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Well probably until the next release melee has no chance of beating EoD, but what if we see this in other perspective.
The biggest issue is, once MP is out you're dead. What about you rely in absorb for recovering it? Use absorption/mitigation rather than evasion gear. (A mix that won't hurt regen II too much, and if you can use +55% dark mitigation so you can leave spark)
Finally use 2W with an axe in the offhand for max dmg output, plus not having parry will help too.
Then don't use SV, and PA+poison. Now you use weaken+bewilder+absorb. In this way you're be slower, and without poison (I know that also means longer time to kill) the mob's SP/MP will recover normally, lot's of special/spirit attacks will hit you, which 75% of them will be absorbed.

This is a exotic strategic, that most probably won't work, and I have no idea what these changes of equipment will do, but try it in a way regen II can keep up with the damage, you don't have nothing to lose.

Of course you leave Ryouko with the usual strategic lol.

Edit:Forget it, without using gossamer/phase you can't have enough base MP to make absorb useful (IMG:[invalid] style_emoticons/default/dry.gif)

Exactly. You're suggesting tactics that either wouldn't work with a melee build, have already been proven to not work, or ones I've already conceived and discarded because they just wouldn't work. Trust me, I've thought this through pretty thoroughly. A mage is going to be a lot squishier and be much more dependent on MP for damage, but the damage/consumption ratio is more towards their favor than for a melee.

Killzone cleared!

New personal best on normal (IMG:[invalid] style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif) but damn (IMG:[invalid] style_emoticons/default/mad.gif) 400 rounds & not even one artifact & I just finished training 5/10 (IMG:[invalid] style_emoticons/default/cry.gif)


1 34 Second Wind restores your magic by 112 points!
1 33 You gain 3 Credits!
1 32 You gain 1764.92 EXP!
1 31 Cookie Monster dropped [Godly Health Draught]
1 30 Tentacle Monster dropped [Superior Mana Potion]
1 29 You are Victorious!


0 1 Initializing Grindfest (Round 400)



Edit: Finally

2 11 You gain 3 Credits!
2 10 You gain 1814.09 EXP!
2 9 Mutant Peacock dropped [Superior Mana Potion]
2 8 Rabid Hamster dropped [Tesla Coil]
2 7 You are Victorious!


0 1 Initializing Grindfest (Round 428)


Edit:

1 18 You have been defeated.

0 1 Initializing Grindfest (Round 444)

This post has been edited by dlhmmr: Aug 10 2010, 19:39

Cleared Eve of Death yesterday.
Its dangerous to hold down the attack button when facing a legendary (IMG:[invalid] style_emoticons/default/blink.gif)
shit I jut casted silence 10 seconds ago... better recast it quick.

Feast For Crows cleared!


34 20 You gain 20056 Credits!
34 19 You gain 5084.7 EXP!
34 18 Your HP and MP have been fully restored!
34 17 Arena Token Bonus! Received:
[Token of Blood]
34 16 Arena Clear Bonus! Received:
[Godly Mana Draught]
34 15 Fire Fox dropped [Greater Health Draught]
34 14 Mithra dropped [Mithra's Flower]
34 13 You are Victorious!

23
Not bad for a lvl 15 eh?^^
use a short sword for main hand
and a rapier in offhand
bleeding + penetraition=RAPE

Just achieved my personal best, 523 rounds in a normal grindfest.

This post has been edited by Saotome924: Aug 13 2010, 03:23

Taken before I leave: (yes I couldn't win)

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This is impossible, I even casted banish half of time. Even if somehow I could raise my magic damage output by 10x I still couldn't beat it, before I run out of SP (yes with 13x spirit elixirs. I also tried to use blind which worked in Trio reducing the number of Spirit hits, here resulted in 3 casts = 2 crits + 1 miss (IMG:[invalid] style_emoticons/default/sad.gif)

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Well at least the legendaries weren't so bad (IMG:[invalid] style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)
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Now thats a battle lol

Flying Spaghetti Monster dead.

