[X] My Assistant

0 10 Spawned Monster I: MID=16053 (Clusting) LV=346 HP=8457
0 9 Spawned Monster H: MID=12167 (Ao Kiji) LV=350 HP=11730
0 8 Spawned Monster G: MID=4797 (Fallen Popsicle) LV=346 HP=6829
0 7 Spawned Monster F: MID=14712 (Ezeref) LV=350 HP=6890
0 6 Spawned Monster E: MID=27351 (Magic The Gandhi) LV=350 HP=12066
0 5 Spawned Monster D: MID=38046 (Bazaar Bot) LV=351 HP=7703
0 4 Spawned Monster C: MID=6921 (The Kinky French Maid) LV=351 HP=7495
0 3 Spawned Monster B: MID=14942 (Elizabeth) LV=349 HP=15938
0 2 Spawned Monster A: MID=10466 (Noihara Himari) LV=351 HP=16897
0 1 Initializing CrysFest (Round 1701) ...
0 0 Battle Start!

i quit then because it got boring

This post has been edited by mr daniels: Aug 6 2012, 04:08

I raised the bar a bit.

Below 180 turn...a new record for me

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This post has been edited by Shuleria: Aug 13 2012, 14:50

Finally I tried it and... success and orz at the same time.

Feast For Crows on IWBTH.



Only green drops! (IMG:[invalid] style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif)

Defeated DwD on Hard with Melee Mace. It took a while, but was simple. If not for focus and skills, it would have been much more annoying. Used 2 mana elixirs (didn't need to, but got bored of how long it takes and didn't want to waste time using focus every single time). Didn't even bother with shards this time. The dragons at the end weren't anywhere as bad as I was led to believe. (in fact all but Drogon fell quickly enough I didn't even notice what they were trying to do). The worst part of it was that with all of those attacks, I didn't even get a single full point of proficiency, even with 4/10 training.

Compared to Maging, Melee is SEVERELY underpowered. Even with Estoc it would have taken a while. Melee needs some kind of way to inflict at least half to three quarters of the damage Mage does to be equal (considering that Melee defense is better). And my Slaughter Mace is pretty strong (over 1600 base dmg) as far as they go...certainly stronger than my Estoc. The game needs to have buffed damage on Melee to be anywhere near fun on the high difficulties.

- JC

Melee needs some kind of way to inflict at least half to three quarters of the damage Mage does to be equal (considering that Melee defense is better). The game needs to have buffed damage on Melee to be anywhere near fun on the high difficulties.

Might as well remove mage in that case, as no one in their right mind would use it over melee.

Defeated DwD on Hard with Melee Mace. It took a while, but was simple. If not for focus and skills, it would have been much more annoying. Used 2 mana elixirs (didn't need to, but got bored of how long it takes and didn't want to waste time using focus every single time). Didn't even bother with shards this time. The dragons at the end weren't anywhere as bad as I was led to believe. (in fact all but Drogon fell quickly enough I didn't even notice what they were trying to do). The worst part of it was that with all of those attacks, I didn't even get a single full point of proficiency, even with 4/10 training.

Compared to Maging, Melee is SEVERELY underpowered. Even with Estoc it would have taken a while. Melee needs some kind of way to inflict at least half to three quarters of the damage Mage does to be equal (considering that Melee defense is better). And my Slaughter Mace is pretty strong (over 1600 base dmg) as far as they go...certainly stronger than my Estoc. The game needs to have buffed damage on Melee to be anywhere near fun on the high difficulties.

- JC

maces are slow, try doing it again while using the first 2 skills to gain PA.
OC/spirit stance is your friend, so is OFC

And if you want to melee on IWBTH fast you need to upgrade your gear a lot. Mages will have a hard time if they use junk.

Might as well remove mage in that case, as no one in their right mind would use it over melee.

good thing there are a lot of people that are in their left mind (IMG:[invalid] style_emoticons/default/tongue.gif)

maces are slow, try doing it again while using the first 2 skills to gain PA.
OC/spirit stance is your friend, so is OFC

I did use the first two skills. It helped, but still slow. I could have used SS a bit more but I settled for just using in with skills.

