Naked Hardcore Challenge

[Jin]

Zozo has just sent Hades to Hades...


I actually shot him from behind the crystal wall. I tried to stay out of the room and to use the nymph to lure him near my traps, and I was much amazed to see the crystal wall appearing before me when the fight started.

I was then pretty disappointed since I couldn't open it despite my efforts, but I happened to be able to throw traps through it, and to summon nymphs on the other side of it... which explains I entered the room only when Hades was truly dead, as you can see by the name of it showing on the screenshot.

It was actually very safe and I'm probably going to farm him until I get bored of it or an Overlord for the secret passage. It will always give me some more exp before epic, which is always welcome.

Zozo is now a lvl 39 Illusionist and the combination of traps and a mobile pet to lure the monsters seems almost too powerful. Well, I'll see when my traps won't deal enough damage anymore but I don't expect that much troubles in early epic, that is, if I survive the secret passage.

[CookieMonster]

Congrats Jin.....Zozo is truly amazing. I never really played with traps, but they seem really powerful indeed. Keep it up!!! My Balls of molten lava is proceding towards the lower war camp and the medusas. This challenge has made it so more easy with my other toons, cause now they barely die unless I play recklessly. Anyway in addition to being fun and challenging this naked hardcore contest has greatly improved my gameplay.....how about you folks?

[Jin]

Thanks Cookie, it's the first time I try traps myself and I must admit that I'm truly amazed so far. The really huge advantage of traps in this kind of challenge is that they are the ones who drive the monsters' aggro, meaning that you can cast them, stand back, and watch them kill the monsters. If they happen to be outnumbered and destroyed, the monsters will turn back and go to their original spot instead of running for you more often than not.

A very good class for this challenge would be dreamkiller, in my opinion, for the nightmare can further boost the traps damages and Distort Reality with Temporal Rift would take care of anything going through them. Dream has some nice survival skills as well (lucid dream tree, trance of convalescence,...).

I've also learnt quite a lot with this challenge. Now, I actually dodge spells and some projectiles (as well as some melee attacks) where I would blindly keep fighting and drink pot over pot before. I tend to use my pets more actively as well. Hope I'll keep that kind of gameplay with my other toons (I'm eager to go back to melee and see how I'd fare now).

Hades was somewhat more difficult on my later runs than on my first encounter. The "traps going through the wall" thingy was actually a bug and I had to open the door in order to cast traps after that. Needless to say I've run away in fear everytime I saw him on screen (or some of his AoE spells).
But... guess what he dropped for me on my third run ? That's it, so I've gone for the secret passage :

Most monsters were casual fight, casting traps, standing back, casting traps again and waiting for them to die.
For the caged ones, I've put a set of traps in front of the door and opened it, healing and casting traps whenever needed. Toxeus... was a real pain. He destroyed my traps way too quickly and tried to phantom srike me right after. I had to run back until he would cease following me, cast traps, go and catch his attention, run back, let the traps do their job, rinse and repeat. It took a whole eternity but eventually, Toxeus bit the dust. Nate didn't take that much time, but the fire sprites were truly pesky.

So, now it's time to have some fun in epic, at last.

[CookieMonster]

Another turtle peasant........welcome to the brotherhood!!!!

[Viper_Sweden]

Given Aggys lack of time I have updated the leaderboard. If anything is wrong or your character has reached even further then copy the leaderboard and make the necessary adjustments. I've limited it to top 15.

Current LeaderBoard:

1. King of Hell Poinas - (Flasher ) ( Bone Charmer Lvl 38) (Knossos) (EPIC)

2. Titan Slayer CookieMonster, The Turtle Peasant - (Balls of fire) (Summoner Lvl 39) (Megara) (EPIC)

3. King of Hell Jin, The Turtle Peasant - (Zozo Merryskin) (Illusionist Lvl 39) (Helos) (EPIC)

4. Titan Slayer Mamba - (?) (Druid Lvl 3?) (Styx) (Deceased)
5. Titan Slayer gdpryzr - (Nakie Bowmaster) (Hunter Lvl 33) (Ixian Woods) (Deceased)
6. Titan Slayer CookieMonster (Glorious Nude) (Brigand Lvl 31) (Rhodes)
7. Titan Slayer Hyperion - (The Naked Gun) (Soothsayer Lvl 29) (Rhodes) (Deceased)
8. Jin - (Flesh'nBones) (Spellbinder Lvl 34) (Jade Palace) (Deceased)
9. Whisk33 - (Harry Buttlocks) (Warlock Lvl 27) (Orient) (Deceased)
10. Viper_Sweden - (The Stormwitch) (Stormcaller Lvl 27) (Babylon)
11. Hyperion - (Selen) (Oracle Lvl ??) (Thebes)
12. Evil666 - (Cronos) (Spellbinder Lvl 21) (Memphis)
13. Cymbal - (Narasan) (Spellbinder Lvl 18) (Memphis)
14. Aggy - (Conquers Naked) (Conquerer Lvl 18) (Rhakotis)
15. Hyperion - (John Dorian) (Diviner Lvl ??) (Rhakotis)

The Stormwitch has just reached Babylon at level 27. Squall is the life-giver, without it I wouldn't have gotten past Rhakotis. I'm thinking about switching the * for something with +% Lightning to boost Squall even more.

