eternal gaurdian madness

[gut]

I zap, he moves, a duplicate immediately replaces him.
I get no time to tp to the stairs. Speed was at 100, so
no problem there. In the end, I had generated over a
dozen of them and just suicided in discust, as my turn
count was destroyed. I was doomed, but had no way
of removing it. Never had that happen before, and
wondered if it was something obvious that I never
learned.

[Dudley]

happenned to me the only time i tried to pass the ET without the ring or without killing him.

[breeolson]

Madness?
THIS IS SPARTA!

[moomoo]

I had the exact same thing happen to me once on a delf mincrafter. Tried zapping and all sorts or trics but I couldn't figure out how to pass him and created several copies while trying. After a while I gave in and lugged all the wood to make a bridge to get that damned ring - but the peacefull guardian didn't move nowhere before the angry ones were dealt with.

Ended up dying after trying to fight those beasts for too long..

e: And I was not doomed, atleast iirc.

[ChaosMuffin]

-this always happens, he's eternal.
once i had an altar on his level and sacced a few guardians, that was fun and got me a couple of free levels

with my true beserker i thought he was a assassin/sage/wizard and ran into him, had to put his clone down with poison and hit and retreat tactics.

[psy_wombats]

Yeah, this happened to me on my one speedrun attempt. There was only a space to slip by on the first clone generation. I ended up having to fetch the ring and then return to pass the peaceful one, but not before having to Acid Ball the rest of them. Very very annoying. I don't believe I was doomed, but I would like to know how speedrunners usually deal with the guardian.

[cloud_2901]

I managed to kill 3 Eternal Guardians on an old troll beastfighter... Good times... Didn't even know about the ring of the High Kings at that point.

[zasvid]

It always happens if there's more than one alive, but if it didn't give you a chance to pass him on the first time, that's weird. Maybe he was generated with an abnormally high speed or something?

[Grey]

Did you check the EG's speed, gut? Maye he had 102 or so and you got very unlucky with the turn order. I always pass him hostilely with speedrunners and never have a problem, but then I usually have at least 110 speed.

[gut]

this is the first time it had ever happened to me, and
I've passed him countless dozens of times. hasn't
happened since either.