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Level 26 High Elf vs. the Guardians


Dobri

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yesterday evening, I promised Ryan I will let him know what is going to happen in my fight against the Guardians I decided to try when my toon hit 26 - the minimum guardians level on silver.

 

As usual, I did a LAN test first. Even with the niob smith arts, her performance was less than stellar. She did manage to kill them, but I gulped at least 10 HP pots in that fight. Honestly, I stopped counting after a while, because I was way too busy keeping my finger on the space key...

 

That attempt make me think long and hard, and then it hit me - reflect! But how to get a decent amount of it at this level? The answer was the new things I learned while playing the all-out-attack Seraphim. So I made a buff suit filled with gold difficulty +2 Incandescent Skin runes (best I could use) and put the level 10 gold shopper to work. She managed to get me a level 10-11 torso armor, cuffs, sword and shield with close combat reflect. It amounted to about 25% CC from the items along with about 35% from the buff (in Ice and Blood, the IS buff has been nerfed, mind you, base reflect is about 25%). So I thought I'll have over 60% reflect. No way, Jose! The Close Combat reflect from items works the same way as deathblow stacks. So those 26% CC reflect were actually 13.8%. Oh well. I decided to give it a go anyway - 49% reflect sounded good enough to me at this point.

 

What bothered me was the fact that she had just a tad over 1000 HP at this level even with the decent amount of +11 all skills. Since I wanted damage while keeping the regen times very low, I went all out intelligence right from the start. I was also working exclusively on pyro focus and delphic focus - for better regen and higher level buffs - and to compensate for the lack of defense and HP, constitution. It is my hope that in the end, constitution + high level grand invigoration will heal as efficiently as an ever-running Goldenglade touch CA the dryad has.

 

So I did the run with only 3 set items (Pantaloons of Innocence, Celdrahil's Claw and Boots of Remembrance) and the rest was level 10-11 items with reflect or 2 sockets. It paid off. She took very little damage - nothing GI couldn't handle. I also drank only 1 HP pot, and it was a "just in case" one, against the last, poison guardian. She completed the run a bit slowly (4:25 minutes), but that's normal I guess - I am yet to starting pumping up the damage with this girl. My mindset with a caster is always "keep the regen times low - the damage will come on its own", and this is why I was working exclusively on the focus skills. Right now, looking at her on the vid, I can see that I can easily eat a rune or two in Incendiary shower without bothering, as the execution speed of this particular CA is kind of high and it recharges faster than that. But all in good time :)

 

Enjoy people :) And when you have the means, don't forget to use them :)

 

 

The link to the video:

 

Well done, little one - I'll be farming the guardians early on with you as well :)

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Well, it took a while. Youtube uploaded the video a little bit slowly today... strange. Or it may have been my connection. Anyway, the video is getting processed now and will soon be fully available.

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Like Ryan said, you got a great killspeed for that level, reminded me of my Pyro High Elf I made back then.

 

And 4:25 is a parfect time to play such a great song like this!

 

 

Max

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  • 4 months later...

hehe seems like someone broke my record :P I did it at level 31 on silver, but my fights took way longer and I had to run away from the center due to the shielding XD

 

im a HE too. but on the otherhand I didnt have any help with items so im still proud :D

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