Worst Far Portal?

[overgoat]

I'm playing a nightmare Archmage right now who I thought was pretty badassed until I went into a far portal that is full of nothing but Archliches, Bloodliches, and greater demons with wide open areas so they can team up on me. I think this is easily the worst/hardest zone I've ever had.

I was curious if what other peoples worst far portals were like.

[jaumito]

Wide open areas actually make these occurences easier to deal with. My worst experience (nightmare Archmage too) was when I landed in the very middle of a tiny cross-shaped farportal level, 15 tiles total fully packed with critters, with 2 oozing horrors, 1 radiant horror, and 1 worm that walks just next to me (I didn't even look at what was behind.) Got silenced, mana-drained and obliterated instantly.

[Atarlost]

Worst farportal: several versions back I had a dungeon generation error where one level just failed to generate either down stairs or a boss. That was before you could recall out at the risk of breaking the portal.

That sucked.

[Mankeli]

I once saw a phoenix unique/boss (can't remember which) in a farportal. Never have I seen a phoenix in this game before nor since. It was pretty cool but not that hard for *that* character. Then again, nothing really was.

[Effigy]

My worst one was while playing an Archmage, and it had an antimagic boss that instantly drained all my mana when it hit, and had tons of AoE attacks. I ended up dying twice and having to recall out anyway because I had no hope of beating the boss.

[twas Brillig]

I once saw a phoenix unique/boss (can't remember which) in a farportal. Never have I seen a phoenix in this game before nor since. It was pretty cool but not that hard for *that* character. Then again, nothing really was.

I think phoenixes are uniques, like the rest of the things mentioned in the "Letters to/from Rolf" lore series. I've only ever seen them as part of my endgame farportal runs and, yeah, I'm voting for them as part of the "most underwhelming" farportal series. In that same vein, ant-themed farportals are pretty dull.

[Effigy]

The only time I ever saw the phoenix was as a random spawn from screwing up the orbs in the Ruined Dungeon. I was still quite new to the game then and got destroyed by it.

[Atarlost]

In that same vein, ant-themed farportals are pretty dull.

Please don't complain about the easy farportals. Would you rather have more horror or wight themed farportals instead?

[Red]

Madness exists.

Peopple play it.

I think we can safely say that all of use have at least a little masochist inside them when it comes to ToME. And what's more painful than deciding to do one last Farportal and running into nothing but Luminous Horrors when your Wildfire Archmage has not quite gotten actual Wildfire?

[Mankeli]

OT: Wildfire isn't actually even enough to kill luminous horros on it's own on madness. You can have other res pen too or use your other spells when other monsters are not around (because their damage output isn't that great when fought on 1:1). The latter may or may not work: a radiant horror on dreadfell:1 was simply unkillable for my archmage. Luckily you don't have to kill all monsters to progress.

[Atarlost]

OT: Wildfire isn't actually even enough to kill luminous horros on it's own on madness. You can have other res pen too or use your other spells when other monsters are not around (because their damage output isn't that great when fought on 1:1). The latter may or may not work: a radiant horror on dreadfell:1 was simply unkillable for my archmage. Luckily you don't have to kill all monsters to progress.

It wouldn't be on normal either, would it? They have 100% resist and 100% affinity. 50% resist penetration still means they heal 100% of the damage and take 50%.

[HousePet]

Affinity doesn't apply if they get killed by the damage.

[Mankeli]

OT: Wildfire isn't actually even enough to kill luminous horros on it's own on madness. You can have other res pen too or use your other spells when other monsters are not around (because their damage output isn't that great when fought on 1:1). The latter may or may not work: a radiant horror on dreadfell:1 was simply unkillable for my archmage. Luckily you don't have to kill all monsters to progress.

It wouldn't be on normal either, would it? They have 100% resist and 100% affinity. 50% resist penetration still means they heal 100% of the damage and take 50%.

Wildfire res pen at 1,3 mastery is not 50 %, it's 56 %.

Also this:

Affinity doesn't apply if they get killed by the damage.