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Re: The Naked Hardcore Challenge
« Reply #60 on: 13 November 2020, 16:22:08 »
Aaaaaaand done with Normal! wew man, fucking Surtr was so annoying, pets dont even come close to him in his 2nd out of the 3 lava-pool phases, and the Nymph kept killing herself on the Dmg reflect... Everything else was fairly good, not too hard, other than Fire giants, god damn they crit and they hurt a lot! Epic act 1 will probably be a bit easier hits wise, but my god now the real challenge starts...  I'm 1/3rd of the way there, and it's gonna sting getting to legendary... I did full clear+grind a bit, so I'm lvl 49 at the end of normal. I'm a bit torn, I'm not sure if I should keep going for int points or maybe strength for the Golden Shield of Pelaron, or maybe stick to the Euphrates shield for maximum -%recharge and then going all in on HP, as that's my current plan. The challenge was definitely the hardest in act 3-4 when I didnt have enough points to fight certain things reliably, but now the difficulty penalties are gonna step in, and my pets are already falling off on damage... May RNGesus have mercy on my soul!
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Re: The Naked Hardcore Challenge
« Reply #61 on: 13 November 2020, 20:13:14 »
Decided to also breeze through act 1. Doing amazingly well, my Phalanx+Earthbind spam carries me so hard though :D I would have 0 dmg were it not for Phalanx. Now I'm chilling in Rhakotis at level 54, enough for one day.
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Didnt even Colossus for the Minotaur lol, he melted so fast.
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Re: The Naked Hardcore Challenge
« Reply #62 on: 14 November 2020, 08:04:50 »
Well done marko, the first of our challengers to make it into Epic difficulty.   :)

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Re: The Naked Hardcore Challenge
« Reply #63 on: 17 November 2020, 23:30:15 »
Wooooooh man this was rough! Act 2 was fairly easy, Phalanx carries me. I do notice a start of lacking damage for quick kills. Act 3- everything is easy, even Barmanu got rekt before he could get his meteors out (from what I've seen, Phalanx' damage seems very inconsistent. Sometimes they all nuke something into oblivion, like what happened with Barmanu, and sometimes they just sit there and do nothing... ), Dragon Liche wasnt even a problem so long as I positioned myself correctly. However... Those god damned Gilded dead with Spellbreak and Death Chill aura!!!! with -40% vitality resist, if I accidentally walk close to them I just lose half my health (and I've been dumping points into HP and Energy, hoarded some before and dumped them all at once for that nice big HP boost, along with maxing Heart of Oak, since it's my best way to get tankiness/utility). And of course, the Dragonian Deathlances... Holy mother of God, they ignore the Phalanx a lot of the time and go after me, thank you Earthbind for existing! Everything else was simple enough, but problems are rising for sure. Telkine and Typhon werent an issue, although I didnt kill Typhon as fast as I could because I positioned my phalanx wrong. Now I'm at level 61, chilling in Rhodes, done for today.
I'm definitely not making the same mistake as on normal, I'm not touching Toxeus until I finish act 4, I want more levels before I fuck with him! :D
Also, sry for pulling an "akshually", but the char name is Ishtar, with an H :-X


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Re: The Naked Hardcore Challenge
« Reply #64 on: 18 November 2020, 06:38:40 »
Well done marko.

Darn it, for some reason I always want to put a "k" in there instead of an "h".   :o

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Re: The Naked Hardcore Challenge
« Reply #65 on: 14 December 2020, 16:58:49 »
Weeeeeeew man! Reached Corinth and I stopped there, at lvl 65! Almost died to Cerberus, that one was VERY difficult!

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Re: The Naked Hardcore Challenge
« Reply #66 on: 15 December 2020, 06:29:54 »
Well done marko!   ;D

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Re: The Naked Hardcore Challenge
« Reply #67 on: 09 June 2021, 18:51:13 »
It's been a while but I've finally gotten back into it! Beaten the rest of Epic finally, now on to legendary! Also finished at the perfect level, 69  8)

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Re: The Naked Hardcore Challenge
« Reply #68 on: 10 June 2021, 04:48:52 »
Why is Cerberus listed as your strongest defeated enemy? I get that just after you killed Surtr, he's probably not yet showing on in stats, but shouldn't be Hades or Hildisvini your strongest opponents at this point of the game... or any of the other Act 5 bosses? When the pets kill a boss is he not registering as your kill?
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Re: The Naked Hardcore Challenge
« Reply #69 on: 10 June 2021, 06:51:00 »
Well done marko!  Legendary here you come!   ;D

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Re: The Naked Hardcore Challenge
« Reply #70 on: 10 June 2021, 11:15:28 »
Why is Cerberus listed as your strongest defeated enemy? I get that just after you killed Surtr, he's probably not yet showing on in stats, but shouldn't be Hades or Hildisvini your strongest opponents at this point of the game... or any of the other Act 5 bosses? When the pets kill a boss is he not registering as your kill?

I think it's precisely that. I somehow must've gotten a last hit on to cerberus (or he died to dmg reflect from rally, bless Colossus form+Sanctuary), pets getting the finishing blow dont count towards your "greatest monster killed". You can see this if u go for a pet build from Accomplished Hero, you can finish the game with 0 enemies killed, and you can thus have nothing listed as your Greatest Monster Killed.

Edit: I got a question- Are all side quests mandatory? I kinda dont wanna do most of them, especially Barmanu :D -100% pierce and vitality and bleed resists got me worried for Act 4 as well, I think there's no way I win this challenge looking at all the mandatory stuff... I know Toxeus is mandatory tho.
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Re: The Naked Hardcore Challenge
« Reply #71 on: 28 July 2021, 22:21:19 »
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Re: The Naked Hardcore Challenge
« Reply #72 on: 29 July 2021, 07:05:05 »
Welcome to the challenge Wagi and good luck.  :)

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Re: The Naked Hardcore Challenge
« Reply #73 on: 29 July 2021, 08:06:33 »
I've got a new challenger since my other 2 are so old GDDefiler won't give me their stats so I'll retire them. 

Wolf Nightmare - L17 Ritualist (yeah, yet another one trying it) who's reached the Athenian Passage.  Luckily Shadowmaw didn't spawn.  Not sure what to do about him challenge-wise.  He's not always there, but if he does spawn he's really hard for an early Naked character to tackle.  I don't know; maybe make him optional on Normal difficulty, but you have to fight him if he spawns on the higher ones? 

Anyway, I was lucky that I got a Mastery shrine just outside Tegea so had 3 wolves for most of the play session.  Did lose one on the way, but luckily it was where another Mastery shrine was so was able to summon a third one again.  Now I just need to rush my intel to get up to the 453 needed to equip a Druid's staff and have +2 to Nature so I can have 3 all the time without the shrines.  First I've got to survive that long of course!   ;D





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Re: The Naked Hardcore Challenge
« Reply #74 on: 17 August 2021, 08:09:47 »
Sigh, I don't have much luck with my Ritualists.   :( Wolf Nightmare died.


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