Ice and Blood - Dangerous New Dragon Damage, Watch out for Spiders!

[Woody 24]

Hey,

 

Take care with your dryads against dragons when you use ancient bark (fire damage vulnerability) !

Now their 'fire breath' do BIG fire damage ! [6-7k damage per 2 second at level 140 in platin]

 

Same thing for the 2nd nameless guardian, he do big fire damage with his spell ...

 

Hope it will avoid many RIPs.

 

Be careful !

[gogoblender 3,069]

wow!

 

lol, scary but exciting at same time? I was wondering about dragon damage in last patch... it looked like nothing but smoke and mirrors. Your information regarding where the new damage are coming from is great info, if you don't mind Woody, I'd like to quote a bit from your pm to me if that's okay:

 

 

From the new Ancaria - Ice&Blood :

The dragons "fire breath" do big fire damage now ! [3.5k per second]

With fire vulnerability from ancient bark, it's very dangerous for dryads !

 

I've the informations about 4 gardians damage :

1st - Magic

2nd - Fire (ouch !)

3rd - Ice

4rd - All damage, most poison

 

Dust devil (chances to evade + damage + reduce regen) + goldenglade touch (willpower boost mod) can help you against them.

 

Lizurath champions spiders do more damage than the 4 gardians ! [2-3k base damage +2k poison per second]

 

 

I've heard some scary news now from a few players how tough the new expansion is... now I can hardly wait to get it so I can figure out all the puzzles.

 

Thanks for all the info, Woody!

 

 

gogo

 

 

p.s. Lizerath spider champs doing that much damage? Eeek, they were tough already!

[Antitrust 32]

Since there are so many changes, it's prudent to make softcore characters in the beginning

[Woody 24]

No problem gogo

 

The correct sentence is :

6-7k damage every 2 second at level 140 in platin

(that's why I tell you about 3.5k/seconds)

 

 

p.s. Lizerath spider champs doing that much damage? Eeek, they were tough already!

[After more tests :]

Champion spider + 3 spiders :

CS : 3k poison damage + ~1.5/2k damage per second

+ S : 1.2 x 3 + 800 per second x 3 = 3.6 + 2.4k

 

Total : 6.6k poison damage + ~4k damage per second

 

Other info : now +xx seconds regenration per hit works well ! I've 2.5 regen per second, if I want I can use Darting Assault with 10 seconds regen every second !

 

 

There is other silly things :

Jungle garema level 140 : 4.500xp

Cursed forest garema : 3.200xp

 

 

I think they've nerf the base experience ...

Edited October 6, 2009 by Woody

[gogoblender 3,069]

I've been hearing a ton about detrimental effects in the swamp being almost overwhelminig. If it had been so bad in original game, I would probably have chosen more defensive skills first and then worked on damage near end game instead of reverse

 

How you are you peeps dealing with this... are you re rolling your toons so that you get proper def at right times? Perhaps casting defensive spells more often?

 

It sounds like we're going back to the intense CA switching and using I had to use in original Sacred which I loved, but never really had to use in Fallen Angel because the game was so easy.

 

 

gogo

[nomad13 2]

This is sick indeed boosting all the dragons damage, with my recent dryad build I was running against Xanthiar on silver and couldnt stop wondering how can you guys kill him in HC mode ive died to him like 6 times spamming ggt and using pots like crazy. I eventually killed him by tanking him with Dustdevil plus using pots plus RI spamming lol, but he took like almost a minute to succumb. And yes I was using AB with relics of fire and I couldnt even stand 2 direct blows, but the thing is he uses some sort of magic ball and then slaps you constantly thats why you die quickly. Whats the strat here? because I was using a bargainner build I couldnt pump my ab so I was really low on defense, and was focusing on upping my regens first for caprichous hunter, so far this boss is the one that gives me more hard time above all others, hell even the guardians arent all that hard compared to him. Carnach is a bit squishy because he summons some champions but once you overcome them 1st its almost easy ride from there on. I cant stop thinking what would happen if I had started this build on hc silver :|

[locolagarto 15]

I have lost a couple of new toons to the dragons. My best advice until your toon is stacked and really loaded for bear is find a partner to help. tag team if you can. just took both of those bosses today with 3 of us and it wasn't white knuckle, but much harder than before. we were all about level 40 on silver and they didn't drop right away.