According to Steam, I have 190 hours invested in DKS at the time of this posting. This is split up between three characters.
I started with an attempt at a pure fighter class named Christian Zander, but found myself getting really frustrated around level 25.
Character two, Sara Rose, was a successful attempt at a Battle Mage. Focus was on Fireballs and Magic Missiles backed with Destruction for ranged work, and a pair of warhammers for the in your face stuff. She finished at level 46, but did not have the opportunity to add the points for that last level during the end game fighting.
The third character has only completed Farglow, and is supposed to be becoming a Ranger. I cannot even remember the character's name at this point.
Instead of going ahead with the Ranger, I decided to try to fix Christian Zander with lessons learned from Sara Rose. I figure I still have a long way to go.
The reason for this is that Sara Rose took less than three minutes to finish the Rift closing fight on the bottom floor of the Aleroth Ministry while Christian Zander fought for three hours, seven minutes before Zandalor was able to finish the spell. To be sure, it was not all bad. Christian Zander came away from it three levels higer (level 33 at this point) and more than 13,000 gold richer before selling any of the loot. The gold really was a help for upgrading his skill caps and armor. Those twelve stat points that were added to strength for those levels are really nice too.
Potions and food were drained though. It should be noted I did not start grabbing the loot bags until I ran out of healing potions about 45 minutes into the fight. Time to go see my Alchemist for more potions.