1660 15 You gain 202649 Credits!
1660 14 You gain 53119.28 EXP!
1660 13 Your HP and MP have been fully restored!
1660 12 Arena Token Bonus! Received:
[Token of Healing]
1660 11 Arena Clear Bonus! Received:
[Godly Mana Potion]
1660 10 Flying Spaghetti Monster dropped [Noodly Appendage]
1660 9 You are Victorious!
1660 8 Regen restores you with 191 points of health.
1660 7 The effect Spreading Poison on Flying Spaghetti Monster has expired.
1660 6 Stop kicking the dead horse.
1660 5 Flying Spaghetti Monster has been defeated.


Finally managed to complete my set of Spirit-Ward gear.
Had no trouble killing it afterward, although it did take quite a while.

... here i was expecting to have trouble with that

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crusade passed and all i got was this [axe]
and these from the shrine:
[silk robe], [gossamer gloves], and [cotton cap]

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What spell is that on the left of regen? I don't recognize, and looks like the "Fury of the Sisters" proc (IMG:[invalid] style_emoticons/default/huh.gif)

Infusion of Gaia, I think. (I used one earlier while I was beatng Konata on Nintendo.)

Sealed Power cleared. Yay. I'm "Destined" now. (IMG:[invalid] style_emoticons/default/tongue.gif)

30 13 You gain 25071 Credits!
30 12 You gain 8176.43 EXP!
30 11 Your HP and MP have been fully restored!
30 10 Arena Clear Bonus! Received:
[Fine Sapphire Longsword of the Ox]
30 9 You have obtained the title: Destined
30 8 Manbearpig dropped [ManBearPig Tail]
30 7 White Bunneh dropped [Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch]
30 6 You are Victorious!
30 5 Replenishment restores you with 18 points of magic.
30 4 Regen restores you with 110 points of health.
30 3 Manbearpig has been defeated.
30 2 Meteor hits Manbearpig for 2775 fire damage.
30 1 You cast Meteor.

cmdct: 8mill HP is just sick for a monster.


62 11 You gain 50 Credits!
62 10 You gain 41960.75 EXP!
62 9 Your HP and MP have been fully restored!
62 8 Arena Token Bonus! Received:[Token of Healing]
62 7 Arena Clear Bonus! Received:[Greater Spirit Draught]
62 6 Manbearpig dropped [ManBearPig Tail]
62 5 You are Victorious!
0 2 Spawned Monster A: MID=16 (Manbearpig) LV=196 HP=313500 MP=124 SP=86 NA=50 Type=hostile
0 1 Initializing arena challenge #101 (Round 1 / 1) ...
0 0 Battle Start! BATTLETOADS


66 12 You gain 55 Credits!
66 11 You gain 41960.75 EXP!
66 10 Your HP and MP have been fully restored!
66 9 Arena Token Bonus! Received:[Token of Healing]
66 8 Arena Clear Bonus! Received:[Superior Mana Draught]
66 7 White Bunneh dropped [Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch]
66 6 You are Victorious!
0 2 Spawned Monster A: MID=17 (White Bunneh) LV=196 HP=313500 MP=208 SP=45 NA=50 Type=hostile
0 1 Initializing arena challenge #102 (Round 1 / 1) ...
0 0 Battle Start! BATTLETOADS


1 11 You gain 52 Credits!
71 10 You gain 41835.73 EXP!
71 9 Your HP and MP have been fully restored!
71 8 Arena Token Bonus! Received:[Token of Healing]
71 7 Arena Clear Bonus! Received:[Godly Health Draught]
71 6 Mithra dropped [Mithra's Flower]
71 5 You are Victorious!
0 2 Spawned Monster A: MID=18 (Mithra) LV=194 HP=310200 MP=83 SP=63 NA=50 Type=hostile
0 1 Initializing arena challenge #103 (Round 1 / 1) ...
0 0 Battle Start! BATTLETOADS


63 13 You gain 53 Credits!
63 12 You gain 41960.75 EXP!
63 11 Your HP and MP have been fully restored!
63 10 Arena Token Bonus! Received:[Token of Blood]
63 9 Arena Clear Bonus! Received:[Greater Health Potion]
63 8 Dalek dropped [Dalek Voicebox]
63 7 You are Victorious!
0 1 Initializing arena challenge #104 (Round 1 / 1) ...
0 0 Battle Start! BATTLETOADS

74 4 You gain 560.26 EXP!
74 3 You are Victorious!
74 2 Giant Panda has been defeated.

