11-04-2003, 05:17 AM
(This post was last modified: 06-03-2012, 01:19 AM by MongoJerry.)
IRENE: ANDARIEL
"Die maggot!" screamed Andariel.
"Have you looked at yourself in the mirror lately?" responded Irene.
Before battling Andariel, Irene took an inventory of all the resources she had at her disposal:
109,886 Gold to pay for antidote potions, minor healing potions, scrolls of townportal, and Aliza resurrections
41 Light healing potions
9 Regular healing potions
The store of light and regular healing potions would be an important resource to conserve during the fight. They heal faster than minor healing potions and, most importantly, they can heal faster than Andariel's poison can damage a character, so they would be very useful in many circumstances during the battle. However, while fifty healing potions may sound like a lot, in fact it's not nearly as much as one would think. Those fifty potions were to be split by two characters, and this was going to be a long fight. It would be important to use those higher quality healing potions only in emergencies or when they would really prolong a skirmish with Andariel. Otherwise, it would be best to just use a townportal and get healed by Akara. Irene and Akara practically had an unlimited supply of townportals to work with, subject to their gold restrictions, so it was best to use townportals instead of their precious higher quality healing potions.
(Incidentally, the higher quality healing potions work better than rejuv potions, because rejuv potions only cure 35% of a character's health which in this case isn't that much. However, higher quality healing potions can cure both characters fully and quite reasonably quickly. Irene obviously can't cube up rejuv potions to make full rejuv potions, since she doesn't have a horodric cube, yet).
![[Image: r00t2.jpg]](http://i.imgur.com/r00t2.jpg)
The battle with Andariel consisted of a long series of short skirmishes. Prior to returning to the Catacombs, Irene and Aliza would always quaff an antidote potion, which would give each of them +50% to their poison resists for thirty seconds due to the new and improved 1.10 antidote potions. However, 1.10s, in which Irene was played, had a bug. If you quaffed a second antidote potion, your poison resistance would go right back down to its normal levels. Subsequent antidote potions would also keep your poison resistance at its normal levels. This would keep happening until 30 seconds after the last antidote potion had been drunk.
So, Irene and Aliza were in a quandary. Do they use antidote potions mid-battle and cure the immediate poison attack but leave themselves vulnerable to the next attack? Or do they just use the antidote potions for the temporary +50% to poison resistance and use healing potions to counter the poison? They chose to use the second tactic. By the way, this bug has been fixed in the final 1.10 release. You can drink multiple antidote potions and your poison resistance will stay at its +50% level.
So during each skirmish, Irene and Aliza had 30 seconds during which they would have their poison resistances boosted. This turned out to be OK, because that was about as long as they could typically last in a skirmish before they had to return to town anyway.
A well executed skirmish would look like the one in the above screenshot. Irene acted as the bait and tried to get Andariel to chase her around the big pit in the center of the room. Meanwhile, Aliza would shoot arrows at Andariel and slowly whittle her down.
![[Image: ojGs9.jpg]](http://i.imgur.com/ojGs9.jpg)
Of course, a typical skirmish was "well executed" for only 5-10 seconds before something would go wrong. For example, sometimes Andariel would decide to attack Aliza no matter what Irene tried to do to distract her.
The first time Andariel came after Aliza, Aliza seemed to tank her pretty well as long as she was fed a steady diet of minor healing potions -- with a light healing potion thrown in here and there. For a few seconds, this seemed like it might be a good tactic -- at least one that was good enough to take down a good chunk of Andariel's life before the higher quality healing potions ran out.
![[Image: jjsG2.jpg]](http://i.imgur.com/jjsG2.jpg)
Then a full poison spray right in Aliza's face ended all thoughts of continuing to use that tactic. Aliza died instantly. Considering that Aliza had twice as much life as Irene and a higher poison resistance (68% vs 50%), this ended all thoughts of Irene ever tanking -- or letting herself get close enough to Andariel to take a full poison spray. Irene returned to town, resurrected Aliza, and got ready for the next skirmish.
