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Re: The Xmax Hardcore Challenge
« Reply #330 on: 27 November 2018, 12:09:38 »
Damn. You guys are doing great! I am still farming my Legendary gear, but I can't wait to join you.

And good luck to you, stormyboy - going untwinked was exciting, but I cannot imagine doing this challenge with no potions  :))

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Re: The Xmax Hardcore Challenge
« Reply #331 on: 27 November 2018, 16:44:38 »
stormyboy - Borkan - L15 Hunter AER (no potions) - Kerata forest

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https://imgur.com/kzZz3iW
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I will be posting a bit more often than i initially said. Just because i don't have that much time to play so the progress is slow. I don't want you guys to think i ran away from the challenge :)).

Do you guys have any suggestion about the second mastery(i am now a hunter)? Any powerful combo that comes to your mind? I would go dream just because i did the challenge once with hunter+ dream. On the other hand, defense seems interesting with the addition of throw weapons that work with shield. Tho i wouldn't risk the character with getting that close to the monsters.

Damn. You guys are doing great! I am still farming my Legendary gear, but I can't wait to join you.

And good luck to you, stormyboy - going untwinked was exciting, but I cannot imagine doing this challenge with no potions  :))

Thank you. I have done it before and it can be done. Tho TQIT was a lot easier than AER. The difference can be felt from the first levels. Hope i can do it.
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Re: The Xmax Hardcore Challenge
« Reply #332 on: 27 November 2018, 17:00:10 »
Updated and well done stormyboy.  :)

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Re: The Xmax Hardcore Challenge
« Reply #333 on: 27 November 2018, 17:31:42 »
Do you guys have any suggestion about the second mastery(i am now a hunter)? Any powerful combo that comes to your mind? I would go dream just because i did the challenge once with hunter+ dream. On the other hand, defense seems interesting with the addition of throw weapons that work with shield. Tho i wouldn't risk the character with getting that close to the monsters.

Thank you. I have done it before and it can be done. Tho TQIT was a lot easier than AER. The difference can be felt from the first levels. Hope i can do it.

Others can correct me if I am wrong, but I believe the thrown weapons DON'T work with a shield. You can wear a shield and enjoy it's inherent bonuses such Resists and Chance to Avoid Projectiles (which is very nice in the early stages), but it will not proc, if you are using a thrown weapons. Likewise, you will not be able to use skills like Batter or Shield Charge.

Just out of curiosity, what did you use in TQ IT to achieve a sufficiently high regen rate? Did you boost your flat Health/Mana regen rate or did you ensure your gear has a lot of ADCtH and Energy Leech?

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Re: The Xmax Hardcore Challenge
« Reply #334 on: 27 November 2018, 17:46:59 »
you can still block.. just not the shield attacks batter, shield charge, and the passives
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Re: The Xmax Hardcore Challenge
« Reply #335 on: 27 November 2018, 22:37:15 »
stormyboy - Borkan - L20 Hunter AER (no potions) - Pythian caves


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The bosses are all spread around. But they are all there. Easy fight.


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...thrown weapons DON'T work with a shield.

Just out of curiosity, what did you use in TQ IT to achieve a sufficiently high regen rate? Did you boost your flat Health/Mana regen rate or did you ensure your gear has a lot of ADCtH and Energy Leech?
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I was thinking about shields just for the block chance and resistances. + the other resist skills that you get from defense. But, after the gorgon fight i deff know that i need a mastery with pet. It was not easy pulling them out one by one by myself.

As for the previous challenge, i have used viny growth + herbal remedy + the trance from dream that gives adcth. It will be more than enough to keep you alive. But only if you pull packs one by one knowing that if a yellow monster or above is equiped with a high quality item you are dead. For energy i had a low damage bow with energy leech that i used whenever i went out. But the key in all this is to have a set of rings and amulet with + damage to undead. Those are rly tricky for a bow user.

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Re: The Xmax Hardcore Challenge
« Reply #336 on: 28 November 2018, 13:42:04 »
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Do you guys have any suggestion about the second mastery(i am now a hunter)? Any powerful combo that comes to your mind?

Since you play with no potions: Defense, Spirit, Nature. You can resplenish your life with these masteries, and the 3 synergize rather well with hunting through physical damage enhancement and a way to protect yourself. I couldn't say which one is the better though, more of a gameplay style i guess. Spirit may be the hardest mastery to play with hunting (with the no potion requirment).

