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Re: The Xmax Hardcore Challenge
« Reply #555 on: 12 January 2020, 15:09:02 »
Thanx for the links!

I found the mod...its loot plus.

Golden boar sems to be better for me. And it has the same lootdrop table as fafnir.

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Re: The Xmax Hardcore Challenge
« Reply #556 on: 12 January 2020, 19:33:39 »
We are farming boar and fafnir for swords for our conquerer and... :P :P :P

we just got this from the boar: https://tq-db.net/en/equipment/mj%C3%B6lnir

we took a look at the miserable loot we got earlier and guess what:
https://tq-db.net/en/equipment/blessing-of-the-moirae

this is a sign we will go rune next . and we were absolutely not interested in thrown weapons.

btw, still using the old epic sword... :o :o :o but it works surprisingly well.

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Re: The Xmax Hardcore Challenge
« Reply #557 on: 15 January 2020, 18:32:52 »
Well, my first couple attempts at this were already horrible failures. I started two Wanderers (nature) and intended to level as that until I figured out what I wanted my 2nd mastery to be. First toon died almost immediately from me just being dumb. Whatever, no big loss. Second toon made it to the Gorgon sisters as a plague caster, but I didn’t take into account that there would be 3x Euryales, so they just constantly heal and I couldn’t do any damage to them. Ran out of potions, tried to portal out but died.

Oh well lesson learned. Now I decided to roll as a Skinchanger but I started as Rune instead of Nature. Much better results. The plan is to stick to a throw & shield elemental build. Might add pets later, not sure yet. I’ll report back when I’ve made some significant progress. For the leaderboard entry:

CaptainBourbon
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Re: The Xmax Hardcore Challenge
« Reply #558 on: 15 January 2020, 22:37:54 »
You can easily kite euryales by hitting them and then running to the lower right part of the dungeon. After a few tries you can get one alone and then hit her ranged until she has no more mana to heal or just outright outdamage her. If you're interested I can maybe record a video how to do it

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Re: The Xmax Hardcore Challenge
« Reply #559 on: 16 January 2020, 06:43:53 »
Well, my first couple attempts at this were already horrible failures. I started two Wanderers (nature) and intended to level as that until I figured out what I wanted my 2nd mastery to be. First toon died almost immediately from me just being dumb. Whatever, no big loss. Second toon made it to the Gorgon sisters as a plague caster, but I didn’t take into account that there would be 3x Euryales, so they just constantly heal and I couldn’t do any damage to them. Ran out of potions, tried to portal out but died.

Oh well lesson learned. Now I decided to roll as a Skinchanger but I started as Rune instead of Nature. Much better results. The plan is to stick to a throw & shield elemental build. Might add pets later, not sure yet. I’ll report back when I’ve made some significant progress. For the leaderboard entry:

CaptainBourbon
Skinchanger (twinked)

Welcome to the challenge.  What level is your character and where are the location wise in the game? Need those for the leaderboard.

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Re: The Xmax Hardcore Challenge
« Reply #560 on: 16 January 2020, 20:42:01 »
Tauceti - Dyson - L56 Soothsayer AERA (TWINKED) - Helos

Pets did their job until end of Act 5 where they tend to become terrible, giants are hard hitters for pets even with good pet jewels.
Therefore Dyson had to respec somewhat towards a Ternion build.

@Twinscrew : as a wanderer, you can stay at the door (so that you can escape if things go wrong), and body pull with one of your pets in defensive mode.
As a result, 3 or 4 gorgons can be easily be put off in one try. Repeat and rinse.

Spoiler for Hiden:

« Last Edit: 16 January 2020, 20:46:31 by Tauceti »

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Re: The Xmax Hardcore Challenge
« Reply #561 on: 17 January 2020, 07:15:34 »
Updated and well done Tauceti.  :)

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Re: The Xmax Hardcore Challenge
« Reply #562 on: 21 January 2020, 21:19:03 »
I was in a hurry to cross by epic difficulty. I should have not !
The 3 Barmanus crashed my toon when i realised my beginner error: no stun resistance on Dyson. OUPS  ::)

Fortunately i didn't go that far on epic so that this one won't be on the graveyard, i have so many toons already there...

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Re: The Xmax Hardcore Challenge
« Reply #563 on: 22 January 2020, 06:48:32 »
Aw,bad luck Tauceti.   :(

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Re: The Xmax Hardcore Challenge
« Reply #564 on: 22 January 2020, 17:57:15 »
https://imgur.com/Fau7B3z
https://imgur.com/VeR5zt5

forgot the surtur.

We still go xmax zero death but we did any% legendary speedrun just to get to Golden Boar and we farm it like crazy xmax of course:

https://imgur.com/ghUxEzs

need equipment for other toons.

so i guess it stops here for Perseus:

Jacko&Zuzia - Perseus - L73 Conquerer AER+Atlantis (TWINKED) - Village of Helos

BTW, Im thinking of starting a thread on the challenge:

any% speedrun challenge

best time for completing normal, epic and legendary...subcategories zero death, tweaked etc...once it matures I will start the thread...maybe someone will join in

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Re: The Xmax Hardcore Challenge
« Reply #565 on: 22 January 2020, 19:50:19 »
Well, up to you of course.  You'd need to lay down some rules on what counts and what doesn't.  Do you have to do quests or just run through the game as fast as you can for example? Most of the speed runs I've seen for Grim Dawn they just ignore everything they don't have to do to progress in the game.  Kinda boring to me.

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Re: The Xmax Hardcore Challenge
« Reply #566 on: 22 January 2020, 22:26:08 »
Jacko & Zuzia - Sauron - L5 Theurgist AER+A (TWINKED) - Laconia Woods

We decided to run another toon, vitality dmg. farming all vit staves with Perseus on xmax.

On the fence as to second mastery though.

any suggestions guys?

will have to prepare a swap staff for constructs etc.

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Re: The Xmax Hardcore Challenge
« Reply #567 on: 22 January 2020, 22:39:16 »
Added to the leaderboard and good luck you two.

Had a look at the GD speedruns and see no one's bothered to run it for a year now so no one's done FG content. 

Edit: My bad.  There have been a few.
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Re: The Xmax Hardcore Challenge
« Reply #568 on: 22 January 2020, 22:56:19 »
I luved d2 any% speedruns....especially with a sorc  :P

« Last Edit: 22 January 2020, 22:58:42 by Jacko »

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Re: The Xmax Hardcore Challenge
« Reply #569 on: 23 January 2020, 11:25:29 »
Well....

Sauron has already diagnosed two major issues:

1. energy regen - mana pot every 5 seconds

2. archers - seem to be his Nemesis atm damn it  >:(

Still on the fence as to second mastery.

Maxed Ternion, Arcane Lore, Deathchill aura.

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