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I was bored so I decided to kill the IPU with this axe I found. I was doing 499 per tick of bleed. It only took 8 godly mana draughts to do it.

That axe have less bleed and chance to proc than mine, although mine have 1 less turn, so how did you only spent 8 godly draughts?

That axe have less bleed and chance to proc than mine, although mine have 1 less turn, so how did you only spent 8 godly draughts?

My guess is that because he has much higher Dual Wield prof than you, he gets a big enough bonus to his bleed damage (you get +.5% per prof point) to make it happen. Plus, being as high level as he is, he's got much more bonus stats, making him tougher against IPU's attacks (not to mention better holy resistance).

Real Life Down!

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Now that I'm a GodSlayer, where's my title?
You need to be at Level +200 and beat my friends? Yeah right, I don't know if I'll do it (IMG:[invalid] style_emoticons/default/tongue.gif)

Items used 6 mana elixirs and 2 last elixirs, although the last one was pretty wasted, 1 last elixir unused.

I was very happy, and a bit angry as well.
Why? Because:
1rt attempt: went high bleed axe and shield, I lose for letting weaken off, RL crits, and I die. (I had more than enough mana to finish him)
2nd attempt: went high bleed axe and 4-turn rapier off-hand, bring 6 mana elixirs, 2 spirit elixirs, I die because I run out of mana.
3nd attempt: went high bleed axe and 4-turn rapier off-hand, bring 7 mana elixirs, 1 spirit elixirs, I die because RL decided to cast Internet Shutdown many times, and didn't miss any one, so I run out of spirit.

After all this I deciced to raise a little more 2W and deprecating prof, and buy a few last elixirs, resulting:
4th attempt: went high bleed axe and 4-turn rapier off-hand, bring 6 mana elixirs, 2 last elixirs, I die on the 60s turns because I forget to cast Spark of life, one Hit-KO (IMG:[invalid] style_emoticons/default/mad.gif), at least I only losed the tokens.

At this point since the problem was the fact that RL liked to use Internet Shutdown quite often, and didn't missed almost any hit, I decided to put 17 AP points on the SP tanks, so I would get a 3rd spark of life. (Thanks for the tip Boggyb)

5th attempt:went high bleed axe and 4-turn rapier off-hand, bring 5 mana elixirs, 3 last elixirs,
Internet Shutdown missed first, resisted second, evaded third time, RL use it no more.
What the hell is that? After I was full ready, dress up, and prepared for the war, he decided to just "get killed" easily.

Aside of that, I'm officially join the Black T-shirt owner's club (IMG:[invalid] style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)

My Axe
My Rapier

My crappy drop

Anyways, although I missed the chance of beating RL on level 100, anyone can beat him, you just need 7 mana elixirs, 1 last elixir, 1 spirit elixir, +30% evade, 17 AP points on the SP tanks, 2 pack rat trained, a good bleeding axe, and a rapier with good proc.
(or 35% block, that will do too, despite losing the PA+poison damage)
Good luck for that.

REAL LIFE BEATEN

314 20 You gain 50326 Credits!
314 19 You gain 16861.8 EXP!
314 18 Your HP and MP have been fully restored!
314 17 Arena Token Bonus! Received:
[Token of Blood]
314 16 Arena Clear Bonus! Received:
[Godly Health Potion]
314 15 Real Life dropped [Black T-Shirt]
314 14 You are Victorious!

i used these

Fine Titanium Rapier of The Nimble
Fine Sapphire Dagger of The Battlecaster
Fine Silk Cap of The Cheetah
Fine Phase Robe of The Demon-Fiend
Fine Silk Gloves of Protection
Fine Silk Pants of The Raccoon
Fine Phase Shoes of The Curse-Weaver

i brought 9 mana elixirs, 2 last elixirs, and i also had a god scroll and a infusion of gaia in my scroll and infusion slots

i only used 6 mana elixirs, god scroll, and the infusion of gaia

my strategy was keeping weaken, bewilder, and nerf on him at all times
i also used PA+poison. poison was hitting him for 423 per tick
i kept haste and shadow veil on myself at all times
i used regen 3 times, i slowed Real Life when i cast regen

my evade was 35.7%
my parry was 38.5%
my resist was 16.5%

he used Internet Shutdown 3 times but i evaded 2 of them and resisted 1

i also cast arcane focus 1 time

This post has been edited by mr daniels: Mar 18 2010, 23:26

That was the easy part. Now do IPU. =p

How much damage were you doing to him with your regular melee?

about 22 but for some reason whenever ripened soul drained health from him it would show that i hit him for 212

This post has been edited by mr daniels: Mar 19 2010, 00:29

That's how Ripened Soul works. It takes health from him and gives it to you.

no it would show i hit him for 212 piercing damage in the battle log

This post has been edited by mr daniels: Mar 19 2010, 01:21

It doesn't show it separately, but that's what it's doing. You do 190 extra damage with that hit, and your health goes up by 190.

While we're on the subject, I decided to try the DW axe+rapier combo against Real Life the other day - and kicked his arse with ease. I used 6 Mana Elixirs, one Spirit Elixir and a Scroll of the Gods, which was a lot less than the 10 Mana/Last Elixirs (and Scroll) I needed the first time. Of course, being at a higher level now didn't do me any harm, but DW really does seem to be the best strategy for all of the 3-token enemies.

