Diablo: Hellfire [8] Chamber of Bone

Now that I think about it multiplayer would let you farm some things you otherwise wouldn't be easily able to.
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[@Pollix780]

still thinking of Ogre lighting up the hallway with electricity last episode -.- lol

[@KewlioMZX]

I have definitely used Sticky Keys (or the same feature with a non-Microsoft name) during a point where I had a broken elbow and had to type one-handed for a while. It turns the Shift, Alt, and Ctrl keys into half-toggles which affect the next other key you press, then releases those modifier keys after that keypress.

[@Rie-Vinaca]

In this episode we go bang, zoom, straight to the third sun of planet Namek

[@KiujaziDelta]

Leaving a comment for the algorithm. Let's go Naka!

[@AquamentusZero]

11:01 This shrine does nothing for the user, but fully restores all other nearby players health and mana. 24:12 The book teaches you the Guardian Spell, which conjures up that hydra monster.

[@vforwombat9915]

guardian is a three headed fireball caster, only lasts a shot time and is hugely mana hungry. only real use it to fire around corners, and when you do the enemy comes straight for you instead of the guardian anyway. frankly, a massively leveled up fire wall spell is better.

[@AquamentusZero]

@@vforwombat9915 True words indeed. I always liked Fire Wave, too.

[@Nekosage]

Continuing further into the darkness! 21:55 - 22:46 - It's a good ol' fire blasting good time in the bone room!

[@RookMeAmadeus]

Little tip for the acid spitters: The acid puddles they leave on the ground can only damage you for about 3-4 seconds. If you look closely, you'll be able to see it change colors and bubble a bit on the ground while it's active.

[@vforwombat9915]

also a tip for the acid spitters. run. they're bad enough at high levels, but two or three boss acid spitters fire real fast and travel in packs that fire fast and flee from you, so you have to chase a single one while the rest hit you with machine gun fire. if you are playing on highest difficulty this is one of the things that will nearly instakill you no matter what build you have. at high level difficulties you always want a gate or a door that is firewalled to let you keep your distance and narrow the horde. and god help you if you're a warrior alone w no ranged attack.

[@ChaddK]

I thought Sticky Keys was for disability. So you can set buttons to be "held" as a toggle so you don't have to hold the button yourself (repetitive strain injury reasons).

[@NakaTeleeli]

Oh, that sounds much more likely. I had a general idea, but didn't actually know for sure.

[@ToHoldNothing]

@@NakaTeleeli As Ogre put it, better to feel dumb and learn something

[@necogreendragon]

A wise man once said. Use fireball and only fireball. Nothing but fireball.😸

[@Groundlord]

Just fireball. _Just fireball._ *JUST FIREB-*

[@necogreendragon]

@@Groundlord High five.

[@vforwombat9915]

until you encounter high level red monsters. you get lightning up to high levels and that can really help, esp since the lightning gets longer.

[@phoenixchampion7]

When it doubt, cast Fireball.

[@ToHoldNothing]

M.A.D. (Multiple Ability Dependency) is something I'm not sure any RPG can really fully avoid with some classes or builds

[@kirby5790]

"Where avarice fails, patience gains reward" - Does nothing for you. All other players in the game see "Blessed by a benevolent companion!" and get full HP and MP recovery. The original Diablo's main dungeon is 16 floors deep. Hellfire adds two 4-floor side dungeons for a total of 24 floors of dungeoning, on top of all the little side areas.

[@vforwombat9915]

they shoulda put the side areas off to the side, instead of underneath everything.

[@ciselkane05]

Guardian is a spell that all classes can learn and benefit from, it summons three headed dragon turret's that fires volleys of firebolts at hostiles. the turrets assorted stats including duration scale off *Character Level* as well as spell level, not magic. so even warrior, rogue and monk not focusing magic stats can make use of the turret. the higher the caster's level, the better the spell gets. additionally, Guardian's Firebolt's scale off the caster's level of Firebolt, so to boost the Turret's Min/Max damage pump up Firebolt level's. The Chamber of Bone quest *always* rewards the Ancient Tome which teaches Guardian, *and level's it up.* I do not know if Tomes of Guardian are even in the game's tome loot table or not without mods, so this quest may be the only way to grind up Guardian's spell level. or maybe now that it's in Naka's spell list the tome has been added to the drop table? Dono. In Diablo 2 and 3, the spell is renamed Hydra.

[@ToHoldNothing]

Was kind of random too: just a 3 headed dragon summoned. I imagine it talking for some reason

[@RookMeAmadeus]

Guardian books can always show up, but they're rare because it's considered a high tier spell. It also costs 14k for each book. Chamber of Bone is just an easy way to get the spell or upgrade it for free. It hits a minimum cost of 30 mana at level 11, but the duration and rate of fire scale a bit higher up to level 15.

[@vforwombat9915]

@@RookMeAmadeus still in most cases, it's better in almost every way just to blanket the area with fire walls or spam fireballs yourself. esp since guardian spells will aggro troops that will come right at you and ignore the guardians, which are lousy shots and will often miss moving targets. that and chain lighting are highly expensive and nearly useless for their mana costs.