[b38] Dwarf Paradox Mage - first win

[phantomglider]

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Redux-Gravity Well is amazing and can kill almost anything, especially if you follow it up with bombardment by your low-cooldown spells or a Gather The Threads-Slow. It's especially nice if you have an extremely long infravision range, since it lets you plunk it down 10 squares away and massacre stuff that can't see you or hit you back.

With the Black Robe and Life Drinker, I was spewing out all sorts of on-spell procs. Once I got the Spellsword I started dual-wielding that with the Life Drinker and was very happy about it; a full Gather The Threads could put me at 89(!) spellpower.

The final battle was all about keeping the Sorcerers in either a Gravity Well or a Slow, managing Paradox, and keeping my health up. Celestial/Light was very good, since along with Body Reversion it let me get by with a single regen infusion and one shield, freeing up space for a controlled phase door (useful to get around DimStep's new line-of-sight requirement), a physical wild, and the Rune of the Rift. Once I killed the first one (the reaver) the fight became much less hectic and it was basically just a matter of time until the second died as well.

Died 8 times, but thanks to the Blood of Life was able to keep going. Three of them were technically to myself, which goes to show the dangers of screwing around with the timeline. (The first was an elven corruptor in the Rhaloren Camp - one of the 3x3-with-gold setpieces which contained the stairs from the previous level - that swapped places with me to put me on my own gravity well, one was the Weirdling Beast Bone Grabbing me onto my own gravity well, one was an unfortunate Turn Back The Clock misfire against the Master.) Got killed by a Blood Lich in a Dreadfell vault that I shouldn't have opened. Died 3 times in Vor Pride, clearly the most dangerous of the four, and once in High Peak against an alchemist randboss that instakilled me by Stone Touching me and then shattering me with an Acid Infused bomb, the only death that I don't feel was caused by my own stupidity/recklessness. (Well, maybe that backfire against the Master.) Having no margin for error against the Sorcerers was somewhat nervewracking.

[jenx]

Congrats - but Vor Pride the most dangerous? I find it the easiest. But I never play Paradox Mage, so perhaps it is class dependent. With Cursed, Doomed, TW, Corruptor - the classes I tend to play most - it is easy.

I think the order of difficulty for me would be, from easy to hard:

Vor > Gorbat > Rukshak > Grushnak

[phantomglider]

The problem with Vor was that everything had Phase Door, so I couldn't just drop a Gravity Well on them and walk away. Added to that, they have the best spike damage at range of the four prides, so escaping from a bad situation is likely to put you right in another bad situation if you haven't already cleared part of the level out. It probably would have been helpful if I had remembered to go through my equipment for fire and cold resists.

[edge2054]

Energy Decomposition would have helped too.

Grats on the win