how to avoid (almost) instant death when opening strong boxes
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When you open a strongbox you are usually surrounded by a whole group of monsters, if it is a magic or rare one, often nasty spells are cast on you as well. This has lead to me dying fairly often after opening a rare strongbox before I was able to do anything. When I walk back to the box afterwards, I can engage the monsters from a distance, and they usually don't cause any trouble.
I found that drinking a quicksilver flask just before opening can be quite helpful because it prevents the being surrounded and constantly interrupted part of dying. However, I'm not sure what I can do about the various spells. A recent box had 'cast freeze' and 'cast firestorm' on opening and I was dead in less than a second (cruel difficulty, maxed res) before I unfroze. Any useful tips on how you handle strong boxes? |
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Have a flask that unfreezes and a movement skill like Leap Slam or Lightning Warp. With Lightning Warp you can actually cast it before clicking on the box and if timed right you warp out a split second after clicking the box. I've still ended up dead where I land, but most of the time I get away safely. The Firestorm or Lightning don't start right away so you can easily get away before they hit even if frozen by using a flask. The Ice Nova has insane range and damage in higher level maps, so you need to get pretty far away before it is cast. And if there are no dead monsters around for the detonate dead boxes it will happen after you kill some of the box monsters so try not to get too close for those boxes either.
Haven't tried it, but a Quartz flask along with your Quicksilver flask can probably get you out of the mess too. Guild Leader The Amazon Basin <BASIN>
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One of my favourite emergency skills: Conversion traps. I place them on one side of the box, walk around it, touch and run. Even when you are frozen and running isn't an option for a few seconds, converted monsters will draw the other packs' attention away from you and start doing damage. In addition, a totem gets attacked first, too, so you can have them as emergency gem in your inventory and place one at another side of the box. Even if monsters and totems don't last very long, it's usually enough to get out of trouble. :-)
Spells and elemental damage boxes aren't much trouble for me, but before opening ones that explode, I've learned to use a Granite flask even on lower difficulties :-D Exit, pursued by a Plummeting Ursa. Finding Names for your Characters Loot Filter Colour Palettes Namen für Eure Charaktere Informationen zur Benutzung des Forums Last edited by Alysma#5080 on May 1, 2014, 10:12:48 AM
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Smoke mine is your friend.
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Smoke mine - I am soooo putting this in my bag. I've died more to opening rare strongboxes than anything else. S
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Most streamers I see, just use Lightning Warp WITHOUT Reduced Duration (take it out right before), so that they warp away after they've opened the Strongbox.
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What kills me most often when I open a strongbox, is the lag associated with the spawn of the mobs. Sometimes its as ridiculous as porting back to the opening as much as three times before it all gets back in synch. by then its typically to late to do much about it except hope the healing I did whilst this was happening kept me alive.
Last edited by MadMarchHare1#5811 on May 18, 2014, 5:53:48 AM
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Touch Strongbox, logout, go back, kill everything, enjoy free loot.
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" You forgot "make portal". |
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Smoke mine doesn't always work for me if too much is happening on the screen at once.
The log out idea with portal is interesting but since your portal is gone you need a way to get back to where you were. I usually use a quartz flask. It is important to activate the flask before you click, unless the chest has freeze, in which case you have to drink a dispel frozen flask after opening the chest and then use a quartz flask. I never got use to lightning warp but that is a possibility also. |
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