0.11.0d Patch Notes

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LeninGHOLA wrote:

You don't play HC, especially Onslaught thinking you can just absorb Kole hits and be fine. You get out of the way. You should get out of the way in Standard as well. That death was his fault, through and through.

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KibaArtist wrote:

Kripp took one for the team!

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Bhaya wrote:

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Lauicus wrote:

I do agree that you must seek out your weaknesses and try to counter it. My brothers main (and first) char cleave marauder had a lot of trouble with Kole-like bosses until he started to use a skele-totem to distract them when he whirled in from behind to deliver his dual-strike blows, guerrilla style. They're still the most dangerous bosses for him, but its doable. My summoner witch on the other hand takes Kole as a little snack (after 0.11 sometimes 1 or 2 zombies died, wow!). So... melee looks weak? Well, the Coward's Trial painfully pointed out the weakness of my summoner-build; when the monsters numbers became too overwhelming to keep my horde up and with no means of escaping the area my witch was quickly reduced to a defenseless bubble of ES that only could run in circles while my brother whirled right in the middle of the insane monter-pack (couldn't even see the floor, have never seen such an summoner-boss) and cleaved the summoner and his minions simultaneously to death in only 10-15 seconds.

That's what I like so much about this game: Not only do you need to l2p the game, you also need to l2p each build you use.

That's what I like so much about this game: Not only do you need to l2p the game, you also need to l2p each build you use.

How would you like people who play solo l2p, if you say that some builds have no chance in certain situations? Is the learning process limited only to a conclusion that you have to play in groups in order to succeed in the game as a whole?

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Bhaya wrote:

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LeninGHOLA wrote:

You don't play HC, especially Onslaught thinking you can just absorb Kole hits and be fine. You get out of the way. You should get out of the way in Standard as well. That death was his fault, through and through.

In other words, if you play solo & melee, you should just skip this unbalanced game content, since this is the only way to "get out of his way". Great advice!

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LeninGHOLA wrote:

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Bhaya wrote:

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LeninGHOLA wrote:

You don't play HC, especially Onslaught thinking you can just absorb Kole hits and be fine. You get out of the way. You should get out of the way in Standard as well. That death was his fault, through and through.

In other words, if you play solo & melee, you should just skip this unbalanced game content, since this is the only way to "get out of his way". Great advice!

It is great advice. If you don't move out of the way of a telegraphed attack from the hardest hitting sub boss outside of high level maps, you may die. Especially in Onslaught. At the very least, don't go all out dps on the one mob in the game that your build is really weak to. Pop some defensive measures.

If anything should have been changed on Kole, it would have been to reduce or eliminate his crit ability, but keep his normal slam damage high.