YAHOOOOOOOOO!!!
Hope you would forgive me the victory shout
. I chose halfling as I thought that their racial talents and starting attribute bonuses fit Brawlers pretty well, and I was right. It's probably no news here that brawlers can get incredibly powerful in offense in the endgame - here and there I managed to score a ~4400 damage Haymaker. The gloves I had created in Last Hope definitely helped matters - only 1 turn of Double Strike cooldown increased my damage output significantly, and the other egos were helpful as well.Also, I was looking for critrate wherever I could find it, in the end surpassing 100%. While Flexible Combat was almost a must for some serious extra damage, the second prodigy, Eye of the Tiger, works incredibly well with this critrate, allowing talents to refresh at great speed.
Against anything that resembled even the slightest threat, I used a standard procedure - (Rush if afar) ->) Axe Kick -> Flurry of Fists -> Haymaker. The Axe Kick is simply devastating - disabling any and all monsters' talents for four turns meant that pretty much nothing non-boss could even damage me at all. Flurry then charged my combo points to full five - and then comes the Haymaker. Even without Heroism, I pulled off over 10k damage in the three attacks against one of the Slime Tunnels guardians (he was in melee range, so no Rush), killing it in said three attacks. And in the final boss fight never got me under 50% health - and my first win on Normal became real! Finally, I must say - I started playing around beta34 or somesuch.
Well, I still was far from invincible. After losing four lives very quickly against Athamathon with no chance of escape, I forfeited the character on the Eidolon plane.
To add to my luck this game, one rare knocked me quite a bit back, received a defensive maneuver in return - and this unlocked Skirmisher for me. Might as well be a bug. Hearing a lot about this class, I'll be trying it the very next game.
Well, that's it. Nothing special around these parts I guess, but for me, it's worth a beer. Or two - one to me for finally beating the game on Normal, and another one to Darkgod and all the other developers, who created a game that rocks to no end. Cheers, all of you!
