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Round VIII chatter ( Dwemer Scholar ); DiD round talk..
Topic Started: May 7 2017, 06:33 PM (794 Views)
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My "Test Aahni" finally found a situation in which she could not win. The Aetherium Forge... she could not kill the Forgemaster. She fought him for over 2 hours real time, and ran out of arrows. She'd had over a hundred-fifty to start with, a mix of steel, Elven, Orcis, and Glass. At the end of the two hours, the Forgemaster was nearly dead, and she gave him a sneak attack using shield and mace and...

Not only did he NOT die, he was suddenly healed back to full health again! Given that there is no escape from the forge, and there was no chance of killing him, I let her just slug it out with him to the bitter end. She did not prevail.

I am certainly glad though that I took her in there instead of waiting to do it with the competitor Aahni. Next time, she will be better prepared, eh? More arrows, a bow stronger than Zephyr, more healing potions... yeah, that's a good start!

Oh, and something happened that I've never seen or heard before during that fight with the Forgemaster. I'll post it as a video in a bit in the competition video section... Believe me, if you think Aahni was frustrated with the situation, just wait til you see the state of the Forgemaster when he eventually reached the breaking point... :)
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My current character is running a parallel setup with the competition. He's was level 12 and on his way to see the Greybeards when the 3 Justiciar assassination squad came after him. He had just forged and enchanted a set of dwemer armor, bow and arrows. Difficulty setting Apprentice and he took those bastages out!!! I am so looking forward to this competition! It will be interesting to see how bad the RNG monster is this time!
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Yeah Neil,

I'm glad I checked out some places I haven't done, or some I've done once so long ago I forgot what "their trick" is. Last night I was over in Solstein at Fahlbtharz, and on my first playthrough long ago I must have tcl'd my way through the "puzzle" areas. I'm going to check out usep to see what I am doing wrong/missing. My recent virgin TG playthrough would have been a pisser in a DiD comp, and that was before Twilight Sepulcher!

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For what it's worth, the Forgemaster is very weak to Frost, unlike all other automatons, which are immune to it. :)
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I bet he's also weak to Dragonbone arrows from a 450 damage Dragonbone bow eh! Chuckles....
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Rick,

Tracy Gene was using a 640 damage bow and he was a 2 shotter (lvl 50 Legendary). Yeah, that sounds OP as hell and I wouldn't argue in this instance. Then you run into Warmongers that take 3 sneak attacks or 5-7 reg hits with that same OP bow. Skyrim's version of "game balance" I guess ;)
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Killing time until the comp start, I decided to take Aahni back to the Aetherium Forge for another go. This time The Forgemaster fell like he was the stay-puft marshmallow man. I think that the Forgemaster may be one of those bosses like the Warlord Gathrik. What kind of foe he turns out to be is just luck of the draw, and one time he'll be simple and easy, the next time he's nearly unkillable... and there's no way to tell which one you're going to get.
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He could be utilising npc only perks....the damage resistance ones.

Talking of those perks, the extra damage variety. A while ago we ran into an almost certain example....melee this time.

We had taken the tough track opposite Pinewatch, that heads to Ancients Ascent. Adella had AR 200+ and we met a regular bandit (not an Orc) with a steel greatsword about level 20 iirc. She was decapped upon his first hit! :ohno:
Recognising we had been tricked...I tested it out.
Upon reload...same bandit and weapon whaled on her nine times before I even got concerned about her gradually sinking health level.
He could hardly dent her....as expected!

So where did that first hit get all that kill power?
Clearly an extra damage perk in play.....

The b'stard still cost us a re-start tho'
You won't believe the satisfaction at working back up to that and finding the same looking guy with same weapon still just waiting for us.

So yeah....extra npc perks can be a game changer and change on each load out.
Edited by Rick, Jun 2 2017, 07:33 AM.
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glad I missed the 1st 42 min of that....lol
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Happy start day!
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