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You can aggro them all, the small ones, but from my experience its possible to split them. I would even say that one of them breaks group if they run far enough. And if they turn there is always last one. I do not pull with ranged weapon, due to recovery. Either spell or visual out of stealth. Yeah, try it out.

Blood Legacy, Dyrford Village No melee here --- --- even beetles just stand there and soaked few hits/spells. Took while (to just get here) there's 5 of them over relatively large area, some of them moving, and this is where +% area affect comes handy. Confuse out of stealth. Glad they had red circles. tip: its possible to pass through this dungeon semi sneaky. Mobs in corridors and rooms do not necessarily get reinforced. Depending on positioning, where fight stake place, but its possible to get through without kiting or blocking doors just sneaking and picking right place and time by fighting 3 mobs at once most, usually 2 or 1 except entrance and this. No YOLO and level 9! Poor Aelys, well, who knows.

BEFORE AFTER Was not complaining when I was healing him .

I believe you need to kill only one swampling. When you enter hug the right wall till you get visual on first swampling, unstealth and slowly move towards swampling until you get aggro and battle starts. Run back to entrance and only one swampling should follow you. Out of curiosity, how to get achievement for not killing when killing?

Maybe you are correct. Lets see what others have to say. I remember have some difficulties with targeting but it changed .. and attacked me.

Every 6 sec (confused) target randomly: behaves normally, attack ally, walks around, nothing. I do not think it matters if target is green or red because it has set behavior for the duration of Confusion and attacking it does not dispel/cancel the status. Cheat? I am confused .. edit: the question was whether green will change to red while under confusion or not? it will change

There are other second chance items, tbh i dont the second chance is really worth it, if you died once you will die again, id rather an item that healed me than one that brought me up, but i guess it would give leeway, it would probably work with second chance tbh, the game doesnt end untl your entire party is down, a couple of times ive had very close calls and the summons saved my life, its why even if im winning i make a point of hiding my summons off to the side, I thinkf this is exploitable as well but ive avoided doing so, but on my practice run it seemed to work but no chance am i risking it for my iron run, too far now to go back if i die now i think ill just give up lol (hide summons off to side and you rez when the encounter 'ends' even if you are dead) Apparently it works with Essential Phantom (level 4 spell). I went down and Phantom duplicate kept fighting so I let is and it won Not good enough for Iron Man but good enough for me. There is ring with Second Change right? I mean to die is to lose aggro.

About 2k exp from level 9 with Wiz at the moment. I try to progress not to survive. What encounter(s) do you have difficulties with? If enemies don't hit too hard (I run around in heavy armor most of the time) gather them and AoE and if they do, well, either split them or avoid altogether. Lack of pre-buff makes certain encounters near to impossible. Don't even have time to summon and run or cast speed buff and run or even cast anything at all. There is no mechanism to make Wiz "immune" even for few seconds - there will be cold damage lets take cold protection, they will also hit hard lets take armor and protection spells, but once swarmed and hit with effect .. excuse moi .. grazed hit F8. I hope you like Wizards

Ranger/Cleric was in todays terms gamebreaking OP borderline exploit. Stealth, Iron Skins, Insect and Doom, Fail of Ages and Crom Faeyr say hello say good bay. Evolution. Look at Bioware and their lol RPG DA:I with balanced abilities on trees and all kinds of sex relationships.

-14 Deflection is not that huge that everything hits me all the time. What is the alternative? Low Con? The way hits and misses work with additional effects .. I don't like to be stunlocked. Low Dex? I like to be able to cast reasonably fast and have certain recovery even in heavy armors. "Will" evens out with Int, Reflexes with Dex, too bad Concentration but I was getting interrupted and locked even with high Concentration. Interrupt, I dunno. I rather cast Siphon which gives me health and damages enemies at the same time than to cast deflection buff. Low starting health, well yeah tell me about it. What you are missing is that its about play style. You have some kind of character, does not matter if min/max or gimped or prebuild in-game, and you have to deal with it somehow. Play on strengths and try to avoid weaknesses. its not like .. I tried PotD and could not finish it because I had - 14 deflection. I hope! --- edit: if you gonna kite Maerwald get Fleet Feet or other speed buff. Its about timing and bit of luck. I kite him to beetles leaving spiders alone but its probably more advantageous to kill the spiders as you say.

I do nothing else but hang around with Purnisc with ladies from Salty Mast and we joke how its a good thing I refused to win Kaerna back because she would probably not approve.

