10-05-2003, 01:01 AM
MALDAR: ACT V, THE THRONE OF DESTRUCTION
Death lords, burning souls, and hell witches it was. I'd just have to make do.
![[Image: Maldar5_throne1.jpg]](http://www.idiom.com/~gmonsen/diablo/Maldar5_throne1.jpg)
The first thing I needed to do was establish a couple of places in the Throne of Destruction to park monsters. I blinded and ignored the monsters that were waiting for me at the entrance and immediately ran around to the bottom right corner. There were no champion or boss monsters there. Bingo. I would park normal monsters here.
Using alternating casts of Terror and Dim Vision, I pushed the monsters back to the far corner of the room. I then proceeded to herd other normal monsters into the room and always tried to also push them back into the far corner. I wanted to be able to park as many monsters in the room as possible.
![[Image: Maldar5_throne2.jpg]](http://www.idiom.com/~gmonsen/diablo/Maldar5_throne2.jpg)
The first non-normal monsters I found were two champion burning souls. At first, I ignored them and just accepted the hits while continuing to herd normal monsters to the bottom right corner. In time, however, they grew to annoy me, so I decided to create another parking space.
![[Image: Maldar5_throne3.jpg]](http://www.idiom.com/~gmonsen/diablo/Maldar5_throne3.jpg)
I went up to the upper left corner and again found no champions or bosses. Good. I used Terror and Dim Vision to clear the space of normal monsters and then lured the champion burning souls into the upper left corner and bone prisoned them there. In the process, I ended up waking up a death lord boss pack, so I bone prisoned the death lord boss up there as well.
In my adventures with Maldar, I've learned that it's much easier to park monsters when you park bosses and champions in separate areas from the normal monsters. If you park them together, you run a much higher risk of a "jail break" as you try to herd normal monsters back while simultaneously avoiding or trapping bosses.
![[Image: Maldar5_throne4.jpg]](http://www.idiom.com/~gmonsen/diablo/Maldar5_throne4.jpg)
I ran into a small bug in the process of parking monsters. One death lord near the entrance stairs got stuck on a lamp. Nothing I did could get him unstuck, including letting him hit me. I didn't have anything that caused knockback and it was clear that he wasn't going to get free, so I finally just left him there.
Death lords, burning souls, and hell witches it was. I'd just have to make do.
The first thing I needed to do was establish a couple of places in the Throne of Destruction to park monsters. I blinded and ignored the monsters that were waiting for me at the entrance and immediately ran around to the bottom right corner. There were no champion or boss monsters there. Bingo. I would park normal monsters here.
Using alternating casts of Terror and Dim Vision, I pushed the monsters back to the far corner of the room. I then proceeded to herd other normal monsters into the room and always tried to also push them back into the far corner. I wanted to be able to park as many monsters in the room as possible.
The first non-normal monsters I found were two champion burning souls. At first, I ignored them and just accepted the hits while continuing to herd normal monsters to the bottom right corner. In time, however, they grew to annoy me, so I decided to create another parking space.
I went up to the upper left corner and again found no champions or bosses. Good. I used Terror and Dim Vision to clear the space of normal monsters and then lured the champion burning souls into the upper left corner and bone prisoned them there. In the process, I ended up waking up a death lord boss pack, so I bone prisoned the death lord boss up there as well.
In my adventures with Maldar, I've learned that it's much easier to park monsters when you park bosses and champions in separate areas from the normal monsters. If you park them together, you run a much higher risk of a "jail break" as you try to herd normal monsters back while simultaneously avoiding or trapping bosses.
I ran into a small bug in the process of parking monsters. One death lord near the entrance stairs got stuck on a lamp. Nothing I did could get him unstuck, including letting him hit me. I didn't have anything that caused knockback and it was clear that he wasn't going to get free, so I finally just left him there.