What do you die to?

[Al-Khwarizmi]

Anyway... the guy was wielding two great maces, which each do damage almost comparable to good two-handed weapons... but more importantly, he had 21 PV and over 100 HP and the hobgoblin chieftain killed him like in three hits. I wounder what kind of damage that hobgoblin was dealing, like 60 per hit?

[Archenon]

Hobgoblin chieftain

[Al-Khwarizmi]

large great wooden club

I used these in my last game and it is true that they make the game much easier... I'm not sure we were supposed to be able to wield it (isn't it a "large" sized item, in the same way that we can't wear "small" armor)? But it rocks.

At least I got to CoC:9 and to see hydras again (I hadn't seen them in this version). And then I got killed by, guess... a hobgoblin chieftain wileding a great sword. Always a great sword. :P

[Moeba]

Ouch! I just discovered that hill giants with huge great clubs hurt!

[berta]

For my PC Orge Lords are nearly impossible to kill will I'm looking forward to meet Hydras to gain experience.
I've a mountain dwarf with DV at 29 and PV at 9. I use two blunt weapons. Blunt weapons 1H is Level 11. For the weapons see the screenshot.



Unfortunately the mace is a little heavy and as of that I can't real carry any stuff.

[Dervi]

In JADE 0.1.4, most of my deaths are by hobgoblin leaders wielding a 2-handed weapon (such as a great sword or great mace). They inflict tons of damage and are faster than me, and without tactics or items/spells to delay them I can't do much.

What does the rest of the people die to? Also, any advice on dealing with heavily-armed fast mobs?

Unfortunately... the same. One hit does roughly 100 dam, so you don't stand a chance unless you grind for experience for hours on level 1 of all random dungeons.

[Laukku]

Another promising character bites the dust! I was doing fine, achieved level 15, had 16 PV, around 180 HP, level 9 in two-handed blunt weapons, one of those large great clubs and almost 25 percent critical hit probability. Even most hopgoblin chieftains were pretty easy. I was cleaning smaller dungeons around the world, intending to gain exp and items before going deeper into the CoC. Then, on level 5 of a dungeon, I encountered an ogre lord who had a large great sword. Unlike normal ogres he was fast, and I couldn't outrun him, so I was killed. :,(

If monster on that low levels are so dealy, I'm scared to see what's in the deeper levels.

[Tihh]

Ogre lords are hard to kill. I usually try to gain xp on 5-headed hydras before descending to kill ogre lords. I think it's better to visit the 1st levels of some dungeons and go back to hunt xp later. For high level PCs it's more dangerous to visit new dungeons.

The best weapons for me are the large great maces looted from ogres, which are 1-handed weapons (probably a bug) and with 4d7+... damage, so you can dual-wield them for an extremely high damage or if you are too cautious wield a high-metal armor in the left hand (it's better than shields) for very high PV.