Short Questions Thread

[Sprow]

Hey guys, been trying Astro with a few of my builds but most are pretty heavily geared towards a.o.e.

What would be the best build to do Astro reliably/efficiently? I've done most other ubers so this is really one of those that I want to finish.

Any caster with nuke damage and high spell/pierce. What are you working with

Okay, so maybe a caster druid or sorc would be good to use. I have been playing with: javazon, fortressbarb, deathgaze barb, summoner barb, harbinger wolf, treewarden, summoner nec, holy melee pally.

So no casters so far. Good mention, because now that I see the list of playstyles I see I should develop experience with a caster. By the way, I've been farming for a while now so I probably have a decent amount of gear to make one off the bat. I can respec my harbinger wolf druid or raise a sorc.

Also, I have almost every set complete except for the community set, laz, and caoi dulra and the one with avalanche. And then there is one set that I haven't found any piece from yet so far.

I'll look into the caster druids but if you or anyone else knows a good caster boss killer setup I am willing to try it for the experience.

you can try holy caster

viewtopic.php?f=6&t=19300

[silicondream]

Where to get this item ?

Jered Cain's Diamond

I've managed to get all the rest. When I get an arcane seal its always the blue one ...

[Fumbles]

Where to get this item ?

Jered Cain's Diamond

I've managed to get all the rest. When I get an arcane seal its always the blue one ...

[silicondream]

Where to get this item ?

Jered Cain's Diamond

I've managed to get all the rest. When I get an arcane seal its always the blue one ...

Thank you!

[Muilpeer]

Hey guys, been trying Astro with a few of my builds but most are pretty heavily geared towards a.o.e.

What would be the best build to do Astro reliably/efficiently? I've done most other ubers so this is really one of those that I want to finish.

Any caster with nuke damage and high spell/pierce. What are you working with

Okay, so maybe a caster druid or sorc would be good to use. I have been playing with: javazon, fortressbarb, deathgaze barb, summoner barb, harbinger wolf, treewarden, summoner nec, holy melee pally.

So no casters so far. Good mention, because now that I see the list of playstyles I see I should develop experience with a caster. By the way, I've been farming for a while now so I probably have a decent amount of gear to make one off the bat. I can respec my harbinger wolf druid or raise a sorc.

Also, I have almost every set complete except for the community set, laz, and caoi dulra and the one with avalanche. And then there is one set that I haven't found any piece from yet so far.

I'll look into the caster druids but if you or anyone else knows a good caster boss killer setup I am willing to try it for the experience.

you can try holy caster

https://forum.median-xl.com/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=19300

Ah, totally not what I expected

I'll look into this, thanks! Looks pretty good even thoug there is a cut in the Astro fight so I wonder how long it really took

[Crash]

Was gonna say, nearly all of your builds are farming, brute force builds, so yea I can see how you'd struggle there.

[thedethwalker]

Hello, excuse me if this question has been asked before or if I didn't read the documentation well enough, but the last time I played MXL I remember that there was a Level Challenge 0 at lvl 5 where you had to run in circles around a demon who was shooting an electric laser and was rotating or something like that. Has it been removed?

[ChuckNoRis]

yes , it was removed

[Knight_Saber]

So, poison damage question... (I can feel the eyes rolling).
I'm familiar with how it works ("poison damaged explained" (by LazBro) was like 9 years ago or something), but I'd just like to clear something up.
This regards passive type poison, not active.

If I have a big damage/short duration passive (weapon) poison source, and I add some low damage/long duration, we all know that = profit.
However, the whole average duration thing seems to go out the window with more than 2 sources.

For example:
100 over 2 sec = 200
100 over 2 sec + 1 over 10 sec = 606. 101 per sec for 6 seconds (12/2)
100 over 2 sec + 1 over 10 sec + 1 over 10 sec = 748. 102 per sec for 7.33 seconds (22/3)

Assuming I am understanding this properly, tooltip/statsheet damage often goes down when equipping new gear, that in practice does a lot more damage.

So finally, the short question:

Should I just ignore tooltip/statsheet damage when playing poison characters, and solely evaluate different gear selection by just going and hitting something and watch it die?

[HechtHeftig]

It‘s also called lcs (lying character sheet) so yeah, don‘t trust the damage shown in the stats window. Hit something and watch the damage.