Some of my secrets revealed!

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Some of my secrets revealed! Dec 28, 2018 8:59:50 GMT Findell and thepromise like this

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Post by Jonales on Dec 28, 2018 8:59:50 GMT

Farming the isle of ice - Ice Troll and Azath

Azath - farmed with pale master, wizard 9 fighter 1 pm 30, summoning and sancting.

If done normally, Azath has a undeath to death spell with a dc that tends to succeed against the summons. After a while I thought, if only there was a way to counter undeath to death...

Wait there is! Counterspelling!

I also noticed on the wiki it said counterspelling did not interrupt sanctuary mode.

muahaha

Strategy:

Mordenkainen scrolls are helpful.

It is also important to have an elemental ring of resistance or 15 DR cold/fire/electric/acid for hellballs.

It is very important to have the arakan staff, as greater withering isn't really used that much here and that is the only item (I've found, it's pretty basic anyway) that has fear immunity. This helps when your mind blanks are dispelled.

You will also need a widget of cleared mind and drone summoning.

Stock up undeath to deaths with normal levels and metamagic, 4 should do it. Stock up on a greater dispell or two, 3 or so lesser and regular dispell, 2 mordenkainens, a flesh to stone, a great thunderclap and sunburst. That's usually what I do for counterspelling him. I also have shadow shields, 2 shades, 2 greater shadow conjurations, flame shield & energy buffer for hellballs (important), and mind immunity spells like clarity / lesser mind blank. 3 or 4 lesser spell breaches. After that its the regular empower spell mantle, true seeing, buffs, and negative energy rays.

Now because the summons are AI and you don't control everything they do, I've found a better way is to go to the upper left corner behind azath after entering. This is because it will attract the least amount of casters to the fight. More casters = more problems.

You enter in sanctuary mode, then go to that corner. You summon and can usually get one more spell off such as bulls strength or shades, then immediately counterspell azath (to be safe, you can summon then immediately set to counterspell azath). Because you are in sanct mode, the only thing he can see is the summon, and he usually begins with undeath to death so your counterspelling is the only thing stopping him. He might do a hellball and then another undeath to death right after so you can't counter it, that's fine just summon another undead.

Usually following that strategy you get him to the half hp mark easily.

When this happens he summons a caster or two to help him! It's important to have numbers on your side, so now you summon your first drone!

Also, your sanctuary will run out right about now, so don't hesitate to breach the casters with lesser spell breach or mordenkainen scrolls. If you breach them and you feel safe enough to not sanct ( you aren't being targeted) you might be able to get rid of one with undead graft if it's shadow shield is down.

After that, you can usually sanctuary and then continue to use summons and your last drone to fight azath or casters. It will usually be done after a while like that.

Sometimes your summons will be blinded, so restores or true seeing spells will help as well.

Here is a video showing this process twice (once at start and again at end, the ending one is shorter ).

www.twitch.tv/videos/355331720

Last Edit: Dec 28, 2018 9:25:22 GMT by Jonales

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Some of my secrets revealed! Dec 28, 2018 9:05:37 GMT Findell likes this

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Post by Jonales on Dec 28, 2018 9:05:37 GMT

Troll Lord on Isle of Ice

Air Elemental Strategy:

First you have to understand that the troll lord has an aura that does a severe amount of cold damage 3 times a round. To counter this with air elemental I noticed that one could give up a few feats and stick with sort of the same build - epic skill focus disc, armor skin, and epic prowess. You could also give up an epic damage reduction instead of epic prowess or anything else you'd like.

But I had a blizzard walkers cloak (35 cold resistance I think) and 2 epic energy resist cold feats for a total of 55 cold resistance.

Then my air elemental that I do it with could get 90 AC with undeath eternal foe from legion battle plate.

You go from the rest cave to the crystal forest entrance by running. I use any animal shape except badger to save shapes. With that build you can defeat the golems and casters as shown in video with that dire animal form.

Once you get to the outside of the building you at least buff undeaths eternal foe, then shift into air elemental form. It's important to do that here because the troll lord can use quivering palm when seeing you.

Once you go inside, there is a caster to the left. You use improved knockdown on it to disable its casting, and then go back to door. This usually lures the troll lord, and then you go outside.

You go back to the ruin at the entrance, kill any remaining small units, then you have the ruin terrain to help you and it's you vs troll lord. When buffs run out his attack can sometimes damage you, so you can use the ruin to get him away from you by moving and then use invisibility - or make it so the troll lord isnt moving - to heal, rebuff, and drone.

Two DM Gems, ready to use!

Last Edit: Dec 28, 2018 9:27:00 GMT by Jonales

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Post by Jonales on Dec 28, 2018 9:08:24 GMT

Random in Sendauntra Web

Another strategy that is useful is in sendauntra web when farming for the random there. When I open sendauntra I like to get a sanctuary caster with extend spell and widget to go in there. This is for 2 reasons mainly.

1. To explore the portals to understand which is which.
2. When I want to farm web and know the portals, I can explore web to find which branch has the chest and portal exit.

Then when I have that information, I usually use my bard blackguard 2 sd 2 or my regular general Air elemental Aera to lure strider away from addy, then defeat the sendaunts and strider in the center or so. It is important to lure it away from the addy because if hit or damaged, it seems the addy begins summoning more sendaunts on hit or something.

After that, you get the key so you can just run to chest and use it to get out.

Enjoy your random!

Last Edit: Dec 28, 2018 9:27:43 GMT by Jonales