0 3 Spawned Monster B: MID=5 (Giant Panda) LV=62 HP=6530 MP=28 SP=6 NA=91 Type=hostile
0 2 Spawned Monster A: MID=26 (Amphibious Sperm Whale) LV=57 HP=6700 MP=31 SP=15 NA=89 Type=hostile
0 1 Initializing Item World (Round 1 / 102) ...
0 0 Battle Start!

Battletoads in IW Superior yay

NormalFest no items:

2 11 You have been defeated.
2 10 Cookie Monster hits you for 2010 slashing damage.
2 9 Your Spark of Life consumes some of your Spirit, and restores you from the brink of defeat.
2 8 Blue Slime crits you for 2361 crushing damage.
2 7 You evade the attack from Green Slime.
2 6 You evade the attack from Tentacle Monster.
2 5 You evade the attack from Giant Panda.
2 4 Mantitcore misses the attack against you.
2 3 Amphibious Sperm Whale misses the attack against you.
2 2 Scary Ghost hits you for 1739 physical damage.
2 1 You crit Blue Slime for 1249 crushing damage.
1 5 The effect Refreshment has expired.
1 4 Replenishment restores you with 24 points of magic.
1 3 Refreshment restores you with 15 points of spirit.
1 2 You gain the effect Replenishment.
1 1 You use Mana Gem.
0 10 Spawned Monster I: MID=7 (Scary Ghost) LV=199 HP=2396 MP=115 SP=47 NA=52 Type=hostile
0 9 Spawned Monster H: MID=1 (Green Slime) LV=200 HP=2010 MP=133 SP=46 NA=68 Type=hostile
0 8 Spawned Monster G: MID=2 (Tentacle Monster) LV=203 HP=2101 MP=4 SP=12 NA=68 Type=hostile
0 7 Spawned Monster F: MID=10 (Blue Slime) LV=200 HP=2050 MP=219 SP=62 NA=68 Type=hostile
0 6 Spawned Monster E: MID=5 (Giant Panda) LV=203 HP=2101 MP=143 SP=15 NA=68 Type=hostile
0 5 Spawned Monster D: MID=26 (Amphibious Sperm Whale) LV=200 HP=2310 MP=84 SP=31 NA=58 Type=hostile
0 4 Spawned Monster C: MID=9 (Cookie Monster) LV=199 HP=2040 MP=57 SP=22 NA=68 Type=hostile
0 3 Spawned Monster B: MID=3 (Mantitcore) LV=201 HP=2100 MP=162 SP=41 NA=65 Type=hostile
0 2 Spawned Monster A: MID=4 (Cockatrice) LV=200 HP=2010 MP=28 SP=0 NA=68 Type=hostile
0 1 Initializing Grindfest (Round 1019) ...
0 0 Battle Start!

One mistake, and I get double killed (IMG:[invalid] style_emoticons/default/cry.gif)

This post has been edited by cmdct: Aug 17 2010, 21:55

The Trio and the Tree - normal

Longest Journey Cleared!

36 15 You gain 14047 Credits!
36 14 You gain 1374.14 EXP!
36 13 Your HP and MP have been fully restored!
36 12 Arena Token Bonus! Received:
[Token of Healing]
36 11 Arena Clear Bonus! Received:
[Godly Mana Draught]
36 10 Dalek dropped [Dalek Voicebox]
36 9 You are Victorious!
36 8 Regen restores you with 79 points of health.
36 7 The effect Ripened Soul on Dalek has expired.
36 6 The effect Bewildered on Dalek has expired.
36 5 The effect Weakened on Dalek has expired.
36 4 Dalek has been defeated.
36 3 Spreading Poison hits Dalek for 422 damage.
36 2 Dalek hits you for 194 piercing damage.

AAARRRGGGHHH!!!!!!!!!

I beat Trio and the Tree on battletoads and didn't get any exquisite items!
But wait, it gets worse. It took me 1500 rounds to beat down the fates to almost no HP. BUT, I didn't know that the tree could restore their HP instantly. Yes, that's right, I had to all over again. Everyone gaze in wonder and horror at my epic failure of a victory.

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