Winterheart, Event 45: Arctic Boss Kill

No skill boss challenge completed through shear tedium. Could not stop huge life drains and slowing things to a crawl since the damn things just spawn right under my feet, or appear right in front of me as running, or just up and filled the ENTIRE room with no gaps at times. Didn't help that alteration dump did not give my perm flasks cold/freeze immune for some time. Some of the bosses (see Malachai) were way safer than just going down a hallway in normal zones because it was rare for unavoidable cold patches to just fill the ground under/around me during said boss fights.

This was the most tedious, gear-checky, slow paced race of all time and near the end just became an exercise in TP/refresh spam. Did not enjoy it at any point.

Please refrain from unavoidable damage and unavoidable disabling mechanics in future race designs. Also, when doing (avoidable) damaging areas in future, please make them more visible. There were tilesets where only the slightest hint of mist was visible for damaging patches. Throw in attempts to look at piles of items from chests, or zones that actually had smoke or mist effects, smoke screen unique/champion monsters, etc and they were impossible to see.

I really hate Abomination Piety!! >_<

Room filled with ice storms, and couldn't move. Such a tiny room in the first place. Her beam comes around and hits me down to almost nothing. I use all my flasks and the residual damage from her beam kills me before I make it over to my portal. RIP 25 points for Malachai! Dang!! Really close after such a long day. Pawned really hard! Worst possible room outcome. Should have closed out. Boo!!!!!

This race started at like the worst time. 5am on a friday, I am going to bed and I wasnt able to kill fucking Vaal in the 24 hour period because the day was just a bad timing. They might as well have just put it during the fucking super bowl, at least I wouldnt have tried at all.

Degen is real in cruel.

5th char ... riped
too tired ... too sleepy i just fedup

In my last post reply i said it but i say again I wasted my Time
able to kill only Vaal I lost 70pts ... in the current Ladder that's mean losing too much to comeback in the top 100 :(


also in the near patch coming (4th March)
and with the nerf of ms flask I just hope a +30 mvs boot won't be a must have
> meaning if you don't have it .. you're dead whatever you try to do

Started late, ended late. My BM RT Cycloner's about 7.5 hours old with some AFK/breaks in there.

The Harvest is insane until you get Malachai downstairs. Fortify, LGoH, Warlord's Mark, and potions... Needed all that shit to keep my life from dropping too much. I don't even want to know what happens in Cruel and Merciless...

Overall, a cool race, I think. I'm impressed with everyone who did it in ~3 hours, and I like this more than BLAMT. This arctic stuff at least ramps up in difficulty; BLAMT is just hard for no reason always.

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awave wrote:

http://imgur.com/FIrM44M

this was at barkul...like wth are we even supposed to do when rng goes this way? it was like this the entire fight. they were spawning on top of me and filling most of the arena. i used maybe 7 portals. i somehow managed to kill barkul then died trying to leave the damned place as they kept spawning on top of me.

nice race otherwise i guess...but personally just found it to be a chore-the amount of points being rewarded was alluring though. congrats to those who killed malachai and then some.

You can't be seriously expecting to go through Act 4 with 1k Life. There was no need to rush as a late starter. Doing some Levels and farming some decent gear in Dried lake was so easy with the stronboxes. I don't get the point of such rant postings. Compared with last years BLAMT Boss kill this race was pretty easy even for non HC players. Just adapt to the mods and you're fine.

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Smokah wrote:

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awave wrote:

http://imgur.com/FIrM44M

this was at barkul...like wth are we even supposed to do when rng goes this way? it was like this the entire fight. they were spawning on top of me and filling most of the arena. i used maybe 7 portals. i somehow managed to kill barkul then died trying to leave the damned place as they kept spawning on top of me.

nice race otherwise i guess...but personally just found it to be a chore-the amount of points being rewarded was alluring though. congrats to those who killed malachai and then some.

You can't be seriously expecting to go through Act 4 with 1k Life. There was no need to rush as a late starter. Doing some Levels and farming some decent gear in Dried lake was so easy with the stronboxes. I don't get the point of such rant postings. Compared with last years BLAMT Boss kill this race was pretty easy even for non HC players. Just adapt to the mods and you're fine.

at that point there was an hour left in the race, so i *was* pushing it, but you also dont expect the entire screen to be full of degen, no matter how much hp you have. in most zones i could throw my traps and scoot...until this one point. the next few levels were all to be hp also.

wasn't a late starter either btw. ripped the first 2 to barely visible cloud circles at Dom (while on shocked ground) and another at A4 Piety. but yeah i stayed 3 or so levels under the zone on all of them and didnt stop to farm, so that certainly increased the difficulty. Cyclone was by far the easiest to play until the Piety rip.

also, BLAMT is fun, this was not. even if i wouldve succeeded it just wasnt fun. just a personal opinion. (which if this race is meant to playtest an upcoming ascendency mechanic, im assuming GGG wants to hear all sides) it felt like a chore to score some pts.

My first forum post ever just to tell:

The most disgusting, ridicolous computer game experience I discovered in years!

8hrs 48minutes
BM RT Cyclone

Got a tabula from brutus, so damage was not too shabby.

rank 1241. I did not expect to even manage dominus tbh.