I dunno, maybe I should drop the DCSS mindset of "nuke 'em all", but if I do, why the hell am I even playing a squishy caster? Not to mention they are also short-ranged, for some reason? Arcane Explosions, or whatever it's actually called, is a great spell, really fun to use, but it does about as much damage total as a single turn in Inferno, and the rest of the arcane spells are horrible. By this point even my sun paladin was hitting for 400+ with assault and crusade, and he definitely didn't slouch over after a single hit from a skeleton. I went arcane/aether this time, just for a change. This one made it all the way till the dark crypt, pausing only to get instagibbed three times in the halfling ruins, and die once in the attack on Zigur and twice to Wretchlings, at least according to the game log, which hit me 142 305 times for 20 damage apiece in a single turn. Unless you've got a ridiculous amount of move speed, I guess. Stay in the little starting corridor, if you can manage it.).Īlternately you can go in with a couple sources of teleportation (double rune, maybe psychoport or whatever) and hopefully a movement infusion and just teleport around until you land close enough to the exit to make a dash for it.īut yeah, movement speed is cut to a third (not by a third, to) and there's some other stuff going on (iirc, projectiles are slowed, too), so you do have to be really, really careful about when you move and where you move to.
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They can mess you up if you're not careful. Once you're past the initial time!E gauntlet, it's a bit less tetchy (until you hit the twins, anyway.
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And not try to fight more than one or two at a time, really. Temporal Rift's actually not that bad with melee, you just have to be quite careful about positioning and largely let the elementals come to you. Which is largely why you don't move, or if you do, it's via stuff like rush.