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[KingOfPain]

GoGoGadgetz FireEngineRed Does Hell Meph

It was the naked gal who led the way into Duriel's Chamber. By the time the Necro entered the girls had already taken a sizable chunk of life off Dury.



FER's Stats at Dur3


GGGz Stats at Dur3



Still, GGGz insisted he was doing all the work, carrying the girls all through their adventures. And so, FER showed GGGz how it's done upon arriving at Travincal, and Durance 3, where perhaps the most dangerous monsters in the entire game exists. Here's how the challenge played out from her perspective. 


There is a 18 lvl difference in Mlvl vs Clvl when GGGz and FER landed at Travincal and Durance 3. A huge advantage for the bad guys. Playing on 2 computers that are 3 feet apart is not as fluid as it can be ;p

Thinking ahead a little bit

GoGoGadgetz:
Fire Ball  Slvl 21     352-398
Fire Wall Slvl 16     1469-1508PS
Meteor   Slvl 13      719-792      262-301PS

Fire Skills can gain 3 more levels with various weapons, but giving up others useful skills. Hexfire is alright, while HOTO a good exchange but expensive. I am trying to stay cheap. The most expensive item on GGGz is the Trang set which can be had for a Vex or less. This neatly dispels this No Skills Necro dependence on items, well, at least not expensive gears.
Also deciding if Flame Rift is allowed. This will only help against Fire Immune monsters, if Lower Resist can’t break them.

FireEngineRed:
No plans except to pump the rest of points into Critical Strike to pump her Valk. Simplicity at its best
 
I have defined some skills and items to be cheesy even for variants, that’s why you don’t see what these characters can do (better). That’s not to say they are strictly outlawed. They will get used if there are no other (better) alternatives. Skills such as Dim Vision for example, were used when lvling up, since there is not much else a lvl 6 Curse Necro can do. Corpse Explosion would make things too easy if abused. However, in the case of the Cold Worm’s room with wall to wall spawns in the previous video (and I have seen worse that a normal toon gave up), if the party had difficulty of keeping up kill rate vs spawn rate then I would say CE is a perfectly legit choice. Similarly, an up’d Kelpie Snare is always in the Necro’s inventory, with Decrep/Clay Golem on a stick, but….


The upcoming battle with Diablo and Baal might see the use of such tactics. They are simply too painful to the naked toons. GGGz himself should be alright with all his resists sitting at max. FER, on the other hand, would be a tough fight if she and her girls are to stay in Diablo/Baal’s elemental spell range. FER is -80 res all and Kyoto isn’t that much better at 50,50,23,23. Of course, Kyoto can get a refit.  I think her Valk should survive without a problem. There are 2 alternatives to try, which is always on GGGz since Clvl 66 - Life Tap and Bone Prison charges from MarrowWalk. Either one or both of them could provide a nice solution.




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[KingOfPain]

GoGoGadgetz @ Hell Diablo

Reported by FireEngineRed

https://www.realmsbeyond.net/forums/show...e=threaded


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[Boro]

were you dual-wielding mice in this?

[KingOfPain]

were you dual-wielding mice in this?

Guilty as charged. I run dual monitors on the main gig, the second computer is 5ft away, and the laptop is usually 3ft on the other side. Diablo does not like semi active players so I moved the laptop right next to me for the event. So I didn't have to keep turning around to see, and kept those Fire Wall and Meteors raining


I can HDMI to the second monitor but too much bother for rare occasions.
Love my Pacman and Mario Brothers keys

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[KingOfPain]

GoGoGadgetz & FireEngineRed VS Hell Ancients

Interesting enough that GGG's Defiance merc died twice vs Diablo, and at the Ancients, while Kyoto was lucky to survive both events.

Clvl 75 @ The Ancients




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[KingOfPain]

GoGoGadgetz & FrieEngineRed Grand Finale

GoGoGadgetz and FireEngineRed took turns at clearing WSK levels. WSK1 spawned Black Souls. It would have been very painful to play both characters at the same time. Further more, Baal's laughing attacks (Poisons, especially, takes down FER's HP quickly.) made it imperative to keep moving at all times. They met up at WSK3.

The video shows the second attempt at Baal. It seems Baal likes to spawn his clone more often when I play the Variants. I guess I can always go to town and wait for the Vile Effigy to expire but I really don't want to do this while I am recording. The Variants are not designed to be able to deal with 2 Baals at the same time with ease . Especially when Baal is 22 Mlvl higher than GGGz and FER. The companions managed to get Baal to 1/3 life when I decided to call it quits because resources are running low. I just got to figure a better way, and fight another day.

FER Stats - 3 Skill points unused and 50 stat points saved.


GGGz Stats - No Skill points used and 90 stat points saved.


FER Skill Set & Equipment - Naked and Passive Tree only

GGGz Skill Set & Equipment


I came up with a plan, the tactic may or may not work. We will have to see how successful the execution is.

