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IWBTH from First Blood through Fresh Meat.
Battletoads up to Killzone.
Nintendo up to Sealed Power.
Hell up to The Trio and the Tree.

As for End of Days and The Twilight, I haven't maxed them out yet (ie died with using all my mana potions), but I'd guess at least Nightmare if not Hell as well.

laters,

RRViper
(though those last 2 take a while, and whether the stamina waste is worth the effort put in)

Test of faith Iwbth - beating each round takes shitload of maging, we need some kind of AoE Imperil (IMG:[invalid] style_emoticons/default/dry.gif)
Fresh meat Nintendo
Dark skies Hell
Power flux Nightmare
Longest journey - Heroic

IWBTH from First Blood through Fresh Meat.
Battletoads up to Dreamfall.
Hell up to The Trio and the Tree.
Others are normal,now the highest arena is Beyond The Clouds

The only IWBTH is first blood...of whom?

Flying spaghetti Monster beaten on Battletoads (IMG:[invalid] style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)

0 1 Initializing GrindFest (Round 1389) ...
3 3 You have been defeated!

8 mana elixir and less than 10 protection scrolls used

I think I can pass with 13 godly mana too

Shit drop and Shit arena clear bonus though

0 1 Initializing GrindFest (Round 1389) ...
3 3 You have been defeated!

Nice, I have problems with clearing more than 120 rounds (IMG:[invalid] style_emoticons/default/sleep.gif) (no scrolls or infusions). Maybe because I'm too lazy to care about mana and ET mobs.

Managed to clear Road less traveled at Iwbth, but with VERY big problems. I may be able to clear 20 & 25 round arenas, but only on serious steroids : non stop scrolls, infusions, mana elixir, health elixir and maybe some DMG boosters e.g. Bubble Gum.

I am just level 77. So far I have try to reach round 30+. The difficulty is set to Normal

Nice, I have problems with clearing more than 120 rounds (IMG:[invalid] style_emoticons/default/sleep.gif) (no scrolls or infusions). Maybe because I'm too lazy to care about mana and ET mobs.

Managed to clear Road less traveled at Iwbth, but with VERY big problems. I may be able to clear 20 & 25 round arenas, but only on serious steroids : non stop scrolls, infusions, mana elixir, health elixir and maybe some DMG boosters e.g. Bubble Gum.

120 rounds of Iwbth grindfest with No Elixirs, Great Stamina, Shards, Infusions, Focus, Spirit Stance, Ether Theft,Cheaper Spells Or Scrolls,(NEGSSIFSSETCSOS) with fair-exq holy gear? (IMG:[invalid] style_emoticons/default/blink.gif)

What....but how..... I know holy mages with gear worth more than hundred times yours and they can't do that. But to have only 120 rounds of normalfest...Do you have 5 levels of pack rat? I find legendary IWs(on easy/normal) take me between 1-7 godly mana(best to wort, usually 3 to 5) pots to complete. Not even managing 120 rounds on normal gf...I cannot imagine what one must do as a mage to fail to manage that.

As for me, have improved since then: EDIT, more complete log although less deep:

2 21 You have been defeated.
2 20 Hitokiri84 crits you for 10650 piercing damage.
2 19 Your Spark of Life fails due to insufficient Spirit.
2 18 You evade the attack from Ouzai.
2 17 You evade the attack from Ouzai Shadow Killer White.
2 16 Lala Moo-moo has been defeated.
2 15 Flames of Loki blasts Lala Moo-moo for 22498 fire damage.
2 14 Neiro has been defeated.
2 13 Flames of Loki blasts Neiro for 22929 fire damage.
2 12 Mizunashi Akari has been defeated.
2 11 Flames of Loki hits Mizunashi Akari for 15193 fire damage.
2 10 Hitokiri84 gains the effect Searing Skin.
2 9 Flames of Loki blasts Hitokiri84 for 6146 fire damage.
2 8 Ouzai Shadow Killer White resists your spell.
2 7 Medusa Gorgon has been defeated.
2 6 Flames of Loki hits Medusa Gorgon for 26689 fire damage.
2 5 Evil has been defeated.
2 4 Flames of Loki blasts Evil for 48451 fire damage.
2 3 Ouzai gains the effect Coalesced Mana.
2 2 Flames of Loki hits Ouzai for 5650 fire damage.
2 1 You cast Flames of Loki.
1 2 Recovered 0 points of health.
1 1 You use Health Gem.
0 9 Spawned Monster H: MID=20678 (Lala Moo-moo) LV=243 HP=8195
0 8 Spawned Monster G: MID=24712 (Neiro) LV=239 HP=4894
0 7 Spawned Monster F: MID=45363 (Mizunashi Akari) LV=242 HP=5512
0 6 Spawned Monster E: MID=20554 (Hitokiri84) LV=243 HP=11063
0 5 Spawned Monster D: MID=40817 (Ouzai Shadow Killer White) LV=241 HP=8235
0 4 Spawned Monster C: MID=38185 (Medusa Gorgon) LV=242 HP=6238
0 3 Spawned Monster B: MID=1693 (Evil) LV=244 HP=9216
0 2 Spawned Monster A: MID=9848 (Ouzai) LV=240 HP=6068
0 1 Initializing GrindFest (Round 1777) ...
0 0 Battle Start!