I still can't beat the FSM though. (IMG:[invalid] style_emoticons/default/sad.gif)

I'm not sure FSM is beatable as a melee unless you've got a ton of Dark Mit and the levels to beef up your attack power. I think everyone who's done it so far nuked his ass to hell with Holy spells.

It doesn't show it separately, but that's what it's doing. You do 190 extra damage with that hit, and your health goes up by 190.

While we're on the subject, I decided to try the DW axe+rapier combo against Real Life the other day - and kicked his arse with ease. I used 6 Mana Elixirs, one Spirit Elixir and a Scroll of the Gods, which was a lot less than the 10 Mana/Last Elixirs (and Scroll) I needed the first time. Of course, being at a higher level now didn't do me any harm, but DW really does seem to be the best strategy for all of the 3-token enemies.

I still can't beat the FSM though. (IMG:[invalid] style_emoticons/default/sad.gif)

ok thanks for the explanation

I'm not sure FSM is beatable as a melee unless you've got a ton of Dark Mit and the levels to beef up your attack power. I think everyone who's done it so far nuked his ass to hell with Holy spells.

I've tried PA+Holy spells, and it doesn't seem to be very efficient in terms of damage done per amount of mana used. That was with my DW/Dark mitigation setup though... if I use a shield I could afford to substitute some Heaven-Sent gear and maybe hurt him a bit more. I think I might try that.

I'm not sure FSM is beatable as a melee unless you've got a ton of Dark Mit and the levels to beef up your attack power. I think everyone who's done it so far nuked his ass to hell with Holy spells.

You can't be saying that people kill him with Holy. Has anyone killed the FSM with Holy? I killed the IPU using Dark, but I didn't even try the FSM because of his absurd amounts of HP.

... if I use a shield I could afford to substitute some Heaven-Sent gear and maybe hurt him a bit more. I think I might try that.

Tried it, didn't work. I used a 30% block shield and replaced two of my Spirit-ward pieces with Heaven-sent, which gave me about the same overall mitigation but with +45 Divine prof. PA + Holy spells = lots of mana expended, and considerably less damage done compared to DW.

Tried it, didn't work. I used a 30% block shield and replaced two of my Spirit-ward pieces with Heaven-sent, which gave me about the same overall mitigation but with +45 Divine prof. PA + Holy spells = lots of mana expended, and considerably less damage done compared to DW.

I don't understand how exactly replacing Spirit-ward pieces with Heaven-sent gave you the same mitigation?
Plus this 30% block shield doesn't have a lot interference, comparable to 2W? each point of interference removes 1% of magic damage, so even +45 divine prof probably wasn't enough to overcame the excess of interference.

This post has been edited by cmdct: Mar 19 2010, 15:08

I meant that my overall mitigation against the FSM's attacks, including Block, was about the same. I didn't calculate the exact values, but I seemed to be receiving roughly the same amount of damage with both setups. And this shield doesn't have a lot of interference. (IMG:[invalid] style_emoticons/default/smile.gif) Anyway, even if I had zero interference it wouldn't increase my spell damage by enough to make up the difference.

I meant that my overall mitigation against the FSM's attacks, including Block, was about the same. I didn't calculate the exact values, but I seemed to be receiving roughly the same amount of damage with both setups. And this shield doesn't have a lot of interference. (IMG:[invalid] style_emoticons/default/smile.gif) Anyway, even if I had zero interference it wouldn't increase my spell damage by enough to make up the difference.

Now I understand, good shield too. The last sentence you mean if you still had the shield equipped? I just remember that cmal have one +20% block kite shield of battlecaster.
Another thing I remember, since you silence him, and you only need to worry about physical attacks, why don't use a dagger with the most parry possible, or you haven't one that can't give you more parry than block?
Well if holy doesn't work, you can still try bleeding to death strategic (IMG:[invalid] style_emoticons/default/wink.gif)

YAY. Today I beat a Mithra on normal in Item World round 17 on a fine Steel shortsword of slaughter level 57. She had around 9k of HP.

Should I be proud of myself? And what should I do with the drop at my level? Sell to bazaar or exchange for something?

Should I be proud of myself? And what should I do with the drop at my level? Sell to bazaar or exchange for something?

Yes if is your first time, RoB and arenas they're much tougher, with the trophy keep it for later or trade it for something on shrine and pray for something good comes out, or make the max C by trade for a crappy staff that you can sell after.

Now I understand, good shield too. The last sentence you mean if you still had the shield equipped? I just remember that cmal have one +20% block kite shield of battlecaster.

What I mean is: for every Mana Elixir I use, I can take off X amount of FSM's health. When I tried PA+Holy, X was only about 60% of what I got with DW Axe+Rapier. I would need to increase my spell damage by 2/3 just to get even with what I can do with DW. Battlecaster equipment isn't going to help much...

Another thing I remember, since you silence him, and you only need to worry about physical attacks, why don't use a dagger with the most parry possible, or you haven't one that can't give you more parry than block?

I don't think a dagger with that much parry exists. I certainly don't have one. As for Silence, I wish I could use it, but it doesn't work. He hits too hard if he's not Weakened.

Well if holy doesn't work, you can still try bleeding to death strategic (IMG:[invalid] style_emoticons/default/wink.gif)

That's the plan. I'm going to work on leveling up my axe and maybe increasing my DW prof. If all else fails, I can save up for the last two levels of Pack Rat. I think another two Elixirs would be just about enough to get the job done.