The plan was to have FER, our naked Zon get down to the Throne Room and run up the bridge, cast a Tp and town. Then everyone would use that TP to go down at the same time so all the characters and minions would be at Baal; somewhat like TeleStomping. Hopefully Baal does not move out of the way.

The second part of the plan is (if plan A works out) I would have Baal where I want him, more or less. The tactic is to nudge Baal to the corners on the top of the bridge. Once he is there, his movement is restricted, instead of running all over the places if he is down on the other end.

GGGz and FER vs Baal @ Clvl77
Note:
When it says Fire Immune to FER, they are not immune to GGGz. Armed with a Sunder Charm, with Lower Resist, FI are about 85% Fire Resist.
GGG died once on Baal. Totally my fault for running 2 toons at once and not paying enough attention to his HP when I can clearly see the warning sign to drink in the video.
16:20 - 22:15 Resurrect GGGz. Had to take a phone call. Go ahead and skip forward to 22:15





PS:
As we can see in the journey of GGGz and FER.
FER is totally capable of fending for herself although killing speed can use some improvement. We can also see Kyoto is not armed to the teeth and uses only a Koku at end game.

GGGz on the other hand uses a Defiance merc and the merc ends up dying somewhat often. It is what it is.

The question is, can we say FER and GGGz depend on their mercs? Does FER use Kyoto to tank for her? Does GGGz depend on the merc to tank when the merc dies, when GGGz has Revives?

Should we dismiss those normal Druid/Necro summoner to be invalid?
And we have people with normal, and even builds that come with shopping lists, complain they can't keep their mercs alive.
So, one wonders if GGGz depends on the Revives, and FER depends on her Valk and Decoy, are they legitimately valid builds and challenges? Do we discount these characters?
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FER, "My works here is truly done."
GGGz, "Baal, never doubt my skills." Such irony  



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[KingOfPain]

GoGoGadgets & NatureCalls Dress Rehearsal

So it comes down to pairing GoGoGadgets the No Skills Baba with NatureCalls the Naked Druid Summoner. This is part of the intention when I decided to pair FoulMouthAlice with ImMcTyraelGirl. While it create more of a challenge to pair 2 naked Variants, their skill sets make them a perfect pair if played by 2 people. GoGoGadgets and NatureCalls are two variants that are complete opposite and yet the very same. One says, "Items are for wimps", and the other says, "Skills are for wimps"; yet they are both summoners.

This is a quick dress rehearsal to see how each can play and how they can play together. The quick summary is, there is safety in numbers.

There isn't much choices to be made for NatureCalls. His skills are set and there isn't much deviation from that. GGGs, otoh, can get complicated. How he is set up now seems to be working fine, but his build can still see some varieties via more usage of Necro summons, and Curses, even. The complication is compounded by which skills he can used while in human or bear form; and which summons will remain on weapon swap...  In this dress-up, he was more concerned with how many group buffs the group can manage. So far, we have:
Lvl 9 Fanaticism
Lvl 16 Hart Of Wolverine
Low lvl BO
Defiance Merc
Might Merc
Oak Sage
Can probably get 1 or 2 more Auras from merc weapons.

I want to let this team lvlup a bit, to at least clvl81 by Diablo so GGGs can realize his full potential with WolfHowl and MetalGrid. Levelling up to be on par with Mlvl would let NatureCall's Ravens be actually useful and Blind targets. Surely this would make the game "easier", but why waste the opportunity for more fun. The confusion of running all these buffs, summons and playing two characters at once would be chaotic enough for a challenge, especially, for a non summoner player such as myself


NC SkillBar @65
Notice Teleport on the bar from a plain Teleport ammy, has yet to be tried.



GGGs SkillBar @65

 

Travelling down to the Countess revealed the team still need one more thing - How to deal with Physical Immune, which was handled by a Rogue merc previously.



Jeremiah the Naked Leap Warder will do just fine with any toons, Variant or otherwise, solo or multi players in a pubbie game. Jeremiah was more of a proof of concept, that a naked Passive Baba can rule the game.



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[T-hawk]

Like, are you even playing the game, or is it just playing itself with the mercs and summons once you set up all the buffs?

[Boro]

He certainly is playing a game. Just not the game we are used to.

[KingOfPain]

LoL.   Sometimes I think the videos makes things look too easy too. Especially when they only show "successful" runs.

In this case, they are no difference from playing a mainstream summoner except harder, gimped, with limited skills and slvl, for both of them.
NatureCalls is naked, base vit, -80 resists, can get one hit.
GGGs is limited to skills from items, that only work together on the same Weapon Swap, and at very low slvl.
Mercs are no better equipped than once through self found toons.
The difference between Clvl and Mlvl is so great that the Ravens are totally useless... 

People wouldn't sneeze at a fully fleshed out (Summoner) builds that comes with an extensive shopping list. By the very least, getting them to work with these limitations are achievements on their own.

Why I am always proud to say, you can go to other sites for advice and they can tell you how to maximize, with a shopping list; at RB, we tell you what you can get away with