First win: Shaia the Alchemist

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First win: Shaia the Alchemist

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http://te4.org/characters/9867/tome/4be ... fff83adb0d

The character's marked as having used the vault because after I finished the sorcerers I visited the vault and accidentally withdrew something while I was at it; clicking anywhere at all selects whatever's highlighted at the time and that messed me up :/, I put the thing back right afterwards, though.

Sorta blundered my way through this one, it was my third or fourth attempt at an alchemist and as a result I managed to make it through the west with but a single death on Dreadfell; I died thereafter once against Rak'Shor, three times in the high peak, and once... I'm not sure where, I forget. I think it was against one of the Orcs. Fortune's Eye was a massive advantage toward the end of the game, especially in the high peak, which I went into not understanding that it was the last dungeon and I couldn't get out of it... at level 43 :/. I hadn't even returned to the west once.

Nevertheless the sorcerers were fairly simple, I phase doored shortly after arriving very quickly so as to spread out from Aeryn, allowing her to tank more effectively against AoE. Between Wild, Relentless Pursuit and Timeless I didn't worry too much about being blinded and stunned over and over again; the blindness was barely relevant with the kind of AoE you get out of alchemist bombs anyway. From there, I found that between my bombs and my staff I was consistently dealing more damage on at least one of the sorcerers than they were on Aeryn, so I concentrated fire on the guy (I forget their names), and took out the girl afterwards. By the time it was all over, Aeryn had a two digit number of HP left. The monsters coming through the gates were easy to mop up with my AoE while I was already bombing the sorcerers, and two shielding runes and regeneration kept my HP good and green. After defeating them I gained something like 4 levels.

My main strategy was to go around divining where everything was (or using my golem to scout when that wasn't an option), then dropping bombs on them from around the corner and letting my golem take all the damage. With Supercharge, he does not stay down long. Sometimes I managed to get careless and that's the only way I actually managed to die. In any case, I'm probably going to continue playing this character eventually, mop up the stuff to do in the west, and see about taking down Atamathon. I also don't know what to do with my second prodigy, I was thinking staff of telos but I seem to have lost my orb, somehow :(

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