And if you want to melee on IWBTH fast you need to upgrade your gear a lot. Mages will have a hard time if they use junk.

I heard that the only viable IWBTH DwD Melee now is a Holy Strike Ethereal Estoc. Considering I got Elec with my Mace, probably really hard to ever get an effective weapon unless Tenboro lets us reset back to level 9 on the Forge (yeah, right!)

- JC

EDIT: Beat DwD with shards on Heroic (and only like 2 godly mana pots). Melee just takes too long.

This post has been edited by jcullinane: Aug 18 2012, 22:38

Defeated all Arenas on Heroic. Used Black Mage primarily with some White Mage. I used a lot more godly mana pots this was but much faster than Melee (and I have a good Focus staff too, just not Katalox).

If I wasn't trying to raise proficiencies I could probably have beaten then a lot faster than I did since I have a Katalox Destruction Staff, but then I am not sure if I would run out of mana too quickly, or it it would take forever just to ether theft everything. Since I never maged until recently, not really sure.

Next up: Arenas on Nightmare.

- JC

1 - 40: IWBTH
50 - 100: Nintendo
110 - 190: Hell

mix of melee and magic, doing magic on high lvl is hard for me... i take way too much dmg

This post has been edited by physics152: Aug 19 2012, 08:57

Never tried to see how far I could go before. So, I just went for it.

5 6 You have been defeated.
5 5 Cygnus crits you for 1753 cold damage.
5 4 Old Turtle 6 crits you for 2911 crushing damage.
5 3 Satsuki Yumizuka hits you for 2782 crushing damage.
5 2 Eila Ilmatar Juutilainen 501st hits you for 4367 piercing damage.
5 1 Eila Ilmatar Juutilainen 501st parries your attack.

Round 528 of Crysfest on Hard.

I'll prepare better and see how far I can go later this week.

I can barely go 200 on anything without quitting due to boredom...

In the same boat in that regard myelf, that and my old RSI kicks in at around level forty some days so a early quit sometimes is a 'must'.

As for achievements

IWBTH; Baby Steps
Nintendo: Learning Curves (cramped up attempting Schooltastic more times than I can count)
Heroic: Test Of Faith
Hard: A Rolling Stone
Normal: Appocalypse Soon (boy my hand was hurting after that one, sadly not in the way the main body of the site intended)

White Bunneh: Hard
Konata: Normal

(awaiting more token drops for the rest of the class)

Since gaining access to the ring of blood, I've taken down all of the monsters available to me on the first try! I did Manbearpig, White Bunneh, and Mithra on Normal but did Dalek on hard for a change of pace. I theorize that with my current mace and setup, I could take them all down at heroic difficulty. 30% chance to proc stun for 3 rounds and extra damage from soul strike is a lifesaver!

0 1 Initializing CrysFest (Round 554) ...

No Pots used. (IMG:[invalid] style_emoticons/default/ph34r.gif)

Stopped paying attention around 500 due to boredom. (IMG:[invalid] style_emoticons/default/laugh.gif)

End of Days. Pretty Patethic (yet) (IMG:[invalid] style_emoticons/default/heh.gif)



Learning to (IMG:[invalid] style_emoticons/default/wub.gif) an apply ET well in the hard way.
Now, to move on to Nightmare. (IMG:[invalid] style_emoticons/default/happy.gif)

0 1 Initializing CrysFest (Round 554) ...

No Pots used. (IMG:[invalid] style_emoticons/default/ph34r.gif)

Stopped paying attention around 500 due to boredom. (IMG:[invalid] style_emoticons/default/laugh.gif)

BT-CF 1187 rounds before using a potion & did it as a Lord not a Godslayer oops (IMG:[invalid] style_emoticons/default/tongue.gif)

Switched to Heavy Armor just for the lols. EoD was a Nightmare (IMG:[invalid] style_emoticons/default/laugh.gif)



Guess I'll have to get Ilithid weapons before moving to next step (or go back maging (IMG:[invalid] style_emoticons/default/heh.gif) )

I raised the bar a bit.

Battletoads (IMG:[invalid] style_emoticons/default/tongue.gif)
0 1 Initializing CrysFest (Round 2027) ...
0 0 Battle Start!