Unbreathing Queen I, as melee, in Hardcore

yes as you may have guessed, no longer in Hardcore.
yep, I had plenty of chances to log out. didn't. got destroyed.

screen full of ice. nowhere to go.
frozen with every step I take.
too many spectre bastards to chase down.

is this balanced?

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johnKeys wrote:

yes as you may have guessed, no longer in Hardcore.
yep, I had plenty of chances to log out. didn't. got destroyed.

screen full of ice. nowhere to go.
frozen with every step I take.
too many spectre bastards to chase down.

is this balanced?

When you noticed that there was that much cold damage, did you think about going back to town to grab a Sapphire flask ?

Did you try to pull some of them apart to kill the group little by little or did you just rush in expecting your character to just facetank it ?


And to answer your question : yes, it is balanced, as everything else is balanced around the fact that you can log out in the middle of the fight.

But yeah, many mechanics are spitting on melees, too many imho.

Anti freeze flask.

1) level 17 character in Fellshrine Ruins.
what's a Sapphire Flask?

unless I'm expected to clear everything up to Act 3 then come back, huh?
(or grab it as a quest reward... somewhere in Cruel...)

2) tried to separate the group. then once I went for one of them, I got a dozen ice projectiles to the face, and frozen solid. because everybody has fkn insane cast speed.

3) fuck logging out.

4) yes. spitting on Melees is always so much fun.

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johnKeys wrote:

1) level 17 character in Fellshrine Ruins.
what's a Sapphire Flask?

On the market.
( the game is balanced around trading )

Also you could use totems to attract some projectiles, kill one guy, and repeat.

fuck logging out ?
Entirely your fault then, and that easily answers the original question : yes, it is balanced.

Umm, level 17 character can't equip Sapphire Flask, Fruz.

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dudiobugtron wrote:

Umm, level 17 character can't equip Sapphire Flask, Fruz.

Damn me, the level requirement is 18 indeed lol !
Not like 17 -> 18 takes a lot of time or anything tho.

Any other utili flask of heat would help a lot also.

Btw, how much cold res did you have JohnKeys ?

Bismuth flask, +35% all res, lvl 8 req.

Very useful at lower lvls, obligatory in HC when you arent capped yet.

E: its also a more common drop than sapphire

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Fruz wrote:

Btw, how much cold res did you have JohnKeys ?

the amount which requires dodging their projectiles, instead of just tanking all of them :)
I did pretty much face-tank Merveil, though.

@Morbo, wish I had a Bismuth... but to me these proved more rare than Granites.
my flasks RNG as a whole is terrible.

GGG always did this, tbh: crazy obnoxiously over-powered crap relatively to the content&level they appear in.
every single league or major update, has at least a couple.

I just wish that if Prophecies do enter the core game, they revise some of these encounters and make them more fair to someone fkn insane enough to play Melee, HC, self found, and - god forbid - without logouts.

I died the first time I faced them on my melee, he was my first character. Then I knew what to expect and never had an issue again. Like most fights.