Valenwood: everything except Bears, if you cant handle that lower difficulty Gilded Vale: everything except temple, blacksmith can be done without fight, and Ranga well, pull them back to entrance, Slicken (or perhaps even ranged weapon or just coming out of stealth) will draw the smaller ones and one of them tends to follow to entrance. There you kill it and it drops what you need. The other part, if you should be able to do. Now you are level 4 additionally, explore all maps and while at it you might want to pick up some loot and/or kills few mobs for exp and mats.

Cocoa: The Charred Barrel, Brackenbury

Interesting, I was not aware. Well, they managed to make Barbarians, Rogues, Chanters or Ciphers borderline godly since these managed to solo the game on hardest difficulty as fist. I do not know if it should be like that or not. I do not have balance urges as I take the game as it is, as tools to my disposal, and if I do not like some tool I use another. Playing Wizard a lot lately I am satisfied. But again, I am not the one seeking balance, just fun from playing the game.

The sane voice in the insane world .. will not be heard Some people just cant give up their preconceived notions how things ought to be and if they are not it makes them uncomfortable.

I think the temple is to teach player a lesson. The lesson is: There is no shame coming back later. Its solo-able with Wizard, level 4/5.

Spells are not grenades in FPS. Weak at lower levels quite powerful borderline godly higher levels has spells that don't make sense .. sounds like proper mage to me.

14? Wow good to know. I guess I will **** around a bit then go to check it out. Wiz is not claustrophobic.

Do you get good exp and/or loot there? I have not touched the spider queen yet. Just clearing rooms when I stop by. ---- Speed casting into Bewildering Spectacle Wanted to fool around with Wall of Fire but ...

It does Shock damage and has accuracy of 81 at the moment. Not sure if it scales.

Anyone have nay tips for how to do this room? I have 3x fire traps and the figurine. Playing with Cipher level 4. with the figurine you should be able to position yourself in the corner in a way that they cant reach you, from there 4 scrolls of fan off flames should be able to kill them all, as a cipher you should also try to be mind controlling them Thanks ! Got 1st first time.... Mostly. One Shadow dodged all the fan of flames, and trolled me with daze so I had to quit. Cant get that far in any subsequent attempt. I think my figurine managed to absorb 2 fan of flames the first time round which helped. I am trying whisper of treason but it does not seem effective for this size mob. I aggro with Psycovampiric shield and pull them to a trap where I cast my figurine so they bunch up before I run though, then I run into the corner. I usually do not take damage from this. Then I use mark of nature and mind blades and start spamming fire fans. I always end up to at least one guy alive who stunlocks me :/ What are your stats? Mainly Fortitude? The key is indeed to engage only as many as possible and only Shadows. You should have potion, yellow at least I always have it, which reduces duration of effects on you. I believe it works in this situation. Can you boost your Aim? Misses here are deadly. edit: In this screen shot you can see that Phantom was not able to stunlock me, as it grazes me for 50% effect, due to my For

While I agree with the general notion - especially with reducing party size as way to adjust - that these kind of difficulties tend to be tedious more than challenging skillz, PotD pushes player to limits. This means that mechanics or items not essential and/or usually used need to be utilized. Like Food or changing set up depending on encounter or even finding that one item which will make that one encounter winnable. Personally, I am glad the game is not balanced around playable without full party. Not that I do not like characters and their stories but managing 6 is just something I do not enjoy.

Faded Grimoire, Dracogen Inn Dyrford Village, Cat and Mouse quest when opting to attack Nyfre Lv 1: Kalakoth's Sunless Grasp, Minoletta's Minor Missiles, Spirit Shield, Wizards Double Lv 2: Binding Web, Curse of Blackened Sight, Merciless Gaze Lv 3: Deleterious Alacrity of Motion, Kalakoth's Minor Blights

The only way is to ask them. Everything else is speculation and there is no reason to believe, except the "feelings" you have, that it does not work as intended. That is why I constantly mention other IE game where powerful mechanics are part of the game and that is why I mention newbies. There is nothing wrong with newbies except they are not aware of context. If it does not work as intended, go to Bugs and report. If you think its OP suggest change. What do you want to hear I dunno. I found that Petrify is OP! cool story bro

What I meant was that its not possible to tank solo PotD. Its not endurance race but dps race. To be able to take some hits and metee seems unavoidable in certain situations and I take it as given. How far are you? I am trying to outlevel and outgear in DB and around. Hit level 6, trying to avoid fights if possible but since I can reload sometimes greed and curiosity takes over