Astrid, Pale Elf Rogue (Solo)- Entry 8: Thaos!
Yuppers indeedy! It's time for the Thaos fight! The big show!
But first: Let's talk about Astrid.
Character Record
Inventory
Build
Skills: Stealth: 10, Athletics: 3, Lore: 2, Mechanics: 6, Survival: 2
Abilities: Crippling Strike, Dirty Fighting, Finishing Blow, Reckless Assault, Blinding Strike
Talents: One Handed Style, Shadowing Beyond, Deep Pockets, Weapon Focus: Knight, Unstoppable
Boons: Hyleaโs Boon, Gift from the Machine
Does anyone have any questions?
Our resting bonus? Great question! We took Accuracy Bonus v Vessel- attained by donning the Rugged Wilderness Cap before our nappy-poo.
Any more questions? Ok then!
Our plan, as you've likely surmised, is to knock people on their butts. More precisely, we want to knock the Headsman and the Judge on their butts- maybe even Thaos once or twice. We intend to do so with We Toki, leveraging our One Handed Style accuracy, our high Dex and our high Per. Our offensive potions, Deleterious Alacrity of Motion and War Paint will facility that, with speed and added accuracy. Our defensives are trash, but our enemies won't be hitting much because they'll be spending almost all of their time on their tuckuses. Or at least we hope so. How did it go?
Great, actually! Just great! Now the question is: Am I being sarcastic or not? You'll just have to see.
Here's Thaos. He's a jerk. We don't like him.
But he's not that jerk we want to kill right now. We want to kill the big jerk, the guy with the hammer. Casting Shadowing Beyond will let us do that. Why? Because he'll chase. And Thaos won't. And without Thaos's spells, he's toast.
Astrid runs west. She drinks a DAoM potion and gets to work. We Toki says, "Down boy!"
And that's basically all it took. Astrid's axe is accurate. And with her Dex it's fast enough to hit again before her enemies can get up. DAoM and War Paint take it all over the top. The Judge got exactly one swing in. His animation is on it's feet here, but as you can see, he's prone, according to the engine.
One down.
Let's do it again, shall we?
The Headsman faired a little better, landing two strikes and eliciting an endurance potion quaff. He didn't have much of a chance, though.
I've done this two-handed with We Toki and Godansthunyr and at levels 9 or 10 One Handed does seem to work better.
Just Thaos now. Our main concern is Cleansing Flame. In my experience, if you can get him to cast it on a summon, you'll never see it again. We give him some beetles. As soon as we put them down, we have one break north.
That insures that that'll be at least one beetles under our control when it's time for Thaos to cast Cleansing Flame. Got him!
The rest is easy. We shoot him in the face.
Dump some rot on him when goes Shields for the Faithful.
And when he gets to badly injured, unleash the Finishing Blows.
It should go without saying that we were evading his spells, disengaging whenever he started to cast. And as you might imagine, we found time to quaff every now and then, too, to increase our efficiency. The only spells that hit us were Thaos's Dominations, which appear to be targeted directly on the foe, rather than having an AoE, like most spells. Those weren't very danger though: the durations were short and Thaos never really took advantage.
Thaos is at near death. He's on his keist. This is looking good.
And yes! Astrid has done it! She has become my first PoE solo no reloader. Hooray!
That was fun! The question is what next? Should I give her a chance on PotD? Try a new class? Move her over to Deadfire? Share your thoughts. And feel free to share your comments as well. Thanks for following, everyone!
Cheers,
A.