![[Image: YiHU2.jpg]](http://i.imgur.com/YiHU2.jpg)
Andariel chased Irene round and around the big pit in skirmish after skirmish while Aliza continued to flick arrows from as safe of a distance as possible.
"Die maggot!" screamed Andariel.
"Have you looked at yourself in the mirror lately?" responded Irene.
Before battling Andariel, Irene took an inventory of all the resources she had at her disposal:
109,886 Gold to pay for antidote potions, minor healing potions, scrolls of townportal, and Aliza resurrections
41 Light healing potions
9 Regular healing potions
The store of light and regular healing potions would be an important resource to conserve during the fight. They heal faster than minor healing potions and, most importantly, they can heal faster than Andariel's poison can damage a character, so they would be very useful in many circumstances during the battle. However, while fifty healing potions may sound like a lot, in fact it's not nearly as much as one would think. Those fifty potions were to be split by two characters, and this was going to be a long fight. It would be important to use those higher quality healing potions only in emergencies or when they would really prolong a skirmish with Andariel. Otherwise, it would be best to just use a townportal and get healed by Akara. Irene and Akara practically had an unlimited supply of townportals to work with, subject to their gold restrictions, so it was best to use townportals instead of their precious higher quality healing potions.
(Incidentally, the higher quality healing potions work better than rejuv potions, because rejuv potions only cure 35% of a character's health which in this case isn't that much. However, higher quality healing potions can cure both characters fully and quite reasonably quickly. Irene obviously can't cube up rejuv potions to make full rejuv potions, since she doesn't have a horodric cube, yet).
The battle with Andariel consisted of a long series of short skirmishes. Prior to returning to the Catacombs, Irene and Aliza would always quaff an antidote potion, which would give each of them +50% to their poison resists for thirty seconds due to the new and improved 1.10 antidote potions. However, 1.10s, in which Irene was played, had a bug. If you quaffed a second antidote potion, your poison resistance would go right back down to its normal levels. Subsequent antidote potions would also keep your poison resistance at its normal levels. This would keep happening until 30 seconds after the last antidote potion had been drunk.
So, Irene and Aliza were in a quandary. Do they use antidote potions mid-battle and cure the immediate poison attack but leave themselves vulnerable to the next attack? Or do they just use the antidote potions for the temporary +50% to poison resistance and use healing potions to counter the poison? They chose to use the second tactic. By the way, this bug has been fixed in the final 1.10 release. You can drink multiple antidote potions and your poison resistance will stay at its +50% level.
So during each skirmish, Irene and Aliza had 30 seconds during which they would have their poison resistances boosted. This turned out to be OK, because that was about as long as they could typically last in a skirmish before they had to return to town anyway.
A well executed skirmish would look like the one in the above screenshot. Irene acted as the bait and tried to get Andariel to chase her around the big pit in the center of the room. Meanwhile, Aliza would shoot arrows at Andariel and slowly whittle her down.
Of course, a typical skirmish was "well executed" for only 5-10 seconds before something would go wrong. For example, sometimes Andariel would decide to attack Aliza no matter what Irene tried to do to distract her.
The first time Andariel came after Aliza, Aliza seemed to tank her pretty well as long as she was fed a steady diet of minor healing potions -- with a light healing potion thrown in here and there. For a few seconds, this seemed like it might be a good tactic -- at least one that was good enough to take down a good chunk of Andariel's life before the higher quality healing potions ran out.
Then a full poison spray right in Aliza's face ended all thoughts of continuing to use that tactic. Aliza died instantly. Considering that Aliza had twice as much life as Irene and a higher poison resistance (68% vs 50%), this ended all thoughts of Irene ever tanking -- or letting herself get close enough to Andariel to take a full poison spray. Irene returned to town, resurrected Aliza, and got ready for the next skirmish.
Andariel chased Irene round and around the big pit in skirmish after skirmish while Aliza continued to flick arrows from as safe of a distance as possible.