string table error, tableDID wrote on Dec 1^st, 2015 at 3:57am:


Shhhhh. Really liking my Mech. It's not the best at everything, it's not a 'zerg the quests and gather groups to kill' build, but it rewards clever strategies and between the ability to do consistently high damage in LD or extreme spike damage in FotW and the other tools you mentioned you can solo things that would cause issues for stronger damage or mitigation builds.

Vaultaccount wrote on Dec 1^st, 2015 at 8:51am:


Mech is really fast too though I doubt I pulled off 25 due to my unfamiliarity with the quest (just started playing again about 4 months ago and learning some of the new content). Miior is a no-brainer as you expected. Skelly I bring my son's bard into the quest and have him stand in the room displaced and ready to roll while I invis up to pull the spear, once the mobs spawn the son's bard gets agro by virtue of being the only visible character in the room, mobs run to him, he fascinates them all, easy kill after that. Mummy is dropping 2 or 3 web traps before fight starts and then just focus-fire on Mummy while triggering the traps in a staggered fashion. Dragon is just focus fire until it's dead. I have more trouble remembering where to go as I've only run it 3 or 4 times alone and everyone has their own pattern so running it with other people didn't help me get an ideal pattern set to the first part of the quest. Also, I run this particular quest in FotW - the ability to create spike damage and not have to worry about losing Master's Blitz seems to work better on that one.

Honestly though I'd rather do it in a group on EE though. Doesn't take much longer than solo EH and the drops are better.

Darkrok wrote on Dec 1^st, 2015 at 10:35am:


How do you find it so easy?
I find the blowback damage really hard to manage.
Even with elect resist, absorption item and boots, the stacks build up too fast.

What's the trick?

Darkrok wrote on Dec 2^nd, 2015 at 2:12am:


Still easier way than this.

Soloable and with no hirelings though if you use a hireling and Ddoor yourself you can do another one of the bosses while the hireling "kills" the skelly. Only thing that will ruin the method is if a champ ghost spawns but that is easily prevented.

Galadriel wrote on Dec 2^nd, 2015 at 6:09am:

Fuck that DDoor trick; I want the exploit that lets you use a hireling to get rid of hirelings.   

Galadriel wrote on Dec 4^th, 2015 at 12:23am:


Really not that bad. Depending on the toon and my mood I'll do anything from farming just the outside and first rooms to see if there's a rare all the way up to running about 1/4 of the first floor before resetting. It's actually possible to do that on a gimpy swashbuckler...was doing that for a bit until I switched my first-life assassin to mech during the unlimited Fred. You just have to not mind repeatedly resetting the quest to get a map with rares close to the start.