[Hyperion²]

My pg's are:

5. Titan Slayer Hyperion - (The Naked Gun) (Soothsayer Lvl 30) (Gray sisters) (Deceased)

11. Hyperion - (Selen) (Oracle Lvl 27) (Atkaios) (Deceased) (using Xmax mod)

15. Hyperion - (John Dorian) (Diviner Lvl 21) (Rhakotis)

So,Current LeaderBoard:

1. King of Hell Poinas - (Flasher ) ( Bone Charmer Lvl 38) (Knossos) (EPIC)

2. Titan Slayer CookieMonster, The Turtle Peasant - (Balls of fire) (Summoner Lvl 39) (Megara) (EPIC)

3. King of Hell Jin, The Turtle Peasant - (Zozo Merryskin) (Illusionist Lvl 39) (Helos) (EPIC)

4. Titan Slayer Mamba - (?) (Druid Lvl 3?) (Styx) (Deceased)
5. Titan Slayer Hyperion - (The Naked Gun) (Soothsayer Lvl 30) (Gray sisters) (Deceased)
6. Titan Slayer gdpryzr - (Nakie Bowmaster) (Hunter Lvl 33) (Ixian Woods) (Deceased)
7. Titan Slayer CookieMonster (Glorious Nude) (Brigand Lvl 31) (Rhodes)
8. Jin - (Flesh'nBones) (Spellbinder Lvl 34) (Jade Palace) (Deceased)
9. Whisk33 - (Harry Buttlocks) (Warlock Lvl 27) (Orient) (Deceased)
10. Viper_Sweden - (The Stormwitch) (Stormcaller Lvl 27) (Babylon)
11. Hyperion - (Selen) (Oracle Lvl 27) (Aktaios) (Deceased) (using Xmax mod)
12. Evil666 - (Cronos) (Spellbinder Lvl 21) (Memphis)
13. Cymbal - (Narasan) (Spellbinder Lvl 18) (Memphis)
14. Aggy - (Conquers Naked) (Conquerer Lvl 18) (Rhakotis)
15. Hyperion - (John Dorian) (Diviner Lvl 21) (Rhakotis)

[Jin]

Thanks Viper, we should think about a link thingy in the first thread if we can catch Aggy if we want to keep on with a leaderboard, it would make things more usable for newcomers me thinks.

As for me, you can remove Flesh'nBones from your leaderboard, I think it's better if we only keep our best character along with the current one. This would prevent people like me going with many characters to use many spots in the leaderboard and would encourage newcomers more as it would then be easier for them to get into it.

Good luck to you all and keep it on !
*crosses fingers for the Stormwitch*

[Viper_Sweden]

Thanks Jin, although her demise seems imminent. She's in the Babylon Outskirts now and those spiders are deadly, was down to ~50 health a bunch of times, the Chimera was a pansy though.

Current LeaderBoard:

1. King of Hell Poinas - (Flasher ) ( Bone Charmer Lvl 38) (Knossos) (EPIC)

2. King of Hell CookieMonster, The Turtle Peasant - (Balls of fire) (Summoner Lvl 39) (Megara) (EPIC)

3. King of Hell Jin, The Turtle Peasant - (Zozo Merryskin) (Illusionist Lvl 39) (Helos) (EPIC)

4. Titan Slayer Mamba - (?) (Druid Lvl 3?) (Styx) (Deceased)
5. Titan Slayer Hyperion - (The Naked Gun) (Soothsayer Lvl 30) (Gray sisters) (Deceased)
6. Titan Slayer gdpryzr - (Nakie Bowmaster) (Hunter Lvl 33) (Ixian Woods) (Deceased)
7. Titan Slayer CookieMonster (Glorious Nude) (Brigand Lvl 31) (Rhodes)
8. Viper_Sweden - (The Stormwitch) (Stormcaller Lvl 28) (Babylon)
9. Whisk33 - (Harry Buttlocks) (Warlock Lvl 27) (Orient) (Deceased)
10. Hyperion - (Selen) (Oracle Lvl 27) (Aktaios) (Deceased) (using Xmax mod)
11. Evil666 - (Cronos) (Spellbinder Lvl 21) (Memphis)
12. Cymbal - (Narasan) (Spellbinder Lvl 18) (Memphis)
13. Aggy - (Conquers Naked) (Conquerer Lvl 18) (Rhakotis)
14. Hyperion - (John Dorian) (Diviner Lvl 21) (Rhakotis)

[CookieMonster]

The leader board will survive.....yeah!!! Thank's to my viper dude!!!!!

[CookieMonster]

Just to mention that Balls of fire is now renamed Balls of molten lava

Current LeaderBoard:

1. King of Hell Poinas - (Flasher ) ( Bone Charmer Lvl 38) (Knossos) (EPIC)

2. King of Hell CookieMonster, The Turtle Peasant - (Balls of molten lava) (Summoner Lvl 39) (Megara) (EPIC)

3. King of Hell Jin, The Turtle Peasant - (Zozo Merryskin) (Illusionist Lvl 39) (Helos) (EPIC)

4. Titan Slayer Mamba - (?) (Druid Lvl 3?) (Styx) (Deceased)
5. Titan Slayer Hyperion - (The Naked Gun) (Soothsayer Lvl 30) (Gray sisters) (Deceased)
6. Titan Slayer gdpryzr - (Nakie Bowmaster) (Hunter Lvl 33) (Ixian Woods) (Deceased)
7. Titan Slayer CookieMonster (Glorious Nude) (Brigand Lvl 31) (Rhodes)
8. Viper_Sweden - (The Stormwitch) (Stormcaller Lvl 28) (Babylon)
9. Whisk33 - (Harry Buttlocks) (Warlock Lvl 27) (Orient) (Deceased)
10. Hyperion - (Selen) (Oracle Lvl 27) (Aktaios) (Deceased) (using Xmax mod)
11. Evil666 - (Cronos) (Spellbinder Lvl 21) (Memphis)
12. Cymbal - (Narasan) (Spellbinder Lvl 18) (Memphis)
13. Aggy - (Conquers Naked) (Conquerer Lvl 18) (Rhakotis)
14. Hyperion - (John Dorian) (Diviner Lvl 21) (Rhakotis)