KazikluBey
Sentinel
It's not supposed to be difficult in act 1 on normal - that's what nightmare and, primarily, hell is for.
I'm on the last mission of Act 1 with my electric amazon. I'm playing the game as a complete-ist, so I think I'm a few levels head of the designers' intent, which might be why I'm finding the game pretty easy so far. The boss critters generally aren't that big a deal. The biggest challenge so far is actually mobs with range attacks.
Act 1 normal is indeed easy. In fact, normal is basically easy if you're reasonably careful. Avoiding getting mobbed by some of the really fast critters and one-hit killers like the Undead Stygian Dolls at the end of Act III may be the biggest difficulty for your Zon. And getting frozen.
I can't remember if you ever played Titan Quest dte, but in Immortal Throne the caravan does the same thing as ATMA, only on a smaller scale and in-game. (ATMA is outside the game completely.) I think it's one of those ideas the devs would have included themselves if this hadn't been 1999.
The lightning amazon build page (from magerette's reference) mentions switching mercs by act. Seems like my archer merc that I've nursed along from the beginning does just fine, particularly since her range of vision is bigger than mine. I've referred to that build page a few times, but overall I've just been stuffing points where it makes sense.
...I could see where this game becomes a permanent hard drive resident though, like Puzzle Quest, where it's good to jump in at any time, play for an hour/evening/day, and then go back to something else.
To distract me from my woes, I'm playing around with a necromancer--never taken one very far, and having found some uber gear for one with the poor failed ranger, it seems only logical to try it out.
Ah.... my first character and the one I took the furthest into NM. Good fun, that one is, imo...
It's messing with my WASP worth ethic, tho, just standing back and letting the skellies do all the work.
:lol:
The Diablo 2 Necromancer is the most well implemented manager/general/pet class I've ever played. But, of course, if that ain't your style, you're not going to like it no matter how well it's done.
Well... the Necro might turn up in an expansion.
@chamr--getting more used to Wicked_Lester. Getting quite comfortable with just collecting the loot and looking evil.