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Post by vastin on Aug 3, 2008 20:45:18 GMT -5
Well, I just tried a binding of a Mature Prismatic Dragon to a Blue Steel Full Plate. Heh. well, the trick there would be BEATING the mature prismatic dragon so you can bind it at lvl 40. I took a pretty min/maxed crafter elemental lord into the lava dungeon and pretty much got the crap stomped out of me by any mature dragon I encountered. Everything else in there was trivial, I was wiping the floor with lvl 60 monsters - but the difference between everything else and the dragons was enormous. That crafter build was many times as powerful as my soul guardian build at the same level, so I'd give the soul guardian a very poor chance of taking out a prismatic. Still, with ball Life Blast spells and a 60+ speed you might be able to do it, as long as you never came into LOS of the dragon. The crafter had nearly as many tweak points as that dragon armor at lvl 28 btw, much more optimally laid out. Didn't matter though, still usually died to a single dragon melee hit even with 26k hp and the dragon affected by Halve Power - and they hit surprisingly frequently against an 86k AC. Still - the soul guardian build IS a lot of fun. It's amusing to experiment with all the monster types. It's just logistically challenging to work with, and you're very much at the whim of whatever shows up, so progress can be very slow sometimes. d**n Mirror Balls...
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Post by Variaz on Aug 3, 2008 20:57:38 GMT -5
All monsters of depth 30+ have been improved in this release, and due to a change in the code, less monsters of lower depth will appear. Monsters of depth 40+ have had an even bigger improvement. Get ready for a good fight! Careful, they have been fixed in this release. d**n Mirror Balls indeed. ;D
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Post by vastin on Aug 3, 2008 21:43:31 GMT -5
Oh, one other note about binding a prismatic to Blue Steel Full Plate:
That's assuming you dumped, Hmm... I think 57 AP into Bind Soul?
Better to just bind the dragon to a piece of leather for the stats and forget about your AC. Play something that doesn't really care about AC like a shadow master or caster and you're styling with Soul Bind - at that point it's one of the cheapest ways to upgrade your items in the game.
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