Alessandra v. DraconisI've never really found Draconis threatening. Nonetheless, I understand why many players do. Once you have your disabler defense down, enemies need to either fight well ranged or fight well close and force you to get close. Draconis can do both: he has a great breath weapons, and he can get on top of you due to his speed.
Fortunately for the player, he can be deprived of both abilities quickly and he can't really get them back. That can make him an easy kill ultimately.
Draconis essentially lost his fight with Alessandra early. But he played his hand well after that and gave himself a chance to dig into Alessandra's resources. Here's how it went.
First, Alesandra's inventory. Note the emphasis on spell damage resistance items heading into the fight with human form Draconis. He's a decent caster in SCS.
The battle begins, and the buffs fire. He's no fool: he's buffing right. SI:A, SI:D, MI, II, Specific Protection, Stoneskins, ProMW, amonst other. And since this is SCS not vanilla, Spell Protections to intercept debuffers that can target through II.
Ultimately though, there isn't a whole lot a lonesome mage can do against Alessandra. He tried some Demons, but they were dispatched. Half of them were Crushers so they didn't make any progress at all.
He said, "praeses." Alessandra disappeared and got some distance.
He tried to vanish when his Abjuration school weapon defenses ran out, but Alessandra brought in her Deva. Nothing he can do now really with an invisibility detecting celestial and a disrupting bow trained on him. Alessandra finished leisurely and layered in some buffs with Hardiness, Oil of Speed and the Shield Amulet being the most important ones.
Time for Dragon form. Alessandra played this just like Ashoka.
Draconis: ProMW and other buffs
Alessandra: Observe from a distance.
Draconis: Spell Sequenecer- Remove Magic, Haste
Alessandra: (Standing well out of the Remove AOE) Protection from Acid
With the Shield Amulet already active and the Shadow Dragon Armor on, he has now lost his ranged fighting abiltiies. And with his Remove gone, he'll never get them back.
Draconis: ProMW expires.
Alessandra: Arrow of Dispelling
He has now lost his ability to force melee as well. He's helpless.
Alessandra was now free to go to work with Azureedge- little he can do, she's too fast and he can't attack at range.
He tried to run whenever Alessandra activated Whirlwind, but since she was tossing her Axe rather then swinging it, that didn't help much.
When he got to Badly Injured, he went Invisibility->Healing. Alessandra called in a Deva and blasted away with the Necklace of Missle to disrupt and keep the pressure on.
What was interesting here, is that Draconis did
not try to attack the Deva- opting to turtle instead. That was wise. Had he attacked the Deva, Alessandra would have killed him with Azureedge while still fully buffed. He bided his time instead and with his Stoneskins remaining in place after Deva hits, the Deva posed no threat. By the time Draconis did emerge, Alessandra was down to her last Hardiness and some of her other buffs had run down forcing her to refresh. This weakened her safety net and tapped her supply for later encounters. Good move.
Ultimately though, the smartest move for Draconis would have been to go inside and back-up dad in the final fight. He had no hope of stopping Alessandra from getting in.
Fin.
A.
Modifié par Alesia_BH, 17 décembre 2011 - 05:13 .
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