🚀 go-pugleaf

ArtDent wrote:
> On 14-Nov-2007, RJ <ss33ss33@yahoo.com> wrote:
> 
>> u havent encountered the bug, when u do its bye bye
> 
> Seriously?  There is nothing that can let you live through it?
> Because I think I did get hit by it just a little bit ago.
> My life ball went ALMOST empty.
> From full to looking empty in the blink of an eye.
> But, I did not die.
> I sure came close, fingers are still a bit shaky, heh.
> I have damage reduced by 27 total, and reduced by at least 10 percent too.
> Magic damage reduced by ~22 I think.
> 
It also depends who that FE bugger is. It's amazing you can live 
to tell the tale about killing a FE Fatso. I can't remember if 
FE is all fire or if there's a physical component in it. MDR 
surely helps, but I'm not sure about DRx/DRx%. Tommi Gustafsson 
used to have a couple of pages digging into game mechanics like 
this on www.hut.fi/~tgustafs/ but I can't find it anymore.

Anyway, I still remember a key factor of FE damage is the 
monster's life in Normal difficulty (I think this is what the 
bug is in NM -- they probably have used NM life.) So a FE Fallen 
unique in a solo game probably won't do too much to you and 
you'll survive nicely. If it's Lister (I think he's the 
non-act-boss with the most blood in Normal) then good luck.

Note also that FE is not just deadly in NM. In hell it's usually 
no biggie, but if the monster is spawned with other nasty mods, 
it's as deadly. I lost a hammerdin to a hell FE+CE+Conviction 
Fatso in a solo game. 95% res.all, 75% block, 2k life, nothing 
mattered. I whined in channel afterwards, and was met with 
scornful remark -- "only 2k life? my barb with 5k life has just 
died to the same bugger!"

When meleeing in HC, what I do when I see a pack coming is to 
step back, let the merc engage first (and if he doesn't, I'll do 
what he usually does: lure the monsters to him), and then I'll 
check mods of the boss before I decide if I'll join in for the 
fun or not.

Bing