I don't use great stamina(should try), but otherwise ranging from rounds I use almost nothing to everything above, including all buffs but spike spells. Keep in mind, some of what I do to reach that deep loses money and it is not worth the time when compared to more straightforward blasting but it is more fun like that for me
That said, my gear is full magnificent/legendary(and beyond), so it doesn't bear comparison.

(Also, that round above is the max with serious RNG-luck on spirit. Usually it is several hundreds of rounds lower, if particularly unlucky dying at round ~700 which seems to be another potential bottleneck)

This post has been edited by Lement: Mar 13 2013, 19:21

hm, I'm a mage. With full fenrir phase items of different qualities. I usually Start the battle using Banish and then Ragnarok. Followed by banish and then ragnarock again until all mosnters are dead. Those monsters which seem to be evading my spells get a MagNet after the 2nd banish or 1st ragnarock.

WITHOUT using any shard, scroll or infusion. Only 12 Godly Mana potions and having 1 Godly spirit potion in reserve. I get as far as round 46 in IWBTH mode of GRINDFEST and then I run oom and I either die or have to flee.

Am I doing something wrong or right?

This post has been edited by kakashi524: Mar 14 2013, 23:43

Since you're using Fenrir, shouldn't you begin with the more damaging spell(dark) first?
Also, I'd advise to use pestilence(at least to proc the dark proc) since it uses less time to cast. And for that depth consider health elixirs.

Also, you should probably use Imperil on IWBTH.

2H prot plate melee. Equip is only good enough for clearing nightmare reliably, but some nasty timings on spirit attacks in hell have killed me in one turn from roughly 5-6k hp.

120 rounds of Iwbth

I was talking about Grindfeast at NORMAL difficulty.

Do you have 5 levels of pack rat

Maxed out long time ago. With stamina or without it, it doesn't make much difference as I spark almost at every round at IWBTH. Maybe it's because of my low spell power : Magical attack : 1550.2 base damage (Mana conservation staff, with my best I have something like 1750 (no forging or IWing), but amount of mana consumed by T3 dark spells hastens my miserable end during grindfeast), but it's frickin annoying to get a decent staff with nice spell power, spell power bonus, proficiency bonus, mana conservation / counter-resist & decent PAB (IMG:[invalid] style_emoticons/default/sleep.gif). I got an access to the last tier of abilities, but it doesn't make much difference (IMG:[invalid] style_emoticons/default/dry.gif). Winning anything worth wearing costs shitload of credits and when I see amount of credits used by 350+ lvl players or donors, I get a headache :/. I guess, I'll stick with improving my monsters for a while to get another source of money (in a long run).

This post has been edited by HNTI: Mar 25 2013, 13:12

Since you're using Fenrir, shouldn't you begin with the more damaging spell(dark) first?
Also, I'd advise to use pestilence(at least to proc the dark proc) since it uses less time to cast. And for that depth consider health elixirs.

Also, you should probably use Imperil on IWBTH.

Pestilence then banish? or something else?

Are you suggesting I Imperil each monster? At the moment I'm using Imperil on the monsters that get the least dmg, meaning the most dmg mitigation.

Cleared 'Apocalypse Soon' @ Normal

My strategy for melee (Someone please help optimize)
1)Shadow Veil
2)Haste
3)Attack
4)Cure when low
5)Re-cast buffs
6)Attack
7)Repeat

Endgame @ Nightmare

First Blood

@y-u-no-face111: No Protection spell in your rotation ?

@y-u-no-face111: No Protection spell in your rotation ?

I didn't think the short duration was worth the MP at first. Should I manual-cast it before or after Shadow Veil?


Just beat 'Endgame' on Normal, so excited to try it on Nightmare next Dawn