On Tue, 11 Apr 2000, Kevin L. Crawford wrote:

>
> Not much you can do about those Quad attacks. Did the clerics give everyone
> their best Poison resist?

Yes.

> And were all the bards there singing purifying
> rhythms? The Lifetap is a check against poison resist. If you can crank it

Yes. That may have been part of the problem - there were only
two of us. But like I said, we had him beat the first time -
I was so confident of it that I switched from PR with a drum
to my weapons so that I'd be able to say I actually did some
damage to him in getting my Evensong. He quad attacked me
twice after I switched. I lost 2.5 bubbles each time despite
being buffed to 2200 hp.

> high enough you can (almost) nullify it. My friend who goes to hate pretty
> regularly swears by "NiV+Hymn+Purify" or just "NiV + Purify" He hasn't gone

That's what I used during the first attempt. My group was in
pretty good shape - we were all at 4+ bubbles with him down to
'Mae' and both clerics having almost half their mana. But
then he started ping-ponging, our damage rate dropped to
almost zero, and he was gaining hp as we died.

Another problem was that because he was quad-attacking, after
he was ping-ponged, the first tank to get to him usually ended
up eating 4-8 attacks in quick succession. It's just a really
nasty configuration that I hope none of you ever run into.

--
John H. Kim
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