A lot of us had the same issue with dying at first, if that's what you're referring to. But unlike Souls, you don't have to get your body back on the first attempt. You can die 5 times in a row and still get your equipment and gold back as long as you don't exit the game and return (only do this if there's only 1 corpse; there's been reports of people losing their items this way). Otherwise if you only have one corpse, you can exit the game and come back, and it will automatically be placed next to your character in town.
In singleplayer both the shared and the personal stash work for this. Not sure about multiplayer.
Ah, good point. I wasn't thinking to put gold in your personal stash to prevent losing gold that you have on your character in singleplayer. So yes, do that Walter. You can still purchase items with gold taken from your personal stash. But there is a cap on the amount you can have in there (3 million?), so just put the extra in shared slots and transfer as necessary. That's how I manage it.
If you clear out everything else you can try soamming telekinesis keeping him stunned as much as you can and give your merc potions like its candy lol
I don't get what you mean with stunned through telekinesis. Can you elaborate?
The telekinesis skill that lets you pick up small things and open chests will also let you telekinetically bitch slap them. It wont stun them everytime but if you spam it you can really make a difference in how often the can execute an attack, i think they also have significantly less chance to block while stunned as well but cant confirm that
Will he be stunned for a while? Like seconds? Or is this more of a way to interrupt his attacks to pave the way for the merc?
No it pretty much just stops his attack or will knock him back for a half second stun. But the cast time/recovery rate and mana costs are all negligible so you can spam as fast as you can to your hearts content lol i do that for anything immune to fire and ice.
I will try this. Thanks in advance!
Nice. Been finding a bunch of sweet runes lately in act v nightmare, just killing demons in the outside areas.
Every minute i can spare in my life will be used to play this game.
I'll be stuck to this for a long time since I only play hardcore (solo offline) and lost my 4th zealot last weekend at lvl45. That one found the Peasant Crown and Bonesnap Maul but the items died with him.
I can't imagine how you would play through with a hardcore char up to hell difficulty. Exhilarating and exhausting isn't it? So you just go step by step with utmost care?
Yes, utmost care and topped up resistances are the way to go for hardcore.
What level have you been on with each character and on what difficulty did it happen? Normal shouldn't be a problem but already in nightmare a death comes swift. It is sure exhilarating when you succeed but just to read what you've experienced is crazy.
I focus solely on zealots. Paladin is like this game's Ryu in my opinion, a jack of all trades.
Teleportation is a life saver for me but i also don't need to care that much since i don't play hardcore but how do you play? Do you bait them one by one? To what skills do you fall back in case of an emergency?
Don't have teleportation but with the Paladin's Charge skill you can also get away quickly.Teleportation is a life saver for me but i also don't need to care that much since i don't play hardcore but how do you play? Do you bait them one by one? To what skills do you fall back in case of an emergency?
Wouldn't have expected so many deaths on normal but this just shows that you can die fairly quickle, pretty much everywhere in the game no matter the difficulty.
I would get nightmares from the small lightning ghosts in act 5.
Damn, you're a warrior. I couldn't imagine playing with only one life. Once certain mobs stick to you, it's pretty much over if you're not over-equipped. And 3 difficulties? Insanity.
So every death of yours was just you being careless by not adapting fast enough?
I think it's more a slightly autistic obsession than patience.
Yep, exactly. It's bound to happen that you start thinking about other things when you've progressed for hours without problems so you might lose focus for just a second in a crucial moment and it's all over.
You could use it if it has good values but a four socketed one with spirit seems the way to go.
That'd be cool!
Good luck!
The merc is your only way to deal with the immunities you can't handle. But just when he is decent equipped. And even then he will struggle with some of the unique mobs. Best to avoid the enemies as long as you have no merc with you.
Yeah, he's getting his ass kicked just as quickly as when first starting Nightmare, lol. I need to get some runes to upgrade equipment. At least the leveling is pretty fast even in the early stages.
It is pretty much a constant back and forth between getting new weapons or armor to progress a bit further just to find the next "obstacle". But it's fun when grow stronger and stronger.
I suspected as much. Even if I upgraded a few of these items, the stats wouldn't be where they are needed to be. So there's gonna have to be leveling, finding runes, upgrading items, and getting my ass kicked all at the same time. Welcome to hell, indeed.
Although everything helps, the things that helped me the most where the increase of immunities, since i went into hell with everything in the negatives. Furthermore you should find out what the best merc for your class would be and than equip him as good as you can. I also started to keep more small charms than the bigger ones since they dropped with higher levels or rerolled with higher levels and have more + to immunities.
Oh damn, mine aren't that bad which is probably why I'm not dying right away. Fire and cold are both at 50%, the other two are in the 30% range. But yeah, gonna need more of those as well. Can't really upgrade the merc or myself yet; need better runes. They've been dropping quite a bit even in Act I. But damn, the high level runes (like Fal) still require 3x to get to the next tier. It took 2 difficulties just to get two total, and they want 6 more! Lmao.
I played to the end of act four to get that high on immunities.
You are well into upgrading your gear through the cube. Maybe i should do this too since i do not find decent gear.
Oh yeah, everything was fully maxed out in Nightmare. Still had problems with certain levels of poison and that damn cold. Fortunately, double swing is a sub-skill of Frenzy and hits a lot quicker. But the crazy damage bonus from Frenzy is lost when switching and weapons break much faster. It's pretty much like Zeal on the Paladin.I played to the end of act four to get that high on immunities.
I still have a lot of stuff i found in nightmare so i know i could be much stronger. Defense is quite good now but i feel my damage output should be way higher.
