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ER Titan Quest hardcore challenge after-action report:

Tonight's games contained the slate of usual suspects. Chance, Pancake, and sauer advanced through Act3 to Act4, which involved two different A3 boss kills. Xenguard (L61) was around for a while bringing the pain in A3 and A4. Gabriel and I, along with a couple others part-time, cleared a boatload of ground in early A4 doing side quests, eventually getting them all (before the portal from Medea to you-know-where). Nali's ternion oracle has uber AoE for late normal.

Personal report: I'm up to L40 now, dinging on the last A3 boss kill. This has been good; Xenguard dropped me a couple more items to balance my gear, but most importantly I was able to put on a blessings of the (grail?) amulet. it has mega, mega all-around resists. This means I now have 250 DPS, which is so-so, but I average about 75 across all the resists. The first 5 are all 80. Stun resist is over 100. I also have pretty decent avoid projectile: I dominate every other archer I've seen so far. In a few more levels, I will be able to put on a Tracker's Hood for a huge DPS boost (I am lacking DEX for it right now). I'm at ~4500 or 4700 HP. I also have 3.5 mil gold so I can respec pretty freely now, which is nice. After putting on the blessing amulet, I got rid of the +elem resist bonuses to heart of oak, which freed up 6 more skill pts for now.

Things are going well! I'm hoping Nixx and other lowbies catch up soon. We will be doing more act3 runs this weekend, I imagine ;)

hardcore challenge: like Diablo 2's hardcore mode, I will retire this char and start a new one if I die.

Mar 20, 2008 9:38pm PDT

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ER Titan Quest hardcore challenge after-action report: Tonight's games contained the slate of usual su : ]pm[chem
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- btw, I have max scattershot, which does not appear to show up in my DPS... ? it helps though. : ]pm[chem
- I really really need better gear :/ : pancake humper
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  In Act 4 (expac) you're going to want to favor pierce resist, stun resist, and avoid projectiles. And tha... : sixfoot6
  - thanks, I will watch out for those guys. there was a big jump in difficulty in normal A2->A3 as well. M... : ]pm[chem
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  Do you get many nice bows on the normal difficulty? I have a lvl 25 Ranger, and I've had the same bow for... : doctorbfunk
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    I have like 5 different awesome bows and I'm only lvl 28 (Act 3) : Nighteyes
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      This is the bow I have: Storm Strike (blue) 25-34 dmg, +25% dmg, +19% lightning dmg, 1-19 lightning dmg, ... : doctorbfunk
      
      I think I have a couple spares better than that if you join my game tomorrow... : ]pm[chem
      
      I think all of mine are green and are comparable to that, so if you add on an essence it will be even bet... : Nighteyes
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    honestly I am unimpressed with bows so far. my meager DPS is mostly through massive amts of skill points... : ]pm[chem
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      Your equipment bonuses are just as important, and possibly more so, than your actual bow when it comes to damage. Also, even though bows have a lower damage, they make up for it with a huge amount of piercing damage (Marksmanship adds a good 50 or so when maxed, + bonuses from its synergies). Scatter Shot destroys mobs, plain and simple. I did a test and with a bow at just above half the DPS of my best spear, I was killing mobs much faster without even having the Marksmanship line maxed, all from a comfortable distance. And this wasn't even that good a bow. Granted, I went to fight a boss with the bow and it was painfuly slow, but you could probably just whip out a good spear and shield and, without any spear-specific skills, take down single targets just fine. Volley works for both weapons and is by far the best spear skill, and you'll have a shield to provide extra defense. Definitely worth going to spears for strong single enemies.
      
      Also, I have an amulet you might be interested in. I'll find you tomorrow or sometime.
      
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      Your equipment bonuses are just as important, and possibly more so, than your actual bow when it comes to... : omnova
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    I've only changed weapons once in the last 9 levels. Every so often the game just seems to drop somethin... : riptyde
    - Ah, here's what I have: Might of Brennus 29-52 Damage : riptyde
- I am owning face with my Conquerer right now (lvl 20 iirc). Have 32/32 warfare mastery, 6/6 dual wield, ... : riptyde
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  This game doesn't have an actual hardcore mode? Seems simple to put something like that in... : famine101
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    yeah but then u'd have some guys backing up their characters on their hardddrives : gyokuro
    - Then those people shouldn't bother playing hardcore mode. I dunno, just because it can't be enforced does... : famine101
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  deject and I just finished up a run through most of act 2. Only have 2 waypoints left. I'm now level 24, ... : Nixx2004
  - By the time you reach 28-30 hopefully I'll have more free time and can join your squad since Nullzero's h... : Nighteyes
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  Chem, please read. After last night's shenanigans, I wont be playing here anymore except with my Act 4 ch : zanzares
  - 1) You still have to do all the quests to kill Heades notting is spoiled, if you play more of Act4 you wi... : okellyc

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