I'm having a lazy day today so I thought I'd do a quick post on Alyssa's early adventures.
Alyssa has been inactive for the last couple weeks, but she had completed a couple quests that I didn't get around to posting on: the Slaver Compound and the De'Arnize Keep. I'll post on those now.
Slaver Compound
This battle illustrates Alyssa's standard battle plan: Buff->Backstabb->Damage Spells->Polymorph Melee.
The Cleric of Cyric declared: "By the power vested in me, I command you to show yourself."
Alyssa shrugged and said: "If you insist..."
Next, a Sunfire.
Followed by a bit of nasty: Defensive Buffs-> Polymorph Self: Spider-> MInor Seqeuncer: Strength + Ghoul Touch-> Draw on Holy Might.
Ghoul Touch is an underwhelming spell when used by a single-class 1 APR mage with a middling strengh. A 4APR buffed spider with Strength in the 20s can get a lot of mileage out of it though- especially in the early going when saves are poor and paralyzation immunity rare.
Finished up the Trolls in Flind form. Rolled a 19 and got a decent critical with the Halbred here. Two-Handed Weapon style bonuses apply to the Flind Halbred.
Bandit Ambush
Same battle plan here.
Sunfire next.
Finished in Spider.
The Keep
The Yuan-Ti Mage caught Alyssa's first Staff of Striking Critical.
Finished the remaining trolls in Flind form.
Then Torgal. This was awkward. The plan was to buff, lock in with SI:A and then use an Arrow of Dispelling to take down the Yuan-Ti mage before SI:A ran out. The logic here being that the only real threat in this battle is Dispel (lose Potion of Clarity)-> Cloak of Fear (from Torgal) or Confusion (from Umber Hulk Elders).
Unfortunately, I started feeling stingy with the Dispelling Arrows and burnt enough time that I didn't feel confident about finishing off the Yuan-Ti Mage before SI:A expired. That left Alyssa using a standard seperation approach rather then doing something interesting. She went with Invisibility->Ras->Run. Summoning Ras doesn't break invisibility. Once the Sword appeared, all of Torgal's pals went after their only valis target. Torgal -who can detect the invisible- chased Alyssa instead.
Torgal is pretty helpless on his own- assuming you maintain a movement rate advantage and cover the Strength Drain/Cloak of Fear threats. Alyssa kept Oil of Speed and Potions of Strength around to counter Slow and Strength Drain. She ran Potion of Clarity throughout.
Anyhoo. If Alyssa makes any more progress I'll let you know. In the meantime, best of luck to all the active challengers.
Best,
A.
Retour en haut
Truth to be told, my list was inspired by your's last one and I'm eager to gather as much as possible knowledge and experience from this run (and setup).
Yeah, those Umber Hulks hit like a truck and even with immunity to Confusion they are nasty for critical-vulnerable char who can't use something like Death Spell/Death Fog/Cloudkill... Hope to see you here again soon.
