glyphs for the win.