Soloing Cruel Gravicius and Piety
In the closed beta I soloed through all 4 difficulties and some maps without much trouble with my Ice Witch. For the open beta I now run a very similar build.
But now I'm stuck on Piety in Cruel: When she changes into the fire form it takes her 3 hits to get through 800ES and 400Life at 70% Fire resist. Should I manage to evade her long enough and actually make a tiny dent in her life, she eventually summons half a gazillion mobs that bring me down in a heartbeat. I already had trouble with Gravicius on Cruel: I burned through all my mana and half of my flasks before his Energy Shield was even halfway down. So I joined a party and we took him down quite easily though it took some time. Unfortunately my PC is venerable. It runs OK when I solo, but with a party it lags horribly even at 800x600. For Gravicius that was not much of a problem, I just stood in the back and spammed Ice Spear, but that won't work on Piety because of the mobs and the area is too small to find a safe spot. So my questions are: Did anyone manage to kill Piety or Gravicius on Cruel solo? Or is my Build just bad? I beat cruel, ruthless and merciless and all I got were some maps.
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I'm not an expert on softcore builds because I know they tend to place less emphasis on surviving, but your life seems really REALLY low.
I just had a witch die today (hardcore) with 1200 life and 600 ES (level 40). Your resists seem good, and I bet your damage is fantastic, but if you're skipping every life node, you're going to be really squishy. |
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I think the fact is I really need a much better PC.
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Definitely the lack of life nodes taken.
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You skipped all of the extra life nodes??
At least take the 2 nodes below unnatural calm for 18% life and 20 sTR If you have trouble killing bosses make a big ass single target combo with one of your high level skills |
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Well in the closed beta I had Chaos Inoculation, so I'll try adding some health nodes and see how it goes.
However the problem isn't only that I die on Piety, as I said my problem started with Gravicius having a butt-load of ES that I can't get through before my mana runs out, and life nodes aren't going to fix that unfortunately. My big ass single target combo is: Ice Spear with cold penetration and increased Critical Strikes and a mana flask with the surgeon mod. That worked on every boss until Gravicius cruel. And yes I already decided on buying a new PC but it's going to take weeks before I have it. Thanks for the hints, guys. I beat cruel, ruthless and merciless and all I got were some maps.
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Add the frostbite curse to lower its resistances even more.
Or check your build and rearrange some nodes to add more ooomph to your cold based attacks |
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400 hp is ultra low. I got that much on my lvl 20 shadow with just 1 hp node.
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"he also has 800es, what's your es? Última edição por eclap78 em 30 de jan de 2013 08:17:07
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I have soloed them with my 900 hp 200 es templar quite easily. And yes 400 hp is too low.
- Use 4 health flasks with insta recovery when low life and 1 quicksilver flask with eva. Mana should not be an issue if you have mana regen. - Use a portal when things are about to go bad. Just refill the flasks and go on. - You should get cast speed with nodes and movement speed increase on boots. It helps with kiting. - Attack piety only when she is on normal mode. Evade light balls and strikes. Just run around a little bit when she is on fire mode and hide behind a wall when she is in cold mode. Kill portals nearby. |
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