OK, been toying with things. Have had tons of leeway because of a fortuitous drop. In Sosostra's first prophecy, the chest contained a Perfect Goblin Head. Suddenly, the game went from mildly unforgiving to ferociously easy. As utility began to wane, I found some Fresh Goblin Arms that put him right back in Murderous Battle God Mode. Currently level 19, screwing around in the Orobas Fjords instead of going to Maxos Tower.
Unfortunately, I still can't really do what I've been wanting to do because enemies just plain hit too hard. I'd love to run up and bash some skeleton in the face, but he unfortunately takes off 70 HP at a whack, and I have 300 to work with total. Two enemies at once can grind me into dust in a few seconds. As such, I've been limited to mostly bow and spells. I suppose this will persist until I have sufficient HP, resistances, and battle skills to survive. Aside from using Rush and Whirlwind in conjunction with fireballs and firewall, any tips on not getting clobbered? Playing on Nightmare difficulty, FYI.
Does the Ghost actually use Fireball? I say this because I get enough out of my own and my pet goblin's fireballs, and if I can throw more fireballs, it might be worth using. The more the merrier, especially since those fireballs briefly stun enemies when they hit.
I'm not sure what to do with spells, either. Magic Missile is generally superfluous for a hybrid character, and Magic Blast is absolutely god-awful and pointless early on. I understand it was nerfed, but it's so unbearably useless in its current form that it's hard to make ends of what it's supposed to be doing. It can take off all of half the HP of an opponent 6 levels below me, dealing around 60 damage more than a fireball (which costs less mana and has AoE). Will this improve or will I just be sticking with firewall and fireball?
//EDIT: Now that I test it, level 5 Magic Missile deals 300 damage, just 90 short of what Magic Blast deals, and is on a 1-second cooldown with less than one third the mana cost of Magic Blast. Wouldn't be much of a hybrid build, but might make things even easier to until I can reset at the Battle Tower...
Last edited by Gamemako; 28/05/12 05:07 AM.
