Maldar, the Magnificent

[MongoJerry]

The Halls of Vaught had returned archers and ghosts, or as I call them "g--d----- ghosts." Oh, well, I thought. As long as I don't stir up any boss or champion ghosts, I'll be OK.

I found Nihlathak's area in the second direction I looked, and luckily I hadn't stirred up any boss or champion ghost packs. *Whew* It's kind of funny to use Maldar to fight Nihlathak. Could there be a better character build for taking him on? After all, the usual strategy when taking on Nihlathak is to try to avoid killing his minions so that he can't use corpse explosion on you. Maldar is built with this philosophy in mind.



Usually, I try to draw off Nihlathak's minions before I enter his chamber to fight him, but I didn't bother this time. I charged right in, casting Dim Vision as I went, and then cast a maze of bone prisons among the minions. I ran around to the back wall where there was a space free of monsters and opened fire with bone spirits.



There was little Nihlathak could do. He teleported a couple of times. One time, I lost track of where he teleported to, so I let the bone prisons around the minions collapse and moved around until I spotted Nihlathak in a dark corner. Then, up came the bone prisons and I started firing again.

Some of Nihlathak's minions got into a frenzy state and suicided on the bone prisons (Maldar was very sad about this). Nihlathak then corpse exploded the bodies. That seemed unfair. First the monster explodes and then the body gets to explode again? Oh, well. The corpse explosions didn't hurt much. The physical damage got absorbed by the bone armor, and the fire damage was resisted by 75%.



In not a very long amount of time, and definitely without much trouble, Maldar took Nihlathak down.

Maldar thoroughly searched the Halls of Vaught, but he couldn't find the Relic of the Ancients. The fool, Nihlathak, must have already given the Relic to Baal! Baal could now enter the Worldstone Keep without being tested by the Ancients. Baal would surely be on his way there now.

There was only one desperate chance left. Maldar must ascend Mount Arreat, battle the Ancients, enter the Worldstone Keep himself, and challenge Baal directly. Can Maldar ascend Mount Arreat and stop Baal before Baal destroys the world?