Winterheart, Event 45: Arctic Boss Kill

I am absolutely not a racer, but loved this one alot. Clounds did exactly as much damage as I thought they will, giving more trouble than all the bosses, but not stupid oneshit bullshit. Ran whole thing with RoA, only switching to burning arrow for Malachai. Actually though I'm playing since closed beta, I've never built a bow character, was a pleasant new experience. Overall thanks to GGG for such race with generous reward. And I feel that i really imroved my leveling process, since before this race I had never beat normal in one go, it usually takes me 3-4 days.

just died in docks at level 26 from those cold-clouds
my feedback: you would think i would take less damage with my 62% cold res but nop didnt seem to help. those clouds are insanely annoying with 10% movement speed and no quicksilver flask up
not sure i want to rerace from level 1 again, even though the race rewards 100 points
why do you award so many points for this race? is it annoyance vs points factor? youre hoping that being superannoyed should award a lot of points?
i cant even stop to chat or loot, id boxes etc. race is not fun
note: my /played says i raced for 2.5 hrs and i was annoyed 33% of the time im sure

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IceslayerVixxun wrote:

just died in docks at level 26 from those cold-clouds
my feedback: you would think i would take less damage with my 62% cold res but nop didnt seem to help. those clouds are insanely annoying with 10% movement speed and no quicksilver flask up
not sure i want to rerace from level 1 again, even though the race rewards 100 points
why do you award so many points for this race? is it annoyance vs points factor? youre hoping that being superannoyed should award a lot of points?
i cant even stop to chat or loot, id boxes etc. race is not fun

You complain that you died with 62% cold res? It was obvious from the start that you need max cold res and be very careful. It can easily kill you with 89% cold res.

The cloud scaling in cruel with capped resi damn, made it to 50 anyway, more than i expected, fun race.

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IceslayerVixxun wrote:

just died in docks at level 26 from those cold-clouds
my feedback: you would think i would take less damage with my 62% cold res but nop didnt seem to help. those clouds are insanely annoying with 10% movement speed and no quicksilver flask up

I had 76% overcapped cold res, 2k hp and 1.6% hp regen still would die in 5 seconds to clouds in Malachai room. This race is all about positioning. If you feel annoyed now, i have bad news since with labyrinth in Ascendancy there will be alot more of this type of annoyace and even deadlier.

Came 2.5h late for this one, so it wasn't really a race, went for super tanky-super slow marauder, finished with 4h played, opening every box that I've met xD

Idk, didn't really enjoy it, maybe if it was a race then I would've enjoy it a bit. But other than that just super slow mode to withdraw 100pts. :/

Now I just need to hit level 65 and I'll be ready for Malachai!

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This race is all about positioning. If you feel annoyed now, i have bad news since with labyrinth in Ascendancy there will be alot more of this type of annoyace and even deadlier.

Sadly this is what I fear the most about Ascendancy. I get it new challenges are needed or the game gets old. But in my opinion an ARPG should always focus on killing vast amounts of monsters. I just hope the labyrinth is the only area where the main focus is traps.

In the race I quit right after Dominus not because I died but I knew how much I was going to have to over level each zone so much just to survive, and then at that point it isn't about worrying about monsters it's about little circles of death.

P.S. 85% cold resists flasks of anti-freeze and 20% move boots. I have no idea how some people beat this without move speed. I screwed up and picked leap slam then found nice wands and never went back for flame dash.

This race makes me think someone at GGG must drink tons of coffee and buzz around the office like a humming bird on crack.

The density of the clouds + the DoT scaling + the mvt speed
with a caped char 75% cold ( didn't found the flask to go to 85% ...)
I can say anything than I wasted my time
die 3 time ... can't go higher than 25 ( DoT + Rare Discharger instant kill )

At the moment I'm 60th in the season ladder
after that ... the gap will be too huge to try a "comeback from hell"

:(

For me its the worst race ever. I died near bealy the beast 2 tunnel with empty quiksilver flask - just spammed about 6 clouds near me and no chance to avoid him (failed log out or it was imposible in time). Whatever - for me its "strange race", then you must using your portals a lot. I mean...avoiding dmg or refil flask "jumping" to town. In next time i will ignore such type of this race. Totally wasted time.