I guess you can add me to that list haha, but yea anyone know why my score gets cleared everyday? does it auto clear levels over 1000 every day or something now? I haven't even logged in with my MrMonkeyBot account, that party is on level 1912..:p
The problem is they have to have mk bolt throwers to be good. Easily the sickest purp weapon being a xbow with now quickness penalty and +30 to hit makes it perfect for hail of arrows. The problem is even tho the 70% of 125% comes to like 88% to hit but my party would mis 2-3 times per character sometimes which is like 60% not cool. I switched to mages because they don't need any specific weapon to own with storm and it hits 95% of the time. Mages are the best offensive characters for attacking whole enemy groups check my past post for the optimum mages gear set up.
Mages can cast storm after level one, most enemies are slower than them and they can nerf most parties with 3 casts. The fastest way to clear levels is to play on easy. If you want a good rating and a more involved gameplay experience than play medium or hard with modifiers for a challenge. In which case the issue of clearing levels fast is moot seeing as a warrior rogue cleric ranger party vs stronger enemies would take much longer to clear than the barb/mage/mage/mage party who kills everything in 1-2 turns with a 3 turn max battle length. My other account MrMonkeyBot is a 4 ranger party. I started over because they get killed all the time at that level and their already low rating is brutal haha.
Alright just secured the #3 highest spot. Got alot more to leap frog my other account. Pretty sick to think between both parties I've cleared 2998 levels :o
At least in the second campaign, that's the one I play. Oh yea and Deacon you're exactly right you need a conjurer and recycled shop items to get anywhere in survival. futhermore any score of over 300 is most likely fake and definitely anything past 500 is illegit. (monsters go up 1 level every 20 levels, at 500 they are level 35 to your level 10 thats a huge difference and you start to get 1 hit killed)
Suiton it's random. I've had orange items 4 levels apart and sometimes up to 15 levels apart. Simply keep track of the levels of the orange items you get and you'll see it's random.
For those of you who are just starting out it's random but you will find legendaries about once every 25-35 levels and a special "mixed level" 1-2 times every 25 levels about. Mixed levels have different types of enemy races and will either have a 2 boss group for a random orange item or dread father or corruptor. Like the Legendaries they each have 2 unique drops, book of dread(off hand) and dread fathers visage(helmet) for dread father and demon skin cloak and demon signet ring for corruptor. Hydra drops hydras tooth(1 hand weapon) and Hydraskin cloak. Minotaur drops minotaur axe and minotaur horn(off hand) Gorgon drops serpentine ring and gorgons head(off hand). Again how often/what level/what they drop is all random but playing through levels will continue to produce them.
Mageblade so you can use Book of Dread. I use the ice attack on single targets so I never need the normal attack that staves provide. As far as what level book of dread drops it's random. I will say this only Dread Father drops them, you have a 33% chance of getting one(I think) I'm guessing that you have a 33.3% chance for book, 33.3% for dread father's visage and 33.3% for a random orange item. It's posible the %'s are different but I'd bet that's the formula. That would apply to legendaries and the corruptor as well.
Blue altars and which kind they are(potion/item upgrade/orb) are completely random i have gotten at least to level 300 with 3 different parties and it's never the same. Suiton add Thieves Gloves(-20) and Enlightenmening Hood(-30) for a total of 130 blind ;) Makes Legendaries ezcakes
Oh I was talking about the survival mode you can't get past 300 legit. In the regular campaign you can go on endlessly. And yea I don't clear the entire level, I hit the exit as soon as I find it.
You kill 9 Fearsowers and then when you double click the 9 journeyman's stones you fight DreadFather. After that you can keep going forever, everything keeps going up in stats and you have random encounters with legendaries, blue shrines, merc, treasure monster and mixed levels that always produce an orange item.
Survival is tough and and ranking above 300 is probably fake. In an earlier posting I asked Garin and he said it's not posible to get to level 1000 legit.
Salty a barb is better than a warrior because brutality is more useful than armor passive becuase 70+ DR isn't needed when you beef up endurance and the fact that whirlwind is far superior to cleave in it's ability to hit more enemies in more formations. IE a group with an open slot in the middel front row would limt warrior to one hit whereas the barb would get 2 also getting the extra hit in the back row when there is a 6 enemy party. The pulverize and dismember skills makes legendaries easycakes. If you want to mow thru enemies in quick fasion you want to do as many hits per round as possible.
A couple days I noticed someone said mages sucked...mages pwn electrical storm rapes. A with mage blade, book of dread, robe of affliction, serpentine band, mana shroud, and savant gear with int orbs will take 2/3 to 1/2 Hp from all enemies by itself...Mages and Rangers are the best chars in the game for ripping thru levels.
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