The other day i was happily farming A3 when this nightmare showed up...Had to ditch the MF gear to be able to kill it without dying.
Also the damn thing caught me with WOTB on CD just to make my encounter a bit more cheerful. When it was almost dead the CD expired but then i just finished the job without burning it again...
How about u guys, seen anything as nasty as that lately?
Well since the image is not working (I simply suck at this forum business) It is a Succubus, Frozen, Molten, Plagued and Arcane Enchanted.
Now if anyone will be so kind as to enlighten me how the hell do I do to post a picture here it will be much apreciated.
In other news, not sure how everyone gets 'caught with xxx on CD'.. you pull the monsters... not the other way around
Edit - as WD the hardest I really encounter are champ/minion packs with horde. I think that's the hardest in the game depending on what gets rolled for the minions
I have never hit a combo that I felt was 'impossible' though, I hear that all the time, makes no sense to me
There are some nasty affixes I always hate on my WD (vortex+molten being one of the most loathsome), but I find most often the annoying factor comes from the monster type and their baked-in skills. Tremor beasts, Corrupt Angels, etc. are almost never easy. Many ranged caster type monsters are also very frustrating with any kind of ground-polluting effects since it makes corralling them into a corner difficult.
Molten, frozen, arcane, electrified, plagued shouldn't be able to spawn on 1 elite pack. They should put it into AOE category like they did with CC affixes.
Lets see, Fast, molten, electrified horde or vortex. Coupled with monster types like snakes that can just run up to you and bypass most of your damage, or a fast mummy (accursed) which are already so fast. I bet haedrig and the other merchants plant these mobs, for serious repair profits.
Off-topic: If our character loses, then the world is over, and everyone dies. But I still pay through my nose for repairs. C'mon, at least let me run a tab.
edit: My off topic rant didn't make sense before.
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There's no combination of affixes that can't be made even worse by being on just the right type of base monster.
A particular horror I encountered was multiple shit-on-the-floor affixes (might have been Frozen, Molten, Plagued), plus Fast.. on some ranged mob that liked to run away. Fast. What a disgusting mess that was.
i had one really bad with my monk yesterday.
plagued, molten, electrified, reflect damage. All that on a succubus pack (atacks from range and curses my armor to half)
Vortex+Molten/Firechains/both, or Teleport+Firechains, god these are IMPOSSIBLE once they tire of you ,zoom they vortex you in and it's almost insta death... or Fast Demonic Tremors... (because apparently 1000% innate movement speed increase just because they are elites, isn't fast enough... (I know it's not 1000%, it's just to show how insanly fast they are)), or Fast plus any already fast mobs, like fast zombies, Soul Lashers, those things that burrows underground
Vortex+Molten/Firechains/both, or Teleport+Firechains, god these are IMPOSSIBLE once they tire of you ,zoom they vortex you in and it's almost insta death... or Fast Demonic Tremors... (because apparently 1000% innate movement speed increase just because they are elites, isn't fast enough... (I know it's not 1000%, it's just to show how insanly fast they are)), or Fast plus any already fast mobs, like fast zombies, Soul Lashers, those things that burrows underground
When they do that, just pop your defensive CC to escape, and run away until it cools down -- or when you see vortex, make sure you LOS yourself so that when it fires, it pulls you against a wall or something instead of in to the pack, then fight for a few seconds until they can cast it again
There is no specific affix combo that is difficult at all unless it's on the right (or the WRONG, in this case) kind of enemy. Worst I ever had was a Champ/Minion pack of the Fallen Champions (the big, tough guys in A3), Horde-Reflect Damage-Mortar-Extra Health. I was on a WD. Other notables include a couple times today when I caught a Smouldering Construct Champion with Horde on a melee character. The other affixes just cease to matter at this point. Then again, later on I caught a Fast-Desecrator-Arcane-Extra Health pack of Fallen Shamans RIGHT after I finished nuking out a gigantic pack of lesser Fallen. Didn't even realize they were there until I was getting swarmed under.
What's funny is that I normally LOVE seeing Horde packs on my WD, since he's a Bats and Dogs build. Just means more XP and loot to me most of the time
I will vote Occultist as the most annoying pack for 1.0.4
Blizzard gave their yellow shield a stealth buff with some uber damage reduction. While the pack on its own is still fairly easy (although still annoying for melee), they can buff other champion packs near by (phasebeast?) and make them extra hard to deal with.
Insane affix combos not only become more ridiculous with the monster type, but also with the area in which they occur. So... Act 2 spiderlings Vortex, Frozen, Arcane Enchanted, Plagued... in a small cave with only narrow tunnels to navigate. Can you say "chain-freeze"? Can you say "frickin' chain-freeze three times in a row"?!
Pretty much any time Vortex+Frozen rolls in a tight space things get really crazy.
I second the location motion. Got stuck against a Freezing pack during the Catapults mission in A3, never could see the frost bombs until they were going off.
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Also the damn thing caught me with WOTB on CD just to make my encounter a bit more cheerful. When it was almost dead the CD expired but then i just finished the job without burning it again...
How about u guys, seen anything as nasty as that lately?
Well since the image is not working (I simply suck at this forum business) It is a Succubus, Frozen, Molten, Plagued and Arcane Enchanted.
Now if anyone will be so kind as to enlighten me how the hell do I do to post a picture here it will be much apreciated.
Beat me to my edit.. Lol
In other news, not sure how everyone gets 'caught with xxx on CD'.. you pull the monsters... not the other way around
Edit - as WD the hardest I really encounter are champ/minion packs with horde. I think that's the hardest in the game depending on what gets rolled for the minions
I have never hit a combo that I felt was 'impossible' though, I hear that all the time, makes no sense to me
Even pre patch Invul Minions were killable, just required a bit more care and in my case some trash mobs around it.
But there really are some that are just plain annoying... Like Vortex, Jailer, Frozen, Desecrator for example.
Sorry I couldnt link the image, I dont know how to do it.
Off-topic: If our character loses, then the world is over, and everyone dies. But I still pay through my nose for repairs. C'mon, at least let me run a tab.
edit: My off topic rant didn't make sense before.
Thanks, I didn't know about the gallery on Dfans. liveandyoulearn
A particular horror I encountered was multiple shit-on-the-floor affixes (might have been Frozen, Molten, Plagued), plus Fast.. on some ranged mob that liked to run away. Fast. What a disgusting mess that was.
plagued, molten, electrified, reflect damage. All that on a succubus pack (atacks from range and curses my armor to half)
i had a bad time here.
When they do that, just pop your defensive CC to escape, and run away until it cools down -- or when you see vortex, make sure you LOS yourself so that when it fires, it pulls you against a wall or something instead of in to the pack, then fight for a few seconds until they can cast it again
What's funny is that I normally LOVE seeing Horde packs on my WD, since he's a Bats and Dogs build. Just means more XP and loot to me most of the time
Blizzard gave their yellow shield a stealth buff with some uber damage reduction. While the pack on its own is still fairly easy (although still annoying for melee), they can buff other champion packs near by (phasebeast?) and make them extra hard to deal with.
Pretty much any time Vortex+Frozen rolls in a tight space things get really crazy.