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Will Necromancer get the same amount of packages, GGBS, etc. that Paladin is getting.

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any chance a Ranger class will be released?

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group of defenders who had locked away the Far West.

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And who could be the defenders at the end? Dragon lords? Or the few lucky souls that survived the West?

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At the start of your turn, if you do not have a Darkness burn on you, you will be inflicted with the status "PlsNoStacking-DragonlornKeepPart5" burn. If you do have a Darkness burn, you will be inflicted with "Dark Conduit". The debuff lasts 1 turn.

Dark Conduit acts similarly to a Darkness Burn. PlsNoStacking-DragonlornKeepPart5 acts similarly to a Prismatic Burn.

The first debuff you are inflicted with in the battle will have a Power of 1. Every subsequent application of either debuff will have a Power equal to the Power of the previous debuff times 5. PlsNoStacking-DragonlornKeepPart5 and Dark Conduit share the same Power counter.

If your PLAYER attacks the boss with Darkness damage, the power counter for PlsNoStacking-DragonlornKeepPart5 and Dark Conduit will be reset to 1 starting on the NEXT application of either debuff. Furthermore, it will remove the Dark Conduit debuff, meaning you will not take damage from it. However, it will not remove PlsNoStacking-DragonlornKeepPart5 debuff, meaning you will still take the damage from the current application of it without the power reset. Removing the debuff with any other method does not reset the power counter.

Wind and Energy attack will lower its MRM by 30 for 3 turns starting on the next turn. Further applications will further reduce MRM.

Fire and Ice attacks will give him a x0.85 elemental shield and -40 BTH starting on the next turn. Further applications will increase the magnitude of the element shield and blind.

Light attacks will give him the Berserk status. 130.77% damage and -20 BTH, Further applications will give him an additional, identical status.

Water attacks will give it -50 Status Potence and 3 turns of x0.7 Choke. Further applications will increase the magnitude of the Choke, but not the Status Potence.

The monster has a SP attack. This is basically a Darkness nuke with no additional effects.

The monster's regular attacks will attempt to inflict a Darkness burn (separate debuff from Dark Conduit/PlsNoStacking-DragonlornKeepPart5). This burn is capable of stacking in both turns and durations, but you can also resist it.

The monster's normal attack cannot inflict a burn if it is blocked or completely absorbed by a mana/chi shield.

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by cheesing with kindred

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by cheesing with kindred

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tsk tsk

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Oof.
Prime Chaos Orb should be a big help by itself since it sort of breaks the boss' burn mechanics. It entirely removes the downsides of attacking with darkness.

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a second part to the fight so I ended up walking into it with only about half a bar of SP.

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Light makes it go berserk which increases its BtH pretty heavily and with just a couple of stacks and maybe some MRM boosting on your side it'll become very hard for the monster to hit you.
Energy reduces its MRM significantly so if you don't want to worry about accuracy that's a solid choice as well.
I don't recommend Fire or Ice damage as those give the monster an elemental shield for a few turns.

I didn't get a chance to see what Water, Earth, or Wind did to the monster since I was a little tight on extra turns to mess around with.

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As a DF fan, fighting a hydra on the way between Oaklore and Falconreach is incredibly nostalgic, kudos.

After the hydra fight, the Chosen talks about how the place is abandoned and there are no survivors... while four pairs of eyes are glowing in the background. He fails that perception check so hard - I suppose there's a reason AQ doesn't have a Wisdom stat

Btw, is there a different dialogue based on your stats? My mage character seemed to know more about the magical charge than my warrior one. Or did I just accidentally skip it?

Wrun - a new necromantic term or something familiar by another name?

I spend a long and careful fight against the challenge mode monster. Then I tried out the non-challenge version on another character and... I turned into a war and casually one-shot it. I lol'd so hard.