Crit City - Mimic Difficulty

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Well, from the game screen that Tyrnyx posted:

B             St:32  Le: 3  Wi:12  Dx:11  To:31  Ch: 8  Ap: 4  Ma:11  Pe:17 N=
DV/PV: 44/32   H: -16(300)    P: 53(53)      Exp: 20/3113284    MT    Sp: 118
Blessed Satiated

He died with -16 health, no paralysis. The three HP talents add a total of 18. With that many extra HP he would have survived the round with 2 HP left.

The combat round ends as soon you are dead (at least in melee), so who's to say that that was the last of mimic's attack?

On a related though,

Andor now deals ~100 penetrating paralyzing damage and has around 5-6 attacks or so (spectating asdf on the server)

. Imagine an unspoiled player taking on the guy without -Para. If I ever get to finishing my lvl 50 priest (last play session ended with killing Ssrraxx; a lot of things left to do - Ice Queen domain, Scintillating Cave and Filk as well as whipping myself to neutrality - possibly the hardest part), I will be able to document my adventures on Chaos Plane in more detail and may drop a call here for spectating (the savefile is on the server).

Those talents also get a lot better in p22 - the bug for Mist Elves is finally fixed and 18 HP is huge for them

Good luck getting to 20 Toughness with nerf to -stat- potions and PoGAs (herb overtraining aside which is hopefully finally fixed in p22).

[JellySlayer]

Andor without paralysis resistance was pretty much death even without penetrating attacks. It just took a really, really long time (in practice, he normally would end up just stat draining/corrupting you to death).

[divij]

Well, from the game screen that Tyrnyx posted:

B             St:32  Le: 3  Wi:12  Dx:11  To:31  Ch: 8  Ap: 4  Ma:11  Pe:17 N=
DV/PV: 44/32   H: -16(300)    P: 53(53)      Exp: 20/3113284    MT    Sp: 118
Blessed Satiated

He died with -16 health, no paralysis. The three HP talents add a total of 18. With that many extra HP he would have survived the round with 2 HP left.

that wud just mean he survives that round...next round he will die cause para hasnt e1 gone yet so atleast 2 more attacks then mayb para breaks and 2 more attacks...so a minimum of 4 more attacks left on the mimic.
yes these skills will b marginally useful on elves i think , tho if u play elves u shud play it as a glass cannon imho

[JellySlayer]

He's not paralyzed...

[Tyrnyx]

Clearly, we all greatly fear mimics. They are definitely up there on the list of killers. I understand that -para is important and I've heard that more -para items are going to be implemented... still, I think the question still stands: should mimics be tweaked weaker?

[JellySlayer]

I don't think so. Mimics are somewhat dangerous, but not overwhelmingly so, and they're pretty rare. Yes, on a bad run a master mimic or hivemind can crit for 300+, but so can a werewolf king, ancient dragon, diamond golem, etc.

[SirTheta]

They should not.