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Re: The Xmax Hardcore Challenge
« Reply #337 on: 29 November 2018, 22:17:35 »
stormyboy - Borkan - L23 Hunter AER (no potions) - Athenas Catacombs - level V

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This place is just horrible for ranged characters. There is a bug that limits the range of the projectile to half of a thrown weapon range. Also, the boss rarely attacks you because of the same bug. So now imagine me missing 9 out of 10 shots and a boss with hp regen items. It took a loooot to kill.


Thanks for your thoughts Taiceti. I was thinking defense as well but i need a pet and defense will not offer me that. As for spirit i do not like it because in order to make full use of the aura you need to be in melee range. So right now i am between nature, earth and dream (the elemental it is said to be a good tank tho i dont think it can take more tha 2 hits from 3x bosses. And considering that i don't want a tank, but just a dummy to take the boss out of the room...meh). Soooo...it remains dream vs nature.

Nature: hp+attack speed+elemental resist aura, plague debuff, wolf on the first row, refresh, heal, brair ward
Dream: adcth aura, passive shield, damage+deff/offensive+projectile avoid, pet (a bit high on the row)

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Since you play with no potions: Defense, Spirit, Nature. You can resplenish your life with these masteries, and the 3 synergize rather well with hunting through physical damage enhancement and a way to protect yourself. I couldn't say which one is the better though, more of a gameplay style i guess. Spirit may be the hardest mastery to play with hunting (with the no potion requirment).



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Re: The Xmax Hardcore Challenge
« Reply #338 on: 29 November 2018, 23:57:41 »
I didn't mention Dream because i thought you wanted to play another mastery.  CTAP from both hunting and Dream will avoid you some headache in act 5.

Runny Smith - L70 Twinked - Corinth

No trouble so far, except Cerberus with its huge poison breath, and a lovely dactyl one step before Hades  ;D

Spoiler for Hiden:

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Re: The Xmax Hardcore Challenge
« Reply #339 on: 30 November 2018, 07:04:23 »
Well done both.  :)

stormyboy have you considered Storm as a second?  I know the pet's not that great, but Squall and Lightning are nice to have in tombs and the like since you can strike while in another area with those.

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Re: The Xmax Hardcore Challenge
« Reply #340 on: 30 November 2018, 12:23:47 »
stormyboy - Borkan - L25 Hunter AER (no potions) - Room of the conduit


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https://imgur.com/8Q7ENjv
https://imgur.com/CF4mpy2
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And i found a helmet with 14% experience. I hope it will make a difference in leveling speed.


stormyboy have you considered Storm as a second?  I know the pet's not that great, but Squall and Lightning are nice to have in tombs and the like since you can strike while in another area with those.

I have thought about storm but i am trying to avoid too many on use abilities as i play without energy potions. And if we cross squal out of the build i am left only with the shield and storm nimbus. I am trying to go for as many passives as possible.

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Re: The Xmax Hardcore Challenge
« Reply #341 on: 01 December 2018, 21:24:17 »
And this would be the end of act 2. I went for dream as a second mastery to see i can do it again with the changes in skills. And i like the projectile avoidance :)).

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stormyboy - Borkan - L34 Haruspex AER (no potions) - Tomb of ramses
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Re: The Xmax Hardcore Challenge
« Reply #342 on: 02 December 2018, 09:12:25 »
Updated and well done stormyboy.  :)

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Re: The Xmax Hardcore Challenge
« Reply #343 on: 02 December 2018, 21:22:43 »
Aaaaand one more. Is it just me or the titan has the health reduced? It died very very fast. Also, i got a nostalgic flashback with me killing the statues before killing the titan in order to strip him off his abilities. Was it in TQ base game?

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stormyboy - Borkan - L43 Haruspex AER (no potions) - Olympus summit

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Re: The Xmax Hardcore Challenge
« Reply #344 on: 02 December 2018, 23:53:08 »
Runny Smith - L73 Twinked - Helos

Act 5 is full of bosses, here are  the pics of the main ones:
Spoiler for Hiden:

Regarding Surtr, he came with some bugs in my session play. In particular, only 2 orbs appeared and the stats panel still refered to the dragon liche as the main boss killed. Therefore I tried a 2nd time but only the 1st form of Surtr appeared... In my 3rd and last try, i took pics of the 3 Surtr, and still 2 orbs have been released. Much ado about nothing since the 2nd orb was not reachable.
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Anyway, the legendary gate is now opened  ;)

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